GreenBiz

APRIL 4, 2023

Another month, another progressive policy announcement from the European Union, this time aimed at stamping out greenwashing by companies operating within its borders.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 8, 2020

While the world focuses on a global pandemic and brutal racial discrimination, President Trump is sneakily squashing environmental laws. The Trump administration has directed federal agencies to waive many environmental requirements as a way to light a fire under the pandemic-strained economy.

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Renew Economy

JUNE 7, 2023

ACT votes on law to ban new gas connections for homes and businesses, in a major coup for electrification and a new blow to the fossil fuel lobby. The post ACT passes first law in Australia banning gas in new homes, as fossil empire strikes back appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2023

Laws, regulations, treaties and decisions related to habitats, air quality, climate change, renewable energy, farming and fishing proposed for scrapheap under government plans

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2019

Scotland will host world-leading experts in climate change law and science in September, as they attend a major conference on global climate at the University of Dundee. We hope that by bringing together experts from geoscience, climate science and law, we can clarify crucial concepts that have thus far stalled affirmative climate action.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 30, 2022

Sustainable Law Firms. Law firm sustainability is a strategic business shift that aims to prevent socially and environmentally damaging operations in the legal industry. E.g. Delta Air Lines and Microsoft Corp pledged to drastically curb their carbon emissions, taking into account the carbon footprint of their associated law firms.

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Charged

MAY 11, 2023

EV advocacy group FairCharge is calling for the UK to change what it calls outdated laws that are holding back the EV conversion industry. By law, the UK’s Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) is required to retain CO 2 emission ratings in vehicle logbooks for all cars built after 2001, even if they’ve been converted to electric power.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

A legal bid to halt sweeping changes to planning laws in the UK will be heard in October. The post Judges to consider legal challenge to new planning laws first appeared on Envirotec. RCA has also been granted costs protection under the Aarhus rules for environmental claims.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Supply chain transparency is crucial to building consumer trust in the face of greenwashing.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

In a bipartisan win, the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act has been signed into law, making serious harm to “living non-human mammals, birds, reptiles or amphibians” a federal crime.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Renewable energy can take advantage of this huge increase in computing power, along with artificial intelligence (AI), robotic deployment, and automation, in a way that fossil fuels cannot.

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Canary Media

AUGUST 16, 2023

At least, that's what the text of the country’s record-shattering climate law says. Canary Media thanks KORE Power for its support of our special coverage of the Inflation Reduction Act’s first year. clean energy revolution must be (mostly) Made in America. Indeed, much of the $391 billion (or more )…

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GreenBiz

JULY 13, 2023

Advocates and business leaders celebrate after the European Parliament narrowly approved the historic ecosystem legislation.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The post With laws and lawsuits, California’s Gavin Newsom takes on Big Oil appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Sept. 18 – Will he or won’t he? Gavin Newsom put to rest questions about the fate of two landmark bills passed by.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2022

It will impose new sustainability requirements on all businesses manufacturing single-use packaging or plastic single-use service ware.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2023

McDonald’s is at the forefront of a campaign against new laws to reduce packaging waste in the EU, in what has been described by some insiders as the largest-scale lobbying effort they have ever witnessed in the European Parliament. The European Parliament is expected to vote on the law in the next 12 months.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2023

Elite law schools in the United States are disproportionately funneling their students into jobs serving fossil fuel clients, according to a new report published Thursday. LSCA, an organization of law students working to hold the legal sector accountable for its role in the climate crisis, has previously scrutinized the top ranked U.S.

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Canary Media

AUGUST 14, 2023

history, was signed into law. Canary Media thanks KORE Power for its support of our special coverage of the Inflation Reduction Act's first year. A year ago this week, the Inflation Reduction Act, the first major federal climate legislation in U.S. At the time, the bill’s backers employed a familiar phrase to…

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Renew Economy

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The post New French law mandates solar panels on new parking lots appeared first on RenewEconomy. The French Senate has approved a bill that will require parking lots with a minimum of 80 spaces to be covered with a canopy of solar panels.

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Energy Central

MAY 20, 2023

Last December, Dominion Energy produced a remarkable document: a climate report predicting that by 2040 its electricity supply will be dominated by renewable energy. Coal will be gone by 2030, and methane gas will hang around in ever-smaller amounts, just to fill in the energy gaps.

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Green Living Guy

JULY 29, 2022

The post Blink Charging to Increase EV Charging for Florida Law Enforcement and Public Safety Agencies appeared first on The Green Living Guy. Miami Beach, FL – July 19, 2022 – Blink Charging Co. is a leading owner, operator, and provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging equipment and services.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Environmental and business groups urge government to ditch plans for bonfire of retained EU law ahead of Commons debate today. Prevention of air and water pollution, protection of precious wildlife and habitats, precautions against hazardous chemical use - they are all put at risk by the Retained EU Law Bill," he said. "If

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U.S. Green Technology

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The post Why Sustainability is the Future of Law appeared first on U.S. As well as the health of the planet itself, social inequalities and persistent and pervasive poverty issues demand the attention of all. Green Technology.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2023

But more than 1,000 EU-derived laws are still set for the chop this year and it remains unclear how many have climate and environmental policy implications

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

He believes social science is undergoing a revolution comparable to Newtonian or Einsteinian physics, and that by combining theories of human behaviour and social evolution it is becoming possible to identify the fundamental “laws of life”. Continue reading.

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Renew Economy

MARCH 21, 2023

The post Rich lister to fund lobby group to strengthen climate laws and accelerate transition appeared first on RenewEconomy. Alan Schwartz is investing millions into a group he hopes will bring together business and NGOs.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 6, 2023

Estimated 200,000 vehicles including 70,000 big rigs have been banned from California roads starting this week. This follows the final adoption of 2010 a rule banning vehicles that do not comply with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) regulations.

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Charged

JULY 19, 2023

The UK’s proposed rules appear to be considerably more stringent than the consumer-protection measures included in the US’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 7, 2023

Proposed laws to curb antibiotic use on UK farms drafted after closed-door meetings with industry contain loopholes that could undermine the fight against deadly drug resistant bacteria, campaigners have warned. EU rules impose limits on this practice to prevent it from being used as a pretext for excessive preventative use.

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The City Fix

MAY 6, 2022

President Biden has touted the potential climate benefits of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which makes historic investments in transportation, the country’s largest and fastest-growing source of greenhouse gas emissions. But while the bill’s investments could significantly lower transportation emissions, those reductions are not.

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NRDC onEarth

JUNE 7, 2023

New York City Council is poised to pass a law that would mandate organics collection.

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Solar Power World

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Starting on January 1, 2024,… The post A new requirement for California solar projects coming in January 2024 <br><span style='color:#404040;font-weight:600;font-size:15px;'>A law is changing worker pay requirements for some commercial solar projects in the state.</span>

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 17, 2022

President Joe Biden has signed into law the most significant piece of legislation supporting clean energy and climate change mitigation in US history. With this law, the American people won and the special interests lost,” Biden said at a bill signing ceremony on 16 August. By Jennifer Runyon and John Engel.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 18, 2021

While eating meat is the norm in the U.S., many people wish farm animals a happier life pre-burger. Which is why Californians overwhelmingly passed animal welfare initiative Proposition 12 in 2018.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed into law a bill that will ban the sale of new gas-powered cars and trucks in the state by 2035. Sources: Bloomberg Law , Reuters , GM Authority. The bill (S.2758/A.4302) 4302) was introduced last October, and passed the legislature in April.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

billion in funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law has been awarded to 20 companies across 12 states for extracting and processing lithium and graphite, battery manufacturing and the demonstration of new approaches. The DOE has announced that a total of $2.8

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Energy Central

JANUARY 30, 2023

The Jones Acts is a century old law that was designed to protect the maritime industry. The law requires any goods transported between U.S. I didn’t before I came across several articles on its impact to energy supply and offshore wind. The key words in that description are century old.

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