The upsides and downsides of Maine's new EPR law
GreenBiz
AUGUST 13, 2021
The governor of Maine recently signed an extended producer responsibility program into law. But there are still plenty of issues to hash out.
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GreenBiz
AUGUST 13, 2021
The governor of Maine recently signed an extended producer responsibility program into law. But there are still plenty of issues to hash out.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 5, 2023
A recent landmark law agreed upon by EU member states is set to ban imports of goods linked to deforestation.
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ThinkGeoEnergy
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
The law implements key recommendations of the Climate Action Council and is an important step toward the state’s goal of 2 million electrified and electricity-ready homes by 2030. “We are thrilled that Governor Hochul has signed this bill into law.
Inhabitat - Innovation
DECEMBER 28, 2022
New year, new laws. Since California is often on the cutting edge, let’s take a look at some of the state’s new laws that are going into effect in 2023. This is just a sample, not the whole list.
Canary Media
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Local Law 97, New York City’s groundbreaking, multistage effort to rein in carbon emissions from its big buildings, is facing its first major test — and it’s just a preview of the much steeper challenges to come. Last week, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) released proposed guidelines for how owners of the…
Inhabitat - Innovation
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Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 26, 2020
officials have proposed a law to make large companies operating within the U.K. comply with environmental laws and show where their products originate. People around the world have watched with increasing horror as Amazon forest destruction has accelerated in recent years.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Supply chain transparency is crucial to building consumer trust in the face of greenwashing.
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.
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.
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 )…
GreenBiz
JULY 13, 2023
Advocates and business leaders celebrate after the European Parliament narrowly approved the historic ecosystem legislation.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
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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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
NRDC onEarth
JUNE 7, 2023
New York City Council is poised to pass a law that would mandate organics collection.
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>
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.
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.
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.
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
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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