Business Green

JUNE 7, 2022

Three campaign groups - Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth, and the Good Law Project - mounted separate challenges questioning the legality of the strategy in January. It doesn't say what emissions reductions its policies will achieve or when they will happen.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Further research by DeSmog has shown that Eni’s company magazine Ecos made repeated references to climate change during the late 1980s and 1990s — while running advertising campaigns promoting natural gas, which is mostly comprised of planet-warming methane, as a “clean” fuel. ‘Friend Methane! ‘Friend Methane!

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 29, 2022

The other bright spot—which is not traditionally considered climate policy but does make up a key part of the Just Transition—is that the IRA contains baby steps to curbing the systemic advantage of large corporations. This includes a 15% corporate minimum tax, a stock buyback tax, and a methane leakage tax. Gaping Gaps.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2021

However, one kernel of hope highlighted in the report is the prospect of the wave of net zero pledges from countries over the past two years soon making their way into law, and then in turn being translated into effective on-the-ground policies to slash emissions. warming pathway.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Under the law , the U.S. JBS, the world’s largest meat company — whose methane emissions exceed the combined livestock methane emissions of France, Germany, Canada and New Zealand — has also claimed to be on a net zero pathway based on offsets. Clara Vondrich is senior policy counsel at Public Citizen’s Climate Program.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

A policy touted as lowering greenhouse emissions from Alberta’s oil and gas sector is instead paying for Facebook advertisements designed to expand that sector. It’s a ridiculously ineffective program,” Drew Yewchuk, a lawyer with the University of Calgary’s Public Interest Law Clinic, told DeSmog.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 22, 2021

RNG is created by capturing methane from existing sources of waste – such as animal manure, garbage or wastewater – which is then processed and repurposed as a clean energy source. He has extensive experience advising companies and elected officials on regulatory, political and public policy matters. homes and businesses.

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Charged

JUNE 28, 2022

You can say we have tougher environmental laws, but we aren’t even hitting federal policy,” said Mark Lopez of East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, a community organizer group. “If you look at [South Coast], we’ve never reached attainment for national ambient air quality standards, ever.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Such reductions require massive infrastructural changes, especially in our homes, where water and food are often warmed with what is known as “natural gas” but is better understood as methane gas, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. This money is not enough, but these are the beginnings of these programs,” she said.

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 10, 2021

president’s policies generally have limited impact on the energy markets in the short term. However, over the longer term a president’s policies can make a big impact. Within two weeks of taking office, Bush named Cheney as the chairman of the National Energy Policy Development Group (NEPDG). I often remind people that a U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Vague ethics laws, lack of enforcement, and a campaign finance system soaked in fossil fuel cash all combine to make the Texas Railroad Commission a “captive agency,” argue Commission Shift and Texans for Public Justice, two watchdog groups, in their new report. The laws are vaguely defined and that is being exploited.”.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

In order to bend that curve and cut direct building emissions, states and cities will have to pursue policies that end the expansion of new gas infrastructure and accelerate the transition to electric heating and cooking. This confluence of economic, climate, technical and policy trends will make 2020 a big year for building electrification.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

Hoboken is making this claim against fossil fuel companies under the state-level equivalent of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a federal law used successfully to prosecute organized crime groups such as the Mafia starting in the 1970s and later the tobacco industry. Credit: U.S.

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2021

Plus Danish diets, China climate policy signals, and all the top green business news from around the world this week. China sets out carbon capture push in climate policy guidelines. France draft climate law attracts criticism from campaign groups. Saudi Arabia touts plans for 100-mile-long car-free city. hours are available.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2022

The groups are represented by lawyers from Earthjustice and the Green Energy Institute at Lewis & Clark Law School. PUCs can approve rate recovery for safety-related advertising that utilities are required by law to communicate to the public. NW Natural Seeks to Weaken Portland Public Schools’ Climate Policy.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

The government went one step further and in April, set the world’s most ambitious climate change target into law: to reduce emissions by 78% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels. But the recovery in activity in the second half of 2020 and “a lack of clean energy policies” caused emissions to rise a further 2 per cent year on year in December.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

Though it has applied for them, the company behind this operation has yet to receive the permits it is required by law to construct or operate the engines to power a cryptocurrency mine. The company is required by law to obtain a plan approval from DEP prior to installation and operation of the air contamination sources,” Decker said.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak chose the very day of the summit to announce that his government will push off the deadlines for phase-outs of methane gas-burning boilers, as well as sales of new gasoline and diesel-fueled cars. While not a silver bullet solution, she told DeSmog, litigation is certainly “part of the answer.”

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

“Pipeline injection is a national hydrogen strategy for the Netherlands, for Germany, for France, for Australia , for South Korea, for Japan,” said Mona Dajani, head of the renewable energy and green hydrogen practice of law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. ” U.S. green hydrogen pilots and proposals.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 13, 2021

The digester, and another the dairy installed a few years later, reduced the size of open lagoons of manure that release methane into the atmosphere. Under the policy, renewable natural gas is used to reduce emissions from existing natural gas-fueled vehicle fleets such as transit buses, trucks, vans and other multi-passenger vehicles.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

LNG boom threatens to release vast amounts of methane, a powerful climate pollutant that is the main component of natural gas. Within eight months of the policies taking effect, the EU had replaced 80 percent of the gas previously supplied by pipeline from Russia.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Investors are taking action as it is not only permitted by law but is in many cases required to ensure their ability to generate returns in the long-term as a core fiduciary duty and benefit from the opportunities associated with the shift to a net-zero emissions economy.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

target will be the guideline for Germany's climate foreign policy.". For its natural gas business, it will adopt a new net zero by 2050 goal that includes upstream methane and carbon emissions related to purchased gas and downstream carbon emissions from customers' consumption. "As Duke Energy announces coal exit and net zero plan.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2021

It said the 12 industry and expert figures on the Commission, which is to be chaired by University of Cambridge international law professor Lorand Bartels, would have a formal role to inform MPs and the public about how new free trade deals are consistent with UK green laws.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 18, 2023

funding initiatives for EGS include $44 million for DOE’s Frontier Observatory for Geothermal Energy Research (FORGE), up to $165 million to transfer best practices from oil and gas to advance geothermal (EGS and conventional), and $84 million of support from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for four pilot EGS demonstration projects.

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We heard from some of the top voices in climatetech finance, policy, and justice, and the entrepreneurs in the audience were offered plenty of tips on how to position themselves to scale their solutions, apply for grants, and connect with corporate partners in the Houston region.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

The Plan for Water , released by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) this morning, outlines the government's intention to change the law to increase penalties on water companies that break environmental law, and make it easier for regulators to impose fines on firms without lengthy court processes.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 26, 2021

We’ve made policy choices in boom times that have really exacerbated our over-dependence on oil and natural gas revenues,” Jimenez told DeSmog. Because of the really volatile nature of the oil and gas industries, we haven’t had sustainability in the programs,” he said. “The NMOGA did not respond to a request for comment.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

But all is not equal when it comes to who exactly lives near oil wells — and intentional racial discrimination in federal mortgage policies, reflected in a practice known as “ redlining ,” may have played a role, according to a new study published in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 25, 2024

Hello and Happy New Year from the Climate Policy Leadership Team! While the report paints a stark picture, there is reason to hope , and policy will play a large role in addressing that risk and cutting emissions. 2024 is shaping up to be a busy year, with climate at the forefront. Check out EDF’s blog for more on MERP.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A recently published chapter of the Harvard Law Review argues that “While utility companies have been building and profiting off fossil fuels without internalizing the down-stream consequences and costs for decades, their regulators—state agency leaders—have approved their actions at every step of the way.”.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

A few months later, the New York Times reported on the study, bringing national attention to the issue, and an op-ed in the Yale Law Journal described indoor air pollution, as a “menace” that required “comprehensive federal legislation.” DEMELLE What impact did these studies have on policy and regulation? The science has also grown.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. Invited to the event was a small group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2021

That is why the government has been pressed strongly by the green economy to unleash a detailed policy plan for hydrogen over the past year or more, and why such a document is seen as key to filling in some of the gaps of the UK's net zero agenda. There are, broadly speaking, two main methods for producing low or zero carbon hydrogen.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2022

Blue hydrogen’s supporters have argued that the world needs the gas-dependent fuel until it could scale up affordable clean hydrogen (known as “green hydrogen,” which uses renewable energy and does not produce any carbon dioxide or methane emissions). But the bill, which was overseen by the fossil fuel-friendly Sen. Department of Energy.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

California, Oregon, and Washington have all passed laws and enacted policies that require utilities to dramatically cut carbon pollution over the next decade. Cascade Natural Gas, a utility with customers in Washington and Oregon, says it expects that regional demand for methane gas will grow by between 0.4

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

In 2015, the NPPC, which claims only 3 percent of pig farmers as members, joined NCBA in lobbying to repeal a law that went into effect in 2013 allowing beef and pork producers to put “Made in the USA” labels on their product. Penzer told DeSmog he believes that it is illegal for Checkoff funds to go toward policy work.

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