Business Green

MAY 19, 2020

Ambitious draft climate law would immediately ban new oil, gas and coal projects and end subsidies for fossil fuels. The draft law, which parliament must still approve, follows the Spanish government's declaration of a climate emergency earlier this year. per cent over the next decade.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

Of almost 1,700 adults polled, 68 per cent said they supported setting a target date in law to remove all deforestation from UK supply chains, with just four per cent opposed to such a move, according to the survey, which was commissioned by WWF. Further details on the proposed legislation are expected to emerge in the coming months.

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

By Olivia Ashmoore This week, Energy Innovation Policy & Technology LLC® and RMI published 48 state Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) models. The free, open-source, peer-reviewed, and nonpartisan EPS model empowers users to analyze the effects of hundreds of climate policies. climate goals. With the release of the U.S.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 1, 2019

Job Description: The Center for Biological Diversity seeks a full-time Clean Transportation Advocate/ Staff Attorney in our Climate Law Institute to join our bold and progressive campaign to advance the urgently needed transition away from fossil fuel vehicles to zero emissions transportation in California and around the country.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 1, 2019

Job Description: The Center for Biological Diversity seeks a full-time Clean Transportation Advocate/ Staff Attorney in our Climate Law Institute to join our bold and progressive campaign to advance the urgently needed transition away from fossil fuel vehicles to zero emissions transportation in California and around the country.

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 16, 2022

This week, Energy Innovation released new rese arch evaluating California’s climate progress and identifying a policy pathway that would reaffirm California as a climate leader. includes important new metrics to track the economic, environmental, and public health impacts of hundreds of climate policies. By Olivia Ashmoore.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

If it finds there has been a serious failure to comply with environmental law, then further action is possible. The planned targets were intended to drive progress in areas such as river quality by encouraging stronger government policy and providing certainty for business. Read the complaint in full, and see list of signatories, here.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act signed into law today not only makes critical investments in our core infrastructure, it creates several new programs to support the increasing electrification of the transportation sector. Specifically, the law: Allocates $7.5 Especially notable in the $1.2 Electric School Bus Program.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

The assessment, published last week, reveals that the volume of waste produced in England remained largely the same in the five years since the government introduced its 2013 Waste Prevention Programme policy, with overall waste in England at the close of 2017 "at similar levels" to those five years earlier.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The EPP is vociferously opposing two major pieces of legislation from the EU’s Green Deal, a historic package by the bloc to reduce its emissions in line with global climate targets. The first, the Nature Restoration Law, includes plans to restore 20 percent of degraded ecosystems in the EU. Credit: Ian Nixon and Brigitte Wear.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2020

As MEPs enter talks over EU Council's €1.8tr recovery package and budget deal, many key green questions remain. Of the overall €1.8tr package encompassing the recovery funding and the 2021-27 budget, EU leaders agreed that 30 per cent should be earmarked for the bloc's climate objectives and transition to net zero.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 29, 2022

According to the EU Commission , “The objective of these dialogues is to offer invited stakeholders the possibility to exchange with DG ENER officials on the European Green Deal package”. In 2021 ten dialogues took place in ten different European countries.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate. More than a decade ago, national policies laid the groundwork for reducing air emissions in China. Policy & Politics.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2024

Speakers at the meeting included the hardline Dutch organisation Farmers’ Defence Force (FDF), which hit out at EU environmental and trade policy. An event on the MCC Brussels website appears to corroborate this, inviting farmers to attend a protest on January 24 against “the EU’s overzealous green policies” followed by networking drinks.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The order caps a lengthy and contentious battle over DTE’s long-range IRP, which it and Consumers were required to develop for the first time under Michigan’s comprehensive 2016 energy law. A PSC administrative law judge ruled in December that this was a violation of the 2016 state law that set up the IRP process.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Quite apart from its seemingly frosty reception with global investors, the government’s Growth Plan 2022 policy statement also elicited bafflement from environmental commentators, many of whom seemed dismayed by its apparent “dash for gas”, and volte face on protecting the environment.

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Solar Power World

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Joe Manchin (D-WV), today released the text of their energy innovation package. After a full year of hearings, business meetings and bipartisan negotiations, U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

The latest figures come as the UK was ranked the fifth most attractive European country for EV market potential in the latest Electric Vehicle Country Attractiveness Index from Cornwall Insight and law firm Shoosmiths.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 11, 2019

New European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled Europe's Green Deal on Wednesday, a package of 50 far-reaching policy ideas that are still missing many key details, calling it a "man on the moon moment" for Europe.

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The Environmental Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Just about every package that’s delivered will at some stage travel along roads on the back of a van. Modern businesses invest millions into energy-saving measures, ranging from paperless printing policies to LED-powered light bulbs. Electric Vans. Electric Cars used for Company Fleets.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

When Murphy won and took office, he signed sweeping clean energy legislation in May 2018 that turned his goals into law. Murphy's campaign platform, and the law, included something quite radical at the time: the goal of 600 megawatts of energy storage by 2021 and 2,000 megawatts by 2030.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2023

There is a high likelihood that states may be involved in litigation, as both defendants and plaintiffs, particularly as civil society activists seek to ensure that national-level policies and action are as ambitious as possible, and as controversies over the type and nature of new energy technologies continue to play out," they said. "It

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2021

On July 14, the European Union (EU) announced a sweeping package of climate proposals that will help the continent cut greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent by 2030, from a 1990 baseline. Climate policy regulation in the form of taxes is ecologically and economically counterproductive,” the paper says.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Parliament's Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) today unveiled a wide-ranging report on the government's green recovery agenda which argues major reforms to UK taxation and the swift release of long-awaited policy strategies will be central to laying the foundations of a greener, job-rich economy that protects nature. Green investment.

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 29, 2022

Overall, climate and environmental justice advocates count somewhere between $17 billion and $44 billion generally heading in the right direction for frontline communities out of a $369 billion energy and environment spending package. Gaping Gaps.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The change will be introduced as an amendment to the EU's climate law. billion ($807 billion) coronavirus recovery package that contains the EU Green Deal, including the condition that 37 percent of the funds will be used to meet green objectives. billion of grants and loans available from its recovery package.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 6, 2024

The Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act would dramatically cut the amount and toxicity of plastic garbage New Yorkers throw away by targeting the source. It would reduce plastic packaging in New York by half over the next 12 years, and it would prevent a slew of toxic chemicals from being used in those materials.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Plans to lift ban on fracking and curtain legacy EU environmental laws and regulations announced today risk backlash from some of the government's own MPs. But Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg argued revoking EU law was a necessity now the UK has left the trading bloc.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2022

For instance, a business could be lobbying behind the scenes against the same environmental policies it claims to support. Distinctions between benefits of product, package, and service: Marketers should be clear as to which aspect of a product or service the environmental claim refers to. Generalized Environmental Benefit Claims.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2020

The majority of cases are still being tried in the US, where there were more than 1,200 climate lawsuits in the year ending in May 2020, according to the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law's database.

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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 call follows mounting pressure from industry over the past year.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2020

The dramatic shutdown of major European economies - including Italy, France, Germany, Belgium and the UK - as governments seek to limit further spread of the virus come just weeks after the EU Commission unveiled a slew of further details of its proposed Green Deal package.

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CleanTech Alliance

MAY 17, 2021

Source: PRNewswire, May 17, 2021 Today Governor Jay Inslee signed the Climate Commitment Act (CCA), SB 5126, into law. Integrated with a transportation funding package, the Climate Commitment Act will be the state’s largest investment in climate protection, while also generating billions of dollars […].

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

By putting in place the enabling primary legislation that bridges legal gaps, creates new laws, or brings clarity to existing laws. The Act also empowers the UK Government to fund hydrogen though a levy and to set strategic priorities in CCUS though a CCUS Strategy and Policy Statement.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The European Commission has adopted two final pillars under its Fit for 55 legislative package, setting in place legally binding climate targets across sectors and prioritising the shift away from polluting vehicles as soon as possible. The final legislative package is expected to reduce EU net greenhouse gas emissions by 57% by 2030.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2020

There are also compensation packages for workers in mines and power plants who lose their job as a result of the coal exit laws. In other words, a €40 billion policy's future at least partly relies on accurate natural-gas forecasting 18 years into the future. These will be held sporadically through 2024.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

APRIL 29, 2020

The analyst exercises independent judgment, conducts economic, policy and/or technical analyses for related area(s) of assignment. Performs original research, analysis, and makes recommendations on findings and determining the broad policy or analytical framework for the future programs, procedures, and processes. Minimum Requirements.

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