Front And Centered

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Growth Management Act (GMA) is a state law that requires this work, and it’s really important! Finally, in the 2023 legislative session, we saw progress on policy. When it became law in 1990, the GMA aimed to protect critical areas and ecosystems in our state. What is the Growth Management Act, and why is it important?

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Front And Centered

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Rather than requiring California and Québec to meet Washington standards, Ecology this week announced it is prepared to offer up legislation this coming session that would weaken the Washington law. permits to pollute) into one marketplace where the permits are traded at the lowest possible cost.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Dr Richard Benwell, CEO of Wildlife and Countryside Link, said: “Too many people live in polluted, nature-deprived neighbourhoods, at a great cost to mental and physical health. Let’s get these standards in law.” Strengthened standards to create more access are welcome, but while they remain voluntary, very little will change.

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Front And Centered

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Inslee’s Proposed 2024 Supplemental Budget [ Print Version ] Washington Governor Jay Inslee released his Proposed 2024 Supplemental Budget today which includes policies and programs aimed at confronting the climate crisis and supporting environmental justice. Front and Centered Responds to Gov.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 15, 2021

Lew Milford founded CEG in 1998, after working over several years on clean energy and utility restructuring dockets in New England while with the Conservation Law Foundation. With CEG, Milford focused on how state and communities could develop sound renewable energy policies, programs, and finance tools. Keane, President of SmartPower.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Two weeks ago, the federal government enshrined its carbon pollution targets into law. These investments are an important step toward cutting emissions and building an economy that is more inclusive and resilient. Report | Final Report from the Task Force for a Resilient Recovery (Merran Smith sits on the task force).

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Front And Centered

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Coalition members provided farm workers with workplace support in Northwest and Central Washington, gave leadership guidance to Puget Sound youth to restore their future through a resilient river, raised awareness about successful reentry and environmental justice in Spokane, installed solar panels on the first of many Black-led churches in Pierce (..)

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In other words, even when tech-based policies are designed with smallholders in mind, their real, basic needs are rarely met. The reality is that smallholder farmers often have little agency over the policies that impact their livelihoods and ability to feed their communities.

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Front And Centered

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Increase the self-determination of frontline communities – those disproportionately impacted by pollution and climate change – in environmental decision-making. 2021 POLICY PRIORITIES. Direct funding with environmental benefits toward investments in and determined by communities highly impacted by pollution and climate impacts.

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Front And Centered

JANUARY 14, 2022

As frontline communities we are increasing the self-determination and solutions of our communities — those disproportionately impacted by pollution, damage to the climate, and an inequitable economy — to accelerate systemic change together. But the existing law says nothing about climate pollution, resilience, or environmental justice.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

But with Ministers yet to go on the record with their detailed policy plans and several departments said to be at loggerheads over key parts of the new programme, environmental groups remain fearful that the UK's green policy framework is about to fundamentally weakened. A strong environment and a strong economy go hand in hand.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2024

One key player was the Global Climate Coalition (GCC) — an international industry lobbying group that was instrumental in early efforts to deny climate change and generate opposition to policy action to reduce emissions. In 1994, the GCC hired weather forecasting service AccuWeather Inc. Shell was ahead of its time. Now It Faces a Reckoning.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

But California regulators are adamant that PG&E must find a more permanent and less costly and polluting backup plan in the years ahead — even if it’s not clear yet what form it may take. PG&E did not respond to a request for comment on its plans. PG&E did not respond to a request for comment on its plans.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 13, 2020

However, it wasn’t until I finished Howard Law, fresh out of courses on environmental justice, clean air, and climate change that I saw how I could articulate my passion through my work. I began working on environmental equity policy in 2012 in California. In my eyes, our environment works both for and against us.

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Front And Centered

APRIL 14, 2020

ENACTED – Set Strong, Comprehensive Climate Pollution Limits (HB 2311) . This bill aligns Washington’s greenhouse gas (GHG) limits with stronger global goals, ensuring our natural lands contribute, but do not compromise pollution source reduction. This bill failed to pass out of the policy committee.

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

Good environmental policy starts with equitable decision-making process. The proposed Office of Equity ** , would have facilitated and track outcomes for state policy and systems change to promote equity in policy, practice, and outcomes and require agencies to use equity assessment tools. We testified in support of this bill.

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Front And Centered

MARCH 7, 2019

Front and Centered has been helping to shape the bill since August, working with Governor Inslee’s policy staff, legislators and clean energy and conservation advocates to ensure people with lower incomes and frontline communities benefit from this transition. Additionally, improvements need to be made before this bill becomes a law.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Healthier communities – Sustainable buildings create healthier communities due to less intrusive and pollutive building methods, lower use of toxic materials (e.g. Greater community resilience – Sustainable buildings also support community resilience to withstand the impacts of climate change. Improved resale value.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The political consensus on the UK's climate strategy has never looked more frayed at precisely the same time as public support for bolder climate policies has never been higher - and the opposition is seeking to take full advantage of that fact. Labour's new green energy policy is a case in point.

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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

Outraged by oil spills, smog and polluted rivers, 20 million people took to the streets, protesting what they recognized as an environmental crisis. It was the planet’s largest civic event at the time and compelled governments to take concrete actions, including passing environmental laws and establishing environmental agencies.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Human destruction of natural habitats on land and at sea, climate change, pollution, invasive species and over fishing and hunting are responsible for the loss of nature "at a rate never seen before", according to the latest edition of the long-running report, which provides one of the world's most comprehensive measures of global biodiversity.

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Front And Centered

MAY 4, 2023

Through listening sessions, work groups, our policy assembly and committee, and statewide membership summit, we put forward our 2023 Just Transition Agenda for Washington State. But to do that, we need policies and budgets that reflect the needs of our communities.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

The UK can become the preeminent provider and organiser of capital and financial services to support this global transformation towards global sustainability and resilience. We need a new brown taxonomy that defines the polluting activities that need to be phased out and by when. Current UK leadership didn't happen by accident.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

EDF+Business program staff participated in meetings and panel presentations, including: Victoria Mills, director of corporate climate policy leadership; Elizabeth Sturcken, director of net zero acceleration; Katie Anderson, manager of supply chain and agricultural methane. Public policy is and will remain a key component to reaching net zero.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We have no hope of solving one without solving the other, and by plenty of measures (such as the work on ‘Planetary Boundaries' by Johan Rockström and others at the Stockholm Resilience Institute), we have gone even further beyond the ‘safe operating space for humanity' on biodiversity loss, than on climate change.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2022

How do you plan to make our homes and infrastructure more resilient to levels of heat that will become ever more frequent and intense? How do you plan to make the UK more resilient to the drought, wildfire, and flood risks that will also increase in the coming years? How do you plan to tackle the risk of such impacts?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

To its credit, what Defra has delivered this week is one of the most comprehensive and holistic environmental policy documents from any UK government to date. The statement itself stresses that the environmental principles are "not rules and cannot dictate policy decisions".

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Endorsed by governments over the weekend, the report's 'summary for policymakers' cover text is a critical resource for business leaders and investors looking to bolster near-term resilience and boost long-term profitability amidst an ever-worsening climate crisis. of warming. of warming. Delivering on the Paris Agreement's goal of 1.5C

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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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Front And Centered

AUGUST 19, 2019

Moreover, thanks to planned solar projects and new state laws encouraging clean energy development, the industry is poised to grow even further. These jobs give the community a greater stake in projects to transition off unsustainable fuels, as well as greater resilience and well-being. .

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

Ruling on a case brought by Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth, and the Good Law Project, Mr Justice Holgate agreed the strategy lacked sufficient explanation or quantification as to how the decarbonisation plans set out in the Net Zero Strategy published last autumn would achieve emissions targets for the 2030s and beyond.

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Business Green

JULY 11, 2022

With the gap between many of the leading candidates on fantasy uncosted tax cuts, inhumane asylum policies, and their complicity in the last six months of rolling scandals as slender as Boris Johnson's sense of propriety, climate policy, net zero, and how to respond to soaring energy bills will become critical issues in the leadership election.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

If successful, their lawsuit could spur Italy to make major cuts in climate pollution by 2030. That’s because, ultimately, the plaintiffs aim to ask the Court to order Italy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 92 percent below 1990 levels before 2030 — a major shift from the country’s current policy trajectory.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

An expanded clean energy economy is necessary to achieve the goals outlined in the Colorado GHG Pollution Reduction Roadmap. There are a number of bills that were passed by the Colorado legislature in 2021 and signed into law by the Governor that will turn money and initiative towards the development of the industry’s workforce.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In terms of next steps, countries must now embed these commitments in domestic policy and unlock the role of the private sector. Rachel Kyte, Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and former World Bank Vice President and Special Envoy for Climate Change, said: "Our economy has to operate within nature.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2020

The report also revealed widespread support for targeted policies that encourage businesses to adopt clean technologies. However, the recent Committee on Climate Change progress report concluded that the UK had not yet gone far enough since net zero was written into UK law a year ago, so more needs to be done.".

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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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