Low Impact

AUGUST 8, 2021

There’s a question we often hear: “why don’t you start a political party?” Political parties write their manifestos, that members of the public read (OK, that part is pure fantasy). NB: the only difference between a lot of this behaviour and fraud is the law. The post Our response to: “why don’t you start a political party?”

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Exhibit A: law firms. According to a new report from Law Students for Climate Accountability, most of the top 100 law firms in the United States "provide far more support to clients driving the climate crisis than clients addressing it." Will job-seeking law students truly shun firms seen as bad actors? Policy & Politics.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Next Steps Once the directive is adopted by the Council and Parliament and published in the EU Official Journal, Member States will have 24 months to transpose it into national law. Latham & Watkins will continue to monitor developments in this area.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2023

On June 29, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed a law to prohibit the state’s investor-owned utilities from charging customers for lobbying expenses and other efforts to sway political outcomes. Federal and state regulations already prohibit utilities from collecting money from customers to fund political operations.

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Jim Conca

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

In 1967, the State of Florida passed a law allowing Disney World to build a nuclear power plant. As bizarre as that sounds, it is more of a testament to the political power of the Mouse than anything nuclear. But they should explore an SMR to really go green in the vision of Walt himself.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2022

Wildlife charity RSPB has urged Tory leadership candidates Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss to "urgently" commit to protecting nature laws, claiming that recent anti-regulation rhetoric from both candidates could jeopardise the UK's nature protection goals.

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The Guardian: Energy

JUNE 20, 2024

At the time, I was the cabinet minister who signed this into law. We did so knowing that taking action to tackle the climate crisis was supported by all the major political parties. When I signed net zero into law, I always viewed our plan as a mainstream, even conservative, vision. We had no time to waste.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The COGCC told Capital & Main that it can’t comment on pending legal matters, but acknowledged that Colorado passed a law in 2019 that transformed the commission’s mission from “fostering oil and gas development” to “regulating in a manner that is protective of public health, safety, welfare, wildlife and the environment.”.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Even with the various layers of policies, laws and penalties in place to keep businesses in check, Mitchell believes the "destruction of the earth has become a pay-to-play endeavor. If you have money to violate the law, you can go ahead and do it." Embrace a more holistic kind of success.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen claims law will see net zero taken into account 'in all future policy and legislation'. A Europe-wide 'Climate Law' that would legally require all EU members to build net zero economies by 2050 has been unveiled today by the European Commission as the key pillar of its Green Deal vision.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The result of the vote demonstrates full political alignment on the need for a European approach to geothermal to help cities, industry and households convert to baseload renewable electricity, heating and cooling.

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Alternative Energy News

MARCH 31, 2015

Energy Politics | Environment and Sustainability | Solar Power France keeps making green headlines lately… the Eiffel Tower’s wind turbines, the tree-shaped wind turbines being installed in Paris, and now an exciting new law that is sure to have a huge environmental impact in urban centers.

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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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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The existing targets were fair and well considered, and enjoyed wide political support. Businesses and innovators are in a global race to create and deploy the technologies that will help us get there, and with a lack of clear political commitment Britain is lagging in some areas. It is now China.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2022

The passage of the Bill into law will mean that all the devolved nations of the UK now have their own dedicated climate legislation in place, alongside the overarching target set through the UK-wide Climate Change Act. "The Friends of the Earth can finally welcome a climate law for Northern Ireland," the group said.

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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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The Guardian: Energy

APRIL 30, 2024

Internal documents revealed by committee show companies lobbied against climate laws they publicly claimed to support Big oil has privately acknowledged its efforts to downplay the dangers of burning fossil fuels, a US Senate committee has found. Continue reading.

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Canary Media

JULY 10, 2023

In late June, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed a law prohibiting the state’s investor-owned utilities from charging customers for lobbying expenses and other efforts to sway political outcomes. The new law marks the third comprehensive effort by a state to prevent… This story was first published by Grist.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Key players in California energy politics. Successes that have inspired women to get involved in politics. Mary Hughes , a longtime political strategist, is president of Hughes & Co., a strategic communications and political consulting firm in Palo Alto. The post Politics and You ! REGISTER. ?

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

She has contributed to law conferences, diplomatic events, and environmental summits as well as podcasts, interviews and articles for publications and broadcasters ranging from TIME Magazine to the New York Times and from The Guardian to the BBC. What she realized was that the aspect that protects our rights is actually criminal law.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 21, 2024

Some of the state bills, laws, and actions overlap thematically, and indeed some are based on common model bills. However, there are sufficient differences among them — and the politics and politicians underlying them — that make it prudent to review each state’s profile separately.

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Energy Central

MAY 12, 2022

The development of scientifically sound, economically sensible, and politically feasible climate-change policies would seem to be a case in point. Such an approach is well illustrated by the thinking of Jonathan Wiener, the William and Thomas Perkins Professor of Law at Duke Law School, who.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2022

Lawyer and activist Farhana Yamin considers XR’s cultural, political, and business impact three years after it drove London to a standstill in 2019. The global political order had already been fraying at the edges thanks to creeping authoritarianism, populism, inequality, and post-Covid economic headwinds.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2024

Companies and their trade groups had opposed nature-friendly laws in multiple countries, the report noted, including attempts to curb methane, a potent greenhouse gas. The report found that the industry had instead used “extraordinary political access” to push back against nature-friendly laws. In the U.S.,

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

As revealed by The Mirror and Good Law Project in the former’s print edition, Lilley controls a series of companies that own 12,000 hectares of farmland in the Stavropol region of Russia, in the south west of the country, used to produce cereals and oilseeds.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2024

While the GWPF is a registered charity, and is in theory bound by Charity Commission rules limiting “political activity”, Net Zero Watch is a private company. Founded by the late former Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson , the GWPF has attracted criticism for its use of a subsidiary, Net Zero Watch , to front its campaigns.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 13, 2020

The disproportionate harms to Black Americans wrought by COVID and those wrought by police brutality are symptoms of the same disease: racism hardwired into our political, economic, social and cultural systems. The post How Babcock Foundation is investing its endowment with a focus on racial justice appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Front And Centered

MARCH 26, 2024

The following is a statement by the Front and Centered Coalition Leadership regarding I-2117: The campaign to repeal these recently enacted laws represents a reckless and bad faith effort by a wealthy individual and his politics of despair and division to undermine well-intentioned policy for the environment, education, and healthcare.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 30, 2023

Political, market, and infrastructural barriers remain, dragging progress toward a clean economy — but your business has the power to mitigate these constraints. We explain how your business can support a political, market, and infrastructural reform to support renewable energy technologies and clean energy.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 24, 2024

The mine has become a political flashpoint in discussions over the UK’s commitment to reach net zero by 2050. The future of the mine is now in serious doubt after Rayner spoke of an “error in law” during the approval process. The proposed mine would extract 2.8

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The first, the Nature Restoration Law, includes plans to restore 20 percent of degraded ecosystems in the EU. The findings come at a crucial time for nature-friendly laws in Europe, which scientists say are critical to securing the bloc’s food supply and tackling both climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

But climate targets alone, even if they are enshrined in law, won't get us to net zero. UK Governments have been aware of this limitation for some time and have made efforts to protect our environment from politicisation. These are bold commitments that demonstrate the UK can take the lead on issues of environmental protection.

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2021

Business regulation and tax policy could be subject to a 'future generations law' to assesses its impact on young people if a new 'Youth Manifesto' is enacted. and meaningfully engaged by decision-makers across politics and business.?If Manifesto by young people signals demand for climate action from business. But that energy must be?actively?encouraged?and

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2021

A Swiss law that would have taxed polluters for their emissions and used the revenue to offer public healthcare rebates and fund climate solutions was narrowly defeated in a national referendum over the weekend in what has been dubbed a cautionary tale for policymakers around the world looking to implement carbon pricing policies.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

A similar billed filed during the 2023 legislative session made it to this point but was not ultimately signed into law after being pocket vetoed by the Governor. Source: New Mexico Political Report The post New Mexico geothermal bill returns to governor’s desk first appeared on ThinkGeoEnergy - Geothermal Energy News.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Read time: 17 mins This story is a part of Covering Climate Now’s week of coverage focused on stories with the theme of 'climate politics'. Covering Climate Now is a global journalism collaboration committed to strengthening coverage of the climate story. .

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