Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 14, 2021

A UN-backed report funded by the EU outlines a proposal whereby the recycling of certain components and sub-systems within electronic equipment should be mandated by law. Recovery technologies and processes are well established for some CRMs, such as palladium from printed circuit boards or cobalt from lithium-ion batteries.

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Charged

OCTOBER 4, 2022

US Senator Angus King, a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, has introduced legislation that aims to promote electric school buses and V2G technology. Bidirectional electric school buses are such a good idea, they almost sound too good to be true.

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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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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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Charged

JANUARY 25, 2024

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law includes $7.5 The Federal Highway Administration is seeking feedback on how government rules should be updated to support the new NACS/J3400 standard, which enables other companies to manufacture and use Tesla’s formerly proprietary charging connector.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 17, 2024

The Conservative leader, which some polls suggest is favoured by Canadians to be the next prime minister, stated earlier this year that as far as climate policy goes he’s in favour of “technology, not taxes,” without providing concrete details. He is meanwhile enthusiastic about oil and gas expansion.

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The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Weaponizing an agency against law-abiding businesses for political reasons must not be permitted,” Brian Morgenstern, head of public policy at Riot Platforms, said in a post on X yesterday celebrating the legal victory.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 14, 2023

Welcome to the second in our series of articles featuring industry insiders highlighting the trends and technologies we can expect to see in 2023. Instead, a coalition of clean technologies will be required to decarbonise the energy sector. Mark Rowcroft. Read more: 2023 predictions: Electric vehicle trends and challenges.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

“The worry is that carbon removal will be something we do so that business-as-usual can continue,” said Sara Nawaz, director of research at American University’s Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy. “We Nawaz co-wrote a report released today titled “ Agenda for a Progressive Political Economy of Carbon Removal. ”

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 12, 2024

urged the House Committee on Appropriations to include USD 118 million for the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Geothermal Technologies Office for the 2024 Fiscal Year. The letter specifies that at least USD 100 million of this funding be allocated to next-generation geothermal technologies. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), such as EGS. “We

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Under Italian law, a request for mediation is a mandatory prerequisite for filing a defamation lawsuit. Eni is continuing to produce methane gas while also making “investments in decarbonization technologies [as well as] renewables, circular economy, projects, biofuels, etc.”, the spokesperson stated.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 22, 2020

While laws, rules and regulations are undeniably critical, to address the scale of the threat we face we need action independent of censure or sanction. A global mobilization to tackle climate change requires widespread public support that forces political leaderships to marshal the political will to act.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The risk and potential disadvantage of adapting existing regulation is that the regulatory framework is not quite “fit for purpose” for a nascent market involving new technologies and processes and one which is also trying to accommodate “project on project” risk.    Who should bear Change in Law Risk?

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The number of operational clean hydrogen production projects worldwide is set to at least double in the next five years, according to research published on 23 October by law firm Pillsbury , with 108 set to start producing the gas by the end of 2028. Continued innovation and investment will see this hurdle cleared in time.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Feasibility study The initial idea for the geothermal park came from Zou Yuanxin, member of the District Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), who then consulted with Professor Li Zhongquan, Dean of the School of Earth Sciences of Chengdu University of Technology.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2022

This has resulted in cases in land and environmental courts against Swedish authorities for not complying with national or international environmental laws and conventions.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

“The rights to life, health, food and water, cultural rights and the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment are being violated and will continue to be violated, and the rule of law will continue to be undermined, unless the ISDS system is eliminated,” Boyd reports. Despite their impacts, ISDS cases are cloaked in secrecy.

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Sustainability Consulting

JULY 21, 2021

Most people think of technological or political solutions to climate change but the way our societies are structured, who has power and who does not, can have a profound effect on our actions. In 2020, women made up 40 percent of the global workforce, but in the Middle East that percentage falls to about 25 percent.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act, President Joe Biden’s landmark climate law, allocates nearly $9 billion in rebates for home energy efficiency and electrification, but renters don’t yet have access to rebates at the point of sale for heat pumps, electric water heaters, or induction stoves the way homeowners do.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2024

It’s certainly interesting — or telling — that he made a political donation to the leader of the official opposition,” Emilia Belliveau, energy transition program manager for the non-profit organization Environmental Defence, told DeSmog. But he opposes national laws designed to address it.

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38 North Solutions

JANUARY 9, 2018

With that bill now law, we will need the rest of this year and, perhaps, several more, to figure out how the new tax code will impact innovative industries. We will continue to build the record on the benefits of those technologies and applications. The post Welcome to 2018: What’s in Store for Technology and Clean Energy Policy?

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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. Additional provisions indirectly promote investment in new technologies such as investment in small modular reactors through GBN, with a competition to allocate funds already on the way.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

can be searched by Sustainability Topic, Academic Discipline and Office or Department.

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Planet Pulse

JUNE 29, 2021

Amy has a fantastic track record of scaling legal organizations and navigating evolving legal and regulatory landscapes at rapidly growing technology companies. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. .

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

It’s clear that a dedicated infrastructure is currently lacking, production costs outweigh less-clean competitors, and that government policy shows technology agnosticism is a myth. With hydrogen, we have the technology and the skills needed to give our energy sector the shake-up it needs to meet our goals. Production costs.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Its chair, Marie Donnelly, last night expressed concern at the “problematic” sectoral targets, which she described as “not consistent” with the objectives of Ireland’s climate laws. After the painful financial crash of 2008/9, the political atmosphere in Ireland ahead of the lifting of quotas was febrile.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The storage of nuclear waste is always a hot political topic. technology to the rest of the world. She said that political support for nuclear power is improving. The bipartisan infrastructure law allocated $6 billion into current reactors and $2.5 The good news is that the amount of waste generated is generally small.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The policy, which backs further aviation growth, was dismissed as “ pure greenwash ” by environmental groups, which cast doubt on the viability of the technologies and solutions proposed. He is also the CEO of Sheriff Global Group, which trades private jets, according to Politics Home. Additional research by Michaela Herrmann.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2021

It was the first major economy to put net zero in law by 2050 and it has also cut its existing emissions at the fastest rate in the G7 since 1990. Glasgow isn't a ribbon cutting event, it requires real political muscle. Each make points about the need to advance new technologies and the importance of public support. at Glasgow.

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Grist

JANUARY 31, 2024

They stay in touch through increasingly sophisticated communication technology, and they share in preserving cultural and culinary traditions, from afar. That 2019 law was the first of its kind in the nation, and the ruling casts doubt on the dozens of cities that had followed Berkeley’s lead.

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Business Green

APRIL 27, 2022

After the UK parliament passed more stringent carbon targets in 2019, setting in law the goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, questions about the climate effects of the mine mounted. In political debate, much has been made of the second argument, that the mine will provide a domestic source of coal for UK steelworks.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2023

He said Britain was rolling from crisis to crisis due to a lack of long-term vision from government, describing the government's current approach as "sticking plaster politics". Thirteen years of nothing but sticking plaster politics. But all of that must be done in service of a politics which trusts communities.".

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The European Union’s scientific and political communities are locked in a battle over whether gas and nuclear can be considered green investments. In June 2019, the TEG defined a threshold of 100g CO2e/kWh below which energy-generation technologies can be deemed sustainable. And that is exactly what is happening for fossil gas.”.

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 1, 2023

Canada’s clean energy sector is made up of companies and workers that help reduce carbon pollution, whether by generating clean energy, helping move it, reducing energy consumption, or developing low-carbon technologies. Stefan Pauer , Manager of Technology and Economic Analysis at Clean Energy Canada.

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Terra Infirma

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Next week, with my political hat on, I’m proposing that Newcastle City Council changes its Local Plan clause on energy resources to reflect our climate emergency declaration. This is very important as the UK’s planning system favours developers and developers have little incentive to change.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

The government confirmed it now expects the bill to resume its report stage in the Second Session of the year before passing into law in the autumn. Environment Minister Rebecca Pow stressed the delay did not "diminish [the government's] ambition for our environment in any way". "We

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 6, 2024

‘Not Just About Enforcement ‘ In recent years, the ACC has ramped up its advertising of chemical recycling technology as a solution to plastic waste as its member companies promise to construct new facilities alongside expanding petrochemical operations across the country.

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