GreenTechMedia

MAY 1, 2020

What do lawyers at major environmental nonprofits do? Large environmental nonprofits can play a key role in shaping policy and regulation around cleantech. Lawyers at environmental nonprofits typically use their knowledge of the energy regulatory landscape to advance the goals of the nonprofit where they work.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 24, 2020

On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, the AFL - CIO and the Energy Futures Initiative ( EFI ) — a nonprofit founded and run by former Obama Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz — launched the Labor Energy Partnership. Tags: Dentons EJM Associates AFL-CIO IBEW International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers U.S.

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GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

Akamai awarded points for actions completed during the month, and allowed offices and employees to tag and challenge each other through the online platform to encourage higher levels of participation. Each employee that reached a certain level of participating was entered in a drawing that enabled them to win a donation to a charity. .

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

Climate change is already hurting us much more than we realize,” said Benjamin Strauss, chief scientist at the research and communications nonprofit Climate Central and one of the study’s authors. In other words, without warming temperatures and rising seas, tens of thousands of homes would have gone untouched, and $8.1

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

While nature doesn’t come with a clearly labeled price tag, sustainability innovation understands that there is great economic value in preserving ecosystems, natural resources, biodiversity, and cultures and communities around the world. Operating in most major U.S.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

percent sliver off of the whole project’s $342 million price tag. However, Linn Gould, the founder of the nonprofit Just Health Action and a technical adviser to DRCC, insisted that Duwamish Valley residents had not been adequately included in the EPA’s decision to propose changes to the Superfund cleanup site.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

"Let's not make it complicated, because otherwise people are less inclined to recycle," said Evelyn Butler, vice president of technical services for the Solar Energy Industries Association, a nonprofit trade association. Simple economics. They're in for a rude awakening," Orben said. This article first appeared at GreenBiz.com.

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2024

You’re putting a Band-Aid on the wrong elbow,” says Heun, who now works for the nonprofit Defenders of Wildlife. There weren’t enough survivors to maintain a self-sustaining population,” recounted an investigation by the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.

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Grist

JANUARY 13, 2020

So when a neighbor recently called with the news that her tap water contained enough contaminants that she had switched to drinking bottled water, he called an environmental nonprofit to get his drinking water tested. And most of the country’s coal ash ponds are unlined, according to the legal nonprofit Earthjustice. To date, the U.S.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

A nonprofit called Reef Check had brokered an agreement with California’s Ocean Protection Council, part of the state’s Natural Resources Agency, to hire the out-of-work red urchin divers to clear all purple sea urchins from a tiny section of shallow seafloor.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 3, 2021

Akamai awarded points for actions completed during the month, and allowed offices and employees to tag and challenge each other through the online platform to encourage higher levels of participation. Each employee that reached a certain level of participating was entered in a drawing that enabled them to win a donation to a charity.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

He served on the California State Board of Education’s Curriculum Commission and then founded Ten Strands as a nonprofit organization to support California’s efforts to achieve statewide penetration of high-quality environment-based education into schools. That’s when I decided to stop teaching and set up a nonprofit.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

A nonprofit called Reef Check had brokered an agreement with California’s Ocean Protection Council, part of the state’s Natural Resources Agency, to hire the out-of-work red urchin divers to clear all purple sea urchins from a tiny section of shallow seafloor.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 8, 2021

And that hefty price tag became more daunting when House Bill 2118 , signed into law by Democratic Gov. The Charlottesville-based nonprofit was disappointed that legislators, then Northam, declined to fund HB 2118. But transitioning from yellow to green is expensive. Ralph Northam, was left unfunded.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

Gulf Run’s relatively modest price tag — estimated at $540 million by its builders or over $1.1 Earlier this month, a report by the nonprofit Global Energy Monitor found that LNG investors are growing skittish of the fossil fuel’s poor economics along with increasing scrutiny on the industry’s large carbon footprint.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

“Even the advocates of direct air capture technology acknowledge that they don’t anticipate that it would be at a scale to make any meaningful reduction in atmospheric CO2 levels until 2060, 2070 and beyond,” said Carroll Muffett, president of the environmental law nonprofit Center for International Environmental Law.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

deals to sell natural gas this winter carry a price tag that’s roughly double or triple the costs in recent years , with a few traders placing bets that U.S. The UK is experiencing a natural gas price surge so severe that the government stepped in to prevent a cascade down the supply chain that threatened to create food shortages. In the U.S.,

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Grist

JUNE 2, 2023

Preliminary estimates suggest that the price tag on filtering forever chemicals out of America’s drinking water is more than $3.8 They contaminated drinking water supplies and people across the United States,” David Andrews, a senior scientist at the Environmental Working Group, an environmental health nonprofit, told Grist.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The Atlas Network describes itself as “a nonprofit that aims to secure the right to economic and personal freedom for all individuals through its global network of think tanks.” ” But before it was a network it was just one think tank: the Institute of Economic Affairs, or IEA, in the UK, founded by a man named Antony Fisher.

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