Paris seeks UK loan guarantee after Hinkley Point nuclear plant costs soar
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French government in push to ease financing pressure on state-owned EDF from rising price tag
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Comment: Pay-as-you-throw can drive the circular economy
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 8, 2023
Governments should consider introducing a combination of incentives and penalties, such as pay-as-you-throw (PAYT), if they are serious about lowering the volume of waste sent to landfill, argues Chris Williams of ISB Global , a UK-based software and solutions provider for the global waste management and recycling sector.
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Peers sought to build urban resilience platform
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
It is against this background that Isle set up its Urban Resilience Technology Approval Group (UR TAG) in 2019. Urban Resilience TAG meetings are an opportunity to pool project experiences, share best practice and collaborate. Antwerp is at the forefront of this and will share learnings with other local governments in Belgium. “To
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Record Amounts Of Clean Energy Installed As Costs Continue To Fall
Forbes Green Tech
JUNE 19, 2020
“If governments take advantage of the ever-falling price tag of renewables to put clean energy at the heart of COVID-19 economic recovery, they can take a big step towards a healthy natural world, which is the best insurance policy against global pandemics.”.
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‘Historic’ Court Ruling Will Force France To Justify Its Climate Targets
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
Read time: 5 mins A French court this week issued what climate campaigners are calling a “historic decision” in the fight to hold national governments accountable for insufficient action to address the climate crisis. Tags: France climate lawsuit Paris Agreement Greenpeace France climate action
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As QAnon Conspiracy Spreads on the Far Right, Climate Science Deniers Jump Aboard
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 27, 2020
The Paris Agreement on Climate is Another Scam to Ripoff Taxpayers and Enrich the Politicians,” the Q-Drop (the term QA non followers use to refer to messages they believe come from some sort of government insider who signs messages with the letter Q) claimed, labeling climate action a “con.”.
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New Youth Climate Lawsuit Launched Against UK Government on Five Year Anniversary of Paris Agreement
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 12, 2020
Read time: 6 mins Three young British citizens and the climate litigation charity Plan B today announced they are taking legal action against the UK government for failing to sufficiently address the climate crisis. Tags: climate lawsuits climate litigation united kingdom Plan B Paris Agreement climate emergency Boris Johnson
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Baltimore, Rhode Island Argue They’re Suing Fossil Fuel Companies Over Climate Deception
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 10, 2020
Read time: 5 mins At a time when fossil fuel companies are using a public health crisis to demand financial and regulatory support , the governments of Baltimore and Rhode Island are calling out a “decades-long campaign of deception” by these companies in urging courts to advance lawsuits trying to hold polluters responsible for climate damages.
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Court Tosses Youth Climate Lawsuit Against Canada
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 30, 2020
Read time: 5 mins The Federal Court of Canada has decided to dismiss a climate lawsuit based on constitutional rights and brought by 15 young Canadians against the federal government. Tags: climate lawsuits canada Juliana v. United States youth climate lawsuits
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2020 Was a Busy Year for Taking the Climate Fight to the Courts
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 21, 2020
All around the world, communities, organizations, and especially young people turned to the courts in 2020 in strategic attempts to hold governments and polluting companies accountable for exacerbating the unfolding climate emergency. Supreme Court fossil fuel companies
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Campaigners Urge UK Government To 'Lock Out' Polluters From COP26
DeSmogBlog
MARCH 25, 2021
A letter published today and signed by over 170 grassroots groups urged the government to “kick out” polluters from sponsoring or even visiting the summit, clai ming their presence is “poisoning” the climate debate. Tags: COP26 fossil fuels
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Court Considers If Washington State, Smothered by 'Climate Fires' and Smoke, Is Violating Youths’ Rights to Life and Liberty
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
this week, a Washington state appeals court examined the question of whether young people should be allowed to sue their state government over the climate crisis. Tags: youth climate lawsuits washington state wildfires Gov. Read time: 5 mins As rampant wildfires worsened by climate change continued to batter the western U.S.
Net zero legal threats, cheaper heat pumps, and PM defends green policy rollback: BusinessGreen's most read stories of the week
Business Green
OCTOBER 6, 2023
BusinessGreen rounds up the most widely read stories on the site this week OVO to offer heat pumps at lower cost than gas boilers Energy supplier touts new offer promising heat pumps at cheaper price tag and running costs than conventional gas boilers. -
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Scottish council becomes first to trial recycling weighing technology
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 27, 2021
The programme, funded by the Scottish government funded advisory group Zero Waste Scotland and delivered in partnership with North Lanarkshire Council, involves the use of RFID tags. The year-long pilot, being rolled out from early September, will involve 5,000 households.
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How Congress Can Support Lawsuits Demanding Climate Accountability
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
government in the landmark constitutional climate case Juliana v. Tags: Congress climate lawsuits Juliana v. Read time: 7 mins On Wednesday, September 23, several members of Congress introduced a resolution in both houses that supports the principles and demands of the 21 youth suing the U.S. United States.
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UK Court Urged to Respect 1.5C Climate Limit
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 1, 2021
In a significant challenge to the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court, several leading climate scientists have said a recent ruling it made on the expansion of London’s main airport, Heathrow, will cause serious damage to the global environment, urging it to rule that the government must respect the 1.5C Tags: Heathrow Paris Accord
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Campaigners Demand Court Shuts Down Ecuador’s Oil Pipelines After Spill
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 12, 2020
The Kichwa and Shuar tribes launched a lawsuit against the government and state-owned oil company Petroecuador in April after two pipelines ruptured. Tags: Petroecuador Amazon Frontlines
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Why Public Health Experts Support These Youth Suing the US Government Over Climate Change
DeSmogBlog
MARCH 25, 2020
Surgeons General, recently filed supporting briefs backing a youth climate lawsuit against the federal government because, like the current coronavirus pandemic, the climate crisis poses “unprecedented threats to public health and safety.”. Tags: public health Juliana v. United States air pollution COVID-19 coronavirus
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Op-ed: US COVID-19 Bailouts Gave Bonuses to Fossil Fuel CEOs While Workers and Planet Suffered
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
response to COVID -19 has enabled an insidious pattern of fossil fuel companies receiving government handouts, despite struggling long before the pandemic. Tags: oil bailout CARES Act Whiting Petroleum COVID-19 U.S. Federal Reserve
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Historic Supreme Court Verdict Means Ireland's Government Must Increase Climate Ambition
DeSmogBlog
JULY 31, 2020
Read time: 4 mins The Supreme Court of Ireland has ruled in favour of an environmental group challenging the Irish government’s climate plans, finding its policies did not meet legal requirements for detailing how the country will meet emissions-reduction targets.
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Disaster Recovery Expert Russel Honoré Decries the Lack of Coordinated Response to COVID-19
DeSmogBlog
JULY 17, 2020
He has advocated for the federal government to tap the military to set up COVID -19 testing and contact tracing nationwide since the pandemic began spreading rapidly across the United States. . Russel Honoré Louisiana John Bel Edwards cancer alley COVID-19
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New Jersey Should Sue Fossil Fuel Companies Over Climate Costs, Panel Says
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 19, 2020
Read time: 4 mins Advocates for holding fossil fuel companies accountable in court for the substantial costs of climate change are urging New Jersey to sue oil majors like ExxonMobil, as over a dozen municipal and state governments have done over the past three years.
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Government extends grants for buying electric vans and trucks through to 2025
Business Green
MARCH 15, 2022
A government grant scheme offering businesses thousands of pounds off the price tag of electric vans and trucks has been extended by a further two years, in a move Ministers expect to support the purchase of tens of thousands of greener vehicles. tonnes to 4.25 tonnes, with vans weighing up to 4.25
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‘No Time for Requirements’: Aviation Industry Lobbying Against Green Strings in Coronavirus Bailouts
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 3, 2020
With revenues expected to drop by 44 percent this year, many airlines will go bankrupt without government aid, airline trade body the International Air Transport Association ( IATA ) has warned. Across the world, the industry is now asking for huge sums of government money to help it get through.
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Analysis: Aviation Industry Coronavirus Bailouts Contradict Governments' Climate Commitments
DeSmogBlog
JULY 23, 2020
Despite governments around the world claiming they want to support low-carbon industries in the wake of COVID -19, many have prioritised airlines and plane manufacturers for bailouts with no green strings attached — giving or lending money to some of the world’s biggest polluters.
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Workers and Climate Must Be Priority in Aviation Industry Bailouts, Campaigners Say
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 7, 2020
The campaign, launched yesterday by the Stay Grounded network, is urging governments to avoid rushing into bailouts which lack social and environmental conditions or proper protection for workers. Tags: International Air Transport Association (IATA) emirates
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A Plastics Spill on the Mississippi River But No Accountability in Sight
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 11, 2020
By most accounts, the translucent plastic pellets are considered pollution, but government bureaucracy and regulatory technicalities are making accountability for removing these bits of plastic from the river’s banks and waters surprisingly challenging. Tags: plastic production Mississippi River Formosa RISE St.
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Documents Show Koch Network's 'Structure of Social Change' in Action
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 19, 2019
Tags: kochdocs kochvsclean Charles Koch Richard Fink institute for energy research koch industries americans for prosperity (AFP)
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Carbon Capture Will Require Large Public Subsidies to Support Coal and Gas Power
DeSmogBlog
JUNE 15, 2020
Tags: carbon capture CCUS Center for Global Energy Policy (CGEP) cost of renewable energy
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A Decade After the Deepwater Horizon Explosion, Offshore Drilling Is Still Unsafe
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 15, 2020
Later, I served as a courtroom witness for the government on the effects of the spill. While scientists now know more about these effects, risks of deepwater blowouts remain, and the energy industry and government responders still have only very limited ability to control where the oil goes once it’s released from the well.
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UK Government Implements Fracking Ban – For Now
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 3, 2019
The UK government has issued an immediate moratorium in England because of the risk of earth tremors. Governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have already issued measures that amount to moratoriums on fracking. Tags: Preston New Road Preston New Road Action Group
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As Aerial Footage of Devastated Bahamas Emerges, Campaigners Ask How Much Destruction and Death Before Global Climate Action Taken?
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
coast, footage of the storm's devastation flooded the internet alongside calls for governments and the news media to recognize the here-and-now destruction of the climate emergency. Tags: hurricanes and global warming extreme weather Caribbean green new deal
How To Make Your Home More Environmentally Friendly
The Environmental Blog
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
While the vast majority of environmental damage is done by massive corporations and world governments, rather than little old you, it’s important to remember that collective action can have an impact on helping the world become more environmentally friendly.
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Op-Ed: The US Must Protect Communities and Workers But We Need Our Leaders to Stop Bending to the Oil and Gas Industry
DeSmogBlog
MARCH 24, 2020
The work of governance, regulation, and oversight are instead shifted to a relatively unknown cadre of boards. Boards whose leadership is a revolving door of the industries the government is supposed to regulate. Tags: Ryan Sitton Texas Railroad Commission oil and gas industry texas COVID-19 coronavirus
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Oil Lobby’s Carbon Capture Solution Hasn’t Consulted Local Nation, Chief Says
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Chief Jacko noted his community hasn’t been consulted by either the federal government or the government of Alberta. In an emailed statement an Alberta government spokesperson said the province remains committed to carbon capture solutions and will approve projects that meet its standards. Pathways estimates a $16.5
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Unique monitoring project will study the seas around Ireland and Western Scotland
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 22, 2021
Listening stations from Malin Head – Ireland’s most northerly point – to the island of Islay in Scotland will record transmissions from a variety of mobile marine species tagged by the project’s scientists. Funding for the €4.6m The territory covered by the project.
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Study: Heat pumps cheaper to install and run than gas boilers
Business Green
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Exclusive: Research from Nesta points to major savings heat pump deployment can deliver for the UK economy, the government, and consumers as gas prices continue to soar. Nesta has therefore set out a number of measures it argues could be implemented by the government to make heat pumps more attractive to households in the long-term.
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California Polluters May Soon Buy Carbon 'Offsets' From the Amazon — Is That Ethical?
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 29, 2019
On September 19, the California Air Resources Board endorsed the Tropical Forest Standard, which sets the groundwork for electric utilities, oil refineries and other California polluters to “offset” their greenhouse gas emissions by paying governments in tropical forest areas not to cut down trees.
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As Asian heatwaves require burning more fossil fuels, fears of a slower transition grow
Eco-Business
MAY 30, 2023
Gas and coal demand is up in South and Southeast Asia, as governments look to get people enough power for live-saving air-conditioning. Greener solutions come with steep price tags, and policy momentum is not guaranteed, experts say.
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Reports: Treasury shelves £30bn plan to electrify UK railways over cost concerns
Business Green
DECEMBER 13, 2021
Clean transport advocates point out £30bn price tag for railway electrification is in the same ball park as budget for road building. The government has pledged to deliver a net zero railway network by 2050, but railway industry professionals have long warned this target is threatened by the sluggish pace of electrification of the railways.
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The UK's net zero target is under threat because there's no plan to pay for it
Business Green
MAY 26, 2022
Building decarbonisation is critical to delivering a net zero Britain, but neither the Treasury nor Scottish government have set out a vision for how a mass green homes retrofit programme could be funded, writes Glasgow Caledonian University’s Keith Baker. Things aren't looking any better in Scotland.
How RFID technology is playing a role in reducing waste and increasing recycling
Envirotec Magazine
DECEMBER 19, 2019
PragmatIC says its technology could allow a low-cost inlay (tag) to be incorporated in packaging, allowing consumers to access information about product usage, food storage, cooking instructions and local recycling. Finding the solution through innovative technology.
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Portugal hails new record low for solar power prices
Business Green
AUGUST 27, 2020
Spanish energy giants Iberdrola and Endesa each won an allotment from the auction, while German energy firm TAG took away two. This week's auction saw six firms win a chunk of the 700MW of contracts on offer, with the biggest deal going to South Korean solar panel manufacturer Hanwha Q Cells, which is set to deliver 315MW of new capacity.
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UK's first green number plates hit the roads
Business Green
DECEMBER 8, 2020
Government introduces first dedicated number plates for zero emission vehicles, potentially paving the way for new incentives for electric vehicle drivers. The plates will feature a green tag or 'flash' on the left hand side of the plate to make it easy to identify zero emission models.
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