Grist

JANUARY 12, 2023

The study comes at a time when oil giants are under pressure to curb carbon pollution and prepare for a future powered by renewables like wind and solar. In 2001, an ExxonMobil press release argued that there was “no consensus about long-term climate trends and what causes them.” Grist / Jessie Blaeser.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

” The financial impact is also likely to put a crimp in public utilities’ investment plans, including efforts to replace polluting fossil fuel power plants with renewable energy. “In some cases, these costs are reported to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.” Larger power companies are also feeling the pinch.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 15, 2022

The environmental law non-governmental organization, which has bought shares in Shell, claims the company’s 13 executive and non-executive directors failed to adopt and implement a climate strategy that truly aligns with the Paris Agreement and says this is a breach of their legal duties under the UK Companies Act.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Offsets offer a carbon polluter (like the operator of a steel plant) an additional option to comply with government rules that limit carbon pollution. How offsets are created and the extent to which they are used dictates their effectiveness at reducing pollution. WHAT ARE OFFSETS?

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Black and Hispanic Americans are exposed to 63 percent and 56 percent more pollution than they create. The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 was the first piece of legislation signed into law by President Obama. In 2001’s Whitman v. Photo by Wake Forest University School of Law/Flickr. Sponsored Article.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. Mason, who was raised in Queens, is one of the few senior Black executives in banking, at Citi since 2001 in a slate of leadership roles including CEO of Citi Private Bank.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Better to release the heat and pollution during the winter, they figure, rather than in the summer as part of a wildfire. It’s a way to reduce pollution and generate energy at the same time. After all, producing electricity by burning wood produces more carbon and pollution per kilowatt than burning coal, the Sierra Club points out.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

Chamber of Commerce , an ultra-powerful business lobby, does not disclose its members, but it represents the interests of America’s largest corporations — some of which have a long record of breaking state and federal laws. Chamber of Commerce and have been frequent violators of state and federal laws.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Bespectacled, tall, and barrel-chested, with blonde hair and a beard punctuated by gray, Cole stood confidently before a classroom of conference attendees at a University of Oregon environmental law symposium in 2008, less than a year before his death. Abascal gave Cole a desk and a phone, and Cole got to work. Early Influences.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Black and Hispanic Americans are exposed to 63 percent and 56 percent more pollution than they create. The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 was the first piece of legislation signed into law by President Obama. In 2001’s Whitman v. Photo by Wake Forest University School of Law/Flickr.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Black and Hispanic Americans are exposed to 63 percent and 56 percent more pollution than they create. The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 was the first piece of legislation signed into law by President Obama. In 2001’s Whitman v. Photo by Wake Forest University School of Law/Flickr.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. Mason, who was raised in Queens, is one of the few senior Black executives in banking, at Citi since 2001 in a slate of leadership roles including CEO of Citi Private Bank.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

From a Bootstrapped startup in 1993, the organization grew with modest revenues of $70 million by year five, and more than $285 million in revenue by 2001, and was the second for basketball footwear in the market. Are, and how, are human rights and environmental laws enforced in your country?

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

Eighteen of the 19 warmest years all have occurred since 2001, with the exception of 1998. Which countries and sectors are the largest polluters? In addition a certain type of high-carbon coal, known as coking coal, is used in the production of iron and steel, making these factories particularly offensive polluters.

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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 bill that became law was stripped of its original funding source, a tax on dyed diesel fuel, which is used in farm machinery and other non-highway vehicles. Ralph Northam, was left unfunded.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. In 1968, the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) delivered a report titled Sources, Abundance, and Fate of Gaseous Atmospheric Polluters. George Bush came into the U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. In 1968, the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) delivered a report titled Sources, Abundance, and Fate of Gaseous Atmospheric Polluters. George Bush came into the U.S.

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