DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

It’s quite simple,” said Andreae, who served as a Green Party member of parliament from 2002-2019. Kerstin Andreae, BDEW’s managing director, acknowledged in her opening address that the natural gas era was coming to a close — but was quick to present hydrogen as an industry lifeline.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2021

In 2002, Bangladesh became the first country to ban single-use plastic products - in this case plastic carrier bags - and since then at least 90 countries have imposed similar measures, the report notes. At the same time, it explores examples of regulatory approaches taken by governments around the world.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 3, 2021

Boruff was joined that day by company founder Delroy Miller, who also happened to be his father-in-law. Boruff had no oil industry experience before being appointed in 2008 as CEO by his father-in-law. and saw Enron’s top executives go to prison, so too are Miller Energy and its auditors’ activities now under scrutiny. million in 2011.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In 2002, the municipality of Pullach in the Isar Valley founded Innovative Energy for Pullach (IEP), and since 2005 households and businesses have benefited from the regional, climate-friendly, safe heat from the depths. ” The federal government currently has a draft law to speed up approval procedures.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

By Dr Daria Shapovalova (School of Law) and Prof esso r Tavis Potts (School of Geosciences), University of Aberdeen. Discovered in 2002, the field lies 25km north-west of the Shetland Islands. It contains over 800 million barrels of oil and is majority-owned by Siccar Point Energy.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Environmental departments in major oil companies are well-staffed with people who devote their careers to ensuring environmental laws are followed. When I first went to work in the oil industry in 2002, there were plenty of people who thought I had lost my mind if I tried to talk about climate change. They are oil companies, after all.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2024

Jolyon Maugham, director of the Good Law Project, told DeSmog: “Abraham Lincoln spoke of government ‘of the people, by the people and for the people.’ Lord Hintze, who has given more than £4 million to the Conservatives since 2002, has donated to five current members of the government.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 10, 2024

Labour plans to overhaul planning laws, and massively expand the grid to transport electricity in pylons across the country from dozens of new solar and wind farms. She was also the director of London Luton Airport (1999-2003), and a director of pro-European pressure group Britain in Europe (2002-2004).

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

From 2002 to 2012 Coco was President and COO of Taos, a Gartner global top 20 leader in IT cloud professional and managed services. Before that, Veena practiced law in India. Veena received a Masters in Law degree from Washington University in St. Honors) degree from National Law School from India University, Bangalore.

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Business Green

JANUARY 7, 2022

As the report dictates, and is now protected by law, it is imperative for the UK to reduce its emissions, with numerous initiatives relying on the goal of installing 40GW of offshore wind by 2030, eventually building up to 100GW by 2050. Building the right framework. Right now, the UK has just over 10GW of offshore wind capacity installed.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 29, 2024

Subsidies and policies that facilitate the transition to cleaner heavy-duty vehicles are especially beneficial to EJ communities, as the link between diesel emissions and higher asthma rates for Black and Latino children in communities overburdened by pollution is well-established (AAFA 2005; Weir 2002).

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

Shell agreed to fund their relocation in 2002 — but Hawkins’ family was one of the few who decided to stay. Today, a peculiar sign still greets those who enter the town: residential homes are pictured next to an oil tank, surrounded by refinery towers, all basking together underneath the sun and blue sky.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

million from 2002-2004. Based on gas cost data in company SEC filings from 2002-2004, if NW Natural reported 1 percent unaccounted-for gas to the OPUC during this period, it would be overestimating its gas costs by $4.3 Exactly how much such an overvaluation might inflate final shareholder profits is unclear. .

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

European supermarkets have recently threatened to boycott Brazilian products in response to a proposed law which many experts fear will accelerate deforestation by legalising the private occupation of public land. However, he argues there is a precedent for deforestation rates being curbed that companies and policymakers should not ignore.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2023

And in keeping with traditionally slow government timelines, more than 10 years later in 2002, organic had a legal framework and was booming as companies saw a lucrative market where they could differentiate their products as healthy, better for the planet and tastier. "You Do they have the law behind them?

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

But we were not required to by law. In China, it was called "The Design of the Circular Economy." But it is hard to make these kinds of changes. It is really hard. What we were doing was creating a de facto standard of good behavior. We were just doing it.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In 2002 Governor Davis announced the need for 28,000 new teachers. When I started on the commission, the first thing that came along was the model curriculum developed as a result of the Education and the Environment Initiative law. So I decided to become a teacher.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Every policy, law, regulation, study, analysis, proposal or action that has the climate crisis in mind is built on the basis of those two figures: 1.5 In 2002, U.S. It was at COP21, where the Paris Agreement , the most important climate pact to date, was enshrined. That paragraph, in article 2, paragraph 2.a., They are our lighthouse.

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Mearth

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The Law provides, amongst other issues, for the fee arrangements and payment establishments that comprise the Brazilian Payment System. Friday’s move comes as New Delhi is inching closer to introducing a law that might ban non-public cryptocurrencies within the nation. And the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2024

Between 2002 and 2021 Mitloehner and the CLEAR Center received close to $12.5 Major changes in law, education and academic institutions could strengthen media and scientific literacy and promote transparency around emissions.

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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. Chamber of Commerce.

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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

They include the Merchant Shipping Regulations of 1996; the Offshore Chemicals Regulations of 2002; the Offshore Petroleum Activities Regulations of 2005; and the International Maritime Organization’s Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and other Matter, better known as the London Convention of 1972.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

This pay inequality hasn’t budged much since 2002 (during whcih time women earned 80% as much as men). Supplier codes of conduct are of special importance if your company sources products and services from countries with lax enforcement laws and policies, and poorer labor and human rights laws.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

But we were not required to by law. It is really hard. What we were doing was creating a de facto standard of good behavior. We were just doing it. That is the part I really learned, is that you start with inspiration, then you move to creative work, and then you start to execute against it.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 30, 2021

Michael Castellarin, with Clairvest since 2002, handles industry research and investment origination, structuring and execution with a focus on waste management, environmental services, facility services and industrial services. About the Authors.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

Olson is the executive director of the nonprofit law firm Our Children’s Trust, which has spearheaded youth climate change lawsuits across the United States. At a March 2023 hearing of the Senate Budget Committee , Curry testified that calling climate change a crisis was “at odds with professional judgments of climate risk.”

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Some of these cases have been brought under consumer fraud or protection laws that penalise companies for misrepresenting their products to the public. Shell and other oil and gas companies have been named as defendants in dozens of U.S. and other municipalities across the country. The Washington D.C.-based

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 14, 2023

In June of this year, electric truck-maker Lordstown Motors also filed for bankruptcy protection after its 2002 exit via SPAC. in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. In June 2022, EV manufacturer Electric Last Mile Solutions declared bankruptcy just a year after going public through a SPAC deal.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Indeed, development policy had until recently worked hard to boost the uptake of cars: between 2002 and 2016, the World Bank invested more in roads than in education, health, and social services combined. Not surprising, then, that road transport accounted for 80 per cent of the rise in global emissions that occurred between 1970 and 2010.

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Grist

JULY 7, 2021

We asked nonprofits and carbon offset companies to give us good examples of land managers capturing carbon in exchange for money — the sort that the Global Climate Solutions Act might expand upon if President Joe Biden signed it into law. He taught us to love and take responsibility for the land,” Hartman said.

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Low Impact

JUNE 6, 2021

Later, the law was changed to allow them to be transferable, and so they circulated through the economy as money, at least for bigger purchases. The bankers’ trick of lending non-existent money had to be enshrined in law, because it came to represent the foundation of European economies. 15th – 19th centuries: early capitalism.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

After her time as governor, Granholm joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley as a Distinguished Professor of Practice in the Goldman School of Public Policy, focusing on the intersection of law, clean energy, manufacturing, policy and industry. DOE is tasked with overseeing the U.S.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

between 2002 and 2009, when he was governor. The same year, he tried to salvage a measure that would have increased the administrative penalty for electric industry participants that violate state law or PUC rules. On Saturday, Turner warned about the soaring residential utility bills that Texans would be getting in the coming weeks.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 1, 2020

By law, California must have 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2045, and an executive order signed by former Governor Jerry Brown calls for economywide carbon-neutrality by the same year. Clean energy is the state’s future. California's revised budget included $1.5

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 27, 2022

I first met Parish a few years after he dropped out of Yale, in 2002, to start the Energy Action Coalition, one of the first big campus climate-action groups in this country; Steyer and I have long been involved in campaigns against pipelines and investing in fossil fuels.) “There’s so much clean energy that wants to be built,” he said.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

What is at stake are existing environmental laws and blocking others. Barret could also make it difficult to limit greenhouse gas emissions and protect American laws that give people a legal right to clean air, clean water, a stable climate, and healthy ecosystems.

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