DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2024

A number of climate consensus studies conducted between 2004 and 2015 found that between 90 percent and 100 percent of experts agree that humans are responsible for climate change. However, he has said that “all sides must be heard” on the issue “to reach the right conclusion for society as a whole”.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

It is curious how certain agencies, including Lynton Crosby’s, end up advising both the Tories and their friends,” Jolyon Maugham, director of the Good Law Project, told DeSmog. This raises a number of interesting political questions.”

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Grist

JANUARY 12, 2023

In a 2004 New York Times advertisement, the company stated that “scientific uncertainties continue to limit our ability to make objective, quantitative determinations regarding the human role in recent climate change.” The company’s leadership and marketing team worked to create a cloud of confusion around climate science.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

million from 2002-2004. NW Natural acknowledged these “improvements in gas measurement and estimating” in its 2004 annual report. 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

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 26, 2019

By way of background, two class action lawsuits filed in the District of Massachusetts alleged that Eversource and Avangrid systematically abused their influence in the natural gas transmission market in violation of federal and state antitrust laws. See, e.g. , Woolsey v. Morgan Ventures Energy Corp. , 308 (9th Cir. 2017); Public Util.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Since 2004, tornadoes have caused roughly $90 million in property damage in Pennsylvania alone. The laws of physics that govern atmospheric motions are agnostic about county, state and country,” he said. “If Tornadoes are rare, especially in the Northeast, but they can happen anywhere if the circumstances are right.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In 2004, the UN and International Corporate Finance worked together to develop a system that would integrate environmental, social, and governance concerns into capital markets. The resulting 2005 study, titled Who Cares Wins , marked the first use of the term ESG. Every company, as a legal entity, requires governance.

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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

However, it struggled to gain enough support for a number of years, with New Zealand making a plea in 2004 for IMO members to support its application in an attempt to accelerate the process. As a non-UN member, the Cook Islands first applied to join the IMO in 1999, when the body’s executive body recommended its membership bid.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

While that blast was contained, a vapor cloud explosion at an LNG terminal in Algeria in 2004 killed 27 people. On June 8, 2022, just such an explosion at the Freeport LNG export plant in Texas released a 450-foot-high fireball , shuttering the plant for nine months. LNG in large part to effective lobbying by Poland’s fossil fuel industry.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Gutierrez joined NRG from Dynegy in 2004 as an energy portfolio director. The more people analyze, capture and process data, the more the company must advance transistor density — a fitting challenge, given that Moore’s law began in the mind of Intel co-founder Gordon Moore.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. Last year, activists celebrated the passage of a climate law that sets even more aggressive emissions reductions goals than California.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JULY 7, 2015

Cotter co-founded San Francisco-based Luminalt with her husband Noel Cotter in 2004, making the company the city’s first and still only woman-owned solar company. Before starting Luminalt, she practiced law at Fenwick and West and was an attorney for financial software maker Intuit.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

When Jones Tract, a delta island, flooded in 2004, the damage cost $90 million to fix. Established in 2006 by the law AB32, the cap-and-trade system seeks to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions by harnessing market forces. Nor is the flooding of delta islands unprecedented.

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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

APRIL 22, 2021

If the industry was not exempt from hazardous waste law,” said Troutman, “the characterization of their waste would be far better, the tracking would be far better, and it would be harder for companies to manipulate the system like this.”. Current federal laws give the company confidence that these imports are legitimate. “As

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Mearth

JANUARY 30, 2021

Winning the award for Best Software in The International Gaming Awards 2010, Entwine Tech was founded in 2004 and provides products to more than 50 licensees all over the world. Please verify the wagering laws in your jurisdiction as they range from state to state, province to province and nation to nation. Mobilebetting.co.nz

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 30, 2024

The complaint against the GWPF – which is part of a network of “free market” think tanks based in and around Tufton Street , Westminster – was made by the then Green Party MP Caroline Lucas, Labour MP Clive Lewis, and Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran, with support from the Good Law Project non-profit.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Gutierrez joined NRG from Dynegy in 2004 as an energy portfolio director. The more people analyze, capture and process data, the more the company must advance transistor density — a fitting challenge, given that Moore’s law began in the mind of Intel co-founder Gordon Moore.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Angus is a long-serving legislator, having represented his Northern Ontario riding of Timmins-James Bay since 2004. If passed into law, the bill would be a valuable step toward limiting misinformation about fossil fuels and countering greenwashing.” “The

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

Before first contact, you need to visualize Canada (aka Turtle Island) as a territory that held many, many sovereign nations, each with their own unique cultures, laws, and governance systems. This has been affirmed and clarified by various SCC rules including the Haida case in 2004, Beckham v. Read that again.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 23, 2024

A number of climate consensus studies conducted between 2004 and 2015 found that between 90 percent and 100 percent of experts agree that humans are responsible for climate change. However, he has said that “all sides must be heard” on climate change “to reach the right conclusion for society as a whole“.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 18, 2024

This has averaged 74 cents per gallon since 2004. [2] From 2004-2023 (ignoring 2020, the only year in which prices declined over the spring due to the COVID pandemic), both the average and median price increase has been 74 cents per gallon (Figure 2). [3] Real-world comparisons of WA and OR prices at the pump support these findings.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 18, 2024

This has averaged 74 cents per gallon since 2004. [2] From 2004-2023 (ignoring 2020, the only year in which prices declined over the spring due to the COVID pandemic), both the average and median price increase has been 74 cents per gallon (Figure 2). [3] Real-world comparisons of WA and OR prices at the pump support these findings.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 17, 2024

This has averaged 74 cents per gallon since 2004. From 2004-2023 (ignoring 2020, the only year in which prices declined over the spring due to the COVID pandemic), both the average and median price increase has been 74 cents per gallon (Figure 2). Real-world comparisons of WA and OR prices at the pump support these findings.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 20, 2024

The annual spring price ramp that we are once again encountering has averaged 74 cents per gallon since 2004. [1] From 2004-2023 (ignoring 2020, the only year in which prices declined over the spring due to the COVID pandemic), both the average and median price increase has been 74 cents per gallon (Figure 2). [3]

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

It’s deeply concerning that Downing Street’s doors are open to fracking enthusiasts,” Good Law Project Executive Director Jolyon Maugham told DeSmog. Price formerly worked for the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) and the TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA), both of which are part of the Tufton Street network.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 29, 2019

This includes changing environmental rules, defunding government oversight, failing to enforce existing laws and dissolving the Amazon fund's committees. In 2004, a consorted global efforts succeeded in slowing deforestation in the region. He has made good on his promise to clear the way for more development. Subscribe in a reader.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Its main facility, opened in 2004, now occupies about 8 acres along the San Jacinto River in Channelview. Joe Lopez died in 2004 of kidney failure triggered by diabetes at the age of 65. In fact, the agency rarely fines companies that violate Texas air pollution laws. Since opening in 2004, it has expanded from 3.4

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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. The Environment Protection Agency (EPA) was created and thanks to Carson’s work, harmful pesticides and insecticides were banned. 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. The Environment Protection Agency (EPA) was created and thanks to Carson’s work, harmful pesticides and insecticides were banned. George Bush came into the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2021

Under federal law, agencies are required to conduct tribal consultation on projects and plans like this one. A 2014 report included in the BLM and BIA proposal notes that by 2004, eight decades of production in the San Juan Basin had left the area’s petroleum reservoirs “approaching depletion” and “marginally economic.”

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

From 1975 to 1987, average fuel economy rose quickly — but then it declined between 1988 and 2004, as the Energy Department reported last year. But efficiency advocates noted those numbers actually fell short of federal targets, faulting loopholes in the law that they say promote larger vehicles. Credit: Sicnag ( CC BY 2.0 ).

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

million ($2 million) from foundations related to petrochemicals giant Koch Industries from 2004 to 2017. In 2021, Prins argued that “net zero agenda hands geopolitical control to China,” because green policies “attempt to defy the laws of thermodynamics.” The AEI has received over £2.9

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2024

Elsewhere in the state, removing 96 percent of black bears in 2003 and 2004, reducing hunting, and killing wolves boosted the number of moose. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that federal agencies have ultimate authority over state laws in refuges; last year, the Supreme Court declined to hear the case. In 2022, the 9th U.S.

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Grist

JANUARY 29, 2020

The EPA had documented 2,291 fires, explosions and chemical releases at high-hazard sites from 2004 to 2013, but what happened in West — a town of 2,800 people, many of Czech descent, 15 miles north of Waco — was a tipping point. The rollback prompted lawsuits from the public-interest law firm Earthjustice and the United Steelworkers. “At

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2023

One of the best examples of this early support is a 2004 presentation by the Association of American Railroads in which it was arguing for regulators to allow the transport of nuclear waste by rail. Perhaps no one asked whether the NAS actually was capable of this testing before writing it into law.

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