DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2024

oil major ExxonMobil in 2005. The non-profit Good Law Project recently made a complaint to the Charity Commission about the IEA, claiming that the libertarian group had breached charity rules. The IEA also received a £21,000 grant from U.S. The IEA has extensive influence in politics and the media.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Spencer has donated over £6 million to the Conservative Party since 2005 and was appointed to the Lords by Boris Johnon in September 2020. The Guardian and the Good Law Project also revealed today that EnQuest Heather, a subsidiary of EnQuest, had been awarded a new oil and gas licence. percent (£4.5 million) stake in the firm.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 29, 2023

However, the law itself is massive, with hundreds of pages of tax code sections written in ways that may not clearly outline the benefits to businesses. The IRA positions the US to cut climate pollution up to 42% by 2030 , putting our national target of 50% below 2005 levels within reach.

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 29, 2022

The law has major gaps in its approach, including: Most importantly, a failure to engage communities on the frontlines in community self-determination: While the funds above may be named to benefit disadvantaged communities, without guarantees of active participation these funds will likely miss the mark. Gaping Gaps.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2022

Indeed, there is a cautionary note in the latter, which states that “You may use alternative methods to those set out in the Code in order to comply with the law. EH40/2005 Workplace exposure limits (Fourth Edition 2020). However, the Code has a special legal status.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 12, 2024

Bryant Jones, Executive Director of US-based nonprofit organization Geothermal Rising (GR), provided expert testimony during a House Committee on Natural Resources hearing in 12 December 2023 on a proposed amendment to the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an "enterprise à mission," a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. Danone, founded more than a century ago and famously declared an asset of national importance by the French government in 2005, has long prided itself on being a purpose-led business.

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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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38 North Solutions

JULY 30, 2022

The Rhodium Group released preliminary analysis of the bill finding that the Inflation Reduction Act would cut US net greenhouse gas emissions down to 31% to 44% below 2005 levels in 2030 compared to 24% to 35% under current policy. Should this bill become law, from 2022-2024, these credits are extended and restored to their full value.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

electric sector reduced its carbon emissions by 26 percent from 2005 to 2018. To meet the targets laid out in the state’s ambitious new climate change law, RMI analysis estimates that New York will have to decarbonize 1,600 commercial buildings and 67,000 residential units per year between now and 2030. As a result, the U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

New report comes as Greenpeace reveals continued lobbying by soya suppliers against EU's landmark rainforest protection law. They found that resilience dropped during the major droughts of 2005 and 2010, as part of an ongoing decline from the early 2000s to the most recent data in 2016.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

Crosby ran four Conservative Party election campaigns between 2005 and 2017, and was involved in the 2019 campaign. 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.

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 10, 2021

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 gave us the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), which mandated that an increasing amount of ethanol had to be blended into the fuel supply. The Bush Administration passed a number of laws aimed at accelerating the development of fracking. dependence on foreign oil. In 2007 those mandates were expanded.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Policy Exchange has in the past received money from the oil and gas major ExxonMobil, and was credited by former prime minister Rishi Sunak for helping to draft laws that have cracked down on climate protests.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

I graduated from Harvard in 2005, which was around the time of Facebook and all the big internet [initial public offerings]. As a result, it doesn’t attract that disenfranchised talent that other fields like law and medicine attract. Richard Matsui : You’ve had a longstanding career in renewable finance.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

Though it has applied for them, the company behind this operation has yet to receive the permits it is required by law to construct or operate the engines to power a cryptocurrency mine. The company is required by law to obtain a plan approval from DEP prior to installation and operation of the air contamination sources,” Decker said.

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Grist

JULY 19, 2019

Alyssa-Marie Kau, a former law clerk with Earthjustice , says the construction of the new telescope could threaten the aquifer that sits directly underneath Mauna Kea because many hazardous chemicals, such as hydrochloric-acid, motor oil, or pesticides, are already stored underground.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

That's more money for climate action than all of the renewable-energy tax credits from 2005 to 2019. In the long term, increasing energy storage deployments will drive the cost down, per Moore's Law. labor laws and supply chain contrast increased the cost of labor, raw materials and shipping. Second, U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2024

Maisano now runs a strategic communications practice for Bracewell LLP, whose separate law practice provides services for oil and gas companies including Eni ( currently being sued for climate deception in Italy) and Phillips 66 (which is a defendant in many U.S. Since 2005, the group has also advocated for renewables, Maisano said.

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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. The former Labour councillor, who has represented the constituency since 2005, has worked across a number of environment-related briefs over the past decade.

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Grist

JULY 26, 2024

The scope of the blight in Florida is by far the largest, and most costly — since 2005, it has cut production by 75 percent. Read Next Florida is about to erase climate change from most of its laws Kate Yoder Human-induced climate change means that the respite Royce desperately hopes for is improbable.

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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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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 8, 2023

Significant investments in the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law have already advanced the country’s clean power ambitions, with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory predicting that grid emissions could decline between 72% to 91% below 2005 levels by 2030 as a result.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The paper suggests that all of this might have happened in violation of federal law. These findings demand regulatory action under federal environmental laws including the Endangered Species Act and Clean Water Act, because these activities are concentrated in an area with high numbers of imperiled species,” the study states.

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Energy Monitor Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 95

Varuna

MAY 11, 2020

We had avian flu in 2005 and Ebola in 2014 and scientists, again including Carroll, warned that we did not develop plans to address any future outbreaks of those viruses. Most water system operators do not have the data to determine their baselines for the compliance metrics in the new laws. We were forewarned but didn’t prepare.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an ‘entreprise à mission', a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. The pioneering governance structure will see the food giant officially entrench environmental, social, and societal objectives into its bylaws, alongside more typical profit goals.

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Biodiversity Agriculture Business Energy Monitoring Carbon 96

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Available at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL). THACKER: This was found by an attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law going through archives at the University of Michigan. Business as usual would lead to: 2005: 1°C rise in temperatures that would be barely noticeable. View on DocumentCloud.

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Fossil fuels Global warming Climate change Building Energy Monitoring 98

DeSmogBlog

MAY 3, 2023

Virtually all new cars sold in the UK since 2005 meet ULEZ emissions standards. Experts in election data laws have previously criticised the Tories for using petitions and polls to harvest data from signatories without consent. Under the scheme, a daily charge of £12.50 million in March, to up to 1.93 million in April.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

“Our interstate storage business, which has newly added capacity, remains a growth opportunity we expect to add significantly to our bottom line in the future,” wrote former NW Natural CEO Mark Dodson in a 2005 annual letter to shareholders. asked Doug Tilgner, a manager at NW Natural, in a 2005 internal email. “I’d

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

and Puerto Rico have adopted laws or executive orders setting goals for reaching 100% clean electricity by 2050 or sooner. We analyzed the “business as usual” projection in the 2005 Annual Energy Outlook published by the Energy Information Administration , the U.S. So far 17 states plus Washington, D.C., And 46 U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The resulting 2005 study, titled Who Cares Wins , marked the first use of the term ESG. G criteria includes whether a company makes effective decisions, complies with the law, meets the needs of external stakeholders, uses accurate and transparent accounting methods, and stakeholders are allowed to vote on important issues.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The European Parliament and European Council finalised an agreement on the proposed package early on Sunday morning, paving the way for new targets and rules to be passed into law in the coming weeks. As such, the speed of annual emission reductions will also have to increase, from 2.2 per cent a year under the current system to 4.3

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 was the first piece of legislation signed into law by President Obama. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has lunch with a group of Wake Forest law students in the Worrell Professional Center on Wednesday, September 28, 2005. Photo by Wake Forest University School of Law/Flickr.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

When states’ land purchases are approved, Indigenous nations don’t lose any other rights on those lands, such as hunting, fishing, or gathering, unless the treaty specifically cedes those rights, explained Monte Mills, who directs the Native American Law Center at the University of Washington.

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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.’ Tory peer and former party treasurer Lord Michael Spencer, who has donated £6 million to the Conservatives since 2005, holds an 18.8 percent (£1.8

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Fossil fuels Climate change Government Policy 145

Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Carbon offsets have been enabled under international law in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and were first used internationally in 2001. Since the system’s launch in 2005, the EU has gradually placed limits on the types of projects from which credits are accepted and on the amount of offsets used for compliance in its carbon market.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

But instead of a long-term carbon commitment, NextEra pledged to reduce its carbon emissions rate 67 percent below 2005 levels by 2025. NV Energy has signed massive solar-plus-battery contracts and must decarbonize completely according to a new Nevada state law. It generated 73.6 PacifiCorp has a plan to build 4.3

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