Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 17, 2022

While subject to consultation, the revised targets are to be incorporated into the Environment Act , which became law on 10 November last year. Kate Nield of environmental law firm ClientEarth said the target date was “far from ‘world-leading’”.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2024

oil major ExxonMobil in 2005. From Brexit to Trussonomics, the IEA has consistently peddled and promoted destructive and damaging policies,” Green Party MP Caroline Lucas told DeSmog. In response to the story, an IEA spokeswoman said: “It is surely uncontroversial that the IEA’s principles coincide with the interests of our donors.”

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 22, 2019

In 2005, the operation was taken over by Edward’s daughter and son-in-law, Judy and Dan Del Rossi, and has grown into the well-known Las Vegas dry cleaner that it is today. Green Business Journey Started in 2005. Launching an internal recycling program.

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 29, 2022

The other bright spot—which is not traditionally considered climate policy but does make up a key part of the Just Transition—is that the IRA contains baby steps to curbing the systemic advantage of large corporations. This includes a 15% corporate minimum tax, a stock buyback tax, and a methane leakage tax. Gaping Gaps.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

They argue that the laws will cause a drop in EU food production and lead to widespread economic losses. We urge policy makers to continue the legislative procedure.” The European Parliament’s committees are expected to vote on pesticide laws (the “SUR regulation”) from July. In 2018, German farmers suffered €7-8 billion (£6-6.8

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

He said that it was important for the government to have “interlocking policies” on “the quality of our rivers”, “marine protected areas”, “air pollution”, and “nature restoration”. From 2015 to 2023, he was a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation , the UK’s leading climate science denial group.

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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

president’s policies generally have limited impact on the energy markets in the short term. However, over the longer term a president’s policies can make a big impact. Within two weeks of taking office, Bush named Cheney as the chairman of the National Energy Policy Development Group (NEPDG). I often remind people that a U.S.

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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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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

electric sector reduced its carbon emissions by 26 percent from 2005 to 2018. In order to bend that curve and cut direct building emissions, states and cities will have to pursue policies that end the expansion of new gas infrastructure and accelerate the transition to electric heating and cooking. 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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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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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. A relative newcomer to climate policy, she was appointed the shadow minister for industry and decarbonisation in September 2023. The scale of the challenge is enormous.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 29, 2024

policy interventions and subsidies are poised to address upfront vehicle costs. One great example of a subsidy targeted at the community level is Clean School Bus Rebates (CSB), an Environmental Protection Agency program funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The good news is that in the U.S., Klein et al.’s

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2024

Since then, the Conservative government has made a series of U-turns on its own net zero policies, attacked Labour’s green spending plans, and doubled down on its support for new fossil fuel projects, approving more than 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences. percent (£1.8

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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. The first three years follow the House model, and the remaining seven, the Senate. Top Line Estimates.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2024

One key player was the Global Climate Coalition (GCC) — an international industry lobbying group that was instrumental in early efforts to deny climate change and generate opposition to policy action to reduce emissions. Since 2005, the group has also advocated for renewables, Maisano said. The piece will be updated if they respond.

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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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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Carbon offsets can be generated and used under government-approved frameworks, for example to help industrial emitters who continue to emit carbon pollution meet their compliance obligations under climate policies. Carbon offsets have been enabled under international law in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and were first used internationally in 2001.

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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. Now that the ETS falls short of what's required to tackle the climate emergency, other policy instruments will have to step in to do the job.".

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 8, 2023

This media brief summarizes some of the most relevant studies on what a clean power grid means for provinces, electricity costs, jobs, and public opinion, while providing a run down of similar policies in place elsewhere in the world. G7 countries all committed in 2022 to achieve “predominantly decarbonised electricity sectors by 2035.”

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A recently published chapter of the Harvard Law Review argues that “While utility companies have been building and profiting off fossil fuels without internalizing the down-stream consequences and costs for decades, their regulators—state agency leaders—have approved their actions at every step of the way.”.

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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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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. This drop happened thanks to policy, market and technology drivers.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

And on October 28, Congress questioned the CEOs of ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP America, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute on their history of blocking climate policy. Available at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL). Business as usual would lead to: 2005: 1°C rise in temperatures that would be barely noticeable.

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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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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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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 A decade later, in 2005 and 2007, EU heads of government would confirm this path. That paragraph, in article 2, paragraph 2.a., marked a before and after. They are our lighthouse.

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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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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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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

"They’re really trying to appease a nascent but quite powerful movement of [environmental, social and governance focused] shareholders and institutional investors," said David Pomerantz, executive director of utility watchdog group Energy and Policy Institute, which tracks carbon targets. Once it started taking off.it It generated 73.6

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Energy and Cleantech Council

MARCH 9, 2023

Although previously conducted under a requirement of the Federal Power Act , this iteration is the first time the triennial transmission study considers future—in addition to historical—constraints, thanks to new language added by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

But as long as sustainable acquisition is viewed as just another socioeconomic program to be coordinated with other procurement policy priorities, not a priority in and of itself, it won’t be successful. These actions, required by law since 2005, never have been implemented. Policy & Politics. Pull Quote. Procurement.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

is President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), passed into law in August 2022. Under the policies of the Action Plan, the government will provide $1.55 2005 is used as a baseline because of the Paris Agreement targets that year ). net greenhouse gas emissions down to 40% below 2005 levels.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

Danone’s Eric Soubeiran: ‘The food system is broken’ Cecilia Keating Mon, 07/20/2020 – 00:30 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. “You showed evidence that finance can change the world.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

As the North American program manager for the Climate Group’s EV100 program, Badalian works to get large companies to commit to 100 percent electric mobility by 2030, then helps them replace global fleets with electric vehicles, deploy charging stations and affect government policy. Solar is a new technology to be able to do so.".

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

In 2015, the NPPC, which claims only 3 percent of pig farmers as members, joined NCBA in lobbying to repeal a law that went into effect in 2013 allowing beef and pork producers to put “Made in the USA” labels on their product. Penzer told DeSmog he believes that it is illegal for Checkoff funds to go toward policy work.

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