Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 11, 2015

Del Chiaro has taken these two attributes and poured them into her career of working in public policy to help pass green laws and regulations. Signed into law in 2006, the legislation created a mandate to put 3,000 megawatts of solar on California roofs by the end of 2016. There has been some interesting history in California.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MARCH 4, 2019

SF6 is the most potent GHG, with a global warming potential (GWP) tens of thousands of times higher than carbon dioxide. Assembly Bill 32 (2006) (AB 32) requires that the State reduce GHG emissions to the 1990 level by 2020, and the SF6 Regulation was adopted as an early action measure under AB 32 due to the high GWP of SF6.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MARCH 4, 2019

SF6 is the most potent GHG, with a global warming potential (GWP) tens of thousands of times higher than carbon dioxide. Assembly Bill 32 (2006) (AB 32) requires that the State reduce GHG emissions to the 1990 level by 2020, and the SF6 Regulation was adopted as an early action measure under AB 32 due to the high GWP of SF6.

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Electricity Global warming Hydropower Technology 40

Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Some of you may recall the boom-and-bust cycle of clean tech from 2006–2011. But now, with global warming knocking on our door, the case for mitigation and adaptation solutions is making more and more financial sense. More on the CI landscape and market opportunity below.) Why Climate Intelligence?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It has been compared to the hugely influential Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change 15 years ago, which famously framed global warming as the greatest and most wide-ranging market failure ever seen.

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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.

Law 101

Law Climate change Fossil fuels Global warming 101

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. It’s your own Checkoff working against [you],” Meyer told DeSmog.

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Grist

JULY 6, 2024

In 2006, a group of preeminent scientists met for a two-day conference at the NASA Ames Research Center in California to discuss cooling the Earth by injecting particles into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight into space. At some point, one of the conference rooms became overheated. Keith still leans towards the latter. “I

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Building cases on laws she wrote into the statute books 30 years ago, Melinda Janki is deploying every conceivable legal strategy in her bid to halt ExxonMobil’s fast-growing oil drilling operations off the coast of Guyana. The motivation behind all of these cases is that if people come to Guyana, then they have to obey national law.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

He founded his law firm in Berlin in 1992. In 1995 he established the first German linked law firm in Poznan. His law firm focuses on business law, German and Polish geothermal law and has clients from Asia and Europe who invest in Germany or Poland. degrees Celsius of global warming. degrees Celsius.

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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. It took another 7 years before our changing climate was defined as global warming – the phrase did not appear in a peer-reviewed journal until 1975.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

Department of Justice to investigate carbon majors for potential violations of federal law. In 2006, major tobacco firms were convicted of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act in litigation brought by the DOJ. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), link] — Rep.

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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. It took another 7 years before our changing climate was defined as global warming – the phrase did not appear in a peer-reviewed journal until 1975.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

It warned that emissions of the short-lived greenhouse gas were roughly 15 per cent higher in 2021 than in the period between 1984 and 2006. Our data show that global emissions continue to move in the wrong direction at a rapid pace," said NOAA administrator Rick Spinrad. The evidence is consistent, alarming and undeniable.".

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

They will be joined by David Frost, a Conservative peer and a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group. In 2021, Prins argued that “net zero agenda hands geopolitical control to China,” because green policies “attempt to defy the laws of thermodynamics.”

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

She launched her own chapter of Fridays for Future after she realized that the strong rains and long droughts that hurt her family’s crops could be attributed to global warming. Since then, Bali has announced a law banning single-use plastic, thanks in part to Melati’s efforts. Hilda Nakabuye is from Kampala, Uganda.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Conway, authors of the classic 2010 book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming , have released a new book placing that doubt machine into a longer arc of U.S. Science historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. business and political history.

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