Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The Environment Bill will has finally been passed into law, thereby becoming the Environment Act. I introduced the concept of biodiversity offsetting and gains from development in 2007 when I set up the Environment Bank. It can't come soon enough. Without biodiversity we humans would cease to exist.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 2, 2020

ER: When you entered state government, you left your job at a law firm and headed to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. A lot of well intentioned advice was that it was a big mistake to leave a prestigious law firm to go work in state government. Read a partial transcript of their conversation below.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2022

He participated in the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. For example, US law prohibits interstate commerce of cannabis and derivative products, meaning that whatever is sold in a given state must be grown and produced there.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

CARB first took action to regulate SF6 in 2007, designating the reduction of SF6 emissions from electricity transmission and distribution equipment a high priority “early action measure” under the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32). Regulation of SF6 Gases in California.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

CARB first took action to regulate SF6 in 2007, designating the reduction of SF6 emissions from electricity transmission and distribution equipment a high priority “early action measure” under the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32). Regulation of SF6 Gases in California.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Emitting carbon pollution causes local air pollution and health costs plus the economic damages from storms, crop-loss, forest fires, rising sea-levels, ocean acidification, spread of disease and other issues. There are situations where subsides make sense; and not just because they are easier to pass into law than pricing mechanisms.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 6, 2021

I started doing this in 2007 and, with a few exceptions, continued it annually through last year. It will be interesting to track how those habits shift as we enter the post-pandemic era, but for now consumers aren’t willing to trade their own health for that of the planet. This year, I’m changing it up, for several reasons.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 26, 2021

“The purpose of Airlite was to create something that makes a difference to human health and well-being in the built environment,” said Chris Leighton, VP of sales and marketing at AM Technology, the company responsible for Airlite paint. The engine ran below its normal level during the test. When caught, VW leaders were contrite.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Natura, which issues a regular environmental profit-and-loss statement , went carbon-neutral in 2007 and became the first public B Corporation in 2014. Addressing health equity is a special focus area for Narasimhan, who cut his teeth as a public health doctor addressing malaria and HIV in developing nations.

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Mearth

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The Chinese government at all times asks Chinese firms to abide by international rules and host country laws and rules when conducting worldwide cooperation. Mr Green has been a rising pressure within the playing sector since 2007. Health and security is part of our DNA, and we’re absolutely compliant with all practices and laws.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Since 2007, when an international commission called OSPAR began keeping records, North Sea drilling sites have discharged over five billion cubic metres of produced water into the ocean. oil and gas industry has avoided environmental regulations and created a dangerous and radioactive public health crisis. In the U.S.,

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

By 2007 , 82 businesses were certified by B Lab. AND1 also worked with their oversea factories to ensure the health and safety of workers, professional development, and access to fair wages. Does your company have a health and wellness program in place? And with this strong social conduct, AND1 thrived.

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 12, 2024

2023) recently published an excellent paper on how carbon emissions from land use change in the Amazon have shifted as a result of decreased law enforcement activities, particularly in the western Amazon. 2007), who published carbon stock estimates for the year 2000. Gatti et al. Their carbon data appears to cite Saatchi et al.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In 2007, Lily Ledbetter sued her employer, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, for years-long gender-based pay discrimination. The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 was the first piece of legislation signed into law by President Obama. Photo by Wake Forest University School of Law/Flickr. Losing a hero is hard.

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Grist

JULY 6, 2024

The committee was chaired by Greenstone, an economist, and included two other economists, an ecologist, two molecular engineers, a historian, a geologist, a law professor, and a computer scientist. Local entities, national governments or state governments, can regulate soil health, more or less, on their own,” Keith explained. “So

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The youth charge that the state’s strong preference for fossil fuel development has violated their right, guaranteed under Montana’s constitution, to a clean and healthful environment. court – the first was in 2007. Their case, Held vs. Montana, is the first U.S. climate lawsuit led by young people to go to trial , and the first U.S.

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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. In a 2007 op-ed for The Washington Post , Curry stated that “the current debate is whether warming matters, and whether we can afford to do anything about it.”

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

If you fight well, a big loss can eventually turn into an even bigger win In 2007, Lily Ledbetter sued her employer, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, for years-long gender-based pay discrimination. The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 was the first piece of legislation signed into law by President Obama.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

If you fight well, a big loss can eventually turn into an even bigger win In 2007, Lily Ledbetter sued her employer, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, for years-long gender-based pay discrimination. The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 was the first piece of legislation signed into law by President Obama.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, has not told residents about the health risks they face. TCEQ documents obtained by Public Health Watch show that some of those early readings were double the level Texas considered safe at the time. In 2007, the TCEQ raised its annual guideline from an average of 1 ppb to 1.4

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 23, 2019

Globalisation was effective during the transition that appeared after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall, but since the global financial crisis began in 2007 the world economy has been hanging on the cliff, struggling to get up. Financial crisis, indeed, the outcome of Washington Consensus and finally inequality, too.

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Grist

AUGUST 5, 2024

Her paper ballooned into an 124-page analysis, soon to be published in the journal Ecology Law Quarterly. The Clean Air Act allows the EPA to regulate air pollutants that endanger public health, specifically including effects on weather and climate.) And it’s only part one of the findings.

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Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

After Toledo’s water crisis, Ohio went further, passing a law that prohibits farms in the western Lake Erie region from applying fertilizer on frozen or rain-saturated soil. In this 2007 photo, hogs are shown in a pen at a 4,800-head swine farm in Amanda, Ohio. Kiichiro Sato / AP Photo. Lake Erie, on the other hand? “And

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 9, 2021

by Richard Schmalensee, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management and Davide Schoenbrod, Professor, New York Law School. The price is designed to reflect all the harm done by greenhouse gas emissions, such as the impact of heat waves on public health. There are a few ways to set a price on carbon.

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Grist

JANUARY 30, 2020

Today, the government spends about $6 billion every year on the problem, but all that money has not made a detectable difference in the dead zone, the regular algae blooms in Lake Erie, and the health risks posed by fertilizer. This coalition managed to widen the first half mile of the ditch in 2007. Clayton Aldern / Grist.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 8, 2021

An ambitious measure to convert Virginia’s fleet of 17,000 diesel-powered school buses to quieter and cleaner electric models over a decade was praised by health and environmental advocates when it passed the General Assembly at the end of February. She noted that Virginia has no law outlining when a school bus should be retired.

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Green Technology

JUNE 7, 2018

To promote uniformity, the law generally bars states from regulating car emissions. But when the Clean Air Act was passed, California was already developing innovative laws and standards to address its unique air pollution problems. In 2007, under George W. So Congress carved out an exemption. Read the original article.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It also oversees weekly testing for toxic algae blooms, which infect shellfish and have become a growing public health hazard fueled by marine heat waves. A Connecticut law empowers cities to create their own stormwater management plans. One farm in the south-central region of the state grows oysters and mussels alongside kelp.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Both of these policy supports have now become law with the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Carolyn Raffensperger, executive director of the Science and Environmental Health Network, said the considerable public funding flowing into CCS is especially egregious.

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Charged

MAY 18, 2021

The case went all the way to the Supreme Court, and in 2007, the Supreme Court basically said that greenhouse gases are pollutants, and if they endanger public health and the environment, [the EPA can] regulate them. We used our existing laws to set standards that were complementary. That’s where the CAFE standards originate.

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Charged

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The electrification of transportation will not only benefit the environment and human health—it will also bring better products and cost savings to consumers, and generate high-quality American jobs. At Charged , we have always believed that EVs are for everyone, regardless of political orientation.

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