DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Weatherford, a lawyer from the corporate law firm Baker Hostetler, stated in opening arguments that Mann was so disliked that “even his own family won’t come to court to defend him.” Many other scientists on the IPCC panel have also said they won the 2007 award, Mann testified.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

In its review of Colorado Secretary of State office lobbying data going back to 2007, shared exclusively with DeSmog, the report’s authors found numerous instances of what they called “double dipping”: firms simultaneously lobbying for and against environmental regulations. “We

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Rishi Sunak has confirmed that a fossil fuel-funded think tank helped to draft his government’s laws targeting climate protests. Sunak’s statement yesterday appears to confirm openDemocracy’s allegation that sections of the 2022 law were ‘directly inspired’ by Policy Exchange’s report. million to the party since 2014.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This commitment to a secure energy future was further undertaken by the Lopez Group in 2007 when it acquired PNOC- EDC’s geothermal operations and gave birth to what is known today as the Energy Development Corporation (EDC). Starting with a rated capacity of 112.5 Early 1990s – Under the leadership of then-President Fidel V.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The funds are already allocated from state laws passed in 2007 and 2013, making them available for competitive funding solicitations or direct funding agreements over the next three years.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2021

Norway has for many years been the ten-tonne giant of forest finance, backing the Amazon fund and forest partnership deals with Liberia, Gabon, and Indonesia - but its money was always intended as a stop gap to bridge to larger flows of forest and carbon finance envisaged by the Bali Climate summit in 2007.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

Both sectors offered various incentive programs without triggering claims of “destructive competition” that is prohibited by law. In 2007, when North Carolina passed a law requiring electric companies to help customers reduce their energy use, gas and electric utilities reached an agreement on the contours of those demand-side programs.

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 10, 2021

In 2007 those mandates were expanded. The Bush Administration passed a number of laws aimed at accelerating the development of fracking. Many of those laws were staunchly criticized by environmental groups, but there is no doubt they helped spur an enormous increase in U.S. dependence on foreign oil. oil and gas production.

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Eco-Business

JANUARY 24, 2021

Ben Peacock launched Republic of Everyone, an advertising agency that specialises in sustainability, in 2007, after recovering from testicular cancer and the death of his brother-in-law.

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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. at *25–27 (citing Wah Chang v. Duke Energy Trading & Mktg., LLC , 507 F.3d

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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.

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GreenBiz

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. Logan Green has cited growing up with Southern California traffic and carpooling as a student in Zimbabwe for inspiring the launch of Zimride in 2007. million acres the 4.4

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Obstacles like liability laws, negative public opinion, limited funding, and weather conditions were each mentioned by 70 percent or more of the interviewees. The nearly 3.5 Interviewees included federal and state government employees, legislative staff, nonprofit representatives, and academics. Stephens, S. Martin, R. E., & Clinton, N.

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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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Grist

MAY 11, 2022

“The [Colorado] river itself is bearing a huge burden for this, in terms of the environmental flows of the river,” said John Fleck, writer-in-residence at the Utton Center at the University of New Mexico School of Law. billion gallons in 2007 to 57 billion gallons in 2020 — a 30 percent decline.

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Jigar Shah

JUNE 11, 2019

People switched because in 2007 George W. If you want to make a change in infrastructure to promote renewable energy resources, you can really only do it by pushing a bill or a law. They’re so much more cost-effective than incandescents. But that’s not why people switched. Bush banned them (which was phased in around 2010).

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 25, 2023

Telles was joined on the stage by Joaquim Alvaro Pereira Leite, who served as an environment minister under Bolsonaro, and Antônio Cabrera, a former agriculture minister, known as a critic of laws protecting Indigenous territories from conversion into livestock ranches. Lips and Chafuen are also members of the Mont Pelerin Society.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

Google prides itself on having been carbon-neutral since 2007, with data centers that use 50% less energy than is typical. Cynthia Christensen of Namasté Solar might agree, though she got into solar almost by accident — after a bet she made as a pre-law student with a boyfriend that they couldn’t handle each other’s classes.

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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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Business Green

APRIL 26, 2022

A 2018 pledge by ministers to eliminate waste crime is in doubt as organised crime groups enjoy rising returns from tax avoidance, fly-tipping and other waste-related crimes, at the same time as waste prosecutions conducted by the Environment Agency have fallen from a peak of 800 in 2007/08 to just 50 per year in the period up to the pandemic.

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Jigar Shah

JUNE 11, 2019

People switched because in 2007 George W. If you want to make a change in infrastructure to promote renewable energy resources, you can really only do it by pushing a bill or a law. They’re so much more cost-effective than incandescents. But that’s not why people switched. Bush banned them (which was phased in around 2010).

Energy 40

Energy Energy Climate change Real Estate 40

Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

One of the more recent efforts at regulating space debris, primarily focused on the active orbital operations of satellites, is a set of global guidelines that was released in 2007 by the United Nations’ Office for Outer Space Affairs in coordination with NASA and the European Space Agency.

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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. Consider a recent global survey conducted by the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law, focused on climate change risks and their related costs. This year, I’m changing it up, for several reasons.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

There are situations where subsides make sense; and not just because they are easier to pass into law than pricing mechanisms. While subsidies do make sense in specific instances, and they are easier to pass into law, caution should be exercised in their application. The change is required by law. have a catalytic converter.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This figure increased by ~2% in recent years, which can be attributed to the one million tree planting program launched in 2007. For instance, in 2019 the state passed a new law named the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act , which raised the 2030 target from 50% of electricity generated by renewables to 70%.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 26, 2021

In 2007, Rome’s Traforo Umberto I tunnel was thoroughly cleaned before getting a coat of the smog-eating paint. .” This gizmo detected when the car was being tested and suddenly was on its best behavior. The engine ran below its normal level during the test. When caught, VW leaders were contrite.

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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. came in 2007. That paragraph, in article 2, paragraph 2.a., marked a before and after.

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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. Legatum’s Agenda Founded in 2007, the Legatum Institute claims to promote the “prosperity of individuals, families, communities and nations”.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 15, 2021

Greentech Media launched in 2007 before the solar industry as it looks today even existed. Residential solar prices more than halved from 2007 to 2021, reaching $2.97 Thanks for the memories, GTM readers! In the future, you can reach me on Twitter @emmafmerchant. Cumulative U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

The well sat unused in 2006 and 2007 — “shut in due to Hurricane Rita,” records show — then was used to inject less than 5,000 barrels of wastewater shortly before the sale to Black Elk in 2009. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law signed this past November set aside $4.7 No other volumes were reported after Black Elk took over.

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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

APRIL 19, 2022

It’s a ridiculously ineffective program,” Drew Yewchuk, a lawyer with the University of Calgary’s Public Interest Law Clinic, told DeSmog. As early as 2007, Alberta’s provincial government instituted a carbon tax on large industrial emitters, which has raised U.S. 350 million (C $463 million) for energy research.”.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2022

It was 2007 when the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change was published by HM Treasury with the simple message that it is much cheaper to take action on climate change than not.

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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. In 2022, Equinor discharged an unnamed corrosion inhibitor and the possible human carcinogen naphthalene into the North Sea.

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