DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Climate and environmental justice organizations , some climate and energy experts, and some lawmakers, are speaking out against the false promise of CCS. Both of these policy supports have now become law with the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

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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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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. Instead of using the volatile organic compounds generally found in paint, Airlite started with a calcium base — a byproduct from an Italian marble processing site. The engine ran below its normal level during the test.

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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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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 9, 2021

by Richard Schmalensee, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management and Davide Schoenbrod, Professor, New York Law School. What is at stake is whether the choice of how to cut carbon will be made by the businesses and people who emit it or by regulators, legislators, and lawyers and lobbyists working for business and advocacy organizations.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Creating better businesses with B Corp Certification and beyond B Corp Certification presents a set of guiding principles that support organizations to minimize their impact on the environment and society. B Analytics aggregates data from B Corps and other impact-focused organizations to provide comparative analysis and best practices.

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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. It remains in memory as one of the most disastrous summits ever organized. came in 2007.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 8, 2021

And that hefty price tag became more daunting when House Bill 2118 , signed into law by Democratic Gov. The bill that became law was stripped of its original funding source, a tax on dyed diesel fuel, which is used in farm machinery and other non-highway vehicles. Ralph Northam, was left unfunded.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Indigenous peoples have long led the fight to protect Mother Earth and the only way forward is to center Indigenous knowledge and keep fossil fuels in the ground,” Dallas Goldtooth, a Keep It In The Ground organizer for Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), said in a statement. “I spend a lot of my life fighting stupid projects.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

based grassroots organization opposing LNG, told DeSmog. “By Just Phase 1 of LNG Canada,” Andrew Gage, a staff lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law, told DeSmog, referring to B.C.’s A recent analysis by environmental organization Stand.earth found that the B.C. And that is from just one project. s climate goals. “We

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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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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Fighting Public Utilities, Child Labor Laws One of the first campaigns in that spirit occurred within the electricity utility industry via an organization which eventually became known as the Edison Electric Institute. What is now colloquially called EEI, was launched in 1885 as the National Electric Light Association, or NELA.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

For more on those problems, see CarbonCaptureFacts and the Center for International Environmental Law for starters. Over 150 organizations just called for a moratorium on CO2 pipeline constructio n in the meantime. Someone at Exxon had done the math 20 years ago.

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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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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

and in February this year, representatives from five Canadian health organizations described it as the “ greatest public health challenge of the 21st century. ” [iii]. Similarly, the World Health Organization has pronounced it to be the defining health issue of the 21st century. [iv] The World Health Organization. May 1, 2019.

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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

According to the project’s 2022 Environmental Statement , drilling waste and chemicals will be discharged into the water column and onto the seabed, forming toxic piles that can “smother benthic organisms and impair their feeding and respiratory systems.” The project will also dump produced water.

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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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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. Mike Ferner, a retired union organizer and former Toledo councilman, leads Advocates for a Clean Lake Erie. Jamie Smith Hopkins / Center for Public Integrity.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Today K-Solv is legally allowed to release almost 20 times more volatile organic compounds — a class of chemicals that includes benzene — into the air each year than it did back then. In 2007, the TCEQ raised its annual guideline from an average of 1 ppb to 1.4 It’s 22 times higher than the 8 ppb guideline California uses today.

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Grist

JULY 6, 2024

WebsEdge / YouTube In the early stages of developing the initiative, Keith helped the university organize an event with researchers working on topics that could fall under the umbrella of climate systems engineering. Blueprints for the canceled solar geoengineering experiment David Keith was working on before he left Harvard University.

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 27, 2022

And even getting new construction to go electric is a trial—as attorney general, Healey had no choice but to rule that state law prohibited town ordinances from banning gas hookups in new buildings. But the law also gives “big amounts of discretion” to the state’s Utilities Commission, and their plan remains unclear.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

China currently emits more CO 2 than any other country, but by most estimates the United States has been the largest contributor when measured historically between 1850 and 2007. one that poses serious threats for both our near and long-term future.

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Grist

JANUARY 30, 2020

But before bulldozers started digging into corn and soybean fields to widen the ditch, dozens of people and organizations had to get on board with the plan. This coalition managed to widen the first half mile of the ditch in 2007. Enforcing laws and regulations is the more direct route. Nathanael Johnson / Grist.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

States, cities, businesses, and organizations across the country are taking increasingly large steps to reduce emissions — and those efforts are aided by the falling costs of renewable energy and other decarbonizing technologies. A Connecticut law empowers cities to create their own stormwater management plans. Some go even further.

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Charged

MAY 18, 2021

The traditional pollutants [are] nitrogen oxides, volatile organics, and particulates. 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.

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