Grist

JUNE 12, 2024

Pollution had pushed its way into the national conversation. It was not in our DNA to be this wasteful,” said Jackie Nuñez, the advocacy program manager at the Plastic Pollution Coalition, a communications nonprofit. “We The laws eventually passed in 39 states.

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Front And Centered

APRIL 14, 2020

ENACTED – Set Strong, Comprehensive Climate Pollution Limits (HB 2311) . This bill aligns Washington’s greenhouse gas (GHG) limits with stronger global goals, ensuring our natural lands contribute, but do not compromise pollution source reduction. Front and Centered Community Priorities.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2023

Lord David Frost – a Conservative peer and former Cabinet Office minister who was appointed in November – is also a GWPF director , along with Terence Mordaunt , who has donated £342,500 to the Conservative Party and its MPs since 2008 via First Corporate Consultants and First Corporate Shipping.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

One of the major backers of broadcaster GB News is now employing a leading right-wing lobbying company that has ties to polluting interests. 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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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2024

The incident offers a rare window into some of the inner workings of private oil companies while also revealing how taxpayers can wind up paying enormous subsidies to carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) operations that generate far more climate-altering pollution than they prevent. So far, that’s not what’s happening.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Plastic is polluting oceans, killing wildlife, and harming entire ecosystems. We are running out of time to combat the mounting wave of plastic pollution, but there is hope. This is a chance to address the greedy and insatiable ‘take, make, waste' mentality which fuels plastic pollution, and to implement a circular economy.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

Carbon trading, co-pollutants, and environmental equity: Evidence from California’s cap-and-trade program (2011-2015) ) In this Part 2, I provide some extended details on the assessments presented in Part I. The authors do not present this level of net population detail by population characteristic or for other pollution types.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

Carbon trading, co-pollutants, and environmental equity: Evidence from California’s cap-and-trade program (2011-2015) ) In this Part 2, I provide some extended details on the assessments presented in Part I. The authors do not present this level of net population detail by population characteristic or for other pollution types.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Its chair, Marie Donnelly, last night expressed concern at the “problematic” sectoral targets, which she described as “not consistent” with the objectives of Ireland’s climate laws. After the painful financial crash of 2008/9, the political atmosphere in Ireland ahead of the lifting of quotas was febrile. Irish Agriculture.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

At a heated April meeting of this program’s oversight commission , Commissioner David Levy demanded to know why the Freshwater City disposal well was plugged before actively polluting oil and gas wells. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law signed this past November set aside $4.7 Credit: Julie Dermansky. A Trip to Freshwater City.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

The case also alleges the Secretary of State failed to give lawful reasons for straying from advice given by the Climate Change Committee that, given uncertainty around technological solutions to aviation emissions, a policy framework to curb demand for aviation is also needed.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. Air pollution: Fossil fuel combustion produces fine-particulate air pollution, which leads to the premature death of an estimated 14,400 people across Canada. 2008 May 22;7:24. xii] [xiii]. April 5, 2019.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2022

Law suits lodged by ClientEarth and Friends of the Earth yesterday over the UK government's Net Zero Strategy open up a fresh frontier in climate litigation that may have implications for businesses and governments around the world. The law is a tool that can help stem this tide of over-spun claims.

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Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2022

Seperate law suits filed by ClientEarth and Friends of the Earth allege the government's flagship Net Zero Strategy focuses too heavily on unproven future technologies and could breach carbon budgets. The government claims that those producing pollution should bear the cost of managing it.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. Company profile. I view that as job No.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

.” Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. The overall “cap” lowers every year, forcing polluters to reduce their emissions or purchase allowances from others who do. As the U.S.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This strategy aims for net zero emissions by around 2050 and includes shorter-term goals of cutting emissions by at least 20% and aiming for a 30% reduction by 2030, relative to 2008 levels. Early Phase-Out of Coal-Fired Power Plants (CFPP) The Taxonomy also provides a hybrid framework to phase out CFPPs at both a facility and entity level.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Not only did we introduce the world's first climate protection bill - the 2008 Climate Change Act - which has been replicated by countries such as the Netherlands , Sweden and Ireland; we were also the first major economy to legislate for achieving ‘net zero' emissions by 2050.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

Ruling on a case brought by Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth, and the Good Law Project, Mr Justice Holgate agreed the strategy lacked sufficient explanation or quantification as to how the decarbonisation plans set out in the Net Zero Strategy published last autumn would achieve emissions targets for the 2030s and beyond.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Climate Lawsuits Historical evidence of what oil majors knew about climate change is taking on new significance in the courtroom as lawyers seek to hold big polluters to account for the accelerating devastation caused by the climate crisis. based Center for International Environmental Law has reported.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

During an appearance before a Congressional Committee in autumn 2008 the former chair of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan made a notable, if partial, admission as to the cause of the financial crisis that was engulfing the world, incinerating livelihoods, and torching the foundations of the financial system.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The GWPF has also expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”. Last year, a GWPF report described 2022 — the hottest year on record in the UK — as “warm, but unalarming”. Its author said that the UK climate “remains absolutely benign”.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The case was originally filed in 2008 and two of the plaintiffs died in the 13 years it took for the verdict to be issues. million in compensation for the killing of 9 Nigerian activists who fought against widespread oil pollution in the Niger Delta during the turbulent 1990s. In 2009 the company paid out $15.5

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

A few months later, corporate giants also spoke out against state laws meant to restrict voting. For context, I worked with Bank of America in 2008 on the first commitment of this kind — it was for $25 billion. At DuPont, a shareholder resolution asking the company to track plastic pollution better got 81% support.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

Unlike the oil crisis of the 70s or the temporary spike in oil prices of 2008, the technology to replace internal combustion vehicles, gas boilers, and fossil fuel power plants is no longer theoretical - it is a possibility, on the cusp of widespread reality.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

But by using a provision in state law that allows operators to apply for multiple extensions to plugging inactive wells, he claimed he was able to offload the problem wells and stay in the oil business. One 2015 law required a special bond to be posted for wells that have been inactive for longer than two years.

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Methane Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 97

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

But by using a provision in state law that allows operators to apply for multiple extensions to plugging inactive wells, he claimed he was able to offload the problem wells and stay in the oil business. One 2015 law required a special bond to be posted for wells that have been inactive for longer than two years.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2022

The Government claims that those producing pollution should bear the cost of managing it. This means that the Net Zero Strategy is not lawful, and crucially, does not allow parliament and members of the public to hold government accountable for any failures. This is why we are taking this legal action today.”.

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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.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. “I view that as job No.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

If they were coming from Europe and had a superior system that would actually free us from the pollution and the toxicity that would be welcome,” said Jill Hunkler, executive director of Ohio Valley Allies, a grassroots advocacy group fighting for environmental justice in northern Appalachia. Geological Survey report noted.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2023

It has also expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”. In total, First Corporate Consultants and First Corporate Shipping have donated £342,500 to the Conservative Party and its MPs since 2008.

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Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

Milan plots post-Covid air pollution crackdown. The Guardian reported that the city - which has been afflicted by one of the worst coronavirus impacts in Europe - is seeking to minimise a spike in air pollution as the country eases its way out of lockdown. warming trajectory.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 27, 2022

Elite Campaigners and Law Firms Lobby for Drilling. Since 2008, Bouma had been president of Capitol Connection, a firm that she joined in 2000. In addition, the industry’s reach keeps extending into state government as Gov. Newsom’s New Hire Lobbied for Marathon Petroleum.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It simultaneously acted as a potential solution to the worsening greenhouse gas crisis, while still remaining the biggest source of that pollution. Building upon a Bush Administration program, in 2008, the Kemper CCS facility was proposed as the flagship project of the U.S. and eventually other nations. Credit: NDLA , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2022

The president’s executive order aims to use the US government’s procurement power to achieve “carbon pollution-free electricity” by 2030 and net zero emissions by 2050. Thus, “24/7 carbon pollution-free electricity” requires that energy generation matches consumption, such as through storage capacity or sources other than wind or solar.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

A year on from the UK's net zero target being adopted in law coinciding with the start of one of the most eventful 12 months in modern political history, the influential Committee on Climate Change today published its annual review of the UK's progress against its climate goals. Lockdown made pollution from emissions go?down,?because

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