GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2021

But as project economics and scale have improved, and governments are locking in decarbonization laws, a very different environment has been created. Shell bailed in 2009, selling its stake to Saint-Gobain. With the exception of Total’s stake in SunPower, the trio was fairly quiet for 10 years post-2007. BP’s big pivot.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 13, 2021

States and cities that adopt the IECC will effectively require new buildings to cut energy use an average of more than 10 percent compared to the previous code, and by more than a third compared to the 2009 version, according to the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy. percent from the 2009 baseline of 50.8

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

He currently serves as a director of the Conservative Party Foundation – the party’s multi-million pound endowment fund, created under his watch in 2009 to manage “legacy funds to support the long-term finance” of the party.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2022

Indeed, there is a cautionary note in the latter, which states that “You may use alternative methods to those set out in the Code in order to comply with the law. CFR 30 Part 74, COAL MINE DUST SAMPLING DEVICES, 2009 5. However, the Code has a special legal status.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 3, 2021

million purchase by Miller Energy in 2009 for land and offshore oil assets in Alaska which included existing oil production infrastructure. completed audits for Miller Energy in 2009 and 2010. Boruff was joined that day by company founder Delroy Miller, who also happened to be his father-in-law. Sherb & Co. million in 2011.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

To meet the targets laid out in the state’s ambitious new climate change law, RMI analysis estimates that New York will have to decarbonize 1,600 commercial buildings and 67,000 residential units per year between now and 2030. New spending on gas infrastructure tripled from 2009 to 2017, rising to $14.9

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2021

It can’t be about one law or policy, it has to be put at the heart of all policy,” she said. When fossil fuel infrastructure is put into use again, there is a risk of a big rebound in emissions in 2021, as was seen in the wake of the global financial crisis in 2009.”.

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2021

One of the most ambitious agreements the world has ever seen to slow tropical forest loss is the Brazilian Cattle Agreement, a 2009 pledge by the largest meat companies to not source cattle from land illegally deforested in the Amazon. With it comes rising hopes that Brazil will be able to close a big implementation gap in its forest code.

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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.” Separate investigations by Penn State and the National Science Foundation cleared Mann of any wrongdoing.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

A water well of another Dimock resident, Norma Fiorentino, exploded in January 2009. He cautioned that state laws leave few legal tools to hold corporate polluters accountable. When Ely held a lighter up to a jug containing his tap water, it lit on fire. He was also able to light water coming out of his faucet on fire.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 25, 2021

Green Business Bureau has been focused on creating a sustainable business world since its founding in 2009. In 2009, a very small percentage of companies were green businesses, mostly led by founders who were huge advocates of saving the planet from climate change. A look back at the history of Green Business Bureau.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Ramos, Republic Act 6957 or the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) Law paved the way for a rapid development of energy projects. 2001 – Republic Act 9136 or the EPIRA Law was passed, seeking the electric power industry by the privatization of generation, transmission, distribution, and supply of the power sector.

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Grist

JULY 19, 2019

The organization identified Mauna Kea as a potential location for its proposed Thirty Meter Telescope back in 2009. On Wednesday, law enforcement in riot gear came to the Mauna Kea protest site and arrested 33 elders who described themselves as the “first line of defense.”

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2020

As such, Miliband was instrumental in passing the 2008 Climate Change Act, which set UK decarbonisation targets into law and established the Committee on Climate Change (CCC). He was also credited with playing a key role at the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009, intervening to stop the tumultuous talks from collapsing at the 11th hour.

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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

It was the planet’s largest civic event at the time and compelled governments to take concrete actions, including passing environmental laws and establishing environmental agencies. In 2009, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution formally recognizing the day as International Mother Earth Day.

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Business Green

JULY 31, 2021

A raft of UK supermarkets and retailers have also threatened to boycott products from Brazil over a law proposed in Brazil's parliament that environmental campaigners claim could authorise yet further destruction of the rainforest. At least three, spanning more than 26 sq km, were linked to illegal deforestation.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2020

As he appeals to the UK government for a bailout in the wake of the enormous impact of Covid-19 on the airline industry, unsurprisingly his past public comments calling against British Airways' bailout in 2009 have come back to haunt him. Surely if he didn't believe in bailouts then, he shouldn't now?

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

🦴 BIL “the backbone” : The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), aka Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), was signed into law in November 2021, and is the "backbone," providing much of the infrastructure these technologies need to scale at speed. — three climate policy packages since 2021.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2020

Display Energy Certificates (DECs) have been a legal requirement for public buildings since 2009. Though there does appear to be interest from the government, it's not known whether the scheme will be adopted in law, and it is currently focused primarily on new properties in the UK.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The funding, the largest single investment into the grid in over a decade since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which kickstarted the rollout of smart metering and a smart grid, forms part of the ‘Building a Better Grid’ initiative to upgrade the grid for a 100% clean energy future.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who specializes in climate science, social science, policy and the law, the climate change effects that California has experienced so far are just the tip of what’s to come. According to Emily Williams, a Ph.D.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

The findings come at a time of increased scrutiny of failings in EU transparency laws, following allegations in December that MEPs had been bribed by Qatar, Mauritania, and Morocco. The EU’s response to the scandal has been “inadequate”, according to Corporate Europe Observatory.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Compared to when Bolsonaro took office, the state of the forest has been on a downward spiral following weakened environmental laws. The target, which was set in a climate-related law in 2009, was aimed at reducing deforestation and carbon emissions as well as protecting the natural habitat.

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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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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 8, 2021

New York City adopted a building performance standard in 2009 and has operated an energy exchange since 2010. Louis, Sadowski will not have the force of local law behind her. To help owners meet those standards, it has provided guidance and funds from the Leon Lowenstein Foundation to foster the creation of building hubs. Unlike in St.

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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 94

38 North Solutions

APRIL 19, 2024

based lithium-ion battery manufacturers under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which helped finance the construction of manufacturing facilities across the country. Davis School of Law and a Bachelor of Philosophy from Miami University. As an energy counsel in the U.S. Chris has a J.D.

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38 North Solutions

MAY 3, 2024

Overview When Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), it reinstated (and expanded) the Section 48C tax credit from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. For round two, the Treasury Department is making $6 billion available, with $2.5 billion set aside for projects in energy communities.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A recently published chapter of the Harvard Law Review argues that “While utility companies have been building and profiting off fossil fuels without internalizing the down-stream consequences and costs for decades, their regulators—state agency leaders—have approved their actions at every step of the way.”.

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Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 91

Business Green

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The report also addresses the impact of cutting regulator budgets, with the Environment Agency having seen its budget and staffing numbers drop by 63 per cent and 25 per cent, respectively, since 2009. Green groups have welcomed moves to place into law a series of environmental targets on air quality, water, biodiversity and waste reduction.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

In 2009, for example, Apple and Nike and a handful of utilities quit the U.S. Over the years, there has been pressure for corporations to leave these sorts of trade groups due to their controversial lobbying efforts.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 13, 2021

The California Air Resources Board adopted the Low Carbon Fuel Standard in 2009. Oregon and British Columbia have a similar low-carbon fuel standard and Washington state just passed a law creating one.).

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 13, 2020

However, it wasn’t until I finished Howard Law, fresh out of courses on environmental justice, clean air, and climate change that I saw how I could articulate my passion through my work. I had to grapple with my love for my city at the same time as I witnessed the compounding effects of of an oil-based economy.

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

It allowed the state to “remedy discrimination against, or under-representations of, disadvantaged groups as documented in a valid disparity study or proven court of law.” Advocates push through slushy slow to testify in support of the HEAL Act during the bill’s first hearing on Feb. Photo by Samantha Bushman.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 12, 2018

As discussed in previous posts , the POET I case arose from Petitioner POET, LLC’s challenges to the original LCFS regulation adopted by CARB in 2009. The freeze, put in place by CARB to comply with a writ of mandate, will now be lifted following the discharge of the writ.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2024

The Conservative Party’s ties to organised climate denial go back at least to 2009, when the late Tory peer Nigel Lawson , who was chancellor of the Exchequer under Margaret Thatcher, founded the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading climate science denial group.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

In 2009 the company paid out $15.5 At the time, Stone’s law firm, Cullinan & Associates, represented local fishing and ski boat organizations as part of public consultations over whether license should be granted. And earlier this month, Shell was granted the right to appeal this decision.

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