Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

Outraged by oil spills, smog and polluted rivers, 20 million people took to the streets, protesting what they recognized as an environmental crisis. 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.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

By the second day, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department and the county’s Air Pollution Control District had issued an air-quality warning, and local libraries and nonprofits urged residents to protect themselves from the harmful smoke and ash, offering free N95 respirator masks. According to Emily Williams, a Ph.D.

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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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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.” By respecting communities’ ability to thrive in place, and relationships to place, we can reduce pollution and build resilience. A Regenerative Economy.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2024

million from fossil fuel interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since the 2019 election. Jolyon Maugham, director of the Good Law Project, told DeSmog: “Abraham Lincoln spoke of government ‘of the people, by the people and for the people.’ percent (£1.8 The party has received £2.3

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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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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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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Better to release the heat and pollution during the winter, they figure, rather than in the summer as part of a wildfire. It’s a way to reduce pollution and generate energy at the same time. After all, producing electricity by burning wood produces more carbon and pollution per kilowatt than burning coal, the Sierra Club points out.

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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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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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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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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

In 2009 the company paid out $15.5 million in compensation for the killing of 9 Nigerian activists who fought against widespread oil pollution in the Niger Delta during the turbulent 1990s. 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.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Black and Hispanic Americans are exposed to 63 percent and 56 percent more pollution than they create. 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. In 2001’s Whitman v. Sponsored Article.

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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. Black Elk purchased Freshwater City an oil company called W&T Offshore in late 2009, as part of a larger deal.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

What Ahoskie got was approximately 50 direct jobs, local tree loss, noise , heavy traffic, air pollution, and combustible dust from wood drying and processing that threatens their health and enjoyment of their homes. Clean Air Act, and even exceeds regulation standards in controlling air pollution at its facilities. “We

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

An academic study published last week which assessed the green claims made by four global oil majors - Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, and BP - between 2009 and 2020 concluded that "until actions and investment behaviour are brought into alignment with discourse, accusations of greenwashing appear well-founded" for all of them.

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Mearth

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The Law provides, amongst other issues, for the fee arrangements and payment establishments that comprise the Brazilian Payment System. Friday’s move comes as New Delhi is inching closer to introducing a law that might ban non-public cryptocurrencies within the nation. And the U.S. In version zero.5

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2024

Nikki Reisch, climate and energy director at the Center for International Environmental Law, argued that businesses have legal obligations to stop causing climate-related harms, whether or not governments are fulfilling their own obligations. “It’s Legal experts dominated the three-day hearing, held from April 23 to 25.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 4, 2024

In sub-Saharan Africa, the industry’s operations are known to cause pollution, food insecurity and job losses. It also stands accused of ecological harms: causing pollution, driving illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, and depleting the marine food web for seabirds, and other sea life.

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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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Cole’s journey was tragically cut short in 2009 before he could see the full impact of his life’s work unfold. He developed a form of environmental justice law focused on community empowerment and mobilization. Abascal gave Cole a desk and a phone, and Cole got to work.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The electronic engineer and MBA spent 19 years as a supply chain vice president at Unilever before joining Natura in 2009. The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. In August, the 98-year-old company joined the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 30, 2024

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), founded in 2009 by former Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson, produces reports that contradict established climate science, and advocates against policies to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

The compronmise agreement sees the Greens back Labour's proposals for a 'Safeguard Mechanism', which promises to regulate emissions from Australia's 215 biggest polluting coal and gas facilities without outright banning new fossil fuel projects.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2020

From 2009-2015, smart policies created as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the stimulus program launched after the Great Recession, helped clean energy drive national economic recovery. That investment built over 104,000 renewable energy projects, or enough pollution-free electricity to power 8 million homes.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Offsets offer a carbon polluter (like the operator of a steel plant) an additional option to comply with government rules that limit carbon pollution. How offsets are created and the extent to which they are used dictates their effectiveness at reducing pollution. WHAT ARE OFFSETS? greenhouse gas emission offset projects: B.C.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 14, 2023

Green banks have been a part of the “sustainable investing” conversation in the US since the early 2000s, with a national green bank first proposed during the Obama-Biden administration in 2009. All the GGRF money has to be deployed by September 2024. I spent about 10 years at DOE on the energy policy side.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Black and Hispanic Americans are exposed to 63 percent and 56 percent more pollution than they create. 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. In 2001’s Whitman v.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Black and Hispanic Americans are exposed to 63 percent and 56 percent more pollution than they create. 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. In 2001’s Whitman v.

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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. viii] Due to warmer winters, cases of Lyme disease increased more than 300% between 2009 and 2015. xiv] Fine-particulate air pollution costs Canada overall about $53.5 xii] [xiii]. Download this brief here. [i]

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Home is a 2009 French documentary film directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. This documentary was created in reaction to the Trump administration’s slashing of the laws protecting these public lands. The Reluctant Radical questions the law and what society deems as right and wrong. tar sand oil pipelines on October 11, 2016.

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Grist

JULY 29, 2020

The program, which went into effect in 2009, places a cap on emissions from power plants across its 10 (soon to be 12) member states that tightens over time. While RGGI is designed to reduce CO2 emissions, it inevitably leads to reductions in other pollutants from power plants, like nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 30, 2024

In 2022 the Charity Commission, the UK’s independent charity regulator, launched a case into the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), set up by the (now late) Conservative peer Nigel Lawson in 2009. The commission concluded that provided these changes are carried out, it was “satisfied the concerns raised are now resolved”.

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Global warming Law Fossil fuels Policy 119

Grist

JULY 7, 2021

Earlier this year, for instance, Occidental Petroleum sold a shipload of oil that it said was completely carbon neutral because it had bought offsets for the latent pollution in the crude at 65 cents for every one of the 2 million barrels. A study published in 2009 found that it had sequestered less than one-tenth the carbon expected.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2020

So Trump is trying to get around a law that originally came into force way back in 1994. The federal law, like others concerning appliance and equipment standards, does not permit the President to weaken the standard, or 'backslide'. asked readers in 2009. gallon-per-minute maximum flow rate per showerhead. What is a showerhead?

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2020

A landmark clean energy law enacted this year in Virginia will only equate to a 26 percent reduction in emissions economy-wide by 2050, according to a new analysis, leaving the state far from the cuts required to stave off the worst effects of climate change. was beginning to recognize the severity of the COVID-19 crisis.

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