Business Green

JULY 9, 2021

Company admitted to 6,971 illegal spills from 17 sites in Hampshire, Kent and West Sussex between 2010 and 2015. The company accepted there had been 6,971 illegal spills from 17 sites in Hampshire, Kent, and West Sussex between 2010 and 2015 following legal action from the Environment Agency.

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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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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of the passage of perhaps the most ambitious law ever adopted by a U.S. Local Law 97, one of 10 bills in the sweeping Climate Mobilization Act , requires New York City’s 50,000 largest buildings to reduce their carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2030 and by 80 percent by 2050.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

As an alternative to landfill, which is due to be phased out, the GAYA chain is positioned as the channel of reference for making use of non-recyclable waste to produce a storable renewable gas, which can substitute for natural gas and as such has multiple end uses, in sectors such as sustainable mobility, industry and the tertiary sector.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2024

Stephen Davies, an academic who has worked in educational outreach roles at the IEA since 2010, appeared several times in Climate The Movie: The Cold Truth – a new film directed by climate science denier Martin Durkin. In the documentary, Davies claims that climate activists want to impose an “austere” life on ordinary people.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 29, 2020

PG&E has been held criminally responsible for 84 deaths in the November 2018 Camp fire and is under criminal probation for its role in the deadly 2010 San Bruno natural-gas pipeline explosion. Critics question whether PG&E will be able to raise the capital its transformation will require amid the COVID-19 economic downturn.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Scenes like this gained widespread attention after the 2010 Josh Fox documentary “Gasland,” and the town of Dimock became one of the most iconic and high-profile examples of water contamination from fracking. He cautioned that state laws leave few legal tools to hold corporate polluters accountable.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The billionaire financier is a former party treasurer and raised an estimated £70 million for the Tories between 2006 and 2010. The Guardian and the Good Law Project also revealed today that EnQuest Heather, a subsidiary of EnQuest, had been awarded a new oil and gas licence.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 5, 2022

From 2010-2019, average annual global greenhouse gas emissions were at their highest levels in human history, although the rate of growth has slowed. Since 2010, the report states, there have been sustained decreases of up to 85% in the costs of solar and wind energy, and batteries. This offers significant untapped potential.”.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 3, 2024

Unlike other vehicular components that might bear serial numbers or unique identifiers, catalytic converters are generally anonymous once detached, making them difficult for law enforcement to trace back to a specific crime. This step increases the chances of recovery and helps law enforcement trace the part back to a specific crime.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

In 2010, the Central Government of China integrated the "Guideline on Strengthening Joint Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution to Improve Air Quality" into its 12th Five Year Plan. This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 3, 2021

But Miller Energy then told the SEC in 2010 that property was worth half a billion dollars and KPMG signed off on that estimate for several years, starting in 2011. completed audits for Miller Energy in 2009 and 2010. Essentially, the company’s entire value in 2010 was attributable to the Alaskan assets. Sherb & Co.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 30, 2019

It was published in the International Journal of Human Rights As defined by by Polly Higgins, in a book titled Eradicating Ecocide: Laws and Governance to Prevent the Destruction of Our Planet (London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 2010). However, the final version of the Statute only included ecocide as a crime in times of war.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Robert Jenrick’s pledge to repeal the UK’s landmark climate change law has won him the backing of some of the country’s most notorious climate science deniers. Jenrick named the Climate Change Act – along with the Equality Act and Human Rights Act – among the policies introduced by the 1997-2010 Labour government that he wants to scrap.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Hawaiian Electric exceeded the state requirement to reach 30 percent by 2020 and has more than tripled the amount of renewable energy on its electric grids in 10 years, up from just under 10 percent in 2010. The next RPS milestone required by state law is to reach 40 percent by 2030. There are 87,848 systems and 3.7

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 12, 2020

Cities and counties often are required by state law to buy electricity from a regulated investor-owned utility (IOU) and lack the ability to choose their electricity supplier or generation source. Here are four ways local governments are engaging with stakeholders to decarbonize their electricity supply: 1.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The giant retailer stands accused of violating California’s environmental laws in its dumping of hazardous waste in landfills that are not equipped to handle such waste. In 2010, the company reached a $25 million settlement agreement with California’s Office of the Attorney General for the illegal disposal of dangerous waste. .

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Current Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) suggest that the planet is on track to be 16% over 2010 levels of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2030, whereas to hold warming to less than 1.5C, we need to be at 45% below 2010 levels in the next nine years.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

But Newsom’s demand is backed by a rising chorus of public opinion that the utility responsible for deadly disasters including the 2010 San Bruno gas pipeline explosion and the 2018 Camp Fire, as well as the multi-million customer power outages last fall, can’t be allowed to continue running as it has in the past.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Under Italian law, a request for mediation is a mandatory prerequisite for filing a defamation lawsuit. CASE’s analysis, published last year, recorded 111 SLAPPs in Europe in 2021, as opposed to four in 2010. Oil giants have even attempted to use laws intended to protect public participation in their own defense. While the U.S.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 14, 2021

Senate has passed a bill that, if enacted into law, will ban the buying and selling of shark fins and products containing shark fins in the country. However, due to the failure of the Senate to take action, it was not turned into law at that time. The law also failed to consider the sale of fins in the domestic market.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2022

Friends of the Earth claims government’s flagship Net Zero Strategy is ‘woefully inadequate’ and that Heat and Buildings Strategy breaches equalities laws. We believe the government has breached the Climate Change Act 2008, a vital piece of legislation that Friends of the Earth was pivotal in bringing into law.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 29, 2021

It proposes to make Europe the first continent to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and the first to deliver a climate law with binding emissions targets. Since 2010, the big five fossil fuel companies alone – Shell, BP, Total, ExxonMobil and Chevron – have spent more than €250m lobbying the EU.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

We all know that in many countries the DLMS protocol at application level is mandatory by law. One important improvement in the Meters and More protocol standard is the introduction of the “DLMS/COSEM SMITP (Smart Metering Information and Telecommunication Protocol) B-PSK Power Line communication” profile. Read more news from Meters and More.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In 2010, gas driller Cabot Oil & Gas was cited by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for contaminating water wells with its Marcellus Shale drilling operations. The company was charged with violating the state’s Clean Streams law. The Cabot case provides a perfect example of why fracking became controversial.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2024

One 1979 memo distributed to Exxon management , about a report conducted by Steve Knisley of Exxon’s Research and Engineering Department, accurately predicted the growth of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations by 2010 and referenced the “ecological consequences of increased CO2 levels.” The piece will be updated if they respond.

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Fairsnape

JUNE 3, 2020

RESTORD’s regenerative economic approaches and growth emerged from application and adoption of the late 2010’s SDG, Preston Model localism and Doughnut Economics, never exceeding the cities ‘planetary’ capacity ceiling, or falling below its social threshold. As in natural canopy spacing).

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

One main reason for the increased investment is that renewables–notably utility-scale wind and solar projects–are the cheapest to build and to operate over the course of their lifetimes, said David Spence, professor of Energy Law at the University of Texas at Austin. He expects that advantage to grow bigger every year. “I

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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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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Due to a law passed last year by the Italian government all students will now study both climate change and sustainable development. Related Comprehensive Green School Information and Resources 2010 - 2019 University of Queensland Goes 100% Renewable University Installs Innovative Water Battery to Harness Solar Power Subscribe in a reader

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 21, 2020

The proposed decision from CPUC Administrative Law Judge Peter Allen will be up for a vote by the full commission on May 21. 2018 Camp Fire, for which it pleaded guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter last month, as well as its criminal convictions related to the 2010 San Bruno gas pipeline explosion.

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Charged

MARCH 17, 2020

Unlike most other states, which have had long-standing prohibitions on automakers selling cars directly to the public, Colorado only implemented such a ban in 2010. The new law is good news for Tesla, but it’s especially important for Rivian. The situation in Colorado is unusual.

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Law Electricity 54

Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The Ohio Power Siting Board last month had 7,783 MW of solar projects in its regulatory pipeline , almost all of which had applications pending before the effective date of a new siting law that is expected to complicate future projects. That’s less than one-seventh of Ohio’s production in 2010. million short tons last year.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Si2’s data reveal that proponents were filing resolutions as far back as 2010 on issues that have risen to stark prominence in 2020 as the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and social unrest over racial inequality have rippled through the business world. corporate and securities laws. Some stakeholders envision a more systemic shift.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has promised he is committed to protecting the environment, telling MPs in his first appearance at Prime Ministers Questions last week that his government planned to deliver on the Environment Act signed into law last year and put in place "more protection for the natural environment than we've ever had".

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

New report comes as Greenpeace reveals continued lobbying by soya suppliers against EU's landmark rainforest protection law. They found that resilience dropped during the major droughts of 2005 and 2010, as part of an ongoing decline from the early 2000s to the most recent data in 2016.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Of 20 decadal targets to preserve nature that were set in Japan, in 2010, not even one had been fully met by 2020. If the UK wants to be a world leader on climate and nature it must scrap the appalling Retained EU Law (revocation and reform) Bill which threatens to remove or weaken the laws that protect wild places and species.

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