The Guardian: Energy

JUNE 20, 2024

At the time, I was the cabinet minister who signed this into law. Coal, which used to make up more than 40% of our power when I was first elected as an MP in 2010, will from next year be consigned to the history books. When I signed net zero into law, I always viewed our plan as a mainstream, even conservative, vision.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 16, 2019

Vermont Law School (VLS) offers three environmental masters degrees. A master's degree from VLS is different from other law degrees. Instead of studying theories about how policies work, VLS master's candidates learn the law and how to use it to effect change. MASTER OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY (MELP) Climate change.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

MARCH 17, 2025

Irrespective of cost, Norways considerable EV incentives have had the effect of making 89 percent of new vehicles purchased last year EVs, according to the Norwegian Road Federation , up from less than 1 percent in 2010. Recent reporting by DeSmog further highlights that Cenovus funded astroturfing groups that opposed climate laws.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Related Comprehensive Green School Information and Resources 2010 - 2019 Subscribe in a reader can be searched by Sustainability Topic, Academic Discipline and Office or Department. Bars in graphs can be clicked to view resources that align with a particular category. Click here to access the summary.

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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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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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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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Grist

MARCH 2, 2021

The Railroad Commission needs to enforce better practices upfront so that we can avoid the bankruptcy process and the orphan law process altogether.”. In the RRC’s district 8, which oversees the Permian Basin — the largest and most productive shale play in Texas — per-foot plugging costs were less than $9 in 2010.

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

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. This raises a number of interesting political questions.”

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The request comes from nonprofit environmental law organization Earthjustice on behalf of demand response aggregator Voltus. FERC Order 719 was issued in 2010, back when the line between state and federal authority over behind-the-meter and distributed energy assets was far less clear, Smaczniak said.

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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

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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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

The green law group, which has taken the government to court numerous times over the past decade over the UK's failure to comply with EU air pollution rules, yesterday issued another warning that Ministers could once again face legal action unless they overhaul the country's air quality strategy.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

A negotiator representing the Cook Islands at the UN who has been criticised for blocking efforts to tackle global shipping emissions has been paid at least $700,000 since 2010 by an industry lobby group he helps run with his wife. ‘Full Confidence’ of Cook Islands.

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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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Grist

DECEMBER 20, 2019

From catastrophic oil spills like the 2010 Deepwater Horizon incident, to the thousands of smaller spills that occur each year, to the more than 100 billion barrels of toxic wastewater produced annually from fracking, the scale of the issue is alarming, especially given how limited the available technology is to clean it up.

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