Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

According to ‘Transport in Scotland: The Road to Net Zero’ – a report published by international law firm Addleshaw Goddard – sector contributors were extremely positive about committing to decarbonising Scotland’s transport sector. e), representing a 3 per cent rise, and have increased by 9 per cent since 2012.

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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. Andrew Thorpe & Peter Walsh, Health and Safety Laboratory, June 2012. However, the Code has a special legal status.

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Charged

AUGUST 15, 2021

From 2012 to 2020, there has been approximately one Tesla vehicle fire for every 205 million miles traveled,” Tesla tells us. “By In its 2020 Impact Report , the company presents data to demonstrate that ICE vehicles catch fire at a vastly higher rate than do Teslas.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

One accident there — a 2012 fire — sent a cloud of black smoke billowing over San Francisco Bay and left thousands of local residents struggling to breathe. This souring of relationships was particularly disastrous given that many saw California’s original climate law as an explicit effort to advance environmental justice.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

A UK-qualified barrister, environmental policy expert, and former journalist and theatre critic, Shine brings huge experience to the role gained during a varied career that has spanned four continents and many sectors including business, law, policy, media, and the arts.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Image credit: Marmalade Photos / shutter stock.com By Ray Purdy, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in Environmental Law, University College Dublin, writing in The Conversation The new BBC podcast, Buried , by investigative journalists Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor, is a compelling look at how criminals are infiltrating the UK waste disposal system.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2022

Ambition Community Energy is a community interest company set up by Bristol-based charity Ambition Lawrence Weston, which was established in 2012 by a group of residents who wanted to enhance the area and restore a range of local services.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

A UK-qualified barrister, environmental policy expert, and former journalist and theatre critic, Shine brings huge experience to the role gained during a varied career that has spanned four continents and many sectors including business, law, policy, media, and the arts.

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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). There are global initiatives that seek to make ecocide an international crime dating to the 1970s.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

Hoboken is making this claim against fossil fuel companies under the state-level equivalent of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a federal law used successfully to prosecute organized crime groups such as the Mafia starting in the 1970s and later the tobacco industry. Credit: U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 9, 2020

was the first major economy to enshrine a net-zero carbon goal in law, and in the recent election parties on all sides pledged support to a green industrial revolution to one extent or another. cable company win offshore wind contracts in Europe in 2012 and 2014. Last November UKEF guaranteed a 9.2 government-owned renewables investor.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

He filed 21 internal complaints in 2012, then bumped them up to the Oregon Public Utility Commission (OPUC), the group that regulates utilities in the state, later that year. In late 2012, several months after Dye took his complaints to OPUC, NW Natural fired him. Systemic Failures of Oversight.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2021

The new study from the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme and Environmental Change Institute, Filling the evidentiary gap in climate litigation, finds that many lawsuits have not used the latest advances in attribution science as evidence.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Since its 2012 founding as CalCom Solar, the Fresno, Calif.-based But farmers are also dependent on steady and reliable electricity to meet water-pumping schedules that are often fixed by law, or by the needs of its crops and the growing season.

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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. 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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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2020

Due to the significant health risks, employers have additional legal responsibilities, over and above other health and safety law, towards employees who are potentially working with asbestos.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The bill, which was introduced by Michael Quigley and Brian Fitzpatrick in 2012, has been in the pipeline for a long time. Currently, only five states, Nevada, Alabama, Oklahoma, North Carolina, and Wisconsin, have no laws protecting big cats. As such, it has become necessary to have a federally recognized law to protect these animals.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 8, 2020

The United States Environmental Protection Agency defines environmental justice as “the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.”

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AGreenLiving

JULY 29, 2020

Although there are laws that prohibit the trade of painted snails in Cuba, the illegal wildlife trade continues to threaten their existence. Between 2012 and 2016, about 23,000 painted snails were seized on their way to the U.S. Currently, all of the six species have been classified as being critically endangered.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

We have targets enshrined in law to tackle the climate emergency, but none, yet, to reverse the crisis facing nature. Public funding for the environment dropped nearly 30 per cent from £641m in 2012/2013 to £456m in 2017/2018, according to the report.

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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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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

“There will always be a need for infrastructure projects, but the evergreen question is how to attract private capital to the project,” said Dr. Viktória Szilágyi, Partner at the Lakatos, Köves and Partners Law Firm. Together we can come up with solutions to make it more attractive.” Big steps, good practices Tolgay Benderli, CEO of Do?an

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2023

Cases could also be grounded in domestic climate change framework laws, arguing that government actors are failing to comply with relevant duties established under these laws. This includes a need to understand legislative developments holistically, rather than focusing on individual measures in isolation".

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Drax has received state subsidies worth more than £7 billion since 2012, and the government is currently considering whether to extend this financial assistance to 2027 so the firm can build facilities to capture and store carbon emissions. Drax disputes this claim.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 26, 2019

By way of background, two class action lawsuits filed in the District of Massachusetts alleged that Eversource and Avangrid systematically abused their influence in the natural gas transmission market in violation of federal and state antitrust laws. See 16 U.S.C. §§ 825e–825f (2012).

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

The UK pledged to prevent global warming from spiraling out of control by signing the 2015 Paris Agreement – enshrining into law the ambitious climate change target to cut emissions by 78% by 2035. He joined Logan Energy Limited in 2008 as Director of Operations and became Managing Director and CEO in 2012.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 5, 2021

OCCRP found records showing that the ownership of four energy assets associated with Kovachki, including Brikel, were transferred to the Seychelles in 2011 and 2012. Three years later, Bulgaria passed new laws restricting offshore ownership. The ownership histories of several of the other plants are unclear. and Cyprus.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In 2012 she tweeted that “climate change policies are pushing up domestic gas & elec prices” and wrote a Telegraph article that year headlined “Green policies are costing Britons the earth” making the same point and citing IEA research. She has blamed previous energy bill rises on renewables.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 1, 2020

For the past nine years, Chicago-based utility ComEd has earned excessive profits from a regulatory structure set in place by a 2011 state law whose passage has been linked to a bribery scandal that’s embroiled key state lawmakers and ComEd’s former CEO. billion smart grid investment plan that included a 4.2-million

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Energy Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Navigating existing property rights as coastlines shift will demand innovations in governance and law across contexts, including situations where land tenure is weak or the territorial integrity of nations may be at stake. Effectively managing climate change risks can support vibrant communities and robust economies.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Italy has become the latest government to strengthen its legislative framework to better protect the environment, with the passage of a new constitutional law that places a formal requirement on the state to safeguard the environment, biodiversity, and ecosystems and act "in the interest of future generations".

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2020

Despite the UK having become the first major economy in the world to set in law a target to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the survey suggests there is limited understanding among most of the British public of what 'net zero' actually means.

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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. The area of land under embargo has remained roughly the same.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Apparent has deployed our software+hardware energy solution in five states since 2012 and are looking to scale and implement growth opportunities in new markets. Our growing company was named in the top 250 fastest growing new companies in 2019.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Between 2010 and 2012, Finley earned a total of $713,138 for the 40 hours per week he worked for the IPTA, which is registered as a non-profit, tax-exempt organisation. Finley and Strode would not confirm whether he had received any income from the organisation since 2012 or provide DeSmog with the most recent tax returns.

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Grist

MAY 24, 2023

Set in the Gulf Coast, this 2012 fantasy-drama is the only Oscar-nominated film to acknowledge climate change (despite being hailed as a climate film, Don’t Look Up actually handles it metaphorically). . “I think stories that help us become more comfortable with uncertainty are really, really important,” she says.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO, CA and GROSSE POINTE, MI – February 13, 2012 – Hub Ventures (www.hub-ventures.com), a startup accelerator for entrepreneurs building a better world, today announced an innovative collaboration with Lakeland Ventures Development (LVD) of Grosse Pointe, MI ( www.lakelandventuresdevelopment.com ).

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