GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home. However, like Ahoskie, Joyner’s community wasn’t quick to organize against the plant. . “I Enviva had built its first North Carolina plant there two years before. .

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

Rapid progress towards establishing net zero industry clusters can be facilitated by making best use of regional resources and organizations. 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.

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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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Defend Our Future

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Richard is a California native who moved to Arizona to attend the University of Arizona in 2012. Richards experience organizing expands beyond the campus setting as he has worked for organizations like Environment Arizona and NextGen. Jesse Rodriguez, Flagstaff Organizer. Jesse is the Flagstaff Organizer in Arizona.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Some 200 participants came together in Budapest, Hungary for the second edition of the Budapest Geothermal Energy Summit , organized by White Paper Consulting. 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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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Portland’s first Tofurky Trot in 2012 was also an informal event, with just 43 racers. She’d just graduated from law school, and she, a few of her classmates and Tofurky founder Seth Tibbott put the race together. So it was Tofurky’s event with Northwest VEG organizing. Leeds participated as a trotter that year.

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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. The post Senior Business Development appeared first on Women in Cleantech & Sustainability.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Finley, who is based in Dorset, UK, but has been the Cook Islands’ ambassador to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) since 2006, has been praised for his contributions to the agency by its Secretary-General. ‘Full Confidence’ of Cook Islands.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The UK organizers of the COP26 climate conference very publicly declined to offer international oil companies any slots in the conference or any formal role in the event, and oil companies without credible climate programs were also barred from sponsoring events at the high-stakes international talks currently underway.

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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 began working on environmental equity policy in 2012 in California.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

From 2002 to 2012 Coco was President and COO of Taos, a Gartner global top 20 leader in IT cloud professional and managed services. Before that, Veena practiced law in India. Veena received a Masters in Law degree from Washington University in St. Veena received a Masters in Law degree from Washington University in St.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2021

In 2012, one of the wells was shut-in, meaning the operator purposely turned a valve to stop the well from producing, a process which can be reversed to later restart production. LEAN is part of the Green Army, a coalition representing environmental and social justice organizations led by retired Lt.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2022

Mills, an organic vegetable gardener and self-described energy geek who prefers gin and tonics to ganja, spent 40 years at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab before retiring in 2018 as a senior scientist, although he remains an affiliate there. Several organisations are trying. And not every state has the same energy mix.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The signatories of the 2020 “agreement of principles” included conservation nonprofits like the Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and the Nature Conservancy, or TNC, the largest and wealthiest nonprofit conservation organization in the U.S. communities and destroyed U.S.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2021

But in February, shortly before an independent Harvard advisory committee was expected to give the go-ahead, a group of Swedish environmental organizations and the Indigenous Saami Council sent a letter demanding the project be canceled.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Some of the APPG's other recommendations include the suggestion all planning law must be aligned with net zero climate targets and that net zero goals should be specifically included in all local plans.

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Grist

JUNE 12, 2024

Earth Day organizers educated people about the value of sorting through their trash and advocated for community recycling programs. Corporations responded by creating the first anti-litter organization, Keep America Beautiful, founded in 1953 by the American Can Company and the Owens-Illinois Glass Company.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

From 2004 to 2012, NW Natural expanded gas infrastructure across Oregon while executives downplayed employee concerns about billing accuracy issues resulting from the incorporation of lower-quality gas into the company’s distribution system, according to internal emails obtained by DeSmog. A Sidelined Solution.

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AGreenLiving

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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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Barbara got involved with the local Sierra Club chapter, and Don became executive director of the Forest Issues Group — a watchdog organization that tries to stop companies from logging and destroying habitat. But then California’s legislature passed a law to subsidize small biomass plants in 2012.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 21, 2021

The land loss caused may be due to the increased nutrient availability for organic soils, greater flooding and physical scouring. She also questioned why it was possible for the project to get a waiver from the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), the federal law that protects species like dolphins by protecting their 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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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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Grist

JUNE 20, 2024

Parravani eventually earned his GED and attended Syracuse University’s College of Law, where he rose to second in his class. After marrying his middle school sweetheart in 1986, Parravani graduated from law school, moved to Westchester, and began building a career and a family.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home. However, like Ahoskie, Joyner’s community wasn’t quick to organize against the plant. “I Enviva had built its first North Carolina plant there two years before.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Sometimes I use the comparison to Moore’s law,” said O’Shea. At the New York City E-Prix in July, Formula E co-founder and Chief Championship Officer Alberto Longo told Charged that, back in 2012, a lot of sponsors were starting to be concerned about the environmental aspects of gas-powered motorsports. “It

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

According to the project’s 2022 Environmental Statement , drilling waste and chemicals will be discharged into the water column and onto the seabed, forming toxic piles that can “smother benthic organisms and impair their feeding and respiratory systems.” The project will also dump produced water.

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Charged

AUGUST 2, 2023

California has passed Assembly Bill 841, [signed into law in 2020] which says that transportation electrification must be treated just the same as building construction. The problem is those laws are all state-based and every state has to make that change at the level of the utility commission. Rustam Kocher: Even more so.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In a victory for climate scientists, jurors in Michael Mann’s defamation case against Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn awarded Mann $1 million in punitive damages for defamatory comments made in 2012. In a literal sense, of course, the judge was correct: Defamation laws say nothing about climate change or climate science or climate scient ists.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In other words, a building that is organized instead of chaotic. And I just thought a building as an organism operated by children would be so much fun. But we were not required to by law. With Susan Sarandon and Meryl Streep at the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute gala, 2012. Purified water. It grew food.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

Instead, they are required to contract with “ industry-governed organizations ” — private trade associations — to promote products. R-CALF USA doesn’t only blame the private trade associations for overturning the law that allowed “Made in the USA” labels. “It’s Although they are run by the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Bespectacled, tall, and barrel-chested, with blonde hair and a beard punctuated by gray, Cole stood confidently before a classroom of conference attendees at a University of Oregon environmental law symposium in 2008, less than a year before his death. Abascal gave Cole a desk and a phone, and Cole got to work. Early Influences.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

Then, in November 2012, a deadly explosion rocked Black Elk’s West Delta 32 platform off Louisiana’s coast, an incident that would ultimately lead to Black Elk being convicted of eight felonies and a misdemeanor. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law signed this past November set aside $4.7

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

“This is a meritless case, and we await the court’s decision,” said Nick Paulocci, director of public affairs and press secretary of the NYC Law Department. Between 2012 and 2015, 220 institutions committed to redirect some or all of their fossil fuel holdings, a number that has only risen since.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

and in February this year, representatives from five Canadian health organizations described it as the “ greatest public health challenge of the 21st century. ” [iii]. Similarly, the World Health Organization has pronounced it to be the defining health issue of the 21st century. [iv] The World Health Organization. May 1, 2019.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In other words, a building that is organized instead of chaotic. And I just thought a building as an organism operated by children would be so much fun. But we were not required to by law. McDonough: I had two things occur simultaneously in 1989. I designed a daycare center that was solar-powered. Purified water. It grew food.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

An organization run by former Obama-era Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, with the backing of the AFL-CIO, a federation of 56 labor unions, has created a policy “blueprint” to build a nationwide pipeline network capable of carrying a gigaton of captured carbon dioxide (CO2). ExxonMobil refinery in Baytown, Texas, in 2012.

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