GreenTechMedia

APRIL 7, 2020

When used, the details are usually very specific, explained Ashley Wald, a partner at law firm Holland & Hart, who represents clients in the renewables field. wind farm construction (previous record: 13 gigawatts, set in 2012). 2020 still looks likely to be the high-water mark for U.S.

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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. section 7).

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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

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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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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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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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

He founded his law firm in Berlin in 1992. In 1995 he established the first German linked law firm in Poznan. His law firm focuses on business law, German and Polish geothermal law and has clients from Asia and Europe who invest in Germany or Poland. years left to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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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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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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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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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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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 17, 2021

A new report by the Rocky Mountain Institute shows that Illinois customers paid near market rates for power from Prairie State since it was built in 2012, but the contracts have also saddled them with debt far beyond the norm. And without carbon emissions, it might not need to close under an Illinois energy law.

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

environmental organization, the Natural Resources Defense Council. . Starting out as an intern while working on his thesis about organic waste management, he rose meteorically in a few short years to a position of leadership, with 600 people behind him. LinkedIn | Twitter. Hana Kajimura, 28. LinkedIn .

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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Yet Schläffler has continued to call Last Generation terrorists in one way or another; Schläffler also began describing the group as a “criminal organization,” and publicly calling for it to be investigated for organized crime. Just six months later, in May 2023, German police conducted nationwide raids on Last Generation activists.

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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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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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Grist

JULY 7, 2021

That’s good news for Garrett, who hasn’t plowed or otherwise tilled his fields since 2012. We asked nonprofits and carbon offset companies to give us good examples of land managers capturing carbon in exchange for money — the sort that the Global Climate Solutions Act might expand upon if President Joe Biden signed it into law.

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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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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

When InvestigateWest launched the Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia series in January 2021, the latest official data showed that emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases had risen steadily from 2012 to 2018, and the region wasn’t on track to make big cuts this decade. “We

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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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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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Unsustainable

AUGUST 23, 2019

47 in 2012. Stiglitz:2012) Also by this author: Food Security vs Legalizing Cannabis Much of the inequality that exists today is a result of government policy, both what the government does and what it doesn’t do (Stiglitz, 2012). More equal societies have.3 3 Gini coefficients or below and most unequal societies have.5

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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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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

“He’s been very clear he is very, very opposed and would like to end renewable energy, and so he brings these wolves-in-sheep-clothing bills to say, ‘Oh, these are just meant to do reasonable things,’ when quite clearly they’re not,” said Alan Claus Anderson, vice president of the energy group at Polsinelli law firm.

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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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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

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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