DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

As revealed by The Mirror and Good Law Project in the former’s print edition, Lilley controls a series of companies that own 12,000 hectares of farmland in the Stavropol region of Russia, in the south west of the country, used to produce cereals and oilseeds.

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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. ISO 13137:2013 Workplace atmospheres — Pumps for personal sampling of chemical and biological agents — Requirements and test methods 3. References.

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Charged

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The Justice Department has accused Cummins of installing defeat devices on 630,000 model year 2013 to 2019 RAM 2500 and 3500 pickup truck engines. The company is also alleged to have secretly installed auxiliary emission control devices on 330,000 model year 2019 to 2023 RAM 2500 and 3500 pickup truck engines.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Retroactive policy changes and laws to prevent self-consumption decimated the sector in 2013. Some investors have spoken privately of an unwillingness to participate, however, given the nature of the policy changes in 2013. Spain enjoyed a subsidy-driven solar boom late last decade before suffering through a dramatic slowdown.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 29, 2020

enjoyed a boom period for large-scale solar between 2013 and 2017, rivaling Germany as the hottest market in Europe. has a net-zero target enshrined in law. A spokesperson told GTM that a final investment decision would be made ahead of construction work beginning in spring 2021. Despite a reputation for gray skies, the U.K.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2024

The idea originated in what they saw as flaws in France’s 2017 duty of vigilance law, which requires all large businesses headquartered in France, and international corporations with a significant presence there, to set out clear measures to prevent human rights violations and environmental damage — even among their subsidiaries.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In 2021, Biofuelwatch, a member of the CCNF coalition, instructed law firm Leigh Day to write to the Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) arguing that the subsidy contract for the power plant is unlawful and should be terminated.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 27, 2020

These three laws provide lessons for other states interested in accelerating the transition to a cheaper, cleaner grid. Michigan’s securitization legislation was used in 2013 to securitize $390 million in unrecovered expenses from a retiring 950 MW plant. Securitization isn’t new, but it’s making a major comeback.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

Fama, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2013, goes as far as arguing stakeholder capitalism is "indefinite and ineffective," for this very reason. Indeed, Eugene F. Measuring success. The "value" created by stakeholder capitalism is difficult to measure, and this could limit its operational effectiveness. Redefining fiduciary duty.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2021

Cornerstone of government's post-Brexit green governance legislation on course to become law in the autumn – but concerns remain. It follows a report last year from NGO Global Witness which found UK financial institutions invested £5bn from 2013-2019 in companies found to have illegally deforested land.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Zimride merged into Lyft in 2013, its vehicles announced by a fuzzy pink "grill-stache." After joining Levi’s in 2013, Singh visited its factories in Turkey and India. He was fresh out of a business economics bachelor’s program in Santa Barbara and a stint as the youngest director on the local Metro Transit District board.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The organisation is currently facing down a complaint to the UK Charity Commission, made by a cross-party group of MPs and the Good Law Project, who say the GWPF is not a charity, but rather a political lobbying group.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 15, 2021

Lew Milford founded CEG in 1998, after working over several years on clean energy and utility restructuring dockets in New England while with the Conservation Law Foundation. After graduation from Georgetown Law, he first worked for the federal government to enforce civil rights laws among government contractors.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

The assessment, published last week, reveals that the volume of waste produced in England remained largely the same in the five years since the government introduced its 2013 Waste Prevention Programme policy, with overall waste in England at the close of 2017 "at similar levels" to those five years earlier.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The funds are already allocated from state laws passed in 2007 and 2013, making them available for competitive funding solicitations or direct funding agreements over the next three years.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

It’s also pressured utilities like Virginia’s Dominion Energy, which now faces the prospect of converting to 100 percent clean energy by 2045 under a state law passed this year. Microsoft outlined the concept in a 2013 research paper, and “there are a lot of white papers since then laying out this idea.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In 2013, Jovan and her team sampled moss from 346 trees around Portland and tested them for metal pollutants like lead, arsenic, and chromium. It led to new environmental laws and more air monitors in the city. While the moss couldn’t tell you exactly how much pollution was in the air, it could be a perfect screening tool.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2024

That changed in 2013, when Richard Heede, cofounder of the Climate Accountability Institute, first launched the Carbon Majors database, a project that had required years of number crunching. Years of Number Crunching Findings like these weren’t always so readily available.

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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. Instead, the application layer and data model of the smart meter shall be compliant to DLMS/COSEM standard as specified in EN 62056-5-3:2013. That means the Network management is still in charge to Meters and more.

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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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Ruth Porter, who will be Truss’s senior special advisor and ran her election campaign, was communications director from 2010 to 2013 at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), an influential anti-regulation think tank with a record of opposing climate policies. BP-Funded Think Tank.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The whole point of a security regime is to have money set aside when the economics are bad,” Martin Olszynski , a law professor at University of Calgary told DeSmog. Since its inception in 2013, the AER has been 100 percent funded – not by the public – but by the industry it purports to oversee. It’s smoke and mirrors.”

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Under the RIIO regulatory construct, first set in place in 2013, their traditional process of earning rates of return on capital investments, the model used by most regulated utilities, is replaced with a system that compensates them on total controllable expenditures, or “totex.".

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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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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Ramos, Republic Act 6957 or the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) Law paved the way for a rapid development of energy projects. 2001 – Republic Act 9136 or the EPIRA Law was passed, seeking the electric power industry by the privatization of generation, transmission, distribution, and supply of the power sector.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

Since late 2013 , utilities had sought bailouts for uneconomic coal plants, Waggoner noted. Two Ohio Valley Electric Corporation plants continue to get subsidies of nearly $233,000 per day under House Bill 6, the 2019 law at the heart of an alleged $60 million conspiracy involving former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Climate liability would be where a company has claimed credits as a result of a sequestration activity,” Nigel Bankes, Professor Emeritus of Law at University of Calgary told Desmog. . ‘Massive’ Liability Costs What about the financial liabilities for carbon credits previously claimed if there is reservoir leakage?

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The 2013 Dhaka garment factory collapse gives a heartbreaking and chilling reminder of this fact. On the 13th of May 2013, a eight-story high commercial building named the Rana Plaza collapsed killing 1,124 and injuring approximately 2,500 people. CSR is known as a soft law, which means initiatives are not legally binding.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The Defra veteran was first appointed Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food in 2013 by then Prime Minister David Cameron, and has since served in the role under both Theresa May's and Johnson's premierships. He will also face calls to continue to drive reforms to the UK's waste regime and plastics regulations.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In 2013, Jovan and her team sampled moss from 346 trees around Portland and tested them for metal pollutants like lead, arsenic, and chromium. It led to new environmental laws and more air monitors in the city. While the moss couldn’t tell you exactly how much pollution was in the air, it could be a perfect screening tool.

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Pollution South America Law Health 110

Greentown Labs

JUNE 2, 2020

ER: When you entered state government, you left your job at a law firm and headed to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. A lot of well intentioned advice was that it was a big mistake to leave a prestigious law firm to go work in state government. Read a partial transcript of their conversation below.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

It raises the alarm over a "deeply concerning decline in biodiversity" in England, with available evidence pointing to a 17 per cent reduction in the abundance of priority species from 2013 to 2017 "among other adverse trends".

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

“Pipeline injection is a national hydrogen strategy for the Netherlands, for Germany, for France, for Australia , for South Korea, for Japan,” said Mona Dajani, head of the renewable energy and green hydrogen practice of law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. ” U.S. green hydrogen pilots and proposals.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

Since late 2013 , utilities had sought bailouts for uneconomic coal plants, Waggoner noted. Two Ohio Valley Electric Corporation plants continue to get subsidies of nearly $233,000 per day under House Bill 6, the 2019 law at the heart of an alleged $60 million conspiracy involving former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Seven of the 10 most destructive wildfires in the state’s history have occurred since 2013, and 2018 was the deadliest year ever, including the Camp Fire in Butte County that claimed 86 lives. California faces unprecedented risks from wildfires.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

The assessment, published last week, reveals that the volume of waste produced in England remained largely the same in the five years since the government introduced its 2013 Waste Prevention Programme policy, with overall waste in England at the close of 2017 "at similar levels" to those five years earlier.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 3, 2021

Then, in 2013, the SEC found “that Sherb & Co. Boruff was joined that day by company founder Delroy Miller, who also happened to be his father-in-law. Boruff had no oil industry experience before being appointed in 2008 as CEO by his father-in-law. Sherb & Co. completed audits for Miller Energy in 2009 and 2010.

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