DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In France, three non-governmental organizations sued the oil company Total over alleged “inadequate” environmental and human rights assessments of its oil project in Uganda and Tanzania. Between 1986, when the first climate lawsuit was filed, and 2014, approximately 800 cases were brought.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2022

There’s this recognition that some spaces still need to be sacred and protected from industry,” Robin Lesko, a senior organizer with Food & Water Watch, told DeSmog. In 2014, Allegheny County signed a lease with Range Resources, allowing the company to drill beneath Deer Lakes Park.

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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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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

One day in January 2014, police rushed to a farm in Rasdorf, Germany, after flames burst from a barn. Food and Agriculture Organization notes, if aquaculturists remove rocks or native sea grasses to plant massive seaweed farms, they could disrupt ecosystems and even alter coastal currents. And as a review published by the U.N.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2021

The lead on many of these action items was FTI Consulting, whose work against Gillam included briefing Monsanto’s third party “pro science” organizations about the book, creating background materials on the book, helping to release a website to counter the book, and responding to media requests after the book was released.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

In 2014, Impact Africa, a subsidiary of African exploration company Impact Oil & Gas Limited, was granted a license by South Africa’s Department of Mineral Resources and Energy, to carry out seismic exploration for oil and gas off in an ecologically sensitive region of the Wild Coast that is also home to several Indigenous communities.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, a quasi-public agency that runs incentive programs for clean energy technology, ran a ground-source heat pump incentive program from late 2014 through 2020. During that time, the program provided rebates of up to $10,000 per home for 537 projects, according to a spokesperson for the organization.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 6, 2020

Brad Bauer: I started out working at a law firm in Boston then tagged along with my then-girlfriend, now wife, when she finished school and started practicing in San Francisco. I wasn’t enamored with practicing law — it certainly wasn’t something I wanted to do for the rest of my life. Energy markets in the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2021

We don’t have regulations telling oil and gas site operators they need a fence or warning sign at volatile sites near homes, but we have laws requiring you wear a helmet when on a motorcycle and you must have a fence around a swimming pool in Louisiana,” Smith said. “We He told me that he is haunted by Zalee’s death. “A

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2022

IFC) launched the first sustainability-linked SCF facility in 2014 for Levi Strauss & Co. Over the last year, 66 per cent of the $2.3bn in SCF financing the program provided went to suppliers with sustainability-linked pricing, and the organization expects that percentage will continue to grow, an IFC spokesperson said in an email.

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Varuna

MAY 11, 2020

We had avian flu in 2005 and Ebola in 2014 and scientists, again including Carroll, warned that we did not develop plans to address any future outbreaks of those viruses. Most water system operators do not have the data to determine their baselines for the compliance metrics in the new laws. We were forewarned but didn’t prepare.

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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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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 11, 2015

billion spent in California to install solar in 2013, according to the SEIA, and more expected to have been spent in 2014, the golden state’s solar industry is still vulnerable to be toppled from its ruling position. Public policy involves a lot of organizing and a lot of hard work, and that’s clearly what I bring to the table.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

Sewell, a 48-year-old businessman based in Midland, Texas, founded 7S Oil and Gas LLC in 2014. 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.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

Sewell, a 48-year-old businessman based in Midland, Texas, founded 7S Oil and Gas LLC in 2014. 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.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

“Even if these projects were having the carbon benefits that they claim to, which is questionable, they’re still having negative impacts on the local community,” said Kimberly Terrell, a research scientist at Tulane University’s Environmental Law Clinic. Credit: Beyond Plastics One such community is Convent, a majority Black town in St.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

But a coalition of more than two dozen frontline community groups and environmental justice organizations in Ohio are trying to change that. Of course, we already know that it is extremely salty and that it has heavy metals and other organics that are dangerous and harmful to human health and the environment.” EPA vs. State “Primacy”.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

based grassroots organization opposing LNG, told DeSmog. “By Just Phase 1 of LNG Canada,” Andrew Gage, a staff lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law, told DeSmog, referring to B.C.’s A recent analysis by environmental organization Stand.earth found that the B.C. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (middle) and B.C.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JULY 7, 2015

For Cotter, this means when Luminalt has an entry-level position to fill, she first goes looking for new hires at community-based organizations, like Asian Neighborhood Design , an architecture and planning nonprofit that provides work training to help disadvantaged individuals become self-sufficient. Last year Luminalt pulled in $5.5

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Best practice is to organize your documents in an electronic data room hosted on your own server, on your counsel’s Extranet, or via another service provider, such as Box.com or Carta. He has participated in over 30 transactions totaling over $5 million since joining Clean Energy Trust in 2014. Document Checklist 1.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

Such plans were enabled by a local 2014 decision that rezoned Formosa’s property to "residential/industrial.". A prominent example of these characteristics is the Formosa Plastics Group proposal to build a $9.4 A prominent example of these characteristics is the Formosa Plastics Group proposal to build a $9.4

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Better Ventures

JANUARY 15, 2020

Thanks to the precipitous drop in the cost of sequencing DNA, scientists now have access to the genomes of countless organisms, providing them with an extensive library of reaction pathways needed for desired molecular outcomes. in 2003 (cumulatively) to under $1,000 today, a reduction far outpacing Moore’s Law.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Perhaps the most famous learning curve—later dubbed “Moore’s Law”—was identified in 1965 by Intel’s Gordon Moore, who accurately predicted that the number of transistors within a semiconductor would double every two years as producers gained more experience. Source: Way et al.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

Even more important to BlocPower - which specialises in clean energy retrofits - is Local Law 97. Passed in 2019, the law requires existing buildings over 25,000 square feet to start lowering emissions in 2024 and to reach a reduction of 40 percent by 2030 and 80 percent by 2050. Robert Clark falls into this latter category.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

According to the World Health Organization, more than 200,000 deaths in Europe every year can be attributed to particulate matter alone. Nitrogen dioxide was responsible for around 78,000 deaths in Europe in 2014, according to the European Environment Agency. These emissions are a bigger problem than you might think.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

“There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond],” says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. “But at the same time, when you look at the reality of it, it is sad.”

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Mearth

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Explore how others may try to disrupt your corporation with blockchain technology, and how your organization might use it to leap ahead as an alternative. ?Carving The Law provides, amongst other issues, for the fee arrangements and payment establishments that comprise the Brazilian Payment System. authorities on 1 July 2014.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

Project Canary offers to place devices it calls “ canaries ” — sensors that can monitor for methane and other pollutants like volatile organic compounds (VOC) — at the corners of a well site, so that buyers aren’t reliant on self-reported data from oil and gas drillers. ESG’s influence isn’t just limited to investors or Wall Street.

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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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GreenTechMedia

JULY 14, 2020

Clean energy groups warned, however, that any new regional power market must be organized in a transparent way to avoid undermining state-by-state efforts to boost clean power and reduce dependence on carbon-emitting power plants. First step toward an interstate transmission market. The Southeast and Western U.S. Eight more Western 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 11, 2021

No one I knew in the organization thought this was possible; the pressure to deliver on Woods’s promise to the market permeated the organization,” the whistleblower said, referring to ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods’ goal at the time to produce one million barrels a day from the Permian by 2024. oil field. “No

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Mearth

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The Chinese government at all times asks Chinese firms to abide by international rules and host country laws and rules when conducting worldwide cooperation. Your most suitable option for carpet and upholstery cleaning within the wider Wellington space, Mrgreencarpets have been delivering great service since 2014.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5, which covers much of the Midwest, joined local organizers in a conference call in July and made an in-person visit to the area earlier this month. The situation at the Ohio facility appears so severe that top officials from the U.S.

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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). Here is how they might act in those areas.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

AUGUST 10, 2020

In this role, you will be part of our Internationalization Services organization and reporting to Director General’s Office Global Insight unit. Internationalization Services organization is responsible for providing and creating services for Finnish companies looking to grow international, and finding business opportunities around the world.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

AUGUST 10, 2020

In this role, you will be part of our Internationalization Services organization and reporting to Director General’s Office Global Insight unit. Internationalization Services organization is responsible for providing and creating services for Finnish companies looking to grow international, and finding business opportunities around the world.

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