Solar Industry

MAY 15, 2024

The United States has exceeded 5 million solar installations, according to data released by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie, coming eight years after the country reached its one million installation milestone in 2016. Systems in the research included residential, business and utility-scale projects.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

We think it is due to state school finance formulas and state- and county-level tax laws, and the incentives they provide to school administrators. As wind grew it expanded from only 16 school districts in 1995 to 900 districts spread across 38 states in 2016. Leading the pack are rural areas of the West, the Midwest and Texas.

Law 79

Law Policy Energy Energy 79

Charged

JULY 14, 2022

Under the new National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program established by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, funding will be directed to designated EV Alternative Fuel Corridors to serve as the backbone for the national EV charging network.

Electric vehicle 141

Electric vehicle Law Climate change Electricity 141

GreenTechMedia

JULY 10, 2020

The opinion marks what’s likely to be the final chapter in a long-running battle between FERC and energy storage and distributed energy advocates on one hand, and utilities and state regulators on the other, Jennifer Key, a partner of the Steptoe & Johnson law firm in Washington D.C., In early 2016, the U.S.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 246

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Ignorance of the law, and especially well-established international and domestic laws, is no excuse. SEPA says its officers became aware of poor quality waste paper bales on site during a routine audit of the company’s Materials Recovery Facility at Croy in 2016. Details of the case.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

Its landmark report, "The New Plastics Economy," sounded the alarm in 2016 that if "business as usual" continues, by 2025 the ocean may hold more plastic than fish by weight. CLOs have to keep up with a rapidly evolving patchwork of state laws governing plastic use and disposal, driven by activists, regulators and consumers.

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Plastics Waste Waste Recycling 311

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2023

Matt Higginson, an environment manager for the Environment Agency in south London and Kent, said: “Jack Selby broke the law for financial gain. He also skipped fees for managing a lawful waste operation.” Not only did he charge customers but treated waste illegally.

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Waste Waste Law Plastics 130

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2020

A Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation in 2016 found children "dying in crumbling, illegal mica mines … but their deaths were covered up." It’s not a guarantee: In 2016, Lush discovered natural mica in a range of mica pigments it had been told were synthetic. (It None of them attend school.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of the passage of perhaps the most ambitious law ever adopted by a U.S. Local Law 97, one of 10 bills in the sweeping Climate Mobilization Act , requires New York City’s 50,000 largest buildings to reduce their carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2030 and by 80 percent by 2050.

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Law Carbon Education Real Estate 130

GreenTechMedia

JULY 17, 2020

Illinois’ Future Energy Jobs Act, passed in late 2016, qualified Exelon’s Clinton and Quad Cities nuclear power plants to receive hundreds of millions of dollars per year as zero-carbon resources. Under a landmark 2011 state law, ComEd has spent $2.6 ComEd is also struggling to justify its $9.53

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Energy Monitor Nuclear Power Law Policy 130

Energy Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2018

2015; Bukvic and Owen 2016). Government officials sometimes assert homeowners have little interest in retreat, but instances exist when far more homeowners have requested assistance relocating than the budget allows (Koslov 2016). 2016) The case for retreat. When storms hit, higher seas push floodwaters further inland.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

They were the first to get the go-ahead after Maine increased its renewable portfolio standard to 80 percent by 2030 in a suite of climate and clean energy laws signed last year. The legislation also reinstated net-metering, a change from the gross metering policy established in 2016 under previous Governor Paul LePage.

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Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Hydropower 130

Grist

MARCH 8, 2021

It can’t be about one law or policy, it has to be put at the heart of all policy,” she said. In lower-income countries, there was no real slowdown in emissions between 2016 and 2019 compared with the previous two five-year periods. Governments must prioritize climate action in their efforts to recover from the pandemic, she said. “We

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Fossil fuels Climate change Government Carbon 123

Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

The new goals are a significant step up for the domestic appliance maker, which just last summer pledged to halve emissions from its plants and operations by 2030 against a 2016 baseline.

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Recycled materials Recycling Recycling Plastics 92

GreenTechMedia

MAY 28, 2020

Wind was the big winner: onshore projects that started construction in 2016 and 2017 will now have five rather than four years to finish projects, while still receiving production tax credit (PTC) benefits. gigawatts in 2022.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

percent in 2016 to 8.3 There are various other clauses that could remove or shift contractual liabilities, as explained in an update by law firm Clyde & Co. Vestas delivered a record 12.9 gigawatts of turbines last year, but its earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) margin has been under pressure, falling from 13.9

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Law Transportation Government Energy 130

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. Courtice said Shine would be "an outstanding director" of CISL.

Sustainability 94

Sustainability Policy Law Europe 94

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2024

The UK’s most prominent climate science denial group has seen its income drop to the lowest level since 2016, DeSmog can reveal. The Good Law Project has been urging the Charity Commission to launch an investigation into the GWPF, claiming that the charitable foundation funds non-charitable lobbying work by Net Zero Watch.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Politics Global warming 143

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Rishi Sunak has confirmed that a fossil fuel-funded think tank helped to draft his government’s laws targeting climate protests. Sunak’s statement yesterday appears to confirm openDemocracy’s allegation that sections of the 2022 law were ‘directly inspired’ by Policy Exchange’s report. million to the party since 2014.

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Policy Law Global warming Fossil fuels 98

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

A team of researchers led by Dr Henny Martineau, Head of Veterinary Forensic Pathology at the RVC, alongside both the Metropolitan Police and the Hertfordshire Police, examined the bodies of 32 mutilated cats that had been brought to the police by members of the public between 2016 and 2018. Notes to Editors. Reference: Hull, K.

Law 130

Law 130

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 10, 2023

“It is reassuring to have a court acknowledge our right to hold the Transportation Department accountable for their contribution to the climate crisis,” said 19 year-old plaintiff Kalālapa Winter, whose case is represented by nonprofit law firms Our Children’s Trust and Earthjustice. “I United States.

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Transportation Law Climate change Fossil fuels 93

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

A historic 2016 verdict ruled in favor of the Dimock residents and ordered Cabot to pay $4.24 A 2016 federal report confirmed that the water was unsafe to drink, showing worrying levels of chemicals such as arsenic and lithium, as well methane, metals, and salts. link] — AG Josh Shapiro (@PAAttorneyGen) November 29, 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2024

In its analysis of the new data, InfluenceMap, a London-based nonprofit think tank, found that two-thirds of investor- and state-owned fossil fuel companies outside of North America expanded oil and gas operations between 2016 and 2022. Only in North America were a slim minority of carbon majors — 16 of 37 — linked to rising emissions.

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Fossil fuels Ocean acidification North America Pollution 133

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 16, 2021

The lack of consistency between states can be confusing to firms, said Blache, but he contended that most companies do their best to adhere to the law. At least 20 states have passed or introduced harsh new laws that make it a felony to protest at pipeline construction sites and other critical infrastructure. Credit: Karen Savage.

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Law Construction Business Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels 99

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 16, 2021

The lack of consistency between states can be confusing to firms, said Blache, but he contended that most companies do their best to adhere to the law. At least 20 states have passed or introduced harsh new laws that make it a felony to protest at pipeline construction sites and other critical infrastructure. Credit: Karen Savage.

Law 98

Law Construction Business Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels 98

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 3, 2021

At issue in the lawsuit, filed in 2016 , is a $4.55 In January 2016, the SEC sent a cease and desist order for Miller Energy detailing the major fraud case and focusing in part on the role that third-party auditors such as KPMG played in making it possible. . Source: SEC Cease and Desist Order to Miller Energy, January 12, 2016.

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Energy Energy Law Fashion 98

Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

billion tonnes of CO2 each year from 2016-19, compared to the 2011-15 period. Ukraine currently leads the world on cutting carbon emissions over the past five years, with its emissions down an average of four per cent per year since 2015, while the UK sits in second place with an annual decarbonisation rate of 3.6

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Climate change Fossil fuels Carbon Demand 101

GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Cisco estimates annual average growth in Western European data centers of 17% from 2016 to 2021; it expects the lion’s share to be built in Scandinavia. According to the law firm Bird & Bird, 4 gigawatts of onshore wind capacity reaches the end of its support at the end of 2020.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 13, 2022

billion respectively in fossil fuel investments that would need to be divested if the law went into effect. Before it’s enacted, SB-1173 has to survive what California lawmakers call “suspense,” where the fiscal impacts of the law are considered — and it’s become known in the state as the place where bills “are killed without public debate.”

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Fossil fuels Investment Climate change Law 98

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The new lawsuit against BNP Paribas, filed February 23 in the Paris Judicial Court, claims that the French bank is in breach of France’s “duty of vigilance” law. So it still issues bonds for oil and gas companies,” she told DeSmog via email. They also say that the financial sector more broadly is on notice.

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Fossil fuels Law Organic Pollution 97

DeSmogBlog

MAY 5, 2021

It comes as residents prepare to head to the polls tomorrow to vote for London’s next Mayor, in the first mayoral election to take place since 2016 after a year-long delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A coroner is now calling for national limits on air pollution to match World Health Organisation guidelines and made enforceable by law.

Pollution 80

Pollution Europe Health Law 80

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

billion in coal, oil and gas between 2016-2020. JPMorgan financed £230 billion in fossil fuels between 2016 and 2020. We are the first major economy to pass new laws for net zero emissions by 2050. ‘Concrete Commitments Needed’. DeSmog’s analysis of BankTrack data revealed the eight banks financed a total of £703.2

Fossil fuels 98

Fossil fuels Investment Pollution Global warming 98

Charged

APRIL 30, 2020

In 2016, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) put the brakes on. California now has a law that’s designed to requires utilities to invest in EV charging infrastructure in a way that leverages private-sector funding, protects competition and allows consumers choices.

Investment 66

Investment Law Electric vehicle Packaging 66

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

In a letter addressed to ING CEO Steven van Rijswijk and the first step in litigation, Milieudefensie says it believes the bank is in breach of its “duty of care” obligation under Dutch law. ING has doled out nearly $3 billion in financing to LNG since 2016, according to a 2023 report from Rainforest Action Network and partners.

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Fossil fuels Pollution Climate change Carbon-neutral 136

GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Acciona merged its own turbine manufacturing business — Acciona Windpower — with Nordex in 2016 amid a wave of industry consolidation. In doing so, Acciona’s stake in loss-making Nordex will climb to more than 36 percent, above the 30 percent ceiling that automatically triggers a takeover offer under German law.

Law 100

Law Energy Energy Investment 100

Renewable Energy World

APRIL 5, 2021

In 2016, the Illinois Legislature passed the groundbreaking Future Energy Jobs Act (FEJA) with bipartisan support. Originally published on ILSR.org. The legislation includes strategies to make solar energy more accessible to low and moderate income communities through community solar projects, rooftop solar, and brownfield solar.

Pollution 98

Pollution Energy Energy Law 98

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. Courtice said Shine would be "an outstanding director" of CISL.

Sustainability 65

Sustainability Policy Law Europe 65