GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The order caps a lengthy and contentious battle over DTE’s long-range IRP, which it and Consumers were required to develop for the first time under Michigan’s comprehensive 2016 energy law. A PSC administrative law judge ruled in December that this was a violation of the 2016 state law that set up the IRP process.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 5, 2025

During 2024, New York state and Vermont both enacted Climate Superfund laws that aim to hold fossil fuel producers and oil refiners responsible for the damage done by their climate-altering products and the Carbon Majors database is a proposed tool to assess companies relative liabilities, according to InfluenceMap.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

Switch was able to subscribe to this project thanks to a Nevada law allowing large industrial customers to source their own power. Casino company MGM famously used this Direct Access rule to exit utility NV Energy in 2016, with the goal of doubling its share of clean energy while cutting energy costs.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 3, 2024

Unlike other vehicular components that might bear serial numbers or unique identifiers, catalytic converters are generally anonymous once detached, making them difficult for law enforcement to trace back to a specific crime. This step increases the chances of recovery and helps law enforcement trace the part back to a specific crime.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Long-awaited environmental legislation that promises to establish the UK's first legally-binding nature targets and oversee them through a new, largely-independent watchdog has finally passed into law today, despite lingering concerns that the law may still leave "gaping holes" in green protections.

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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.

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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.

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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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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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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

Policy Exchange has been credited by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for helping to draft laws that have cracked down on climate protests, and has in the past received money from the oil and gas major ExxonMobil. The think tank would go on to author a report in 2019 that proposed tough new policing laws to crackdown on climate protestors.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2020

There are also compensation packages for workers in mines and power plants who lose their job as a result of the coal exit laws. Maximilian Boemke, a partner at the German office of law firm Watson Farley & Williams, thinks that the calculation of the flat-rate lignite compensation will be key to the European Commission’s decision.

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Register now Speakers Rachel Doran, VP of policy and strategy As the vice president of policy and strategy, Rachel brings nearly 20 years of experience in policy, politics, and law to advance clean energy solutions for Canada’s sustainable economy. She holds a law degree in civil and common law and a BA from McGill University.

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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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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The Chancery Law Project is bringing together all sections of the legal profession to try and drill climate action into contracts, regulation and national laws. Effective contracts can provide a legal framework to drive climate action and cut emissions without waiting for policymakers to pass laws.

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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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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

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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Working under group CEO Roberto Marquez, João Paulo Ferreira’s Latin America CEO position has overseen the heart of the original business since 2016. Consumers Energy CEO since 2016, she was praised for preventing a bigger emergency two subzero Januarys ago, after a fire at a natural gas compressor threatened energy transmission.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2021

Greener UK - a coalition of 13 green groups set up in 2016 to campaign for a post-Brexit Britain governed by robust environmental standards and protections - today released its final major assessment of the government's progress since the pivotal EU membership referendum in 2016.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 23, 2024

While modern cars may be all too easily modified to produce ear-splitting bangs, pops and other eruptions, a growing hazard for the modern city dweller (at least if they value being able to sleep or concentrate on a task), the technology to pinpoint such vehicles, for law enforcement purposes, is not-so-trivial.

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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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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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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

The costliest disaster in Canadian history took place in May 2016, when a vicious wildfire swept through Fort McMurray, forcing roughly 90,000 people to evacuate a city at the heart of Alberta’s oil sands industry. The 2016 blaze left ‘total destruction’ in its wake. So people are being poisoned.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

“The rights to life, health, food and water, cultural rights and the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment are being violated and will continue to be violated, and the rule of law will continue to be undermined, unless the ISDS system is eliminated,” Boyd reports. In 2016, TransCanada — since renamed TC Energy — sued the U.S.

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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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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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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

And there seemed mounting horror as it became clear the statement might presage an attempt to revoke the 570 environmental laws previously rolled over from EU law after Brexit, covering areas like water and air quality, habitat protection and pesticide use.

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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.

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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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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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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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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.

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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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