DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The COGCC told Capital & Main that it can’t comment on pending legal matters, but acknowledged that Colorado passed a law in 2019 that transformed the commission’s mission from “fostering oil and gas development” to “regulating in a manner that is protective of public health, safety, welfare, wildlife and the environment.”.

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Solar Industry

MAY 15, 2024

The data further revealed that over half of all domestic solar installations have come online since 2020 and 25% have come online since the Inflation Reduction Act became law. Illinois was viewed as an emerging market with 2,500 installations in 2017, compared to 87,000 solar systems currently. The post U.S.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Remember the mess at NRG in 2017 ? Every investment has ESG factors implicit because ALL investments happen on our one habitable planet, relying on humans to make/buy/do stuff, and the rules of law to govern systems and protect minority investors. offshore wind energy contract. Farther, faster.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 9, 2020

Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson recently signed a law establishing a mandatory Building Energy Performance Standard in the city, which is the second-largest in Missouri. The standard will be set to ensure that 65 percent of the buildings in each property type will have to save energy to comply with the law. and Washington state. In 2018 St.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

wind installations from 1995 through 2017 and tax revenue trends in school districts. 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. Revenue from wind turbines can allow for schools to hire more teachers. RichLegg/E+ via Getty Images.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

As well as being destructive, continued licensing of this activity is illegal under marine wildlife laws. During an expedition to the Southern Trench in 2017, Oceana documented 16 species and seven habitat types that are considered priorities for conservation under Scottish or international frameworks.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In 2017, its biggest year for largescale installations, it built only 27 megawatts. A law passed in July, HB 6 , reduces Ohio’s renewable portfolio standard from 12.5 Clean energy and environmental advocates have challenged the new law and are considering taking their fight all the way to the Ohio Supreme Court.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 9, 2021

Elsewhere, Audi, part of the Volkswagen Group, introduced the " Aluminum Closed Loop " process to one of its sites in 2017, and intends to expand the use of this aluminum recycling process to other sites in the near future. . As a matter of principle, innovations that use a recycled material are certainly capable of patent protection.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

According to ‘Transport in Scotland: The Road to Net Zero’ – a report published by international law firm Addleshaw Goddard – sector contributors were extremely positive about committing to decarbonising Scotland’s transport sector. Aviation emissions meanwhile grew 6 per cent in 2017 to 2.1

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 29, 2020

The CPUC has established a multistage oversight regime that could lead to the state revoking PG&E’s license and taking it over if it repeatedly violates safety guidelines or causes more disasters; a law giving the state that authority, SB 350, is moving through the California legislature.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Bonta’s office is expected to lead the litigation going forward, with assistance from outside counsel including San Francisco-based plaintiffs’ law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, but the attorney general’s office could not confirm by publishing time. Office of the California Attorney General in Sacramento, California.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Hardiman added: “Some of the most important protections for the incredible nature on our doorstep come from planning laws and regulations. A fierce local campaign backed by the RSPB and other conservation organisations saw Medway Council withdraw Lodge Hill from its Local Plan in 2017.

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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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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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GreenTechMedia

MAY 1, 2020

Environmental law requires a range of skills, from technical to interpersonal. Chinyere also cited collaboration as an important skill in public interest law. Chinyere originally set out to do criminal law. Those interested in advocacy also may not know that law school is one of many paths to a satisfying career.

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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. But the policy program underpinning that success closed to new solar projects in March 2017, and just 385 megawatts of solar projects larger than 5 megawatts have been connected since.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Jojo Mehta co-founded Stop Ecocid e in 2017, alongside legal pioneer the late Polly Higgins , to support the recognition and establishment of ecocide as a crime at the International Criminal Court at the Hague. What she realized was that the aspect that protects our rights is actually criminal law.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 9, 2023

One of the latest announcement’s coming out of Biden’s infrastructure law is an investment aiming to spur smart water and water efficiency projects in the US. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law allocates $8.3 These grants will support local community projects, including measuring water flow, automating water delivery or lining canals.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2023

River conservation groups reacted with alarm to the news (on 29 August) that the government plans to ease restrictions on developers’ need to ensure the nutrient neutrality (NN) of their projects, in a bid to unblock house building “held up due to defective EU laws”. The complexity of the issue is explored in this article.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 14, 2025

During a more than four-year period from January 2017 through March 2021, the company said that it had captured a cumulative total of about 2.7 At least 480 carbon capture lobbyists attended the latest annual UN climate conference in Azerbaijan in November, according to the nonprofit Center for International Environmental Law.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The report also found that at least a third of wood pellet facilities violated their air permit limits in 2017. In 2017, a wood pellet storage silo owned by German Pellets in Port Arthur, Texas, caught fire and burned unchecked for two months, sending many local residents to the hospital. These wood pellet mills also emit 3.1

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2022

This has resulted in cases in land and environmental courts against Swedish authorities for not complying with national or international environmental laws and conventions.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

“Combined with law,” says the group, “these approaches will open up a new field of precision toxicology that will transform approaches to chemical safety management in the same way that precision medicine is informing healthcare.”

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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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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

Crosby ran four Conservative Party election campaigns between 2005 and 2017, and was involved in the 2019 campaign. It is curious how certain agencies, including Lynton Crosby’s, end up advising both the Tories and their friends,” Jolyon Maugham, director of the Good Law Project, told DeSmog.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 7, 2021

“We founded Sangha Systems in late 2017 while working in renewable energy law, development and public policy because we recognized that cryptocurrency mining presents a one-of-a-kind energy profile that could expedite the mainstreaming of renewable energy,” said Spencer Marr, President and Co-Founder of Sangha Systems.

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Green Tech Challenge

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

But, EU law is now requiring members to inform the European Commission about the amount of electronics they recycle, collect, and export. According to the report, often only small household appliances end up in waste paper bins, which makes up approximately 750,000 tonnes compared to the region’s 6.15 million tonnes of annual e-Waste output.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2024

The database — which academics, lawyers, and advocates often rely on for research and legal cases — had only included information through 2017. Their ranks have become even more intensely consolidated: In 2017, the rankings showed that 100 entities were responsible for 71 percent of the sector’s emissions between 1988 and 2015.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Ignorance of the law, and especially well-established international and domestic laws, is no excuse. Between September 2016 and March 2017 SEPA officers examined a sample of bales from the 51 containers. We’re clear in what we expect of businesses of all sizes, from SMEs to specialist companies.

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The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

NORTH DAKOTA, UNITED STATES 2017/02/22: Defiant Dakota Access Pipeline water protectors faced-off with various law enforcement agencies on the day the camp was slated to be raided. Legal battles are still in motion, even after oil started flowing through the pipeline that runs from North Dakota to Illinois in 2017.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Source: Fernando Trujillo, Fundación Omacha Between 2017 and 2021, Colombia lost over 760,000 hectares of forest, primarily due to illegal logging and other unsustainable land uses​ said the World Bank – Global Forest Watch. However, deforestation remains a significant challenge.

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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. Despite their impacts, ISDS cases are cloaked in secrecy.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

Jones declined to respond in detail to other questions during Friday’s conference call, such as one asking him to expand on the affidavit’s statement that Householder had 84 phone contacts with FirstEnergy’s CEO from February 2017 to July 2019. The affidavit filed by the U.S.

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Grist

MAY 16, 2023

Since 2017, cities and states have filed around 20 lawsuits against fossil fuel companies based on state laws that prohibit deceptive advertising, seeking money to adapt to the effects of climate change. Most of the links have been well known for a long time, but this is the first study to connect the dots, quantitatively.”

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 30, 2020

PG&E faces opposition from cities and counties to its plan to take advantage of a state law that will allow it to issue recovery bonds to securitize about $7.5 billion in 2017 wildfire claim costs and retire about $6 billion in temporary debt.

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Energy Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2018

In 2017, hurricanes, severe storms, and flooding resulted in deaths, disrupted lives, and over $280 billion in damages (NOAA NCEI 2018). Hino M, Field CB, Mach KJ (2017) Managed retreat as a response to natural hazard risk. Sweet WV, Horton R, Kopp RE, LeGrande AN, Romanou A (2017) Sea level rise. Communities around the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Gavin Newsom’s demands for greater safety, oversight and accountability. Under the bill, PG&E’s assets would be transferred to an entity called the Northern California Energy Utility District, with a governing board and operating duties similar to municipal utility districts.

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