GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For example, state records suggest that the Chevron Richmond Refinery, one of California’s largest emitters, released more greenhouse gases in 2017 and 2018 — the last years for which data are publicly available — than it has since 2008. And in several recent years, it emitted as much or more of certain air pollutants.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

But even if the EU has met its 2020 climate goals — the region claims to have already reduced emissions by 23.2 percent in 2018 — the use of wood pellets raises important questions about the EU’s carbon accounting, [PDM1] and even more questions about public health and climate consequences for the U.S. “The

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 1, 2021

State Right of First Refusal (ROFR) laws in the North and seams issues in the South are reasons for limited opportunities. If MISO and MISO states are serious about building the next wave of transmission, lowering the voltage threshold for bidding out competitive projects and removing ROFR laws must be implemented.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 3, 2024

1 As not-for-profit Good Law Project explained, the Environmental Law Foundation (ELF), backed by Good Law Project and represented by Hausfeld, brought an intervention in the hearing. Last year the company discharged untreated sewage 97,500 times for a duration of over 650,000 hours.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2023

Elite law schools in the United States are disproportionately funneling their students into jobs serving fossil fuel clients, according to a new report published Thursday. LSCA, an organization of law students working to hold the legal sector accountable for its role in the climate crisis, has previously scrutinized the top ranked U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

and EU to drop their landmark climate change laws, spreads falsehoods about green policies, and fondly recalls an attempt to cancel a major climate conference. Additional reporting by Sam Bright The post Liz Truss Book Calls for Climate Laws to be Abolished and Boasts of Effort to Cancel UK COP Summit appeared first on DeSmog.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

billion tons of CO 2 in 2018. Additionally, researchers are hesitant to pursue this method due to a fraught history, including one experiment that potentially violated international law. Convention on the Law of the Sea and the London Convention and Protocol, predate the concept of ocean carbon dioxide removal.

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GreenBiz

JULY 1, 2020

The truck rule follows another California law ( passed in 2018 ) that says all new public transit buses sold must be zero-emission starting in 2029. By 2045, all new commercial trucks sold in California must be zero-emission. .

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 12, 2020

Cities and counties often are required by state law to buy electricity from a regulated investor-owned utility (IOU) and lack the ability to choose their electricity supplier or generation source. Here are four ways local governments are engaging with stakeholders to decarbonize their electricity supply: 1.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 18, 2020

In 2018, the International Maritime Organization set the goal to halve emissions for commercial ships from 2008 levels by 2050. Both companies have a shared vision of powering ships with fuel cells. In that sense, there is a really good partnership that is not in name only, but in values and goals. And the goalposts are high.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In July of 2018, the utility cancelled its 2-gigawatt Wind Catcher project after the Texas PUC said the project didn’t provide enough benefit. Ohio ranked 37 out of 50 states for installed solar in 2018, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association and Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables. percent by 2026.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration. The 2018 Three ? In 2010, the Central Government of China integrated the "Guideline on Strengthening Joint Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution to Improve Air Quality" into its 12th Five Year Plan.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

These decisions come as state leaders are considering a push beyond its mandate for 50 percent renewables by 2030 and 90 percent by 2050 signed into law last year. Jared Polis won the 2018 election on his call for the state to adopt a 100-percent renewables by 2040 target, and continues to press lawmakers for a more aggressive policy.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 11, 2021

Rappaport: You founded Earth Hacks in 2018 to leverage the power of the hackathon innovation model in direct service of climate education and solutions. Another is a robot that I created with a partner of mine, FLOATIBOI , that captures marine plastic debris in coastal areas using visual identification.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Ecolab says it helped its customers save enough water in 2018 equivalent to the needs of 600 million people. Yet about six months in as president and COO at Starbucks, she was terrified in 2018 to hear that two Black men had been arrested needlessly at one of its Philadelphia stores. I felt like it happened under my watch.".

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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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GreenTechMedia

MAY 29, 2020

PG&E has been held criminally responsible for 84 deaths in the November 2018 Camp fire and is under criminal probation for its role in the deadly 2010 San Bruno natural-gas pipeline explosion. Critics question whether PG&E will be able to raise the capital its transformation will require amid the COVID-19 economic downturn.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an "enterprise à mission," a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. And investors are engaging with the approach — in 2018, Soubeiran estimates he had 70 interactions with shareholders; last year, it had more than doubled to 190. Cecilia Keating.

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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. In 2018 St.

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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

DECEMBER 30, 2019

has deployed more energy storage since the second half of 2018 than the total of all prior years. In 2020 alone, we expect total storage deployed to double again. By 2025, we will be well on our way to the clean energy future that we need.

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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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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

And it affirmed long-term growth projections of 6 to 8 percent compound annual operating earnings growth from 2018 to 2021. However, House Bill 6 does allow FirstEnergy to use a “decoupling mechanism” to assure it earns the equivalent returns as it did in 2018 through the start of its next rate case in 2023.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In a 2019 interview with NPR, Carroll Muffett, head of the Center for International Environmental Law, estimated that “emissions from plastics production and incineration could account to 56 gigatons of carbon between [2019] and 2050.”

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Solar Power World

OCTOBER 2, 2019

As part of the Neighborhood Solar program made possible by a law passed by the Missouri General Assembly in 2018, Ameren Missouri will install solar generation facilities in parking lots, on roofs and in available open spaces across the state.… Ameren Missouri is looking to spread solar generation across the state in a new way.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

” She added: “As last week’s £90m fine for Southern Water showed, environmental laws must not be undermined.” ” Environment Minister Rebecca Pow said: “This report which spans the last 12 months makes for extremely disappointing reading.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Good Law Project and Ecotricity CEO Dale Vince threaten court action unless government reviews airports planning policy before the final approval process for third runway begins. We think that's unlawful.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

Internal BP emails show that its UK executives were reassured by a controversial oil industry group that they could “shape [the] internal thinking” of a 2018 report on carbon taxes produced by the right-wing think tank Policy Exchange. The emails were among hundreds of documents released by a powerful committee of U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Utility Dominion Energy is planning a major shift toward renewable energy and batteries as it looks to comply with Virginia's ambitious new clean energy law. Under the law, Dominion Virginia and the smaller Appalachian Power Co. gigawatts of energy storage over the next 15 years.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Since 2018, hundreds of thousands of Pacific Gas & Electric customers and tens of thousands of Southern California residents have experienced blackouts as utilities de-energize power grids to prevent them from sparking wildfires. California Sen.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2020

Top law firm highlights how overall number of investigations into businesses suspected of environmental infractions has increased 12 per cent since 2018. Steven Aitken, a senior associate at RCP, said the new data highlighted the legal risk firms face if they fail to ensure their operations are compliant with environmental rules. "In

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Barnaby Coupe, senior land use policy manager at the Wildlife Trusts, said: “The UK Government’s pledge to end the emergency use of these bee-killing pesticides must be signed into law. Years of underinvestment have left the regulator overstretched and under-resourced to monitor water pollution and enforce the law.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 7, 2021

The company said using renewable energy for cryptocurrency mining has been its goal since beginning the Hennepin project in 2018. Sangha believes that the deal signals a shift in how cryptocurrency miners will be developing their energy resources going forward.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The UK Government awarded it subsidies under the Contract for Difference (CfD) scheme in April 2014, and it was to start running by September 2018. It is led jointly by Biofuelwatch, Stand.earth, Dogwood Alliance, NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) and the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC).?. ?.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 4, 2020

Exelon is seeking to extend the zero-emissions credits to its Braidwood, Byron and Dresden nuclear plants, which failed to clear PJM’s last capacity auction in 2018 and could face early retirement without additional financial support.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

New research from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has shed light on a spate of mutilated cats found dead in London between 2014 and 2018. It also provides law enforcement colleagues with the ability to review any future investigations from a scientifically supported and evidence-based approach.”. Notes to Editors.

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Solar Industry

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The state has strict laws describing when workers can be considered contractors, and misclassifying workers can lead to state investigations, large tax bills and substantial penalties easily worth tens of thousands of dollars per person. Joel Van Parys is a partner with CDF Labor Law LLP. This is a very risky practice in California.

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