GreenBiz

APRIL 16, 2021

It’s the work of some leading players in this area: ReFED, a nonprofit that works on food waste; WWF; Natural Resources Defense Council; and Harvard’s Food Law and Policy Clinic. households reported lacking the resources needed to feed all members during 2019. Keep organic waste out of landfills and incinerators .

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Spain has connected more solar to its grid in the first nine months of 2019 than the last 10 years put together. Retroactive policy changes and laws to prevent self-consumption decimated the sector in 2013. Spain enjoyed a subsidy-driven solar boom late last decade before suffering through a dramatic slowdown.

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Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

If passed into law, the 100% Clean Economy Act of 2019 would require federal agencies to create a plan, using existing authorities,… The post Congress introduces climate bill to reach 100% clean energy by 2050 appeared first on Solar Power World.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 17, 2020

Our energy systems, like most legacy systems, are infused with racial injustices that do particular harm to Black communities, families and individuals because many of our laws and institutions were designed for that purpose. The resulting solar-plus-storage facility, recognized b y a 2019 U.S. Do justice.

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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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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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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2020

Long a global leader, Germany's wind market fell to its lowest point in years in 2019, due in part to a botched auction design. Germany's Enercon, the leading turbine supplier within the domestic market, swallowed a triple-digit-million-euro loss in 2019.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Heathrow has today pledged to make 2019 the year carbon and waste peaked at the airport, as part of a string of new goals outlined in an update to its sustainability strategy. Our goal is for 2019 to be the year of 'peak carbon' from Heathrow, even with a third runway in the future," he wrote.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In fact, when California passed its landmark 2006 climate law — which directed the state to cut greenhouse gas emissions down to 1990 levels by 2020 — supporters claimed that it would save thousands of lives through improved air quality alone. These facilities were also more likely to be in disadvantaged communities. (In-state

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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

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. Nonprofit CALSTART predicts that 169 medium and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicle models will be available by the end of 2020, growing 78 percent from the end of 2019.

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Solar Power World

MARCH 5, 2020

Today, a diverse group of environmental, labor, and civic organizations sent a letter to New York State legislative leaders urging them to reform renewable energy siting to help New York State meet the legal mandates of the 2019 climate law for 70% renewable energy by 2030.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

The Prime Minister is being urged by his own father to establish a target to reverse the decline of species and habitats into law, as part of a major campaign launched this morning geared at tackling escalating rates of biodiversity loss in the UK.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 9, 2021

In order to be patentable, globally harmonized patent law requires innovations to be new and involve an inventive step. And, according to a leading patent database , from 2015 — the year in which the landmark Paris Agreement was adopted — to 2019, the number of patents published per year in this class increased by approximately 40 percent.

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Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2021

The UK's leading supermarkets produced more plastic in 2019 than they did two years prior, according to findings published today that suggest the flurry of plastic strategies and targets unveiled by chains of late are struggling to make significant gains in tackling overall plastic pollution. per cent increase on levels recorded in 2017.

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Business Green

JUNE 3, 2024

The turbulent 2019-2024 Parliamentary term has drawn to a close, with many promised green policies and legislation running out of road before the election was called - but a handful of laws beat last month's cut-off point

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GreenBiz

MARCH 11, 2021

We were able to create technical tools for the conservation teams to better track the animals and some of the key issues surrounding them; and to engage law students to draft a white paper that is going to go public soon with real recommendations to lawmakers about how to deal with wildlife crime. An Earth Hacks hackathon in 2019.

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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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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

JULY 30, 2020

At the current rate of AI adoption — with no changes in the underlying computer server hardware and software — the data centers needed to run those applications could claim 15 percent of that power load, semiconductor firm Applied Materials CEO Gary Dickerson predicted in August 2019.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

billion in property tax revenues to states and local jurisdictions in 2019. 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. With all this rural development come property tax revenues. Wind projects paid an estimated $1.6

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Sam also accompanied SEPA staff to a non-compliant site and on a site visit to a legitimate waste operator to see how businesses should be operating to stay within the law and discovers how criminals undercutting these types of businesses can impact on the industry.

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Energy Central

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Local law 97 for New York City is causing much concern for building owners there. The law is well founded beause "New York City’s one million buildings account for nearly two-thirds of the city’s carbon emissions.

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Charged

MAY 18, 2021

In 2019, Minnesota announced plans to join the 14 states that enforce their own strict vehicle emissions standards. Now an administrative law judge has given the proposed policy a green light, ruling that the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) can move forward with plans to adopt the Clean Cars Minnesota program.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Vestas posted record orders and deliveries in 2019 and expects more huge numbers this year. Vestas on Wednesday reported a 2019 net profit of €700 million ($770 million), up 2.4 percent in 2019. percent in 2019. percent over the previous year. Revenue surged 20 percent year-on-year, to €12.1

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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.

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Charged

AUGUST 9, 2022

“For this reason, our team has been supporting the practical stage of eActros testing at Logistik Schmitt since 2019. Since the start of testing in 2019, the eActros has covered more than 70,000 kilometers on more than 7,000 trips. This means we can transport twice as many load carriers on the same trips.”.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

percent in 2019. Even if electricity use had been the same as in 2019, Hawaiian Electric would have still reached a renewable portfolio standard of 32 percent. percent RPS in 2019. percent in 2019. percent in 2019. Total electricity generated by renewable energy resources increased 13 percent over 2019.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

” Duke had nearly 5 gigawatts of solar capacity in its interconnection queue in 2019, according to a May filing with regulators, but not all will be built. “The contentiousness of PURPA has been a sore spot for utilities and developers for a long time,” said Colin Smith, a senior solar analyst at Wood Mackenzie.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2020

First and foremost, that's our primary platform," Renfrew told me during an on-stage interview in 2019. Calder ventured to Jharkhand in January 2019 to see what she could learn about which suppliers were in compliance with Beautycounter’s human rights and safety standards. "We We are focused on safety for human health. On the ground.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

When the state of California proposed such a standard in early 2019, industry stakeholders pushed back , asking for more time to iron out the details. The state finalized its DC metering regulation in December 2019, and ChargePoint and other public charging networks soon announced that their chargers were in compliance.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 26, 2024

Trends saw a major change in 2019, when Act 464 passed.    This law broadened net metering and offered third-party financing access. That said, as of the first quarter of this year, there were only 1,122 megawatts of installed solar energy capacity in Arkansas.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 21, 2024

Gary Wallace, Area Environment manager for the Environment Agency in the North East, said: “All of those sentenced have shown a complete disregard for environmental laws, which are there to protect people and the environment. Whilst the site was largely cleared, by late 2019 it had quickly been refilled with waste plastic.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Research firm Wood Mackenzie estimates that just over 2,000 electric trucks were in service in the US at the end of 2019, and predicts that that number will grow to 54,000 by 2025. Most analysts say the transition is beginning, but that it will be a gradual process. “I Denoyer expects that number to rise to 4,000 units by the end of 2021.

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The Guardian: Energy

JUNE 20, 2024

Rishi Sunak’s decision to side with climate deniers isn’t just wrongheaded: it’s costing our environment and our economy In 2019, the UK became the first G7 country to legislate for net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. At the time, I was the cabinet minister who signed this into law.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2023

On June 29, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed a law to prohibit the state’s investor-owned utilities from charging customers for lobbying expenses and other efforts to sway political outcomes. Last year, a report by the London-based think tank InfluenceMap found that close to half of the 25 largest investor-owned utilities in the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

As revealed by The Mirror and Good Law Project in the former’s print edition, Lilley controls a series of companies that own 12,000 hectares of farmland in the Stavropol region of Russia, in the south west of the country, used to produce cereals and oilseeds. As revealed by DeSmog, Reform received more than £2.3

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