Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

1] From “addresspollution.org data analysis”, Central Office of Public Interest, March 2021. [2] 2] “Air-Pollution and the Residential Property Market”, Jessica Simor QC, Neil Fawcett, March 2021. The post Property industry likely to be breaking the law by failing to disclose air pollution levels first appeared on Envirotec.

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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. She also claims that, while serving in the Treasury, she attempted to cancel the 2021 COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. Truss writes that “we should cancel the COP gravy train”.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

Mon, 03/01/2021 - 01:30. A useful way to think about the effort and timescales required is to consider the " Carbon Law ," which was coined by my friend Johan Rockström. Despite the name, this isn’t a physical "law" of the universe but rather a set of recommendations. So, what does the Carbon Law say? Jonathan Foley.

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Grist

MARCH 22, 2021

What happens next could have broad implications, since UPMIFA is a uniform law that every state in the U.S., This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Students find obscure law that could make university fossil fuel investments illegal on Mar 22, 2021. except for Pennsylvania, has adopted. “An

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Canary Media

AUGUST 8, 2024

In Colorado, a 2021 law spurred the state’s largest investor-owned utility to produce a plan that could transition a lot of homes to clean… A hefty chunk of U.S. emissions comes from the energy used to heat buildings. That means millions of homes must be converted to electric heating in order to meet climate targets.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

Detailed analysis of more than 100 EU exit statutory instruments laid by Defra prompts campaigners to warn of 'significant governance gaps in the application, interpretation and enforcement of environmental law' post-Brexit. Ministers have insisted that the process was necessary to ensure continuity of environmental legislation.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 25, 2021

2021: The year of recovery. 2021: Also the year of sustainability. We have high-tech software companies, large manufacturers, retailers and insurance companies as well as small businesses like restaurants, law firms, bed & breakfast inns, commercial cleaners, and dry cleaners. The State of Sustainable Business in 2021.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 7, 2023

Proposed laws to curb antibiotic use on UK farms drafted after closed-door meetings with industry contain loopholes that could undermine the fight against deadly drug resistant bacteria, campaigners have warned. Civil society groups were not invited.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

I’ve tried here to touch on big themes and stories from 2021 that seem more lasting, and offer some thoughts on what to look out for in 2022. The Big Stories of 2021. A few months later, corporate giants also spoke out against state laws meant to restrict voting. Here we go. Business defends democracy.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 17, 2024

Good Law Project is supporting Rights Community Action to take Michael Gove’s levelling up department to the High Court. The High Court will also decide whether the government has failed properly to apply its own Environment Act 2021, which requires policy to be assessed for its environmental impacts.

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Solar Power World

AUGUST 2, 2024

In early 2021, the U.S. The law went into effect on Jan. Congress enacted the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) to help federal agencies combat money laundering and other financial crimes.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

European law-makers are due to vote on a revised renewable energy directive next week, part of the EU’s Green New Deal to slash carbon emissions by 55 percent by 2030. The post Biomass Lobby Makes ‘False’ Claims to Sway EU Law-makers appeared first on DeSmog.

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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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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 27, 2022

Throughout 2021 Latham lawyers reviewed each of the 51 California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) appellate cases, whether published or unpublished. In 2021, the California Courts of Appeal issued 51 opinions that substantially considered CEQA while the US District Court for the Northern District of California issued one opinion.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 25, 2024

. “It’s a very, very exciting day, today – we are starting the construction of the UK’s first geothermal power plant,” said Ryan Law, CEO of Geothermal Engineering Ltd. Steam was first produced from the production well in 2021.

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Business Green

JUNE 5, 2020

Hungary approves net zero law and issues green bond. Hungary has become the latest country to pass net zero legislation, after the national parliament this week approved a law that establishes a 2050 climate neutrality goal for the central European state. Plus all the top green business news from around the world this week.

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FuelCellsWorks

AUGUST 8, 2024

Colombia has a defined hydrogen agenda that is framed in the Energy Transition Law in 2021 and the National Energy Plan 2022-2052, among others. There are

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

For the good of future generations, we must retain existing laws and improve protections for nature, writes Joan Edwards, director of policy for The Wildlife Trusts. Instead, the UK Government is pursuing a dangerous agenda of deregulation that puts the very laws protecting wildlife at even greater risk.

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Front And Centered

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The people of Washington state, and Black, Indigenous, and people of color in particular, are facing tremendous challenges as we enter the 2021 legislative session to survive, let alone to thrive. 2021 POLICY PRIORITIES. The post Draft 2021 Legislative Priorities appeared first on Front and Centered.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2023

The company took in construction, demolition and household waste in rented premises in Maypole Crescent on the Darent Industrial Estate for 11 months across 2021 and 2022. Matt Higginson, an environment manager for the Environment Agency in south London and Kent, said: “Jack Selby broke the law for financial gain.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 10, 2021

As Anne Reynolds, executive director of the Alliance for Clean Energy – New York (“ACE-NY”) stated when the law was enacted, “[Section 94-c] improves the process and will hopefully get people to work, building wind and solar projects.” ORES’s determination is the next step in that process.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 26, 2024

  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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GreenBiz

JUNE 24, 2020

It's a colossal task for an 8-year-old company that says it won't be profitable until at least 2021 and plans to slash hundreds of millions of dollars in costs this year. . Jared Polis to modify the state's law around Colorado's electric vehicle tax credit and make it available to ride-hailing fleets. . Why will it be so hard?

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Front And Centered

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Washington passed 100% clean electricity into law earlier this year, and with public input government agencies are currently drafting rules to guide utilities on how to comply with the law by phasing out fossil fuel emissions and integrating equity in their service models. 100% Clean Energy by 2045 is now the law in Washington!

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Fri, 02/12/2021 - 02:00. Even with the various layers of policies, laws and penalties in place to keep businesses in check, Mitchell believes the "destruction of the earth has become a pay-to-play endeavor. If you have money to violate the law, you can go ahead and do it." 4 things we can learn from Indigenous wisdom.

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Energy Central

AUGUST 22, 2023

The two proposals are among 21 projects competing for shares of a $7 billion pot of grant money under the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The law defines hydrogen hubs as networks of clean hydrogen producers, their.

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Solar Industry

JANUARY 9, 2024

Approximately $8 million is set to also be received as an earn-out on account of change-in-law proceeds, after the first payment is realized. “We ReNew Solar Urja, located in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, was commissioned in December 2021. The transaction is expected to close in accordance with PPA conditions, says the company.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2020

And speaking to The Telegraph on Friday, Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters - who was appointed to lead the Taskforce - revealed the initiative aims to begin trading under a new framework with a transparent price for carbon by as soon as the start of 2021, preceded by an interim report next month.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Tue, 02/09/2021 - 02:00. If successfully on stream by summer 2021 as its designers hope, the service should drive not only increased transparency but also increased accountability. A tidal wave of new carbon emissions data soon will be upon us. Ian Kearney. For the unprepared, the damage could be severe.

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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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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The EIA released the International Energy Outlook 2021 on Wednesday , which makes assumptions based on U.S. laws and regulations as of May 2021, and incorporates existing international laws. Energy Information Administration modeling forecasts increasing global energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions through 2050.

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Solar Power World

DECEMBER 3, 2020

This growth is being accelerated by a shift in culture which prioritizes renewable energy as well as state laws that incentivize the industry. By Ben Izard, Corporate Business Development, NaturChem The solar industry has seen exponential growth in recent years.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The case specifically challenges a 2011 climate protection law, claiming it is ineffective and outdated, and therefore infringes upon children’s constitutional rights. For years, Fridays for Future has been demanding the revision of the Climate Protection Law in order to (finally) establish compliance with the Paris Agreement.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

A new report from clean transport consultancy CALSTART found that there are some 5,480 full-size zero-emission buses in operation in the US—an increase of 66 percent since 2021—and another 859 in Canada. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which became law in November of 2021, has made historic levels of funding available.

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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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Green Living Guy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

17, 2021 – Ford is paving the way for electric police fleets in America. All because Ford is exploring all-electric, purpose-built law enforcement vehicles. DEARBORN, Mich., As part of its more than $30 billion investment in electrification through 2025.

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Charged

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Electric bicycles have quickly become enormously popular—the Light Electric Vehicle Association estimates that some 880,000 were imported to the US in 2021. In March 2023, New York City implemented a series of laws mandating that all e-mobility devices sold, rented, or leased in the city must be certified under UL 2849, UL 2272 and UL 2271.

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