GreenBiz

MARCH 11, 2021

Thu, 03/11/2021 - 01:03. In addition to her former role as a junior atmospheric science software developer at NASA and her current work as a researcher at MIT, Sanjana is founder and executive director of Earth Hacks , an organization that hosts hackathons for college students to combat the climate crisis. . Shana Rappaport.

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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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 14, 2021

Thu, 01/14/2021 - 01:00. federal statutes and regulations, many state laws increasingly rely on the chemical hazard criteria and analyses from REACH (the principal European chemical regulation) and other EU laws and regulations. How the EU’s new ‘toxic-free’ vision could shape your safer chemicals strategy.

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Solar Power World

AUGUST 2, 2024

In early 2021, the U.S. The law went into effect on Jan. 1, 2024, and it requires about 33 million small businesses – including solar organizations of all kinds – to report beneficial owner information (BOI) to… The post The Corporate Transparency Act – what all solar companies should know appeared first on Solar Power World.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond]," says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. CARB has not banned offsets; however, starting in 2021, companies won’t be able to use as many, and at least half must benefit the state.).

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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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Charged

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) of 2021 authorized $335 million for battery recycling and second-life programs. Organizations interested in providing information, and/or participating in the various programs offered under the BIL, can respond between now and October 14, 2022. “The

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home. However, like Ahoskie, Joyner’s community wasn’t quick to organize against the plant. . “I Enviva had built its first North Carolina plant there two years before. .

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

Diverse compounds are emitted by everything from motor vehicles to power plants, and include both greenhouse gases and short-lived climate pollutants – which are known to fuel global warming – as well as a host of volatile organic compounds that can lead to short- and long-term health problems in humans. World Health Organization.

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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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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

Tue, 03/23/2021 - 01:15. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration. China’s new frontier for VOC regulations. Shuying Xu.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2022

A major investigation into the management of wastewater treatment works in England was announced by the EA and Ofwat in November 2021, at the same time as a new Environment Act became law. These measures remove any doubt that the expectations being placed on the sector are immense. This is where biological treatment comes into play.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

She has contributed to law conferences, diplomatic events, and environmental summits as well as podcasts, interviews and articles for publications and broadcasters ranging from TIME Magazine to the New York Times and from The Guardian to the BBC. What she realized was that the aspect that protects our rights is actually criminal law.

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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. Performance standards must be set for each building type by May 4, 2021, with the first compliance deadline coming in May 2025. and Washington state. Louis was one of 25 U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 27, 2024

That 2021 investors update is one of at least 39 documents referencing the technology, also known as CCS, that has been removed in recent weeks from the Imperial site following the passage in late June of new anti-greenwashing legislation in Canada, according to a DeSmog analysis. CCS: ‘Integral’ or ‘Limited’?

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Backed by the Austrian chapter of the youth climate strike organization Fridays for Future, a group of 12 children and adolescents launched a landmark constitutional climate case against the Austrian government on Tuesday. BREAKING NEWS : Today, 12 children take the Austrian Climate Protection Law to the Constitutional Court!

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Energy and Cleantech Council

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

On August 10, 2021, the U nited States Senate passed the much anticipated bipartisan infrastructure bill. While not yet law, the bill now advances to the House of Representatives for further consideration. The House of Representative is expected to vote on the bill by the end of September. The bill allocates $7.5 The post U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

In September 2021, the WHO noticeably reduced its yearly average PM (Particulate Matter) guideline values to 5 µg/m3, and in March, the UK government announced a consultation on new target levels for air pollutants to be included in the Environment Act, including a reduction in the PM2.5 target to 10 µg/m3 by 2040.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JULY 7, 2021

Clean Energy Field Organizer | Iowa Environmental Council | Des Moines. The Iowa Environmental Council is a 501(c)3 nonprofit environmental law and policy organization that educates, advocates, and builds coalitions to make Iowa a better place to live, work and explore. Previous campaign and/or issue organizing experience .

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 28, 2020

WoodMac has increased its wind forecasts for 2020, 2021 and 2022, in part due to the new guidance, expecting installers to complete just over 15 gigawatts this year, 14 gigawatts in 2021 and a little more than 6.9 gigawatts in 2022.

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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Canadian environmental organizations welcomed the news, by and large calling it a much needed cap on pollution. Canadian environmental organizations like Environmental Defence noted that while the draft regulations are encouraging, they need to be strengthened in order to be effective. I think he’s destroyed the trust.” billion ($47.95

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2024

It’s certainly interesting — or telling — that he made a political donation to the leader of the official opposition,” Emilia Belliveau, energy transition program manager for the non-profit organization Environmental Defence, told DeSmog. But he opposes national laws designed to address it. The maximum allowable donation was $1,700.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

Mon, 03/22/2021 - 00:30. In its report, the WEF suggested companies track their shared value contribution by defining metrics organized into four categories — Principles of Governance, Planet, People and Prosperity — in order to increase the comparability of sustainability reporting. Michael Wilkins. Redefining fiduciary duty.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Using the principles of ESG, investment decisions are made based on an organization’s Environmental, Social and Governance performance, as explained: Environmental performance: Selected criteria are used to evaluate and manage a company’s environmental risks. Every company, as a legal entity, requires governance. ESG Benefits.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Under Italian law, a request for mediation is a mandatory prerequisite for filing a defamation lawsuit. Total is seeking a judicial ruling that would force the organizations to withdraw their report and all references to it, with a penalty of 2,000 euros (around $2,200) per day for every day the materials remain publicly available.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

French environmental organizations Notre Affaire à Tous, Friends of the Earth France, and Oxfam France last week filed what they say is the world’s first climate lawsuit against a commercial bank, suing BNP Paribas over its continued funding of fossil fuels. They also say that the financial sector more broadly is on notice.

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GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

Mon, 05/10/2021 - 01:30. Blank scholar at UC Davis School of Law. It is apparent that any organization that doesn’t consider ESG will be exposed to future operational risks. 11 young professionals on the future of sustainable finance. Deonna Anderson. Marjan Kris Ramos Abubo.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

— three climate policy packages since 2021. 🦴 BIL “the backbone” : The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), aka Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), was signed into law in November 2021, and is the "backbone," providing much of the infrastructure these technologies need to scale at speed.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In France, three non-governmental organizations sued the oil company Total over alleged “inadequate” environmental and human rights assessments of its oil project in Uganda and Tanzania. Royal Dutch Shell alleging that Shell’s contributions to climate change violate Dutch and human rights law. This is not an isolated example.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Multnomah, Oregon, has added NW Natural — Oregon’s oldest and largest supplier of “natural” gas, also known as fossil or methane gas — to the list of defendants in a lawsuit that seeks to make fossil fuel companies pay $52 billion for their role in the deadly 2021 Pacific Northwest heat dome.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Mon, 02/22/2021 - 02:11. In other words, a building that is organized instead of chaotic. And I just thought a building as an organism operated by children would be so much fun. But we were not required to by law. Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead. Joel Makower. Purified water. It grew food. It is really hard.

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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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Renewable Energy World

JULY 15, 2021

His retirement will become effective on December 31, 2021. Lew Milford founded CEG in 1998, after working over several years on clean energy and utility restructuring dockets in New England while with the Conservation Law Foundation.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 29, 2024

That’s because a state law passed in 2021 regulating carbon capture includes a provision allowing companies to claim a wide range of project information — including location — as trade secrets. Levy was selected to sit on Louisiana’s Oilfield Site Restoration Commission in 2021 because of his knowledge of the oil and gas industry.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

states have passed laws designed to prevent towns, cities, and other local governments from crafting new natural gas bans or enforcing those laws, according to the report. states with new laws preventing natural gas bans, many didnt have any local natural gas restrictions to begin with, InfluenceMap notes. So far, 26 U.S.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

More than half of the participants turned out to be unfamiliar with the meaning of mitigation in its climate change context, instead associating it with law or insurance, where the term refers to minimizing losses. The takeaway from the study: “many of the terms were unfamiliar or perceived as needlessly complex.”.

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