Envirotec Magazine

MAY 4, 2021

This ambition has now been turned into action, with the government confirming that a number of key policies will be made law. ” The post Measures to reduce harm from storm overflows now law first appeared on Envirotec. a duty on water companies to publish data on storm overflow operation on an annual basis.

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Canary Media

MARCH 17, 2025

A regulatory boards rejection of a permit for a large solar farm in southwestern Ohio has essentially rewritten state law to give local governments veto power over clean energy projects, an attorney for the projects developer argued last week before the Ohio Supreme Court. The Ohio Power Siting Boards 2022

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 6, 2023

Good Law Project is supporting the action being brought by the local council and campaign group, Protect Dunsfold, against the Government which gave the project the green light. The Government failed to take this requirement as its starting point, as it should have done, explained a press release from the Good Law Project.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 3, 2023

Good Law Project is supporting the Marine Conservation Society , Richard Haward’s Oysters and surfer and activist Hugo Tagholm as they argue that the Government’s strategy is inadequate, allowing water companies to pollute waters and beaches for another 27 years. million hours.

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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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GreenBiz

AUGUST 18, 2020

Bloom and Samsung want to show off their workable design in 2022. Because the International Maritime Organization (IMO) emissions drive isn't a law so much as a pledge, the task of finding alternative fuels and propulsion technologies falls on individual ports and the complicated structures in which vessels are owned.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 10, 2022

This includes the GDPR in Europe and various state-level laws in the US,” comments Phil Beecher, President and CEO of the Wi-SUN Alliance. Security and surveillance was cited as the most popular IoT initiative in 2022, with most very likely or definitely planning to deploy the technology in the next 12-18 months.

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Charged

MAY 23, 2022

This 500 big ones represents the first round of funding from the $5-billion investment authorized by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The EPA will accept funding applications from May 20 through August 19, 2022. With these funds from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, we are paving the way for cleaner air and healthier communities.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

New supermarkets and workplaces would come under the new law, as would major renovations to sites with over 10 parking spaces. As usual, most of the media ran away with the story, and misrepresented pending legislation as settled law. The home and office EV charger mandate is expected to come into force in 2022.

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Charged

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Lithium-ion battery prices have been dropping for so long that industry players and pundits tend to factor ever-cheaper cells into their predictions, and many have made (dubious) comparisons to Moore’s Law, one of the core tenets of the computer industry. The results from @BloombergNEF 's 2022 lithium-ion battery price survey are out.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2022

A new report from Cornwall Insight and national law firm Weightmans on the co-location of energy assets, entitled “ Co-location, co-location, co-location” , has laid out the significant cost savings of using one grid connection for multiple renewable generation or storage assets.

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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. million as of October 2022.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

GreenPower plans to begin production at the facility by the second half of 2022. This is a 2022 and beyond company with a sustainable product for the long run.”. GreenPower Motor Company has signed a lease/purchase agreement for a manufacturing facility in South Charleston, West Virginia, where it will produce electric school buses.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The country is working on making a “hydrogen acceleration law” a reality. The law to accelerate hydrogen infrastructure development is expected to be presented this year. The Economy Ministry stated that the plan is to present the law to fast-track hydrogen this year.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

A consultation setting out plans for a mandatory digital waste tracking service in the UK was launched on 21 January 2022. Ignorance of the law is no excuse. You can find the consultation which closes on 15 April 2022 on SEPA’s consultation hub.

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38 North Solutions

JULY 30, 2022

Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 . Current law taxes the performance-based compensation paid to managers of certain investment partnerships at long-term capital-gains rates rather than as ordinary income provided that a three-year holding period is met. Part 1 (First 3 years or 2022-2024). Section 3: Energy Section.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2022

The passage of the Bill into law will mean that all the devolved nations of the UK now have their own dedicated climate legislation in place, alongside the overarching target set through the UK-wide Climate Change Act. Friends of the Earth can finally welcome a climate law for Northern Ireland," the group said.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 9, 2020

Municipal utility Conway Corporation will use power from the project, called Happy Solar, which is slated for commercial operation in 2022. The project — finalized from the living rooms and home offices of executives due to the coronavirus pandemic — shows that deals are still getting done in the U.S.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 20, 2020

There will then be a vote in the Scottish Parliament, after which the scheme will become law. While sense has prevailed and the commencement date has been pushed back to July 2022, there are still a number of concerning points. However, despite such promise, I was deeply disappointed to read the final scope of the regulations.

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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.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2023

Indeed, while EV sales made up 34 per cent of the market in December 2022, petrol vehicles sales took an overall market share of less than 40 per cent for the first time in over a decade, as EVs seemingly inexorable march towards market dominance continues to gather pace. Electric car registrations can go down as well as up," warned Nelmes.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2022

A focus on implementing climate and environmental agenda in 2022 is in the UK's best economic and social interest, writes Aldersgate Group's Nick Molho. 2022 must be a year of greater collaboration across Westminster and with local government. Second, the government will need to press ahead in 2022 with a significant policy to-do list.

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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. Freshwater City site after the wastewater disposal well was plugged on Exxon’s property in April 2022. To where, the state couldn’t say.

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 18, 2024

AgForce is seeking a judicial review of a 2022 decision that found the project did not need to be assessed under federal environmental laws Sign up for the Rural Network email newsletter Join the Rural Network group on Facebook to be part of the community Queensland farming body AgForce has launched legal action against the federal government in a (..)

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Charged

JULY 21, 2022

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law of 2021 created a program to support battery recycling through battery labeling guidelines and other communication materials. Information can be submitted by a single party or a team, and will be accepted until July 11 of 2022. Source: Federal Register.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB-1322 , the Oil Refiner Price Disclosure Act , into law. However, a little over two years after signing the bill into law, the data tells a different story.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2024

Jon Ashcroft, Producer Responsibility Regulatory Services Operations Manager at the Environment Agency, said: “Waste crime has an extremely harmful impact on our environment and the Environment Agency is determined to crack down on it, working with law enforcement agencies to disrupt organised crime, arrest suspects and secure convictions.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The city of Münster has made great progress in geothermal development since 2022, following positive results from detailed 2D seismic measurements made by the Geological Survey of NRW and also financed by the state from 2021 to 2022. The survey will be carried out in winter of 2024 with EUR 5.7

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 16, 2024

But a growing chorus of California legislators say that nonenforcement stance violates a groundbreaking law they fought to pass just months ago — and they, along with dozens of environmental groups, are demanding that regulators change course. They’re pointing to AB 1167, signed into law by California Gov. billion in the deal.

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Charged

JANUARY 26, 2024

TeraWatt’s grant is one of 47 awarded to projects nationwide in the first $623-million tranche of the CFI program, part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

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Canary Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

In response to a 2022 Massachusetts climate law, the states two primary electric utilities, Eversource and National Grid, have proposed plans to Massachusetts attorney general says plans by the states major utilities to lower the cost of charging electric vehicles would offer little actual savings for customers.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Rishi Sunak has confirmed that a fossil fuel-funded think tank helped to draft his government’s laws targeting climate protests. The former Home Secretary Priti Patel cited tactics used by Extinction Rebellion and Insulate Britain when arguing for what became the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Screenshot from formal testimony to the PUC on April 22, 2022, cited in Multnomah’s complaint. Pat Parenteau, an environmental law professor and senior fellow at Vermont Law School, said the evidence of the utility’s deception cited in the complaint fell short of the “massive” amount of evidence plaintiffs have cited against oil companies.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Image credit: Marmalade Photos / shutter stock.com By Ray Purdy, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in Environmental Law, University College Dublin, writing in The Conversation The new BBC podcast, Buried , by investigative journalists Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor, is a compelling look at how criminals are infiltrating the UK waste disposal system.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 18, 2023

On Thursday, the Hawaii Supreme Court heard arguments on an appeal by the defendants, which include oil majors such as ExxonMobil and Chevron, to dismiss the suit – a move that a trial court rejected in March 2022. The Thursday hearing centered on the fossil fuel defendants’ contention that federal law, not state, applies to the case.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 21, 2024

Under a newly proposed law, ads like these could be banned in the state of Pennsylvania. Source: Meta ad library ‘Rapid and dramatic changes ‘ Canada’s new law, which threatens multi-million-dollar penalties for promoting false environmental claims, has had a sweeping effect since its passage.

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