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How Defra's post-Brexit statutory instrument spree could weaken UK environmental law

Business Green

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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All for one and one for all: Digitalisation for cooperative utilities

Smart Energy International

Having tended to have a more coal-heavy generation mix than investor-owned utilities , coops have historically lacked the access to debt and capital that would allow them to shut down aging power plants or benefit from newer technologies. Have you read?

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Revealed: Hundreds of Ad Campaigns by Oil and Gas Companies Have Appeared on London Public Transport Since Mayor’s Carbon Zero Pledge 

DeSmogBlog

Fossil fuel advertisers including BP, Shell, and lobby group Offshore Energies UK (formerly Oil & Gas UK) specifically requested to place some ads containing political messaging at Westminster and St. The project has since been approved and described by environmental law firm ClientEarth as a “carbon bomb”.

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Building Enduring Businesses - Part Deux

Mr. Sustainability

Build your own! I use an idea on energy-independence services to show how I would shape my own business, starting with the why (purpose) all the way to the how (non-negotiables) and the what (organization). I will be improving on the same principles and ideas of a previous article of mine called Building Enduring Businesses.

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Phantom Gas and Missing Documents Reveal Gaps in Utility Oversight

DeSmogBlog

The circumstances surrounding his termination are documented among thousands of pages of public records and internal company documents that provide a penetrating look into the multi-billion dollar stakes of negotiations between governments and state-sanctioned monopolies that are shaping the future of energy systems in Oregon and beyond.

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Developers Eye Louisiana, Texas Coasts for Offshore Carbon Storage

DeSmogBlog

Now, a new industry is being developed in the waters that were once the most productive grounds in the nation for fish, shrimp and oysters. These people are book smart, but when it comes to common sense, they have nothing, said Travis Dardar about the project. Currently there are just a handful of offshore CCS projects in the world.

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Why Colorado’s Celebrated Oil Well Cleanup Reforms Face a $3 Billion Shortfall

DeSmogBlog

That’s according to a new report published Thursday by the Carbon Tracker Initiative, an energy-focused think tank. Unless properly decommissioned, unplugged oil and gas wells can continue to leak cancer-causing chemicals and the powerful climate pollutant methane. The bonding isn’t enough. That number is even lower today.