The Guardian: Energy

JUNE 20, 2024

At the time, I was the cabinet minister who signed this into law. Coal, which used to make up more than 40% of our power when I was first elected as an MP in 2010, will from next year be consigned to the history books. When I signed net zero into law, I always viewed our plan as a mainstream, even conservative, vision.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

To obey the law, To be ethically responsible, To give to philanthropic causes. . Law is born from society wanting to operate with a rudimental moral grounding. For a business, these ground rules include laws, regulations, and fair business practices. It takes time for the law to catch up to rapidly changing society.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Today, Van Jones is best known as a CNN host and author of three best-selling books. In this episode, Jones reveals a little-told backstory of his "nerd" childhood and early life, his transformation at Yale Law School, and the painful time he briefly joined, and then left, the Obama Administration. "I

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The books, which target children as young as kindergartners, use puzzles, word games, cartoons, and other activities depicting fossil gas as safe, clean, and beneficial for society, reporting from DeSmog found. We care deeply about the communities we serve—and where our employees live.

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Energy Central

AUGUST 29, 2024

The case is one of a growing number responding to lagging progress on state climate laws that, in many cases, have now been on the books for years. A pending youth climate lawsuit in Maine represents the latest iteration of legal strategies aimed at holding states accountable for emissions-cutting targets.

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Front And Centered

JANUARY 21, 2021

The HEAL Act aims to make EJ the priority of state environmental laws and programs. The HEAL Act serves to improve government performance in achieving the objectives of environmental laws already on the books. But it does not create any new environmental programs or regulations.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

A new book deals with the psychological, cultural and practical changes many believe will be necessary to avoid climate catastrophe – or, if it’s too late to avoid it, to advance strategies of adaptation. A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

A new book deals with the psychological, cultural and practical changes many believe will be necessary to avoid climate catastrophe – or, if it’s too late to avoid it, to advance strategies of adaptation. A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2021

In 2019, the company was caught spying on reporters and helping orchestrate an operation to denigrate Carey Gillam , a book author and contributing writer for The Guardian. . Screenshot of court document published by law firm Baum Hedlund. FTI Consulting has a history of targeting reporters.

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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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Energy Central

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

On September 17, E2 executive director Bob Keefe shared insights from his new book, Clean Economy NOW, with CEBN President Lynn Abramson and provided an in-depth look at how game-changing clean energy and climate policies from the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law are reshaping our economy, the way we live, and the future of (..)

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Terra Infirma

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Desperate to get up to speed on the topic, I chanced on the book Material Concerns by Tim Jackson which set out the principles of Sustainability in very clear terms. Cleaner Production/Design: this was the revolutionary concept at the time I read the book: design the pollutants out of the system before they are ever created.

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Andrew Winston

APRIL 22, 2024

Multiple countries have their own laws mandating disclosure of carbon emissions in operations and supply chains, including the elaborately named German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (in German, the amusingly one-word-named Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz). As demanding as these regulations are, soft power can be just as important.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 24, 2024

And, eventually, it all became this book, Petroleum 238: Big Oil’s Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It — available here on Amazon , here on Bookshop , or it can be ordered at any local bookstore. law, it is still considered nonhazardous. It is out of this unknowing, and deception, that this book can exist.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JULY 2, 2021

a leading thought and practice innovator in mindfulness-based antiracism and social justice, Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco and author of the award-winning book, The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness. The panel will include Rhonda V. Magee, M.A.,

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2024

Vince Zabielski is a Partner with law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. Let’s hope whoever is in Number 10 next year opens their cheque book after all. Vince Zabielski writes Last month, Labour’s Kier Starmer faced criticism from the Tories for cutting their green spending plan from £28bn per year to £4.7bn.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 27, 2020

These three laws provide lessons for other states interested in accelerating the transition to a cheaper, cleaner grid. In September 2020, the utility filed for securitization of the unrecovered book balance on the 550-megawatt D.E. As coal collapses, securitization could rescue utilities and their consumers.

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Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

I’ve always had a pretty diverse set of interests but my plan was to major in political science and psychology in undergrad with the goal of attending law school. My perspective is that each day offers an opportunity to learn something new, whether reading a book or through lived experiences. First, trust the process.

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Front And Centered

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

It also made law out of the climate investment framework we co-created in I-1631 and put real money behind it. How these elections proceed could determine the fate of the CURB Pollution Act this fall, as well as our work on improving the enforcement of laws that are already on the books for the benefit of frontline communities.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 15, 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. After graduation from Georgetown Law, he first worked for the federal government to enforce civil rights laws among government contractors.

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Fairsnape

MARCH 11, 2021

By being the first country to set an ambitious target in law for the recovery of nature, the UK will set an example which the rest of the world can follow. Now that we can train and keep stock within zones marked through an app, without fencing, what impact will this have on law of trespass, on rights of way and right to roam.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Fisher answers this critical question in her new book, Saving Ourselves: Climate Shocks to Climate Action. Michaela Herrmann: One of the core things you talked about in the book is a “climate shock.” ” And we know that – that’s basically what my book is about. Professor Dana R. Credit: Dana Fisher.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

He wrote the Passive Solar Energy Book in 1979, and now leads Architecture 2030 , a non-profit that aims to remake the built environment into a climate solution. Increasingly, this may be the law. Other new laws may go by names, like “Buy Clean,” but they are embodied carbon laws.

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Grist

AUGUST 3, 2022

David George Haskell, a biologist and author of the book Sounds Wild and Broken, said he experiences the diminished soundscape as a “very thin, worn cloth,” comparing the richness of an untrammeled soundscape to the texture of thickly woven tapestry. “It These three policies still form the backbone of federal environmental law.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2020

Government also seeks views on 'biggest shake up of transport laws in a generation' to harness emerging green transport technologies such as electric scooters.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In doing so, Acciona’s stake in loss-making Nordex will climb to more than 36 percent, above the 30 percent ceiling that automatically triggers a takeover offer under German law. “This, in our view, should allow the company to navigate the turbulence in the aftermath of Senvion and execute its order book.”

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Matthew Sinclair, who will be Truss’s chief economic advisor, wrote a book in 2011 called “Let Them Eat Carbon”, which criticised efforts to cut emissions, claiming they were unlikely to work and gave money to “special interests”. In the book he said climate policies would “push up electricity bills”, according to the Guardian.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 30, 2019

It was published in the International Journal of Human Rights As defined by by Polly Higgins, in a book titled Eradicating Ecocide: Laws and Governance to Prevent the Destruction of Our Planet (London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 2010). However, the final version of the Statute only included ecocide as a crime in times of war.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Weatherford, a lawyer from the corporate law firm Baker Hostetler, stated in opening arguments that Mann was so disliked that “even his own family won’t come to court to defend him.” Oreskes, author of the books “Why Trust Science?” Science is not about individuals, it’s about process,” Oreskes testified.

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Low Impact

DECEMBER 6, 2020

This is the first in a series of interviews that will accompany a book I’m writing, that will be published by Chelsea Green – an employee-owned company, and part of the new economy that the book is describing, built around a mutual credit core. So people read the book, they think great – How can I join in?

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 18, 2022

The group has also been lobbying state governments to exempt their recycling process from various environmental regulations — 18 states have laws on the books that either side-step certain government oversight or designate advanced recycling facilities as eligible for subsidies.

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Grist

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But a new book challenges that narrative. When did you both realize that the conventional wisdom about the framers of Colorado River law using bad data was incorrect? The last line of the book says that with climate change, there’s less and less water, and “we don’t know how far below us the floor lies.”

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2021

The report also calls for the UK to require supervised financial firms and premium listed firms to develop Paris-aligned transition plans that set out how they intend to eliminate environmental risks and negative externalities from their portfolios and loan books over time.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

These seven members of the public serve on the Virginia State Water Control Board, an independent regulatory body tasked with administering the state’s water laws. In 1988, he wrote The End of Nature, the first book for a common audience about global warming. Bill McKibben is an author, environmentalist, and activist.

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Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

But it’s disingenuous for companies to pretend they are passive observers of regulations, laws, or the political climate. Processes for electing representatives, passing legislation, establishing regulations, enforcing laws, and governing society in representative democracies. Working Toward Corporate Political Responsibility.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

His book Social Responsibilities of the Businessman advocates the ethics and responsiveness of business to societal stakeholders. CSR is known as a soft law, which means initiatives are not legally binding. This is marking an international trend to move CSR into a legally-binding and enforceable hard law. The benefits of CSR.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2020

Government also seeks views on 'biggest shake up of transport laws in a generation' to harness emerging green transport technologies such as electric scooters.

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