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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Calls grow for a rethink of the controversial Retained EU Law Bill, amid concerns over threat to worker, consumer, and environmental protections. The Bill has become a cause celebre for arch-Brexiteers within the Conservative Party, who are keen to see the government bring an end to any EU influence over UK laws as quickly as possible.

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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. They have sent MEPs a version marked with their corrections.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

A new law that would make itr easier for cooperatives and community associations to raise investment for environmental projects has been tabled in Parliament. The MP drew third in the private members ballot, which enables MPs time in Parliament to introduce their own laws.

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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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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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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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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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Plans to lift ban on fracking and curtain legacy EU environmental laws and regulations announced today risk backlash from some of the government's own MPs. But Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg argued revoking EU law was a necessity now the UK has left the trading bloc.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Robert Jenrick’s pledge to repeal the UK’s landmark climate change law has won him the backing of some of the country’s most notorious climate science deniers. The book argues that the “dogma of ‘global warming’ was conceived as a means of socialist reversal of the global economic order”.

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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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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

To obey the law, To be ethically responsible, To give to philanthropic causes. . Business Legal Responsibilities: Obey the Law. 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.

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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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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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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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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

His new book Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World , which comes out June 6, tells the story of the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire in horrific, page-turning detail. I know from researching this book that people really suffer and they’re deeply wounded by the experience of evacuating from a wildfire. See more events.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 27, 2024

The company, which didn’t respond to a detailed list of questions, has released a statement saying that it is “steadfast in our commitment to environmental performance and operational emissions reduction” and that one result of the new law is to “to silence Canadian businesses taking climate action.” CCS: ‘Integral’ or ‘Limited’?

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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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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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

While there, Jones edited a 1997 Fraser Institute book entitled Global Warming: The Science and the Politics , which contained essays by people like Willie Soon and Patrick Michaels , prominent spreaders of doubt about the foundations of climate science whose work has been funded by fossil fuel companies. “The

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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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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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Grist

JUNE 12, 2024

Elmore recounts in the book Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism. Companies worked to make it official: Starting in 1989, the Plastic Bottle Institute lobbied for state laws mandating that the code numbers appear on plastic products. The laws eventually passed in 39 states.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

Most famously, the governor of Florida kept battling one of the world’s most beloved brands, Disney, over the company’s position on state laws targeting the LGBTQ+ community. Some in the investment community even pushed back on anti-ESG laws — partly because, as one analysis concluded, those state laws could cost taxpayers $708 million.

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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2020

For Shalanda Baker, a professor of law and public policy at Northeastern University, thinking about a clean energy future means thinking about the daily, weekly and sometimes invisible ways that people in deprived communities can control their power supply.

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Business Green

JANUARY 29, 2023

This follows on from the government's Retained EU Law Bill proposed last week - in which 4,000 laws and standards (a large proportion of which relate specifically to the environment) will vanish at the end of 2023 unless the government updates or replaces them, at an eye-watering cost of £83 billion.

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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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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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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 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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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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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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AGreenLiving

MAY 13, 2021

The new laws are a victory for animals and the people who care about them. The laws apply to vertebrates, so pet octopi are out of luck. million unchipped pet cats need to start booking their appointments. Some animals could still use a little more help from the law. ’s 2.6 Overall, this is a big step forward.

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