DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2024

Losing the Scope 3 emissions requirement was a major blow in the eyes of environmental groups that wanted to see agricultural polluters disclose to investors the full depth of their contribution towards global heating. EPA to establish air quality standards to protect the public from harmful air pollutants.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 2, 2024

The findings come after United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for a worldwide fossil fuel advertising ban, arguing that advertising companies were serving as “enablers to planetary destruction” by greenwashing polluting clients. All of these things are harmful and will undermine TfL’s climate goals.”

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Key review measures have been stripped from most of the EU green laws transferred onto UK statute books, study suggests. With so much attention on the unfolding coronavirus crisis and its myriad impacts, Brexit has taken more of a back seat in the political theatre in recent months.

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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. and Canada.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

If not properly plugged and abandoned, these wells and facilities can contaminate waterways and soil, serve as a source of climate and air pollutants, and can present physical hazards to people and wildlife,” CalGEM writes in a 2023 legislative report. An idle well in Santa Barbara County, California.

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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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DeSmogBlog

MAY 18, 2022

In late April, California attorney general Rob Bonta launched an investigation into ExxonMobil for its role in exacerbating the global plastic pollution crisis. A report out last year from the Mindaroo Foundation found that just 100 companies produce 90 percent of the world’s plastic pollution. And it doesn’t work by design.

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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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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. About half of the pollution from cement comes from the fuel to heat the ovens. Increasingly, this may be the law. These could be fly ash, slag or silica materials.

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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. billion MVP is now $2.5 He is a co-founder and Senior Advisor at 350.org,

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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. They help take cars off the road with around a quarter of e-scooter trips replacing a car journey - cutting congestion and reducing air pollution.

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Green Tech Challenge

MAY 3, 2019

The sustainability of this growth is however compromised by overfishing and rising ocean pollution. Pollution from litter, sunscreen chemicals, and boats making day trips to the island in large numbers (200 boats and 5000 tourists per day) had gradually damaged 80% of the island’s ecological system.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 15, 2022

The environmental law non-governmental organization, which has bought shares in Shell, claims the company’s 13 executive and non-executive directors failed to adopt and implement a climate strategy that truly aligns with the Paris Agreement and says this is a breach of their legal duties under the UK Companies Act.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Found in the book “ Energy and Man: A Symposium ” Provenance: Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware. The substance of the report is that there is still time to save the world’s peoples from the catastrophic consequence of pollution, but time is running out,” Ikard said. And they considered CO2 a pollutant back then.

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Fairsnape

MAY 3, 2021

Also noted in respect of new books is “Design Studio Vol. Also noted in respect of new books is “Design Studio Vol. Most of the UK’s environmental protections stem from EU law and so could be changed as a result of Brexit. Earthhour occurs on the 27th of March. March 9th 2021 24 Retweets 34 Likes.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2024

million from fossil fuel interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since the 2019 election. Jolyon Maugham, director of the Good Law Project, told DeSmog: “Abraham Lincoln spoke of government ‘of the people, by the people and for the people.’ percent (£1.8 The party has received £2.3

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

A majority also favor regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant, imposing strict carbon dioxide limits on coal-fired power plants, and research and tax rebates for renewable energy, according to the Yale data. And nearly two-thirds would also require utilities to produce 20% of their electricity from renewable sources. HB 458, signed by Gov.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

And often the same account leads on the tobacco campaigns were also account leads for oil companies,” Carroll Muffett, president and CEO of the Center for International Environmental Law, explained to journalist Amy Westervelt in an episode of the Drilled podcast. Credit: Oil and Gas Climate Initiative.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

The government also backed last year's Global Biodiversity Framework, which similarly commits to reverse nature decline at the global level, and has passed a new Environment Act that incorporates a suite of legally-binding targets covering water quality, air pollution, habitats, and other areas.

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Low Impact

JUNE 24, 2020

If deciding to specialise further, be sure to head out with an expert forager – or at the very least ensure you have consulted reputable books, or other resources, to help with identification. Also bear in mind that wild foods can be polluted by human activity. Public byways through farms or agricultural land. Woodlands or forests.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and TNC are also members of the Forest-Climate Working Group, a political advocacy organization, alongside scores of wood product companies, including Enviva and Drax, biomass energy behemoths whose carbon-intensive operations have polluted U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I still remember a school lesson where the concept of polluting externalities and market failures were explained, before the class then quickly moved on to a curriculum which largely glossed over how almost everything we were being taught was basically broken by these unaccounted for external factors.

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Andrew Winston

APRIL 16, 2019

Remember, there were moments in history where it was generally acceptable to use slave labor or children in supply chains, to wink at rampant sexual harassment in offices, and to freely dump pollution in rivers and the air. Morals changed, and then laws. This post first appeared in HBR here ). Follow Andrew on Twitter @AndrewWinston.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

Unless properly decommissioned, unplugged oil and gas wells can continue to leak cancer-causing chemicals and the powerful climate pollutant methane. The law was passed, in part, to hold fossil fuels companies accountable for their plugging obligation.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2020

In response, the UK has previously said it "will not agree to any obligations for our laws to be aligned with the EU's" and its institutions, putting it at odds with the EU which has continued to view a level playing field on standards as a red line for a free trade deal with such a close neighbour.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

But climate targets alone, even if they are enshrined in law, won't get us to net zero. This is a legitimate concern given the government's history of flip-flopping on climate policy,but is not a criticism that should solely be levied against a carbon tax, nor used to put a nail in its coffin.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

These people are book smart, but when it comes to common sense, they have nothing, said Travis Dardar about the project. According to a report from the Center for International Environmental Law, in the best-case scenario, the injection of captured carbon may temporarily disrupt fisheries because of drilling and seismic testing.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A recently published chapter of the Harvard Law Review argues that “While utility companies have been building and profiting off fossil fuels without internalizing the down-stream consequences and costs for decades, their regulators—state agency leaders—have approved their actions at every step of the way.”.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2022

It also criticised the previous government for "stop-start strategies", which it said could undermine confidence for business, investors, and consumers in committing to measures which could reduce CO2 pollution. A top-down strategy from government won't deliver on its own," she stressed.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 9, 2020

I recently finished the book Lunch with Lucy – the author/founder sold her company for $40 million. It is interesting that you opted for Law school vs Business school for your advanced degree. Law school is safe and stable. . Pepperdine for Law School. She focused her entire career on the notion that employees are first.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 19, 2020

Understanding the power processes which have sought to destroy trees and how we need trees for our survival and how to protect them and how to change the legal system so it supports life on earth, rather than endorses and reinforces its destruction in the name of law and order and the economy. We need them. Global Reset, Grow your own!

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Business Green

APRIL 26, 2022

Aside from being unsightly and polluting, it costs the economy almost £1bn a year. With only £17m a year to spend on enforcement, it is seen as toothless to tackle the law breaking and to bring criminals to book. Yet this may be just the tip of the iceberg.". Serious crime requires a serious response.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

For instance, in 2019 the state passed a new law named the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act , which raised the 2030 target from 50% of electricity generated by renewables to 70%. The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP21). (followed by Boston and Seattle).

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2022

The document asserts the governments support for the prevention, 'polluter pays', precautionary, integration, and 'rectification at source' principles, all of which underpinned UK environmental policies and regulations derived from the European Union prior to its exit from the bloc in 2020.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2023

Environment Secretary Therese Coffey said the policy programme will help the government "continue" its work on improving the natural environment through subsidy reforms, tree planting programmes, and better enforcement of the pollution rules covering water companies. Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all the main reaction to the new plan. "The

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Unsustainable

JANUARY 27, 2020

According to Chapter 15 of the in 2017 published book Sustainable Asia , Sustainable Societies and Municipal Solid Waste in Southeast Asia by C. According to a statement published by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People’s Republic of China in 2019, China is in the process of revising its Solid Waste Law.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2021

A blanket dismissal of the net zero concept demands not that polluters come forward with credible strategies that could work in both principle and in practice, but rather fuels the impression any and all plans are 'greenwash' and are not worthy of consideration. China could soon follow.

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