Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

How carbon offsetting compares to carbon reduction. It made clear that more must be done to reduce and offset carbon emissions. In the years since 2015’s Paris Climate Accord, many industrial businesses have begun using carbon offsetting strategies to balance the emissions of their operations.

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TechXplore

JUNE 9, 2024

Swiss voters were expected to approve in a referendum Sunday a law aimed at accelerating the development of renewable energy as the country aims for carbon neutrality by 2050.

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Canary Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

On Tuesday, voters in Washington state decisively upheld a landmark climate law that created a cap-and-invest program that has raised billions of dollars for clean energy and electrification projects across the state. The 2021 Climate Commitment Act, which launched a carbon market in the state, was designed to help…

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Canary Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Local Law 97, New York City’s groundbreaking, multistage effort to rein in carbon emissions from its big buildings, is facing its first major test — and it’s just a preview of the much steeper challenges to come. Last week, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) released proposed guidelines for how owners of the…

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 30, 2022

Sustainable Law Firms. Law firm sustainability is a strategic business shift that aims to prevent socially and environmentally damaging operations in the legal industry. This could be by reducing an organization’s carbon footprint while also establishing a healthy work-life balance for employees.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MARCH 7, 2025

Read this Latham Client Alert for more detail on these laws. Read this Latham blog post for more detail on the implementation of these laws by CARB, which issued an Enforcement Notice for SB 253 stating that CARB will not penalize in-scope entities for incomplete compliance when first disclosures under the law are due in 2026.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 16, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act was signed into law one year ago, ushering in a new and promising marketplace for carbon capture tech, heat pump manufacturing and clean energy.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JUNE 26, 2024

The new law will provide developers with tax rebates as high as 40 percent on project costs Canada has just passed a major clean hydrogen investment tax credit (formerly known as the C-69 bill), which will provide H2 developers with tax rebates as big as 40 percent off their project costs when they develop within the country.

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FuelCellsWorks

JULY 19, 2024

Pennsylvania has enacted a new law establishing a framework for carbon capture and storage (CCS) to combat carbon emissions from fossil fuels. The law has sparked controversy, with environmental groups.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Carbon capture has long been criticized as too nascent, too expensive, and too distracting. So what does this commercial launch signal for the carbon-capture industry? And, California tries to fix the busted recycling system with a “truth in advertising” law aimed at plastics companies. Is that changing?

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GreenBiz

JUNE 24, 2020

Jared Polis to modify the state's law around Colorado's electric vehicle tax credit and make it available to ride-hailing fleets. . As a result of the changes in the Colorado law, Lyft was able to roll out what it says is the largest electric ride-hailing deployment in the U.S. Arons said Lyft was able to work with Colorado Gov.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 5, 2025

Half of the worlds carbon dioxide emissions in 2023 came from just three dozen companies, according to a new report released today by the Carbon Majors project, with the list dominated by coal, cement, and oil producers. percent of the worlds carbon dioxide pollution alone in 2023, the report found.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 20, 2024

The Department of Energy announced that projects in 24 states will receive the funding Through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the US Department of Energy (DoE) has announced that it is pouring $750 million into 52 clean hydrogen projects located in 24 states across the country. million tons of clean hydrogen per year.

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Terra Infirma

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This is incredibly frustrating: the Climate Change Act went into law in 2008 and yet no-one in the following 16 years acted to make it legal for DNOs (the companies who run the grid in the country’s regions) to prioritise the queue of projects coming on board so they can accelerate what they need for Net Zero until now.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Good Law Project, Friends of the Earth and ClientEarth will bring their legal challenge of the Government’s threadbare net zero strategy to the High Court, in a hearing due on 20-22 February 2024. The UK’s 2050 deadline to reach net zero and the carbon reduction targets that apply along the way are legally binding.

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Renew Economy

MARCH 27, 2024

Adding a price on mortality caused by carbon emissions might help change consumption patterns for items such as red meat and 4WDs. Smoking laws provide a template. The post If we properly priced death caused by carbon emissions, we might get to net zero a lot quicker appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Terra Infirma

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In the old Beyond Petroleum days, BP experimented with green molecules: biofuels, hydrogen and gas-plus-CCS (carbon capture and storage). None of these have delivered, usually banjaxed by the laws of physics, while electricity has powered (sorry) forwards with fast falling prices for solar and EV batteries.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Carbon capture has long been criticized as too nascent, too expensive, and too distracting. So what does this commercial launch signal for the carbon-capture industry? And, California tries to fix the busted recycling system with a “truth in advertising” law aimed at plastics companies. Is that changing?

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 18, 2024

The Carbon Transport and Storage Corporation (CTSCo), a subsidiary of mining giant Glencore, is awaiting state government approval for a pilot scheme to inject Co2 emitted by a coal-fired power station in southern Queensland into underground water aquifers as part of a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project trial.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In fact, when California passed its landmark 2006 climate law — which directed the state to cut greenhouse gas emissions down to 1990 levels by 2020 — supporters claimed that it would save thousands of lives through improved air quality alone. These facilities were also more likely to be in disadvantaged communities. (In-state

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Grist

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The carbon removal company Spiritus estimated that her journey of roughly 5,500 miles produced about 40 tons of carbon dioxide — about what is generated by charging nearly 5 million cell phones. Its approach involves drawing carbon directly from the air and burying it, but others sink it in the ocean.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2023

climate law – the Inflation Reduction Act – is one good marker for setting ambitious standards, so long as it is supported by a rigorous methodology that is yet to be released. The top tier of clean hydrogen in the new U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found multiple Safe Drinking Water Act violations at the nation’s first carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) storage project, PoliticoPro’s E&E News reported today. The company started injecting carbon in Illinois at the end of April 2017, making the site a little over seven years old.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

It helps drafters to find climate clauses and sustainability solutions that can be applied throughout the entire building lifecycle, according to the collaborating partners behind it, UK law firm TLT and The Chancery Lane Project (TCLP). TCLP publishes a breadth of freely available precedent clauses for use with a variety of sector contracts.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

million offset credits based on the carbon stored in its trees. million metric tons of carbon dioxide — or the equivalent of driving 560,000 cars around for one year. California has a cap-and-trade law that limits greenhouse gas emissions from major emitters like power plants. That translates to 2.6 The system worked.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

A trade group for contested carbon capture with close ties to major oil and gas companies is sponsoring over a dozen events at the Conservative and Labour conferences over the next fortnight. But the role of carbon capture in the energy transition is hotly contested.

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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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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 2, 2020

They were led by José Bové , a left-wing activist famous for his skirmishes with the law and his tremendous moustache. Increases in the carbon-sequestering power of crops, made possible by engineered arieties that put down deeper root systems. This potential is thrilling, and there are signs that it will arrive soon.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Kyoto Protocol agreed to use as a benchmark for their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and 2050, the year many countries set as their target for carbon net zero. The halfway mark has now passed between 1990, the year that countries who signed the U.N. … while a lot has changed, not much has changed. Think big but start small.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 31, 2020

Yet, as the original purposes of these laws has been largely achieved, states can now accelerate deeper progress towards want we really what: a 100 percent clean electricity grid that is also affordable and reliable. Some of the choices include coal and natural gas, but those resources emit carbon. Puerto Rico, and the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) has been hyped by industry groups like the Pathways Alliance as a credible solution to help decarbonize the Alberta oil industry, despite several studies questioning both the effectiveness and the economics of storing carbon dioxide underground. percent of carbon credits. And what about risk?

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

It will stage a one-day conference later this week focusing on the key issues facing the sector – including landfill capacity, recycling policy, and carbon reduction – and how these can be best addressed alongside specific Scottish and UK Government objectives.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The vast majority of corporate advocacy promoting carbon capture and storage is misaligned with climate science, new research shows. The study shows that IPCC recognizes a role exists for carbon capture technologies. Celsius or well-below 2°C – the targets established by the Paris Agreement.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

A new paper from an independent group of climate experts emphasises “the critical importance of a comprehensive financial and regulatory ecosystem incentivising emissions reduction and removal, supported by a properly functioning carbon price.” An alternative approach to carbon pricing.

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Terra Infirma

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The UK Government’s announcement of a whopping £22bn investment in Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) caused quite a kerfuffle in Sustainability circles. of dollars) trying, why wouldn’t you want to get more carbon bang for your buck? I think we’ve been flogging the dead horse of CCS for far too long.

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EnergyTrend

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

China Passes New Energy Law to Boost Renewable Energy and Low-Carbon Transition, Effective January 2025 OnNovember8,the12thsessionoftheStandingCommitteeofthe14thNationalPeople’sCongress(NPC)votedtopasstheEnergyLawofthePeople’sRepublicofChina.Thislaw,cons.

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POWER Magazine

JUNE 6, 2024

Facility with ‘Carbon-Negative’ Power appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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