The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, said last year she planned to introduce legislation in 2023 to reform the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act after major reviews found the law was failing and Australian nature was in poor and deteriorating health.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2023

On June 29, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed a law to prohibit the state’s investor-owned utilities from charging customers for lobbying expenses and other efforts to sway political outcomes. State utilities have also actively opposed climate policies including expanding local renewable energy programs and rooftop solar.

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Financial Times: Energy

MAY 26, 2024

Figures obtained via freedom of information laws come as effluent pollution climbs political agenda

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

He’d come to wonder: are there underlying principles that would help us better understand the pattern of politics and why some countries prosper while their neighbours struggle, why war erupts or peace is brokered, why striking oil can be a boon or a curse? Continue reading.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 8, 2021

There’s a question we often hear: “why don’t you start a political party?” Political parties write their manifestos, that members of the public read (OK, that part is pure fantasy). NB: the only difference between a lot of this behaviour and fraud is the law. The post Our response to: “why don’t you start a political party?”

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 7, 2023

51 out of 53 members of the Industry, Energy & Research (ITRE) Committee of the European Parliament voted in favor of the Own-Initiative Report on geothermal that highlights the most effective means of accelerating the deployment of geothermal technologies across the EU.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 30, 2023

In fact, clean energy lags put the world at risk of a six degree celsius global temperature rise. Political, market, and infrastructural barriers remain, dragging progress toward a clean economy — but your business has the power to mitigate these constraints. We’ve all heard the scenario over and over again.

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The Guardian: Energy

JUNE 20, 2024

At the time, I was the cabinet minister who signed this into law. We did so knowing that taking action to tackle the climate crisis was supported by all the major political parties. Britain has long been viewed as a clean energy leader across the world. Chris Skidmore is a former Conservative energy minister Continue reading.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 19, 2024

In addition to the state of Colorado throwing huge support behind geothermal energy, the Colorado Energy & Carbon Management Commission (ECMC) has adopted its first set of rules for deep geothermal operations. Colorado’s huge support of geothermal energy. Jared Polis and the Colorado Energy Office announced $7.7

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Next Steps Once the directive is adopted by the Council and Parliament and published in the EU Official Journal, Member States will have 24 months to transpose it into national law. Latham & Watkins will continue to monitor developments in this area.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Even with the various layers of policies, laws and penalties in place to keep businesses in check, Mitchell believes the "destruction of the earth has become a pay-to-play endeavor. If you have money to violate the law, you can go ahead and do it." Embrace a more holistic kind of success. Climate Change. Corporate Strategy.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The economy will thrive under the energy transition, not suffer. Chris Skidmore is a former energy minister Last week’s announcement that the government would delay key net-zero targets came as a surprise to anyone who has followed the policy. The existing targets were fair and well considered, and enjoyed wide political support.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Extraction Oil and Gas, a Denver-based energy company, sent Boulder County an offer this summer. The county is arguing that if the COGCC forced it to pool its oil and gas with Extraction, the commission would be violating both the state constitution and local laws. By Angelika Albaladejo, Capital & Main.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen claims law will see net zero taken into account 'in all future policy and legislation'. A Europe-wide 'Climate Law' that would legally require all EU members to build net zero economies by 2050 has been unveiled today by the European Commission as the key pillar of its Green Deal vision.

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Alternative Energy News

MARCH 31, 2015

Energy Politics | Environment and Sustainability | Solar Power France keeps making green headlines lately… the Eiffel Tower’s wind turbines, the tree-shaped wind turbines being installed in Paris, and now an exciting new law that is sure to have a huge environmental impact in urban centers.

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The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Image: Hugo Herrera / The Verge Crypto miners have successfully blocked the Department of Energy’s (DOE) survey of Bitcoin’s energy consumption in the US. There’s some early evidence that Bitcoin mining has already affected the US energy system.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 1, 2019

Job Description: The Center for Biological Diversity seeks a full-time Clean Transportation Advocate/ Staff Attorney in our Climate Law Institute to join our bold and progressive campaign to advance the urgently needed transition away from fossil fuel vehicles to zero emissions transportation in California and around the country.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 26, 2024

You’re invited to join a webinar co-hosted by Clean Energy Canada and the Pembina Institute exploring Canada’s fragmented energy transition and the role of Canadian provinces. Provinces hold the wheel on big energy, investment, and infrastructure decisions, but are they taking the right steps to build more sustainable economies?

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 1, 2019

Job Description: The Center for Biological Diversity seeks a full-time Clean Transportation Advocate/ Staff Attorney in our Climate Law Institute to join our bold and progressive campaign to advance the urgently needed transition away from fossil fuel vehicles to zero emissions transportation in California and around the country.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Eleni Diamantopoulou is Practice Development Lawyer (Energy) at Womble Bond Dickinson. Eleni Diamantopoulou writes The Energy Act 2023 (the Act) is finally here. By putting in place the enabling primary legislation that bridges legal gaps, creates new laws, or brings clarity to existing laws.

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Front And Centered

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Elections are a critical component of our work to move what’s politically possible towards what we really need: a Just Transition. These initiatives—I-2109, I-2117, I-2124, and I-2066—would roll back our ability to make a collective commitment to investing in our future, from child and elder care to energy and climate action.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The country plans to fast-track developing its H2 grid network in clean energy push. Germany is striving to make the switch to clean energy and developing hydrogen infrastructure as quickly as possible is one of its goals to make the transition as fast as possible. Start Quiz Page 1 of 7 Who discovered the hydrogen element in 1766?

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 5, 2019

As we discuss with UCLA environmental law professor Ann Carlson in this episode of Political Climate , the litigation could cost fossil fuel companies billions of dollars and fundamentally change the way the world approaches energy production. Heated : Exxon climate ads aren’t "political," according to Twitter.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

California legislation affecting renewable energy . Key players in California energy politics. Successes that have inspired women to get involved in politics. Mary Hughes , a longtime political strategist, is president of Hughes & Co., a strategic communications and political consulting firm in Palo Alto.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Griffith explains in this episode of Political Climate. Plus, he weighs in on the massive year-end spending bill that passed in Congress this week and includes significant climate and clean energy measures. If signed into law, will this legislation put the U.S. What does this shift mean for the future of utilities?

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The Guardian: Energy

APRIL 30, 2024

Internal documents revealed by committee show companies lobbied against climate laws they publicly claimed to support Big oil has privately acknowledged its efforts to downplay the dangers of burning fossil fuels, a US Senate committee has found. Continue reading.

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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. It will mean that the Conservative Party becomes largely irrelevant to mainstream politics in the UK.” The Bruges Group continues to attack climate action.

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The Guardian: Energy

JULY 21, 2024

Last week, the government’s advisers warned that only a third of the carbon reductions required by law would be met under existing plans. Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, won the argument that the urgency of the climate emergency needed a bigger, more interventionist state. Continue reading.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 21, 2024

Under a newly proposed law, ads like these could be banned in the state of Pennsylvania. While the oil and gas industry touts its support for “cleaner energy,” it dedicates only a tiny fraction of its total investments to renewables. Every state already bans false advertising — and the attorneys general of California, D.C.,

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The Guardian: Energy

MAY 27, 2024

But Labor’s positions are undermined by its confused stance on gas and the delay of new environmental laws Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Federal parliament is back for the next fortnight and I have a wishlist. Continue reading.

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Energy Central

MAY 12, 2022

The development of scientifically sound, economically sensible, and politically feasible climate-change policies would seem to be a case in point. Such an approach is well illustrated by the thinking of Jonathan Wiener, the William and Thomas Perkins Professor of Law at Duke Law School, who.

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Front And Centered

MARCH 26, 2024

The following is a statement by the Front and Centered Coalition Leadership regarding I-2117: The campaign to repeal these recently enacted laws represents a reckless and bad faith effort by a wealthy individual and his politics of despair and division to undermine well-intentioned policy for the environment, education, and healthcare.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2022

Lawyer and activist Farhana Yamin considers XR’s cultural, political, and business impact three years after it drove London to a standstill in 2019. The global political order had already been fraying at the edges thanks to creeping authoritarianism, populism, inequality, and post-Covid economic headwinds.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

She has contributed to law conferences, diplomatic events, and environmental summits as well as podcasts, interviews and articles for publications and broadcasters ranging from TIME Magazine to the New York Times and from The Guardian to the BBC. What she realized was that the aspect that protects our rights is actually criminal law.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Harnessing geothermal energy at an agricultural park in the Anju District in the City of Suining in Sichuan Province, China has started operations has provided an economic value of 270 million yuan, leading to an increase in enterprise income, the income of the general population, and high-quality agricultural development.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2024

While the GWPF is a registered charity, and is in theory bound by Charity Commission rules limiting “political activity”, Net Zero Watch is a private company. It has also watered down schemes to phase out gas boilers and scrapped new energy efficiency regulations on rented homes.

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2021

Business regulation and tax policy could be subject to a 'future generations law' to assesses its impact on young people if a new 'Youth Manifesto' is enacted. a new energy among young people who want to make a difference and have their voices heard," she said.?"But But that energy must be?actively?encouraged? encouraged?

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