Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Cleaner air and water creates societal benefits that far outweigh the costs (I’d argue that the Clean Air Act is the most profitable law in human history). We can’t let the upfront costs obscure the massive benefits of laws like this. So it’s hard to grasp the scale of the benefits.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The Government has claimed that it is “on track to reach its target to protect 30% of UK land and sea for nature 2030”, but the department responsible cannot provide any evidence to back-up these assertions, as new findings reveal, which were published on 10 October by environmental groups. Image credit: Marc Barrot , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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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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Green Living Guy

JULY 29, 2022

Thousands of local governments and subsidiaries can directly contract with Blink for electric fleet charging solutions through a preferred vendor agreement. The post Blink Charging to Increase EV Charging for Florida Law Enforcement and Public Safety Agencies appeared first on The Green Living Guy.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 29, 2020

.'s largest-ever solar project, received its government planning approvals this week. The developers say they will not seek any government subsidy and will not participate in the contracts for difference (CFD) auction next year. ” Government auction? has a net-zero target enshrined in law.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The Government of Chile has officially published Law No. 21,711, which improves Law No. The law seeks to facilitate the development of shallow geothermal energy uses by excluding them from the previous concession regime. With this publication, most of the provisions of the law have entered into force.

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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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GreenBiz

JUNE 23, 2020

To rebuild the economy, the United States government so far seems to choose to deploy the same playbook it did in 2008: funding legacy companies in industries such as oil and gas. . History has shown us that government funding of visionary projects can have enormous positive outcomes. Back to normal is not an option.

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Renew Economy

JUNE 7, 2023

ACT votes on law to ban new gas connections for homes and businesses, in a major coup for electrification and a new blow to the fossil fuel lobby. The post ACT passes first law in Australia banning gas in new homes, as fossil empire strikes back appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Renew Economy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

German economy and climate minister says tweak to nuclear exit law will only entail a limited extension until spring next year, due to the technology's risks. The post German government proposes limited extension of “high risk” nuclear appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Barry Sheerman, MP for Huddersfield, and Chairman of the WCRAQ has submitted a Ten-Minute Rule Bill to the House of Commons, asking the Government to update the MOT test to include an efficiency test for DPFs (diesel particulate filters). The UK Government needs to act, says the group. Update the law to save lives. Government.

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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. Last year, they successfully challenged the Government’s original net zero plan.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A national industry group representing gas producers is quietly paying for digital advertisements urging Canadians to “speak up” to their elected officials against laws addressing climate change and public health, DeSmog can reveal. Screencap from ad that doesn’t disclose CGA’s connection.

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Renew Economy

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The post NSW passes climate bill to write 70 pct by 2035 emissions reduction target into law appeared first on RenewEconomy. In a triumph of multi-partisanship, NSW Parliament has passed legislation to cut the state's emissions by 70% by 2035, and reach net zero by 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 21, 2025

Climate campaigners are urging governments to impose tobacco-style restrictions on advertising for oil and gas companies and high-carbon goods and services such as flights, cruises and SUVs. Support for a ban was highest in Greece, France, Spain, and Italy, running at between 56 and 59 percent of respondents.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 5, 2020

Governments around the world are changing boundaries and bypassing laws to give the green light on harmful dam construction.

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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. Laura Tainsh will chair Resourcing Scotland’s conference on 14 November.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 26, 2021

laws — especially solid waste laws — treat recycling and disposal the same, making it more difficult to recycle and more difficult to reuse equipment. We’re going to need incentives and direct government funding for R&D and research that’s needed. . In the U.S., we don’t have that. . A lot of the U.S. Pull Quote.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The law implements key recommendations of the Climate Action Council and is an important step toward the state’s goal of 2 million electrified and electricity-ready homes by 2030. “We are thrilled that Governor Hochul has signed this bill into law.

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The Guardian: Energy

MAY 13, 2024

One of the members of a Senate committee that reviewed the draft laws, independent senator Lidia Thorpe, said the legislation “should be setting off alarm bells” because “it could mean that Australia becomes the world’s nuclear waste dump”.

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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. Using machetes and shears, the protestors uprooted the crops and dumped the debris outside the offices of the regional government. Yet these initial advances belie the technology’s potential. Pull Quote.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

However, many approaches remain contentious due to uncertainties around potential ecological impacts, governance and other risks. Additionally, researchers are hesitant to pursue this method due to a fraught history, including one experiment that potentially violated international law.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Those that up to now have been talking a good game on environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting while failing to deliver in practice are likely to be exposed as greenwashers, sometimes brutally and at high speed. And data sets currently used to track a company’s ESG performance also will need to be radically overhauled.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

These words were coined to help individuals overcome alcoholism and other addictions, but they may be just as apt to describe the hyperbolic reaction to new truth-in-advertising requirements recently passed into law by the Canadian government from the oil patch and their surrogates.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 21, 2024

Under a newly proposed law, ads like these could be banned in the state of Pennsylvania. In June, the Canadian Parliament passed new amendments to the country’s Competition Act, which governs competition between businesses to protect Canadian consumers, by adding a new provision regulating environmental claims in advertising.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 21, 2021

Amongst the many dramatic challenges global businesses faced in 2020, one that had been simmering for years bubbled up and promised to stay at a high boil in 2021 is ESG: Environment, Social, Governance. . Select an ESG oversight structure that aligns with your company.

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Business Green

JULY 12, 2024

Ministers pull out of three-day hearing where they were due to defend planning approval of controversial project, as speculation mounts over plan to halt new oil and gas licenses

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 3, 2023

On Wednesday 5 to Thursday 6 July, the High Court will hear a legal challenge that aims to force the Government to toughen up its plan for reducing sewage dumped in England’s rivers and seas. This is our chance to force the Government to put in place a robust plan to put an end to the sewage scandal blighting our country.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

That's why we’ve tapped Elemental Excelerator ’s expertise and experience to unravel the complexities of accessing non-dilutive government funding (in the US). We’ll walk you through the essential steps to prep your climate tech startup for the competitive government grant process. Total funding: $1.2T

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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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Financial Times: Energy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Roles of government, Environment Agency and Ofwat in monitoring and enforcement of discharges by water companies under scrutiny

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Rights Community Action and Good Law Project launch legal action against government policy that restricts councils' ability to set higher energy efficiency standards for new homes

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TechXplore

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Britain's Labour government on Thursday said changes to planning laws will speed up the country's rollout of mini-nuclear reactors aimed at providing cheaper and cleaner energy.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

The Government should be supporting the free market in the collection and recycling of business waste, not state control of the market funded by producers.” “It would also be wrong for the Government to introduce commercial and industrial collection zones. . “Why should we transfer £1.5

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Canary Media

MARCH 27, 2025

On March 10, the Chicago suburb joined 14 other state and local governments across the U.S. Evanston, Illinois, just passed an ordinance requiring the citys largest buildings to eliminate all fossil fuels and use 100% renewable electricity by 2050. that have enacted policies to decarbonize existing buildings, which

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

In 2010, the Central Government of China integrated the "Guideline on Strengthening Joint Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution to Improve Air Quality" into its 12th Five Year Plan. This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration. Targets for regulation.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 6, 2025

She also practiced as a lawyer advising governments and industry on climate change and energy law. She holds a law degree in civil and common law and a BA from McGill University. She holds a law degree in civil and common law and a BA from McGill University.

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