GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. Both had to wrestle with outside factors that affected emissions, such as the Great Recession and California’s other climate policies.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2024

Law firm Carter Jonas conducted the research, analysing the emergence of BNG policies and guidance within local planning authorities (LPAs) in a series of research from spring 2022. However, this figure is set to increase substantially as 17 (5.6%) have such a policy emerging through their local plan review. of the county.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 23, 2020

We are presented with a rare opportunity to invest in new innovations, rebuild our data and power infrastructures and supply chains to restore and strengthen the economy while healing the environment. Government policies that stimulated the growth of solar accounted for 60 percent of that price decline. Back to normal is not an option.

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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. E.g. Delta Air Lines and Microsoft Corp pledged to drastically curb their carbon emissions, taking into account the carbon footprint of their associated law firms.

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Canary Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

is beginning to see new growth in domestic manufacturing, driven by investments in breakthrough industrial technologies in the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. After decades of stagnation, the U.S. These two ambitious pieces of legislation — aiming to help companies cut their pollution,…

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 3, 2025

” Penny Simpson, Environmental Law Partner at law firm Freeths, attempted to place the report in context: The fundamental problem with modern economies is that good intentions to try to address problems as they emerge can, over the long run, lead to a steady accretion of rules and regulations which stifle innovation.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

and EU to drop their landmark climate change laws, spreads falsehoods about green policies, and fondly recalls an attempt to cancel a major climate conference. government to spur green technology investment. Truss writes that current environmental policies should be scrapped in favour of a “free market” approach.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

But significant investment and urgent action is required. According to ‘Transport in Scotland: The Road to Net Zero’ – a report published by international law firm Addleshaw Goddard – sector contributors were extremely positive about committing to decarbonising Scotland’s transport sector. per cent per year.

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Solar Power World

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The American Energy Innovation Act (AEIA) will modernize domestic energy laws to ensure the United States remains a global energy leader while also strengthening national security,… The post Senate energy bill includes investment in solar and energy storage appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 13, 2020

What Black and Latinx communities are experiencing is the culmination of four centuries of laws, policies, practices and attitudes engineered to benefit white people. The post How Babcock Foundation is investing its endowment with a focus on racial justice appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 2, 2020

But a significant minority of investors remains wary of shifting regulations, according to research in May from Ashurst, an international law firm. However, 31 percent of respondents said lack of government support was a significant barrier to low-carbon investment. Australian government policy has been similarly inconsistent.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

It’s now been over a year since the UK Environment Act became law. But more than 12 months since the Act became law, some organisations still need to introduce new methods and processes before they can be fully compliant.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 22, 2020

If FERC asserts such jurisdiction in the manner requested by NERA, individual states could lose control over their solar net-metering policies — with myriad implications for the U.S. NERA argues that net-metering generators are Qualifying Facilities (QF) pursuant to the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA).

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2023

McDonald’s is at the forefront of a campaign against new laws to reduce packaging waste in the EU, in what has been described by some insiders as the largest-scale lobbying effort they have ever witnessed in the European Parliament. But policies encouraging reuse, she says, will require “systemic change”.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Intended to fill the policy vacuum emerging from the UK’s departure from the EU on 31 January, the Environment Bill has been eagerly anticipated, and seemingly gives government the power to set legally binding targets on all aspects of the environment in future. Envirotec reports. Plastic waste ban: A red herring? Working with business.

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GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

Blank scholar at UC Davis School of Law. For example, within the investment value chain, investment managers can work with stakeholders such as asset managers and corporations to identify opportunities to financially back innovative and potentially transformative startups in the market aiming to advance a green and fair economy.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  Lots of spice for clean investment this week. The US Clean Investment Monitor published its annual report for 2023, which saw clean investment total $239bn, up 38% from 2022. 14% of total investment came from the feds, with $33.7B 14% of total investment came from the feds, with $33.7B Happy Monday! 

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GreenBiz

JULY 1, 2020

The truck rule follows another California law ( passed in 2018 ) that says all new public transit buses sold must be zero-emission starting in 2029. The combination of these policies makes California one of the most aggressive regions in the world pushing electric trucks and buses. . Subscribe here. Pull Quote.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 8, 2020

regulator Ofgem has approved a revised pricing framework for British transmission networks, one meant to avoid sticking consumers with excessive bills while also allowing for sufficient investment to allow the country to achieve its net-zero targets. On Tuesday, Ofgem revealed a total investment package of at least £40 billion ($53.3

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 1, 2020

For the past nine years, Chicago-based utility ComEd has earned excessive profits from a regulatory structure set in place by a 2011 state law whose passage has been linked to a bribery scandal that’s embroiled key state lawmakers and ComEd’s former CEO. billion smart grid investment plan that included a 4.2-million

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 30, 2019

By 2025, we expect a majority of states to have passed laws setting a renewable energy target between 80 and 100 percent, and we predict some states will have significant renewables penetration, including 50 percent in California and Hawaii and 40 percent in New York. 3 keys to faster progress. Renewables will win on price alone.

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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. State policy makers throughout the country may not realize that they are putting existing hydropower assets at risk.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

Internal BP emails show that its UK executives were reassured by a controversial oil industry group that they could “shape [the] internal thinking” of a 2018 report on carbon taxes produced by the right-wing think tank Policy Exchange. Policy Exchange, the CLC, and BP have been approached for comment.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

What makes the wood pellet strategy even more complicated is that, due to loopholes in the EU climate policy , carbon emissions from burning wood pellets are often never counted. . I’m on family earned land, that my grandaddy was invested in. Carbon loss is measured only when trees are cut, and not when they’re burned for power.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Shareholder proposals provide an early warning signal of risks and opportunities for management and boards," said Heidi Welsh, executive director of the Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2). corporate and securities laws. Policy & Politics. SEC Commissioner Allison Herren Lee disagreed. Shareholder Activism.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

New supermarkets and workplaces would come under the new law, as would major renovations to sites with over 10 parking spaces. The government said the new policy should result in the addition of up to 145,000 new charging points in the country each year. Does the new law apply only to homes that have driveways?

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 28, 2021

Looking back at data on investments in energy storage, we found a few trends which (in conjunction with the fallout from COVID-19) are setting the stage for energy storage’s near-term and long-term growth. Per the IEA’s World Energy Investment 2021 report, energy storage was already losing momentum at the beginning of the COVID?

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The number of operational clean hydrogen production projects worldwide is set to at least double in the next five years, according to research published on 23 October by law firm Pillsbury , with 108 set to start producing the gas by the end of 2028. billion on hydrogen-related companies across 37 deals, while venture firms invested $2.6

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 9, 2020

They have their procedures and policies and contract structures,” he said. Conway has invested in one other solar project, expected to provide annual electricity for 150 homes. Those types of deals often involve more collaboration, Kevin Smith, Lightsource's CEO for the Americas, told GTM. “We have a very full plate.”

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 21, 2024

Pension funds in red states with an “anti-ESG” stance, including those with laws that ban ESG criteria when investing or using taxpayer dollars, have left $159 billion on the table over 12 years, a new study shows.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an "enterprise à mission," a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. That's why Danone has signed the green recovery appeal at the European level, because we believe the transformation and the renegotiation of the agriculture policy is instrumental to that.".

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We must join them If Labour wants an energy transition in which working people don’t foot the bill, it has to address fossil fuel companies’ secret weapon against national climate laws: the energy charter treaty (ECT).

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 6, 2024

Since 2015, Stringer has been a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation , a group founded to contradict established climate science and advocate against policies to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Stringer has vocally questioned climate science and policies to achieve net zero emissions.

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Charged

JUNE 21, 2022

Governor Jared Polis of Colorado has signed SB 193 into law, providing $65 million for an electric school bus grant program. New federal funding for electric school buses is available from the EPA’s Clean School Bus Program, part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 25, 2024

The only way to mitigate those risks is to cut emissions at speed and scale and strengthen the grid – and that requires public policy. Decarbonizing has begun, but public policy is crucial to ensuring the necessary reductions to stabilize the climate. This is especially true when it comes to climate-related policy.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Investor-state dispute settlement” (ISDS) mechanisms allow companies to sue national governments if they believe regulation or unfair competition is impeding their investments. ” Even the threat of such cases is having a chilling effect on public environmental policy, Boyd has found.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

.” The geothermal sector of Saudi Arabia is currently at a very nascent phase, and there will have to be more investment put into research and drilling campaigns. The KAPSARC paper cites the example of the 2020 Saudi mining investment law. “As Baker Hughes, we are also coming in from the service side.

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