Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Policy Changes Turn to the Space Sector As many countries went to the polls in 2024, we are already seeing policy and regulatory shifts as new administrations outline their key priorities and budgets. While governments change, one thing remains constant: Space data truly shines when the public and private sectors come together.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

At the eleventh hour, right-wing politicians have launched a bid to block the passing of the EU’s flagship nature protection law, which scientists have described as a “cornerstone of food security and human health”. Scientists have condemned the call, as well as six other amendments that could see the law delayed or weakened.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Experts from utility companies and civic organizations expressed their support for the draft law to accelerate the approval procedures for geothermal plants, heat pumps, and heat storage facilities , and to amend other legal framework conditions for the climate-neutral expansion of heat supply.

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Canary Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

clean hydrogen policy appears to be stuck in neutral — and not everyone is convinced that’s a bad thing. Last October, seven “clean hydrogen hub” projects were awarded a collective $7 billion in potential funding through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. These massive infrastructure projects are meant to…

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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."

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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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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Mr Noah Law MP visits the Fraddon Biogas Plant on 31 January. Last week, Noah Law MP spoke to industry guests at the Eden Project about the need for Government to ensure biogas meets its potential in delivering Britains clean energy needs. The plant provides renewable gas and electricity for around 2,500 Cornish homes.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 12, 2020

cities and counties transition to clean energy for their own operations and communities, many are finding that stakeholders and policies beyond their jurisdictions affect their ability to purchase clean energy. Influencing statewide energy policy. Partnering with investor-owned utilities. Engaging in state-level regulatory proceedings.

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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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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

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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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The territory's new energy policy became law earlier this year — and regulators are deciding what mix of renewables it has.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Update the law to save lives. The policies and frameworks are there, and all the Government needs to do is update the law. ‘I believe air pollution is one of the greatest public health crises of our time and that good policy can help to reverse some of its distressing implications. . Government.

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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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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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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2020

For Shalanda Baker, a professor of law and public policy at Northeastern University, thinking about a clean energy future means thinking about the daily, weekly and sometimes invisible ways that people in deprived communities can control their power supply. Making sure policies are embedded in them is really important.

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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

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. Instead of being transparent about the risks facing its climate policies, the Government is actively trying to prevent people from seeing them.

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Canary Media

AUGUST 1, 2024

Earlier this year, Puerto Rico passed a law that extends the island’s highly successful rooftop solar program through 2031. Lawmakers and solar advocates say the measure is needed to maintain the clean energy boom that’s helping households and communities across the U.S. territory to keep the lights on during the…

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Canary Media

MARCH 6, 2024

A three-year effort to revamp California’s moribund community-solar market , spurred by state law and backed by solar industry groups, consumer advocates, environmental-justice organizations, labor unions and the state’s homebuilding industry, may now be in jeopardy. On Monday, the California Public Utilities…

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Canary Media

OCTOBER 27, 2023

It took many years of work to establish the federal consumer protection laws and programs that… We like to compare our options before opening our wallets. We want to know what ingredients are in our shampoo and how many calories are in our ice cream.

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Solar Power World

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Maura Healey in November signed a new climate bill into law that prioritizes clean energy siting and permitting, clean energy procurement and net crediting for community solar. Massachusetts legislature passes new climate bill that includes siting, permitting reform Boston, Massachusetts Massachusetts Gov.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MAY 15, 2024

” The new law, which came into effect on the 13th of May, provides the regulatory framework for geothermal exploration and development permitting. and Claire Lai via LinkedIn The post Taiwan publishes new geothermal project development policy first appeared on ThinkGeoEnergy - Geothermal Energy News. Source: Rootlaw.com.tw

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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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Canary Media

JANUARY 7, 2025

Hulking, aging buildings pose a huge climate problem for the United States biggest cities and innovative laws meant to address that challenge are coming into full force this year. In the U.S., buildings can account for up to three-quarters or more of a citys carbon output, mostly from fossil fuels burned for

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 17, 2024

The High Court has given the green light for a judicial review of Michael Gove’s policy on green homes. Good Law Project is supporting Rights Community Action to take Michael Gove’s levelling up department to the High Court. Rights Community Action’s chief executive, Naomi Luhde-Thompson, said: “This is a policy disaster.

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NRDC onEarth

JUNE 29, 2023

The Supreme Court got the facts, the law, and the policy wrong in its recent ruling attacking wetland protections under the Clean Water Act.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In an article published on 9 November in Nature Reviews Earth and Environment , Professor Steve Fletcher, Director of the Global Plastics Policy Centre at the University of Portsmouth, sets out his reasoning for the ambitious target. For the treaty to work it’s vital for there to be a single target and an agreed strategy.”.

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Renew Economy

APRIL 18, 2024

The post Queensland writes clean energy and climate targets into law, but LNP baulks at “risky” renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy. Pressure grows on federal Labor as Queensland passes ambitious 2035 emissions reduction target with bipartisan support. But LNP refuses to agree to renewables target.

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Renew Economy

MAY 28, 2024

The post “Tough cop on the beat,” or new plod enforcing old “broken laws”? Legislation to set up Australia’s first national environment protection agency promises strong new powers and penalties to protect the natural environment. Critics are not so sure.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 23, 2020

Government policies that stimulated the growth of solar accounted for 60 percent of that price decline. Even without those policies — they soon expire — renewables are more than competitive against fossil fuels. The economics of solar and wind including storage costs are quickly undercutting the economics of oil as a prime mover.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 5, 2022

With the right pieces in place, the activist can then step into the role of reformer where they work alongside policymakers to change laws and institutional policies.

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Solar Power World

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Starting on January 1, 2024,… The post A new requirement for California solar projects coming in January 2024 <br><span style='color:#404040;font-weight:600;font-size:15px;'>A law is changing worker pay requirements for some commercial solar projects in the state.</span>

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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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GreenBiz

APRIL 16, 2021

It’s the work of some leading players in this area: ReFED, a nonprofit that works on food waste; WWF; Natural Resources Defense Council; and Harvard’s Food Law and Policy Clinic. A new action plan that’s just eight pages long but packed with game-changing proposals is the best blueprint I’ve seen for how to achieve these gains.

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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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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate. More than a decade ago, national policies laid the groundwork for reducing air emissions in China. Policy & Politics.

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