DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 13, 2021

Read time: 6 mins Four environmental groups sued Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) chief Andrew Wheeler last week, alleging that the agency stood by while Texas failed to enforce the nation’s federal environmental laws and adequately control air pollution in the state.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

By Gauthier Eppe Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are toxic chemicals that pose a significant threat to human health and the environment. References [1] Lallas, Peter L., “The Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants.” ” American Journal of International Law 95.3 Accessed October 27, 2023.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2022

Common air pollutants from both urban and rural environments may be reducing the pollinating abilities of insects by preventing them from sniffing out the crops and wildflowers that depend on them, new research seems to show. The theory is that the pollutants react with and change the scents of flowers, making them harder to find.

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Rules would require firms to report emissions, find and fix leaks, and limit wasteful venting and flaring The EU has struck a deal that will force the fossil fuel industry to rein in dangerous methane pollution. The measures include finding and fixing leaks, and limiting wasteful practices such as venting and flaring gas by 2027.

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NRDC onEarth

JANUARY 4, 2024

After decades of violating state environmental law to benefit its largest shipping customer, the Port of Los Angeles must take long-overdue measures to protect the health and well-being of residents and workers from diesel exhaust and other air pollutants, the.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 30, 2020

Businesses will not face any repercussions for polluting American air, land or water, as long as they can claim their practices are related to COVID-19.

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Charged

MAY 11, 2023

EV advocacy group FairCharge is calling for the UK to change what it calls outdated laws that are holding back the EV conversion industry. By law, the UK’s Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) is required to retain CO 2 emission ratings in vehicle logbooks for all cars built after 2001, even if they’ve been converted to electric power.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

This transferred the polluting plants to different owners, meaning that the plants will still contribute to global emissions. The BBC StoryWorks articles didn’t provide information about the company’s existing polluting activities, or the global need to rapidly scale-down oil, gas, and coal production.

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NRDC onEarth

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Dominion IRP Plan Shrinks from Making Climate Solutions a Core Business Competency, Opts Instead for the Regulatory Risk of Noncompliance with Virginia Air Laws

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NRDC onEarth

APRIL 28, 2023

The legislation reverses over 150 years of legal precedent and lifts one of the few substantive requirements of America’s antiquated and regressive general mining law.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2024

His current focus is on the impact kitchen-based air pollution has on vulnerable communities and the impact green-blue-gray infrastructure (such as trees, lakes and stormwater ) has on mitigating air pollution and excessive heat in towns and cities.” The award is named after Dr Arie J. ”

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Grist

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Efforts like these took aim at pollutants like the group of chemicals known as aerosols, which include sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and other compounds that are harmful to human health. Some studies estimate that, without aerosol pollution, the world might have already warmed by another half a degree Celsius. Clean Air Act.

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Green Living Guy

JUNE 7, 2021

There is the problem of plastic pollution, climate change, the death of animals, insects, and flowers,… Read More How Eco Laws Benefit the Environment. The post How Eco Laws Benefit the Environment appeared first on Green Living Guy. There are so many environmental issues that seem to have no solution at all.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 3, 2024

1 As not-for-profit Good Law Project explained, the Environmental Law Foundation (ELF), backed by Good Law Project and represented by Hausfeld, brought an intervention in the hearing. Last year the company discharged untreated sewage 97,500 times for a duration of over 650,000 hours.

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Canary Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

North Carolina regulators on Friday accepted Duke Energy’s controversial plan for curbing carbon pollution, a blueprint that ramps up renewable energy and ratchets down coal power but also includes 9 gigawatts of new plants that burn natural gas. This story was first published by Energy News Network.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2023

Elite law schools in the United States are disproportionately funneling their students into jobs serving fossil fuel clients, according to a new report published Thursday. LSCA, an organization of law students working to hold the legal sector accountable for its role in the climate crisis, has previously scrutinized the top ranked U.S.

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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. These two ambitious pieces of legislation — aiming to help companies cut their pollution,… After decades of stagnation, the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

According to Johnathan White, lawyer and expert on corporate climate accountability at environmental law charity ClientEarth, this is because sustainability communication has “gone through the roof,” especially over the past five years. That’s how PR strategies work.” What Constitutes Greenwashing? Greenwashing isn’t a new strategy.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The UK government has appointed a law firm with a history of defending fossil fuel companies over environmental disasters to provide legal services for the upcoming COP26 climate summit. While DLA Piper highlights its environmental credentials in the announcement, the international law firm — whose global revenue last year was over £1.5

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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. The European Parliament is expected to vote on the law in the next 12 months.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 30, 2024

The Tribunal confirmed that States party to UNCLOS must take measures to prevent marine pollution caused by climate change, on top of their obligations under the Paris Agreement. Davies , Sophie J. Lamb KC , Michael D. Those that fail to do so face the risk of future UNCLOS proceedings.

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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. Fracking for shale gas is a controversial practice that risks causing air, water, and noise pollution. The new book by former Prime Minister Liz Truss urges the UK, U.S.

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Rinexii

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The new law will require oil producers to monitor their preproduction and beginning stages of production in the state much more strictly. This new law is thought to be the first of its kind for the US. The Air Commision plans to monitor Methane, Benzene, and other pollutants. This may not be the end of law changes.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 4, 2021

Reducing the reliance of water companies on storm overflows is important to help cut pollution in waterways, and earlier this year the Government announced it was working with Philip Dunne MP on shared ambitions to tackle high levels of sewage in UK rivers, following the introduction of his Private Member’s Bill in 2020.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

One challenge which EMR faces is how it handles a series of non-biodegradable chemicals found in some plastics which are categorised as Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). Scientists have only realised more recently that they create persistent pollution problems. The impact on EMR’s operations is – in some ways – profound.

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Eco-Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The push for domestic laws to punish haze-causing companies comes days after a spat between Malaysia and Indonesia over the origin of severe air pollution in Sarawak linked to burning peatlands.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

Detailed analysis of more than 100 EU exit statutory instruments laid by Defra prompts campaigners to warn of 'significant governance gaps in the application, interpretation and enforcement of environmental law' post-Brexit. Ministers have insisted that the process was necessary to ensure continuity of environmental legislation.

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NRDC onEarth

JULY 31, 2023

The law will target the emissions and other air pollution that come through people’s windows from nearby pizza restaurants.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

A useful way to think about the effort and timescales required is to consider the " Carbon Law ," which was coined by my friend Johan Rockström. Despite the name, this isn’t a physical "law" of the universe but rather a set of recommendations. So, what does the Carbon Law say? The Carbon Law outlines a possible path forward.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Ocean microplastic concentrations from water samples captured by sailors during The Ocean Race 2022-23 Three of the world’s top five hotspots for marine microplastic pollution are in Europe, according to new data collected by sailors and teams competing in The Ocean Race. Microplastics captured ranged from 0.03 millimetres to 4.6

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

For the good of future generations, we must retain existing laws and improve protections for nature, writes Joan Edwards, director of policy for The Wildlife Trusts. Instead, the UK Government is pursuing a dangerous agenda of deregulation that puts the very laws protecting wildlife at even greater risk. They defend 18.8

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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The group says that its members are “companies across the CCUS industry” including “support services in the energy sector” such as law, banking and consultancy. Carbon capture and storage, and the extension of the technology, CCUS, has been touted by major polluters as a way to cut their production emissions to meet climate targets.

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2022

Defra confirms new legal duty to be placed on water companies to reduce nutrient pollution by 2030, as it looks to ease planning barriers for new housing projects. These nutrients can speed up the growth of certain plants and have devastating impacts on natural habitats.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2022

Wildlife charity RSPB has urged Tory leadership candidates Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss to "urgently" commit to protecting nature laws, claiming that recent anti-regulation rhetoric from both candidates could jeopardise the UK's nature protection goals.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The United Nations is being urged to make a bold pledge and set a target of zero for new plastic pollution by 2040 in its upcoming Global Treaty to End Plastic Pollution. Plastic production and subsequent pollution are key drivers of climate change, the focus of discussion at COP27 in Egypt this week.

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