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. The overall "cap" lowers every year, forcing polluters to reduce their emissions or purchase allowances from others who do. As the U.S.

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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

APRIL 25, 2024

Proposed global treaty to curb production represents challenge to producers of fossil fuels, from which most plastics are made The number of fossil fuel and petrochemical industry lobbyists at UN talks to agree the first global treaty to cut plastic pollution has increased by more than a third, according to an analysis. Continue reading.

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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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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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2025

If only the governing United Conservative Party applied those laudable principles to oil sands companies that repeatedly flout legal requirements not to pollute waterways, air and land. million based on the scale of the pollution. Apparently, it depends on whos breaking the law. This is simply unacceptable.

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Canary Media

JANUARY 8, 2025

On December 26, lawmakers passed the Climate Change Superfund Act , modeled after federal and state Superfund laws that retroactively force polluters to New York state will soon force major oil and gas companies to pay up for mounting climate damages caused by the burning of their products over the last two decades.

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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

MARCH 21, 2025

Authors of the study, published in Nature Climate Change, said their findings suggested that laws modelled on a first-of-its kind fossil fuel ad ban introduced in The Hague in the Netherlands in January could be popular elsewhere in Europe.

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Renew Economy

APRIL 17, 2024

Without reformed environment protection laws, the Safeguard Mechanism – the government’s main plan to drive down emissions from large polluters – won't work properly. The post Australia’s stronger environmental laws just got indefinitely deferred. We have a cart, but no horse appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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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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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

There was a failure to carry out a lawful consultation exercise. Incineration does not pay for the burden that its pollution places on society and there is currently no requirement for operators to reduce carbon emissions. “I This is wrong in law.

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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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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 5, 2025

percent of the worlds carbon dioxide pollution alone in 2023, the report found. The years top carbon polluters were a mix of investor-owned and state-owned or national companies but they have one thing in common. And their lobbying efforts took aim at regulating climate-altering pollution or sought to impede the energy transition.

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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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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The Science Based Targets initiative makes clear that greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution must halve by 2030. For investors, the acceleration question is: What are the companies in your portfolio doing in 2021 to cut pollution by 10 to 15 percent this year? lawmakers that industrial-scale pollution for profit was warming the planet.

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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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DeSmogBlog

MAY 23, 2024

million since December 2019 from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and individuals who have expressed or supported climate science denial, DeSmog can reveal. The anti-net zero party Reform UK has received more than £2 million in polluting donations since December 2019, accounting for more than 90 percent of its funding.

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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. Environmental capacity.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 31, 2023

In recent months, concerns about nutrient pollution from intensive chicken units, livestock farming and from sewage have escalated on both sides of the Welsh-English border, with phosphate and other pollutants fuelling algal blooms that turn the river into ‘pea soup’.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Environmental and business groups urge government to ditch plans for bonfire of retained EU law ahead of Commons debate today. Prevention of air and water pollution, protection of precious wildlife and habitats, precautions against hazardous chemical use - they are all put at risk by the Retained EU Law Bill," he said. "If

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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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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

These included the reduction of total pollution incidents by at least one-third compared with 2012 and for incident self-reporting to be at least 75%. The results come the week after Southern Water was sentenced to pay a record-breaking £90m fine after pleading guilty in court to 6971 unpermitted pollution discharges.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 3, 2023

Good Law Project is supporting the Marine Conservation Society , Richard Haward’s Oysters and surfer and activist Hugo Tagholm as they argue that the Government’s strategy is inadequate, allowing water companies to pollute waters and beaches for another 27 years. This hearing is a huge moment for the future of our rivers and seas.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MARCH 18, 2025

704 (2025), which held that while the Clean Water Act (CWA) authorizes the inclusion of narrative (non-numeric) criteria in National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits, it does not authorize end-result requirements. Environmental Protection Agency , 145 S.Ct.

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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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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 24, 2025

Handbook outlines practical ways faith organisations can speak truth to power to help protect planet Christians around the world are being encouraged to take legal action against polluters and those who finance them.

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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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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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