A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

in 2015 to 13.3% In China, government plans to peak and neutralise national carbon emissions, and for a wholesale green transition , have caused a boom in “green employment”. Even the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement had only a small impact on employment. The share of green employment in the global total rose from 9.6%

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. SEC 2015) Croctail Subsidiary Tool using the CorpWatch API - This API extracts the subsidiary relationship information from Exhibit 21 of companies' 10-K filings with the US SEC. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. SEC 2015) Croctail Subsidiary Tool using the CorpWatch API - This API extracts the subsidiary relationship information from Exhibit 21 of companies' 10-K filings with the US SEC. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. SEC 2015) Croctail Subsidiary Tool using the CorpWatch API - This API extracts the subsidiary relationship information from Exhibit 21 of companies' 10-K filings with the US SEC. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. SEC 2015) Croctail Subsidiary Tool using the CorpWatch API - This API extracts the subsidiary relationship information from Exhibit 21 of companies' 10-K filings with the US SEC. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

to reducing their carbon emissions. In August 2015, the Obama administration announced the. which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. Nevertheless, in December 2015, 195 countries adopted an. social cost of carbon. carbon dioxide. jointly committed.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. SEC 2015) Croctail Subsidiary Tool using the CorpWatch API - This API extracts the subsidiary relationship information from Exhibit 21 of companies' 10-K filings with the US SEC. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. SEC 2015) Croctail Subsidiary Tool using the CorpWatch API - This API extracts the subsidiary relationship information from Exhibit 21 of companies' 10-K filings with the US SEC. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. SEC 2015) Croctail Subsidiary Tool using the CorpWatch API - This API extracts the subsidiary relationship information from Exhibit 21 of companies' 10-K filings with the US SEC. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2016

This is not the first time that the legislature has diverted RGGI proceeds for other purposes—it also diverted $90 million in 2009 and $41 million in 2015 to the general fund. If the Senate proposal is approved, the diversions will total $269 million—nearly 30% of the $925.8

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 12, 2021

While the CRC rejected the youth petitioners’ claim as inadmissible, it found that each State has duties to address climate harm outside its own territory, and therefore can be held responsible for the negative impact of its carbon emissions on the rights of children within and outside its territory.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 20, 2021

Of Agriculture: Secretary To Tour Urban Gardens Building Resilient Communities -- Ag Progress Days: Exhibits Focus On Animal, Plant Diseases, Invasive Pests [Aug. Seeks Cooperation With China On Climate, But Not At Any Price -- Financial Times: U.S.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

As a result, Costa Rica began to implement stricter environmental regulations, new conservation policies and changes in the agricultural market. The potential for trees to capture carbon emissions through photosynthesis seems crucial to the recent upsurge. million tonnes of CO2 between 2014 and 2015.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 19, 2023

Rushlow, Vermont Law & Graduate School On May 11, 2023, the Biden administration proposed new regulations to curb carbon pollution from existing power plants. The new rules replace the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, which was proposed in 2015 but ran into multiple legal challenges and never took effect.

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Manning Law

APRIL 4, 2021

Parliament passed the GGPPA based on an international consensus that greenhouse gas emissions contribute to global climate change. Countries around the world committed to drastically reduce their greenhouse gas emissions under the 2015 Paris Agreement. The Federal Carbon Pricing Scheme Is Not A Tax.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Brazil’s National Policy on Climate Change ( NPCC and subsequent regulation ) was adopted in 2009 based on Brazil’s international commitments with the UNFCCC. The NPCC establishes a binding commitment to reduce GHG emissions between 36.1% Omissions from the Brazilian government on climate policy. by 2020 against a 2010 baseline.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Circuit concluded that EPA had acted arbitrarily and capriciously in determining that the four elements of the regulations that had been stayed met these requirements. The court said the administrative record “makes clear that industry groups had ample opportunity to comment on all four issues on which EPA granted reconsideration.”

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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Embodied carbon is particularly important because it contributes more climate changing emissions during construction than 30 years of operational carbon from a typical newly constructed LEED certified office building! It is widely accepted that existing buildings generate nearly 40% of annual global carbon emissions.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The plan must specifically address how EPA will consider the effects of Clean Air Act regulation on the coal industry. Opponents of EPA Carbon Standards for New Coal-Fired Power Plants Filed Initial Briefs. Circuit to Consolidate Methane Standards Challenge with Other Challenges to Emissions Standards in Oil and Gas Sector.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Most of these pieces were about the company’s support for a seemingly independent network of anti-regulation, “free-market” nonprofits that spread falsehoods about the reality and seriousness of climate change. And since 2015, they have claimed that their company supports the goals of the Paris climate agreement, which was brokered that year.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

4] Some energy experts and reporters have contended that Texas regulators did not expect to rely on wind to provide much electricity during the cold snap, and rather had relied on natural gas and other thermal power plants. This hour saw a difference of 28.9 GW between expected demand and delivered generation. [4]

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Except for the 2015 Constitution of Nepal, none of the constitutions of South Asian countries includes a justiciable right to a healthy environment. Compare the 2015 IUCN Draft Covenant on Environment and Development. A drafting process similar to that of the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals should be adopted.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

The case involved an Idaho couple who wanted to develop over a wetland on their property near a lake; all nine justices on the high court concurred that the EPA went too far in regulating the particular wetland on the couple’s property. In this latest case, the high court didn’t even bother with narrow buffer zones.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

At issue in this case is whether and how the EPA can set standards for carbon emissions at power plants. The coal industry and conservative states want the high court to limit EPA’s powers solely to the regulation of individual power plants. Climate Change on the Docket. They appear to have a sympathetic ear in Justice Alito.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 5, 2023

In 2015, then again in 2020, the number of burned acres from wildfires crossed the 10 million-acre mark. Without major reductions in the carbon emissions fueling global warming, the impacts on the parks would be endless. On this morning, the view was obscured by a golden dust bowl as smoke settled in the valley.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

11] Part of the reason for inadequate in-state electricity supply in California last August was that state regulators had closed in-state baseload power plants. 13] California regulators in 2020 over-estimated the contribution they could reasonably expect from renewables. gigawatts of highly-reliable, low-cost, and low-carbon power. [49]

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

It is a practice and a philosophy, utilizing scientific tools and methods with applied ethics, and, where necessary, regulation and environmental law to limit the use of certain materials. Working to maintain biodiversity is conservation (regulate), making it illegal to build in a designated wilderness zone is preservation (eliminate).

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 10, 2019

When Ukraine fell victim to a cyber-attack on their grid in 2015 that caused widespread blackouts across the country, the United States directed attention to the cybersecurity of our electric grid. Each of the 50 states has a commission that regulates the utilities industry within their state boundaries.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

emissions in the RGGI region would have been approximately 24 percent higher in 2015 but for the program, which took effect in 2009. [5]. At the same time, it is estimated that through 2015, RGGI generated approximately $2.9 and that the investment of RGGI allowance auction proceeds in 2015 alone will return $2.31

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gases, established in litigation in 2007, now seems beyond question. Emissions standards for new cars temporarily stalled under Trump but are nonetheless much tighter than they were before Obama. should not enter into any climate agreement that fails to limit emissions from developing countries.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Brett Walton 2021-09-22 04:00:14 2021-11-29 20:37:05 Toxin Levels Spike, Prompting Drinking Water Emergency in Northern California ‘Eyes in the Sky’ Help Police California Water Use 0 Comments / September 9, 2021 Satellite data is one monitoring tool regulators turn to in this very dry year. Brett Walton. Laura Gersony.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2024

Unless the Court moderates its views, future regulations will face tough sledding. And would the limits be set by regulations applying to entire industries, or on a facility-by-facility basis? The case involved EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act. Train, 420 U.S.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. Circuit vacated the 2015 rule to the extent that it prohibited continued use of HFCs by companies that previously switched to HFCs from an ozone-depleting substance. In Mexichem , the D.C.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed new power plant carbon pollution standards that, if strengthened, would go a long way to help meet the Biden administration’s goal of slashing carbon emissions in half from 2005 levels by the end of this decade. EN: First, why are these new standards such a big deal?

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ESA

AUGUST 29, 2022

Joe Manchin (D-WV), the bill will reduce carbon emissions by 40% from 2005 levels by 2030. NOAA NMFS – Implementation of Provisions of the Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing Enforcement Act of 2015 and the Ensuring Access to Pacific Fisheries Act. Written comments on Amendment 32 must be received on or before Sept.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

The Supreme Court sharply limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to slash carbon pollution from power plants. The justices told EPA that it can set carbon emissions standards based only on interventions at individual power plants.

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