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Massachusetts Passes Climate Bill Focused on Clean Energy and Offshore Wind

Law and Environment

5060 ), titled An Act Driving Clean Energy and Offshore Wind, into law on Thursday August 11, 2022. GW by 2027. DPU is instructed to study how to make it easier for communities to adopt geothermal heating and cooling systems. Governor Baker signed the climate bill ( H.5060

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Brooklyn startup addresses gun violence with climate jobs

A Greener Life

The program provides paid, on-the-job training to New Yorkers who live in neighbourhoods with high rates of gun violence, with the aim of starting them on their way to a career in the city’s fast-growing green construction and clean energy trades. “I thought he was a pretty cool dude,” Kinch says.

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RePlanet Nederland’s review of the draft Delegated Regulation on nuclear energy and gaseous fossil fuels in the sustainable finance taxonomy

Environmental Progress

Summary: The expiry date on nuclear energy is baseless, arbitrary and serves no useful purpose. It will cause uncertainty and add unnecessary costs and deployment bottlenecks which could delay climate mitigation and the transition to a clean energy system of Member States.

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President Biden Outlines Comprehensive Plan for Federal Sustainability

Clean Energy Law

On December 8, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order on Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability (EO), which aims to set the federal government — the largest purchaser in the country with an annual purchasing power of $650 billion — on a path to net zero emissions by 2050.

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 “Job-killing” or “Overheating the Economy”? Which Is It??

Legal Planet

That attack has now been joined by the claim that major new spending for clean energy is overheating the economy. In fact, we might need even stricter environmental regulations to help cool the economy and cut inflation. billion of gross value added (in 2021 prices) and 501,000 jobs in 2027 in areas of nonattainment.” (I

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