Fri.Jan 27, 2023

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E2 Law Podcast: Episode 20 | Empire Environmental – Review of New York’s Cap-and-Invest Program to Reduce Emissions and Achieve Climate Goals

E2 Law Blog

The program is expected to help New York meet the requirements of the 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act of cutting greenhouse gas emissions 40% by 2030 and at least 85% by 2050, both below 1990 levels.

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Debunking five myths that oil and gas executives want you to believe

Enviromental Defense

In 2019, there were 170,000 people employed in the fossil sector fuel, working across seven major fossil fuel sub-sectors such as exploration, development, extraction, refining, processing, distribution and fossil-fuel based electricty generation. The fossil fuel sector directly accounts for less than 1 per cent of all jobs in Canada.

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Analysis: New pipelines will fragment Assam’s protected forests, say environmentalists

A Greener Life

In the Doomdooma Forest Division, Chetry said that during a study in 2019-20, “we could not sight a single gibbon in eight reserve forests out of the 20 reserve forests in the division”.