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Reducing Your Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Greenbuilding Law

As governments enact mandatory greenhouse gas emission laws and as businesses voluntarily make “net zero” pledges, we are increasingly working with organizations, first to understand and calculate their GHG emissions, then to implement strategies for efficacious yet frictionless reductions. Air conditioning and refrigeration.

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Tenants Monetizing their Greenhouse Gas Emission Data

Greenbuilding Law

In response to new building energy performance standards and other laws requiring reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from buildings, tenants are beginning to monetize their GHG emission data, including their utility data. local property tax credits, reselling of aggregated data, public utility incentives, etc.). Trillion (.

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Halftime Report: Environmental Bills Moving Forward 

Legal Planet

One aspect of the bill requires no less than 60% of the retail hydrogen produced or dispensed be qualified clean hydrogen by 2045. The Pathway to Clean Energy Buildings ( AB 593 ) by Assemblymember Matt Haney tasks cities and counties with adopting a strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for the building sector.

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Diesel is the Reason for the Sneezin’: Cleaner Holiday Deliveries are on the Horizon

Union of Concerned Scientists

According to the National Retail Federation , around 20 percent of shopping occurs during November and December. But while greenhouse gas emissions may be reduced, a delivery fulfilled by a diesel-burning truck may lead to increases in emissions of smog-forming nitrogen oxides and lung-damaging particulate matter.

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Environmental Sustainability Is Fashionable, But New Bill Presents Hurdles to Industry

E2 Law Blog

Kathy Hochul’s State of the State address, in which she endorsed a suite of progressive environmental policies including product stewardship laws governing the paper and packaging industry, the New York Legislature has introduced a bill targeting environmental sustainability disclosures in the fashion and apparel industry.

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Recap of 2023 CEQA Amendments Now In Effect

CEQA Developments

The Legislature also increased efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions with the passage of Assembly Bill 1279 and Senate Bill 1020, setting net zero emissions targets and renewable energy and zero-carbon targets for California retail electricity sales. None of the amendments, however, more broadly limit CEQA’s reach.

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What’s Up With Water – June 14, 2022

Circle of Blue

According to Reuters, government officials have been threatened and attacked when visiting illegal mining areas in Bolivia’s Amazon region. In Egypt, government ministers are planning to expand the country’s use of desalinated water to meet the demands of a fast-growing population.

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