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Murray Edwards: The Fossil Fuel Fanatic

Enviromental Defense

With every spill, every fine for violating environmental rules, every increase in emissions, and every lobbying push for subsidies and looser environmental regulations, Edwards cements his place as a true master of fossil-fueled villainy. Let’s just say “safety first” isn’t quite their motto.

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As Drought Grips American West, Irrigation Becomes Selling Point for Michigan

Circle of Blue

Until the early years of this century, Michigan regulators and lawmakers paid scant attention to the supply of groundwater. In 2001, a group of Mecosta County residents sued to stop Nestlé, the world’s largest food company, from depleting a spring to fill its Ice Mountain water bottles. trillion gallons to 3 trillion gallons.

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Is York Region about to Hit the Accelerator on Car-Dependent Sprawl?

Enviromental Defense

Bowing to months of behind-the-scenes manipulation by politically-connected landowners and their allies at Queen’s Park, York Region Council is set to vote September 16th on a plan that would commit it for the next 30 years to the paving of countryside at more than double the rate it has since 2001. .

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Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. We need governments to regulate industry. CAPP is trying to buy and build the social license (ie. She also believes in getting the job done outside of the office.

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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

In order to steer investment toward environmentally sustainable activities, the European Union launched the Taxonomy Regulation framework to define activities deemed sustainable. Their inclusion appears to be the result of a political compromise with Member States rather than of scientific appraisal as in the case of nuclear energy.

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The EU’s challenge with renewable energy expansion: What is the way forward?

Environmental Europe

In a new open access paper , recently published in the journal West European Politics , we argue that the EU’s challenge has emerged from legislative change and the way in which the Member States contribute to achieving the EU’s overall renewable energy targets. West European Politics, doi: [link]. Schoenefeld, J. J., & Knodt, M.

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Testimony before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce 2021 Texas Grid Failure

Environmental Progress

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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