Youths sue U.S. government over climate inaction An unprecedented massive legal campaign led by young Americans is playing out in courtrooms across the nation http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/4/youth-sue-governmentforclimateinaction.html May 4, 2014 2:16PM ET Updated May 5, 2014 2:14PM ET by Amel Ahmed @amelscript Young people across the country are suing several government agencies …
Sustainable Development Update – 16 April 2014 – Sustainable Development Policy & Practice
A compilation of items recently posted to the Sustainable Development Policy & Practice knowledgebase Latest News – 16 April 2014 IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings Emphasize Climate Change, Sustainable Development 13_April_2014: The Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group (WBG) brought together officials, …
White House Targets Methane Emissions
White House Targets Methane Emissions On March 28, the white house released a multi-pronged strategy to reduce methane emissions from a variety of sources, a step the administration says is an outgrowth of the President’s Climate Action Plan announced last year. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, about 20 times more potent …
China’s Plan to Clean Up Air in Cities Will Doom the Climate, Scientists Say
Exclusively on InsideClimate News, This Year’s Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting Harper Govt Makes Moves to Silence Canada’s Leading Environmental Groups In both the United States and Canada, pipelines and President Obama has encouraged tar sands policies. Read more. China’s Plan to Clean Up Air …
Quarterly Clean-Tech Law Alert: 2014 Policy Outlook; Regional GHG Initiative; Clean-tech IPO Market
January 2014 Quarterly Clean-Tech Law Alert Legal Insight for the Clean-Tech Community Partner Announcement Clean Edge has teamed up with Mintz Levin to provide key legal updates for the clean-tech community on a quarterly basis. The following articles and legal updates were written by Mintz Levin. See contact information at the bottom …
Oilprice article for Ethical Markets: New EPA Rule Requires Chemical Disclosure for Offshore Fracking
New EPA Rule Requires Chemical Disclosure for Offshore Fracking The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency published a rule on January 9, 2014 requiring oil and gas companies using hydraulic fracturing off the coast of California to disclose the chemicals they discharge into the ocean. Oil and gas companies have been fracking offshore California …
World First E-Waste Map Reveals National Volumes, International Flows
For release: 07:00 GMT Sunday December 15, 2013 The first “E-Waste World Map” has been created by UN organizations, industry, governments, non-government and science organizations through their “Solving the E-Waste Problem (StEP)” initiative. By 2017, world volumes of end-of-life e-products is expected to be 33% higher than 2012 and weigh the …
Alternative Energy: Buenos Aires LED Streetlamp Retrofit — 125,000 Streetlamps Being Replaced With LEDs
Alternative Energy Buenos Aires LED Streetlamp Retrofit — 125,000 Streetlamps Being Replaced With LEDs Posted: 03 Nov 2013 11:00 PM PST Filed under: Energy News Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal” Public Education Campaign is Just the Start Posted: 03 Nov 2013 03:00 PM PST Filed under: Energy News Suntech Has A …
Alternative Energy: Can a Tech Specific Policy Exist in a Carbon Market?
Alternative Energy Can a Tech Specific Policy Exist in a Carbon Market? Posted: 10 Aug 2013 02:00 AM PDT Filed under: Energy News NREL Uses Corning’s Flexible Willow Glass to Develop Cheap, Efficient Solar Shingles Posted: 09 Aug 2013 12:00 PM PDT Filed under: Energy News Cheers and Jeers: Reality …
Climate Change is the Next $10 Trillion Opportunity
By Jigar Shah, July 2, 2013 With a 20% shift in our annual infrastructure spending from 20th century technology to 21st century technology we can drive a new global $10 trillion economy by 2020. That was an undercurrent in a powerful speech President Obama delivered last week, demanding EPA …