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RE to comprise 30 percent of UK mix

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
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  • May 15 2011

The United Kingdom's Committee on Climate Change released its Renewable Energy Review May 9

Britain releases carbon budget

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 22 2011

British Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne announced May 17 that the government will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent from 1990 levels by 2027

British commission report signals high capital requirements

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Global, United Kingdom
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  • May 27 2011

Under current plans being considered by the British Independent Commission on Banking, British banks could be subject to capital requirements up to half as much as their minimum equity

CDP improves metric

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 24 2011

The Carbon Disclosure Project announced October 20 that it will begin scoring greenhouse gas emissions reports provided to its Supply Chain initiative

UK makes wind cuts

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 24 2011

The United Kingdom announced October 21 that it will cut subsidies for onshore and offshore wind power while more than doubling those for wave and tidal energy as it works to save approximately $2 billion while also meeting its greenhouse gas reduction targets

UK Bribery Act: understanding & mitigating risks

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • September 8 2011

US companies doing business throughout the world, having become comfortable with compliance programs under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, must now brace for new enforcement initiatives compelled by the UK Bribery Act of 2010, which went into effect in July 2011

UK Cookie Law “grace period” expires enforcement to begin

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • May 30 2012

While those of us in the United States were observing Memorial Day and enjoying the unofficial start of summer, the grace period from enforcement of the UK “Cookie Law” expired on Sunday, May 27th

EU ETS aviation list updated

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
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  • February 19 2012

The European Commission published an updated list February 11 of airlines and aviation companies subject to the European Union’s Emissions Trading System for greenhouse gases

UK fracking

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • United Kingdom
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  • April 22 2012

An independent panel recommended to the Department for Energy and Climate Change April 17 that shale gas drilling operations may resume in the United Kingdom as long as precautionary operational procedures are taken to reduce the risk of earthquakes

Fracking in the UK

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
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  • July 1 2012

On June 29, the United Kingdom’s Royal Society released, Shale Gas Extraction in the UK: A Review of Hydraulic Fracturing, claiming the health, safety, and environmental risks associated with hydraulic fracturing are manageable, provided there exists strong regulation and monitoring of well casing and cementing