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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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Investors Need to Know the Full Scope of Corporate Carbon Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

In 2001, the GHG Protocol published the first version of its Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard , which contained sector-specific tools for corporations. The standard includes 15 categories of Scope 3 emissions, such as transportation and distribution of products, employee travel, and use of commercial products.

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German Renewable Energy Act (EEG Novelle 2021) - Considerable Changes Proposed

Energy and Climate Law

Enacted in 2001, it survived several amendments and revisions, changing from a feed-in tariff regime to a, specific German, feed-in premium modell. Wind Farm Waste – Emerging Issues with Decommissioning and Waste Regulation in the EU, Denmark and the United Kingdom. F. , & Nieuwenhout, C. OGEL , 2018 (2).)

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How Tobacco Companies Created the Disinformation Playbook

Union of Concerned Scientists

See in particular Doll and Hill’s famous 1954 paper on the British Doctors’ Study , a long-term prospective cohort study that lasted from 1951 to 2001. And as an aside, Bradford Hill was also one of the pivotal scientists that helped build evidence of a link between smoking and lung cancer.

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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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How a Federal Drought Relief Program Left Southern Oregon Parched—and Contributed to the Ongoing Groundwater Crisis in the West

Circle of Blue

In 2001, the Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), a federal agency that manages the agricultural water supply within the basin, began paying farmers to pump large amounts of groundwater out of the aquifers below. Then came new conservation regulations and litigation that complicated USBR’s water obligations.

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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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