Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 28, 2023

A study using longitudinal data from 2002 to 2012 confirms that courses in the social sciences and humanities have the strongest impact on promoting student voting, along with service learning opportunities and being mentored while in college. Another shared attribute was the occurrence of more political action on campus.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 12, 2021

In 2002 the then NASA boss Sean O’Keefe renamed the telescope in honour of Webb, who had served as NASA administrator during the Apollo era. A bureaucrat rather than a scientist, Webb had served in various US government roles since the 1940s.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 9, 2023

The easement is then purchased or donated to a land trust or government agency, which is responsible for enforcing its stipulations. In 2002, amid a severe drought, groundwater levels plunged. A landowner’s water is valued through an appraisal. The easement restricts what can be done with the water. Time was of the essence,” she said.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 10, 2023

In July 2002, in the Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, miners accidentally breached the wall of an adjacent abandoned, flooded mine. Some maps were kept at PA DEP as well as mining companies, some at local government offices, some at academic institutions and even some in people's attics,” Kelly said.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2024

Since 2002, ACCD and ACALPB have collectively preserved 4,223 acres of farmland in the county. ACCD is proud to partner with state and local government to guarantee a future food supply, safeguard green spaces and biodiversity, and support the farmers who feed our communities,” said Heather Manzo, ACCD Executive Director.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The work led him to sharing the 2002 Nobel Prize for Physics for the detection of cosmic neutrinos. The role of the SCJ is to make recommendations to the government and wider society about certain issues. Neutrino pionner: Takaaki Kajita (Courtesy: ICRR). In 2020 he was nominated by the other SCJ members as its president. “I

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Take action by telling the government to hold the oil and gas sector accountable for its pollution by urgently implementing a cap on emissions. Pierce proudly boasts about “driving government policy at federal and state levels” for the benefit of oil and gas companies. Is that you? million gas cars.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 27, 2023

Since the 2022 Pennsylvania State Water Plan isn’t regulatory, the next step is educational outreach to inform legislative, government, advocacy, and business leaders on how they may implement the strategies and actions to benefit all members of their communities. Visit DEP’s State Water Plan webpage for more information.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 14, 2025

These discussions have frequently centered on one key element of corporate governance: fiduciary duties. Writing in 2002, Professor Perry Wallace argued that both the physical threats of climate change and the legal and economic impacts of societys response to those threats will inevitably implicate the heart of corporate governance.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) added acrylamide to the Proposition 65 list of carcinogens in 1990, but acrylamide was not detected in foods until 2002. Acrylamide is not intentionally added to food products but is formed naturally when some foods are cooked or otherwise processed with heat.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Although coal represents less than 5% of Brazil’s energy mix, the federal government plans to invest 20 billion reais (US$3.7 The Bolsonaro government’s new coal plans face barriers to funding and worsen the country’s already worn-out image at COP26. billion) in the world’s most polluting energy source.

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Physics World

JULY 28, 2021

Another great option is to take advantage of government tax incentives. I’m not a financial adviser so do check out the latest official information about both schemes from the UK government website before taking any business decisions. With an ambitious target to raise total investment in R&D to 2.4%

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

He also helped guide the successful rescue of nine miners trapped in the Quecreek Mine in Somerset, Pennsylvania in 2002 and the environmental response to the crash of Flight 93 on September 11, 2001.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 30, 2022

We are up against a huge corporation with deep pockets and an uphill battle with a pro-development government but with your help we can keep building public support to pressure all to do the right thing. We’ve come so far but the heaviest lifting lies ahead.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

See his 2002 book, two decades before the spate of recent national hydrogen plans. A localised bioregional government that can respond to immediate environmental priorities. The frequently discussed fear that digital technologies will make millions of workers obsolete? Rifkin wrote a book about that in 1995. He’s also influential.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 15, 2021

I graduated from the Technical University of Delft’s Policy Analysis and Systems Engineering department in 1999 and after a two-year stint at KPN Research as a consultant, I joined the Ministry of Economic Affairs as an adviser in 2002. Quantum Delta NL recently received € 615m from the Dutch government. How will that be spent?

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Acoel

JULY 19, 2021

The proposed changes are likely to create a lot of confusion about “controls” on contaminated property and could adversely impact prospective purchasers’ ability to assert their Landowner Liability Protections (“LLPs”) under the 2002 Amendments to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (“CERCLA”).

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

2 – Knowledge Underlies Agriculture’s Climate Success Public agricultural research focuses on critical, widely-shared knowledge , yet public funding for agricultural research was cut by a third from 2002 to 2019. The predominant modern government support is the federal crop insurance program.  Taxpayers fund over 60% of the premiums.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Throughout his career, Minott and the Clean Air Council earned a reputation for holding government agencies and fossil fuel companies accountable. In 2002, Scientific American named Dr. Mann one of the fifty leading visionaries in science and technology, and in 2012, he received the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geophysical Union.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

California’s LCFS is causing problems for other states and the federal government. If it did, it would be subject to rules governing offsets that CARB would be required to enforce. dairy herds fell by more than half between 2002 and 2019, with an accelerating rate of decline in 2018 and 2019, even as milk production continued to grow.”

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Washington Nature

DECEMBER 14, 2023

When the Samish Indian Nation established an internship to fund students’ college expenses in 2002, Marco began studying at the University of Washington (UW) with the goal of “incorporating Indigenous knowledge in the marine sciences.” Today, he leads a resurgence in clam gardening, a sustenance staple for Samish people.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 25, 2024

Chester County Commissioners’ Chair Josh Maxwell said, “Ever since Chester County adopted the original Watersheds plan in 2002, it has guided us in protecting and restoring streams, lakes, and groundwater in Chester County.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

By Prof Martin Siegert, University of Exeter (Cornwall) Image: Shutterstock.com 42 governments around the world have agreed to protect Antarctica’s environment. In the ocean, 19 marine heatwaves have been recorded between 2002 and 2018.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 8, 2024

We could not say that at the time, of course -- but the director of that agency was one the folks in state government who later had to look for work elsewhere. Well, I certainly did learn a lot about people, government, and myself during that period, and in the years that followed while TMI's aftermath played out.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Interestingly, this sense of urgency has compelled various scholars, governments, development practitioners, and activists to turn toward the language of security to convey the increasingly dire need to confront widespread ecological change. The Future of Critical Security Studies: Ethics and The Politics OfSecurity. Dabelko (eds.).

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2023

Her team collected Medicare claims data for tens of thousands of patients generated between 2002 and 2015 in both northern Pennsylvania, which experienced a fracking boom, and next-door New York state, where the practice was banned.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 15, 2024

In Darfur, South Kordofan, and the Blue Nile, atrocities have been “fueled by hate speech”—with the government using it to dehumanize blacks and spur the Janjaweed militia’s genocidal violence against them.’ In carrying out its murderous plan, the Young Turk government created the template for the modern genocidal propaganda campaign.

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Arnold Porter

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended, mandates that the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) inspect registered public accounting firms in both the United States and in foreign jurisdictions, and investigate potential standards violations committed by registered public accounting firms and their associated persons.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2022

15 In Pittsburgh -- Reminder: Bucknell University River Symposium Abstracts Due Oct. 16 -- Apply Now For Institute Of Conservation Leadership Delaware River Watershed Professionals Of Color 2022 Cohort [PaEN] -- WHYY: PA Task Force 1 Assists In Search And Rescue Operations Following Hurricane Ian -- EPA Seeking Nominations For Local Govt.

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CEQA Developments

JULY 6, 2021

filing) of the action, not service, and that issue was governed by CEQA’s statute of limitations (Pub. City of San Bernardino Redevelopment Agency (2002) 101 Cal.App.4th The relevant issue was timely commencement (i.e., Resources Code, §§ 21167(a), (d)), not its timing of service provisions (§§ 21167.6, 21167.6.5). Citing Cumming v.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

As a result, greedy businesses, financers and governments all across the globe have been exploiting the valuable resources these million-year-old forests hold. It has also been reported that between the years of 2002 and 2018 more than 20 million hectares of tropical forests were cleared in the Amazon purely for beef production.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Yet, as a former state director of an environmental agency, I’m curious about government-to-government consultations between states and tribes. At the federal level, consultation between executive departments and tribal governments is grounded on the government’s trust responsibility to tribes as confirmed by the U.S.

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The Energy Law

MAY 12, 2016

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), seeking to compel EPA to “fulfill long-delayed nondiscretionary duties” under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) by issuing revised regulations governing oil and gas wastes.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Year after year environmental groups, conservation districts, farmers, local governments oppose the cuts and outline the critical environmental infrastructure needs communities have. This, in spite of the fact the PA Supreme Court has specifically declared $1.3 Read more here. million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5 million; and DEP: $4.2

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Although free seed distribution programs were immensely popular among farmers, emerging private seed breeders and horticulturalists lobbied the federal government to end the program in 1924. The shift toward commercialization of seed began in earnest.

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Acoel

MARCH 9, 2023

In 2002 Congress provided $2 million for the Weather Damage Modification Program (“WDMP”), which was to be administered by the USBR in collaboration with seven states. Federal funding was prevalent for weather modification research between 1960 and 1985 but has been in a general decline since.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 19, 2022

formal notice ) The Plan update, required every five years by Act 220 of 2002, serves as a policy and guidance document providing information, objectives, priorities and recommendations to be considered in a broad range of state, local and private water resource decisions.

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