A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

See his 2002 book, two decades before the spate of recent national hydrogen plans. It never accounted for entropy and the laws of thermodynamics. A localised bioregional government that can respond to immediate environmental priorities. Rifkin wrote a book about that in 1995. He’s also influential. Participative democracy.

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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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CEQA Developments

JULY 6, 2021

38; and (3) due process, all as a matter of law. The Court of Appeal stated that its 2012 “ SPAWN dictum espouses well-settled law regarding “agreements to extend or waive statute of limitations[,]”” i.e., that such agreements do not affect other parties not in privity. City of San Bernardino Redevelopment Agency (2002) 101 Cal.App.4th

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Posted on February 13, 2024 by Peter Lehner The Farm Bill is the most significant environmental law Congress will address this year. The predominant modern government support is the federal crop insurance program.  This third of four blogs explains how it can help American agriculture be more resilient and climate-friendly.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Our analysis looked at drought responses within the upper Klamath Basin—an 8,000-square-mile ecological region that encompasses most of Klamath County and parts of northern California—and drew from interviews from dozens of sources, including scientists, agricultural groups, tribal representatives, conservation experts, and government officials.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Still, given the potential for even more serious damage in the future, government at all levels is taking action to address the issue. The Emerald Ash Borer (EAB), a terrestrial invertebrate native to East Asia, was first discovered in the United States in 2002. VGP), the Coast Guard, and state and local governments. by the U.S.

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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

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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Law of the Lands

AUGUST 17, 2020

AS PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN THE RURAL VOICE : In 1987, the Ontario Government introduced Bill 83, An Act respecting the Protection of Farm Practices, which led to the enactment of Ontario’s first “right to farm” legislation, the Farm Practices Protection Act, 1988. Under the act, a Farm Practices Protection Board will be established.

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CEQA Developments

DECEMBER 17, 2021

action, and discussing general legal principles governing CEQA review under the Commission’s certified regulatory program, the Court examined in detail the Commission’s procedures for de novo review of CDP applications. 2002) 101 Cal.App.4th After reciting the standard of review in a CCP § 1094.5 California Coastal Com.

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The Energy Law

MAY 26, 2023

The Fifth Circuit agreed with the lower court that state statutes and case law characterize SRA-L as an arm of the state; but caveated that the factor was restricted and “given the inconsistent descriptions in the same statutes and the lack of a more-definite characterization in either statute or case law.” [7] Hawkins , 381 F.3d

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Acoel

MARCH 9, 2023

Is this an element of state water law or something new and different? 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. Who is responsible for any collateral consequences? 490, 90 Stat.

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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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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 23, 2021

City & County of San Francisco (2002) 102 Cal.App.4th The Court rejected plaintiff’s argument that CEQA requires analysis of more than the “no project” alternative as a matter of law. Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years. 2008) 43 Cal.4th a), (f).)

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Arnold Porter

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This holding aligns with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) case law interpreting “interested party” status and “direct economic interest” in a multiple award procurement and creates an internal split within the COFC. B-290073, May 20, 2002, 2002 CPD ¶ 86; Recon Optical, Inc.,

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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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Vermont Law

MAY 17, 2023

Decolonizing Through Food Sovereignty By Callum LaFrance , Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law May 17, 2023 Food is the fulcrum point for many people to pry away the tentacles of colonization. 3 (2002) [link] Id. Food sovereignty is the principle behind the leverage. Green Revolution: Curse or Blessing? ,

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

for hiding information about acceleration problems from buyers and government officials, as well as $1 billion in compensation to car owners, after as many as 37 people were reported killed in runaway vehicles. Federal Government (via USA Spending) Toyota contracts with the U.S. It paid out a fine of $1.2 billion in 2014 to the U.S.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On September 23, 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) delivered a landmark decision in Daniel Billy and others v Australia (Torres Strait Islanders Petition) finding that the Australian Government is violating its human rights obligations to the indigenous Torres Strait Islanders through climate change inaction.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 23, 2022

The Growing Greener Program was established by law in 1999 and re-established in 2002 to fund local water quality improvement, recreation and State Park safety and maintenance projects. In addition to the Growing Greener grant, funding for the stream and agricultural BMP work at Shirk Farms was provided by PennDOT and the landowner.

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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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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

1961 – seeks to close existing loopholes and provide additional federal oversight where current state laws do not apply. At first glance, though, existing laws would seem applicable to the spill at Freedom Industries. However, West Virginia law. A new Senate bill – S. First, the area was practically a ticking time bomb.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Edited by Michael Burger (Sabin Center for Climate Change Law), Teresa Parejo (UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network) and Lisa Sachs (Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment). Sumudu Atapattu , Director of Research Centers and Senior Lecturer, University of Wisconsin Law Schoo. Richard School of Law. Michael B.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

By Adam Barnett DeSmog catalogues how oil and gas firms have forged ties with the highest levels of government, the media, and influential think tanks. Jolyon Maugham, director of the Good Law Project, told DeSmog: “Abraham Lincoln spoke of government ‘of the people, by the people and for the people.’ Graph credit: DeSmog.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 6, 2020

In 2002, the North Carolina Environmental Management Commission (EMC) designated Jordan Lake as having impaired water quality due to excess nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus) contributing to algal blooms in the lake. Background. In 2009, the EMC adopted rules to implement the final nutrient management strategy.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 30, 2017

which governs notarial acts of correction: A. (1) 18] In 2002, Petro-Chem, the operator, initiated proceedings to create a compulsory unit encompassing a portion of the minerals subject to the Harts’ mineral servitude. [19] Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University, 2012. Associate, Liskow & Lewis, B.A., 35] See id.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. According to AB Chile, a food industry association, more than 1,500 items, or 20 percent of all products sold in Chile, have been reformulated in response to the law.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. According to AB Chile, a food industry association, more than 1,500 items, or 20 percent of all products sold in Chile, have been reformulated in response to the law.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. According to AB Chile, a food industry association, more than 1,500 items, or 20 percent of all products sold in Chile, have been reformulated in response to the law.

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Arnold Porter

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Moreover, the Final Rules affect corporate governance, proxy statement disclosure and Form 10-K annual reporting, and boards of directors and compensation committees will need to determine how clawbacks would work under each of the issuer’s incentive compensation plans.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 2, 2022

After Decades of Neglect, Bill Coming Due for Michigan’s Water Infrastructure Federal and state governments begin to reverse course on underinvestment to address water’s true cost. percent of GDP in 2002 ($9.3 Trade associations, academia, and local governments are also involved. This story is part one of a ten-part series. .

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Circle of Blue

MAY 3, 2022

By 2002, Flint was $30 million in debt and the state of Michigan stepped in with an emergency financial manager. . Now, Flint residents are back on Detroit water and nearly all of the city’s lead pipes have been removed with the assistance of funding from the state and federal government. million deficit by 2012. Michigan Gov.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 1, 2021

ESG has become such a large component of my law practice that I am now collaborating with a fabulous group attorneys in ESG Legal Solutions, LLC, a new non-law consulting firm. Businesses cannot ignore or refuse to think about the environmental, social and governance (ESG) space; it is not going away.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Reduce energy use per square foot in state-owned buildings by 40% from 2002-2003 levels. The state has already made significant progress toward the first goal as a result of the 2002 Clean Smokestacks Act and 2007 adoption of a renewable energy portfolio standard (REPS) for major energy producers. It also requires preparation of a N.C.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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