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California Supreme Court Finds County Ordinance Limiting Oil & Gas Development Preempted by State Law

Legal Planet

But the good news is that this goal can still be achieved through other legal and political strategies. Measure Z by its terms would have barred the drilling of new oil and gas wells in Monterey County and prohibited the use of fracking technology for existing county wells. Measure Z never took effect.

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Book review: The Age of Resilience, by Jeremy Rifkin

A Greener Life

The frequently discussed fear that digital technologies will make millions of workers obsolete? See his 2002 book, two decades before the spate of recent national hydrogen plans. Prizing efficiency above all else, it has been locked in through the economics profession and political systems. He’s also influential.

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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

Mr. Minott holds two degrees in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. 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. from Villanova University School of Law.

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Tuesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 7.11.23

PA Environment Daily

Contact: Max Schultz maxschultz@pa.gov or Glenda Davidson at gldavidson@pa.gov or 717-783-4759. formal notice) Read more here about the agenda [Chapter 105 environmental assessment alternatives analysis] -- PA Eligible To Apply For $76.4 23 [PaEN] -- NextPittsburgh: How Duquesne Light Trains Workers To Fix Power Lines In Pittsburgh -- Gov.

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Solving the proton puzzle

Physics World

That much seemed true when the task group first published an official value of the proton radius – or, more specifically, the average radius of the proton’s electric charge – in 2002. The figure CODATA settled on in 2002 was 0.8750 ± 0.0068 fm, which changed only slightly four years later, remaining a little under 0.88 Courtesy: PSI).

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UNC Nutrient Study: It’s Deja Vu All Over Again (Apologies to Yogi Berra)

Smith Enviorment

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. million in 2017 for another DEQ pilot project to test algaecides and phosphorus-locking technologies to control algal growth.

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Global Anti-Corruption Insights: Winter 2023

Arnold Porter

This marks the second time that the Circuit has sided against the government on an FCPA issue in the Hoskins case, in what has become a nearly decade-long prosecution over conduct that dates back to 2002.[[N: POLICY ANNOUNCEMENTS. Blankfein , No. 19-CV-1562 (VSB), 2022 WL 4292894 (S.D.N.Y. In re Cognizant Tech.

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