Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The report also pitched liquid manure to the top of the list of causes of the harmful algal blooms that have inundated the big lake every summer since 2003. Government agencies, nevertheless, are trying. Government pays all or a share of the cost of implementing the practices. There’s no way to stop it from reaching tiles.”.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. We need governments to regulate industry. Under Baiton’s leadership, CAPP has lobbied the federal government 74 times in the first 9 months of 2023 – that’s once every 2.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2023

The US government therefore has a vested interest in keeping the COFA agreements alive and maintaining good relationships with these countries. The RMI compact was renewed in 2003, and now all three Compacts are up for renewal: the Compacts with Micronesia and the Marshall Islands will expire Oct 2023, and Palau’s will expire in 2024.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 2, 2021

With the federal government now projecting that Lake Mead will drop precipitously in the next two years — perhaps to levels not seen since the Great Depression, when the country’s largest reservoir was first filled — that emergency has arrived.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

David Hess David Hess is the former Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for Governors Ridge and Schweiker from 2001 to January 2003 and has served in and around state government dealing with environmental issues for nearly 50 years holding positions in the Pennsylvania Senate and the former Department of Environmental (..)

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The results, published in Nature magazine, provide a much clearer, evidence-based picture, which is likely to change government policy in the US and beyond. The cost, currently set by the US government at US$51 per metric tonne, plays a pivotal role in determining policy. What is the social cost of carbon?

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 5, 2021

Those accounts were set up in each law because the industries and local governments who pay the fees did not want their money going into the “black hole” of the General Fund to balance the state budget. General Fund support to fund DEP has been cut by 40 percent since 2003 which resulted in a nearly 30 percent reduction in DEP staff.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 22, 2023

The Bloody History of Halliburton CounterPunch PaulaR Thu, 06/22/2023 - 10:31 Tuesday, April 15, 2003 Read more Jason Leopold Kellogg Brown & Root, the company chosen last month by the Pentagon to extinguish oil well fires in Iraq, has a long history of supporting the same terrorist regimes vilified by the Bush administration and on at least one occasion (..)

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A Greener Life

JULY 5, 2024

To combat sand erosion around the road, sand-fixing trees were planted and 109 wells were dug between 2003 and 2006, at a cost of CNY 220 million (about USD 40 million). The Tarim Desert Highway was completed in 1995 to transport oil from mines in the desert’s hinterland. Two years ago, PV panels replaced diesel to power these wells.

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 3, 2022

Last Monday the NFL announced at the owners meeting that it had approved adjustments to the Rooney Rule, first adopted in 2003, “to enhance opportunities for people of color and women for nearly all league and team jobs.”. Practices like this are easily emulated across business sectors looking for good ESG governance practices.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 24, 2025

Were spotlighting Micheal Binnion, the Mastermind of Petro Populism, who has worked for decades to embed support for fossil fuels in the highest levels of the Canadian government. It has been largely inactive since 2015 but originally included political insiders on the governance board.

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Breezometer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Nancy is a staunch advocate for leveraging Earth observations and environmental intelligence to improve decision-making on the individual, business, and government levels. Stephanie Abrams has worked as an on-air meteorologist for The Weather Channel since 2003. Paul Walsh. Stephanie Abrams.

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Breezometer

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

We explain what causes such extreme winter storms and how hospitals, businesses, and even local governments can improve their climate resilience ahead of and during such events. At the time of writing, predictions stated that the storm may cover the City of Boston in 24-30 inches of snow, possibly breaking the region’s 2003 record of 27.6

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HumanNature

MARCH 28, 2023

As an example, in 2003 the US passed the Healthy Forest Restoration Act, which introduces Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs) as instruments for collaborative wildfire mitigation planning in WUI areas. These governance approaches are not perfect and discussing how collaborative they are in practice deserves an entire blog post.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 7, 2023

Thirdly, the corporate governance practices of companies that produce and sell diamonds have also come under scrutiny in recent years. Despite that the Clean Diamond Trade Act, signed into law on July 29, 2003, prohibits the “importation into, or exportation from, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 19, 2022

Mgal/d in 2003. -- Laurel Hill Creek, Fayette and Somerset Counties (Ohio Region). Mgal/d in 2003. Three of the four negative values in the Indian Creek watershed occur in the Back Creek watershed, partly due to public supply withdrawals from groundwater sources totaling approximately 0.5

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The Energy Law

MARCH 11, 2020

2003) (“the regulations govern the parties’ joint and several liabilities vis-à-vis the Government not amongst themselves”) and Total E&P USA, Inc. 2018) (“parties will always be jointly and severally liable to the government for the cost of decommissioning, no matter what their contract provides”).

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Onya

OCTOBER 10, 2019

An estimated 10,000 people gathered in Perth for the Global Strike 4 Climate rally, demanding government and businesses commit to a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2030. The rally is thought to be the biggest in Perth since the 2003 anti-Iraq war protest. Part of a global collaboration.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 5, 2017

Lenders who take security interests in securities accounts are familiar with the rules of Articles 8 and 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code that identify the governing jurisdiction for these transactions. The Convention was finally promulgated in 2003 but did not become effective until April 1, 2017. [2]

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The Republican Herald said--“Remarkably, while suing the pipeline for environmental violations, the state government also heavily subsidizes the Shell refinery with $1.7 The first shale gas well was drilled in 2003 and that well was the first shale gas well fracked in 2004. Read more here. billion in tax credits.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

2] [3] [4] The desperation of climate activism parallels the rate of loss (and likelihood of climate injustice) predicted by the IPCC and climate scientists, if governments fail to curtail greenhouse gas emissions. London: Routledge, 2003). [7] Desperate times call for desperate activism, and the greater the loss the bolder the action.

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CEQA Developments

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Over a long history dating back to an original 2003 proposal of a 312-unit apartment complex, the project evolved considerably during the lengthy CEQA review process. Factual and Procedural Background.

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 18, 2016

Predictions based on the 1995 Chicago and 2003 Europe heatwaves anticipate 25-31 percent higher frequencies and 72-76 percent longer heatwaves by 2090. In fact, EPA estimates that “a city with 1 million people or more can be 1.8–5.4°F F (1–3°C) warmer than its surroundings” during the day and 22°F (12°C) in the evening.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

But it has advanced beyond the vague guidance provided by OMB since 2003, which may not have been state-of-the-art even then. Decision science does not yet provide consensus solutions to the analysis of uncertain catastrophic outcomes. 2] This paragraph is adapted from OMB Circular A-4.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

GWFS), a registered broker-dealer, had settled charges that it violated the federal securities laws governing a broker-dealer’s obligations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act) to file Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) for certain suspicious transactions.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

But the Ninth Circuit, in a 2022 ruling, said that the federal government should draw up a plan to incorporate the Nation’s implied rights to water in its management of the river. The Navajo Nation argues, in the lawsuit that originated in 2003, that this is a breach of the federal government’s duty.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Work on the barriers began in 2003 and after being beset by planning, engineering and corruption issues (and with the cost having ballooned to more than $8 billion) they were first raised to prevent a serious flood in October 2020. Part of the MOSE flood barrier under construction. MOSE Venezia.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 30, 2023

The Biden administration’s Office of Management and Budget is proposing to update rule-writing guidelines that were last updated in 2003. Camp Lejeune Last year Congress allowed military veterans and families who were exposed to contaminated water at Camp Lejeune to sue the government for compensation. government water policy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 17, 2023

The story illustrates the critical importance of the role science plays in government decisions and the harsh reality of what can happen without it. When science is sidelined in government decisions, it truly can impact the lives of people in serious and often harsh ways.  

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The first is the administrative collaboration among two nations, eight states, local governments, academia, and nonprofit groups to raise public awareness and momentum for solutions. In the last decade, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. In 2012 Canada and the U.S.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 1, 2022

government promised Native tribes in the Pacific Northwest that they could keep fishing as they’d always done. Today, there are hundreds of hatcheries in the Northwest run by federal, state and tribal governments, employing thousands and welcoming the community with visitor centers and gift shops. Now, that system is falling apart.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2022

Since 2003, General Fund support for environmental programs in DEP have been cut about 40 percent and as a result staffing was reduced by nearly 30 percent, especially in water quality protection programs. With that said though, we are still awaiting more guidance from the federal government on the specifics on how this will all work.

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Physics World

JULY 30, 2021

In 1970 he then moved to Kyoto Univeristy before heading to Kyoto Sangyo Univeristy from 2003 to 2009. Physicists were sure that all these symmetries held for elementary particles but in the 1950s, physicists discovered that charge symmetry breaks in the weak interaction, which governs radioactive beta decay.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 9, 2023

A new proposed rule from the Biden administration would cut emissions from new federal buildings 90 percent from 2003 levels in the next two years. Under the proposed rule, new or renovated federal buildings would be required to reduce emissions from the 2003 baseline by 90 percent beginning in 2025.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 17, 2021

I remember writing, all the way back in 2009, about an announcement from the New Zealand government that they wanted to be zero carbon by 2025. Back in 2003, Vladimir Putin said spoke for many when he said “maybe climate change is not so bad in such a cold country as ours.” But where are they on climate? Not a great deal.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2024

In 2003, she was appointed by Gov. She has been an effective advocate for environmental progress who never lost sight of her goal of protecting and improving the environment whether working in or out of government. Former DEP Secretary David Hess said-- “Joanne Denworth’s career paralleled my own in state government.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 6, 2020

Two authors, Daniel Swain and Hausfather, admit my claim, “Fires have declined 25% around the world since 2003,” is accurate, but somehow misleading. The main reason is that the government of Australia, as in California, refused to do controlled burns, for both environmental and human health reasons.

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