Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Some sites and traditional practices that need protection for future generations are recognized under UNESCO’s 1972 World Heritage Convention , and the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Heritage , and more are being added to the protected lists every year. What’s next for climate and cultural rights?

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest by Peter Pringle (Simon & Schuster, 2003). Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Food You’re Eating by Jeffrey M. Books, 2003). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM).

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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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Corp Watch

JANUARY 31, 2024

Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest by Peter Pringle (Simon & Schuster, 2003). Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Food You’re Eating by Jeffrey M. Books, 2003). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM).

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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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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest by Peter Pringle (Simon & Schuster, 2003). Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Food You’re Eating by Jeffrey M. Books, 2003). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM).

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest by Peter Pringle (Simon & Schuster, 2003). Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Food You’re Eating by Jeffrey M. Books, 2003). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM).

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest by Peter Pringle (Simon & Schuster, 2003). Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Food You’re Eating by Jeffrey M. Books, 2003). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM).

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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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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Reduce energy use per square foot in state-owned buildings by 40% from 2002-2003 levels. The most direct effect of the executive order will be on state government operations. In the first instance, the new limitation on stormwater controls for redevelopment projects may conflict with the local government’s federal permit.

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The Energy Law Blog

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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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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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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The Energy Law Blog

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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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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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Other Key Sources Business and Human Rights Resource Centre's profile on Coca-Cola - UK-based Business and Human Rights Resource Centre is an NGO that employs researchers on five continents who work with activists, companies and governments alike to advance human rights in business by eradicating abuse.

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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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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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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Other Key Sources Business and Human Rights Resource Centre's profile on Coca-Cola - UK-based Business and Human Rights Resource Centre is an NGO that employs researchers on five continents who work with activists, companies and governments alike to advance human rights in business by eradicating abuse. in Ireland?

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Other Key Sources Business and Human Rights Resource Centre's profile on Coca-Cola - UK-based Business and Human Rights Resource Centre is an NGO that employs researchers on five continents who work with activists, companies and governments alike to advance human rights in business by eradicating abuse. in Ireland?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 15, 2024

The federal government is woefully behind university researchers in calculating the current and future mortality of heat and smoke. It should be just as much an emergency for the government to tell us the toll of heat and wildfire smoke. Especially since the government itself says “most heat-related deaths are preventable.”

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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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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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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 25, 2021

Senate Bill 674 / House Bill 1207 make several changes to the Commission on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Communities, which was established by executive order in 2001 and codified in 2003. Senate Bill 349 makes changes to the statute governing the Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund to conform State law to federal law.

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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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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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Nanotech

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Biden Administration announced on November 9, 2023, that the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) issued final revisions to Circular A-4, the government-wide guidance on regulatory analysis.

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