CEQA Developments

MARCH 3, 2023

People’s Park’s historic significance is due to its association with social and political activism in Berkeley, as a hub of anti-Vietnam War protest and the site of both peaceful protests and violent clashes between protesters and law enforcement. Amador Water Agency (2004) 116 Cal.App.4th 4th 1099, 1109.)

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

By 2035, those emissions reductions will be 43-45% below 2004 levels. Federal subsidies create new national political dynamics. An article published in Science , a top scientific journal, used nine independent models to estimate the IRA’s effect. In the power sector, by 2035, emissions will 66-87% below 2005 levels.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 14, 2022

Climate change is disrupting the rules of the development game. One that rallies federal, state, tribal, and local governments to unify opposing forces and bring water supply and demand into balance in the era of accelerating climate change. Can this desert bounty be sustained for another 100 years, or even another 50?

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

The source of concern, confrontation, and new practices is the deep drought that has settled on the Southwest since 2000 that is exacerbated by climate change. Those trends, in turn, also are prompting innovations in community design and installation of expensive infrastructure to use less fresh water and recycle more wastewater.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2024

The Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard (AEPS), which would be updated under the Governor’s PRESS plan, is a 2004 Pennsylvania law requiring electricity suppliers to include specific percentages of renewable energy in their supply, in turn creating increased demand for renewable energy. “As Click Here for Gov.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 1, 2021

While the idea of ESG began in 2004 with a United Nations initiative to influence capital in non-Western markets, in 2021 the legal and political institutions in the United States and the EU are demanding those ideas be implemented by businesses posthaste. But, no more.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 2, 2022

Wheezing Power Grid Leaves States At Risk [Not PJM/PA] -- Bloomberg: Here’s How The Government Wants To Disaster-Proof Your Home PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Inquirer: Delaware County Man Pleads Guilty To Criminal Charges Related To Assault On U.S. Other States/National/International -- WPost: A Summer Of Blackouts?

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

The Real Thing: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company by Constance Hays (2004). Photo Gallery Image Coca Cola Protests at World Social Forum, 2004, Mumbai, India PHOTO Knut-Erik Helle Read More Image Protesting Coca-Cola PHOTO Adolfo Lujan Read More Image Protest gegen Coca Cola photo Rettet den Regenwald e.V.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

The Real Thing: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company by Constance Hays (2004). Photo Gallery Image Coca Cola Protests at World Social Forum, 2004, Mumbai, India PHOTO Knut-Erik Helle Read More Image Protesting Coca-Cola PHOTO Adolfo Lujan Read More Image Protest gegen Coca Cola photo Rettet den Regenwald e.V.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

The Real Thing: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company by Constance Hays (2004). Photo Gallery Image Coca Cola Protests at World Social Forum, 2004, Mumbai, India PHOTO Knut-Erik Helle Read More Image Protesting Coca-Cola PHOTO Adolfo Lujan Read More Image Protest gegen Coca Cola photo Rettet den Regenwald e.V.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Exxon has also been accused of covering up clear evidence of climate change discovered by its scientists as early as 1977 while paying for a massive public disinformation campaign to question the scientific basis of climate change such as helping create the Global Climate Coalition.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Exxon has also been accused of covering up clear evidence of climate change discovered by its scientists as early as 1977 while paying for a massive public disinformation campaign to question the scientific basis of climate change such as helping create the Global Climate Coalition.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

As background, I am an invited expert reviewer of the next assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment.” In a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi after that hearing I noted that I am aware that Congressional hearings involve some political theater.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

New Shell documents could aid climate cases, attorneys say Follow the Money PaulaR Thu, 01/25/2024 - 16:59 Thursday, January 18, 2024 Read more Matthew Green, Merel de Buck & Birte Schohaus Latest Shell-files show that the company reflected on climate change caused by fossil products as early as the 1970s.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004). Climate change: Extinction Rebellion end blockade at Shell's Aberdeen HQ The BBC | January 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004). Climate change: Extinction Rebellion end blockade at Shell's Aberdeen HQ The BBC | January 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004). Climate change: Extinction Rebellion end blockade at Shell's Aberdeen HQ The BBC | January 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004). Climate change: Extinction Rebellion end blockade at Shell's Aberdeen HQ The BBC | January 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004). Climate change: Extinction Rebellion end blockade at Shell's Aberdeen HQ The BBC | January 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004). Climate change: Extinction Rebellion end blockade at Shell's Aberdeen HQ The BBC | January 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

coastlines is a much more complex environmental, economical, and political discussion. In 2004, the. serious progression of climate change. Cities should be utilizing expensive coastline real estate to adapt to the effects of climate change to address increases in heat-waves, storm surges, and inundation. [1].

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen John Kerry, the former US Secretary of State and Special Envoy on Climate Change, an army veteran and veteran of US politics now aged 80, took the stage in London today as the keynote speaker at the 2025 Soft Power Index. David Haigh in conversation with John Kerry. Photo credit: Brand Finance.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This legal battle has both a long history and enormous implications for California’s aggressive pollution control and climate change policies. It was not until: 1) California began to aggressively regulate greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles in 2004; the Supreme Court ruled in its landmark Massachusetts v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

According to the results of a new Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) survey released late last month, federal scientists are now working in a more supportive environment than any other time since UCS began administering such surveys back in 2004. Over the next four years, 15,000 more scientists added their names in support.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE #130: FEATURED CASE. and non-U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

After all, these agencies actions often have a direct impact on how well the public is protected from threats such as climate change impacts, natural disasters, unsafe food and drugs, transmissible disease, and air pollution. Federal scientists face similar types of scenarios at their jobs.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

via groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Americans for Prosperity, the Freedom Fund and the John Birch Society, notably climate change denial and killing public transit systems. Major Shareholders Privately Held. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Two decades after the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) redefined the term “scientific integrity,” the White House issued its first-ever scientific integrity policy in May as a model for all government agencies and departments to protect federal scientists from political interference. What happens in the absence of scientific integrity?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2022

Since the subcommittee was created, I have admired its strong commitment to uncovering violations of scientific integrity related to the pandemic response; for instance, they documented more than 80 instances of political interference by the Trump administration. A history of interference in federal science.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 9, 2020

So, the main one I suppose that caught my attention was “Climate Change is Not Making Natural Disasters” and everywhere I look, trying to approach it from your perspective, I just find it a confounding thing for you to assert. I'm not to some extent related to anthropogenic climate change. So let's go to that.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 145. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Koati.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Environmental Impacts The Board of Lockheed Martin Has Spoken: Climate Change May Proceed Danaka Katovich & David Gibson | Jacobin | April 20, 2023 Lockheed Martin is the largest military contractor with the Department of Defense, the world’s largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels. Its answer: no.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Energy exports began to increase in 2004, and around 2008 imports began to decline. Energy policy became a topic of partisan politics, and energy, the environment, and clean energy sources were treated as antagonistic policy arenas. . * * * What, then, are we to make of this new crisis? has effectively secured energy independence.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

As Ann Carlson has written at length, Project 2025 includes a proposal to give the President the power, through “Schedule F,” to convert as many as 50,000 jobs in the federal government from career positions to political ones. Then in 2004, CARB enacted the world’s first greenhouse gas emission reduction standards for motor vehicles.

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