Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. We need governments to regulate industry.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 28, 2022

The PPCDAm represents a package of measures and financial directives by the Federal Government to combat deforestation and degradation in the Amazon. In 2020, the Supreme Court held a preliminary public hearing for the parties to present facts on deforestation in the Amazon and the results achieved by the PPCDAm between 2004 and 2020.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 5, 2022

Aument In Primary -- LancasterOnline Editorial: Unnecessary Election Recounts Are Inevitable Result Of The Big Lie -- Scranton Times Editorial: Open Primaries For Fairness, Governance -- PA’s Role In Assault On U.S. Capitol -- Inquirer: Delaware County Man Pleads Guilty To Criminal Charges Related To Assault On U.S.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Ribera has a strong record of enacting climate action policies having served in the Spanish government in various climate, energy and environmental ministerial positions. She joined the government in 2008 where she served as Director of the Spanish Office of Climate Change. Additionally, he will be responsible for taxation.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 30, 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 implementing with due haste. If each country (.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 8, 2022

Similarly, in France, the 2004 Charte de l’environnement , which bears constitutional legal value, clearly states in its preamble that “the environment is a common heritage of mankind.” The rights-based claim has already prompted changes in government policy in the Netherlands. In Neubauer, et al. In Neubauer, et al.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 15, 2021

likely key if the federal government is going to respond), Axios also described a broader failure to register even on social media where the response to dire IPCC report was muted, at best, when compared to the earlier 2018 IPCC report. And beyond describing how the IPCC conclusions were failing to resonate with swing state voters (.

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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. What’s Your Community Doing?

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

In a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi after that hearing I noted that I am aware that Congressional hearings involve some political theater. However, I am not a political appointee. I did not expect to be drawn into political theater that violates basic civility. That may be the case. I do not represent a large trade association.

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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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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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The Energy Law

MAY 26, 2023

An entity classified as an “arm of the state” would be entitled to sovereign immunity provided by the Eleventh Amendment; in contrast, a “political subdivision” is not afforded the same protection. Tarrant County , 798 F.2d 2d 736, 744-45 (5 th Cir. The burden of proof falls on the entity seeking immunity and SRA-L failed to meet its burden.

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E2 Law Blog

MAY 26, 2023

In 2004 Michael and Chantell Sackett bought property near Priest Lake, Idaho and backfilled the lot with dirt in preparation for building a house. Sometimes the most monumental Supreme Court decisions spring from the most modest facts. at (slip op.

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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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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 25, 2024

Demands to divest government shares in British American Tobacco Dhaka Tribune | October 30, 2016 The leaders of the protest urged that the government withdraw from the company and discourage investment in a sector that is harmful to human health.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Total Penalties $794,315,508 (April 6, 2021) Number of Records 131 Books A Growing Concern: Protecting the Food Supply in an Era of Pharmaceutical and Industrial Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists, December, 2004). The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). June 2007).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 31, 2024

Total Penalties $794,315,508 (April 6, 2021) Number of Records 131 Books A Growing Concern: Protecting the Food Supply in an Era of Pharmaceutical and Industrial Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists ,December, 2004). The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). June 2007).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Total Penalties $794,315,508 (April 6, 2021) Number of Records 131 Books A Growing Concern: Protecting the Food Supply in an Era of Pharmaceutical and Industrial Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists ,December, 2004). The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). June 2007).

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Total Penalties $794,315,508 (April 6, 2021) Number of Records 131 Books A Growing Concern: Protecting the Food Supply in an Era of Pharmaceutical and Industrial Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists ,December, 2004). The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). June 2007).

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Total Penalties $794,315,508 (April 6, 2021) Number of Records 131 Books A Growing Concern: Protecting the Food Supply in an Era of Pharmaceutical and Industrial Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists ,December, 2004). The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). June 2007).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2024

Praise For New Energy Plan Labor, business, environmental, and government leaders praised the plan as a “bold” and “nation-leading” plan to create thousands of energy jobs, lower costs, and ensure Pennsylvania remains an energy leader below. Click Here for the Senate Republican reaction to Energy Plan. Click Here for Gov.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

CorpWatch Stories Stalled Case Against ExxonMobil Sees Movement Jacqueline Koch | Special to CorpWatch | July 14, 2004 After languishing in the courts for two years, a lawsuit that accuses ExxonMobil of complicity in human rights violations is beginning to move, thanks to the Supreme Court's recent decision to uphold the Alien Tort Claims Act.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

CorpWatch Stories Stalled Case Against ExxonMobil Sees Movement Jacqueline Koch | Special to CorpWatch | July 14, 2004 After languishing in the courts for two years, a lawsuit that accuses ExxonMobil of complicity in human rights violations is beginning to move, thanks to the Supreme Court's recent decision to uphold the Alien Tort Claims Act.

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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 County of Santa Clara (2015) 236 Cal.App.4th

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 8, 2022

That research is broad and heavily funded by the federal government, totaling more than $660 million in 2020 grants to the states alone. For ten years—from 1994 to 2004—there was a limited ban on assault weapons. Comprehensive statistics on automobile safety have been collected since the 1960s.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2024

In a bit of rhetorical ecstasy, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan proclaimed that the federal government “is finally slamming the door on a chemical so dangerous that it has been banned in over 50 countries.” The legacy of death and disease from disinformation and “disappeared” information haunts us to this day.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In a separate but similar Ninth Circuit appeal, the federal government filed a brief on October 18 urging the court to overturn a district court decision vacating the listing of a ringed seal subspecies as threatened based on climate change threats through the end of the century.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

The reason may have been the high political stakes in the car industry or the relatively easier task of setting standards for new products in a single industry using a single energy process. If we charged people $2 per mile, we could cover the whole government budget, social security and Medicaid included. trillion miles in 2022. (If

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

It is not clear what impact the burden-shifting in government cases would have as a practical matter. Unlike the change to burdens of proof in merger cases, the burden would shift in exclusionary conduct cases brought by private plaintiffs as well as the government. 398 (2004).]] The legislation[[N:§ 4(b).]] § 18.]]

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Several workers have also been injured and others killed in explosions at the Point Comfort plant in 2005 and at a PVC plant in Illiopolis , Illinois in 2004. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. USA: Formosa Plastics Vinyl Chloride Explosion U.S. but its dealings are rarely scrutinized.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 1, 2021

Businesses cannot ignore or refuse to think about the environmental, social and governance (ESG) space; it is not going away. Today, for many of our clients, reputational risk is real in the realm of sustainability, and so is the opportunity for a company to stay relevant by incorporating ESG into management and governance practices.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2024

A boom in shale gas drilling and extraction, which began in 2004 and ramped up sharply in the ensuing decade, occurred with no consideration of public health. EHP’s chapter challenges the assumption that the financial benefits of shale gas extraction outweigh the costs to public health and community wellbeing.

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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. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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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. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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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. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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