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Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators

Circle of Blue

Every five years since 2005, Michigan has issued a general CAFO permit for the state’s largest livestock farms, where thousands of animals are confined indoors for their entire lives. That’s 257 more CAFOs than Michigan permitted in 2005, according to state figures. pounds in 2006. Carl Ganter/ Circle of Blue.

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What the Heck’s a DRAP?: A Brief Recent History of the Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve, from The Rouge Duffins Greenspace Coalition (RDGC)

Enviromental Defense

The province released the North Pickering Project, 1975, the Seaton Planning and Design Exercise, 1994, the City of Pickering’s Rural Study, 1997 and the Central Pickering Development Plan, 2006. 2005: The Conservatives and New Democrats united with the Ontario Liberal Government to include the DRAP in the Greenbelt.

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Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill

Corp Watch

Major Shareholders Click here for the latest list Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of Repsol Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Royal Dutch Shell BP Total S.A. SEC 2006) Repsol Subsidiaries (via U.S. Major Procurement Contracts Raytheon contracts with the U.S. Repsol Subsidiaries (via U.S.

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The politics of (bad) policy design: French solar panels and Northern Irish boilers

Environmental Europe

As one previous post on this blog detailed, the current political turmoil in Northern Ireland was sparked by a subsidy for renewable energy production. Though it is tempting to blame political carelessness, the ongoing RHI scandal prompts a broader reflection about renewable energy policy instruments. data: SOeS ). speculative ones.

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Nuclear Plant Closures And Renewables Increase Electricity Prices & Unreliability, Testifies Michael Shellenberger to U.S. Senate

Environmental Progress

People wonder how we made it through the heat wave of 2006,” said the CEO of California’s grid operator, CAISO, at the time. The answer is that there was a lot more generating capacity in 2006 than in 2020. 25] And that amount does not include the costs associated with local and state political opposition. trillion. [25]

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Bad science and bad ethics in Peter Gleick’s Review of “Apocalypse Never” at Yale Climate Connections

Environmental Progress

Gleick claims I contradict myself by writing, “When it comes to protecting the environment by moving to superior alternatives, public attitudes and political action matter,” to which Gleick adds, “exactly the point of environmental advocacy groups like Greenpeace that worked to change public opinion.” Seven years later, the U.N.

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Release: Nearly all COP27 sponsors are either major polluters or enablers of fossil fuel industry

Corp Watch

Elmore (2014) Coca-Cola: The Alternative Report by War on Want (2006) The Coke Machine by Michael Blanding (2010). Mexican shopkeeper defeats Coke BBC | November 17, 2005 A small shopkeeper in Mexico City has won a David versus Goliath legal battle against the US drinks firm, Coca-Cola.