Circle of Blue

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And it gives every citizen the authority to bring suit against polluters and government agencies that are doing just that in violation of the public trust. “If 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.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

To help voters determine which candidates would deliver the needed course correction, Environmental Defence and its allies in the Ontario Priorities Working Group asked each of the province’s major political parties whether – and how – they would deliver the rapid emissions reductions Ontario will need to head off climate catastrophe. .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

This methodology is similar to my own work combining climate science, political science, and history to reconstruct how UN climate negotiations have played out and what that implies for climate justice. The present is always being created out of past actions that led to where we are today.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2022

As the IPCC working group II report put it, many communities are running up against hard and soft limits to adaptation—the hard limits being physical and the soft ones being a lack of resources and political will. Source: IPCC Working Group II Report, AR6.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

The motion asks the company to produce a report examining how Enbridge’s governance systems are functioning. The motion asks the company to produce a report examining how Enbridge’s governance systems are functioning. They have also advocated for this to the US government.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

The week in February when Russia attacked Ukraine, government representatives and scientists from around the world were hard at work finalizing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Multiple crises colliding with climate change.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2025

History of the Case Background to the Claim In April 2021, a group of plaintiffs led by the Czech Climate Litigation Association ( Klimatick aloba R ), and including a municipality and several individuals, filed a case against the central government of the Czech Republic and four subsidiary ministries for their inaction on climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2024

We’ve made progress The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) contribute significantly towards the US’s 2030 climate targets (50-52% reduction of global warming emissions below 2005 levels) and exceed these targets by 2035. All this must be achieved with justice goals at the forefront.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 20, 2023

A quick history : 1972: Agricultural lands in Pickering and Markham were expropriated by the Province not long after the federal government’s expropriation of nearby lands in north Pickering. 2005: The Conservatives and New Democrats united with the Ontario Liberal Government to include the DRAP in the Greenbelt.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

Getting this right is important, both for California and to ensure the LCFS remains a workable model for other states and the federal government. Moreover, absent reform, the LCFS is not a replicable model for other states or the federal government.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 25, 2023

You can tell the government to stand up to Big Oil by clicking here to send a letter to the federal government. The Irving family is notoriously secretive, but they don’t let that stop them from exerting unparalleled political influence. As always, the resume format may be satirical, but the information is real. Irving Oil Ltd.:

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Our analysis looked at drought responses within the upper Klamath Basin—an 8,000-square-mile ecological region that encompasses most of Klamath County and parts of northern California—and drew from interviews from dozens of sources, including scientists, agricultural groups, tribal representatives, conservation experts, and government officials.

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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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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

According to Cooper, energy use is the largest driver of Penn State’s greenhouse gas emissions, costing the University more than $30 million annually to provide heat, air conditioning, electricity and hot water to its buildings and fuel for its vehicle fleet. Photo: The 70 MW solar array in Franklin County.) ( Reprinted from Penn State News.

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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. fracking ) gas company, his LinkedIn profile states my passion remains political advocacy. While his corporate day job may be as head of a shale (ie.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 22, 2024

At this moment, the last thing federal, state and local governments need is to divert precious resources to debunk baseless conspiracy theories and disinformation. FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund (DRF) is the federal government’s primary source of funding for disaster response, recovery and preparedness. What is the Disaster Relief Fund?

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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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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Notably, the Philippines Supreme Court has explicitly held the CHR’s jurisdiction is only limited to investigating civil and political rights (see Simon v. For example, the Commission encouraged governments worldwide to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and concretize corporate climate responsibility.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

On October 26, 2021, Observatório do Clima (OC), a network of 71 civil society organizations, filed a class action at the federal court of Amazonas against the Environmental Ministry and Brazilian government ( Laboratório do Observatório do Clima v. Omissions from the Brazilian government on climate policy. o C global warming scenario.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

As climate change has become a more pervasive and urgent political issue, governments around the world have started to look to soil as a potential part of the solution. It was a topic for farmers or agronomists, outside the sphere of influence for most people. Not so in the modern day, however.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

By Adam Barnett DeSmog catalogues how oil and gas firms have forged ties with the highest levels of government, the media, and influential think tanks. Jolyon Maugham, director of the Good Law Project, told DeSmog: “Abraham Lincoln spoke of government ‘of the people, by the people and for the people.’ Graph credit: DeSmog.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2022

close two-thirds of the remaining emissions gap between current policy and the nation’s 2030 climate target (50% below 2005). With enough money on the table, industry and other interest groups start exerting strong pressure on these laggard governments to shift policy. Federal subsidies create new national political dynamics.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

The company sued the government of Argentina in 2012 for $10 billion after the country nationalized YPF with the backing of 80 percent of legislators of parliament. Federal Government (via USA SPENDING). Federal Government (via SAM). The case was settled in 2014 after Argentina paid Repsol $5 billion.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2022

Supreme Court Ruling PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- TribLive: Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Mastriano Removes Gab Page, Responds To Criticism Of Social Media Platform -- MCall: Allentown School Board Fires Teacher Suspended After Attending Rally Connected With Assault On U.S. What’s Your Community Doing?

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Interior’s authority to regulate offshore wind comes from the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which amended the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to expressly authorize Interior to issue leases for renewable energy projects in federal waters. Qualification is the entry to doing business with the federal government as to federal leasing.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

PIRG Education Fund, April 2005). Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Food You’re Eating by Jeffrey M. The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Government (via USA SPENDING). June 2007).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 31, 2024

PIRG Education Fund, April 2005). Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Food You’re Eating by Jeffrey M. The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Government (via USA SPENDING). June 2007).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

PIRG Education Fund, April 2005). Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Food You’re Eating by Jeffrey M. The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Government (via USA SPENDING). June 2007).

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

PIRG Education Fund, April 2005). Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Food You’re Eating by Jeffrey M. The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Government (via USA SPENDING). June 2007).

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 25, 2023

PIRG Education Fund, April 2005). Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Food You’re Eating by Jeffrey M. The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Government (via USA SPENDING). June 2007).

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of BP (British Petroleum) Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Repsol SA Royal Dutch Shell Total SA Federal Contractor Misconduct Database Project On Government Oversight's list of U.S. Federal Government (via USA SPENDING). complaints from 1995-present day.

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CEQA Developments

MARCH 3, 2023

Its prior 2005 LRDP planned only 2,600 new beds through 2021, 10,000 short of projected enrollment increases over that period, and UC constructed less than half of those, while at the same time increasing enrollment beyond the plan’s projection.

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

The ideas of Thomas Malthus (center) were used by British governments to justify the Irish Famine, 1845-1848 (left) and Bengali Famine, 1943-1945 (right) before becoming the basis for 20th Century environmentalism. Socialists blamed poverty for food crises, where Malthusians blamed too many people. wood, coal, and natural gas).

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

With the federal government and state of Maryland each having announced within days of each other, the mandated disclosure of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, we have received, maybe not surprising, many calls in the last two weeks inquiring “what are GHGs?” We have been doing this GHG work since 2005.

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Law Columbia

JULY 16, 2013

The EU Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS), established under a Directive of European Parliament and Council in 2005, has been the world’s largest market-based emission trading system designed to meet GHG emission reduction targets set by the Kyoto Protocol.

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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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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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