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Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. political and public support) for fossil fuels, but we can tell our elected officials not to fall for CAPP’s pro-oil propaganda and to instead prioritize climate action.

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A Trip Down Memory “Train”: A Brief History of Public Transit

Union of Concerned Scientists

This led to an unfair distribution of funds until the FTA’s tribal transit program was implemented in 2006 with a direct funding and application route to the federal government.

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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

Dawes was instrumental in the reauthorization of the federal Abandoned Mine Lands Fund in 2006 and served as Chair of the campaign that led to Pennsylvania receiving $1 billion to address Pennsylvania’s mining legacy of more than 185,000 acres of unsafe, mine-scarred lands. from Villanova University School of Law.

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EXTENDING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS TO FARM ANIMALS

Vermont Law

This leaves the disaster preparedness plans vulnerable to the politics of government. 991, 1007 (2012). [2]. The National Academies Press (2012), [link]. [3]. 1725 (2006). ; 1355, 1394 (2006); Pets Act (Faq), am. 1355, 1394 (2006); Pets Act (Faq), am. The National Academies Press (2012), [link]. [15].

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Environmental activism in Latin America

Our Environment

It is also important to realise that politics and governments have a lot of control on the land they govern. According to global witness 64 of the 212 activists murdered came from Columbia, with South America being the worst affected region for activist killings since 2012 [6]. 2 pp 105-110. (2) 2) Geraldo B. 110, pages 173-177. (3)

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Land-use, climate change, and policy – Opportunities to act locally while thinking globally

HumanNature

2006) is to associate different carbon storage potentials with different land-use types (Figure 2). Unfortunately, the topic of climate change has been heavily politicized and used to draw yet another line in the sand between what are portrayed as ideologically divergent and mutually-exclusive political views. A political view.

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

Corp Watch

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. SEC 2006) Repsol Subsidiaries (via U.S. The case was settled in 2014 after Argentina paid Repsol $5 billion. Major Procurement Contracts Raytheon contracts with the U.S.

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