Environmental Europe

JANUARY 26, 2017

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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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. In 2006, the Arizona Department of Water Resources issued two certificates for 4,228 acre-feet of water – 1.35 Photo © Keith Schneider / Circle of Blue.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 18, 2021

He added: “Moreover – as the climate warms – pastures, crops and livestock all require more water for their survival, just at the time when water is becoming scarcer.”. Climate change also means precipitation is more variable from year to year. There will be more years of drought, with some years of heavier precipitation.

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Vermont Law

JULY 6, 2020

The ongoing threat of climate change leads to an increasing number of disasters every year. Farm animals are rarely beneficiaries of such provisions making them and the communities in which they live more vulnerable to the detrimental impacts of climate change. 1725 (2006). ; 1355, 1394 (2006); Pets Act (Faq), am.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Exxon , the cities and towns allege that the fossil fuel companies were liable because they knowingly produced and marketed products that have caused climate change harms, while concealing and misrepresenting the associated dangers. In Municipalities of Puerto Rico v.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 29, 2015

Just look at the increasing amount of tension and war-like conditions currently developing between local communities and their government over water supply in politically unstable areas such as the Middle East. In 2006, the Department of Energy warned that consumption of water for electricity production could more than double by 2030 to 7.3

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Elmore (2014) Coca-Cola: The Alternative Report by War on Want (2006) The Coke Machine by Michael Blanding (2010). Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Major Shareholders Click here for the latest list.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Elmore (2014) Coca-Cola: The Alternative Report by War on Want (2006) The Coke Machine by Michael Blanding (2010). Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Major Shareholders Click here for the latest list.

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Vermont Law

JULY 28, 2014

Summary: The country of Haiti does not have a history of effective environmental regulation and this has continued after the devastating 2010 earthquake due to a lack of political and economic infrastructure. Furthermore, in 2006 the provisional president, Boniface Alexandre, issued a Decree of Environmental Management.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Elmore (2014) Coca-Cola: The Alternative Report by War on Want (2006) The Coke Machine by Michael Blanding (2010). Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Major Shareholders Click here for the latest list.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

City of Turlock (2006) 138 Cal.App.4th Part 3 of 4), posted 12/1/21 on SLoG Law Blog (noting agency leaders, such as a city council, “are elected officials who inevitably pay attention to politics even when acting in a quasi-judicial capacity (hearing a CEQA appeal)”.)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 15, 2024

In making their case, the 31 environmental groups cite data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, projecting that financial cost of extreme heat in the United States will explode fivefold to half a trillion dollars a year by 2050. There is something else that would make their case even stronger: Data on people.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

beyond their political borders. And a dormant Commerce Clause-based challenge to a 2006 California statute that prompted a transition from carbon-based to renewable energy sources similarly failed in court. Download as PDF. The post What Do Pig Pens Have To Do With Environmental Law? appeared first on Legal Planet.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) 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. and non-U.S. The California Supreme Court denied three petitions for review.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

They would require that firms doing business in the state (with some exceptions) make climate disclosures similar to those under the expected SEC regulation and in some important ways would go further. [3] 4] The new corporate climate disclosure bills may well continue that tradition. 46] The U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

The impacts of climate change are downright frightening. Rich Kruger is the CEO of Suncor, a company responsible for nearly 35 million metric tons of climate pollution annually – the equivalent of 8.3 Their climate report does not include a 1.5-degree Introducing Rich Kruger – the nightmare on Oil Street.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

But the oil and gas lobby doesn’t care about the facts or the climate, it cares about what’s in the best interest of its private corporations and their shareholders – keeping the oil and industry profits flowing. This is nothing new: these companies have been actively blocking climate policy for decades.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

He lobbies the federal government for more subsidies to pay for false climate solutions like the risky, expensive, and unproven carbon capture scheme that the Pathways Alliance is pushing. He also wants Canada’s efforts to fight climate change watered down , including the emissions cap on oil and gas pollution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Most of these pieces were about the company’s support for a seemingly independent network of anti-regulation, “free-market” nonprofits that spread falsehoods about the reality and seriousness of climate change. Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO from 2006 to 2016. We do not support climate denial,” he replied. “We

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Germany: Activists throw cake amid protest at Volkswagen meeting DW | May 11, 2023 The climate change and human rights activists targeted Volkswagen executives at the German carmaker's AGM. Germany: VW Presses for Increased Work Week at Same Pay DW | June 13, 2006 Extending the work week from the current 28.8

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Germany: Activists throw cake amid protest at Volkswagen meeting DW | May 11, 2023 The climate change and human rights activists targeted Volkswagen executives at the German carmaker's AGM. Germany: VW Presses for Increased Work Week at Same Pay DW | June 13, 2006 Extending the work week from the current 28.8

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Germany: Activists throw cake amid protest at Volkswagen meeting DW | May 11, 2023 The climate change and human rights activists targeted Volkswagen executives at the German carmaker's AGM. Germany: VW Presses for Increased Work Week at Same Pay DW | June 13, 2006 Extending the work week from the current 28.8

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Germany: Activists throw cake amid protest at Volkswagen meeting DW | May 11, 2023 The climate change and human rights activists targeted Volkswagen executives at the German carmaker's AGM. Germany: VW Presses for Increased Work Week at Same Pay DW | June 13, 2006 Extending the work week from the current 28.8

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Germany: Activists throw cake amid protest at Volkswagen meeting DW | May 11, 2023 The climate change and human rights activists targeted Volkswagen executives at the German carmaker's AGM. Germany: VW Presses for Increased Work Week at Same Pay DW | June 13, 2006 Extending the work week from the current 28.8

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Germany: Activists throw cake amid protest at Volkswagen meeting DW | May 11, 2023 The climate change and human rights activists targeted Volkswagen executives at the German carmaker's AGM. Germany: VW Presses for Increased Work Week at Same Pay DW | June 13, 2006 Extending the work week from the current 28.8

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Germany: Activists throw cake amid protest at Volkswagen meeting DW | May 11, 2023 The climate change and human rights activists targeted Volkswagen executives at the German carmaker's AGM. Germany: VW Presses for Increased Work Week at Same Pay DW | June 13, 2006 Extending the work week from the current 28.8

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Germany: Activists throw cake amid protest at Volkswagen meeting DW | May 11, 2023 The climate change and human rights activists targeted Volkswagen executives at the German carmaker's AGM. Germany: VW Presses for Increased Work Week at Same Pay DW | June 13, 2006 Extending the work week from the current 28.8

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Germany: Activists throw cake amid protest at Volkswagen meeting DW | May 11, 2023 The climate change and human rights activists targeted Volkswagen executives at the German carmaker's AGM. Germany: VW Presses for Increased Work Week at Same Pay DW | June 13, 2006 Extending the work week from the current 28.8

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

We know we must now work to both cut greenhouse gas emissions to reduce the severity of climate change and at the same time work to adapt to the impacts we can no longer avoid. Gleick disagrees and defends the Malthusian notion that future food surpluses are highly uncertain due to climate change, and argues that I ignore such risks.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

We’ve celebrated incredible ocean victories like establishing fishery catch limits to prevent overfishing in the Magnuson-Stevens Reauthorization Act in 2006 and the first International Coastal Cleanup in 1986. It’s about dismantling systemic racism and pushing for climate justice in the face of a rapidly changing planet.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2024

By Jeremy Williams Here’s Elon Musk in 2006 : “The overarching purpose of Tesla Motors (and the reason I am funding the company) is to help expedite the move from a mine-and-burn hydrocarbon economy towards a solar electric economy, which I believe to be the primary, but not exclusive, sustainable solution.” Where does that idea come from?

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

In recent years, states in New England and the mid-Atlantic region have made significant progress in reducing climate change-inducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity generation sector. [1]. Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Transportation A Cap-and-Invest Approach .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

The report, which cited numerous examples of political appointees stifling agency research, was accompanied by a statement signed by more than 60 top scientists , including 20 Nobel laureates, denouncing the Bush administration’s misuse of science. Before the surveys, the extent of the problem was not clear.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 3, 2024

Wetlands even help fight climate change by acting as “ carbon sinks ,” absorbing climate-altering carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere. The turbulent history of federal wetland protection We thrive when wetlands survive.

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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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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. The EPA is a particular concern. The hypocrisy of Elon Musk is rich.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decision the US Supreme Court handed down in June curtailed strategies EPA can use to slow climate change, but its problematic implications stretch far beyond greenhouse gas reduction. The West Virginia v.

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