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Inside the IPCC 61st Plenary Meeting: Debates and Decisions Shaping Climate Policy

Union of Concerned Scientists

The IPCC is a collaborative panel consisting of 195 member governments. Representatives of these member governments convene in Plenary Sessions, like the one we just attended. Each country sends delegations that can include both government officials and scientific experts, collectively forming the Panel.

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

For more than a century, the United States has recognized this, and maintaining roads and bridges has been a core function of federal, state, and local governments. The federal government embraced a role in supporting transit in the 1970s, but this was cut back for the past 40 years and didn’t rebound until the pandemic.

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Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators

Circle of Blue

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 pounds in 2006. How this happened is a study in what the Whitmer administration and EGLE officials assert is a political compromise. That’s a 15 percent increase. .

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Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

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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49 Years of Advocating for Our Ocean

Ocean Conservancy

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 standing up for the democratic process and rights of all people regardless of which political party is in office.

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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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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

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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