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Droughts Push More People to Migrate Than Floods

Circle of Blue

Indications of migration due to water scarcity and groundwater depletion came as early as 2006 in Mexico’s Tehuacán Valley where a combination of declining rainfall and factory farms caused community wells to go dry. “It is not easy to be outside of one’s homeland,” she told Circle of Blue in 2006.

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What do U.S. states do at a COP, anyway?

Legal Planet

At one COP, I found myself walking alongside a group of party delegates speaking a language I didn’t understand and soon realized that I did recognize one phrase they kept repeating: “AB 32” That is, of course, the name of the law, passed in 2006, that set California’s first economy-wide GHG reduction mandate.

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New State Bill Targets Pollution from Aggregate Facilities

Legal Planet

SCAQMDs Rule 1157, PM10 Emissions from Aggregate and Related Operations, has not been updated since 2006 and permits aggregate facilities to maintain giant piles of crushed debris as close as 301 feet from homes without any restriction on height or size.

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DEP Secretary Negrin Resigns Effective Dec. 8, On Medical Leave; Jessica Shirley Named Interim Acting Secretary

PA Environment Daily

She also held a Graduate Policy Intern position in the Governor’s Office of Policy and Planning in 2009 and an Undergraduate Policy Intern position in the Department of Public Welfare in 2006. Richard Negrin Richard Negrin served as Acting Secretary of DEP from January 17 until he was confirmed by the Senate on June 27.

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Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators

Circle of Blue

pounds in 2006. How this happened is a study in what the Whitmer administration and EGLE officials assert is a political compromise. It is an indictment of the political system from top to bottom that this has been allowed to continue and that the tools in the toolbox are as limited as they are.”. That’s a 15 percent increase.

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

Outline of a Methodology Report on Short-Lived Climate Forcers Since 2006, the IPCC has provided methodologies that governments around the world use to estimate their greenhouse gas emissions.

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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.