Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million, upgrade Port Arthur refinery Nick Snow | Oil & Gas Journal | May 2, 2007 Total Petrochemicals USA Inc. million in 2013.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Germany, which has deployed more variable renewable energy than any other nation in Europe, has used various regulatory mechanisms and subsidies to prevent utilities from going bankrupt, [12] and its electricity prices rose 50 percent in the 15 years after 2007. We need to respect our grid authorities. link] [19] Michael Greenstone et al.,

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Vermont Law

MARCH 16, 2018

In deciding on necessity issues so closely related to systemic political choices, juries are essentially deliberating on policy issues, which implicates difficult questions of majority rule and separation of powers. So actions taken to curtail some carbon emissions, but not all, might still suffice. 111, 120-23 (2007), [link].

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Specialists in law, economics, geography, philosophy, art, and other subjects provided complementary perspectives on topics such as energy governance, urban regeneration, green growth, adaptation and vulnerability, climate justice, and the political economy of climate change.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Major Shareholders Click here for the latest data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Major Shareholders Click here for the latest data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Major Shareholders Click here for the latest data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Major Shareholders Click here for the latest data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Major Shareholders Click here for the latest data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Major Shareholders Click here for the latest data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Major Shareholders Click here for the latest data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2023

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events TODAY 9:30: House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee meets to consider House Bill 1215 (Vitali-D- Delaware) the state Act 108 tax credit for hydrogen production would be limited to hydrogen produced for hard-to-electrify sectors, expanded to include a larger incentive to companies using hydrogen produced from renewable (..)

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

19] France spends just over half as much per kilowatt-hour for electricity that produces one-tenth of the carbon emissions of German electricity. [20] 20] Electricity prices in Germany have risen 50 percent in the 15 years since 2007. [21] The study authors concluded that higher variability was the main driver of higher costs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

So I’ve begun to meet presidential candidates… … and ask climate questions that relate to their own political history, past statements, and actions. As it happened, WMUR TV Political Director Adam Sexton ended up using my question in his interview before the town hall meeting began.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

They have caused electricity prices to rise 50 percent in Germany since 2007, the first year it got more than 10 percent of its power from subsidized wind, solar, and biomass. The good news is that recent and historical events show that economic growth can actually lower carbon emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

But in nearly every instance, Rose listened politely, refrained from challenging Tillerson on the facts, and went on to his next question. The genesis of ExxonMobil’s brazen hypocrisy can be traced back to 2007. And Rose did, at times, ask follow-up questions. ExxonMobil is still funding those folks, big time.”

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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.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gases, established in litigation in 2007, now seems beyond question. Emissions standards for new cars temporarily stalled under Trump but are nonetheless much tighter than they were before Obama. should not enter into any climate agreement that fails to limit emissions from developing countries.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2024

497 (2007) (Justice Stevens ). The case involved EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act. Since Obama, EPA has used this authority to regulation carbon emissions from vehicles and power plants. Massachusetts v. EPA, 549 U.S. Michigan v. EPA, 576 U.S.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

Today, the Supreme Court decided its most important environmental case since 2007. Chief Justice Roberts’s majority opinion leaves EPA other options to reduce carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants. We didn’t dodge the bullet. It’s more than a flesh wound but it didn’t hit any vital organs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed new power plant carbon pollution standards that, if strengthened, would go a long way to help meet the Biden administration’s goal of slashing carbon emissions in half from 2005 levels by the end of this decade. EN: First, why are these new standards such a big deal?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

At least partly—if not largely—because the AGs and their political organization, the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), receive substantial financial support from fossil fuel companies, electric utilities, and their respective trade groups. Landry’s deep ties to the oil and gas industry predate his time as Louisiana’s AG.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

The Supreme Court sharply limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to slash carbon pollution from power plants. The justices told EPA that it can set carbon emissions standards based only on interventions at individual power plants. The Supreme Court is ignoring the science on health.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

in domestic or international efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Instead Mr. Ebell seems perfectly suited to eviscerate the efforts of the Obama Administration to reduce carbon emissions as part of the international cooperation to spare the globe from looming catastrophe. Vanity Fair (May, 2007). [11]. 21, 2016).

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