Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 24, 2024

The treaty, in force as international law for nearly 20 years, now binds 183 parties, protecting more than 90 percent of the world’s people. In 2008 I was the sole civil society representative in the room when parties finalized negotiations on the implementation guidelines.]

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

In the past decade, as the use of Red Notices by the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) member states has increased dramatically, so too have calls for INTERPOL to strengthen its gatekeeping function and guard against national authorities' potential misuse of this powerful tool of international law enforcement cooperation.

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Frontiers

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

The team collected genetic samples between 2008-2020 with the goal of determining the genetic health of the population. The authors acknowledged that introducing more lynxes is politically difficult. New genetic material is urgently needed, or the population will collapse.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Candidate in the Department of Political Science and Trainee in the CSU InTERFEWS Program In 2014 the Whanganui River in New Zealand was granted legal personhood. Despite current inaction, constitutional law in Colombia now recognizes the Atrato River as a living entity with rights. Guest Post by Curtis Kline , Ph.D.

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APRIL 7, 2022

The Future is : Gender Inclusion in Climate Crisis Solutions By Beckett McGowan , Juris Doctor Candidate (VLGS '23), Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law April 7, 2022 Climate Change is the great exasperator. N Unger, The Role of Gender in Env’t Justice , ENV’T JUSTICE, 1, 115 (2008). Citations See e.g. Alice C.

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MAY 25, 2020

California’s Proposition 65 tends to take a careful approach while the EPA has tended to tailor its decisions to satisfy pesticide manufacturers and political parties. [18]. It only makes sense for the law to apply this approach to warning label language requirements. Species Protection Law and U.S. Pesticide Law. ,

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Michigan responded in 2008 by requiring farmers to register any new well capable of pumping at least 100,000 gallons a day and forming a team of state regulators to issue or deny new registrations. The law and the program require applicants to provide data and make the case they are not causing harm. .

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Acoel

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A small lake in Northern Wisconsin became the battleground for a classic showdown between a small group of cottage owners and a well-healed, politically connected entrepreneur. Before it was all over, local, county, state, and federal laws, an interstate compact, and an international agreement came into play.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The infrastructure act’s use of taxpayer dollars to finance the AML fund marks an abandonment of the intention of the mine cleanup law. The original law made coal companies pay for the industry’s past environmental harms. The political story behind this change in financing has a main character: the Wyoming congressional delegation.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

As China’s Communist Party increases its political grip, it has been nearly impossible for foreign NGOs to operate effectively in the country and Chinese elites now chafe at requirements that they pass regular tutorials in “XI Jinping Thought.” The country’s strengthened environmental laws seem to be producing results.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

While serving as vice president at Pittsburgh’s Western Pennsylvania Conservancy from 1999 to 2008, Bonomo increased the operating budget for Conservation Programs in eight years from $1 million to $5.7 Since her promotion into the role of president, PennFuture has raised over $11.5

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Notwithstanding the assured political battles, one way to increase the price of carbon is through an economy wide carbon tax. In fact, British Columbia’s foray into carbon taxes in 2008 has been so successful that. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. would suggest increasing the price of carbon. ultimate objective.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 15, 2024

Over the last 13 months, Texas and Florida have enacted laws that block localities from issuing heat protection rules for workers. For instance, while Hurricane Katrina took 1,400 lives in the US in 2005, Cyclone Nargis in the Bay of Bengal made landfall in Myanmar in 2008 and killed 140,000 people—100 times more people than Katrina.

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Law Columbia

JULY 16, 2013

This decision allows what is known as the “back-loading” proposal to proceed to further negotiations with the European Council to reach a commonly approved text that could become law in the future. euros a ton in April 2013, compared to its peak near 30 euros in July 2008. As a result, the EUA price hit bottom: a record low of 2.63

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2022

From 2008 to 2018, the industry reported taking 595,172,958 gallons from our Loyalsock, which in many places is no more than knee deep from shore to shore. The DEP employee was polite and respectful, thanked me for my incident report and told me, “I thought you deserved a phone call”. I received a call from DEP later that afternoon.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Edited by Michael Burger (Sabin Center for Climate Change Law), Teresa Parejo (UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network) and Lisa Sachs (Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment). Sumudu Atapattu , Director of Research Centers and Senior Lecturer, University of Wisconsin Law Schoo. Richard School of Law. Knox , Henry C.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. The court rejected Exxon’s argument that it could withhold documents based on an accountant-client privilege under Texas law. and non-U.S. Avista Corp.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2024

(credit: PBI Actuarial Consultants) Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, in coordination with an equally myopic and partisan Florida Legislature, has approved new state legislation ( HB 1645 ) that eliminates the term “climate change” from numerous existing Florida statutes that former Republican Governor Charlie Crist signed into law in 2008.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. According to AB Chile, a food industry association, more than 1,500 items, or 20 percent of all products sold in Chile, have been reformulated in response to the law.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. According to AB Chile, a food industry association, more than 1,500 items, or 20 percent of all products sold in Chile, have been reformulated in response to the law.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. According to AB Chile, a food industry association, more than 1,500 items, or 20 percent of all products sold in Chile, have been reformulated in response to the law.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 16, 2018

By Dan Wilcox, Senior Notes Editor, Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. Long recognized in both American and English common law, the defense rests on the claim that an otherwise illegal act is legally excusable as necessary to avoid a greater harm. Upcoming cases will provide U.S. The Valve Turners blocked 15% of U.S. Can it work?

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Also see SOMO's 2008 report. James 350 New Orleans Major Investigations & Lawsuits Milieudefensie's lawsuit against Shell in Nigeria Milieudefensie | September 25, 2020 Milieudefensie, together with four Nigerian farmers, sued Shell in 2008. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Also see SOMO's 2008 report. James 350 New Orleans Major Investigations & Lawsuits Milieudefensie's lawsuit against Shell in Nigeria Milieudefensie | September 25, 2020 Milieudefensie, together with four Nigerian farmers, sued Shell in 2008. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Also see SOMO's 2008 report. James 350 New Orleans Major Investigations & Lawsuits Milieudefensie's lawsuit against Shell in Nigeria Milieudefensie | September 25, 2020 Milieudefensie, together with four Nigerian farmers, sued Shell in 2008. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Also see SOMO's 2008 report. James 350 New Orleans Major Investigations & Lawsuits Milieudefensie's lawsuit against Shell in Nigeria Milieudefensie | September 25, 2020 Milieudefensie, together with four Nigerian farmers, sued Shell in 2008. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Also see SOMO's 2008 report. James 350 New Orleans Major Investigations & Lawsuits Milieudefensie's lawsuit against Shell in Nigeria Milieudefensie | September 25, 2020 Milieudefensie, together with four Nigerian farmers, sued Shell in 2008. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Also see SOMO's 2008 report. James 350 New Orleans Major Investigations & Lawsuits Milieudefensie's lawsuit against Shell in Nigeria Milieudefensie | September 25, 2020 Milieudefensie, together with four Nigerian farmers, sued Shell in 2008. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Also see SOMO's 2008 report. James 350 New Orleans Major Investigations & Lawsuits Milieudefensie's lawsuit against Shell in Nigeria Milieudefensie | September 25, 2020 Milieudefensie, together with four Nigerian farmers, sued Shell in 2008. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

It is a practice and a philosophy, utilizing scientific tools and methods with applied ethics, and, where necessary, regulation and environmental law to limit the use of certain materials. The first conservation laws came in then, making it illegal to fell a teak tree under a certain size. The War Between Preservation and Conservation.

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Legal Planet

MAY 26, 2022

The Climate Change Act of 2008 was amended in 2019 under a coalition government of the Conservatives and their North Irish allies. Rather than weakening the 2008 law, the amendment set a target of net-zero GHG emissions by 2050. But Brexit so far has had minimal impact on British environmental laws.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The amended acts are Regulation 300/2008, 2008 O.J. (L This statement is a bit hyperbolic as the General Data Protection Regulation and other laws already restrict AI in various ways.[[N: A version of this Advisory will be published in Bloomberg Law. N:EC Proposal arts. 2(2), 75-82, recital 29. N: See Peter J.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

VW Escapes Multiple Fines In EU Over Emissions Scandal Law 360 PaulaR Thu, 01/04/2024 - 17:26 Thursday, September 14, 2023 Read more Matthew Perlman Europe's top court ruled Wednesday that Volkswagen should not have to pay a €5 million ($5.3 Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 17, 2022

Initiatives can be used to make the will of the people law on issues that elected officials are unwilling to address,” said Sen. The ballot initiative process would propose a new law or constitutional amendments by petitions signed by five percent of the registered voters casting votes for Governor in not less than 45 counties.

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Legal Planet

MAY 30, 2023

As recounted here by Richard Frank, the Sacketts sued the EPA in 2008 after they sought to build a house in Idaho near Priest Lake and the agency said they needed a permit under the Clean Water Act because the wetlands were federally protected. But this decision is about more than wetlands and water. Q: West Virginia v.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Germany: VW Sex and Bribery Scandal: Sentences Handed Down in Corruption Affair Der Spiegel | February 22, 2008 A German court convicted two senior Volkswagen executives on Friday in a bribery and corruption case at Europe's biggest car-maker. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Germany: VW Sex and Bribery Scandal: Sentences Handed Down in Corruption Affair Der Spiegel | February 22, 2008 A German court convicted two senior Volkswagen executives on Friday in a bribery and corruption case at Europe's biggest car-maker. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians.

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