Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 16, 2024

For example, in Galveston, Texas, where most public housing was destroyed b y Hurricane Ike in 2008, the reconstruction of units was delayed by more than a decade. And it’s important when we think about resources and policies that can help, to not just focus them on people who have political power and relatively more resources.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

DEP’s Climate Change Advisory Committee is scheduled to meet on February 21 to discuss a proposed scope of work for the 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment and state Climate Action Plan as required by Act 70 of 2008. Wolf: 2021 Climate Impacts Report Projects Pennsylvania Will Be 5.9°

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Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

True, t he world was different in many ways in 2008 when Obama took office, including the energy sector. One way of getting a handle on the amount of harm, though, is to assume that if Bush had kept his promise, emissions during his presidency would have declined as much as they did under his successor Obama.

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

It was evident how much influence they had on Merkel’s government after the latter did not want to take meaningful action against them following the Dieselgate scandal from 2008 – 2015. It goes without saying that their number one priority should be getting out of coal as soon as possible. .

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Legal Planet

MARCH 2, 2022

The task force was created in 2008 by California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and nine other governors from Brazil, Indonesia, and the U.S. The task force is a coalition of 38 states and provinces working to protect tropical forests, reduce emissions from deforestation, and promote rural development that maintains forests.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 24, 2024

In 2008 I was the sole civil society representative in the room when parties finalized negotiations on the implementation guidelines.] Campaigns like this are exactly what’s needed to push political leaders in the United States and worldwide to confront the drivers of the climate crisis.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 20, 2023

Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile are all in complex political, social, and economic situations. In 2008, Bolivia nationalized lithium, and since then, the state has controlled the access, extraction process, and production of lithium carbonate.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The two industry-funded studies ( NERA 2008 and ACT Research 2022 ) claim much higher impact on sales than either the academic (RZW 2018) or government ( EPA 2021 ) studies. Four studies purporting to examine whether a pre-buy effect occurred on heavy-duty truck sales can’t agree on the magnitude or timing of any such effect.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2023

From 2008 to 2013, Barrow served as Chief of Staff in the Office of Commissioner Wayne E. Barrow is an alumna of the University of Georgia with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Spanish. Prior to her career at the Commission, Barrow spent time working as a Law Clerk for the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board in Harrisburg.

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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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Washington Nature

JUNE 8, 2021

Climate legislation in Olympia has been sensitive to economic and political changes in the past. After peaking in the 2007-2008 legislative session, the number of climate bills proposed and passed fell greatly between 2009 and 2016, corresponding to the recent recession period.

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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. As the rights of nature gains ground legally, socially, and politically, around the world and here in Colorado, it is important more fully understand its limits and opportunities.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Even though INTERPOL's Constitution prohibits the use of Red Notices to target political opponents or to pursue groundless or improper claims, the procedures by which INTERPOL issues and reviews Red Notices—and the options for challenging them—have not always been clear. [[N: Id. , 83(1)(a)(ii).]] I/CONS/GA/1956 (2017). ]].

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Vermont Law

APRIL 7, 2022

18, 2021, [link] Vally Koubi, Climate Change and Conflict , 22 Annual Review of Political Science, 343, 343 (2019). N Unger, The Role of Gender in Env’t Justice , ENV’T JUSTICE, 1, 115 (2008). Citations See e.g. Alice C. Hill, et al., A World Overheating , COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, Oct. Anastario, et. OF WOMEN’S HEALTH, 1437.

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Physics World

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Safety – and the politics surrounding it – remains the single biggest issue influencing the development of nuclear power around the world. Over in the US, TerraPower , a start-up co-founded in 2008 by Bill Gates, has chosen Kemmerer – a former coal town in Wyoming – as the preferred site for its new “Natrium” fission reactor.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Political maneuvers from our elected officials who receive campaign donations from the coal mining companies sought to and succeeded in obtaining this deviation. Note: DEP also says, “Interested parties can submit questions or comment on the data on a continuing basis.] Read more here. Read more here.] Click Here for more.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 9, 2022

That federal investment fell dramatically after 1980 and continued to decline to as little as $2 billion in 2008. Part of the water infrastructure crisis is the lack of political will to pay for it. If an elected official votes to spend money to improve a park or make living in a town obviously nicer, that earns voters’ respect.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Over time, I expanded my role to full-time and established my research entity, the HVDRU, in 2008. It is essential to increase investment in research, improve infrastructure, and spur political action to eliminate HBV as a public health threat.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 12, 2021

And the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson , when Mayor of London (2008-2016) used his Telegraph column to air doubts about whether climate change was real. Even the president of COP26, Alok Sharma, has a record in parliament of being hostile to climate action. In addition, he frequently mocks climate activists as hippies.

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Circle of Blue

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 problem is that the state never took on the not insignificant burden of refinement.” .

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Vermont Law

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]. 95, 95 (2008). [7]. Also, 553 scientists explained that the EPA rarely utilizes advice from independent scientific advisory committees. [20]. Pesticide Law. ,

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of Bayer AG Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Fresenius Pfizer Volkswagen Major Procurement Contracts Bayer Contracts with the U.S.

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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. Carlin Lake, Presque Isle, Wisconsin. The battle stretched out over seven years between 2015 and 2021. The Great Lakes – St.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 31, 2024

The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of Bayer AG Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Fresenius Pfizer Volkswagen Major Procurement Contracts Bayer Contracts with the U.S.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In recent rounds of reauthorization, Congress reduced the AML fee: the 2006 reauthorization reduced the fee by 10 percent in 2008, and another 10 percent in 2013. The political story behind this change in financing has a main character: the Wyoming congressional delegation. Coal production has been in precipitous decline since 2008.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of Bayer AG Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Fresenius Pfizer Volkswagen Major Procurement Contracts Bayer Contracts with the U.S.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of Bayer AG Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Fresenius Pfizer Volkswagen Major Procurement Contracts Bayer Contracts with the U.S.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of Bayer AG Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Fresenius Pfizer Volkswagen Major Procurement Contracts Bayer Contracts with the U.S.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World's Favorite Soft Drink by Michael Blanding (2010) Belching Out the Devil: Global Adventures with Coca-Cola by Mark Thomas (2008). 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

The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World's Favorite Soft Drink by Michael Blanding (2010) Belching Out the Devil: Global Adventures with Coca-Cola by Mark Thomas (2008). Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Major Shareholders Click here for the latest list.

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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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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World's Favorite Soft Drink by Michael Blanding (2010) Belching Out the Devil: Global Adventures with Coca-Cola by Mark Thomas (2008). Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Major Shareholders Click here for the latest list.

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Vermont Law

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. Thus, to utilize the free market to reduce the effects of climate change, neoclassical economics. ultimate objective.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 15, 2024

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. People perishing by heat or smoke one by one in the privacy of their homes or in the sterility of hospitals is relatively invisible.

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Law Columbia

JULY 16, 2013

euros a ton in April 2013, compared to its peak near 30 euros in July 2008. The political rebirth of the back-loading regulation was attributed to leadership by the UK climate change minister, along with a group of ministers from other nations. As a result, the EUA price hit bottom: a record low of 2.63

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

And aluminum prices are higher than at any time since the financial crisis of 2008. There are echoes here of the energy and economic crisis of the 1970s, a global shock that has reverberated in global politics and economics for much of the last half century. Zinc hit a fifteen-year high. In the U.S.,

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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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