Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In 2020, farmers and livestock operations used 187 billion gallons of water, double the amount in 2009. They irrigate 570,000 acres, or roughly 100,000 acres more than in 2009, according to state figures. In 2020, farmers and livestock operations used 187 billion gallons of water, double the amount in 2009.

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APRIL 16, 2024

This insistence on power-sharing reflects the divided political opinions in government today, and may actually be the path forward. UCS began pushing for strong planning with new rules as early as 2009. The draft rules from FERC also encourage utilities to work with state officials to identify renewable energy zones.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The fund was set up in 2009 as part of Brazil’s national climate policy plan and became inoperative in 2019 when President Bolsonaro stopped preparing annual plans and disbursing resources to support the mitigation projects. The decision was made in a lawsuit filed by four political parties (PSB et al.

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Legal Planet

JULY 13, 2021

By 2009, environmental challenges–especially climate change–were severe enough that humans have obligations to understand how technologies can help overcome them and to use these technologies, as appropriate. Some of these appear both feasible and necessary to achieve important sustainability and human welfare objectives.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

And the company maintains positions on just about every ag and water related board and commission in Kings, giving it considerable political heft. . The city’s political clout, money and history of reaching north to quench its thirst make it an obvious water bogeyman to growers in the San Joaquin Valley. No,” he said.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 24, 2024

US Food and Drug Administration regulation of tobacco products, enacted in 2009, mandates graphic health warnings on cigarette products and advertisements—but the tobacco industry has delayed implementation through a prolonged legal battle. A recent appeals court ruling affirmed that the warnings are “factual and uncontroversial.”

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Legal Planet

JULY 21, 2023

A more conventional ‘risk-benefit’ analysis of geoengineering – such as that by the Royal Society back in 2009 – already attends to climate risks, insofar as they are affected by geoengineering. But to security experts, and students of political science, geoengineering appears as a hybrid, dual-use security technology.

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Physics World

MAY 17, 2022

He took over as chair of France’s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission in 2009 before succeeding the Japanese physicist Osamu Motojima as ITER boss in 2015. ” Bigot has been an outstanding political leader and reliable friend far beyond the ITER project. We will miss him greatly. Sibylle Günter.

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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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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 6, 2020

The short version: A three year, multi-million dollar study has confirmed the science and policy underlying the 2009 Jordan Lake water quality rules. In 2009, the EMC adopted rules to implement the final nutrient management strategy. Later in 2009, the legislature adopted the first of.a Background. UNC Findings.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 19, 2023

Uber founded in 2009; Lyft in 2012), public micromobility systems such as scooters and bikeshares, electrification, shared automated vehicles : all came with the promise of “ faster, smarter, greener ” cities that would be “ connected, heterogenous, intelligent and personalized.” New ride hailing services (e.g.,

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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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Vermont Law

JULY 6, 2020

This leaves the disaster preparedness plans vulnerable to the politics of government. In 2009, at the direction of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Institute of Medicine issued the Crisis Standards of Care (CSC) which are guidelines for state and local governments. [14]. Nat’l Response Framework (2009), [link]. [7].

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Physics World

DECEMBER 3, 2021

I moved to the US in 2009 for my PhD in particle physics and in the decade since have followed the news from my alma mater and from Pan’s group. Out of patriotism, naivety, a desire for funding, or direct political pressure, a scientist can become part of the state’s propaganda and even complicit in the state’s actions.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 11, 2021

My 2009 piece; " Urban Growth and Climate Change" fleshes this out. In my own microeconomic research on the climate change challenge, I have not emphasized policy priorities today because I believe that the political economy is such that global greenhouse gas emissions will continue to rise. Here is 2012 video where I elaborate.

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Environmental Europe

JULY 1, 2020

In a new open access paper , recently published in the journal West European Politics , we argue that the EU’s challenge has emerged from legislative change and the way in which the Member States contribute to achieving the EU’s overall renewable energy targets. West European Politics, doi: [link]. Schoenefeld, J. J., & Knodt, M.

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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). Johnson, Grassroots Activism: An exploration of women of color’s role in the environmental justice movement , 16 GENDER AND CLASS, (2009). Citations See e.g. Alice C. Hill, et al., Rainey & G. Gaard, supra note 4.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Like the experienced political leaders they are, the Commission simply took the fact of the controversy over field experiments as given, without going into the arguments over whether it makes any sense. So, what happens now?

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

First, scarcity of natural resources can change the political economy of a state. The drought was ongoing between 2006-2009 . The expensive food and water scarcity put external pressures on the political climate in Syria. The effects of climate change place external pressure on the political climate of nations.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 26, 2023

An entity classified as an “arm of the state” would be entitled to sovereign immunity provided by the Eleventh Amendment; in contrast, a “political subdivision” is not afforded the same protection. 2009) (citing McCarthy ex rel. Tarrant County , 798 F.2d 2d 736, 744-45 (5 th Cir. Caremark, Inc., 3d 655, 658 (5th Cir. Hawkins , 381 F.3d

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

More than 231,000 Americans work in the $25.4 billion solar industry, which continues to grow much faster than the overall economy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Parts of EPA that historically had been run by career experts would instead be run by political appointees making decisions based on ideology , rather than science. Alarmingly, the notion of scientific integrity itself, which people from all political affiliations should support, is also under fire.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Failure to Yield: Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists, March 2009). Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops on Pesticide Use in the United States: The First Thirteen Years (The Organic Center, November 2009). Forrestal (Simon & Schuster, 1977).

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Circle of Blue

MAY 9, 2022

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 caused a spike in spending on water infrastructure, but it quickly fell back to about $3 billion a year. Part of the water infrastructure crisis is the lack of political will to pay for it.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 31, 2024

Failure to Yield: Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists, March 2009). Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops on Pesticide Use in the United States: The First Thirteen Years (The Organic Center, November 2009). Forrestal (Simon & Schuster, 1977).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Failure to Yield: Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists, March 2009). Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops on Pesticide Use in the United States: The First Thirteen Years (The Organic Center, November 2009). Forrestal (Simon & Schuster, 1977).

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 12, 2021

It is one thing when a political leaders in a government make an ESG claim. In 2009 the King of Bhutan proclaimed his Himalayan country was ‘carbon negative’ because all of its power was hydroelectric or solar buttressed with large forested areas. Calculating net zero is ill defined, unregulated and complex.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

A DeSmog investigation – compiled in this interactive map – reveals the scale of this network, mapping the connections between oil, gas and coal companies, wealthy political donors, right-wing think tanks, anti-climate media outlets, and senior figures in the ruling Conservative Party.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Failure to Yield: Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists, March 2009). Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops on Pesticide Use in the United States: The First Thirteen Years (The Organic Center, November 2009). Forrestal (Simon & Schuster, 1977).

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Their inclusion appears to be the result of a political compromise with Member States rather than of scientific appraisal as in the case of nuclear energy. Having an expiration date creates political investment uncertainty and risk, which is precisely what the Taxonomy intended to remove. This makes the condition impractical.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Failure to Yield: Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists, March 2009). Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops on Pesticide Use in the United States: The First Thirteen Years (The Organic Center, November 2009). Forrestal (Simon & Schuster, 1977).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

should commit to cutting its heat-trapping emissions at least 70% below 2005 levels by 2035, a level that UCS modeling shows is possible, but that will require political will and significant new policies to achieve. For the next round of NDCs, the U.S. Article 2.1(c) The climate crisis, too, requires urgent attention.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of BP (British Petroleum) Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Repsol SA Royal Dutch Shell Total SA Federal Contractor Misconduct Database Project On Government Oversight's list of U.S. Photo Gallery Image BP Protester photo R. complaints from 1995-present day.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 17, 2023

And while half of the state drains into the Chesapeake, most of its population lives elsewhere, with political power based outside of the Bay watershed in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. The state doesn’t border the Bay, and political power is concentrated outside its watershed. The Bay was never a priority.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

USA: Coke Sued for Fraudulent Claims on Obesity-Promoting “VitaminWater” Center for Science in the Public Interest | January 15, 2009 Coke markets VitaminWater as a healthful alternative to soda by labeling its several flavors with such health buzz words as "defense," "rescue," "energy," and "endurance."

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

USA: Coke Sued for Fraudulent Claims on Obesity-Promoting “VitaminWater” Center for Science in the Public Interest | January 15, 2009 Coke markets VitaminWater as a healthful alternative to soda by labeling its several flavors with such health buzz words as "defense," "rescue," "energy," and "endurance."

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