Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Members of Congress from Oregon are asking the federal government to declare an emergency declaration as the state’s salmon population continues to die off in warming waters. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. Climate catastrophes are threatening the rivers Amazonian Indigenous tribes depend on. TODAY’S TOP WATER STORIES, TOLD IN NUMBERS.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 24, 2022

An Arizona agricultural coalition proposes the federal government pay farmers to conserve water. In 2011, an earlier deep freeze caused blackouts. Government officials have repeatedly blamed global climate change for extreme heat across several states and low water levels on the country’s largest rivers. 66 RIVERS .

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2023

He was the author and lead advocate for the environmental amendment to the state constitution that declares a right to a clean environment by the people and makes the state government the trustee of the public natural resources. constitutional amendment on environmental rights.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Conflict issues Rescue operations are complicated by deep political fractures in the country of 7 million people that has lacked a strong central government and been at war on-and-off since a NATO-backed uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

Germany has recently experienced fatal and apocalyptic climate- fuelled floods , after which the country’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, promised the government would do more to tackle climate change. Photo credit: CnndrBrbr via Wikimedia. By Anders Lorenzen. They could of course enter discussions to buy more clean energy from their neighbours.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

By Adam Barnett DeSmog catalogues how oil and gas firms have forged ties with the highest levels of government, the media, and influential think tanks. Jolyon Maugham, director of the Good Law Project, told DeSmog: “Abraham Lincoln spoke of government ‘of the people, by the people and for the people.’ Graph credit: DeSmog.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 16, 2022

And “visceral political distrust,” particularly between leaders of majority-black cities and majority-white suburbs, further complicates consolidation, Teodoro said. Some water advocates have called for more financial help from state and federal governments. More state and federal assistance. It can pay for the loan,” Adriaens said.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

What we heard in plaintiffs’ case was not justiciable controversy, but rather a weeklong hearing of political grievances that properly belongs to the legislature, not a court of law,” said Assistant Attorney General Michael Russell. The admission says a lot about political will. I’m kidding, but only slightly.)

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In 2015, the NGO Klimaatzaak and thousands of concerned citizens as co-plaintiffs initiated a judicial procedure against four Belgian governments—the federal government and the regional governments of Wallonia, Brussels, and Flanders—before the Tribunal of First Instance of Brussels. Facts, procedure, judgment.

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Washington Nature

MAY 13, 2022

For comparison, the left is a photo of the Fraser River from 2011, the right was taken on November 17, 2021, showing the floods from space. More work to find collaborative solutions upfront, results in more action, and more durable solutions on the back end. Credit: The Earth Observatory/NASA, @Cmdr_Hadfield/Twitter.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

But bad economic, managerial, and political choices serve to sharpen the teeth and deepen the bite. government ordered the seven states to correct a longstanding misalignment of water supply and demand. Unless the states acted, she said, the federal government would “protect the system” and apply its own remedy. Brett Walton.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The government had abruptly stopped subsidies, dramatically increasing the price for consumers. These protests, triggered by an issue in Kazakhstan’s energy sector, have rapidly expanded to cities all over the country and have broadened to include political demands and tense standoffs between protesters and the police.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Food You’re Eating by Jeffrey M. The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM). June 2007). Smith (Yes!

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Throughout his career, Minott and the Clean Air Council earned a reputation for holding government agencies and fossil fuel companies accountable. Mr. Minott holds two degrees in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. In 2011, Kraybill purchased his first electric car, a Chevy Volt.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 31, 2024

Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Food You’re Eating by Jeffrey M. The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM). June 2007). Smith (Yes!

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Food You’re Eating by Jeffrey M. The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM). June 2007). Smith (Yes!

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Food You’re Eating by Jeffrey M. The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM). June 2007). Smith (Yes!

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Steffy (McGraw-Hill, 2011). 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. Federal Government (via USA SPENDING).

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Food You’re Eating by Jeffrey M. The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM). June 2007). Smith (Yes!

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Physics World

MARCH 11, 2022

As its clever title suggests, Tsu discusses not only written characters but also many characterful people from the Chinese worlds of computing, librarianship, politics, science and technology behind the transformation – most of whom are relatively unknown outside specialist circles.

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Frontiers

APRIL 24, 2023

Recent publications include When Governments Fail: Covid-19 and the Economy , Informal Women Workers in the Global South , and Demonetisation Decoded. With the correct political will, we could actually implement them very easily.” These are things that can be done, it requires political will.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Other Key Sources Business and Human Rights Resource Centre's profile on ExxonMobil - UK-based Business and Human Rights Resource Centre is an NGO that employs researchers on five continents who work with activists, companies and governments alike to advance human rights in business by eradicating abuse.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Other Key Sources Business and Human Rights Resource Centre's profile on ExxonMobil - UK-based Business and Human Rights Resource Centre is an NGO that employs researchers on five continents who work with activists, companies and governments alike to advance human rights in business by eradicating abuse.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Many governments and NGOs have already generated reports on the effects of climate change and security. First, scarcity of natural resources can change the political economy of a state. After the drought, the Syrian conflict arose in 2011. The effects of climate change place external pressure on the political climate of nations.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

SB 1145 requires CARB to create and maintain an online dashboard providing the public with information about the state’s progress on meeting its climate change goals, increasing government accountability. SB 6 and AB 2011 enable residential development in zones where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Investors and governments will be expected to refer to the Taxonomy in order to determine whether an activity they want to pursue can be considered sustainable, and under what conditions (screening criteria). Having an expiration date creates political investment uncertainty and risk, which is precisely what the Taxonomy intended to remove.

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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. III/IRPD/GA/2011 (2019).]] 83(1)(a)(i), Doc.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

Getting this right is important, both for California and to ensure the LCFS remains a workable model for other states and the federal government. Moreover, absent reform, the LCFS is not a replicable model for other states or the federal government.

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Environmental Europe

JULY 12, 2017

In the paper we argue that there are, in principle, two different axes to think about governing or organizing monitoring and evaluation activities. The first is a distinction between formal, government-driven or funded evaluation and informal, society-driven evaluation. Global Environmental Change , 20 (4), 550-557. [2] 2] Huitema, D.,

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Maine passed a constitutional amendment in 2021, called the “Right to Food” amendment, to address the high amount of food insecurity and users of state and federal food assistance programs that are vulnerable to political shifts, funding, and increasing disruptions to food systems caused by climate change.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 24, 2023

Water governance institutions of the past are not well-equipped to respond to the rapidly changing effects of climate change,” said Heikkila, the co-director of the Center for Policy and Democracy at the University of Colorado Denver. The time for more collective action at all scales of governance is here,” she said.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

A critical but difficult step in this process is for a government employee or independent valuator to determine the return on investment (ROI) to the public under various land use scenarios. Progress in Planning 75 , 53–107 (2011). A political view. Interim report to USDA under Contract# GS-23F-8182H 53 (2011).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The many government employees who have been working for the past four years to create a strong infrastructure of scientific integrity in the executive branch deserve credit for all they’ve accomplished. The Scientific Integrity Act , reintroduced into the 118 th Congress by Rep. Paul Tonko, would accomplish that.

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Environmental Europe

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The Nature Directives had often been criticised in the past by key political groups in different member states (such as French hunters seeing shorter hunting seasons in the 1990s, or UK developers having to cope with great crested newts in the 2000s). According to Bauer et al.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Something that advocates have been pushing for years is, how do we make government more inclusive? Around 2011, a salesperson for water filters tested his tap water and informed him it was contaminated. “We In the meantime, she and Hauptman have urged the federal government to adopt the same 1,2,3-TCP regulations as California.

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Physics World

MAY 11, 2022

When you look and see the deprivation after the war, this machine had priority money from the government, so it’s clear how important it was,” says Mike Houlden, a retired physicist from the university who first studied there during the final years of the accelerator’s operation. km of tunnels being dug and $2bn spent.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University If we could predict a flooding, drought, or heatwave event one month in advance, how many lives could be spared with more time to prepare? 2011): 150-157. Guest Post by Marybeth Arcodia , 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D.

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