Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. In the U.S.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. In the U.S.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. In the U.S.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. In the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 30, 2024

But as I showed in my 2013 and 2021 reports, the hype surrounding SMRs is way overblown, and my conclusions remain valid today. They also are less effective in mitigating carbon emissions, because uranium mining and milling are relatively carbon-intensive activities compared to other parts of the uranium fuel cycle.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

This new financing comes from the LEAF Coalition , a partnership between the governments of the USA, UK and Norway, alongside some of the world’s largest companies, including Amazon, Nestlé, BlackRock and Walmart. The potential for trees to capture carbon emissions through photosynthesis seems crucial to the recent upsurge.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The conference has been held annually since 1992 and governments use it to agree on actions to limit global temperature increases associated with climate change. Aggregate Trends of Climate Finance Provided and Mobilised by Developed Countries in 2013-2020 Shah, K. So why don’t these islands just adapt to climate change? OECD (2022).

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Information unearthed by Environmental Progress points to a gaping oversight in how the figures influencing government net zero policy and investments in solar worldwide are compiled and collated due to the difficulty of collecting accurate information out of China, especially for the purification processes used to create silicon wafers.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 16, 2017

These days the United States’ federal government is promoting coal and backtracking on climate ambition and the European Union is no longer cutting its greenhouse gases emissions. China’s coal consumption declined over three consecutive years (2013 to 2016), and a continued slow decline is expected.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Challenges There are many challenges to the effective implementation of tax-credit or tax-funded payment programs for carbon-related ecosystem services, with two of the most significant being reasonably accurate quantification and valuation of carbon storage, sequestration, and production 8,11,12. Scale Carbon Emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 10, 2024

A brief history of the land carbon sink Every year, globally, land-based ecosystems remove roughly 30% of human emissions from the atmosphere, slowing both the accumulation of atmospheric CO2 and increases in global temperature. These same environmental changes can also increase carbon losses from land-based ecosystems.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 24, 2017

Notable examples include: The World Bank (through the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, IBRD) issued its first green bond in 2008 with $440 M; The African Development Bank (ADB) issued a half a billion USD green bond in October 2013.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Last week, on Monday November 14, as part of its Economic Outlook and Fiscal Review , the Ontario government officially announced it would be developing a voluntary clean energy credit (CEC) registry. Now, the Ontario government is crafting an official Clean Energy Credit system that will presumably require transparency.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 11, 2021

Environmental Defence is currently running a campaign calling for the federal government to ban coal exports. The momentum it gained was incredible and all because of a decision I made back in 2013 to do something. This guest post is by Paula Williams, the co-founder of Communities and Coal. Take action here. My Awareness.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The Canadian government brought very little new to this UN conference. The Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance (BOGA) officially launched with 11 countries and sub-national governments agreeing to get rid of oil and gas. These are projects invested in in the past that would count against a country’s 2030 emission reduction commitments.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 16, 2018

That could be changing, though, as modern-day climate activists like the Valve Turners vigorously protest industry and government inaction in the face of increasingly dire climate change threats. In 2013, Massachusetts District Attorney C. So actions taken to curtail some carbon emissions, but not all, might still suffice.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In a separate but similar Ninth Circuit appeal, the federal government filed a brief on October 18 urging the court to overturn a district court decision vacating the listing of a ringed seal subspecies as threatened based on climate change threats through the end of the century. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

I first wrote about ExxonMobil in March 2013 after I saw the company’s then-CEO, Rex Tillerson, on the Charlie Rose talk show, who provided me with fodder for perhaps my favorite of two dozen ExxonMobil-related columns. Later in the hour, Tillerson told Rose that the federal government should end subsidies for renewable energy. “I

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Tesla sues Swedish government after postal workers allegedly block license plate deliveries CNBC PaulaR Thu, 11/30/2023 - 13:12 Monday, November 27, 2023 Read more Ashley Capoot Tesla filed a lawsuit against the Swedish Transport Agency on Monday that claims it should be able to collect license plates directly instead of receiving them by mail.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

President Obama selected Gina McCarthy as EPA administrator in 2013. [2]. His goal is to “combat unwarranted regulation and overreach by the federal government.”. [13]. This plan set “state-by-state targets for carbon emissions reductions,” and offered, “flexible framework under which states may meet those targets.”. [17].

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

The government sets an overall emissions target¾the cap¾and determines which facilities will be covered. Emission allowances, each generally equal to one ton of emissions, are periodically auctioned or distributed without cost—or both—to covered facilities. [14]. Cap-and-trade programs generally operate as follows. [13].

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

Despite their substantial negative environmental impact, the federal government has repeatedly given the wind industry special rights. The federal government rarely stops wind projects or requires changes in wind turbine locations or operations. mile buffer and cross 600 individual wetlands.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

The federal district court for the Eastern District of California denied a motion for a preliminary injunction in a case challenging federal and state reviews and authorizations of a logging project and biomass energy facility on public forestland that burned during the 2013 Rim Fire. All of the briefs are available on the case page.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Tesla has benefited from several billion dollars in government incentives such as a $1.3 is lobbying the Ontario government as part of an effort to set up an "advanced manufacturing facility" in Canada, a filing by the electric-vehicle maker to the province's Office of the Integrity Commissioner showed. billion tax break in Nevada.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Tesla has benefited from several billion dollars in government incentives such as a $1.3 is lobbying the Ontario government as part of an effort to set up an "advanced manufacturing facility" in Canada, a filing by the electric-vehicle maker to the province's Office of the Integrity Commissioner showed. billion tax break in Nevada.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Tesla has benefited from several billion dollars in government incentives such as a $1.3 is lobbying the Ontario government as part of an effort to set up an "advanced manufacturing facility" in Canada, a filing by the electric-vehicle maker to the province's Office of the Integrity Commissioner showed. billion tax break in Nevada.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Tesla has benefited from several billion dollars in government incentives such as a $1.3 is lobbying the Ontario government as part of an effort to set up an "advanced manufacturing facility" in Canada, a filing by the electric-vehicle maker to the province's Office of the Integrity Commissioner showed. billion tax break in Nevada.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Tesla has benefited from several billion dollars in government incentives such as a $1.3 is lobbying the Ontario government as part of an effort to set up an "advanced manufacturing facility" in Canada, a filing by the electric-vehicle maker to the province's Office of the Integrity Commissioner showed. billion tax break in Nevada.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Tesla has benefited from several billion dollars in government incentives such as a $1.3 is lobbying the Ontario government as part of an effort to set up an "advanced manufacturing facility" in Canada, a filing by the electric-vehicle maker to the province's Office of the Integrity Commissioner showed. billion tax break in Nevada.

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Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

and Washington governments, and advocates of our precious environment. "It She achieved success in carbon emission reduction, water resources, and water quality management. Her role spans various environmental matters, including energy policy, climate change, and air quality, guiding municipal, government, and Tribal clients.

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