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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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Our data covered 2014-2020 in San Diego County. First, the state has enacted legislation that strongly encourages local governments to consider the fire risks in approving new development. Local government decisions vary greatly in what they do – likely responding to different political and economic pressures.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

And it gives every citizen the authority to bring suit against polluters and government agencies that are doing just that in violation of the public trust. “If In 2014, many of those EGLE staff members provided the technical details underlying Republican Gov. Compromise Sought, More Pollution is Result.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In August, the oil and gas industry had 64 lobby meetings with the federal government, with the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) being the most active fossil fuel lobbyist once again. It lobbied the government 10 times in August and 65 times throughout 2023 so far. The influence doesn’t stop there.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. We need governments to regulate industry.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

This post was originally published on the Law and Political Economy blog as part of a symposium on inflation. In fact, there are important aspects of these recent price shocks that stem directly from the choices governments have made about how to price energy. Ras Laffan LNG terminal in Qatar. Photo credit: Matthew Smith, Flickr.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Second, because most development is approved at the local level in California, any response either requires state intervention into local land-use regulation (always politically controversial) or alternatively getting local governments to address the problem themselves, no small task in a state with hundreds of cities and counties.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

If Capital Power can’t square the economics of a CCS project that would have received massive subsidies, why would the federal government fork over $16 billion for such a risky project with a low possibility of success? The Carbon Capture Facility at the Boundary Dam Power Plant in Saskatchewan went into service in 2014.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 27, 2023

And if you want to challenge the power that Brad Corson has you can help us hold Imperial Oil accountable for its recent toxic tailings disaster by clicking here to send a letter to the federal government and government of Alberta. Leaks and Spills 2022 / 2023 (ongoing) — Kearl Lake, AB 5.3

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Physics World

OCTOBER 19, 2021

From physics to politics William D Magwood IV, director-general of the Nuclear Energy Agency, thinks nuclear power can help us meet net-zero targets. Magwood then became director of the office, making him the senior nuclear technology official in the US government. Governments make decisions for all sorts of reasons.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

The motion asks the company to produce a report examining how Enbridge’s governance systems are functioning. The motion asks the company to produce a report examining how Enbridge’s governance systems are functioning. That’s 20 times greater than the company reports, and more than all of Canada’s emissions.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 5, 2024

When campaigns criticized McKay and RBC , he used his platform to complain in a national paper that RBC was being unfairly targeted on social media and deferred responsibility for RBC’s fossil fuel financing to the government and other Canadian CEOs. And many people, including those in the government, are falling for it.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 15, 2024

But political scientist Scott Strauss found that only five to ten percent of Rwandans were exposed to radio broadcasts and there was no correlation between the initial violence and broadcast coverage. This is because, as Strossen notes, ‘not a single study showed that exposure to violent video games caused minors to act aggressively.’

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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. Guest Post by Curtis Kline , Ph.D. In 2016, the Constitutional Court of Colombia came to a similar decision about the Atrato River.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 28, 2024

in partnership with the federal government, committed to a 2025 deadline to have the practices in place to reduce nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment pollution to the Bay. The 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement included this commitment and additional Bay restoration goals. Life around the Bay watershed could get better—or worse.

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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. Church was an elementary school counselor in Philadelphia until 2014.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

“Grant’s efforts have included the passage of multiple ordinances and a Home Rule Charter (local constitution) that we at the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) have worked to draft with them, and defend in court, since 2014. In the first case, brought in 2014, the judge – who owned stock in the oil company KBR, Inc.,

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

The company sued the government of Argentina in 2012 for $10 billion after the country nationalized YPF with the backing of 80 percent of legislators of parliament. The case was settled in 2014 after Argentina paid Repsol $5 billion. Federal Government (via USA SPENDING). Federal Government (via SAM).

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The British coal-mining industry, which in the 1980s comprised 175 working pits, had been judged by the then-Conservative government led by Margaret Thatcher, to be uneconomic. The resulting closures caused great unemployment and hardship in coal-mining areas, together with much social and political violence and unrest in 1984-5.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 20, 2017

This bill injects politics into the ESA’s science-based process for delisting species and shuts down the possibility of enforcement and judicial review. Practically, these two provisions allow the government to prioritize delisting petitions while listing petitions—and the underlying imperiled species—decay in administrative limbo.

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Environmental Europe

DECEMBER 7, 2016

This blog post reflects back on this two-year debate, raging since the beginning of the Juncker Commission in 2014, and what it tells us about the prospect for future EU-level environmental policy dismantling , that is, cutting, weakening or removing existing policy. The Nature Alert Saga. According to Bauer et al.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2023

However, the request also references international human rights instruments, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The rules governing written proceedings are quite flexible.

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JANUARY 16, 2017

Since then, it has generated a massive overspend (more than £1bn UK public money, £600 million coming from the Treasury and £490 million over the next 20 years) and precipitated the fall of the Northern Irish government (Sinn Féin Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness stepped down on 9 January). Faulty governance.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MAY 12, 2023

Towards the beginning of the 1960s, organizations such as the Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and community members in the South increasingly organized and held meetings to strategize around increasing Black political participation. Hamer began volunteering as a field organizer.

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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

As climate change has become a more pervasive and urgent political issue, governments around the world have started to look to soil as a potential part of the solution. The amount of drawdown in agricultural lands can be quite dramatic— a 2014 study found that at peak growth, the US Corn Belt (i.e.,

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 11, 2015

California is experiencing one of the worst droughts on record, resulting in a state of emergency since January 2014. After a dry 2013-2014 winter, the drought forced farmers to uproot valuable walnut and almond trees and sell off cattle they could no longer husband. Laurie Ristino and Joseph Simpson. . A panel of the U.S.

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 20, 2014

This Oregon-based non-profit joins youth plaintiffs in “strategic atmospheric trust litigation…to compel governments…to adopt and implement enforceable science-based Climate Recovery Plans.”. [4]. The Court affirmed that Kanuk’s specific policy requests are non-justiciable political questions. [9]. 12, 2014). [3]. 26, 2014). [4].

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The Energy Law

MAY 6, 2016

In 2014, St. Tammany Parish Government v. The court recognized Louisiana Revised Statute § 30:28(F), which grants the Commissioner permitting power, as supreme over any other agency or political subdivisions’ attempt to prohibit or interfere with permitted drilling. Welsh , 15-1152 (La.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2023

And now, I participated in a seminar that PJM was part of in New York City, and one of the comments made is the political policies that we as legislators in the various states associated with PJM probably give to PJM. "In "Obviously, that doesn't add up quite, but there's a little bit of renewables included in that. “We Read more here.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 10, 2016

From 1990 to 2014, the contribution towards climate protection made by recycling paper, cardboard and cartons was upsized by a factor of 7.5, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India. program that took into account the views of the Government, industry and the consumer. million tons of CO2 equivalents per annum.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

On October 26, 2021, Observatório do Clima (OC), a network of 71 civil society organizations, filed a class action at the federal court of Amazonas against the Environmental Ministry and Brazilian government ( Laboratório do Observatório do Clima v. Omissions from the Brazilian government on climate policy. o C global warming scenario.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 6, 2015

University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science recently released the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Report Card. Government officials were uninterested; as a result, the. phosphorus management regulations were caught in a political battle between outgoing Governor O’Malley (D) and newly inaugurated Governor Larry Hogan (R).

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 16, 2021

During the past 30 years of extensive political debate around global climate change, participants have largely ignored the role that curbing population growth could play in dealing with it. 3 from IPCC, Fifth Assessment Report, Mitigation Report, Summary for Policymakers (2014). Figure SPM.3

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In November 2014, the United States and China—two of the world’s most significant emitters—. which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. Notwithstanding the assured political battles, one way to increase the price of carbon is through an economy wide carbon tax. federal government.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Government’s regulatory “call in” power amendment faces delays. This year the UK has seen the formation of a new government that has introduced substantial spending cuts and the announcement of leadership changes at both the FCA and the SFO, two of the UK’s most important economic crime agencies.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 11, 2024

Later the company was exposed for using another tool called “Greyball” to evade police and government officials as well as unwanted customers. The company typically pays out an undisclosed sum to get them to go away, as in the case of a woman who was raped by an Uber driver in New Delhi, India, in 2014.

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