Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

While the operation of the CEFR and supply of highly enriched uranium to the reactor attracted less attention from foreign media, the construction of the two China Fast Reactor (CFR)-600 reactors in Xiapu, China, in 2017 sparked widespread discussion. energy and weapons) capabilities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 9, 2024

When our family participated in the Science March at the Minnesota Capitol in 2017, one of our signs said, “What do we want – Science Based Policy! This is a major federal law that governs if a chemical will be regulated, limited, or even banned. When do we want it? After Public Comment!”

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

They are allowed by law and timid regulatory inertia to annually spread 400 millions of tons of solid manure, and 4 billion gallons of raw, untreated liquid animal feces and urine – 5,000 to 7,000 gallons per acre – on 600,000 acres across Michigan; . “If Department of Agriculture 2017 Census and U.S. Confrontation on New Permit.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Shapiro -- MCall - Paul Muschick: Gov. Shapiro’s Plan To Make Govt. More Accountable Is A Model For Others -- Post-Gazette Editorial: A Bureaucratic Reform Could Transform PA Government -- Spotlight PA: Tracking Gov. Monday] -- U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

Should we expect a political showdown and stormy fight on the floor ? Let’s dig into each bill and explore why California needs them to become law and how the bills could improve the water rights system. This bill would only affect those who violate existing law and does not introduce new restrictions on legal water rights holders.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Emissions trading systems are often launched with relatively lenient design features, typically justified as giving the system a chance to “learn-by-doing” and to gain political buy-in for approval of a program. – Continual reform to improve ambition, integrity, and buy-in. Most ETS have fallen on the prices-too-low side.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The song paints a narrative of a high school couple and metaphorical high school to comment on disillusionment in contemporary American politics. She’s been extremely successful in affecting political change in the past too. The laws of Taylornomics hold that Taylor Swift can sway both human behavior and corporate interests.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2021

As a government delegate, I have been involved in the UN climate negotiation process since 2017 to uphold Bangladesh’s and the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group’s position. Student at Berkeley Law. By Finlay McWalter at English Wikipedia. – Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., CC BY-SA 3.0, [link].

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

For many, the future we look to depends on the person in power, and because of the constantly shifting whims of politics, that future is continuously changing. These Amendments can provide a more stable environmental future for citizens because the environment is no longer subjected to the will of shifting politics.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

As I outlined here , Montana state law prohibits the consideration of greenhouse gas emissions or climate impacts–– inside and outside the state’s borders––when reviewing projects and approving permits. The admission says a lot about political will. This is not supposed to be a town hall or a popularity contest,” he said.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

About 90% of its farms are considered “family owned,” according to the 2017 US Department of Agriculture farm census. From 2002 to 2017, the most recent USDA farm census, the number of farms in Kings County declined 16.6%. Like its neighbors, Kings is intensively farmed. The data show that’s already happening. No,” he said.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 2, 2022

Jason Gray (far right) is presented with the GCF Task Force Everyday Hero award in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2017. In 2017, Jason was presented with the task force’s “Everyday Hero” award , given to a civil servant who embodies the coalition’s commitment to public service, forest protection, and rural livelihoods.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

To help voters determine which candidates would deliver the needed course correction, Environmental Defence and its allies in the Ontario Priorities Working Group asked each of the province’s major political parties whether – and how – they would deliver the rapid emissions reductions Ontario will need to head off climate catastrophe. .

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Copyright: World Economic Forum/Jakob Polacsek From January 16-20, 2023, leaders in politics, business, civil society, media, and academia gathered in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting to discuss some of the world’s most pressing issues. The attention on climate migration this year was rightly placed.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

Civil law cases. Civil lawsuits were filed in Sendai in 2017 and Kobe in 2018 by citizens against corporations that planned to build new coal-fired power plants. In September 2017, in Sendai Citizens v. Judgments and English summaries are found in the Sabin Center’s Climate Change Litigation Database.). Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 21, 2022

Thousands of people across Canada have called on political leaders to strengthen Canada’s most important environmental law. CEPA is Canada’s main law for protecting environmental health, and CEPA has not been significantly amended since 1999. Millions of people living in Canada will be negatively affected if they do not. .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2024

Subsequent federal transit funding bills generally followed the status quo, in which highways get a much greater share of funds than transit, and barely keeping pace with inflation and transit industry operational, managerial, and political factors that increase costs even higher.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. A number of different parties had lined up on either side of the issue of whether EPA’s stay was lawful. June 29, 2017). Pruitt , No.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 23, 2023

But what does the bill, which has been called a “first-of-its-kind” law, actually do? Since then, the bill has been on a whirlwind tour of the State Senate, passing out of the Energy, Utilities, and Communications Committee yesterday and speeding through Appropriations and a Senate floor vote (30-8) this morning.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Presumably Dagsvik and Moen are used to this kind of model, but they seem to be inexperienced with the models used for weather and climate, which on the other hand are based on the laws of physics. We know from previous experience that it is likely that such cases will be used uncritically and selectively for political and economic goals.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 20, 2023

Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile are all in complex political, social, and economic situations. However, extreme inflation numbers, among other political problems in Argentina, still make it a highly risky place for western companies to make serious investments.

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

This blogpost shows what is at stake regarding climate and energy policy, focusing on the election programmes of the different political parties. First, an introduction to the political landscape of the Netherlands will be given. This blog consists of three parts.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 15, 2024

A review of the literature by John Morrison Download report as a PDF Advocates of hate speech laws believe that because speech is a precursor to action, this in itself is proof of the relationship of cause and effect between hate speech and violence. Instead, the opposite is often true.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It is too early to know what specific policies are driving these reductions, but a return to implementing existing laws, supporting conservation efforts, and ensuring better protection and enforcement around Indigenous territories and protected areas all seem to be having a role in the results.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2023

PA Congressional Lawmakers Want Commitment National Institutes Of Environmental Health To Help Respond To Norfolk Southern Train Derailment 6th Oil/Natural Gas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables [ There Is No Limit To What Oil/Natural Gas Industry Can Make You Pay ] -- EnergyWire: LNG Natural Gas Industry Urges U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

Repeated attempts to pass anti-protest legislation in Minnesota during the resistance to Enbridge’s Line 3 failed, but the pipeline was completed in 2021 and 60% of US oil and gas operations are now shielded by these laws. This is nothing new: these companies have been actively blocking climate policy for decades.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

Solar PV Project in Cuba (Photo credit: IRENA ) Today, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) jointly published a new report titled Building a Cleaner, More Resilient Energy System in Cuba: Opportunities and Challenges. The report builds on a previous report published by EDF in 2017.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2023

On January 19, DEP released two more bid packages to plug 43 more abandoned conventional natural gas wells in Clarion County at taxpayer expense under the new federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law well plugging program. The conventional industry doesn’t pay a dime. Read more here. 21 [PaEN] -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Sets Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

School District In Violation Of Clean Streams Law After Chemical Leak Into Stream, DEP Says -- LancasterOnline: Long’s Park Adding Wetlands To Improve Water Quality -- Marcellus Drilling News: Shale Gas Companies Play ‘Dirty Pool’ By Reactivating Expired Leases By Claiming They Are Part Of Back-dated Pooling Declarations [PaEN] -- PUC Approves 48.9%

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

In the past decade, as the use of Red Notices by the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) member states has increased dramatically, so too have calls for INTERPOL to strengthen its gatekeeping function and guard against national authorities' potential misuse of this powerful tool of international law enforcement cooperation.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Reasons For IRRC Disapproval The reasons for the IRRC disapproval are no surprise-- -- DEP did not comply with the intent of Act 40 of 2017 to promulgate a final regulation moving the point of compliance from the point of discharge to the point of water withdrawal and use. Read more here. Click Here for a copy of the IRRC Order.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. Each of them was adopted at some prior COP, after parties at some still-earlier COP made a political (i.e., The largest decision adopted this year, and the main focus of negotiations and political conflict, was called the “Glasgow Climate Pact.”

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Joseph Otis Minott - Lifetime Achievement Award PennFuture honored Joseph Otis Minott, an environmental law leader, with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his decades-long career fighting for the environment and public health in Pennsylvania. Mr. Minott holds two degrees in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Whole Foods did not break the law by banning Black Lives Matter apparel, judge rules CNN PaulaR Tue, 01/02/2024 - 13:37 Thursday, December 21, 2023 Read more Ramishah Maruf New YorkCNN — Whole Foods did not act unlawfully by banning employees from wearing items with Black Lives Matter messaging, a judge ruled Thursday.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In the first few months, he will have to implement a new law on climate change, reform the law governing water use and tackle a mega-drought so severe that it has even cast doubt on the country’s commitment to close its coal-fired power plants.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Brazil , the Institute of Amazonian Studies (IEA) calls upon the Brazilian Federal Government to take appropriate measures to comply with the federal law that instituted the National Policy on Climate Change ( NPCC ) and thus enforce compliance with the Plan to Prevent and Combat Deforestation in the Legal Amazon – PPCDAm. Background.

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Washington Nature

OCTOBER 2, 2023

She was born in Napa, California, to a lawyer mother and a judge father, who were thrilled when she followed their footsteps into the law. There, Martha embraced friluftsliv, the country's "right-to-roam" laws and philosophy that allow individuals to explore uncultivated and unfettered land.

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