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SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In 2018, Russia agreed to supply fuel for the CFR-600 for seven years. Russia’s Regulations on the Export and Import of Nuclear Materials , released in 2000 and last amended in February 2023, contain a similar provision against the use of exported nuclear materials or their byproducts for military purposes.

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

Similarly, so many local regulations are based on single-family needs that the zoning change is irrelevant: for example, the report presents the example of the City of Los Angeles forbidding more than one water meter on a single-family parcel, which makes a duplex impossible. But localities can deal with their own regulations.).

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

The Ruling In November 2018, the municipality of Grande Synthe, a coastal city in northern France, and its mayor requested from the President of the Republic and the government to take any necessary measures to reduce GHG emissions and meet the Paris Agreement’s commitments. Third, the Conseil d’Etat built its ruling on science.

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OCTOBER 2, 2023

Germany agrees on EU regulation to make cars carbon neutral by 2035 (either zero emissions or net-zero). My foray into Germany climate policy left me with unanswered questions: What was the politics behind Germany’s history of climate action? Renewables are a third of electricity consumption. Renewables are 42% of electricity.

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

And while state laws across the region regulate how, when and why water rights are sold, some worry it won’t be enough to hold back the tide. “I A 2018 deal showed the tremendous speculative value of land/water deals in the Columbia River Basin. Department of Agriculture 2018 report . It’s not only land acquisitions.

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APRIL 14, 2022

At least 3,641 lives were lost to the crisis between 2016 and 2018, according to Amnesty International , with over half of the fatalities recorded in 2018 alone. Complicating matters, traders from across the border in Niger prefer to sell their cattle in Nigeria because of decreased regulation. Photo by Murtala Abdullahi.

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MARCH 27, 2023

In 2018, while a Senior Fellow for the University of Pennsylvania Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, she wrote a report, Beyond Bankruptcy the Outlook for Philadelphia’s Neighborhood Refinery , which accurately predicted that the refinery was headed back into bankruptcy again. Risks increase as finances dwindle.

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JANUARY 30, 2019

Also elephants, giraffes, rhinos (of the non-political variety), Cape buffalo, baboons, uninvited monkeys at lunch, hippos, wildebeests, hyenas, warthogs and an unexpected (to me) penguin colony. Back to North Carolina developments in late 2018: Executive Order on Climate Change and Clean Energy: On October 29, 2018, N.C.

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

California began regulating the chemical in 2017, setting the allowable limit for its presence in drinking water at the tiniest, detectable amount, or 5 parts per trillion — a testament to its toxicity. McGhee blamed state regulators for the slow progress. But the deadline came and went, and the water is still contaminated.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

EPA’s Class VI Regulations Section 1421 of the Safe Drinking Water Act mandates that EPA establish Underground Injection Control (UIC) program regulations to protect underground sources of drinking water (USDW) from risks associated with underground fluid injections.

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JUNE 1, 2022

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 2018, in Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v. Both courts took the position that the regulation of GHG emissions was a policy issue. Civil law cases.

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JUNE 9, 2021

Attempts to address Michigan’s lack of state-level septic regulation have faltered, and as Great Lakes Now’s Natasha Blakely has reported , there is little immediate appetite in the legislature to consider creating a septic code for Michigan. In December 2018, Pew Research Center asked 2,500 adults about their views of America in 2050. .

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JANUARY 13, 2020

As discussed in previous posts , regulated entities must either: (1) ensure that fuels supplied in California meet annual, decreasing carbon intensity (CI) targets ( e.g. , by blending biofuels into gasoline and diesel); or (2) procure and surrender credits to CARB. 95487, 95491, and 95495 of Title 17, California Code of Regulations.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 13, 2024

When the IMO’s regulation to cut SO x emissions went into effect in 2020, LNG became a growing alternative fuel choice for marine transportation. We can see this in the growth in uptake of LNG in order to comply with earlier regulations. Several regulatory and market drivers can help explain this conundrum.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Sounding Green” has not only become politically correct, but also a possible finance-generating mechanism. Climate is a global issue and when complex political systems around the world are brought together, solutions cannot be straightforward. Transparent country-specific regulations need to be put in place. ” (2021).

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The Loyalsock Creek, Pennsylvania’s River of the Year in 2018, is a beautiful mountain stream that travels through Lycoming County on its way to the West Branch of the Susquehanna River. From 2008 to 2018, the industry reported taking 595,172,958 gallons from our Loyalsock, which in many places is no more than knee deep from shore to shore.

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Environment, Law, and History

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Pittsburgh Press, 2018). The Santa Barbara spill is often pointed to as one of the foundational moments of modern American environmentalism and environmental regulation, but Spezio seems to flesh out the picture. Her argument is broken into three sections. Part 1 describes environmental science and policy before 1969. Read more ».

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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. References: Ringel, Marc, and Michèle Knodt (2018). Schoenefeld, J.

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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. 83(1)(a)(ii).]] I/CONS/GA/1956 (2017). ]]. 16, 2012).]]

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Physics World

MAY 5, 2021

The authors seek to equip the reader with the knowledge necessary to make informed decisions concerning the regulation of the use of ML tools, in what Zerilli and co-authors call the “new algorithmic world order”. The book’s scope is primarily political, rather than technical.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Act 54 Assessment Of Longwall Mining Damage The 6th 5-year assessment of Act 54 (2018-2023) is due to be released this year. As for who can participate, DEP’s website states, “…the Department will consider input from mining professionals,” meaning the very industry regulated by the act will play a part in assessing its effectiveness.

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OCTOBER 8, 2021

Though with the boom and bust nature of coal mining—where a significant drop in demand or political shifts towards clean energy can eliminate a mine’s buyers—hundreds of coal mines would close across the Pennsylvania and in Cambria County, stripping entire towns of their main livelihood.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Several new regulations controlling methane emissions have been adopted recently, including two new rules for the US oil and gas sector announced last week. There are even indications that near-term cuts might be easier to achieve for methane than for CO 2 , for a mix of technical, economic, and political reasons. of total production.

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MARCH 14, 2024

The Climate Superfund bills have already attracted vicious opposition from the fossil fuel industry and its political allies and, if passed, will inevitably face vigorous legal challenges. Each bill addresses emissions over roughly the same period—2000 to 2018 in Maryland, Massachusetts, and New York, and 2000 to 2019 in Vermont.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Then came new conservation regulations and litigation that complicated USBR’s water obligations. Since 2018, a new group with many of the same members and staff called the Klamath Project Drought Response Agency (KPDRA), has been administering the water bank’s land idling and groundwater pumping programs, subject to USBR funding and approval.

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MAY 25, 2020

California’s Proposition 65 tends to take a careful approach while the EPA has tended to tailor its decisions to satisfy pesticide manufacturers and political parties. [18]. Thus, California adopted new rules in August 2016 which became active in August 2018. [28]. However, the new 2018 amendments are a step in the right direction.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

The CLCPA requires regulations to be in place by the end of the year, making NYCI’s linkage policy particularly relevant now, as certain regulations must be aligned with other existing cap-and-trade programs in order for linkage to be logistically possible down the line. Unfortunately, no reforms of the cap have been made.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Elsewhere, there are other significant commitments to fulfil: to put an end to Chile’s “ sacrifice zones ”, areas of the country impaired by chronic socio-environmental and economic problems; to create a state company to regulate the extraction and use of lithium, and to promote a new model of sustainable development.

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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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A Greener Life

JULY 31, 2024

These range from supply chain disruptions and political dynamics to issues like anti-dumping tariffs and internal instability. In 2018, Hengtong Optic-Electric secured the rights to build the country’s second-largest solar farm, which has a capacity of 200 MW. Chinese companies play a key role in Cambodia’s solar development.

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Manning Law

APRIL 4, 2021

In 2018, Parliament enacted the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act , S.C. Climate change has proved to be a political “hot potato” in large part because of those who would deny that climate change is real. 186 (“ GGPPA ”). Those decisions were appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 11, 2024

Taxi drivers protest against Uber 'invasion' in Greece Deborah Kyvrikosaios , Alkis Konstantinidis | Reuters | March 16, 2018 Hundreds of taxi drivers marched in central Athens on Tuesday to protest at what they called an “invasion” by Uber, and attacked passing cars they thought were being used by the ride-hailing service.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

But, behind the scenes, they have a long history of lobbying to delay and derail regulations that would prevent pollution, keeping us addicted to disposable plastic. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), promising to pay $2.25

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

But, behind the scenes, they have a long history of lobbying to delay and derail regulations that would prevent pollution, keeping us addicted to disposable plastic. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), promising to pay $2.25

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Greenbuilding Law

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

possibly better than anything from the Ancien Régime , that was the social and political system in the Kingdom of France beginning in the 15th century), after 2020, the “real” power consumption of a building is no longer a consideration in DPE. In the finest example of French bureaucracy (.

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MAY 19, 2022

This is a problem, because affordable housing is essentially a deal between the public and developers—trading money or relaxed regulations in exchange for an agreement to restrict rents on the building—and the specifics of that deal make a big difference as to whether the public is getting a fair bargain.

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JUNE 7, 2023

But, behind the scenes, they have a long history of lobbying to delay and derail regulations that would prevent pollution, keeping us addicted to disposable plastic. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), promising to pay $2.25

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