Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It is noteworthy not because it contains anything new (it doesn’t), but because despite clearly violating the established standards of good scientific practice, it was published by a government agency. But the effect of greenhouse gases is not even investigated in the paper – which suggests the title is politically motivated.

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APRIL 13, 2023

The new wave of litigation also arose from the urgency of combating the rise in deforestation under the right-wing-oriented President Jair Bolsonaro, who left the government in January 2023 for the return of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula). The decision was made in a lawsuit filed by four political parties (PSB et al.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

As a second benefit, they claim to be engaged in political symbolism, trying to disrupt a stuck debate over effective climate responses and get people to talk about solar geoengineering – of which stratospheric aerosol injection is the most promising method being discussed. This may be on the cusp of changing, but it hasn’t yet.).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2022

The civic failure of the local and state institutions, including hospitals, nonprofits organizations, government, and local businesses, became apparent immediately. The Tribes in South Dakota took notable action around their borders and in strong contrast to the hands- off let-it-rip response of local and state governments and businesses.

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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. million has been given to pro-fossil fuel think tanks by Tory donors since the 2019 general election. Graph credit: DeSmog. This comes as DeSmog and Democracy for Sale reveal that £6.8

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2024

For more than a century, the United States has recognized this, and maintaining roads and bridges has been a core function of federal, state, and local governments. The federal government embraced a role in supporting transit in the 1970s, but this was cut back for the past 40 years and didn’t rebound until the pandemic.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2022

In 2018, the GCF Task Force endorsed Guiding Principles for Collaboration and Partnership Between Subnational Governments, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. Find more information on the 12 th Annual Meeting of the GCF Task Force here.

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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. Negotiations over Article 6 were highly technical and contentious in COP24 (2018) and COP25 (2019) but were then finally agreed at the last moment of COP26.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In 2019, that same company was in the news for purchasing water rights throughout the state and attempting to sell and lease them, prompting an ongoing legislative review of water marketing. In Washington—and elsewhere—there are rules governing the sale of water. For example, water rights must be used, or they are relinquished.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Otherwise, too many local governments have not gotten the memo that California’s climate and equity goals require more housing near transit and reduced need for residents to drive vehicles. In the past, powerful anti-housing local governments resisted such a state override. But cities and counties have mostly lost that fight.

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JUNE 14, 2021

Critics say the Nigerian government’s tepid response has encouraged vigilante justice and fueled ongoing violence. In 2019, the government released its National Livestock Transformation Plan, which proposed a shift from free-roam herding to confined grazing reserves in areas that have experienced the most violence.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2023

A more thorough history would include the settling and colonization of California by the Spanish (1500s) and Mexican (early 1800s) governments, but for brevity, I focus here on the intentional and duplicitous actions of the California state government (established in 1850) and its co-conspirator: the United States federal government.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Despite being in the same political party that created it, the UK’s new prime minister, Liz Truss, is in the process of completely changing the country’s energy policy. The revamped UK government, almost unrecognisable from the one led by Boris Johnson , has opened up new licenses for North Sea oil and gas production. Energy Security.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 31, 2022

Jakarta, Indonesia in 2019. The root of these diverse challenges is, at least in part, political and institutional. Depending on how effectively they are addressed, water issues could slice 7 percent from Indonesia’s GDP in 2045—or boost it by 3 percent. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

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JULY 1, 2020

The EU is facing a key challenge in climate and energy governance. Deploying renewable energy technologies is a key way to reduce emissions, but the EU’s own Environment Agency warned in late 2019 that current policy efforts are insufficient to reach the 2030 and the 2050 (net zero) emissions targets. Knodt, Michèle (2019).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In 2019 and 2020, I served as a member of a committee involved in the implementation of California’s Assembly Bill 617. Through this process, residents, alongside industry partners, local government, and community-based organization representatives, gathered to discuss air monitoring and emission reduction strategies.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Big Tobacco’s Big Profits #ActOnTobacco Action on Smoking and Health | April 14, 2019 Today marks the start of a campaign by ASH and our partners, highlighting how Big Tobacco’s big profits continue to be built on a lethal trade and shady dealings.

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Legal Planet

JULY 21, 2023

But to security experts, and students of political science, geoengineering appears as a hybrid, dual-use security technology. But it puts more emphasis on diverse climate responses than on the social and political context. To research advocates, steeped in climate science, it might appear obvious that climate change would be the logic.

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MARCH 27, 2023

The explosion at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) refinery in June of 2019 and subsequent bankruptcy and decommissioning marked the end of a refinery whose history goes back 150 years and predates the automobile era. Sunoco used aggressive legal and political strategies to reduce their obligations to clean up their pollution.

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MARCH 23, 2023

In 2019, air pollution more broadly was responsible for about 6.7 With all that said, there are many ways policymakers at virtually every level of government can bring more certainty and speed to the retirement of fossil fuel power plants and the installation of clean energy capacity to replace them. micrometers or less.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 23, 2021

(To be fair, some local governments in California–the City of Sacramento, for example–have supported and complied with the new state housing reform laws.). One of the first actions taken by Governor Newsom upon taking office in 2019 was to bring a housing enforcement lawsuit against the City of Huntington Beach.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Student in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University As the urgent need to take tough action towards climate mitigation and sustainability gathers pressure, for most major power-holders today, including the markets, institutions, government agencies, media and countries, environmentalism has perhaps become the biggest fashion fad.

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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). June 2007). Smith (Yes! Books, 2003).

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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). June 2007). Smith (Yes! Books, 2003).

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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). June 2007). Smith (Yes! Books, 2003).

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Between the discriminatory practice of redlining, which made African-American neighborhoods like Junction ineligible for government-backed mortgage loans through the 1960s, its fair share of white flight, and its industrial workforce in steady decline since the 1970s, money has been fleeing the city for much of the 20th century. .

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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). June 2007). Smith (Yes! Books, 2003).

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 7, 2023

In terms of political will to do something risk tolerant and using a local actor, we also are not going to have anyone there.” — Benham Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington. But these governments are not interested in enforcing sanctions and intercepting shipments.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 18, 2023

In a summer that has seen wildfires raging, record high temperatures across southern Europe and relentless flooding in Asia, the World Athletics president said sports federations cannot rely on governments to avert the climate crisis.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 10, 2022

Neighborhood oil and gas extraction poses serious public health and environmental risks to communities across California – and campaigns by local advocates and political leaders over the last decade have pressed state agencies and local governments, including the City of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County , to better protect those at risk.

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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). June 2007). Smith (Yes! Books, 2003).

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2021

United States case, plaintiffs sought an order directing the federal government to slash the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. The court found that this would violate the political question doctrine. Not so in the United States. Most recently, in the famous Juliana v.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

It also owns one of the world’s largest clusters of ‘cloud’ computer networks (Amazon Web Services) that millions of individuals, businesses and government agencies use to host their data, including the Central Intelligence Agency. million in tax in 2019 - a 3% increase from the previous year, despite pre-tax profits growing by more than 35%.

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2023

It also owns one of the world’s largest clusters of ‘cloud’ computer networks (Amazon Web Services) that millions of individuals, businesses and government agencies use to host their data, including the Central Intelligence Agency. million in tax in 2019 - a 3% increase from the previous year, despite pre-tax profits growing by more than 35%.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The hunger crisis worsened along with the country’s political deterioration, which culminated in the Taliban takeover in August. Newark began replacing the pipes in 2019, following the discovery of high lead levels in tap water in schools and homes. City leaders had expected the project to take up to 10 years.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2023

It also owns one of the world’s largest clusters of ‘cloud’ computer networks (Amazon Web Services) that millions of individuals, businesses and government agencies use to host their data, including the Central Intelligence Agency. million in tax in 2019 - a 3% increase from the previous year, despite pre-tax profits growing by more than 35%.

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