Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 20, 2022

He is echoing the lessons learned during the RISE Conference held on his campus in 2019, where more than five hundred academics, community members and government officials met to discuss the role of universities in disasters. Universities and communities can build a more just, resilient response to disasters.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Delhi, 2019: Don’t Breath The Air. Environmental Politics, 1945-1970 , several proposed building massive fans on the Santa Monica Mountains to blow the smog out to sea. So it shocked me when the Indian Express reported that last week, Bombay’s air was even worse than Delhi’s.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Million Settlement Of Air Pollution Violations For 2019 Philadelphia Refinery Explosion, Fire; Public Comments Invited [PaEN] -- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Rigs Down 2 From Last Week; Down 38% Since Aug. Million Settlement Over 2019 South Philly Refinery Explosion, Fire -- AP: EPA Reaches $4.2 16 [PaEN] -- EPA Files $4.2

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Legal Planet

MAY 18, 2022

Food prices are hitting all-time highs, pushing hundreds of millions of people deeper into poverty and food insecurity and threatening political stability in regions around the world. Price Shocks, Political Stability, and Food Protectionism. For starters, food price shocks are a political nightmare for weak governments.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

The increasing threat is influencing South Korean domestic politics, with President Yoon publicly declaring South Korea may consider the option to build its own nuclear weapons. Political purpose – what message is it trying to send? Soon after, Yoon assessed that North Korea had completed preparations for its seventh nuclear test.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 23, 2024

in Anthropology, and a 2019 M.A. Ohliger just entered his freshman year at Tufts University, with plans to double-major in History and Political Science. He aspires to work in archival preservation or to become a professor of American history or politics. headquarters. Click Here for the complete meeting announcement.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

HotSpots H2O: In Afghanistan, Political Upheaval Aggravates Drought-Fueled Famine – Drought, a financial crisis, and political collapse are accelerating the country’s decline into all-out famine. million gallons of water during 2020, only one million less than during 2019, when tourism peaked on the island. 369 LAKES .

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

For France, the “Affaire du Siècle” case was filed in the Administrative Court of Paris in May 2019 by four NGOs against the government for its failure to act on climate change. Two months later, in January 2019, the claimants sued the state before the Conseil d’Etat for rejecting their demands.

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A Greener Life

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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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. The number of farms in Washington decreased by 7% between 2010 and 2019, according to a 2020 USDA report . Political drivers.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In 2019, Brazil was the only South American country that made it into the top 20 carbon dioxide emitting countries list , contributing one percent of the emissions that year, as compared with 14 percent by the United States. It’s past time to hold these companies and our decision makers accountable.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2022

In fact, the governor of South Dakota began a legal and political fight to prevent the Tribes from their use of reservation border checkpoints instead of cooperating for the sake of the lives of South Dakotans, which includes urban Indians, rural, and reservation residents.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 14, 2021

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. There’s a political dimension. It is an endless spiral.”. There’s a religious dimension.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Transfers of highly enriched uranium happened in July 2004 , March 2014 , and July 2019. Since 1999, after the Chinese government approved the reactor plans, TVEL, Russia’s nuclear fuel company and a Rosatom subsidiary, worked with the China Institute of Atomic Energy to supply highly enriched uranium fuel (64.4% U-235) for China’s CEFR.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 16, 2022

These “mega-watersheds” have redrawn the map, helping cities and farms to grow large and productive, but also becoming political flashpoints with steep environmental costs. “It Just three years ago in 2019, when it was really wet in Northern California, we only diverted [from the Colorado River] in the neighborhood of 500,000 acre feet.”.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

And political power with it. Just lack of political capital. So in 2019, the city of Toledo pulled a hail mary: they made Lake Erie into a legal person and proposed to protect her with “irrevocable rights” to “exist, flourish and naturally evolve,” reads the Lake Erie Bill of Rights, known among its supporters as LEBOR (“LEE-bore”).

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2021

After an unsuccessful COP in Madrid (2019), as a Bangladeshi citizen (a country often referred to as “ground zero” for its climate vulnerability) I had to wait another two years to renegotiate issues that were blocked and left unresolved at COP25.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 27, 2024

From the 2019 general election to the start of the 2024 election campaign, the Tories had accepted at least £8.4 Locke has donated an additional £280,000 to the Conservatives since the 2019 general election. However the Tories can’t commit to action on the climate as they are in hock to oil and gas producers.”

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Climate Change Blawg

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

As reported in CNN, a report from the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science has considered litigation in respect of climate change from 1990 to May 2019. Legal action on climate change is now a global phenomenon.

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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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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Million Settlement, Largest Of Its Kind, Over 2019 Philadelphia Refinery Explosion [Includes Copy Of Proposed Settlement] -- WHYY - Sophia Schmidt: EPA Reaches Historic $4.2 Million Settlement Over 2019 South Philly Refinery Explosion, Fire -- AP: EPA Reaches $4.2

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Legal Planet

JULY 1, 2022

In adopting this law, California joins a handful of other states with extended producer responsibility laws on the books, which brings me back to the history: A substantially different version of this bill failed in an end-of-session vote in 2019.

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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. . In 2019, when Indonesia was last inundated with widespread fires, the country experienced economic losses of $5.2

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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. III/IRPD/GA/2011 (2019).]] 83(1)(a)(i), Doc.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Bowing to months of behind-the-scenes manipulation by politically-connected landowners and their allies at Queen’s Park, York Region Council is set to vote September 16th on a plan that would commit it for the next 30 years to the paving of countryside at more than double the rate it has since 2001. .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

” Lobbying and financially supporting US politicians who block climate action In the 2019-2020 U.S. election cycle, RELX, Elsevier’s parent company, contributed thousands of dollars to the campaigns of political candidates who obstruct action on climate change.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

Photo credit: Copernicus Sentinel data (2019), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 There is broadly political and scientific agreement that temperature increases must be limited to 1.5 Desertification seen south of Sahara, in Africa. By Anders Lorenzen. Uphill battle.

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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. The former policy and political director for the California Environmental Justice Alliance, Katie Valenzuela, critiques the lack of accountability from air districts that prevent communities from creating strong plans.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Manufacturing Business Technology | March 14, 2019 French activists have spray-painted the Paris headquarters of Bayer AG and plastered it with signs to protest its production of environment-damaging pesticides.

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Energy & the Law

MARCH 7, 2023

And political malpractice is a new category. How he did it: From 2019 through 2021 in managing different oil and gas mineral rights investment funds he allegedly inflated the value of the rights to be sold to investment funds and used their money to obtain a loan of $6.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

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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Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Thousands took to the streets to call for climate action at the Seattle Climate Strike on September 20, 2019. The political roadblocks to passing the ambitious federal policies we need to address the climate crisis are significant. Seattle Climate Strike, September 20, 2019. Photo by Djordje Zlatanovic. What can you do?

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 31, 2024

The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Manufacturing Business Technology | March 14, 2019 French activists have spray-painted the Paris headquarters of Bayer AG and plastered it with signs to protest its production of environment-damaging pesticides.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 24, 2024

He even ran for president in 2019 to push climate up the agenda, because any you can do that in America if you have a spare billion or two. We should direct our attention to what matters most, which is systemic change and politics, not little lifestyle changes.

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Frontiers

MARCH 18, 2022

Debates about how far we’ve missed the chance to improve our social, political, and economic structures to better manage the expected climate-related disasters lead to interesting questions over whether we are sufficiently prepared to cope with challenges that await us as individuals, communities and nations.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Manufacturing Business Technology | March 14, 2019 French activists have spray-painted the Paris headquarters of Bayer AG and plastered it with signs to protest its production of environment-damaging pesticides.

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