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All political leaders should be bolder on climate. At the top of the list of key climate regulations that need to be finalized before March 24th is the governments cap on pollution from the oil and gas industry. Liberal leader hopefuls and political parties should all be paying attention to what people in Canada want.
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” Assiduously nonpartisan and apolitical, the Little Hoover Commission has garnered widespread respect and praise over its 61-year history from across the political spectrum. But CEQA has grown exponentially since then–180 pages and counting–and generated implementing regulations approaching 300 pages in length.
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Sprinkle (above right, and hereafter “RHS”), an MD/PhD, works at the intersection of politics and the life sciences at the UMD School of Public Policy and has published on clinical medicine, health policy, bioethics, bioengineering, biosecurity, environmental health, environmental policy, and policy history. Dr. Robert H.
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