Energy and Climate Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

It was initiated nine years ago, but now it comes back to haunt the German government with a vengeance. In the original nuclear phase out law of 2002 the Government allocated these residual electricity volumes to each nuclear power plant in Germany so that the total output of the respective plant corresponds to an average 32 year lifetime.

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

2 – Knowledge Underlies Agriculture’s Climate Success Public agricultural research focuses on critical, widely-shared knowledge , yet public funding for agricultural research was cut by a third from 2002 to 2019. The predominant modern government support is the federal crop insurance program.  Taxpayers fund over 60% of the premiums.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 27, 2023

Since the 2022 Pennsylvania State Water Plan isn’t regulatory, the next step is educational outreach to inform legislative, government, advocacy, and business leaders on how they may implement the strategies and actions to benefit all members of their communities. Visit DEP’s State Water Plan webpage for more information.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Take action by telling the government to hold the oil and gas sector accountable for its pollution by urgently implementing a cap on emissions. Pierce proudly boasts about “driving government policy at federal and state levels” for the benefit of oil and gas companies. Is that you? million gas cars.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 25, 2024

Chester County Commissioners’ Chair Josh Maxwell said, “Ever since Chester County adopted the original Watersheds plan in 2002, it has guided us in protecting and restoring streams, lakes, and groundwater in Chester County.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Lenape nations in New Jersey and Delaware are already officially recognized by their respective state governments. Note: The last legislative effort to establish a “process” for recognition was in 2002 with the introduction of House Bill 713. The Lenape people are the original inhabitants of eastern Pennsylvania.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) added acrylamide to the Proposition 65 list of carcinogens in 1990, but acrylamide was not detected in foods until 2002. Acrylamide is not intentionally added to food products but is formed naturally when some foods are cooked or otherwise processed with heat.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Although coal represents less than 5% of Brazil’s energy mix, the federal government plans to invest 20 billion reais (US$3.7 The Bolsonaro government’s new coal plans face barriers to funding and worsen the country’s already worn-out image at COP26. billion) in the world’s most polluting energy source.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 21, 2021

Between 2002 and 2015, the number of wells nearly doubled but they were able to pump out less and less water. The trend lines aren’t promising, so government agencies and nonprofit groups are preparing for a difficult summer in which thousands of wells could fail. The study was published in the journal Nature.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Interestingly, this sense of urgency has compelled various scholars, governments, development practitioners, and activists to turn toward the language of security to convey the increasingly dire need to confront widespread ecological change. The Future of Critical Security Studies: Ethics and The Politics OfSecurity. Dabelko (eds.).

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Washington Nature

DECEMBER 14, 2023

When the Samish Indian Nation established an internship to fund students’ college expenses in 2002, Marco began studying at the University of Washington (UW) with the goal of “incorporating Indigenous knowledge in the marine sciences.” Today, he leads a resurgence in clam gardening, a sustenance staple for Samish people.

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Physics World

JULY 28, 2021

Another great option is to take advantage of government tax incentives. I’m not a financial adviser so do check out the latest official information about both schemes from the UK government website before taking any business decisions. With an ambitious target to raise total investment in R&D to 2.4%

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Arnold Porter

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended, mandates that the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) inspect registered public accounting firms in both the United States and in foreign jurisdictions, and investigate potential standards violations committed by registered public accounting firms and their associated persons.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

See his 2002 book, two decades before the spate of recent national hydrogen plans. A localised bioregional government that can respond to immediate environmental priorities. The frequently discussed fear that digital technologies will make millions of workers obsolete? Rifkin wrote a book about that in 1995. He’s also influential.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The work led him to sharing the 2002 Nobel Prize for Physics for the detection of cosmic neutrinos. The role of the SCJ is to make recommendations to the government and wider society about certain issues. Neutrino pionner: Takaaki Kajita (Courtesy: ICRR). In 2020 he was nominated by the other SCJ members as its president. “I

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Acoel

JULY 19, 2021

The proposed changes are likely to create a lot of confusion about “controls” on contaminated property and could adversely impact prospective purchasers’ ability to assert their Landowner Liability Protections (“LLPs”) under the 2002 Amendments to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (“CERCLA”).

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

for hiding information about acceleration problems from buyers and government officials, as well as $1 billion in compensation to car owners, after as many as 37 people were reported killed in runaway vehicles. Federal Government (via USA Spending) Toyota contracts with the U.S. It paid out a fine of $1.2 billion in 2014 to the U.S.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of BP (British Petroleum) Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Repsol SA Royal Dutch Shell Total SA Federal Contractor Misconduct Database Project On Government Oversight's list of U.S. Federal Government (via USA SPENDING). Steffy (McGraw-Hill, 2011).

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 9, 2023

The easement is then purchased or donated to a land trust or government agency, which is responsible for enforcing its stipulations. In 2002, amid a severe drought, groundwater levels plunged. A landowner’s water is valued through an appraisal. The easement restricts what can be done with the water. Time was of the essence,” she said.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

By Prof Martin Siegert, University of Exeter (Cornwall) Image: Shutterstock.com 42 governments around the world have agreed to protect Antarctica’s environment. In the ocean, 19 marine heatwaves have been recorded between 2002 and 2018.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 15, 2021

I graduated from the Technical University of Delft’s Policy Analysis and Systems Engineering department in 1999 and after a two-year stint at KPN Research as a consultant, I joined the Ministry of Economic Affairs as an adviser in 2002. Quantum Delta NL recently received € 615m from the Dutch government. How will that be spent?

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Acoel

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Yet, as a former state director of an environmental agency, I’m curious about government-to-government consultations between states and tribes. At the federal level, consultation between executive departments and tribal governments is grounded on the government’s trust responsibility to tribes as confirmed by the U.S.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Reduce energy use per square foot in state-owned buildings by 40% from 2002-2003 levels. The state has already made significant progress toward the first goal as a result of the 2002 Clean Smokestacks Act and 2007 adoption of a renewable energy portfolio standard (REPS) for major energy producers. It also requires preparation of a N.C.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 1, 2023

Since at least 2002, the emerald ash borer has been marching across our landscape, attacking ash trees. You know the drill: Call on your local government representatives to protect forested land and wild habitat. Though we may not understand or recognize the value of every thread, there are none that are “unnecessary.”

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

As a result, greedy businesses, financers and governments all across the globe have been exploiting the valuable resources these million-year-old forests hold. It has also been reported that between the years of 2002 and 2018 more than 20 million hectares of tropical forests were cleared in the Amazon purely for beef production.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 30, 2022

We are up against a huge corporation with deep pockets and an uphill battle with a pro-development government but with your help we can keep building public support to pressure all to do the right thing. We’ve come so far but the heaviest lifting lies ahead.

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Vermont Law

MAY 17, 2023

In South America Indigenous communities in the Amazon Basin have been forced to rely on commercial food supplies rather than their traditional food sources because government supported mining along the river has caused extremely dangerous levels of mercury contamination. (6) 3 (2002) [link] Id. Green Revolution: Curse or Blessing? ,

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Acoel

MARCH 9, 2023

In 2002 Congress provided $2 million for the Weather Damage Modification Program (“WDMP”), which was to be administered by the USBR in collaboration with seven states. Federal funding was prevalent for weather modification research between 1960 and 1985 but has been in a general decline since.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 8, 2021

I work with government-owned conservation lands, coupled human-natural systems, that are managed to protect and conserve natural resources, provide public access to wild open spaces, and sustainably produce quality food for growing populations. 2002, Brunson and Huntsinger 2008, Briske, Sayre et al. Lane (2002). Curtin, C.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2023

Her team collected Medicare claims data for tens of thousands of patients generated between 2002 and 2015 in both northern Pennsylvania, which experienced a fracking boom, and next-door New York state, where the practice was banned.

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Physics World

MAY 17, 2022

Following Hubble’s launch in 1990, it required five astronaut missions – in 1994, 1997, 1999, 2002 and 2009 – to correct its mirror’s defective shape and add corrective lenses, better detectors and improved cameras. Consider the financing of the Hubble telescope, the “most celebrated human–robot hybrid project”.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 26, 2023

To support its position regarding the third factor—the degree of local autonomy the entity enjoys—SRA-L harped on the fact that its thirteen board members are gubernatorial appointees confirmed by the state senate with no involvement by local governing bodies or local legislators. Hawkins , 381 F.3d 3d 407, 411-12 (5th Cir. 4] Voyt v.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Eating in the Dark: America's Experiment with Genetically Engineered Food by Kathleen Hart (Pantheon, 2002). Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Food You’re Eating by Jeffrey M. Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM). June 2007). Smith (Yes!

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 19, 2022

formal notice ) The Plan update, required every five years by Act 220 of 2002, serves as a policy and guidance document providing information, objectives, priorities and recommendations to be considered in a broad range of state, local and private water resource decisions.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 31, 2023

There are environmental activists within Bosnia that are challenging the government to examine its role in destroying the ecosystems surrounding hydropower plants. Additionally, in 2002, the Framework Agreement on the Sava River Basin created the International Sava River Basin Commission.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 31, 2024

Eating in the Dark: America's Experiment with Genetically Engineered Food by Kathleen Hart (Pantheon, 2002). Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Food You’re Eating by Jeffrey M. Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM). June 2007). Smith (Yes!

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Note: The Environmental Justice Advisory Board was established in 2001 and the Office of Environmental Advocate was created in 2002 during the Ridge and Schweiker Administrations.] For too long the impact of environmental hazards on minority and low-income populations were ignored by government at all levels,” Sen. Hughes said.

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