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Late 2018 — Bits and Pieces

Smith Enviorment

Back to North Carolina developments in late 2018: Executive Order on Climate Change and Clean Energy: On October 29, 2018, N.C. Reduce energy use per square foot in state-owned buildings by 40% from 2002-2003 levels. The most direct effect of the executive order will be on state government operations.

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Brazil Advances in Climate Change Litigation

Legal Planet

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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Japanese Nobel-prize-winning particle physicist Toshihide Maskawa dies aged 81

Physics World

In 1970 he then moved to Kyoto Univeristy before heading to Kyoto Sangyo Univeristy from 2003 to 2009. From 2010, Maskawa became the first director of the Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe at Nagoya University, a position he held until 2018. Broken symmetries.

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Farms in Six Southeast Michigan Counties Are Major Sources of Lake Erie Toxic Blooms

Circle of Blue

The report also pitched liquid manure to the top of the list of causes of the harmful algal blooms that have inundated the big lake every summer since 2003. Government agencies, nevertheless, are trying. Government pays all or a share of the cost of implementing the practices. There’s no way to stop it from reaching tiles.”.

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Toyota SUV adverts banned in UK on environmental grounds

Corp Watch

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. In 2018, Toyota was ordered to pay out $21.9 Federal Government (via USA Spending) Toyota contracts with the U.S.

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Netflix’s “Painkiller” Series Reminds Us: Sidelining Science Can Be Deadly 

Union of Concerned Scientists

The story illustrates the critical importance of the role science plays in government decisions and the harsh reality of what can happen without it. When science is sidelined in government decisions, it truly can impact the lives of people in serious and often harsh ways.   Curtis Wright.

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Shell’s reckless divestment from Niger Delta

Corp Watch

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.