Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 28, 2023

A study investigating how much education affects voting rates from 1950 to 2004 found that this positive correlation has increased since 1980. When we see a decline in union membership, such as when right-to-work laws result in limited union participation, a coinciding reduction in voter turnout can also be observed.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Supreme Court has agreed to hear and decide an important “regulatory takings” case from California that has major implications for federal, state and local governments nationwide. Which brings us to a quick review of applicable regulatory takings law. The case is Sheetz v. County of El Dorado, Docket No. Constitution.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

Persistent dry conditions are driving up the cost of water and prompting more resistance from government and citizens to new development. Groundwater use will total about 400 million to 500 million gallons annually, and local governments and citizen groups have objected. .

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) introduced the Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act of 2021 on February 4, 2021 in an effort to, in her words, comprehensively "overhaul[] and moderniz[e]" US antitrust laws. It is not clear what impact the burden-shifting in government cases would have as a practical matter.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

In 1977 President Jimmy Carter nominated Heine as the first Director of the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement after the passage of the first federal law to comprehensively regulate coal mining operations-- the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act-- that same year. Heine Associates, Inc.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 28, 2022

The PPCDAm represents a package of measures and financial directives by the Federal Government to combat deforestation and degradation in the Amazon. In 2020, the Supreme Court held a preliminary public hearing for the parties to present facts on deforestation in the Amazon and the results achieved by the PPCDAm between 2004 and 2020.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 15, 2021

ESG has become such a large component of my law practice that I am now collaborating with a fabulous group attorneys in ESG Legal Solutions, LLC, a new non-law consulting firm. Nancy Hudes and I are now publishing a new blog at www.ESGLegalSolutions.com (. yes, this blog will continue). This post originally appeared in that blog.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 8, 2022

On February 8, 2022, the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic gave its final approval to the proposed constitutional law A.C.3156-B The adopted constitutional law adds an express reference to the protection of the environment and animals, by amending Articles 9 and 41 of the Italian Constitution.

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 21, 2021

On April 19, the United States Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) released a report (the “Report”) in response to a request from the House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources regarding the oversight and decommissioning of pipelines in federal waters, which are mainly located within the Gulf of Mexico.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 30, 2021

While the idea of ESG began in 2004 with a United Nations initiative to influence capital in non Western markets, in 2021 the legal and political institutions in the United States and the EU are demanding those ideas be implementing with due haste. If each country (.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 1, 2021

ESG has become such a large component of my law practice that I am now collaborating with a fabulous group attorneys in ESG Legal Solutions, LLC, a new non-law consulting firm. Businesses cannot ignore or refuse to think about the environmental, social and governance (ESG) space; it is not going away.

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Acoel

MARCH 9, 2023

Is this an element of state water law or something new and different? Nevertheless, the federal government has not funded weather modification research and operations since the WDMP program, but states have increasingly become involved in weather modification regulation. Who is responsible for any collateral consequences? 490, 90 Stat.

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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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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 21, 2021

On April 19, the United States Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) released a report (the “Report”) in response to a request from the House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources regarding the oversight and decommissioning of pipelines in federal waters, which are mainly located within the Gulf of Mexico.

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E2 Law Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Guam’s Clean Water Act consent decree may be a less common set of facts than state law settlements with state enforcement agencies. But sometimes the state settlement bars a later CERCLA claim by the state against the settling party by action of state law, rather than by express terms of the agreement. Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. ,

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 26, 2023

The Fifth Circuit agreed with the lower court that state statutes and case law characterize SRA-L as an arm of the state; but caveated that the factor was restricted and “given the inconsistent descriptions in the same statutes and the lack of a more-definite characterization in either statute or case law.” [7] Caremark, Inc.,

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Demands to divest government shares in British American Tobacco Dhaka Tribune | October 30, 2016 The leaders of the protest urged that the government withdraw from the company and discourage investment in a sector that is harmful to human health.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 7, 2023

By Elizabeth Beairsto , Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law August 7, 2023 Introduction From Flint Michigan’s contaminated water supply to Cancer Alley in southern Louisiana, communities of color and low-income communities are disproportionately affected by environmental pollution. 117-58, H.R. 3684, 117 Cong.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2023

And if a company that has a disaster like the Norfolk Southern derailment, you can rest assured that we will hold them accountable to the fullest extent of the law. That law is providing hundreds of millions in funding for plugging orphaned and abandoned wells, which are the source of 8% of the methane emissions in Pennsylvania.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Several workers have also been injured and others killed in explosions at the Point Comfort plant in 2005 and at a PVC plant in Illiopolis , Illinois in 2004. PVC plants operated by Formosa in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and in Point Comfort, Texas, have also been subject to numerous protests over pollution and elevated cancer rates.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 2, 2022

What’s Your Community Doing? Other States/National/International -- WPost: A Summer Of Blackouts?

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

CorpWatch Stories Stalled Case Against ExxonMobil Sees Movement Jacqueline Koch | Special to CorpWatch | July 14, 2004 After languishing in the courts for two years, a lawsuit that accuses ExxonMobil of complicity in human rights violations is beginning to move, thanks to the Supreme Court's recent decision to uphold the Alien Tort Claims Act.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

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. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

government $265 million plus interest for over-billing on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and in 2010 it was ordered to repay the U.S. These payments included $3 million to the Japanese prime minister and $1.1 million to a Dutch prince. In 2007 Lockheed was ordered to repay the U.S. Air Force and the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 5, 2022

Aument In Primary -- LancasterOnline Editorial: Unnecessary Election Recounts Are Inevitable Result Of The Big Lie -- Scranton Times Editorial: Open Primaries For Fairness, Governance -- PA’s Role In Assault On U.S. Capitol -- Inquirer: Delaware County Man Pleads Guilty To Criminal Charges Related To Assault On U.S.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 11, 2020

UNOCAL appealed to the Fifth Circuit, arguing, inter alia , that Sojitz’s claim for equitable subrogation failed as a matter of law because the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (“OCSLA”) does not grant BSEE a civil claim for monetary damages based on a party’s failure to perform decommissioning to which Sojitz could subrogate. 611 (Bankr.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

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. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

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. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

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. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

CorpWatch Stories Stalled Case Against ExxonMobil Sees Movement Jacqueline Koch | Special to CorpWatch | July 14, 2004 After languishing in the courts for two years, a lawsuit that accuses ExxonMobil of complicity in human rights violations is beginning to move, thanks to the Supreme Court's recent decision to uphold the Alien Tort Claims Act.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

In September of 2004, attorneys represented 80,000 plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit against DuPont which settled for $374 million. Based on these results, 3,500 residents that did not settle in the 2004 class action suit have brought individual liability lawsuits against DuPont for health problems linked to C8. million Americans.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

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. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

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. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2022

million tons were recycled, which is roughly the same amount that was recycled in 2004-- 5.14 She reported the overall amount of waste generated in Pennsylvania has increased 8.3 percent between 2015 and 2021-- from 14.3 million tons to 15.6 million tons. In 2019, the most recent year available, 5.25 million tons. percent-- 8.62 million tons.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

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. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Individual Records & Summaries Click here for violation data on Koch Industries Total Penalties $935,266,865 (September 30, 2022) Number of Records 436 Books Axis of Ideology: Conservative Foundations and Public Policy (National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, March 2004). The fine was $30 million. Koch Brothers Could Get Up To $1.4

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2023

The Grand Jury’s two-year investigation uncovered systematic failure by government agencies in overseeing the fracking industry and fulfilling their responsibility to protect Pennsylvanians from the inherent risks of industry operations. Yet the state law minimum “set-back” for well construction is only 500 feet. Read more here.

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