Environmental Europe

JANUARY 26, 2017

As one previous post on this blog detailed, the current political turmoil in Northern Ireland was sparked by a subsidy for renewable energy production. Though it is tempting to blame political carelessness, the ongoing RHI scandal prompts a broader reflection about renewable energy policy instruments. data: SOeS ). speculative ones.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2023

One of his earlier films, Prestige (2006), blends history with fantasy; the protagonist, driven by competition with a rival, acquires a machine from David Bowie’s Nikola Tesla that accelerates his descent into amorality. His highly-regarded film Dunkirk (2017) depicts the famous battle of World War II.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. We need governments to regulate industry.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

Developing the Pathways Alliance project is currently projected to cost over $16 billion dollars , and Pathways Alliance CEOs like Pourbaix are insisting that governments should cover most of it – even as these companies are making record profits. Both were eventually rejected by governments. Sometimes the industry tells on itself.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 26, 2022

In an attempt to alleviate decades worth of environmental harms, the Finnish government has begun efforts to restore parts of the country’s forests and waterways, the Guardian reports. In 2006, the Court defined a wetland as any body of water which has a “significant nexus” to a waterway. 139 CONCEALED DEATHS.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Dawes was instrumental in the reauthorization of the federal Abandoned Mine Lands Fund in 2006 and served as Chair of the campaign that led to Pennsylvania receiving $1 billion to address Pennsylvania’s mining legacy of more than 185,000 acres of unsafe, mine-scarred lands. from Villanova University School of Law.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Finally, in recent years advocates of dormant Commerce Clause principles have advanced a third prong of the constitutional standard: that state and local governments should not be permitted to regulate “extraterritorially”–i.e., beyond their political borders.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 3, 2024

Former EPA Administrator Carol Browner denounced the Sackett decision as “a major blow to the landmark Clean Water Act and the federal government’s ability to protect our people from pollution and its negative health side effects.” The Sackett decision was a tremendous loss for everyone who depends on clean water—that is, for all of us.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

We’ve celebrated incredible ocean victories like establishing fishery catch limits to prevent overfishing in the Magnuson-Stevens Reauthorization Act in 2006 and the first International Coastal Cleanup in 1986. It’s about standing up for the democratic process and rights of all people regardless of which political party is in office.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 20, 2023

A quick history : 1972: Agricultural lands in Pickering and Markham were expropriated by the Province not long after the federal government’s expropriation of nearby lands in north Pickering. 2005: The Conservatives and New Democrats united with the Ontario Liberal Government to include the DRAP in the Greenbelt.

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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. . billion gallons — to build 7,000 homes. Keith Schneider.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

The company sued the government of Argentina in 2012 for $10 billion after the country nationalized YPF with the backing of 80 percent of legislators of parliament. Federal Government (via USA SPENDING). Federal Government (via SAM). SEC 2006) Repsol Subsidiaries (via U.S. Repsol fined for anti-competitive practices.

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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 is also important to realise that politics and governments have a lot of control on the land they govern. 2 pp 105-110. (2) 2) Geraldo B. 110, pages 173-177. (3)

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

And it gives every citizen the authority to bring suit against polluters and government agencies that are doing just that in violation of the public trust. “If pounds in 2006. How this happened is a study in what the Whitmer administration and EGLE officials assert is a political compromise. That’s a 15 percent increase. .

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 18, 2021

As parts of the region experience the worst drought in 13 years, experts say Central Asian governments must urgently look at options to mitigate extreme weather events. It states that salinisation resulting from the lake drying up meant 57% of croplands in Kazakhstan and about 20% in Kyrgyzstan lost productivity between 1982 and 2006.

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Vermont Law

JULY 6, 2020

The PKEMRA allowsFEMA to provide assistance to local governments before the state governors request aid. [8]. Under this scheme, the federal government’s relief in the event of a disaster is discretionary. [9]. This leaves the disaster preparedness plans vulnerable to the politics of government. 1725 (2006). ;

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

government drop investigations into over-billing and contract fraud. There are no adequate records to indicate how the funds have been and are being spent.” The study also cited incidents of planes being used for joy rides. The company has paid millions to ensure that the U.S.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

government drop investigations into over-billing and contract fraud. There are no adequate records to indicate how the funds have been and are being spent.” The study also cited incidents of planes being used for joy rides. The company has paid millions to ensure that the U.S.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Many governments and NGOs have already generated reports on the effects of climate change and security. First, scarcity of natural resources can change the political economy of a state. The drought was ongoing between 2006-2009 . The expensive food and water scarcity put external pressures on the political climate in Syria.

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E2 Law Blog

MAY 26, 2023

715 (2006), and embraced ever since in a series of rulemakings and jurisdictional determinations by the EPA and the U.S. In so holding, the majority expressly rejects the “significant nexus” test espoused by Justice Kennedy in his concurring opinion in Rapanos v. United States , 547 U. at (slip op.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

government drop investigations into over-billing and contract fraud. government charges that it had inflated the cost of Patriot missiles. The company has paid millions to ensure that the U.S. For example, in 1990, Raytheon pleaded guilty to illegally obtaining secret Air Force budget and planning documents. million to settle U.S.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

government drop investigations into over-billing and contract fraud. government charges that it had inflated the cost of Patriot missiles. The company has paid millions to ensure that the U.S. For example, in 1990, Raytheon pleaded guilty to illegally obtaining secret Air Force budget and planning documents. million to settle U.S.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

government drop investigations into over-billing and contract fraud. government charges that it had inflated the cost of Patriot missiles. The company has paid millions to ensure that the U.S. For example, in 1990, Raytheon pleaded guilty to illegally obtaining secret Air Force budget and planning documents. million to settle U.S.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

government drop investigations into over-billing and contract fraud. government charges that it had inflated the cost of Patriot missiles. The company has paid millions to ensure that the U.S. For example, in 1990, Raytheon pleaded guilty to illegally obtaining secret Air Force budget and planning documents. million to settle U.S.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

government drop investigations into over-billing and contract fraud. government charges that it had inflated the cost of Patriot missiles. The company has paid millions to ensure that the U.S. For example, in 1990, Raytheon pleaded guilty to illegally obtaining secret Air Force budget and planning documents. million to settle U.S.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

government drop investigations into over-billing and contract fraud. government charges that it had inflated the cost of Patriot missiles. The company has paid millions to ensure that the U.S. For example, in 1990, Raytheon pleaded guilty to illegally obtaining secret Air Force budget and planning documents. million to settle U.S.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

government drop investigations into over-billing and contract fraud. government charges that it had inflated the cost of Patriot missiles. The company has paid millions to ensure that the U.S. For example, in 1990, Raytheon pleaded guilty to illegally obtaining secret Air Force budget and planning documents. million to settle U.S.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The result is nitrates are causing health and ecological trauma in farming regions across the country and around the world as farmers and governments intensify their efforts to produce more food from each acre of land. Sydnee Owens, who contracted non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2006, died six year later at age 14. He was 19 when he died.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

3] California has long led the nation in adoption of environmental rules, including the first motor vehicle emission standards in 1966, energy efficiency standards for appliances in the 1970s, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, and many others. [4] 4] The new corporate climate disclosure bills may well continue that tradition.

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Vermont Law

MAY 2, 2023

The CDC has also updated its toxicological profile and sent out a draft for public comment in January, but this draft eliminates much of the safety concerns printed in the original profile report (and most notably, has had little revision since its publication in 2006, until weeks before the derailment in East Palestine).

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Moreover, the case in Puerto Rico comes after recent litigation successes in Europe and elsewhere around the world, with courts holding governments and companies accountable for climate harms. Many of those cases include similar arguments that the companies knowingly marketed harmful products and misled the public about those harms.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

A critical but difficult step in this process is for a government employee or independent valuator to determine the return on investment (ROI) to the public under various land use scenarios. 2006) is to associate different carbon storage potentials with different land-use types (Figure 2). A political view. Van Hecken, G. &

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Elmore (2014) Coca-Cola: The Alternative Report by War on Want (2006) The Coke Machine by Michael Blanding (2010). The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World's Favorite Soft Drink by Michael Blanding (2010) Belching Out the Devil: Global Adventures with Coca-Cola by Mark Thomas (2008).

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Elmore (2014) Coca-Cola: The Alternative Report by War on Want (2006) The Coke Machine by Michael Blanding (2010). The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World's Favorite Soft Drink by Michael Blanding (2010) Belching Out the Devil: Global Adventures with Coca-Cola by Mark Thomas (2008).

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ESA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Congress passes a deal to keep the government funded through Dec. The Supreme Court failed to reach a consensus in the 2006 Rapanos v. Lawyers for the government shared the Biden administration expects to issue a new Clean Water Act proposed rule by the end of the year. How Government Ends – Boston Review.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Elmore (2014) Coca-Cola: The Alternative Report by War on Want (2006) The Coke Machine by Michael Blanding (2010). The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World's Favorite Soft Drink by Michael Blanding (2010) Belching Out the Devil: Global Adventures with Coca-Cola by Mark Thomas (2008).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 16, 2024

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company came under repeated scrutiny by Chilean and German trade unions for failing to provide COVID bonuses ; cutting jobs while received government COVID aid ; and not providing proper personal protective equipment (PPE). Justice Department said on Friday. Johannes in Hamborn.

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