Legal Planet

JULY 22, 2021

Their historical compilation is very revealing about our present political situation. As in 2008, about 20% of the population in 2019 were skeptics, while the remainder were either concerned or had mixed views. Gallup has studied environmental attitudes in America for several decades.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The 2008-era slogan is shorthand for the Trump campaign’s energy policy, but we know much more about current conservative thinking on the subject thanks to Project 2025 , the 920-page transition plan for the next administration by policy strategists from the Heritage Foundation. “A Going Nuclear The Right is all-in on nukes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2023

Over the course of his 45-year career serving as a scientist for the US government, his research shaped the fields of minerology and geophysics and generated billions of dollars for industry. When he died in 2008, his Washington Post obituary read “A Rock Star of Geology.” Today, US-China relations are headed in a dangerous direction.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

Candidates did not use climate change as a defining issue in the 2008 presidential general election because there was no daylight between presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama with respect to climate science, a sense of urgency, and policy solutions! Cannot the past be prologue?

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

How SWOT will influence the political balance of power is a question that Faisal Hossain is tasked with understanding. Political sensitivities are an important consideration. Hossain recently returned from a trip to Jordan, where he met with Iraqi government ministers to discuss water issues. Hossain joined the team in 2008.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

They will be working alongside our faculty director (formerly faculty co-director) Ted Parson—an accomplished scholar of environmental governance—as well as me and my colleague Cara Horowitz, shaping the strategic direction of the Emmett Institute. Wang is a leading expert on environmental governance and the law and politics of China.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 13, 2022

Scientists have had reasons for concern about climate change for over a century, and the first government report on the problem was fifty years ago. At least by 1992, then, it is clear that there was widespread recognition at the highest levels of government that climate change was a serious problem.

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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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Legal Planet

APRIL 20, 2023

The regulatory decisions made by the Governments of Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile in the following months and years will set the course for the lithium industry, with significant consequences for the planet’s future. Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile are all in complex political, social, and economic situations.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

True, t he world was different in many ways in 2008 when Obama took office, including the energy sector. The earliest government estimate of the social cost of carbon was for 2010: $21/ton with a 3% discount rate and $35 at a 2.5% We can also take a rough stab at monetizing the amount of resulting harm. discount rate.

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

Germany has recently experienced fatal and apocalyptic climate- fuelled floods , after which the country’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, promised the government would do more to tackle climate change. Photo credit: CnndrBrbr via Wikimedia. By Anders Lorenzen. They could of course enter discussions to buy more clean energy from their neighbours.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 1, 2022

A wave of frontline resistance is now breaking across the Upper Midwest and around the country as organized campaigns aimed at regulating concentrated animal feeding operations, known as CAFOs, are being felt at every level of government, and in state and federal courts. It’s now being raised as a political issue. As a legal issue.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Royce Hall at UCLA following a rain event, Los Angeles, CA (Charlie Nguyen, 2008, Flickr). Some states, like California, Louisiana, or Alaska may be feeling the impacts more acutely earlier on, but it does not feel like things have become bad enough for political will to be marshalled. –Sean Post, JD 2022.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

As Mayor of London (2008 -2016), he argued we should leave no stone unturned in turning London into a fracking bonanza. . Caving into the Tory heartland, the Johnson government did not lift a ban on onshore wind , which is the cheapest form of new energy that can be installed in the UK. It was rejected by the government.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 17, 2022

The ballot initiative bill is especially timely now, given all the attempts by Senate and House Republicans to amend the constitution as a way to get around or limit the authority of their co-equal branches of government-- the Governor and the Courts. The bill was referred to the Senate State Government Committee for action.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 17, 2024

The lack of surprise came as Putin had forcefully removed any credible opposition to him with the largest threat to the president’s reign being the charismatic Alexei Navalny, who was first imprisoned by the Russian government, and was recently mystically found dead in prison.

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Acoel

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Percival Effective March 1, 2023, the Chinese government abruptly lifted travel restrictions imposed to combat the COVID pandemic. During my sabbatical in 2008 I lived in Beijing and taught for a semester at the China University of Political Science and Law. Posted on September 25, 2023 by Robert V.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 2, 2022

The task force was created in 2008 by California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and nine other governors from Brazil, Indonesia, and the U.S. The task force is a coalition of 38 states and provinces working to protect tropical forests, reduce emissions from deforestation, and promote rural development that maintains forests.

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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

AUGUST 30, 2023

From 2008 to 2013, Barrow served as Chief of Staff in the Office of Commissioner Wayne E. Barrow is an alumna of the University of Georgia with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Spanish. Prior to her career at the Commission, Barrow spent time working as a Law Clerk for the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board in Harrisburg.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Candidate in the Department of Political Science and Trainee in the CSU InTERFEWS Program In 2014 the Whanganui River in New Zealand was granted legal personhood. As the rights of nature gains ground legally, socially, and politically, around the world and here in Colorado, it is important more fully understand its limits and opportunities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The two industry-funded studies ( NERA 2008 and ACT Research 2022 ) claim much higher impact on sales than either the academic (RZW 2018) or government ( EPA 2021 ) studies. Four studies purporting to examine whether a pre-buy effect occurred on heavy-duty truck sales can’t agree on the magnitude or timing of any such effect.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2022

These Experts Think So PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Inquirer: Democrats Running For U.S. Senate In PA Mostly Agree, Here’s Where They Don’t -- YorkDR: PA Has The Most White Supremacist Propaganda In The U.S., What’s Being Done About It?

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Washington Nature

JUNE 8, 2021

by Pascale Chamberland, Masters of Public Administration Candidate 2021, University of Washington Evans School of Public Policy & Governance From a massive social media campaign to plant 20 million trees to businesses planting a tree for each product sold, people seem eager to fight climate change using natural climate solutions (NCS).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 10, 2022

The editors of Scientific American called for “a lasting stop to the political obstruction” against federally funded gun violence research, adding, “We need to become the kind of country that says the lives of children are more valuable than the right to weapons that have killed them.”. Back then, scientists were crushed by craven politics.

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Legal Planet

MAY 30, 2023

As recounted here by Richard Frank, the Sacketts sued the EPA in 2008 after they sought to build a house in Idaho near Priest Lake and the agency said they needed a permit under the Clean Water Act because the wetlands were federally protected. But this decision is about more than wetlands and water.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

—tiny by federal government standards—CPSC uses safety data submitted by companies pursuant to the notification requirements under Section 15 of the Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA) to help carry out the agency’s mandate. 92-573, 86 Stat. 1207 (1972), codified at 15 U.S.C. §§ 2051-2089.]] 3016, 3058.]]

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Bashford has previously served in senior roles for DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), and, earlier in her career, in staff positions for US Senator John Kerry (D-MA) and on the field operations team of the 2008 Obama-Biden campaign. Arnold & Porter Chairman Richard M.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Just as with climate change, local, state, provincial, and national governments in Canada and the United States have collaborated with science agencies, universities, and non-profit groups to develop effective responses, especially for Lake Erie. What have all the spending and committee meetings wrought? Everyone knows it. They concede it.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 12, 2021

With just weeks to go before COP26 kicks off, all eyes are on the British hosts and the Conservative government and its leader Boris Johnson. And the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson , when Mayor of London (2008-2016) used his Telegraph column to air doubts about whether climate change was real. Photo credit: UN Photo / Cia Pak.

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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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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

And aluminum prices are higher than at any time since the financial crisis of 2008. There are echoes here of the energy and economic crisis of the 1970s, a global shock that has reverberated in global politics and economics for much of the last half century. Zinc hit a fifteen-year high. In the U.S.,

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Physics World

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Safety – and the politics surrounding it – remains the single biggest issue influencing the development of nuclear power around the world. Here in the UK, the government has already earmarked up to £215m for SMRs as part of a larger Advanced Nuclear Fund to invest in the next generation of nuclear. Powerful stuff.

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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. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 28, 2021

We need county governments to step up in their leadership. If political leaders at the state, county, and city levels continue failing to protect public safety, then you must act, and you will have our support. But we cannot wait for others to act and must ourselves take responsibility.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 4, 2022

In the weeks and months after the storms, the Gulf state governments went to work dispersing federal disaster relief funds. These trailers became traveling billboards with brightly colored messages that highlighted the failures of FEMA and the government. However, the investments were not received in most Black communities. ©

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

When the company decided to temporarily block the sharing of news on its platform in Australia in 2020 to protest a law that would require it to pay news publishers for content, it also blocked government health-department and emergency services pages. Federal Government (via USA SPENDING). Who’s Afraid of the IRS? Not Facebook.

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