Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

The report, which cited numerous examples of political appointees stifling agency research, was accompanied by a statement signed by more than 60 top scientists , including 20 Nobel laureates, denouncing the Bush administration’s misuse of science. Before the surveys, the extent of the problem was not clear.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

It took until 2010 to get a CDC leader who was willing to deal with the issue. The drug industry has enormous political clout and were adept in selling their ideas through all kinds of channels, using the playbook of deception first pioneered by Big Tobacco. There were a number of reasons for these failures.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

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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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

Earlier in his political career, Bettencourt served as Republican House Majority Leader, and as the public face of the conservative agenda in the state’s House of Representatives. Building an all-of-government approach to transform New Hampshire from climate laggard to climate leader might start with a simple phone call.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 20, 2022

Continued high food prices could produce a “tsunami effect” of famine, political destabilization, and mass migration. The global food price spike coincides with an existing hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa that recalls a severe drought in 2010-11 in which more than 250,000 people died. The Kenyan government estimates about 1.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

But in nearly every instance, Rose listened politely, refrained from challenging Tillerson on the facts, and went on to his next question. Later in the hour, Tillerson told Rose that the federal government should end subsidies for renewable energy. “I billion (in 2010 dollars) in federal tax breaks and subsidies for nearly 100 years.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 4, 2024

After clicking around, I found one on a non-government site and reviewed the list of contests and ballot measures. In 2008 and 2010, the county didn’t provide details on how voters could correct any errors they made on their ballots and instead told voters to refer to a separate instructional packet to learn how to fix their mistakes.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Republican victories in the 2010 off-year election ended any chance of legislation. He also packed the federal judiciary, including the Supreme Court, with conservative opponents of government regulation. He attempted to undermine climate action by state governments. Those expectations never bore fruit.

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Legal Planet

MAY 29, 2024

This post was originally published on the Law & Political Economy Blog as “How Environmental Law Created a World Awash in Toxic Chemicals.” Indeed, major individual risk assessment exercises have taken decades to complete, with many thousands of additional chemicals waiting in the queue. The numbers here are staggering.

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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. speculative ones.

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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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Environmental and Urban Economics

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

My microeconomics research, as sketched out in my 2010 Climatopolis book and my 2021 Adapting to Climate Change books, argues that capitalism accelerates our ability to adapt as market price signals encourage substitution and innovation. In my 2010 Climatopolis book, I asked; “If Milton Friedman ran the U.S Why reward “bad behavior”?

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Both possibilities – that there might be proposals to use it, and that doing so might be on balance beneficial – imply a need to learn more, by doing research and discussing governance needs and possibilities. Considered together, as they must be, these represent real progress.

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Government Fossil Fuels Climate Change Politics 175

Corp Watch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

BP's "Beyond Petroleum" Campaign Losing its Sheen Anne Landman | PR Watch | May 3, 2010 Back in July, 2000, British Petroleum launched a high-profile, $200 million public relations ad campaign designed by Ogilvy & Mather to position the company as environmentally-friendly. Federal Government (via USA SPENDING).

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 8, 2022

President Biden will sign a bill to allow veterans and their families to sue the government over drinking water contamination at Camp Lejeune. A levee failure in 2010 reunited the river with the floodplain. government water policy. And lastly, Columbia River salmon recovery continues to be a hot-button issue. “It On the Radar.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2022

Vulnerability is higher in high-poverty areas, in countries with poor government, and in farming and fishing communities that are more exposed to climate change. Between 2010 and 2020, the death rate from floods, storms, and droughts in high vulnerability areas was 15 times higher than in low vulnerability areas.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

BP's "Beyond Petroleum" Campaign Losing its Sheen Anne Landman | PR Watch | May 3, 2010 Back in July, 2000, British Petroleum launched a high-profile, $200 million public relations ad campaign designed by Ogilvy & Mather to position the company as environmentally-friendly. Federal Government (via USA SPENDING).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Though manufacturers largely didn’t adopt the necessary emissions control technology to meet the NO X requirement until 2010, the 2007 standard did require new technologies to be deployed, at an increased upfront cost. Source: ERM 2022 ). At least four separate studies took a look at whether or not there was an observable pre-buy.

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2007 Regulations Nitrogen Oxides 2004 255

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2024

The SEC released guidance in 2010 directing public companies to disclose risks resulting from climate-related regulation, legislation, and weather, among other sources. The rule was created in response to investor complaints that companies weren’t adequately disclosing information about climate-related financial risk.

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Regulations Clean Energy Sea Level Greenhouse 195

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. 2010 – 2013 Shell Oil Company Inc.: Pierce proudly boasts about “driving government policy at federal and state levels” for the benefit of oil and gas companies. Is that you?

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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? Saginaw Bay, Lake St.

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Clean Water Act 2017 2010 Conservation 361

A Greener Life

JANUARY 5, 2024

Impressive CV The 55-year-old crown prince already has an impressive CV, having gained an MSc degree in political science from the University of Aarhus, with the concluding year spent at Harvard University. And so she felt that due to her current state of health, it was right to make way for the next generation.

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Climate Change 2009 2010 Renewable Energy 105

Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In other words: the court found that there is too much possibility for political influence on decisions on network-bound energy in Germany. How much are governments allowed to interfere with energy regulation? But what does this mean in detail? Will German Energy Law now have to undergo fundamental revision? need to be interpreted.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

That’s when Gates’ 100C paid $171 million for 14,500 acres of land (10,500 acres of it irrigated farmland) from the Boston-based John Hancock Life Insurance Company, which had paid $75 million for the parcel in 2010. In Washington—and elsewhere—there are rules governing the sale of water. Political drivers.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

At least partly—if not largely—because the AGs and their political organization, the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), receive substantial financial support from fossil fuel companies, electric utilities, and their respective trade groups. How has Paxton responded?

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Fossil Fuels Climate Change Sea Level Electricity 348

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

To maintain leverage on Capitol Hill, Koch Industries ’ political action committee (PAC), affiliates and employees also contribute significantly more to federal candidates, party committees, outside groups, leadership PACs and 527 groups than their counterparts at BP America , Chevron , ExxonMobil or Shell. Ted Cruz , Florida Gov. Rick Scott.

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Of course, climate politics is never as straightforward as it appears. Political targets. The models underpinning these figures often contain purely political targets for coal use and they assume India will follow the exact same development pathway as China. Right now coal, oil and natural gas account for 75% of energy use.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In 2010, for example, we knew that at least 20 countries had the highest emissions and the least climate vulnerability at the national level—an inequality that has only been exacerbated since. The IPCC still plays this role today, with the sixth assessment cycle of reports published earlier this 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

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

More Accountable Is A Model For Others -- Post-Gazette Editorial: A Bureaucratic Reform Could Transform PA Government Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: February 8, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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Natural Gas 2023 Fossil Fuels Recycling 110

Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Impact of Genetically Engineered Crops on Farm Sustainability in the United States (National Research Council, April 2010). 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).

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Biotechnology 2019 2007 2013 52

Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

We’ve also seen great challenges facing our ocean, like the increasing effects of climate change, the infamous BP oil spill in 2010 and a rapidly changing Arctic ecosystem. 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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Ocean 2006 2010 Conservation 74

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2024

Click Here to watch online. -- April 9-- House State Government Committee meets to consider House Bill 1169 (Warren-D- Bucks) requiring the installation of water bottle refilling stations in state buildings ( sponsor summary ). Room G-50 Irvis Building. Room 523 Irvis Building. Earthquake Shakes New Jersey, Felt Across Eastern PA; 4.0

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

A bare-chested old man lies in the emergency room of a government hospital in northeast Nigeria. The government has even tried to retrain some herders to work as ranchers, but there is little known about the progress of this initiative. We want the government to help us. A floundering government response. We grew up here.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 31, 2024

Impact of Genetically Engineered Crops on Farm Sustainability in the United States (National Research Council, April 2010). 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).

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Biotechnology 2019 2007 2013 52

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

Getting this right is important, both for California and to ensure the LCFS remains a workable model for other states and the federal government. Moreover, absent reform, the LCFS is not a replicable model for other states or the federal government.

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Biofuels Deforestation 2030 2025 256

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Water rates more than doubled between 2010 and 2020, while income of the city’s poorest one-fifth of residents inched up only 12 percent. And political power with it. Just lack of political capital. T his group now spends more than a quarter of their income on their water bill alone. Carl Ganter/ Circle of Blue.

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