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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Tesla sues Swedish government after postal workers allegedly block license plate deliveries CNBC PaulaR Thu, 11/30/2023 - 13:12 Monday, November 27, 2023 Read more Ashley Capoot Tesla filed a lawsuit against the Swedish Transport Agency on Monday that claims it should be able to collect license plates directly instead of receiving them by mail.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In an opinion in a much-publicized case, filed December 28, 2022, and later ordered published on January 26, 2023, the First District Court of Appeal (Div. City of Livermore (2023) __ Cal.App.5th__ City of Milpitas (2013) 217 Cal.App.4th 4th 1307 (see prior summary dated July 30, 2013, which can be found here ).)

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

The share of online transactions among total US sales grew from just under six percent in 2013 to around 15 percent in 2021, according to the Census Bureau’s Annual Retail Trade Survey. Some of the same researchers are currently working on a comparable study for the United States and their preliminary results are similar.

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AUGUST 2, 2023

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released a new report on the projected cost of US nuclear weapons over the next ten years, from 2023 to 2032. This is due to the recommendation in the 2022 Nuclear Posture Review that the program be canceled and the fact that the president’s FY 2023 budget request did not include any funding for it.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 15, 2024

Researchers working in the field of attribution science have been able to state with clarity that last year’s fires and droughts, the Alberta floods of 2013, BC’s atmospheric rivers, and the heat waves that have killed hundreds of people in the BC’s Lower Mainland, have all been intensified and magnified by human-caused climate change.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Guest Post by Vedanshi Nevatia , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph. As per the World Investment Report 2023, much of the growth in international investment in renewable energy, which has nearly tripled since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, was concentrated in developed countries.

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Arnold Porter

APRIL 6, 2023

Davila rejected the FTC’s request for a preliminary injunction in January 2023.[[N: 3, 2023), FTC, available here. ]] FTC Chair Lina Khan also commented that “[i]f you’re not really pushing the courts to engage with how these statutes apply in the new economy, you get doctrine that is stale[.]”[[N:

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Issued on: 02/10/2023 - 14:20Modified: 02/10/2023 - 14:19 Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. million in 2013. In the U.S.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Issued on: 17/11/2023 - 12:13 Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Climate of fear: TotalEnergies implicated in repression of land and environmental defenders in East Africa Global Witness PaulaR Thu, 12/14/2023 - 13:39 Monday, December 4, 2023 Read more Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2023

Most recently, Barrow has served as Chief of Staff for Chairman Gladys Brown Dutrieuille since 2013. From 2008 to 2013, Barrow served as Chief of Staff in the Office of Commissioner Wayne E.

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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. Finally, in the 2013 case of Koontz v. The case is Sheetz v. County of El Dorado, Docket No.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 27, 2021

For smaller communities, a representative sample of utilities will be required to take part in the monitoring program, which runs from 2023 to 2025. The rule will now revert to the definition that was established in October 2013, which permits 2.5 government water policy. News Briefs. Oahu Water Contamination.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. In the U.S.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. In the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

Past DCNR roles included serving as Deputy Secretary of Conservation and Technical Services from 2007-2013, where she led the Conservation Landscape program and oversaw the grant program, which provides $30-$60 million annually for conservation and recreation throughout the Commonwealth. Posted: June 7, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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A Greener Life

JUNE 11, 2023

A baking hot day in Prayagraj, India, in May 2023. Researchers have stated that climate change made the heatwave that hit Bangladesh, India, Thailand and Laos in April 2023 at least 30 times more likely. But the extent to which this is being followed by the municipal government is unclear. Photo credit: Anil Shakya / Alamy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Thanks largely to federal tax incentives, lower sticker prices, and more available models, EV sales have continued to surge in 2023. DR: California hit a new milestone for EV sales midway through 2023: One in four new passenger vehicles sold in in the state from April through June was a plug-in car, truck, or SUV. percent in 2021.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

On September 14, 2023, DEP inspected the Coretsky shale gas well pad operated by XTO Energy Inc., DEP issued a notice of violation for failure to plug wells upon abandoning them and requested the operator to submit a written report by September 28, 2023 on how it plans to bring the well into compliance. [ Read more here. & Norna F.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 22, 2022

Under the voluntary agreement signed in 2019 that governs the cuts, no other basin state is required to limit its withdrawals. In that scenario, there are severe outcomes by the end of 2023. The treaty governs dam operations in the binational watershed. government water policy. It’s not worst case, but it’s close.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Historical Refernces Britain’s first North Sea oil rig collapses Julian Gavaghan | Yahoo News | December 24, 2013 December 27, 1965: Britain’s first ever North Sea oil rig collapsed and killed 13 men during a bitter snowstorm and 20ft-high waves on this day in 1965. Federal Government (via USA SPENDING). BP Subsidiaries (via U.S.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Historical Refernces Britain’s first North Sea oil rig collapses Julian Gavaghan | Yahoo News | December 24, 2013 December 27, 1965: Britain’s first ever North Sea oil rig collapsed and killed 13 men during a bitter snowstorm and 20ft-high waves on this day in 1965. Federal Government (via USA SPENDING). BP Subsidiaries (via U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Background information: The Bad River Band has been fighting Enbridge in court since 2019 to have the pipeline removed from its territory and watershed and Enbridge has been found guilty of trespass since 2013. The post Environmental and Human Rights Groups Challenging Canada’s Use of 1977 Pipeline Treaty to Block Recent U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 16, 2024

As of mid-October, lawmakers in 45 states had introduced 325 such bills in 2023, according to a report by the nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice, and 14 states collectively enacted 17 of them. Many resulted from the US Supreme Court’s 2013 Shelby County v. What is your take on this unfortunate ruling?

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2023

People and organizations from across the state attended PEC’s 2023 Western Pennsylvania Dinner May 3 to celebrate the three-term Allegheny County Executive, who accepted his award from Cindy Adams Dunn, Secretary of the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR). Each year in office, he committed to planting 1,000 trees.

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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. Local 1505 and representatives from the Second District office.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

billion in latest US trial loss over Roundup weedkiller Reuters PaulaR Mon, 11/27/2023 - 13:42 Monday, November 20, 2023 Read more Tom Hals Nov 19 (Reuters) - A Missouri jury ordered Bayer (BAYGn.DE) to pay $1.56 Bayer ordered to pay $1.56 Davuluri Venkateswarlu (India Committee of the Netherlands, September 2007). June 2007).

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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. Local 1505 and representatives from the Second District office.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 25, 2023

million in Roundup cancer trial, jury finds Reuters PaulaR Wed, 10/25/2023 - 18:06 Friday, October 20, 2023 Read more Brendan Pierson Oct 20 (Reuters) - Bayer AG must pay $1.25 Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Bayer must pay $1.25

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

This new research found that ExxonMobil’s climate projections from its internally developed models accurately projected the temperature rise that has happened since then and that its calculations were in line with independent research produced at the time by academic and government scientists. Source: Supran et al.,

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

On the same day at COP28, the Indian government submitted its third “National Communication” to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In a written reply to parliament in August 2023, the coal minister stated that a “major leap in coal production over the years has been witnessed”. tCO2/tcs.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Monsanto: A Corporate Profile (Food & Water Europe, April 2013) Monsanto vs. the World: The Monsanto Protection Act, GMOs and our Genetically Modified Future by Jason Louv (Ultraculture Press, 2013).

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Will your story be included in 2023? Since June 2004, PA Environment Digest has printed or linked to over 6,290 articles about environmental stewards from all walks of life and all ages. Since June 2004, PA Environment Digest has printed or linked to over 6,290 articles about environmental stewards from all walks of life and all ages.

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

This rule is effective (after 60 days) on February 13, 2023. In that post, we described the significant changes in the 2021 version from the 2013 version. million commercial real estate transactions each year in the United States (i.e., including for a real estate purchaser to avoid liability under CERCLA [the Superfund law]).

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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

JULY 14, 2023

In 2013, then Gov. Corbett signed into law changes to the state Municipal Authorities Act which allowed certain local governments to form stormwater authorities. In Pennsylvania there are currently about 65 local governments that have formed an authority. Many of these local governments include areas with state-owned land.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The formal concept of Loss and Damage originated in 2013 at COP19 in Warsaw, Poland, with the establishment of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage (WIM). The Transitional Committee met five times in 2023 prior to submitting a report to the COP for consideration.

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