Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In 2014 they created their ‘astroturf’ group, Canada’s Energy Citizens, to challenge and mimic the growing success of grassroots climate activists. For nearly a decade CAPP has used this facade of public favour for oil and gas to secure both public and political support for the fossil fuel industry. The influence doesn’t stop there.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In 2014, the California legislature passed into law the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) , and for the first time, groundwater basins in the state would need to start cutting back on over-drafting our shared groundwater resource.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Second, because most development is approved at the local level in California, any response either requires state intervention into local land-use regulation (always politically controversial) or alternatively getting local governments to address the problem themselves, no small task in a state with hundreds of cities and counties.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 27, 2023

This blog is co-authored with Alienor Rougeot, Climate and Energy Program Manager Two prominent figures of Canada’s oil and gas industry were recently on Global TV’s politics show, The West Block with Mercedes Stephenson, where they spread a bunch of misinformation and half truths. Who are the executives who spread the misinformation?

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 10, 2021

Senate returns to session September 20, 21, 22 -- Committee Schedule House returns to session September 27, 28, 29 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- BeaverT: Shell Ethane Plant 80% Complete; First Electricity Exported To Grid -- S&P Global: PA Shale Gas Permits Increase In June As Gas Prices Strengthen -- PG: As Road Travel Resumes, (..)

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AAEE

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

An interesting study conducted in 2014 in collaboration between the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, and The Associated Press at NORC, classified American attitudes towards the environment. The national survey included 1,576 adults over 18.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

President & CEO of Cenovus Energy: 2017-2023 TC Energy: 1990-2017 Chief Operating Officer of TC Energy: 2015-2017 VP and President Development of TC Energy Corp: 2006-2014 Villain Career Profile Alex Pourbaix has always gone above and beyond to advocate for pipelines and the oil and gas industry.

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Physics World

MAY 17, 2022

A management assessment report in 2014 had slammed the ITER Organization for inflexible and top-heavy management, slow decision-making and the failure to foster an effective management culture. ” Bigot has been an outstanding political leader and reliable friend far beyond the ITER project. We will miss him greatly.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

“Grant’s efforts have included the passage of multiple ordinances and a Home Rule Charter (local constitution) that we at the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) have worked to draft with them, and defend in court, since 2014. In the first case, brought in 2014, the judge – who owned stock in the oil company KBR, Inc.,

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

New calculations by Investors for Paris Compliance show that Enbridge’s total emissions, including the pollution caused when people use the gas it sells, have gone up by 76% since 2014 to a total of 805 million tonnes. That’s 20 times greater than the company reports, and more than all of Canada’s emissions.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Since 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea conditions in Ukraine have not exactly been peaceful and stable, and there has to some extent been a civil war ever since between groups loyal to Russia and those more loyal to the West and the EU.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 19, 2021

From physics to politics William D Magwood IV, director-general of the Nuclear Energy Agency, thinks nuclear power can help us meet net-zero targets. Frustratingly, he had responsibility only for the technical, rather than the political, aspects of nuclear energy. Courtesy: NEA). Except that, in 1999, it was. A clearer understanding.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Based on this wealth of data and analysis, ERM came to a clear conclusion: The results of this study demonstrate that there is no material impact of the 2004, 2010, 2007, and 2014 HDV emission regulations on industry employment. <mic drop> So, is industry just full of it?

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

The Carbon Capture Facility at the Boundary Dam Power Plant in Saskatchewan went into service in 2014. Instead, it requires ingenuity, creativity and entrepreneurship; something that Albertans have in spades, but that our political leaders and legacy energy companies have conveniently forgotten.

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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. Guest Post by Curtis Kline , Ph.D. In 2016, the Constitutional Court of Colombia came to a similar decision about the Atrato River.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 13, 2022

The same political power that caused the problem is the same political power that is continuing to over-pump groundwater,” said Jennifer Clary, the California Director of Clean Water Action, a nonprofit advocacy group. Every day since 2014, they’ve relied on bottled water to drink. It was scary.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

We watched, consumed, and internalized conflict as the pandemic layered social, political, economic, and climate crises. Some warn that the meaning of “resilience” has been diluted for “maladaptive political means and thus hamper the effectiveness of genuine attempts to mitigate damage” (Soubry & Sherren, 2022, p.1). Ugly feelings.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

Similar concerns are buffeting Santolina, a 13,700-acre planned development proposed in 2014 by Western Albuquerque Land Holdings. You’re not doing that development without water,” said Kathy Freas, co-founder of East Mountain Protection Action Coalition, a citizens group. . billion gallons of water a year to serve its 90,000 residents.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

billion in 2014 to the U.S. Toyota workers urged to reject union Grace Macaluso | Windsor Star | February 19, 2014 The head of a U.S. Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of Toyota Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Volkswagen Major Procurement Contracts Toyota contracts with the U.S.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Photos by Evan George) When California lawmakers enacted the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act in 2014, it was an effort to tame the wild , wild west of water. A boycott banner hangs alongside Highway 166 outside the Cuyama Buckhorn hotel. Boycott signs are starting to pop up in Cuyama Valley.

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Environmental Europe

DECEMBER 7, 2016

This blog post reflects back on this two-year debate, raging since the beginning of the Juncker Commission in 2014, and what it tells us about the prospect for future EU-level environmental policy dismantling , that is, cutting, weakening or removing existing policy. The Nature Alert Saga. According to Bauer et al.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 21, 2023

By Travis Rosenbluth In 2014, scientists of the IPCC agreed that human influence on the climate system is evident. The lack of consensus building, in addition to a generation of fatalist humans, results in climate based anxiety , fear, and deception, which (in the wrong hands) can be put towards political gain. Seven Years to Midnight?

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Vermont Law

MAY 2, 2023

By Travis Rosenbluth In 2014, scientists of the IPCC agreed that human influence on the climate system is evident. The lack of consensus building, in addition to a generation of fatalist humans, results in climate based anxiety , fear, and deception, which (in the wrong hands) can be put towards political gain. Seven Years to Midnight?

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A Greener Life

MARCH 7, 2024

Lack of nuance and depth of the causes and solutions of the climate crisis, such as the role of the fossil fuel industry, the systemic and structural barriers, the social and behavioural changes, and the political and economic transformations.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The plank had the message “vote liberal” painted on it, as he was politically quite left-leaning. In 2014 Hawking told the BBC that “the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. Hawking was caught suspending a plank from one of the bridges across the river as an undergraduate in Oxford.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

As climate change has become a more pervasive and urgent political issue, governments around the world have started to look to soil as a potential part of the solution. The amount of drawdown in agricultural lands can be quite dramatic— a 2014 study found that at peak growth, the US Corn Belt (i.e., Not so in the modern day, however.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

The Senate bill, on the other hand, reauthorized CSP, but would have reduced total enrollment from the current 70 million acres of land enrolled in CSP under the 2014 Farm Bill. An unfortunate result of the lapse in Farm Bill authority upon expiration of the 2014 bill was that 39. The recently passed 2018. smaller programs.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

This debate is not new and there was a similar public discussion about long-term memory in the climate system and trends in 2014 on a Dutch website, Climate Dialogue. We know from previous experience that it is likely that such cases will be used uncritically and selectively for political and economic goals.

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Real Climate

MARCH 5, 2023

It’s a fascinating story of technology, creativity, hubris, error, imagination, rivalry, politics, and (for some) a search for scientific consilience – worthy of movie script perhaps? The version of the MSU2R product at the beginning of 2014 was version 5.5, – but I want to highlight a minor little thing.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Their collective trauma dates back to August 2, 2014, when she and half a million other Toledoans woke to alarming news: the water coming out of their taps was toxic. After the 2014 Toledo water crisis, the binational International Joint Commission tried to put a price tag on the event. And political power with it.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of BP (British Petroleum) Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Repsol SA Royal Dutch Shell Total SA Federal Contractor Misconduct Database Project On Government Oversight's list of U.S. complaints from 1995-present day.

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 11, 2015

California is experiencing one of the worst droughts on record, resulting in a state of emergency since January 2014. After a dry 2013-2014 winter, the drought forced farmers to uproot valuable walnut and almond trees and sell off cattle they could no longer husband. Laurie Ristino and Joseph Simpson. . A panel of the U.S.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2023

However, the request also references international human rights instruments, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. That initiative ultimately failed due to strong political opposition.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 9, 2014

March 7, 2014. There are political consequences. She submitted this comment to President Obama on March 7, 2014. Dear Mr. President, I am writing you this letter to ask you one simple question, will you please oppose TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline? I am not a list of nine Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. I am only myself.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 11, 2021

See my 2014 lecture. In my own microeconomic research on the climate change challenge, I have not emphasized policy priorities today because I believe that the political economy is such that global greenhouse gas emissions will continue to rise. Spatial prices adjust and a new dynamic compensating differentials equilibrium is achieved.

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 20, 2014

The Court affirmed that Kanuk’s specific policy requests are non-justiciable political questions. [9]. also indicates that enforcement of an expanded obligation depends on the political branches. S–14776, 2014 WL 4494394 (Alaska Sept. 12, 2014). [3]. 26, 2014). [4]. 26, 2014). [6]. Mississippi. ,

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Brazil (on Climate Fund) , several political parties seek a declaration of unconstitutional omission against the paralysis of the fund’s operations and governance and an injunction compelling the government to reactivate it. In 2014, leaders made a similar pledge in the New York Declaration on Forests that yielded few results.

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