Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

By Ama Francis* Ama Francis speaking in the “People on the Move: Seeing the Opportunities” session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 19 January. During the panel, I shared my own family’s story and how our home in Dominica was destroyed by Hurricane Maria in 2017.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 6, 2023

On 25 September 2023, the European Parliament Committee on Industry, Research, and Energy (ITRE) published a draft report on the promotion of the freedom of scientific research in the European Union (EU). Science thrives when it transcends political influences and financial barriers.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2023

Below are examples of going the WRONG WAY on environmental and energy issues from last week’s articles and NewsClips-- -- City & State PA: Norfolk Southern Spent Millions On Lobbying And Political Donations In Harrisburg/Washington, D.C.,

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Guest Post by Julia Branstrator , 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. We watched, consumed, and internalized conflict as the pandemic layered social, political, economic, and climate crises. 2017), and demonstrate its different applications across disciplines today. 2007; Wied et al., 2016; Cheer et al.,

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Nestlé, Mars among chocolate makers criticised in cocoa-sourcing report Just Food PaulaR Wed, 01/03/2024 - 15:20 Monday, December 4, 2023 Read more Simon Harvey Ferrero, Mondelez and Lindt also labelled as “inadequate” in Ethical Consumer’s assessment. Nestlé reduced the sugar in its Milo chocolate powder drink.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Mexico: Protesters are blocking access to Nestlé Tlahuapan to demand the water supply be handled with more care Cecilia Espinoza Galindo | Municipios Puebla | January 16, 2017 The protesters claim that the bottling giant extracts one million liters from the spring per day since its arrival in the municipality 20 years ago.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

But in 2023 the script has been flipped and the good news keeps on coming. And we’ve seem successes in other GCF Task Force countries, in particular in Indonesia, which has been a real leader over the last several years in achieving large reductions in deforestation – a 64% reduction from 2020-2022 as compared with 2015-2017.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2023

New Well Abandonments DEP reports conventional oil and gas operators received 3,575 notices of violations for abandoning wells without plugging them from 2017 through 2022. PaEN] [Posted: January 21, 2023] PA Environment Digest Read more here. 21 [PaEN] -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Sets Feb. 2 Hearing On A 4.5 Shapiro, Lt.

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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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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 8, 2023

He’s still paying the price Financial Times PaulaR Fri, 12/08/2023 - 13:31 Thursday, December 7, 2023 Read more Yuan Yang Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. In 2017, Amazon bought up Whole Foods, an upmarket U.S. He blew the whistle on Amazon. federal government (via SAM).

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Mercenary hackers stole data that Exxon later cited in climate lawsuits -US prosecutors Yahoo News PaulaR Tue, 11/07/2023 - 17:23 Thursday, October 12, 2023 Read more Raphael Satter & Christopher Bing WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Oil workers go on strike at Exxon Mobil in Nigeria: union Reuters | May 11, 2017 Nigerian workers at U.S.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Amazon sued by three employees who allege gender discrimination and ‘chronic’ pay inequity CNBC PaulaR Thu, 11/23/2023 - 13:10 Monday, November 20, 2023 Read more Annie Palmer Three staffers in Amazon’s corporate research and strategy division sued the company alleging gender discrimination and retaliation.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In 2017, Amazon bought up Whole Foods, an upmarket U.S. We have estimated that in 2017 Amazon’s tax avoidance from profit shifting alone cost the UK £52million. Founder Bezos is now worth some $200 billion, but millions of his workers struggle to make living wages in hazardous working conditions. federal government (via SAM).

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In 2017, Amazon bought up Whole Foods, an upmarket U.S. We have estimated that in 2017 Amazon’s tax avoidance from profit shifting alone cost the UK £52million. Founder Bezos is now worth some $200 billion, but millions of his workers struggle to make living wages in hazardous working conditions. federal government (via SAM).

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

DEP sued Grant Township for trying to protect its environment in 2017, claiming that regulation of oil and gas wells was a matter of state concern, not a local issue. The community in Grant Township has demonstrated true courage in the face of a legal, political, and economic system stacked against them at every turn.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Whole Foods did not break the law by banning Black Lives Matter apparel, judge rules CNN PaulaR Tue, 01/02/2024 - 13:37 Thursday, December 21, 2023 Read more Ramishah Maruf New YorkCNN — Whole Foods did not act unlawfully by banning employees from wearing items with Black Lives Matter messaging, a judge ruled Thursday.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. Each of them was adopted at some prior COP, after parties at some still-earlier COP made a political (i.e., The largest decision adopted this year, and the main focus of negotiations and political conflict, was called the “Glasgow Climate Pact.”

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 4, 2023

April 4, 2023 Fresh is a biweekly newsletter from Circle of Blue that unpacks the biggest international, state, and local policy news stories facing the Great Lakes region today. Also split by the Ontario-Quebec border, and the state of New York just to the east, Akwesasne’s sovereignty faces numerous legal and political obstacles.

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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. Major Shareholders Click here for the late st data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Total to pay $2.9 agreed to pay $2.9

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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

In 2022, tech firms’ payrolls fell by 164,000 employees, with a further 166,000 jobs cut in the first quarter of 2023, according to tracking platform Layoffs.fyi. And this came after the share of green jobs in all of China’s recruitment had actually been falling since 2017. Yet for green employment, spring has come.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

We are pushing the Chinese company to complete its financial closure by 31 December 2023, and start construction at the earliest so that it can be completed by 2025,” Shah Jahan Mirza, managing director of the Pakistan government-owned Private Power and Infrastructure Board told me. First published in The Third Pole.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Issued on: 17/11/2023 - 12:13 Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. Major Shareholders Click here for the late st data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Total to pay $2.9 million, upgrade Port Arthur refinery Nick Snow | Oil & Gas Journal | May 2, 2007 Total Petrochemicals USA Inc.

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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 to pay $2.9 agreed to pay $2.9

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Legal Planet

APRIL 2, 2024

degrees Celsius above pre-Industrial levels by 2100) within reach or, at the very least, to reset the parameters within which ongoing political negotiations are conducted. The case was relinquished to the Grand Chamber in April 2022, and the hearing took place in March 2023 ( webcast ). Duarte Agostinho and Others v.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Activists Spill Symbolic Oil at the Louvre to Protest Its Sponsorship Deal Claire Voon | HyperAllergic | March 9, 2017 Protestors dressed in all black staged a dramatic performance at the Louvre last Sunday to pressure the museum to cut its 20-year-long ties with French multinational oil and gas company Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. Baiton was at COP27 and is expected to return for COP28, which runs from November 30th until December 12th, 2023. CAPP is trying to buy and build the social license (ie.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

It was originally published in the blog STAT on November 10, 2023. By Jacob Carter and Martha Kinsella In late August 2017, Hurricane Harvey brought Texas rain that just wouldn’t stop. This blog post was co-authored by Martha Kinsella, former senior counsel in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Activists Spill Symbolic Oil at the Louvre to Protest Its Sponsorship Deal Claire Voon | HyperAllergic | March 9, 2017 Protestors dressed in all black staged a dramatic performance at the Louvre last Sunday to pressure the museum to cut its 20-year-long ties with French multinational oil and gas company Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission regulations on climate disclosure, first proposed in March 2022 and likely to be issued in final form in October 2023, [1] have drawn considerable controversy and face an uncertain fate in the inevitable litigation. [2] It went into effect in January 2023 and will be phased in over the next five years.

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Environmental Progress

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

and foreign government support for domestic censorship and disinformation, 2016 - 2022 Testimony by Michael Shellenberger to The House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government November 30, 2023 Chairman Jordan, Ranking Member Plaskett, and members of the Subcommittee thank you for inviting my testimony.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2024

Subsequent federal transit funding bills generally followed the status quo, in which highways get a much greater share of funds than transit, and barely keeping pace with inflation and transit industry operational, managerial, and political factors that increase costs even higher. We got what we paid for—it wasn’t great.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Major Shareholders Click here for the latest data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Major Shareholders Click here for the latest data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Major Shareholders Click here for the latest data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 25, 2023

In Iowa, a Tale of Politics, Power, and Contaminated Water Lawmakers silence Chris Jones, a prominent University of Iowa water quality researcher. By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue – May 25, 2023 IOWA CITY, IOWA – Here in the heart of US farm country, the wretched quality of Iowa waterways is a well-known lament.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Vietnamese blogger who filmed chemical spill protests released from prison Radio Free Asia PaulaR Wed, 01/17/2024 - 14:44 Thursday, January 11, 2024 Read more Nguyen Van Hoa was arrested in 2017 following massive demonstrations against a Taiwan-owned steel plant. By RFA Vietnamese 2024.01.11 billion complex in St. But activists from the U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 27, 2023

His estimated net worth is at least $26 Million dollars as of June 2023. Lobbied government incessantly In the first quarter 2023, Imperial Oil, CAPP, and the Pathways Alliance (the companies and associations Corson works for or represents) had 66 lobby meetings with government officials.

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