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California Lawmakers Put Fossil Fuel Companies in the Hot Seat

Union of Concerned Scientists

They engaged in large-scale, sophisticated advertising and public relations campaigns to promote pervasive fossil fuel usage and to portray fossil fuels as environmentally responsible and essential to human well-being.”.

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State and Local Governments Across the Country are Sidelining Science. Here’s What’s Needed

Union of Concerned Scientists

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. It was originally published in the blog STAT on November 10, 2023.

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Berks Nature To Open New Rooftop Addition, Event Venue - The Rookery - At The Nature Place In Reading

PA Environment Daily

The Rookery is an environmentally responsible and aesthetically respectful addition to the existing campus of The Nature Place, built atop Berks Nature’s Nature Preschool. the architect firm responsible for The Nature Place LEED Gold Certified environmental education center completed in 2017, and was built by Burkey Construction.

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The Supreme Court Has Unleashed a New Tool to Hamstring Federal Agencies. Congress Must Act.

Union of Concerned Scientists

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decision the US Supreme Court handed down in June curtailed strategies EPA can use to slow climate change, but its problematic implications stretch far beyond greenhouse gas reduction.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

A few days after the California court issued its order, North Dakota and Texas asked the Wyoming federal court to lift a stay that the court had imposed in December 2017. 2017 CA 006685 B (D.C. He had been convicted of misdemeanor trespass and felony criminal mischief and conspiracy to commit criminal mischief in October 2017.

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Policy News: December 20, 2021

ESA

The bill retains a provision from the House bill repealing section 20001 of the 2017 Tax Act, which required the Bureau of Land Management to offer oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and cancels the leases sold in January 2021. Onshore royalties would increase to a minimum of 16.75% from 12.5%.

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The Chemical Compound—February 2021

Arnold Porter

On January 13, 2021, the federal district court for the Northern District of California denied EPA's request to reconsider its earlier decision to hold in abeyance a case challenging EPA's 2017 denial of a TSCA Section 21 petition seeking to compel EPA to act under TSCA to prohibit fluoridation of drinking water. 19, 2017).]]

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