Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In 2001, a group of Mecosta County residents sued to stop Nestlé, the world’s largest food company, from depleting a spring to fill its Ice Mountain water bottles. In law and practice Michigan succeeded in sharing the burden of collecting data needed to make groundwater withdrawal decisions between the state and high-capacity well developers.

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2009 Natural Resources 2020 2010 348

Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Mobil was sued in 2001 for paying military officials $500,000 a year to work as security for the company in Aceh province, northern Sumatra, who allegedly engaged in battery, sexual assault, rape and wrongful deaths of local people. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians.

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2017 2021 2011 Air Pollution 52

Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Mobil was sued in 2001 for paying military officials $500,000 a year to work as security for the company in Aceh province, northern Sumatra, who allegedly engaged in battery, sexual assault, rape and wrongful deaths of local people. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians.

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2017 2021 2011 Air Pollution 52

Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Their inclusion appears to be the result of a political compromise with Member States rather than of scientific appraisal as in the case of nuclear energy. Having an expiration date creates political investment uncertainty and risk, which is precisely what the Taxonomy intended to remove. This makes the condition impractical.

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Fossil Fuels Regulations Waste Technology 52

Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

The law would mesh with corporate climate disclosure regulations elsewhere, particularly in Europe, and would therefore represent a significant step toward assuring the accuracy, trustworthiness, and transparency of corporate climate performance reporting. 4] The new corporate climate disclosure bills may well continue that tradition.

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Regulations Law 2023 Climate Change 98

Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In 2001, the Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), a federal agency that manages the agricultural water supply within the basin, began paying farmers to pump large amounts of groundwater out of the aquifers below. Since 2001, it has paid farmers to pump groundwater approximately two out of every three years.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

VW Escapes Multiple Fines In EU Over Emissions Scandal Law 360 PaulaR Thu, 01/04/2024 - 17:26 Thursday, September 14, 2023 Read more Matthew Perlman Europe's top court ruled Wednesday that Volkswagen should not have to pay a €5 million ($5.3 Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

million to resolve its failure to promptly notify and correct a defective oxygen sensor affecting at least 326,000 of their 1999, 2000 and 2001 Golfs, Jettas, and New Beetles. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. District Court for the District of Columbia, Volkswagen will pay $1.1

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

million to resolve its failure to promptly notify and correct a defective oxygen sensor affecting at least 326,000 of their 1999, 2000 and 2001 Golfs, Jettas, and New Beetles. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. District Court for the District of Columbia, Volkswagen will pay $1.1

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2015 2019 2017 2020 52

Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

million to resolve its failure to promptly notify and correct a defective oxygen sensor affecting at least 326,000 of their 1999, 2000 and 2001 Golfs, Jettas, and New Beetles. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. District Court for the District of Columbia, Volkswagen will pay $1.1

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2015 2019 2017 2020 52

Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

million to resolve its failure to promptly notify and correct a defective oxygen sensor affecting at least 326,000 of their 1999, 2000 and 2001 Golfs, Jettas, and New Beetles. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. District Court for the District of Columbia, Volkswagen will pay $1.1

2015 52

2015 2019 2017 2020 52

Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

million to resolve its failure to promptly notify and correct a defective oxygen sensor affecting at least 326,000 of their 1999, 2000 and 2001 Golfs, Jettas, and New Beetles. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. District Court for the District of Columbia, Volkswagen will pay $1.1

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2015 2019 2017 2020 52

Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

million to resolve its failure to promptly notify and correct a defective oxygen sensor affecting at least 326,000 of their 1999, 2000 and 2001 Golfs, Jettas, and New Beetles. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. District Court for the District of Columbia, Volkswagen will pay $1.1

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2015 2019 2017 2020 52

Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

million to resolve its failure to promptly notify and correct a defective oxygen sensor affecting at least 326,000 of their 1999, 2000 and 2001 Golfs, Jettas, and New Beetles. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. District Court for the District of Columbia, Volkswagen will pay $1.1

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2015 2019 2017 2020 52

Corp Watch

DECEMBER 12, 2023

million to resolve its failure to promptly notify and correct a defective oxygen sensor affecting at least 326,000 of their 1999, 2000 and 2001 Golfs, Jettas, and New Beetles. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. District Court for the District of Columbia, Volkswagen will pay $1.1

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Environmental Progress

JULY 28, 2021

We need county sheriffs from across the state to coordinate law enforcement efforts, given the highly transient nature of California’s addicted homeless population, and the networks of criminal gangs overseeing drug sales and thefts. We believe there is a middle path between mass homelessness and mass incarceration.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 2, 2021

At least we know now that quantum computers – information-processing devices that exploit the laws of quantum mechanics to develop new capabilities – are possible. Raising great clouds of dust on unsurfaced roads, cars incited such public opposition that drivers sometimes carried guns for self-protection.

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Technology Technology 2019 2020 145

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

16 Webinar On Provisions Of New Federal Climate, Energy Law On Solar Energy And Energy Efficiency [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette: Pittsburgh Signs Climate, Innovation Agreement With Dortmund, Germany -- Reading Eagle: Member Of Congress Houlahan Meets Reading’s New Climate Corps -- PA Interfaith Power & Light, Jewish Earth Alliance Host Sept.

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Natural Gas 2001 Fossil Fuels 2022 64

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The information you need to follow legislation in the House and Senate- starting with articles and NewsClips from last week-- Environment & Energy NewsClips-- -- We Remember Sept.

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Natural Gas Politics Carbon Dioxide 2001 74

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 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 -- We Remember Sept.

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2001 2011 Radiation Conservation 64

Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

” EPA also said the guide was “never deemed necessary by career staff and its development was directed by political officials serving in the last Administration.” In June and July 2021, Maine enacted multiple laws that regulate PFAS both in products and in the environment. The House bill ( H.R. 21-191 (S.B.

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2021 2020 Regulations Law 52

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 3, 2024

Since water makes a wetland, the primary federal law governing wetland protection is the Clean Water Act, which was enacted in 1972 to restore and maintain the “Nation’s waters” ( 33 U.S.C. In 2001, the Supreme Court limited Clean Water Act protections to wetlands that are directly adjacent to navigable rivers and tributaries.

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Clean Water Act 2023 2001 Law 235

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Five Justices (four dissenters plus Justiice Kennedy) support the “significant nexus” test, which the lower courts generally view as binding law. Obama Administration issues Waters of the United States (WOTUS rule), which ignites a major political dispute and becomes mired in litigation. President George H.W. In SWANCC v. In Rapanos v.

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Clean Water Act 2006 2001 Regulations 276

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Shapiro -- Shapiro Administration Provides Update On Norfolk Southern Train Derailment Response 9 Months After Derailment [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette - Ford Turner: Inside The PA Taxpayer Supported Fund That Paid Out $19 Million In State-Related Settlements -- Gov.

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Politics Natural Gas 2001 Electricity 101

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

11, 2001 - DEP Responds To A National Tragedy [PaEN] -- Explainer: So Why Does A Susquehanna County Gas Company Have To Raise Rates 33.2% 9 Online Coffee Hour On Youth Movements And Politics Of Climate Change -- TribLive: Learn About Fly Fishing, Spineless Creatures At Buffalo Creek Watershed Festival Sept. Of Geography Hosts Sept.

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2001 Conservation Climate Change Natural Gas 49

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

11, 2001 - DEP Responds To A National Tragedy [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette: Flight 93 Families Turn Pain Into Purpose On 21st Anniversary -- AP: Jill Biden Shares Memories Of 9/11 As Wife, Sister, More -- TribLive Editorial: Remember The Shared Grief Of Sept. What’s Your Community Doing?

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Natural Gas 2001 Solar Power Politics 64

Legal Planet

JANUARY 3, 2024

Congress passes intentionally vague laws that delegate decision-making over a given issue to a federal agency,” the document reads. Before that, he worked as a registered lobbyist for Koch Industries and served as the Koch Industries Director of Federal Affairs from 2001 through 2005, according to the Intercept.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 10, 2022

The editors of Scientific American called for “a lasting stop to the political obstruction” against federally funded gun violence research, adding, “We need to become the kind of country that says the lives of children are more valuable than the right to weapons that have killed them.”. Back then, scientists were crushed by craven politics.

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2020 Politics Law 2019 265

Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

In the late 1990s, Gensler moved into public service and served in the US Trade Department as Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions from 1997 to 1999 and as Undersecretary for Domestic Finance from 1999 to 2001. Enforcement's] about using the facts of the law and limited resources to change market behavior."

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Politics 2002 Technology Technology 40

Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

USA: Lockheed Linked to Chromium 6 Pollution Andrew Blankstein & Jean Guccione | Los Angeles Times | January 21, 2001 Searching for the source of contamination in local water supplies, officials say they have found evidence suggesting that Lockheed Martin Corp. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians.

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security are partnering with campus law enforcement to track hate-related threats and provide federal resources to schools, according to the plan, which was shared exclusively with NBC News.’ Some of what they will be assessing includes specific and credible threats that are flagged online.’

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