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California’s Climate Leadership: A Timeline

Legal Planet

2002 SB1078. California established first renewable portfolio standard (20% from renewables by 2010). Bush torpedoed climate action by the federal government early in his administration. The Golden State has adopted a slew of climate change laws over the past twenty years, and an even greater number of regulations.

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BP projects have helped fund Azerbaijan military aggression, say campaigners

Corp Watch

BP's "Beyond Petroleum" Campaign Losing its Sheen Anne Landman | PR Watch | May 3, 2010 Back in July, 2000, British Petroleum launched a high-profile, $200 million public relations ad campaign designed by Ogilvy & Mather to position the company as environmentally-friendly. Federal Government (via USA SPENDING).

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Susannah Pierce: A Climate Villain Painting Big Oil Green

Enviromental Defense

Take action by telling the government to hold the oil and gas sector accountable for its pollution by urgently implementing a cap on emissions. 2010 – 2013 Shell Oil Company Inc.: Pierce proudly boasts about “driving government policy at federal and state levels” for the benefit of oil and gas companies. Is that you?

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General Assembly Diverted $3.602 Billion From Environmental Infrastructure Projects And Programs Into State Budget Black Hole

PA Environment Daily

Year after year environmental groups, conservation districts, farmers, local governments oppose the cuts and outline the critical environmental infrastructure needs communities have. million cut continued from the FY 2010-11 DEP and DCNR General Fund budget in FY 2011-12 budget; -- $8.3 Read more here. million from DEP, $1.5

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Life beyond the Nobel: Takaaki Kajita and the hunt for gravitational waves

Physics World

The work led him to sharing the 2002 Nobel Prize for Physics for the detection of cosmic neutrinos. Construction of KAGRA, which is based 200 m underground, began in 2010 and became operational in 2020. The role of the SCJ is to make recommendations to the government and wider society about certain issues.

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'Badly Broken' Bayer postpones split to improve performance

Corp Watch

Eating in the Dark: America's Experiment with Genetically Engineered Food by Kathleen Hart (Pantheon, 2002). Impact of Genetically Engineered Crops on Farm Sustainability in the United States (National Research Council, April 2010). Faith, Hope and $5,000: The Story of Monsanto—The Trials and Triumphs of the First 75 Years by Dan J.

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Roundup lawsuit: Bayer ordered to pay Pa. man $2.25B after jury finds weed killer caused cancer

Corp Watch

Eating in the Dark: America's Experiment with Genetically Engineered Food by Kathleen Hart (Pantheon, 2002). Impact of Genetically Engineered Crops on Farm Sustainability in the United States (National Research Council, April 2010). Faith, Hope and $5,000: The Story of Monsanto—The Trials and Triumphs of the First 75 Years by Dan J.