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

PA Environment Daily

million cut in FY 2010-11; -- FY 2012-13 budget for the State System of Higher Education zeroes out funding again for the PA Center for Environmental Education ($368,000) and McKeever Environmental Center ($213,000); -- FY 2013-14 budget continues the $102.8 million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5 million; and DEP: $4.2 million; DCNR: $1.5

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Federal Courts Need to Allow the EPA to Clear the Air

Vermont Law

SIP Call, the EPA distributed allowances to power plants and other large industrial polluters on the basis of cost of pollution control. The EPA then assumed that each polluter in the NO. At the end of every year, each polluter had to have enough allowances to cover its ozone season (May-September) NO. Michigan v.

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USA: “The Coke Side of Life”—More Sugar, Less Science

Corp Watch

Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World's Water by Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke (2002) For God, Country, and Coca-Cola: The Unauthorized History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company that Makes It by Mark Pendergrast (1993). References: Did Coca-Cola Ever Contain Cocaine?

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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

In addition, the company filed an appeal with the Washington State Pollution Control Hearings Board. In March 2011, pursuant to the 2002 Act, the Minister had set a target of 50% reduction from 1990 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions levels by 2050. The company said it would soon file a federal lawsuit to pursue these claims.

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