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Something Stinks: California Must End Manure Biomethane Accounting Gimmicks in its Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Union of Concerned Scientists

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering amendments to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation, but indicated they have no plans to address the problems caused by counter-productive subsidies for manure biomethane. California’s transportation fuel policy is knee deep in cow poop, and it’s not a good look.

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Sixth District Holds Coastal Commission’s Post-Approval Analysis of Coastal Development Permit’s Environmental Impacts Violates CEQA

CEQA Developments

But at the Coastal Commission’s November 8, 2017 de novo hearing on the project, the Commission rejected staff’s recommendation and ultimately voted 7-5 to approve the CDP. Had the Commission followed its staff’s recommendation, the story would have ended there. The Writ Litigation and Trial Court Decision. The Court of Appeal’s Decision.

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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

He was appointed as a mediator by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to work with the environmental community and industry to establish better regulations for water quality monitoring in areas impacted by coal ash.

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New University Of Chicago Medical Study Connects Natural Gas Development In PA To Real, Serious Human Health Outcomes And Should Be A Call To Action For Policy Makers

PA Environment Daily

Her team collected Medicare claims data for tens of thousands of patients generated between 2002 and 2015 in both northern Pennsylvania, which experienced a fracking boom, and next-door New York state, where the practice was banned.

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A journey of a plant biologist: Back to the wild to solve current crises.

HumanNature

Besides medicinal plants, other wild plants have abundance of metabolites that have negative impacts on herbivores, and pests (Gupta and Birdi, 2017; Hussein and El-Anssary, 2018; Joshi et al., Therefore, researchers are turning to the wild plants to study their microbiome and understand its genetic regulation (Jaiswal et al.,

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Derivatives: ISDA Announces 2016 New York Law Variation Margin Credit Support Annex

The Energy Law Blog

prudential banking regulators [1] , the U.S. 2] The statements of the BCBS/IOSCO Framework were not meant to be binding regulations, but rather key principles to guide national regulators in adopting margining rules that would apply in their respective jurisdictions. 3] Generally, the U.S. 3] The U.S.

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Nestlé faces US lawsuit for allegedly false advertising pet food as ‘natural’

Corp Watch

In Sweeping War on Obesity, Chile Slays Tony the Tiger Andrew Jacobs | The New York Times | February 7, 2018 New regulations, which corporate interests delayed for almost a decade, require explicit labeling and limit the marketing of sugary foods to children. Nestlé reduced the sugar in its Milo chocolate powder drink.