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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). 2018 SB100. The Golden State has adopted a slew of climate change laws over the past twenty years, and an even greater number of regulations. AB 1493 (Pavley Act). 2006 AB 32. 2011 CARB adopted cap and trade system.

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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 from the DEP and DCNR General Fund budget in FY 2010-11 budget; -- $180 million diverted from the DCNR Oil and Gas Fund to General Fund in proposed FY 2010-11 budget; -- $5.5 million cut continued from the FY 2010-11 DEP and DCNR General Fund budget in FY 2011-12 budget; -- $8.3 million from DEP, $1.5

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Solving the proton puzzle

Physics World

On the other was the CREMA result – a single, very precise spectroscopy measurement for which no obvious flaws had been found, either before or after the result’s publication in 2010 ( Nature 466 213 ). The figure CODATA settled on in 2002 was 0.8750 ± 0.0068 fm, which changed only slightly four years later, remaining a little under 0.88

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Susannah Pierce: A Climate Villain Painting Big Oil Green

Enviromental Defense

2010 – 2013 Shell Oil Company Inc.: 2009 – 2010 TC Energy Corporation: 2002 – 2008 Villain Career Profile Climate Villain Susannah Pierce works hard to raise global temperatures on behalf of the oil and gas industry, with two decades of experience marketing, developing, and lobbying the government for further expansion of fossil fuels.

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Danger Looms Where Toxic Algae Blooms

Circle of Blue

Last year, the Environmental Working Group, a Washington-based research organization, counted 476 harmful blooms in 41 states, five times higher than in 2010. . In Michigan the number of reports about blooms received by the state Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy has increased six-fold since 2010. Saginaw Bay, Lake St.

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These Attorneys General Are Defending the Fossil Fuel Industry, Not Their States

Union of Concerned Scientists

million to his campaigns since 2002, according to OpenSecrets’ compilation of contribution data. When Moody ran for attorney general in 2018, she promised she wouldn’t politicize the office. billion in damage in September 2018. The main beneficiary of Paxton’s efforts? The oil and gas industry, of course.

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Toyota SUV adverts banned in UK on environmental grounds

Corp Watch

For example in 2009 and 2010, Toyota recalled over 10 million vehicles over unintended acceleration problems and in 2016, Toyota recalled 1.4 In 2018, Toyota was ordered to pay out $21.9 lawsuit over vehicle metal quality Tina Bellon, Yuka Obayashi | Reuters | March 6, 2018 U.S. China fines Toyota 87.6 million yuan ($12.5