Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

That’s because the region’s ongoing groundwater woes are at least two decades in the making, exacerbated in part by the very federal programs meant to conserve water in the area, The Counter has found. Then came new conservation regulations and litigation that complicated USBR’s water obligations.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Together, these perspectives identify a number of existing issues that merit attention and, if heeded, might inform negotiations on the future of international environmental governance. . Theoretically, a gap might involve subject matter, stringency, coverage, legal character, enforcement, resources, institutions, or political will.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Nestlé u-turn on Ethiopia debt Charlotte Denny | The Guardian | January 24, 2003 Nestlé, the world's largest coffee company, was forced into a humiliating u-turn last night, after public outrage forced it to drop its $6m claim against the famine stricken Ethiopian government. I also went looking for something to inspire me politically.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2022

16 -- Apply Now For Institute Of Conservation Leadership Delaware River Watershed Professionals Of Color 2022 Cohort [PaEN] -- WHYY: PA Task Force 1 Assists In Search And Rescue Operations Following Hurricane Ian -- EPA Seeking Nominations For Local Govt. 15 In Pittsburgh -- Reminder: Bucknell University River Symposium Abstracts Due Oct.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Government’s regulatory “call in” power amendment faces delays. This year the UK has seen the formation of a new government that has introduced substantial spending cuts and the announcement of leadership changes at both the FCA and the SFO, two of the UK’s most important economic crime agencies.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 14, 2022

Instead it begins with this: A brief on how adept engineering for dams and aqueducts, government subsidy, technological development for pumps and water recycling, surpassing marketing, and an advantageous assemblage of natural resources – sun, warmth, blue sky, and open spaces – produced one of the greatest desert civilizations in human history. .

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Just as with climate change, local, state, provincial, and national governments in Canada and the United States have collaborated with science agencies, universities, and non-profit groups to develop effective responses, especially for Lake Erie. billion for those conservation programs across the country. Last year, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Here are 99 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 16, 2022

energy industry and the government.” -- Financial Times: U.S. To Boost Green Jobs, Curb Emissions By Spending Taxpayer Money To Plug Conventional Oil & Gas Wells [PA Included] PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- AP: Democratic U.S. What’s Your Community Doing? Bipartisan Federal Infrastructure Law -- Erie Times/Reuters: U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 23, 2022

House returns to session September 12, 13, 14 -- Committee Schedule Senate returns to session September 19, 20, 21 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events SATURDAY 10:00: 20th Anniversary Celebration Of Quecreek Mine Rescue. What’s Your Community Doing?

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The court said its August 2017 decision rejecting challenges under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Natural Gas Act to DOE’s authorization of LNG exports at another Texas facility largely governed the resolution of the instant cases. The court addressed three narrow issues that remained in one or more of the cases.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 9, 2020

The governor of Florida uses a definition, the governments of New South Wales in Australia use different definitions. So you say that the 2020 fires burned half as much as the 2002 fires. The main reason is that the government of Australia, as in California, refused to control burns for both environmental and health reasons.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

At least partly—if not largely—because the AGs and their political organization, the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), receive substantial financial support from fossil fuel companies, electric utilities, and their respective trade groups. How has Paxton responded? The main beneficiary of Paxton’s efforts?

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Ben Lorber, an analyst of trends in white nationalism at Political Research Associates said :’ “It contributes to a distorted view. Open Secrets notes that:’ ‘A special interest's lobbying activity may go up or down over time, depending on how much attention the federal government is giving their issues.

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