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What’s the Role of the Land Carbon Sink in Achieving US Climate Goals?

Union of Concerned Scientists

I dug into this complexity with my energy colleagues in the context of their recent analysis of pathways for how the US can meet its goals to cut heat-trapping emissions 50%-52% below 2005 levels by 2030, and achieve net zero emissions no later than 2050. That analysis assumed the U.S.

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'Badly Broken' Bayer postpones split to improve performance

Corp Watch

Total Penalties $794,315,508 (April 6, 2021) Number of Records 131 Books A Growing Concern: Protecting the Food Supply in an Era of Pharmaceutical and Industrial Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists, December, 2004). PIRG Education Fund, April 2005). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM). June 2007).

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Homeownership Revisited: An Economist's Perspective

Environmental and Urban Economics

2 (2005): 763-789. Contractibility and asset ownership: On-board computers and governance in US trucking." 4 (2004): 1443-1479. If government steps back from insurance markets, the private sector will step up its game and insurance innovation will further spur the pace of climate change adaptation. and Thomas N.

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

Corp Watch

Total Penalties $794,315,508 (April 6, 2021) Number of Records 131 Books A Growing Concern: Protecting the Food Supply in an Era of Pharmaceutical and Industrial Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists ,December, 2004). PIRG Education Fund, April 2005). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM). June 2007).

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Monsanto ordered to pay $857 million to Washington school students and parent volunteers over toxic PCBs

Corp Watch

Total Penalties $794,315,508 (April 6, 2021) Number of Records 131 Books A Growing Concern: Protecting the Food Supply in an Era of Pharmaceutical and Industrial Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists ,December, 2004). PIRG Education Fund, April 2005). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM). June 2007).

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Shell’s reckless divestment from Niger Delta

Corp Watch

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. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Bayer ordered to pay $1.56 billion in latest US trial loss over Roundup weedkiller

Corp Watch

Total Penalties $794,315,508 (April 6, 2021) Number of Records 131 Books A Growing Concern: Protecting the Food Supply in an Era of Pharmaceutical and Industrial Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists ,December, 2004). PIRG Education Fund, April 2005). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM). June 2007).