Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2024

In a bit of rhetorical ecstasy, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan proclaimed that the federal government “is finally slamming the door on a chemical so dangerous that it has been banned in over 50 countries.” The legacy of death and disease from disinformation and “disappeared” information haunts us to this day.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 28, 2023

A study investigating how much education affects voting rates from 1950 to 2004 found that this positive correlation has increased since 1980. It has been well documented for decades that higher educational attainment strongly correlates with a person’s higher likelihood of voting.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

We focused on a 2004 Supreme Court case called Veith v Jubelirer. But then two more major gerrymandering cases came before the US Supreme court, Gill v Whitford and Rucho v Common Cause , decided in 2018 and 2019 respectively. Gerrymandering in the courts.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

for hiding information about acceleration problems from buyers and government officials, as well as $1 billion in compensation to car owners, after as many as 37 people were reported killed in runaway vehicles. In 2018, Toyota was ordered to pay out $21.9 Federal Government (via USA Spending) Toyota contracts with the U.S.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

government $265 million plus interest for over-billing on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and in 2010 it was ordered to repay the U.S. Almost 20 years later in 2018, the company agreed to provide the city of Los Angeles about 1.5 These payments included $3 million to the Japanese prime minister and $1.1 million to a Dutch prince.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

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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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

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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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

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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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

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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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 15, 2021

likely key if the federal government is going to respond), Axios also described a broader failure to register even on social media where the response to dire IPCC report was muted, at best, when compared to the earlier 2018 IPCC report. million after the 2018 report. million after the 2018 report.

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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. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 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. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 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. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Several workers have also been injured and others killed in explosions at the Point Comfort plant in 2005 and at a PVC plant in Illiopolis , Illinois in 2004. In 2018, the company announced plans to build a $10 billion complex named ‘The Sunshine Project,’ with 10 chemical manufacturing plants, in St.

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Montrose

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The two firms have an established working relationship dating back to 2017, and have executed numerous projects together for the federal government and clients in the private sector. The certification enables the approved JV to bid on federal government contracts that are set aside for small, disadvantaged businesses. Navy, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Pick Up Pennsylvania, which began in 2004, is a lynchpin in the anti-litter movement growing in Pennsylvania, and DEP is pleased to support this grassroots campaign for community volunteers,” said DEP Acting Secretary Ramez Ziadeh. Residents can use this Events Calendar to join Pick Up Pennsylvania cleanup events in their community.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

The Real Thing: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company by Constance Hays (2004). Photo Gallery Image Coca Cola Protests at World Social Forum, 2004, Mumbai, India PHOTO Knut-Erik Helle Read More Image Protesting Coca-Cola PHOTO Adolfo Lujan Read More Image Protest gegen Coca Cola photo Rettet den Regenwald e.V.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

The Real Thing: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company by Constance Hays (2004). Photo Gallery Image Coca Cola Protests at World Social Forum, 2004, Mumbai, India PHOTO Knut-Erik Helle Read More Image Protesting Coca-Cola PHOTO Adolfo Lujan Read More Image Protest gegen Coca Cola photo Rettet den Regenwald e.V.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2023

This is the same company that in 2018 blew up a house near its Revolution pipeline in Beaver County. PEMA Inviting Comments The 2018 State Hazard Mitigation Plan is now being updated and the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency is asking for comments. There was no notice to the public of the explosion. Read more here.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

A 2018 investigation by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids found that BAT and other tobacco companies were still engaging in deceptive social media marketing practices to advertise cigarettes in more than 40 countries around the world.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

The Real Thing: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company by Constance Hays (2004). Photo Gallery Image Coca Cola Protests at World Social Forum, 2004, Mumbai, India PHOTO Knut-Erik Helle Read More Image Protesting Coca-Cola PHOTO Adolfo Lujan Read More Image Protest gegen Coca Cola photo Rettet den Regenwald e.V.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Individual Records & Summaries Click here for violation data on ExxonMobil Total Penalties $2,230,170,304 (September 29, 2022) Number of Records 527 Books Catch Me If You Can: Exxon's Complicity in Liberian Oil Sector Corruption and how its Washington Lobbyists Fight to Keep Oil Deals Secret (Global Witness, 2018). and Chevron Corp CVX.N

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Individual Records & Summaries Click here for violation data on Koch Industries Total Penalties $935,266,865 (September 30, 2022) Number of Records 436 Books Axis of Ideology: Conservative Foundations and Public Policy (National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, March 2004). Koch Brothers Could Get Up To $1.4

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Individual Records & Summaries Click here for violation data on ExxonMobil Total Penalties $2,230,170,304 (September 29, 2022) Number of Records 527 Books Catch Me If You Can: Exxon's Complicity in Liberian Oil Sector Corruption and how its Washington Lobbyists Fight to Keep Oil Deals Secret (Global Witness, 2018). and Chevron Corp CVX.N

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

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). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM). June 2007). Smith (Yes! Books, 2003).

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HumanNature

JANUARY 23, 2023

PLoS One 13 , (2018). Conservation Biology 18 , 76–85 (2004). PLoS Biol 16 , (2018). Public Understanding of Science 27 , 985–1002 (2018). Values, trust, and cultural backlash in conservation governance: The case of wildlife management in the United States. Center for Biological Diversity [link] (2022).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 31, 2024

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). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM). June 2007). Smith (Yes! Books, 2003).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

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). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM). June 2007). Smith (Yes! Books, 2003).

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 11, 2020

2003) (“the regulations govern the parties’ joint and several liabilities vis-à-vis the Government not amongst themselves”) and Total E&P USA, Inc. 2018) (“parties will always be jointly and severally liable to the government for the cost of decommissioning, no matter what their contract provides”). 611 (Bankr.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

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). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM). June 2007). Smith (Yes! Books, 2003).

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 25, 2023

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). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM). June 2007). Smith (Yes! Books, 2003).

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2023

The Grand Jury’s two-year investigation uncovered systematic failure by government agencies in overseeing the fracking industry and fulfilling their responsibility to protect Pennsylvanians from the inherent risks of industry operations. Read more here.

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CEQA Developments

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The plan was incorporated into the Biological Resources chapter of the DEIR, which was published in March 2018.

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CEQA Developments

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As proposed in CEQA lead agency CPUC’s 2018 FEIR, the Water Supply Project would include: (1) 10 subsurface slant wells to intake brackish water primarily comprised of seawater at the western edge of the Salinas Basin, requiring a CDP initially within the City’s permitting jurisdiction; and (2) a 9.6-million Resources Code, § 21166.)

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2014

In September, the Sierra Club, one of the largest environmental organizations in the United States, filed a lawsuit seeking an immediate ban on the transportation of crude oil in allegedly outdated and unsafe tank cars despite the fact that the government has proposed regulations to address the same concerns.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

It is not clear what impact the burden-shifting in government cases would have as a practical matter. 2018 F.T.C. 17, 2018); United States v. Unlike the change to burdens of proof in merger cases, the burden would shift in exclusionary conduct cases brought by private plaintiffs as well as the government. 398 (2004).]]

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The Republican Herald said--“Remarkably, while suing the pipeline for environmental violations, the state government also heavily subsidizes the Shell refinery with $1.7 The first shale gas well was drilled in 2003 and that well was the first shale gas well fracked in 2004. Read more here. billion in tax credits.

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