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New Analysis Shows Truck Manufacturers’ Scare Tactic Just a Bunch of Hot Air

Union of Concerned Scientists

I’ve written previously about how the truck industry is fighting regulations at the state and federal level with everything they’ve got. One of the scare tactics truck manufacturers have been pushing is the old industry canard of job-killing regulations. Why would truck regulations impact jobs?

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How well did the EU respond to the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic? Experts now give their verdict

Frontiers

According to a panel of health experts, national interests conflicted with coordinated Europe-wide health regulations. In 2004, the EU created the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), precisely with the goal of coordinating cross-border disease surveillance and guidelines.

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A Call for Comprehensive and Clearer ESG Disclosures

Greenbuilding Law

While the idea of ESG began in 2004 with a United Nations initiative to influence capital in non Western markets, in 2021 the legal and political institutions in the United States and the EU are demanding those ideas be implementing with due haste. If each country (. If each country (.

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Supreme Court Issues Decision Sharply Limiting Clean Water Act Jurisdiction over Wetlands

E2 Law Blog

In 2004 Michael and Chantell Sackett bought property near Priest Lake, Idaho and backfilled the lot with dirt in preparation for building a house. If C (adjacent wetlands) were not part of A (“the waters of the United States”) and therefore subject to regulation under the CWA, there would be no point in excluding them from that category.

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Guest post: Brazil will have first climate litigation trials in the Supreme Court

Law Columbia

In 2020, the Supreme Court held a preliminary public hearing for the parties to present facts on deforestation in the Amazon and the results achieved by the PPCDAm between 2004 and 2020. These five cases deal with environmental issues that indirectly have climate implications, while ADPF 760 and ADO 59 directly raise climate claims.

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20 Years of Severe Drought Impede Huge Developments in Southwest

Circle of Blue

Opened in 2004 by DMB Associates, an Arizona-based developer, the community has 60,000 square feet of office and retail space in a town center, and is permitted to build 14,000 residences. “For us, the incentives were aligned day one to use less water and conserve as much as possible.”. Hughes also could buy rights to Colorado River water.

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Friend or foe? Machine learning and how it is shaping our lives

Physics World

So asks Will Smith’s Detective Del Spooner of the artificial being Sonny, in a memorable scene from the 2004 film I, Robot. The authors seek to equip the reader with the knowledge necessary to make informed decisions concerning the regulation of the use of ML tools, in what Zerilli and co-authors call the “new algorithmic world order”.

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