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The President and Congress Deliver $11 Billion for Abandoned Mine Cleanups

Circle of Blue

Since the country began regulating abandoned mines in 1977 under the Abandoned Mine Land program, the country spent $5 billion, and about $400 million in the Illinois basin, to repair clogged and polluted streams, recontour steep highwalls, and reforest denuded landscapes. For the last 45 years, the U.S. A regular tug-of-war ensued.

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Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. We need governments to regulate industry. CAPP is trying to buy and build the social license (ie. She also believes in getting the job done outside of the office.

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Pesticide Warning Labels: We Need Transparency

Vermont Law

California’s Proposition 65 tends to take a careful approach while the EPA has tended to tailor its decisions to satisfy pesticide manufacturers and political parties. [18]. 95, 95 (2008). [7]. 105, 132 (2006). [13]. Pesticide Law. , at 104-105. [10]. 33 Ecology L.Q. 24 ELR 10449, 10459 (1994). [15].

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Nuclear Plant Closures And Renewables Increase Electricity Prices & Unreliability, Testifies Michael Shellenberger to U.S. Senate

Environmental Progress

11] Part of the reason for inadequate in-state electricity supply in California last August was that state regulators had closed in-state baseload power plants. People wonder how we made it through the heat wave of 2006,” said the CEO of California’s grid operator, CAISO, at the time. That was rebuffed. And here we are.” [14]

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Brazil: Volkswagen will pay more than R$10 million in labor lawsuits

Corp Watch

USA: Police break up three-month protest outside VW dealership using Covid-19 regulations James Baggot | Car Dealer Magazine | February 15, 2021 Two protesters who set up camp outside a VW dealership in London have been moved on by police using Covid-19 restrictions. In the end everything turned out differently.

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VW owners affected by "Dieselgate" in Switzerland will not receive compensation

Corp Watch

USA: Police break up three-month protest outside VW dealership using Covid-19 regulations James Baggot | Car Dealer Magazine | February 15, 2021 Two protesters who set up camp outside a VW dealership in London have been moved on by police using Covid-19 restrictions. In the end everything turned out differently.

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Germany: Scandal at Volkswagen subsidiary MOIA: The company is refusing to sign a collective agreement, but gets millions in state subsidies

Corp Watch

USA: Police break up three-month protest outside VW dealership using Covid-19 regulations James Baggot | Car Dealer Magazine | February 15, 2021 Two protesters who set up camp outside a VW dealership in London have been moved on by police using Covid-19 restrictions. In the end everything turned out differently.

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