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California’s Climate Leadership: A Timeline

Legal Planet

2006 AB 32. 2011 CARB adopted cap and trade system. California established first renewable portfolio standard (20% from renewables by 2010). AB 1493 (Pavley Act). Required the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to set standards for greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) new vehicles. 2015 SB350. 2016 SB 32. 2018 SB100.

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DEP Secretary Negrin Resigns Effective Dec. 8, On Medical Leave; Jessica Shirley Named Interim Acting Secretary

PA Environment Daily

She joined the DEP Policy Office in 2011 and worked as the Policy Director and most recently served as the Infrastructure Implementation Coordinator for programs related to the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Act. Jessica Shirley Jessica Shirley was named Acting Executive Deputy Secretary at DEP in February 2023.

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Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill

Corp Watch

Mediterranean Reefs Will Be Destroyed Upon Repsol's Prospecting Published by Oceana | July 21, 2011 Information provided by Repsol Investigaciones Petrolíferas, S. SEC 2006) Repsol Subsidiaries (via U.S. Major Procurement Contracts Raytheon contracts with the U.S. Repsol Subsidiaries (via U.S. SEC 2018) Repsol Subsidiaries (via U.S.

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Conflict & Climate Change: The Real Triple C

Vermont Law

First, scarcity of natural resources can change the political economy of a state. The drought was ongoing between 2006-2009 . After the drought, the Syrian conflict arose in 2011. The expensive food and water scarcity put external pressures on the political climate in Syria. in the fertile crescent. role in Syrian unrest.

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CEQA Remedies Go Both Ways:  Fourth District Reverses Judgment Upholding San Diego County Board’s Decision Granting Project Opponents’ Administrative Appeal, Holds Board Erred In Finding CEQA Guidelines Section 15183 Statutory Exemption Inapplicable And Ordering EIR Prepared for Exempt Industrial Project

CEQA Developments

Factual and Procedural Background The General Plan Update and Certified Program EIR The County designated the project property for industrial use in its 2011 General Plan Update (GPU), the environmental impacts of which were reviewed under CEQA pursuant to a certified program environmental impact report (PEIR).

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

Circle of Blue

In recent rounds of reauthorization, Congress reduced the AML fee: the 2006 reauthorization reduced the fee by 10 percent in 2008, and another 10 percent in 2013. The political story behind this change in financing has a main character: the Wyoming congressional delegation. Entrance to a coal mine in Kentucky, 2011.

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Land-use, climate change, and policy – Opportunities to act locally while thinking globally

HumanNature

2006) is to associate different carbon storage potentials with different land-use types (Figure 2). Unfortunately, the topic of climate change has been heavily politicized and used to draw yet another line in the sand between what are portrayed as ideologically divergent and mutually-exclusive political views. A political view.