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California’s Climate Leadership: A Timeline

Legal Planet

The Golden State has adopted a slew of climate change laws over the past twenty years, and an even greater number of regulations. 2006 AB 32. 2006 AB 32. 2015 SB350. 2015 SB350. To help you keep track, here is a timeline of California’s most important actions. 2002 SB1078. AB 1493 (Pavley Act).

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Alex Pourbaix: The Big Oil Spindoctor

Enviromental Defense

President & CEO of Cenovus Energy: 2017-2023 TC Energy: 1990-2017 Chief Operating Officer of TC Energy: 2015-2017 VP and President Development of TC Energy Corp: 2006-2014 Villain Career Profile Alex Pourbaix has always gone above and beyond to advocate for pipelines and the oil and gas industry. million in 2015.

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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

Dawes was instrumental in the reauthorization of the federal Abandoned Mine Lands Fund in 2006 and served as Chair of the campaign that led to Pennsylvania receiving $1 billion to address Pennsylvania’s mining legacy of more than 185,000 acres of unsafe, mine-scarred lands. from Villanova University School of Law.

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20 Years of Severe Drought Impede Huge Developments in Southwest

Circle of Blue

Under construction since 2015, the 3,400-acre project is spending $350 million for a closed-loop water supply system that collects, treats, and recycles wastewater for over 12,500 residences that are planned, plus commercial and retail spaces. They no longer feature big lakes, irrigated lawns, golf courses, and open drainage canals.

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Starting with a Messy Slate: The Role of Environmental Law in Haiti after the 2010 Earthquake

Vermont Law

Summary: The country of Haiti does not have a history of effective environmental regulation and this has continued after the devastating 2010 earthquake due to a lack of political and economic infrastructure. Furthermore, in 2006 the provisional president, Boniface Alexandre, issued a Decree of Environmental Management.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Circuit concluded that EPA had acted arbitrarily and capriciously in determining that the four elements of the regulations that had been stayed met these requirements. The court said the administrative record “makes clear that industry groups had ample opportunity to comment on all four issues on which EPA granted reconsideration.”

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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. assembly plant in Tennessee.

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