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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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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. A number of different parties had lined up on either side of the issue of whether EPA’s stay was lawful. June 29, 2017). Pruitt , No.

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California Air Resources Board Releases Draft Scoping Plan Update (Part 2)

Clean Energy Law

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated at least once every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Rights of Nature: Seeing the Forests and Trees

Vermont Law

constitutive law. In 2006, Tamaqua Borough of Pennsylvania. passed local law. In 2006, Tamaqua Borough of Pennsylvania. passed local law. New Zealand has succeeded in protecting a watershed in its own right. Earth Law Center. Notably, Earth law logically extends beyond Earth itself.

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New California Legislation Would Be a Major Step Forward for Climate Disclosure

Law Columbia

3] California has long led the nation in adoption of environmental rules, including the first motor vehicle emission standards in 1966, energy efficiency standards for appliances in the 1970s, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, and many others. [4] 4] The new corporate climate disclosure bills may well continue that tradition.

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VW Escapes Multiple Fines In EU Over Emissions Scandal

Corp Watch

VW Escapes Multiple Fines In EU Over Emissions Scandal Law 360 PaulaR Thu, 01/04/2024 - 17:26 Thursday, September 14, 2023 Read more Matthew Perlman Europe's top court ruled Wednesday that Volkswagen should not have to pay a €5 million ($5.3 Volkswagen of America, Inc. Agrees to Pay Over $1 Million for Clean Air Act Violation U.S.

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

Corp Watch

VW's Slovak workers strike over pay, halt production lines Tatiana Jancarikova | Reuters | June 20, 2017 Volkswagen was hit by its first ever strike in Slovakia on Tuesday as workers began a walkout to demand a higher pay increase which could hurt the central European country's manufacturing output. Volkswagen of America, Inc.

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