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California’s Climate Leadership: A Timeline

Legal Planet

2006 AB 32. 2018 SB100. Bush torpedoed climate action by the federal government early in his administration. California established first renewable portfolio standard (20% from renewables by 2010). AB 1493 (Pavley Act). Required CARB to create an inventory of GHG emissions. 2011 CARB adopted cap and trade system.

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After Decades of Disinformation, the US Finally Begins Regulating PFAS Chemicals

Union of Concerned Scientists

A 2022 study by researchers from Harvard Medical School and Sichuan University in China estimated that exposure to one form of PFAS (PFOS, for perfluorooctane sulfonic acid), may have played a role in the deaths of more than 6 million people in the United States between 1999 and 2018. But companies had a leisurely decade to meet commitments.

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Alex Pourbaix: The Big Oil Spindoctor

Enviromental Defense

Developing the Pathways Alliance project is currently projected to cost over $16 billion dollars , and Pathways Alliance CEOs like Pourbaix are insisting that governments should cover most of it – even as these companies are making record profits. Both were eventually rejected by governments. Sometimes the industry tells on itself.

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Research Roundup: FDA Uses Fall and Winter 2021 to Release Significant New Guidance Governing Hot-Button Life Sciences Research Topics

Arnold Porter

N:FDA Guidance for Industry, Drug and Device Manufacturer Communications With Payors, Formulary Committees, and Similar Entities—Questions and Answers (June 2018). They should have agreements in place to ensure that any RWD owned by a third-party may be provided to FDA for inspection.[[N:While ”[[N:Id. 7366 , 7372 (Feb.

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

Corp Watch

The company sued the government of Argentina in 2012 for $10 billion after the country nationalized YPF with the backing of 80 percent of legislators of parliament. Federal Government (via USA SPENDING). Federal Government (via SAM). SEC 2018) Repsol Subsidiaries (via U.S. SEC 2006) Repsol Subsidiaries (via U.S.

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Environmental activism in Latin America

Our Environment

As a result, greedy businesses, financers and governments all across the globe have been exploiting the valuable resources these million-year-old forests hold. It has also been reported that between the years of 2002 and 2018 more than 20 million hectares of tropical forests were cleared in the Amazon purely for beef production.

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Maryland is the First State to Regulate Carbon

Greenbuilding Law

The statute explicitly requires the State to reduce statewide GHG emissions by 60% from 2006 levels by 2031, a near term target unmatched by any other state.”. By way of example, this new law requires the State to adopt the 2018 International Green Construction Code (. That Alternative Compliance Fee (i.e.,