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Rich Kruger: The Nightmare on Oil Street

Enviromental Defense

After the government passed new rules to crack down on greenwashing, the Pathways Alliance scrubbed its website and social media of all of its climate and carbon capture content. Suncor Energy Inc: 2023-Present Imperial Oil Ltd: 2013–2019 ExxonMobil Corp: 1981-2013 Villain Career Profile Rich Kruger has a long and storied career in oil.

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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. The case was settled in 2014 after Argentina paid Repsol $5 billion. Campaigning against oil exploration near the Canary islands. Repsol fined for anti-competitive practices.

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EXTENDING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS TO FARM ANIMALS

Vermont Law

The PKEMRA allowsFEMA to provide assistance to local governments before the state governors request aid. [8]. Under this scheme, the federal government’s relief in the event of a disaster is discretionary. [9]. This leaves the disaster preparedness plans vulnerable to the politics of government. 1725 (2006). ;

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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 is also important to realise that politics and governments have a lot of control on the land they govern. 2 pp 105-110. (2) 2) Geraldo B. 110, pages 173-177. (3)

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Analysis: Central Asian drought highlights water vulnerability

A Greener Life

As parts of the region experience the worst drought in 13 years, experts say Central Asian governments must urgently look at options to mitigate extreme weather events. A 2019 article in the International Journal of Climatology identified this as a rising trend. There are many options available to individual governments.

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A Trip Down Memory “Train”: A Brief History of Public Transit

Union of Concerned Scientists

For more than a century, the United States has recognized this, and maintaining roads and bridges has been a core function of federal, state, and local governments. The federal government embraced a role in supporting transit in the 1970s, but this was cut back for the past 40 years and didn’t rebound until the pandemic.

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

HumanNature

A critical but difficult step in this process is for a government employee or independent valuator to determine the return on investment (ROI) to the public under various land use scenarios. 2006) is to associate different carbon storage potentials with different land-use types (Figure 2). A political view. Van Hecken, G. &