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California Air Resources Board Releases Draft Scoping Plan Update

Clean Energy Law

Originally, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated 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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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. Since assuming elected office in 2020, Rep.

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Solar Panels Are More Carbon-Intensive Than Experts Admit

Environmental Progress

The disruption happened in under a decade, with China’s global share of PV production surging from 14 percent in 2006 to 60 percent by 2013. Like Greta Thunberg, Mariutti comes to the tale as an environmental obsessive passionate about facilitating the world’s transition from fossil fuels to cleaner forms of energy.

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Nebraska Agrochemical Contamination Throws Families, Communities, Water Providers into Turmoil

Circle of Blue

Sydnee Owens, who contracted non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2006, died six year later at age 14. So does fossil fuel combustion. The annual operating cost, including electricity and cleaning the filters, is about $550,000. The town has two wells, one of which began exceeding the federal nitrate standard in 2020.

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

Corp Watch

France: Paris Is Covered In Fake Ads That Mock the Climate Talks' Corporate Sponsors George Dvorsky | Gizmodo | December 1, 2015 Brandalism says the 600 fake ads critique “the corporate takeover of the COP21 climate talks,” while exposing “the links between advertising, consumerism, fossil fuel dependency and climate change.”

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VW owners affected by "Dieselgate" in Switzerland will not receive compensation

Corp Watch

France: Paris Is Covered In Fake Ads That Mock the Climate Talks' Corporate Sponsors George Dvorsky | Gizmodo | December 1, 2015 Brandalism says the 600 fake ads critique “the corporate takeover of the COP21 climate talks,” while exposing “the links between advertising, consumerism, fossil fuel dependency and climate change.”

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Germany: Scandal at Volkswagen subsidiary MOIA: The company is refusing to sign a collective agreement, but gets millions in state subsidies

Corp Watch

France: Paris Is Covered In Fake Ads That Mock the Climate Talks' Corporate Sponsors George Dvorsky | Gizmodo | December 1, 2015 Brandalism says the 600 fake ads critique “the corporate takeover of the COP21 climate talks,” while exposing “the links between advertising, consumerism, fossil fuel dependency and climate change.”

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