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What’s Been Killing U.S. Coal?

Legal Planet

It then tread water for a few years and began a steep decline in 2008, going from half of U.S. Coal began to really plunge in 2012, three years before Obama’s Clean Power Plan was issued. Since around 2008, natural gas use has been the mirror image of coal use. Politically, what has happened to coal jobs may be more salient.

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Profs. William Boyd and Alex Wang Join Prof. Ted Parson in Emmett Institute Faculty Leadership

Legal Planet

Wang is a leading expert on environmental governance and the law and politics of China. Parson, Dan and Rae Emmett Professor of Environmental Law, has served in the Emmett Institute’s faculty leadership since he joined UCLA Law in 2012. As many of you know, our long-serving faculty co-director Prof.

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Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. political and public support) for fossil fuels, but we can tell our elected officials not to fall for CAPP’s pro-oil propaganda and to instead prioritize climate action.

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Dave McKay: Mr. Money Bags

Enviromental Defense

While we aim to advance policy that works in the public interest, oil and gas executives, and their powerful allies, are using their political power to block climate action in order to personally profit from more oil and gas production. This is nothing new: these companies have been actively blocking climate policy for decades.

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A record-high number of Americans worried about the climate crisis

A Greener Life

However, the volatility of this dataset is illustrated by the 61% figure from 2008, which then underwent a three-year decline, dropping 12 percentage points to 49% by 2011. Only in 2012 did the data start to gradually recover. The political data The Gallup data show that this issue is as polarised as ever.

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Recent INTERPOL Reforms Provide Insight Into Strategies for Challenging Improper Red Notices

Arnold Porter

Even though INTERPOL's Constitution prohibits the use of Red Notices to target political opponents or to pursue groundless or improper claims, the procedures by which INTERPOL issues and reviews Red Notices—and the options for challenging them—have not always been clear. [[N: Id. , 16, 2012).]] 83(1)(a)(ii).]]

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EU Parliament Vote Renews Hope for Future of EU Emissions Trading Scheme

Law Columbia

euros a ton in April 2013, compared to its peak near 30 euros in July 2008. Recognizing the market imbalances, the Commission initially proposed to the European Parliament and Council an amendment to ETS Directive in July 2012 to clarify the scope of the Commission’s power on modifying the time of auctions of GHG allowances.

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