Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Also see SOMO's 2008 report. PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had failed to fulfill its non-discretionary obligation under Section 321(a) of the Clean Air Act to conduct evaluations of loss or shifts in employment that might result from implementation of the Clean Air Act. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Corporations are not formal legal actors under international law, and legal efforts to hold corporations liable for both human rights violations and environmental harm have had a long and contentious history. John Ruggie’s 2008 Framework imposes only a responsibility, not a legal duty, on companies to respect human rights.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Deeper into the 1960s, Richard Nixon signed the executive order creating the Environmental Protection Agency. Although their remit was (and remains) one of environmental health and public safety, a number of laws gave them the power to take action to ensure conservation of lands and secure their safety for the ecological environment.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Pennsylvania Climate Change Act of 2008 requires the state Department of Environmental Protection to provide the Legislature and governor every three years a report on current and projected climate change impacts, and a plan of actions to reduce carbon emissions. Related Articles - Climate: -- Gov.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 22, 2016

Whether the Paris agreement can avoid being another Kyoto Protocol depends on the technology and lifestyles that developing nations choose to adopt as they eventually earn more income and whether the American government steps up to be a leader in environmental protection. By Mark Latham.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2024

Another obvious point is the environmental side of these cases generally won until the Obama years. EPA lost all three of the biggest cases since 2008. Since Obama’s election in 2008, the two sides have more or less switched. Since Obama, EPA has used this authority to regulation carbon emissions from vehicles and power plants.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

In 2008, the RGGI states issued a Model Rule that participating states could use as guidance to establish and implement their individual programs. [24]. RGGI’s designers expected the initial program might be expanded in the future by covering other emission sources, sectors, GHGs, or states. [25]. Of that amount, $1.2 2017), [link]. [8].

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2018 rule in which EPA decided to expand the D.C. The plaintiffs alleged among other things that the defendants the two projects’ cumulative impacts on carbon emissions. The court rejected all claims, including the claim based on greenhouse gas emissions.

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

My name is Michael Shellenberger, and I am Founder and President of Environmental Progress, an independent and nonprofit research organization. [1] American farmers are world leaders in innovation, productivity, and environmental protection. 63] This difference in emissions comes down to diet and lifespan. December 2016.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Since 2008, RGGI states successfully cut power sector emissions in half, reduced electricity prices, and outpaced the nation in economic growth, all while creating $4 billion in net economic gains, and nearly 50,000 job years of employment. RGGI has more than a long history of economic success.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Vitali -- Morton Family Partners With French Valley Conservancy To Donate 340 Acres In Crawford County -- Farm Families Partner With Dept. Check Out C-SAW -- Trout Unlimited, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers New R.I.S.E Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4

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