Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2023

First, it seeks to structure more flexible implementation support for subnational governments and communities for policy implementation and actions. Subnational governments, and the communities they serve, know their needs, realities, and opportunities best. Why the GCF Task Force?

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Energy & the Law

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The Injection Well Act (Chapter 27 of the Texas Water Code) governs the permitting process for underground injection wells in Texas. April 2008: ALJ recommends that the permit be issued. December 2008: TCEQ remands the application for more modeling. September 16, 2005: RRC no-harm letter.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

True, t he world was different in many ways in 2008 when Obama took office, including the energy sector. The earliest government estimate of the social cost of carbon was for 2010: $21/ton with a 3% discount rate and $35 at a 2.5% We can also take a rough stab at monetizing the amount of resulting harm. discount rate.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The Cherry Valley National Wildlife Refuge was established in 2008 to preserve critical habitat for migratory birds and threatened and endangered species. In a bipartisan vote, Congress overwhelmingly approved the 22,000-acre Cherry Valley National Wildlife Refuge Act in 2008.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

They will be working alongside our faculty director (formerly faculty co-director) Ted Parson—an accomplished scholar of environmental governance—as well as me and my colleague Cara Horowitz, shaping the strategic direction of the Emmett Institute. Wang is a leading expert on environmental governance and the law and politics of China.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Photo courtesy of Kristina Rosinsky, 2008/Undugu Society of Kenya YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN Due to the strains of population growth and inaccessible sanitation systems, the Nairobi River and surrounding farmland are becoming more polluted. Water stress throughout Kenya has prompted government action.

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Energy & the Law

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

If you have ever wondered how many ways a cocktail of stupidity*, treachery and feckless government can inflict financial harm on the undeserving, including the citizens the feckless government leaders are supposed to serve, see City of Dallas v. Energy, LLC.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The price of urea also surpassed its previous recorded spike in 2008 by approximately 18 percent. Data reported by the World Bank show that prices for two key fertilizers spiked dramatically between April 2021 and April 2022: diammonium phosphate prices went up 75 percent and potash prices rose a staggering 178 percent.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 27, 2022

Persistent melt in 2008 lifted the snow cover from a low-lying area of Greenland’s ice sheet, revealing a rough terrain crossed by melt water streams. Government public interest initiatives, even with the best of intentions and resources, are being curtailed by mistrust. Photo © Thomas Neumann / NASA GSFC. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Rich Kruger began working at Exxon in 1981 and was Vice President from 2008-2013. MPs and government officials need to see through the oil and gas greenwashing and hold industry accountable. Let’s band together to tell our government that the oil and gas industry must stop polluting our climate and clean up their mess.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2024

She has been an effective advocate for environmental progress who never lost sight of her goal of protecting and improving the environment whether working in or out of government. Former DEP Secretary David Hess said-- “Joanne Denworth’s career paralleled my own in state government.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

Policies that had been put in place to protect species at risk have since been whittled down, most notably by the current provincial government, as a way to prioritize development. In 2019, the Ontario government announced that they would be making changes to the Endangered Species Act. Where do we go from here?

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Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A self-described career “unicorn,” Paul worked his way from the sales floor to becoming the furniture firm’s partner, and finally as a public service leader, despite having had no previous government experience. He was elected Kittitas County Commissioner in 2008, a role he held for a decade.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 29, 2024

The Satellite Database has subscribers from inside and outside governments from all over the globe. Since 2005, there have been destructive, space debris-producing anti-satellite weapons tests by China (2007), the United States (2008), India (2019), and Russia (2021).

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Legal Planet

APRIL 20, 2023

The regulatory decisions made by the Governments of Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile in the following months and years will set the course for the lithium industry, with significant consequences for the planet’s future. Therefore, even if the current Chilean Government wanted to take over lithium production, that won’t happen soon.

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The purpose of World Cleanup Day is to unite millions of volunteers, governments, and organizations in 197 countries and territories to tackle the global mismanaged waste crisis and help create a new, more sustainable work.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Take action by telling the government to hold the oil and gas sector accountable for its pollution by urgently implementing a cap on emissions. Pierce proudly boasts about “driving government policy at federal and state levels” for the benefit of oil and gas companies. Is that you? million gas cars.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 27, 2023

Digital Water Atlas The online water atlas shares data on statewide water use from 2008 to 2020. It also recommends actions tailored to each of six water planning regions across Pennsylvania: the Great Lakes basin and the Upper/Middle Susquehanna, Lower Susquehanna, Potomac, Ohio, and Delaware river basins. billion to 5.2

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Despite adding to Japan’s rich legacy in neutrino physics, in 2008 – before Kajita was awarded the Nobel prize – he made a bold decision to switch research fields. Kajita became director of ICRR in 2008 and played a major role in getting KAGRA funded and constructed. Switching fields.

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Montrose

MARCH 20, 2024

Montrose”) (NYSE: MEG) known for expertise in EHS and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategies and information management systems have today announced a new strategic partnership providing enhanced environmental, social, and governance (ESG) solutions for businesses operating in high-risk regulated industries across the globe.

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Physics World

JUNE 6, 2022

In 2008, Olexandr received his PhD in computational chemistry. He was postdoctoral research fellow at the Case Western Reserve University and a scientist at the government research lab. Olexandr Isayev is an assistant professor at the Department of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2024

In 2008, Congress directed EPA to develop a rule to “require mandatory reporting of GHG emissions above appropriate thresholds in all sectors of the economy.” However, more recently, this judicial view has transformed into “ concurrent jurisdiction ,” where the states and government work cooperatively to realize government purposes.

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

Germany has recently experienced fatal and apocalyptic climate- fuelled floods , after which the country’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, promised the government would do more to tackle climate change. Photo credit: CnndrBrbr via Wikimedia. By Anders Lorenzen. They could of course enter discussions to buy more clean energy from their neighbours.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 12, 2021

With just weeks to go before COP26 kicks off, all eyes are on the British hosts and the Conservative government and its leader Boris Johnson. And the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson , when Mayor of London (2008-2016) used his Telegraph column to air doubts about whether climate change was real. Photo credit: UN Photo / Cia Pak.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Year after year environmental groups, conservation districts, farmers, local governments oppose the cuts and outline the critical environmental infrastructure needs communities have. This, in spite of the fact the PA Supreme Court has specifically declared $1.3 Read more here. million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5 million; and DEP: $4.2

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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Actually, the term green hushing was coined anecdotally in academia in 2008 to allude to a contrasting concept to “greenwashing” in the tourism industry describing “green hushing as the deliberate managerial undercommunicating of corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts for fear of negative customer opinions and responses.”

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Legal Planet

MARCH 2, 2022

The task force was created in 2008 by California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and nine other governors from Brazil, Indonesia, and the U.S. The task force is a coalition of 38 states and provinces working to protect tropical forests, reduce emissions from deforestation, and promote rural development that maintains forests.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2023

From 2008 to 2013, Barrow served as Chief of Staff in the Office of Commissioner Wayne E. Gardner, where she provided legal advice regarding utility regulation, reviewed draft public utility legislation, and authored statements of policy for the Commissioner.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Manning Law

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

apologies by the government. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission ran from 2008 to 2015 and provided those directly or indirectly affected by the legacy of the Indian Residential Schools policy with an opportunity to share their stories and experiences. the establishment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

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Washington Nature

JUNE 8, 2021

by Pascale Chamberland, Masters of Public Administration Candidate 2021, University of Washington Evans School of Public Policy & Governance From a massive social media campaign to plant 20 million trees to businesses planting a tree for each product sold, people seem eager to fight climate change using natural climate solutions (NCS).

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CEQA Developments

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The Terminal is long-term leased by Chinese government-owned entities (“China Shipping”) from the City entities and handles about 17% of the Port’s total cargo. The Terminal’s operations are authorized by a permit issued to China Shipping by the City entities. Predictably, this led to CEQA litigation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 24, 2023

Voice for Farm Workers Act : Established in the 2008 farm bill, the farmworker coordinator position within the USDA serves as a dedicated liaison between the department and farmworkers. Historically this position has lacked sufficient staff and resources to adequately fulfill its duties.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The notion that nature has legal rights was not new—it had already been enshrined in the 2008 Ecuadorian and 2009 Bolivian Constitutions and has had impacts in other parts of the world (such as New Zealand and Colorado). The only way to protect the communities along the river was to grant rights of nature to the river itself.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The two industry-funded studies ( NERA 2008 and ACT Research 2022 ) claim much higher impact on sales than either the academic (RZW 2018) or government ( EPA 2021 ) studies. Four studies purporting to examine whether a pre-buy effect occurred on heavy-duty truck sales can’t agree on the magnitude or timing of any such effect.

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