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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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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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Candidate in the Department of Political Science and Trainee in the CSU InTERFEWS Program In 2014 the Whanganui River in New Zealand was granted legal personhood. As the rights of nature gains ground legally, socially, and politically, around the world and here in Colorado, it is important more fully understand its limits and opportunities.

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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. Barrow is an alumna of the University of Georgia with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Spanish. Prior to her career at the Commission, Barrow spent time working as a Law Clerk for the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board in Harrisburg.

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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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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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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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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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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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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 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

MARCH 8, 2024

Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Food You’re Eating by Jeffrey M. The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM). June 2007). Smith (Yes!

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

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

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

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 3, 2024

China: Melamine Scandal DW | September 22, 2008 As the milk scandal widens, Swiss food giant Nestle said it was "confident" that its products in China were safe. Mitr Phol, the world’s fourth-largest sugar producer, supplies global brands including Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Nestle and Mars. Who's to blame?

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

China: Melamine Scandal DW | September 22, 2008 As the milk scandal widens, Swiss food giant Nestle said it was "confident" that its products in China were safe. Mitr Phol, the world’s fourth-largest sugar producer, supplies global brands including Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Nestle and Mars. Who's to blame?

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

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 31, 2024

Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Food You’re Eating by Jeffrey M. The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM). June 2007). Smith (Yes!

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Food You’re Eating by Jeffrey M. The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM). June 2007). Smith (Yes!

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Michigan responded in 2008 by requiring farmers to register any new well capable of pumping at least 100,000 gallons a day and forming a team of state regulators to issue or deny new registrations. There’s a reason that farmers, notoriously resistant to government oversight, support the work of the Water Assessment Unit.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Food You’re Eating by Jeffrey M. The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM). June 2007). Smith (Yes!

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Food You’re Eating by Jeffrey M. The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM). June 2007). Smith (Yes!

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Vermont Law

MARCH 16, 2018

That could be changing, though, as modern-day climate activists like the Valve Turners vigorously protest industry and government inaction in the face of increasingly dire climate change threats. Courts have also generally been unsympathetic to the claim that defendants lack alternative and legal means to redress the wrong. Although no U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. Notwithstanding the assured political battles, one way to increase the price of carbon is through an economy wide carbon tax. As states begin to understand how to craft and implement successful policies, the federal government may take note.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. We need governments to regulate industry.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2023

Over the course of his 45-year career serving as a scientist for the US government, his research shaped the fields of minerology and geophysics and generated billions of dollars for industry. When he died in 2008, his Washington Post obituary read “A Rock Star of Geology.” Today, US-China relations are headed in a dangerous direction.

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Law Columbia

JULY 16, 2013

Since 2009, however, the carbon market has experienced a significant imbalance between the supply and demand of emission allowances, largely due to the economic and financial crisis sweeping the entire world, but also to early over-allocation of allowances by national governments. As a result, the EUA price hit bottom: a record low of 2.63

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

And aluminum prices are higher than at any time since the financial crisis of 2008. There are echoes here of the energy and economic crisis of the 1970s, a global shock that has reverberated in global politics and economics for much of the last half century. Zinc hit a fifteen-year high. In the U.S.,

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Acoel

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Percival Effective March 1, 2023, the Chinese government abruptly lifted travel restrictions imposed to combat the COVID pandemic. During my sabbatical in 2008 I lived in Beijing and taught for a semester at the China University of Political Science and Law. Posted on September 25, 2023 by Robert V.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2022

From 2008 to 2018, the industry reported taking 595,172,958 gallons from our Loyalsock, which in many places is no more than knee deep from shore to shore. The DEP employee was polite and respectful, thanked me for my incident report and told me, “I thought you deserved a phone call”. I received a call from DEP later that afternoon.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

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. , 83(1)(a)(ii).]] I/CONS/GA/1956 (2017). ]].

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Physics World

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Safety – and the politics surrounding it – remains the single biggest issue influencing the development of nuclear power around the world. Here in the UK, the government has already earmarked up to £215m for SMRs as part of a larger Advanced Nuclear Fund to invest in the next generation of nuclear. Powerful stuff.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 4, 2022

In the weeks and months after the storms, the Gulf state governments went to work dispersing federal disaster relief funds. These trailers became traveling billboards with brightly colored messages that highlighted the failures of FEMA and the government. However, the investments were not received in most Black communities. ©

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Bashford has previously served in senior roles for DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), and, earlier in her career, in staff positions for US Senator John Kerry (D-MA) and on the field operations team of the 2008 Obama-Biden campaign. Arnold & Porter Chairman Richard M.

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Legal Planet

MAY 26, 2022

The British government is firmly in the grip of the Conservative Party. The Climate Change Act of 2008 was amended in 2019 under a coalition government of the Conservatives and their North Irish allies. Rather than weakening the 2008 law, the amendment set a target of net-zero GHG emissions by 2050.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Together, these perspectives identify a number of existing issues that merit attention and, if heeded, might inform negotiations on the future of international environmental governance. . John Ruggie’s 2008 Framework imposes only a responsibility, not a legal duty, on companies to respect human rights. Sumudu Atapattu .

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

China: Melamine Scandal DW | September 22, 2008 As the milk scandal widens, Swiss food giant Nestle said it was "confident" that its products in China were safe. Mitr Phol, the world’s fourth-largest sugar producer, supplies global brands including Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Nestle and Mars. Who's to blame?

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