A Greener Life

JANUARY 5, 2024

Denmarks incoming king Crown Prince Frederik attending the Nordic Climate Solutions in 2009. Impressive CV The 55-year-old crown prince already has an impressive CV, having gained an MSc degree in political science from the University of Aarhus, with the concluding year spent at Harvard University. dk via Wikimedia.

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Energy and Climate Law

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For France, the “Affaire du Siècle” case was filed in the Administrative Court of Paris in May 2019 by four NGOs against the government for its failure to act on climate change. As a result, the Conseil d’Etat requested the government to justify how the reduction path to 2030 can be respected without stricter measures.

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Environmental Europe

JANUARY 26, 2017

As one previous post on this blog detailed, the current political turmoil in Northern Ireland was sparked by a subsidy for renewable energy production. Though it is tempting to blame political carelessness, the ongoing RHI scandal prompts a broader reflection about renewable energy policy instruments. data: SOeS ). speculative ones.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

Perhaps most importantly, the federal government has invested billions of dollars in clean energy. 2009 EPA formally finds that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health and welfare. We need the active support of the federal government. Here’s a timeline of some of the major events: 1992 President George H.W.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2024

In a bit of rhetorical ecstasy, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan proclaimed that the federal government “is finally slamming the door on a chemical so dangerous that it has been banned in over 50 countries.”

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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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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Both possibilities – that there might be proposals to use it, and that doing so might be on balance beneficial – imply a need to learn more, by doing research and discussing governance needs and possibilities. Considered together, as they must be, these represent real progress.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 27, 2023

And if you want to challenge the power that Brad Corson has you can help us hold Imperial Oil accountable for its recent toxic tailings disaster by clicking here to send a letter to the federal government and government of Alberta. hour leak of hydrogen sulphide gas ( more here ) 2009 — Norman Wells, N.W.T.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The GST will set out the most important commitments and pledges made by governments during the negotiations, therefore sending an important political signal. Environmental Defence urges the Government of Canada to push for more ambitious action in the final text, expected to come out on December 12th. “The

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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. In 2009 the U.S. Posted on September 25, 2023 by Robert V.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

The company sued the government of Argentina in 2012 for $10 billion after the country nationalized YPF with the backing of 80 percent of legislators of parliament. Federal Government (via USA SPENDING). Federal Government (via SAM). The case was settled in 2014 after Argentina paid Repsol $5 billion. s refinery in Norco, La.

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Legal Planet

JULY 13, 2021

By 2009, environmental challenges–especially climate change–were severe enough that humans have obligations to understand how technologies can help overcome them and to use these technologies, as appropriate. Some of these appear both feasible and necessary to achieve important sustainability and human welfare objectives.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The G20 group of nations provided nearly US$200 billion in support of fossil fuels in 2021, despite the worsening impacts of the climate crisis and their pledge in 2009 to phase out “inefficient” subsidies. She cautioned that the figures were likely an underestimate since they are based on self-reporting by G20 governments to the OECD.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 18, 2024

As a member of the cabinet, the secretary leads the Governor’s Office of Tribal Affairs and oversees government-government consultation with California’s tribes. and governments across the globe, pursue critical minerals without repeating the exploitative, violent practices wrought by previous extractive industries?

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Legal Planet

JULY 21, 2023

A more conventional ‘risk-benefit’ analysis of geoengineering – such as that by the Royal Society back in 2009 – already attends to climate risks, insofar as they are affected by geoengineering. But to security experts, and students of political science, geoengineering appears as a hybrid, dual-use security technology.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 17, 2024

The GCF Task Force is a network of 43 subnational governments – states, provinces, regions, and departments from 11 countries covering a third of the world’s tropical forests. All these events make evident the continuous effort to steer financial resources to the Global South.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

To maintain leverage on Capitol Hill, Koch Industries ’ political action committee (PAC), affiliates and employees also contribute significantly more to federal candidates, party committees, outside groups, leadership PACs and 527 groups than their counterparts at BP America , Chevron , ExxonMobil or Shell. Ted Cruz , Florida Gov. Rick Scott.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In 2020, farmers and livestock operations used 187 billion gallons of water, double the amount in 2009. They irrigate 570,000 acres, or roughly 100,000 acres more than in 2009, according to state figures. In 2020, farmers and livestock operations used 187 billion gallons of water, double the amount in 2009. We’re still there.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 10, 2022

And maybe the stars won’t actually come in alignment again for major legislation in the next eight years — after all, we’ve gone thirteen years since the last time we got close to passing anything, in 2009. The first is the effect of continued inaction by the federal government on international negotiations.

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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? 2010 – 2013 Shell Oil Company Inc.: million gas cars.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 3, 2021

One was to observe nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll as one of the two representatives from the Chinese Nationalist government. Zhao could have stayed in the US or followed the Nationalist government to Taiwan, but his allegiance lay with the land of his birth and its people. Great power rivalry. But loyalty to one’s own has its limits.

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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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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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Environmental Europe

JULY 1, 2020

The EU is facing a key challenge in climate and energy governance. In a new open access paper , recently published in the journal West European Politics , we argue that the EU’s challenge has emerged from legislative change and the way in which the Member States contribute to achieving the EU’s overall renewable energy targets.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 6, 2020

The short version: A three year, multi-million dollar study has confirmed the science and policy underlying the 2009 Jordan Lake water quality rules. In 2009, the EMC adopted rules to implement the final nutrient management strategy. Later in 2009, the legislature adopted the first of.a Background. UNC Findings.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 10, 2022

The editors of Scientific American called for “a lasting stop to the political obstruction” against federally funded gun violence research, adding, “We need to become the kind of country that says the lives of children are more valuable than the right to weapons that have killed them.”. Back then, scientists were crushed by craven politics.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Failure to Yield: Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists, March 2009). Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops on Pesticide Use in the United States: The First Thirteen Years (The Organic Center, November 2009). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 19, 2023

Uber founded in 2009; Lyft in 2012), public micromobility systems such as scooters and bikeshares, electrification, shared automated vehicles : all came with the promise of “ faster, smarter, greener ” cities that would be “ connected, heterogenous, intelligent and personalized.” New ride hailing services (e.g.,

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Just as with climate change, local, state, provincial, and national governments in Canada and the United States have collaborated with science agencies, universities, and non-profit groups to develop effective responses, especially for Lake Erie. In 2009, the U.S. What have all the spending and committee meetings wrought?

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Vermont Law

JULY 6, 2020

The PKEMRA allowsFEMA to provide assistance to local governments before the state governors request aid. [8]. Under this scheme, the federal government’s relief in the event of a disaster is discretionary. [9]. This leaves the disaster preparedness plans vulnerable to the politics of government. Mitchell Hamline L.J.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 31, 2024

Failure to Yield: Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists, March 2009). Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops on Pesticide Use in the United States: The First Thirteen Years (The Organic Center, November 2009). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Failure to Yield: Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists, March 2009). Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops on Pesticide Use in the United States: The First Thirteen Years (The Organic Center, November 2009). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM).

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Biotechnology 2019 2007 2013 52

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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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of BP (British Petroleum) Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Repsol SA Royal Dutch Shell Total SA Federal Contractor Misconduct Database Project On Government Oversight's list of U.S. Federal Government (via USA SPENDING). Photo Gallery Image BP Protester photo R.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Failure to Yield: Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists, March 2009). Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops on Pesticide Use in the United States: The First Thirteen Years (The Organic Center, November 2009). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM).

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Biotechnology 2019 2007 2013 52

Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

for hiding information about acceleration problems from buyers and government officials, as well as $1 billion in compensation to car owners, after as many as 37 people were reported killed in runaway vehicles. Federal Government (via USA Spending) Toyota contracts with the U.S. It paid out a fine of $1.2 billion in 2014 to the U.S.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

For almost three decades, world governments have met nearly every year to forge a global response to the climate emergency. There are also question marks over the commitment of the new Japanese government. Poor countries were promised at the Copenhagen Cop in 2009 that they would receive $100bn a year by 2020. What is COP26?

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