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

JULY 21, 2023

Last month’s report on solar geoengineering research from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) consolidated a shift in the discourse on this controversial technology. But to security experts, and students of political science, geoengineering appears as a hybrid, dual-use security technology.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Among these relevant “governance attributes” is Part 11 compliance, as applicable, including maintaining “access controls and audit trails to demonstrate the provenance of the registry data and to support traceability of the data. 2009) (2009 Guidance). ”[[N:Id.

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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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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 6, 2022

But this position fails to take into account the many storage technologies for wind and solar that allow energy to be stored and used during peak demand. . And between 2009 and 2016, Ontario built over 2000 MW of solar power and about 3000 MW of wind power. Tell the Ontario government to stop expanding dirty gas!

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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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Breezometer

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

A former banker, Simon Birkett left the financial world in 2009 and pursued a new calling - tirelessly campaigning for clean air in London. As Founder and Director of Clean Air in London, Simon pressured city and federal governments for nearly a decade and managed to get the U.K. Simon Birkett - Clean Air in London.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Yet the Cambodian government revived the project in 2007, and in 2012 the dam became a joint venture between Cambodia’s Royal Group and China’s state-owned Huaneng Group, which remains the majority stakeholder. But like most Cambodians, he is reluctant to criticize his government and its policies. “I

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Acoel

MARCH 9, 2023

One of the earliest attempts to regulate this area was The Weather Modification Policy Act (the “Act”), which was enacted in 1976 to address the interstate nature and broad environmental effects of weather modification technology. 490, 90 Stat. Attention on weather modification seems ripe for greater reflection.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 23, 2021

Last spring, we released a report – Paying Polluters: Federal Financial Support to Oil and Gas in 2020 – that revealed the federal government announced a minimum of nearly $18 billion to the oil and gas sector in 2020. Companies put their own remediation programs on hold while they waited for the government to pay to clean up their mess.

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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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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2022

The Draft Plan analyzes four alternative scenarios to accomplish all of this and provides detailed analysis identifying trade-offs for each scenario, balancing factors including benefits, costs, minimizing leakage, and technological feasibility. What is a Scoping Plan?

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Frontiers

MARCH 24, 2023

Through high school and college, I continued to spend my summers farming and eventually started my own mixed-vegetable operation, which I ran between 2009 and 2019. Is it too late or do we still have room to tackle these issues based on implementation of advanced research, technology, policies, etc.? “At The work was very rewarding.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

Between 2009 and 2016, Ontario built over 2000 MW of solar power and about 3000 MW of wind power. A facility in Minto, Ontario will soon be using solar panels and flywheel technology to supply peak power. This is completely doable. We could do it again, and even faster this time since we have the experience now. The Path Forward .

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Environmental Europe

JULY 1, 2020

The EU is facing a key challenge in climate and energy governance. Deploying renewable energy technologies is a key way to reduce emissions, but the EU’s own Environment Agency warned in late 2019 that current policy efforts are insufficient to reach the 2030 and the 2050 (net zero) emissions targets. Knodt, Michèle (2019).

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2023

I saw the importance of government help for recovery, and for alerts and warnings for natural disasters, and we didn’t really have any of that then.” It was a pretty impactful event for me, a lot of people were displaced for a long time, and it caused billions of dollars in damage,” she says. “I

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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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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. Issued on: 09/01/2024 - 17:26 2 min Corporation TotalEnergies S.E.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 22, 2022

The government has identified seven sites across the country to install solar farms, at a cost of around 21.6 The government plans to complete the country’s first large solar plant , the 17 MW project in Sephu, Wangduephodrang, within 18 months from when it starts construction later this year. Solar energy has become competitive.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The US Energy Information Administration is forecasting the wholesale price of gas to reach its highest level since the winter of 2009-2010 in inflation-adjusted terms. However, make no mistake: Technological advancement did not create the production boom by itself.

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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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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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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 25, 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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Environmental Europe

JANUARY 26, 2017

From the abrupt halt to support to photovoltaics in Spain in 2009 to issues with the territorial planning of incentivised wind power in France and Germany (or near Donald Trump’s golf course …) renewable energy policy can prove hard to manage, even (or especially?) data: SOeS ). speculative ones. speculative ones.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MAY 19, 2023

Grazing advocates and educators have been eagerly awaiting the announcement of these awards , the first time GLCI funding has touched down on the landscape since 2009, elevating a long-overlooked conservation program. The National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) , an NSAC member organization, is an award recipient.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

We believe we must take a science-based approach and prioritize policies and technologies that enable us to liberate nature and elevate humanity. The Regulation requires the use of “best” technologies and standards for existing and future nuclear energy applications as opposed to accepted and appropriate technologies and standards.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Still, given the potential for even more serious damage in the future, government at all levels is taking action to address the issue. Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimates the response cost to EAB infestation from 2009 to 2019 at . VGP), the Coast Guard, and state and local governments. It likely arrived in the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 16, 2024

The obstacles to new technology and more effective investments need to be addressed. How we do this, and how well it happens, depends on planning and collaboration across local, state and federal government. At the state level, governments need to do more to facilitate new transmission lines.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 18, 2009

Hinnigan On June 10, 2009, the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC) reaffirmed its strong stance that the states remain best positioned to regulate the use of hydraulic fracturing for the production of oil and natural gas.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Yet an April 2016 internal memo reveals that the company has a less climate-friendly purpose for this technology, which was at the time (and still is) unproven at scale. Similarly, a draft presentation of the company’s 2018 Outlook for Energy admitted that algae fuel technology is “[s]till decades away from the scale we need.”.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

Only portions of the legislation apply directly to units of local government, but taken as a whole it can be expected to help U.S. Still, how does a local government tap in? There are six broad ways local governments will need to navigate the IRA. . There are six broad ways local governments will need to navigate the IRA. .

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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.

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Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

Specific technological solutions are therefore needed to reduce these process emissions. While natural carbon sinks such as trees and oceans will account for a large proportion of the required carbon removals, additional technological solutions will also be needed.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 26, 2023

In the 1960s, when the threshold was introduced, the federal government determined that families spent about one-third of their household income on food, and if this was not enough for a specific household to purchase a government-determined meal plan each month, that household would be considered poor.

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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.” The council began pining for a 15-year phase-out period for asbestos.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 21, 2023

Environmental Defence is calling on the Minister to fulfill the government’s promise and use this budget to finally eliminate fossil fuel subsidies. Yet, the federal government extended even greater financial support in 2022 than the previous two years, which totalled $8.6 billion and $18 billion respectively.

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