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. Their inclusion appears to be the result of a political compromise with Member States rather than of scientific appraisal as in the case of nuclear energy.

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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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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 11, 2021

If economic growth accelerates, then GHG emissions will accelerate (given current technologies). My 2009 piece; " Urban Growth and Climate Change" fleshes this out. I discuss this point at length in chapter 1 of my 2021 Yale Press book and in the 2009 piece "Urban Growth and Climate Change" linked to above.

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Environmental Europe

JULY 1, 2020

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. West European Politics, doi: [link]. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature, 173–91.

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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). Forrestal (Simon & Schuster, 1977).

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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). Forrestal (Simon & Schuster, 1977).

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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). Forrestal (Simon & Schuster, 1977).

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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). Forrestal (Simon & Schuster, 1977).

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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). Forrestal (Simon & Schuster, 1977).

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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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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Major Shareholders Click here for the late st data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Issued on: 09/01/2024 - 17:26 2 min Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. French Oil Giant Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9 agreed to pay $2.9

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HumanNature

APRIL 12, 2021

For example, biophysical scientists and engineers get in touch when looking for social scientists to help them understand barriers and opportunities to the adoption of a particular sustainability practice or technology. Industry, community groups, advocates, and policymakers often have similar interests. Sociologia Ruralis 56(1):74–95.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 16, 2024

The obstacles to new technology and more effective investments need to be addressed. This insistence on power-sharing reflects the divided political opinions in government today, and may actually be the path forward. UCS began pushing for strong planning with new rules as early as 2009.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2024

While this administration does deserve credit for acting on asbestos after years of neglect, it is more accurate to describe the White House as politely showing the door to companies who use what is nicknamed “white asbestos.” The mine was closed in 1990, but its asbestos dust has so far been tied to 400 deaths and 2,400 cases of disease.

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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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Corp Watch

JANUARY 11, 2024

Founded in 2009, it uses phone location data to match drivers and customers. Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of Uber Technologies Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Walmart Major Procurement Contracts Uber contracts with the U.S. Subsidiaries Note: Not all sources provide complete lists.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Founded in 2009, it uses phone location data to match drivers and customers. Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of Uber Technologies Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Walmart Major Procurement Contracts Uber contracts with the U.S. Subsidiaries Note: Not all sources provide complete lists.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 12, 2021

It is one thing when a political leaders in a government make an ESG claim. In 2009 the King of Bhutan proclaimed his Himalayan country was ‘carbon negative’ because all of its power was hydroelectric or solar buttressed with large forested areas. Calculating net zero is ill defined, unregulated and complex.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

Hence many soil scientists had for years been calling for a third survey, particularly those who are representatives to China’s top legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC), or its top political advisory body, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPCCC). Forty years of change.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 18, 2024

Reaching the Paris agreement goals would require a quadrupling of mineral requirements for clean energy technologies by 2040,” he said. “To Rather than start with the ongoing rush for minerals, Turner began “a long time ago in a galaxy far far away… in 2009” when the U.S. The goal of Panel One was to explain the state of the race.

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Physics World

JUNE 19, 2021

Randolf Pohl was not in a good mood, late one evening in July 2009. Peter Mohr, a physicist from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology who chaired the group from 1999 to 2007 and is still a member, explains that it incorporates all “individually credible” results and then takes an average. “[It] Decisions, decisions.

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 12, 2022

In 2009, EPA made a finding that six greenhouse gasses endanger public health and welfare because of their contribution to climate change. EPA decision or EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding. EPA ) held that CO2 and other greenhouse gasses meet the definition of an air pollutant under the Clean Air Act. The West Virginia v.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Cop stands for conference of the parties under the UNFCCC, and the annual meetings have swung between fractious and soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama and the occasional triumph ( the Paris agreement in 2015 ) and disaster (Copenhagen in 2009). This is the 26th Cop – why has all this taken so long?

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

Rather, they resulted in low-wage service sector jobs, greater dependence on imported Chinese technologies, and higher energy costs. And over the last decade, the technology used in the vast majority of installed solar panels has only become 2-3 percent more efficient. The problem with renewables is physical. Today, the US uses just 0.5

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In 2009, the U.S. Michigan’s work to improve its oversight of CAFOs, including a proposal to update manure spreading practices with a new permitting system, has been impeded by politically influential agricultural groups led by the Michigan Farm Bureau and supported by conservative state lawmakers. . There are many others.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In 2009, the Financial Services Authority (FSA), the predecessor to the FCA and PRA, launched an investigation in connection with the failure of HBOS, which resulted in enforcement action being taken against the Bank of Scotland and the Chief Executive Officer of HBOS’s Corporate Division, Peter Cummings.

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Cresforum

APRIL 22, 2021

A pessimistic track record The only times we have managed to reach that level of emissions reductions were during the COVID-19 pandemic last year and during the Great Recession in 2009. Otherwise, the U.S. has never reduced emissions by that much in a single year. economy, if we only look at years where the U.S.

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Cresforum

APRIL 22, 2021

The only times we have managed to reach that level of emissions reductions were during the COVID-19 pandemic last year and during the Great Recession in 2009. We fear that driving an international agenda that is not based on facts, and without broader political endorsement beyond the administration, may do more harm than good as the U.S.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

John Bellinger previously served as the Legal Adviser to the State Department from 2005 to 2009. Ambassador Tom Shannon previously served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs during the same period and as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2016 to 2018. Herederos sued Teck Resources Ltd.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

In response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Massachusetts , EPA issued its “ Endangerment Finding ” in 2009, which concluded that “six greenhouse gases … taken in combination endanger both the public health and the public welfare of current and future generations.”

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

emissions in the RGGI region would have been approximately 24 percent higher in 2015 but for the program, which took effect in 2009. [5]. Clean and renewable energy makes up 16 percent of investments, and investments in these technologies are expected to return $785.8 One study estimates that CO. million in net economic benefits, [6].

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

The coal company’s petition presented the question of whether Section 111(d) “grants the EPA authority not only to impose standards based on technology and methods that can be applied at and achieved by that existing source, but also allows the agency to develop industry-wide systems like cap-and-trade regimes.” 15,2 2009).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

EPA US Supreme Court decision in 2007 and the EPA’s follow-on Endangerment Finding and Cause or Contribute Finding in 2009, which ultimately set the stage for the agency to not only have the authority—but also the obligation—to regulate power plant carbon emissions. But the calculus changes when it comes to compliance.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

Horizontal drilling with high intensity hydraulic fracturing was a new technology and a new method for [natural] gas extraction in many ways, but at the same time, it wasn't altogether new. So when this industry and its drilling took off in the late otss, you know, 2009, 2010, we were sort of in the right place at the right time.

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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.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 9, 2020

I was only coming slowly to pro-nuclear in 2009. First of all, like any new technology, it took a while for these guys to figure out how to properly run these plants. And you go interview political scientists, the whole field of international relations is built on this concept of deterrence. Michael: No. Michael: No.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

Raytheon Makes Nuclear War More Likely Massachusetts Peace Action PaulaR Mon, 06/12/2023 - 07:43 Monday, August 15, 2022 Read more Richard Krushnic & Kathleen Malley-Morrison Raytheon Technologies is even more horrifying than you thought. Local 1505 and representatives from the Second District office.

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