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Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
California established first renewable portfolio standard (20% from renewables by 2010). 2018 SB100. Bush torpedoed climate action by the federal government early in his administration. To help you keep track, here is a timeline of California’s most important actions. 2002 SB1078. AB 1493 (Pavley Act). 2006 AB 32.
Legal Planet
APRIL 13, 2023
The new wave of litigation also arose from the urgency of combating the rise in deforestation under the right-wing-oriented President Jair Bolsonaro, who left the government in January 2023 for the return of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula). The decision was made in a lawsuit filed by four political parties (PSB et al.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Though manufacturers largely didn’t adopt the necessary emissions control technology to meet the NO X requirement until 2010, the 2007 standard did require new technologies to be deployed, at an increased upfront cost. Source: ERM 2022 ). At least four separate studies took a look at whether or not there was an observable pre-buy.
Circle of Blue
DECEMBER 7, 2021
A 2018 deal showed the tremendous speculative value of land/water deals in the Columbia River Basin. That’s when Gates’ 100C paid $171 million for 14,500 acres of land (10,500 acres of it irrigated farmland) from the Boston-based John Hancock Life Insurance Company, which had paid $75 million for the parcel in 2010.
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. 2010 – 2013 Shell Oil Company Inc.: Pierce proudly boasts about “driving government policy at federal and state levels” for the benefit of oil and gas companies. Is that you?
Circle of Blue
APRIL 14, 2022
A bare-chested old man lies in the emergency room of a government hospital in northeast Nigeria. At least 3,641 lives were lost to the crisis between 2016 and 2018, according to Amnesty International , with over half of the fatalities recorded in 2018 alone. We want the government to help us. Photo by Murtala Abdullahi.
Physics World
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
Of course, climate politics is never as straightforward as it appears. Political targets. The models underpinning these figures often contain purely political targets for coal use and they assume India will follow the exact same development pathway as China. Right now coal, oil and natural gas account for 75% of energy use.
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