Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

When PG&E proceeded with a 2-million-customer public safety power shutoff event in 2019, Robert Mardis Sr. In 2022, my UCS colleague Mark Specht authored a blog post analyzing public safety power shutoff events in California, finding that utilities have reduced the overall scope of these events since PG&E’s large 2019 power shutoff.

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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). June 2007). Smith (Yes! Books, 2003).

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 20, 2023

Between 2000 and 2019, Indonesia lost more forest to mining than any other tropical country, with coal extraction the main driver, the first ever biome-wide assessment has found. He argues that the government should stop issuing mining licences in protected forests or conservation areas. “It Photo credit: Afriadi Hikmal / Alamy.

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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). June 2007). Smith (Yes! Books, 2003).

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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). June 2007). Smith (Yes! Books, 2003).

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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. Mediterranean Reefs Will Be Destroyed Upon Repsol's Prospecting Published by Oceana | July 21, 2011 Information provided by Repsol Investigaciones Petrolíferas, S.

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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). June 2007). Smith (Yes! Books, 2003).

Biotechnology 52

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Acoel

OCTOBER 11, 2021

EPA’s current policy on tribal consultation is set forth in the May 4, 2011 “EPA Policy on Consultation and Coordination with Indian Tribes.” Administrator Regan’s pledge to improve the consultation process suggests substantive changes to EPA’s 2011 Consultation Policy may be in the works.

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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). June 2007). Smith (Yes! Books, 2003).

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The government had abruptly stopped subsidies, dramatically increasing the price for consumers. The government resigned on 5 January, and the situation continues to develop. Workers at the Tengiz oil field in western Kazakhstan have brawled and gone on strike numerous times, most recently in the summer of 2019.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

Count of extreme events in Yolo and Sacramento counties from Sept 2011 to July 2019. Local, regional, and state governments, water managers and decisionmakers all need to concern themselves with how and whether residents perceive climate risks. Like most older millennials, climate change has shaped my time on planet Earth.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Steffy (McGraw-Hill, 2011). Most Recent Annual Revenue $282.616 billion (2019) Most Recent Annual Revenue Link Source Most Recent Net Income $4.025 billion (2019) Most Recent Net Income Link Source Stock Exchange Tickers LSE: BP, FWB: BPE, NSYE: BP Major Shareholders Click here for the latest list.

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Law Columbia

MAY 31, 2024

The case was filed by 45 residents in Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture in 2019. Background Immediately after the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011, all nuclear power plants in Japan were shut down. Tokyo High Court On February 22, 2024, the Tokyo High Court ruled against an appeal in the Yokosuka climate case.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 28, 2022

They Deserve Our Thanks, Our Support! -- Be Inspired By Hundreds Of Environmental Stewardship Leaders From 2019! Since June 2004, PA Environment Digest has printed or linked to over 6,290 articles about environmental stewards from all walks of life and all ages. 197 Stories)! -- Be Inspired!

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Other Key Sources Business and Human Rights Resource Centre's profile on ExxonMobil - UK-based Business and Human Rights Resource Centre is an NGO that employs researchers on five continents who work with activists, companies and governments alike to advance human rights in business by eradicating abuse.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Other Key Sources Business and Human Rights Resource Centre's profile on ExxonMobil - UK-based Business and Human Rights Resource Centre is an NGO that employs researchers on five continents who work with activists, companies and governments alike to advance human rights in business by eradicating abuse.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2022

In 2008, the year before I turned 30, the UK government introduced the world’s first legally binding climate change legislation the Climate Change Act. Just months after my 32nd birthday in 2011, the world’s population reached 7 billion people. In 1990 the IPCC completed their First Assessment Report climate report.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Apart from Korea’s values embedded in their religion and culture, the Korean government has instilled in their people the act of tree planting as an “act of patriotism” (Rivera, 2011). Sadly, one can only mourn the reported demise of millions of seedlings (and the millions of dollars lost!) Science , 368 (6491), 580–581.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Year after year environmental groups, conservation districts, farmers, local governments oppose the cuts and outline the critical environmental infrastructure needs communities have. million cut continued from the FY 2010-11 DEP and DCNR General Fund budget in FY 2011-12 budget; -- $8.3 Read more here. million from DEP, $1.5

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Montrose

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The two firms have an established working relationship dating back to 2017, and have executed numerous projects together for the federal government and clients in the private sector. The certification enables the approved JV to bid on federal government contracts that are set aside for small, disadvantaged businesses. Navy, the U.S.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 22, 2021

Over the last decade, courts, legislatures and various bodies of government in countries around the world have sought and won ecosystem protection through nature rights. In 2019, the city of Toledo, Ohio adopted the Lake Erie Bill of Rights, a municipal law that gave the lake rights of its own. Province of Entre Ríos, et al.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 31, 2022

Just two months before COP26, the government released Vietnam’s eighth power development plan (PDP8) which covered 2021–2030 and relied heavily on foreign investment in non-renewable energy. After its COP26 announcements, the government asked the Ministry of Industry and Trade to revise the PDP8, though an updated draft is yet to be released.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

Except in this case, it appears she helped tie the department’s hands: According to the Daily Montanan , Nowakowski herself drafted the original 2011 MEPA limitation for a state senator. Their attorneys argue that the court could bring “immediate redress” for their psychological injuries.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Something that advocates have been pushing for years is, how do we make government more inclusive? Around 2011, a salesperson for water filters tested his tap water and informed him it was contaminated. “We In the meantime, she and Hauptman have urged the federal government to adopt the same 1,2,3-TCP regulations as California.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 2, 2022

acre feet per acre (2011-12) to zero acre feet per acre (2015-16). After that tentative ruling was issued, but prior to the merits hearing, the City submitted a declaration as to water diversions to the leased properties in 2019 (6.6 From 2009 to 2018, City’s water deliveries under the leases varied from 5.4 Statute of Limitations.

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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

On September 13, 2011, I began the endeavor of writing Miller Starr Regalia’s CEQA Developments blog. 4th 439, clarified the rules governing CEQA’s “environmental baseline,” the analytical construct intended to represent the existing physical conditions in the project’s vicinity against which a project’s environmental impacts are measured.

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Physics World

MAY 4, 2021

In 2011, during her undergraduate degree at Georgia Institute of Technology, Ghanaian-US computer scientist Joy Buolamwini discovered that getting a robot to play a simple game of peek-a-boo with her was impossible – the machine was incapable of seeing her dark-skinned face. Courtesy: National Archives at College Park).

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Information unearthed by Environmental Progress points to a gaping oversight in how the figures influencing government net zero policy and investments in solar worldwide are compiled and collated due to the difficulty of collecting accurate information out of China, especially for the purification processes used to create silicon wafers.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

25, 2019).]] In fact, the global resolution marks the second US government enforcement action in recent months to highlight the importance of implementing access controls with respect to sanctioned countries. Settles Potential Civil Liability for Apparent Violations of the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Sanctions Regulations (Nov.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 4, 2021

In 2011, Dr. Mohammed Islam, a tenured professor of electrical and computer engineering at UM received an additional appointment to UM’s medical school, for which he executed an employment agreement. Apple Inc. , 2:18-cv-00134, ECF No. Omni Medsci v. at 18-20.]]. Background.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

The Borello Family was very familiar with this sound because from 2012, when the facility was first built, through mid-2019 the Pigging Station was doing deliberate blowdowns-- releases of natural gas, liquids and hazardous air pollutants-- three times a day, seven days a week. Yes, three times a day, seven days a week for nearly a decade.]

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CEQA Developments

JANUARY 2, 2023

In a published opinion filed December 6, 2022, the Third District Court of Appeal reversed in part and affirmed in part the trial court’s judgment denying writ petitions in consolidated actions challenging the EIR for a major state government project affecting the Historic State Capitol Building and Annex in Sacramento. Save Our Capitol!

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 17, 2021

Formed in 2011, the OWB was established one year after the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) amended the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act) by, among other things, adopting Section 21F. 85412 (March 26, 2019).]]. Background.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In 2019, New York State enacted a landmark climate law called the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA). However, at the time the CLCPA was enacted, the process for siting major renewable energy facilities, then governed by Article 10 of the Public Service Law, was too slow for the state to meet its goals. Background.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

To rapidly reduce methane emissions, governments (at the local, state, and national level) will need to develop legal, regulatory, and incentive policies that require implementation of available cost-effective methods and support development of new strategies. Searchinger, 2019 , Islam and Lee, 2019 , Adhya et al.,

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HumanNature

JANUARY 23, 2023

14 18–24 Preprint at [link] (2011). Conservation Biology 25 , 9–20 (2011). PLoS One 14 , (2019). WILDLIFE CONSERVATION EDUCATION AND INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMES Wildlife Conservation Education Programmes : It is Conservation Education and Outreach Techniques : 21 , 305–316 (2011). 21–44 (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 29, 2021

Chicago‘s Stormwater Management Ordinance, or SMO, governs new development and redevelopment in the city and regulates how rainfall is captured, stored, or released at each site. Incentivizing Development. Because of city policy, local drainage systems in Chicago are deeply intertwined with private sector development. A “Smart” City Approach.

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