article thumbnail

Germany’s Role in Climate Policy

Legal Planet

Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. My foray into Germany climate policy left me with unanswered questions: What was the politics behind Germany’s history of climate action? Renewable Energy Act sets fixed feed-in tariffs and gives renewables priority on the grid. Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable.

article thumbnail

The Stream, November 17, 2021: Meet The Activist Saving a Polluted Chinese Lake

Circle of Blue

HotSpots H2O: In Afghanistan, Political Upheaval Aggravates Drought-Fueled Famine – Drought, a financial crisis, and political collapse are accelerating the country’s decline into all-out famine. million gallons of water during 2020, only one million less than during 2019, when tourism peaked on the island. 369 LAKES .

2021 130
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Bad Guys in Energy 2022

Energy & the Law

And political malpractice is a new category. Lots of cash was flown by private jets to Cameroon and South Sudan from 2011 through 2016. With it being Lent and all, we ask, are this year’s Ferrymen of the River Styx using these 40 days to turn from wickedness and find their way to repentence?

2022 130
article thumbnail

California’s Most Important Climate Bill You Haven’t Heard Of

Legal Planet

AB 2097 (Friedman) builds on work dating back to 2011 (I blogged about then-Assm. It’s finally ending local mandates that all new housing and infill projects must include car storage, even if they’re located within half-mile of transit.

2011 167
article thumbnail

'Badly Broken' Bayer postpones split to improve performance

Corp Watch

The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Manufacturing Business Technology | March 14, 2019 French activists have spray-painted the Paris headquarters of Bayer AG and plastered it with signs to protest its production of environment-damaging pesticides.

article thumbnail

Roundup lawsuit: Bayer ordered to pay Pa. man $2.25B after jury finds weed killer caused cancer

Corp Watch

The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Manufacturing Business Technology | March 14, 2019 French activists have spray-painted the Paris headquarters of Bayer AG and plastered it with signs to protest its production of environment-damaging pesticides.

article thumbnail

Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill

Corp Watch

Mediterranean Reefs Will Be Destroyed Upon Repsol's Prospecting Published by Oceana | July 21, 2011 Information provided by Repsol Investigaciones Petrolíferas, S. Campaigning against oil exploration near the Canary islands. Major Procurement Contracts Raytheon contracts with the U.S.

2014 52