A Greener Life

AUGUST 18, 2023

We can’t rely on governments to fix the climate problem Coe, who was one of the key architects in bringing the Olympics to London in 2012 said: “I genuinely don’t think governments are going to meet any of the targets that are being identified.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

USA: Thousands protest Nestlé's request to bottle a MILLION gallons of water every day from Florida springs as water flow reaches historic low Stacy Liberatore | Daily Mail | November 11, 2019 Nestlé has come under fire for its plans to bottle more than a million gallons of water a day from natural springs in Florida.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

USA: Thousands protest Nestlé's request to bottle a MILLION gallons of water every day from Florida springs as water flow reaches historic low Stacy Liberatore | Daily Mail | November 11, 2019 Nestlé has come under fire for its plans to bottle more than a million gallons of water a day from natural springs in Florida.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Wages of Inequality: Wage Discrimination and Underpayment in Hybrid Seed Production in India by Davuluri Venkateswarlu and Jacob Kalle (Fair Labor Association and India Committee of the Netherlands, December 2012). The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019).

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OCTOBER 25, 2023

Wages of Inequality: Wage Discrimination and Underpayment in Hybrid Seed Production in India by Davuluri Venkateswarlu and Jacob Kalle (Fair Labor Association and India Committee of the Netherlands, December 2012). The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019).

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

It is also important to realise that politics and governments have a lot of control on the land they govern. In 2019 over two thirds of environmental activists murdered were from Latin America [5]. Martha Jr et al (2012) Land-saving approaches and beef production growth in Brazil, Vol. 2 pp 105-110. (2) 2) Geraldo B.

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Vermont Law

JULY 6, 2020

This leaves the disaster preparedness plans vulnerable to the politics of government. 991, 1007 (2012). [2]. The National Academies Press (2012), [link]. [3]. 67, 71 (2019). [5]. 925, 929, 926 (2019). [10]. The National Academies Press (2012), [link]. [15]. Congress determines the annual budget for FEMA. [10].

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 30, 2023

It can also be difficult to garner public and political support for building big stormwater projects during dry times. During normal rain events, green infrastructure projects such as parks and gardens can help capture and store more water. The value of the catchment system would be included in the value of the home when it is sold.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Private Empire: Exxon Mobil and American Power by Steve Coll (Penguin Press, 2012). Exxon agrees to $1 million fine over 2011 Yellowstone River oil spill Reuters | June 5, 2019 Exxon Mobil Corp has agreed to pay a $1 million civil penalty to settle U.S. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 11, 2021

At a conference in 2019 that honored Frank Wolak, I pres ented these slides to make these points clear. Here is 2012 video where I elaborate. What do we know about structural production functions of producing health and safety? How do these production functions of Beckerian goods change over time due to new information and new goods?

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Reuters | February 22, 2012 Units of French energy concern Total have agreed to pay $15 million to settle U.S. Major Shareholders Click here for the late st data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Private Empire: Exxon Mobil and American Power by Steve Coll (Penguin Press, 2012). Exxon agrees to $1 million fine over 2011 Yellowstone River oil spill Reuters | June 5, 2019 Exxon Mobil Corp has agreed to pay a $1 million civil penalty to settle U.S. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Reuters | February 22, 2012 Units of French energy concern Total have agreed to pay $15 million to settle U.S. Major Shareholders Click here for the late st data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Reuters | February 22, 2012 Units of French energy concern Total have agreed to pay $15 million to settle U.S. Major Shareholders Click here for the late st data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Reuters | February 22, 2012 Units of French energy concern Total have agreed to pay $15 million to settle U.S. Major Shareholders Click here for the late st data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Reuters | February 22, 2012 Units of French energy concern Total have agreed to pay $15 million to settle U.S. Major Shareholders Click here for the late st data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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OCTOBER 19, 2023

Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Reuters | February 22, 2012 Units of French energy concern Total have agreed to pay $15 million to settle U.S. Major Shareholders Click here for the late st data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Reuters | February 22, 2012 Units of French energy concern Total have agreed to pay $15 million to settle U.S. Major Shareholders Click here for the late st data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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Law Columbia

JULY 16, 2013

While keeping the overall number of EUAs unchanged, the plan postpones the 900 million allowances scheduled for auction in 2013-2015 until 2019-2020. The political rebirth of the back-loading regulation was attributed to leadership by the UK climate change minister, along with a group of ministers from other nations.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Even though INTERPOL's Constitution prohibits the use of Red Notices to target political opponents or to pursue groundless or improper claims, the procedures by which INTERPOL issues and reviews Red Notices—and the options for challenging them—have not always been clear. III/IRPD/GA/2011 (2019).]] 16, 2012).]]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2024

Subsequent federal transit funding bills generally followed the status quo, in which highways get a much greater share of funds than transit, and barely keeping pace with inflation and transit industry operational, managerial, and political factors that increase costs even higher.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 25, 2023

In Iowa, a Tale of Politics, Power, and Contaminated Water Lawmakers silence Chris Jones, a prominent University of Iowa water quality researcher. The political pressure came with a personal connection: Sen. Within days of the push from the lawmakers, university administrators shut down Jones’ blog and he resigned.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Unfortunately, the topic of climate change has been heavily politicized and used to draw yet another line in the sand between what are portrayed as ideologically divergent and mutually-exclusive political views. Biogeosciences 9 , 5125–5142 (2012). A political view. Science of The Total Environment 685 , 1181–1192 (2019).

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Kings County approved 1,238 new agricultural well permits between the start of the last drought in 2012 and 2021, according to county records. And the company maintains positions on just about every ag and water related board and commission in Kings, giving it considerable political heft. . Are they in the wrong for moving water?

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Frontiers

MARCH 8, 2022

In honor of the International Women’s Day 2022, we speak to Emeritus Professor Kath Woodward from the Open University, author of, Boxing, Masculinity and Identity: The “I” of the Tiger (2007); Sex Power and the Games (2012); Birth and Death; Politics, Experience, Ethics (2019) and Social Sciences: The Big Issues (4 th edition 2022).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

USA: Thousands protest Nestlé's request to bottle a MILLION gallons of water every day from Florida springs as water flow reaches historic low Stacy Liberatore | Daily Mail | November 11, 2019 Nestlé has come under fire for its plans to bottle more than a million gallons of water a day from natural springs in Florida.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2012, the company became infamous again when it unsuccessfully sued Ben-Jei Tsuang, a professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering in National Chun Hsing University, who published a paper linking high cancer rates in Mailiao, Taiwan, to toxic dioxin and heavy metals air pollution from the Six Naphtha Cracking plant.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

On October 1, 2019, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals denied fossil fuel companies’ motion for a stay pending their appeal of the district court order remanding Baltimore’s climate change lawsuit against the companies to state court. Pursuant to a consent order, the remand order will not be entered until October 10, 2019.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Between 2012 and 2017, four major companies — including Peabody energy, the world’s largest coal company, which produces 20 percent of the coal in Illinois — shed more than $5 billion owed for environmental cleanup, and health care for retired workers. . A Political Quagmire. Photo © Prairie Rivers Network.

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Physics World

MAY 8, 2021

(Left) These sample Imitation Game questions and answers were imagined by Alan Turing in his 1950 paper ‘ Computing machinery and intelligence ‘ (Centre) A real transcript from a conversation with the Eugene Goostman chatbot from a 2012 Turing Test competition. Courtesy: IOP Publishing).

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

The total number of negative price hours, whereby power plants had to pay people to take unneeded electricity, grew dramatically between 2019 and 2020, just as they did in California during the same period, and have grown since. Part of the problem in Texas was that wind and solar farms set the price for the rest of the system.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

million in tax in 2019 - a 3% increase from the previous year, despite pre-tax profits growing by more than 35%. The FTC’s complaint alleges that the company stopped its behavior only after becoming aware of the FTC’s investigation in 2019. The goal is to encourage and unify the resistance to Amazon that is now beginning to form.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 16, 2024

in 2019 to drop an investigation into bribe payments in Angola, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Spain, that the company admitted making. per employee, according to a 2019 analysis of 1,200 dialysis clinic acquisitions over a 12-year period. The company agreed to pay $231 million to the U.S. USA: Fresenius Agrees to Pay $5.2

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 16, 2024

in 2019 to drop an investigation into bribe payments in Angola, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Spain, that the company admitted making. per employee, according to a 2019 analysis of 1,200 dialysis clinic acquisitions over a 12-year period. The company agreed to pay $231 million to the U.S. USA: Fresenius Agrees to Pay $5.2

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 16, 2024

in 2019 to drop an investigation into bribe payments in Angola, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Spain, that the company admitted making. per employee, according to a 2019 analysis of 1,200 dialysis clinic acquisitions over a 12-year period. The company agreed to pay $231 million to the U.S. USA: Fresenius Agrees to Pay $5.2

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 16, 2024

in 2019 to drop an investigation into bribe payments in Angola, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Spain, that the company admitted making. per employee, according to a 2019 analysis of 1,200 dialysis clinic acquisitions over a 12-year period. The company agreed to pay $231 million to the U.S. USA: Fresenius Agrees to Pay $5.2

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 16, 2024

in 2019 to drop an investigation into bribe payments in Angola, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Spain, that the company admitted making. per employee, according to a 2019 analysis of 1,200 dialysis clinic acquisitions over a 12-year period. The company agreed to pay $231 million to the U.S. USA: Fresenius Agrees to Pay $5.2

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