Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 13, 2023

The Australian government has issued draft Environmental and Sustainability Guidance describing the obligations under Australian consumer law which businesses must comply with when making environmental and sustainability claims.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2024

Just last year, in 2023, 64 projects requesting $26 million applied for the program. Signed into law in 2016, the DRBCA has successfully brought federal, state, and local governments together with regional partners to identify, prioritize, and implement restoration activities within the Delaware River Basin.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Worse, this hastily scheduled virtual meeting conflicted with one of only two in-person opportunities for Beaver County residents to discuss how to spend the money extracted from Shell following their 13 air quality violations in 2022 and 2023. This public outreach was a long time coming. Our hopes have been built up for years.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JANUARY 12, 2024

In the coming years, Philadelphia gardeners may try out some new plants and retire old favorites after an updated government map was released this fall. Released in 2012, the previous version split Philadelphia in two. A map comparison of zones changes between 2012 and 2023.

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Acoel

MARCH 28, 2023

Posted on March 28, 2023 by Jeff Porter Inside EPA is reporting that the United States Forest Service is going to work with EPA to obtain National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit coverage under the Federal Clean Water Act authorizing it to continue fighting forest fires from the air.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Will your story be included in 2023? 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. 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.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Nestlé, Mars among chocolate makers criticised in cocoa-sourcing report Just Food PaulaR Wed, 01/03/2024 - 15:20 Monday, December 4, 2023 Read more Simon Harvey Ferrero, Mondelez and Lindt also labelled as “inadequate” in Ethical Consumer’s assessment. Pakistan: Poisoning The Well? Who's to blame?

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Nestlé Accused Of Exploiting Water Supplies For Bottled Brands Worldcrunch | January 19, 2012 In the small Pakistani community of Bhati Dilwan, a former village councilor says children are being sickened by filthy water. Pakistan: Poisoning The Well? Who's to blame?

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2023

Since 2012, this administration has focused on addressing our carbon footprint and impact on our climate by assuring that we think about sustainable measures in each and every action we’ve taken as a county,” said County Executive Rich Fitzgerald. Posted: January 11, 2023] PA Environment Digest million residents across the state.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 8, 2023

The Maryland Department of Labor is expected to publish the Notice of Proposed Action on January 13, 2023. Since then, there have been 5 editions of the IgCC, and the last adopted for use in Maryland was the 2012 version. 1) ON OR BEFORE JANUARY 1, 2023, adopt by regulation the 2018 International Green Construction Code ; AND . (2)

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Issued on: 02/10/2023 - 14:20Modified: 02/10/2023 - 14:19 Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. In the U.S.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Issued on: 17/11/2023 - 12:13 Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2023

I saw the importance of government help for recovery, and for alerts and warnings for natural disasters, and we didn’t really have any of that then.” NewsClip: -- Wilkes-Barre Times: Luzerne County Native Kate Moran Honored For Ocean Science And Planet Sustainability Leadership By Canada [Posted: July 25, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Climate of fear: TotalEnergies implicated in repression of land and environmental defenders in East Africa Global Witness PaulaR Thu, 12/14/2023 - 13:39 Monday, December 4, 2023 Read more Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. In the U.S.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

billion in latest US trial loss over Roundup weedkiller Reuters PaulaR Mon, 11/27/2023 - 13:42 Monday, November 20, 2023 Read more Tom Hals Nov 19 (Reuters) - A Missouri jury ordered Bayer (BAYGn.DE) to pay $1.56 Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM). Bayer ordered to pay $1.56 June 2007). Smith (Yes!

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 25, 2023

million in Roundup cancer trial, jury finds Reuters PaulaR Wed, 10/25/2023 - 18:06 Friday, October 20, 2023 Read more Brendan Pierson Oct 20 (Reuters) - Bayer AG must pay $1.25 Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Food You’re Eating by Jeffrey M. June 2007).

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. In the U.S.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The Maryland Department of the Environment has already begun drafting regulations and proposed regulations will first be circulated for public comment in winter 2023 with final regulations adopted in summer 2023. The law also requires future working groups, including a Building Energy Transition Implementation Task Force.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Vehicles powered by biomethane consume about one percent of California’s transportation fuel, but in the first three quarters of 2023, biomethane used to fuel these vehicles accounted for 17 percent of LCFS credit generation. California’s LCFS is causing problems for other states and the federal government.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 2, 2023

In 2012, Groff took a mail delivery job with the United States Postal Service. As we approach the July 4th holiday, more than 200 years ago, the United States federal government was the first national government without officially stated endorsed religion. Context is important in this application of a Constitutional right.

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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. Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM). June 2007). Smith (Yes! Books, 2003). jury verdict to date against the company in litigation over the chemical.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. In the U.S.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 22, 2024

In an opinion that is currently under appeal in the Third Circuit, the Middle District court held that, because the federal government has authority to determine transmission system needs and potential solutions, a state cannot deny a siting permit based on its own determination that a project is not needed. FERC Order No. Transource Pa.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Thank you to Governor Shapiro for coming to Yardley to sign House Bill 735 into law as Act 22 of 2023,” Rep. NewsClip: -- WESA/WPSU: New PA Task Force To Increase Accessibility To Flood Insurance [Posted: December 5, 2023] PA Environment Digest Warren said. “I

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2024

For more than a century, the United States has recognized this, and maintaining roads and bridges has been a core function of federal, state, and local governments. The federal government embraced a role in supporting transit in the 1970s, but this was cut back for the past 40 years and didn’t rebound until the pandemic.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Mercenary hackers stole data that Exxon later cited in climate lawsuits -US prosecutors Yahoo News PaulaR Tue, 11/07/2023 - 17:23 Thursday, October 12, 2023 Read more Raphael Satter & Christopher Bing WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Private Empire: Exxon Mobil and American Power by Steve Coll (Penguin Press, 2012).

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CEQA Developments

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

County of Monterey (California-American Water Company, Real Party in Interest) (2023) Cal.App.5th. After reciting the legal principles and substantial evidence standard of review governing CEQA subsequent review following certification of an EIR for a project, the Court examined in detail and rejected each of MCWD’s arguments.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. Baiton was at COP27 and is expected to return for COP28, which runs from November 30th until December 12th, 2023. We need governments to regulate industry. CAPP is trying to buy and build the social license (ie.

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CEQA Developments

MAY 2, 2023

On April 7, 2023, the Third District Court of Appeal filed a lengthy published opinion – the latest installment in one of the longer ongoing CEQA battles in recent memory – affirming a judgment finding an EIR for the Federal relicensing of Oroville Dam and related hydropower facilities legally adequate. of Water Resources (2023) Cal.App.5th.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The documents the Journal obtained show that in 2012, ExxonMobil sought to gather information about and exert influence over the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). For more about Tillerson’s real track record on climate change, see two HuffPost columns by my colleague Elliott Negin here and here.)

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CEQA Developments

JANUARY 8, 2024

2023) Cal.App.5th City of Newport (2012) 211 Cal.App.4th Department of General Services (2023) 87 Cal.App.5th The amendments extended the contracts, which were originally entered into in the 1960s for 75-year terms, so as to end in the year 2085, and made other amendments to their financial provisions.

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HumanNature

MARCH 28, 2023

Guest Post by Clara Mosso , 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Transformation is more advanced on the policy side of things, and this is related to the development of collaborative governance approaches that can contribute to enabling transdisciplinarity. Environmental Governance for the Anthropocene?

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Circle of Blue

MAY 3, 2022

million deficit by 2012. Now, Flint residents are back on Detroit water and nearly all of the city’s lead pipes have been removed with the assistance of funding from the state and federal government. Gretchen Whitmer has promised that Benton Harbor’s lead pipes will be replaced by 2023, and $63.6 A 2016 report from the U.S.

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Real Climate

APRIL 6, 2023

There is a recording of the IPCC Press Conference – Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report for those who are interested in watching an awkward release of the report. Governments are clearly failing when it comes to stopping global warming so perhaps this summary for policymakers should aim for business leaders. 775-779, 2012.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 18, 2022

In an era when charges of greenwashing and green hushing are proliferating across social media while at the same time governments are mandating ESG including environmental disclosures by businesses, an update to the Green Guides is a welcome effort toward providing safety bumpers for companies. Compliance with the Green Guides (i.e.,

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

in 2012: “In an increasingly carbon- constrained world, our existing environmental laws and regulatory process no longer achieve their underlying goals of long-term ecosystem conservation. Since my 2012 “Fiddling as the World Floods and Burns” warnings, . Indeed, at a Sept. Yet—climate change impacts are outpacing development of p.

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