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. 2014 , Moeletsi and Tongwane, 2015 , Kritee et al., 2015 , Williams et al.,

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JANUARY 4, 2022

This is a highly optimistic adaptation paper and it puts Government at the center of achieving adaptation progress. In my 2015 paper, I discuss the broad issue. In the absence of government regulation, insurance prices for real estate will rise there. Frank Wolak and I discuss this in our 2013 energy paper.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 8, 2022

That research is broad and heavily funded by the federal government, totaling more than $660 million in 2020 grants to the states alone. For gun violence, however, there is federal data going back only to 2015 with sporadic information from earlier years.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Kahn, 2013. Does Government Investment in Local Public Goods Spur Gentrification? Kahn, 2015. government creating a business friendly environment and a safe, green, clean city, 4. Here are a few examples; Siqi Zheng & Matthew E. 41(1), pages 1-28, March. Costa & Matthew E. 105(5), pages 564-569, May.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

Cindy Adams Dunn has served as the Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources since 2015. Tom Wolf, and will continue to advocate for and protect Pennsylvania’s natural resources. She has served multiple positions in the agency under three governors during the last three decades.

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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. This, in spite of the fact the PA Supreme Court has specifically declared $1.3 Read more here. million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5 million; and DEP: $4.2

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Washington Nature

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

I had a shocking wake-up call in 2013,” she said about the experience that brought her to the board of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in Washington. In 2015, she became a Northwest Conservation Philanthropy Fellow. Now, she “dropped everything” and refocused her full efforts on climate change. It’s causing the Sound to become a desert.”

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

A bare-chested old man lies in the emergency room of a government hospital in northeast Nigeria. The government has even tried to retrain some herders to work as ranchers, but there is little known about the progress of this initiative. The Sahara, which is the world’s largest hot desert, grew 10% bigger between 1920 and 2013.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Historical Refernces Britain’s first North Sea oil rig collapses Julian Gavaghan | Yahoo News | December 24, 2013 December 27, 1965: Britain’s first ever North Sea oil rig collapsed and killed 13 men during a bitter snowstorm and 20ft-high waves on this day in 1965. Federal Government (via USA SPENDING). BP Subsidiaries (via U.S.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 20, 2022

The report recorded 62 serious pollution incidents last year, the highest total since 2013. Although total pollution incidents declined, the EA wrote that trends had not improved since 2015 and compliance with permits to discharge wastewater had worsened since 2020. Jane Johnston, Stream Editor. Recent WaterNews from Circle of Blue.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Historical Refernces Britain’s first North Sea oil rig collapses Julian Gavaghan | Yahoo News | December 24, 2013 December 27, 1965: Britain’s first ever North Sea oil rig collapsed and killed 13 men during a bitter snowstorm and 20ft-high waves on this day in 1965. Federal Government (via USA SPENDING). BP Subsidiaries (via U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

This new research found that ExxonMobil’s climate projections from its internally developed models accurately projected the temperature rise that has happened since then and that its calculations were in line with independent research produced at the time by academic and government scientists.

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 1, 2021

The “ LL&E II ” decision finds that Act 312 charges the court, not the jury, to determine the funding needed to remediate property to government standards. If (and only if) an express contractual provision allows greater remediation than government standards, a jury may consider and award such “excess remediation” damages.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 12, 2021

Why it matters: A 2015 study from the S. On Tuesday, the Hindustan Times reported that water levels on India’s Ganga and Yamuna rivers were rising around three centimeters every hour, striking fear in nearby residents who remember devastating floods in 2013 and 2019. ON THE RADAR. Bureau of Reclamation nearly $7.5

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Arnold Porter

JULY 13, 2021

The NPRM also proposes to restore a discriminatory effects rule adopted by HUD in 2013 that formalized the application of discriminatory effects in assessing potential discrimination. The theory of disparate impact liability was well established even before the 2013 HUD rule. 15, 2013).]]. 2057 (2015).]] N:24 C.F.R.

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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Bay Area Air Quality Management District (2015) 62 Cal.4th My December 18, 2015 post on the case can be found here. Exposition Metro Line Construction Authority (2013) 57 Cal.4th My August 9, 2013 post on the case can be found here. City of Berkeley (2015) 60 Cal.4th Baseline basics are clarified.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Monsanto: A Corporate Profile (Food & Water Europe, April 2013) Monsanto vs. the World: The Monsanto Protection Act, GMOs and our Genetically Modified Future by Jason Louv (Ultraculture Press, 2013).

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 28, 2022

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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Circle of Blue

JUNE 1, 2022

government promised Native tribes in the Pacific Northwest that they could keep fishing as they’d always done. Today, there are hundreds of hatcheries in the Northwest run by federal, state and tribal governments, employing thousands and welcoming the community with visitor centers and gift shops. Now, that system is falling apart.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 14, 2023

In 2013, then Gov. Corbett signed into law changes to the state Municipal Authorities Act which allowed certain local governments to form stormwater authorities. In Pennsylvania there are currently about 65 local governments that have formed an authority. Many of these local governments include areas with state-owned land.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 2, 2023

This is par for the course for military programs in general (perhaps it might be less predictable if the Department of Defense ever managed to pass an audit —a routine requirement for every other part of government) and nuclear weapons are certainly no exception. The FY 2015 NDAA then required CBO to update that report every two years.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 31, 2024

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Monsanto: A Corporate Profile (Food & Water Europe, April 2013) Monsanto vs. the World: The Monsanto Protection Act, GMOs and our Genetically Modified Future by Jason Louv (Ultraculture Press, 2013).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In 2013, the US Geological Survey used the survey results to help improve its social media policy to better ensure scientifically accurate agency communications.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Monsanto: A Corporate Profile (Food & Water Europe, April 2013) Monsanto vs. the World: The Monsanto Protection Act, GMOs and our Genetically Modified Future by Jason Louv (Ultraculture Press, 2013).

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2022

Rivers and water bodies across South Africa have become too polluted for use, and the government is doing an increasingly poor job of addressing the situation. The number of critical treatment works listed in the last report – from 2013 – was 248. The average Green Drop score across all provinces in 2013 was 61%.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Monsanto: A Corporate Profile (Food & Water Europe, April 2013) Monsanto vs. the World: The Monsanto Protection Act, GMOs and our Genetically Modified Future by Jason Louv (Ultraculture Press, 2013).

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Monsanto: A Corporate Profile (Food & Water Europe, April 2013) Monsanto vs. the World: The Monsanto Protection Act, GMOs and our Genetically Modified Future by Jason Louv (Ultraculture Press, 2013).

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

government $265 million plus interest for over-billing on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and in 2010 it was ordered to repay the U.S. These payments included $3 million to the Japanese prime minister and $1.1 million to a Dutch prince. In 2007 Lockheed was ordered to repay the U.S. Air Force and the U.S.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

On the same day at COP28, the Indian government submitted its third “National Communication” to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Enhanced coal production Despite the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement, which committed the countries of the world to lower carbon emissions, India has seen no need to reduce coal use.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2022

He served as vice chairman of the Commission from 2011 to 2015, and from October 2021 through September 2022. He served as a board member of the Organization of PJM States or OPSI from 2013 to 2017. During his tenure, he was nominated by three different governors—Governors Edward G. Rendell, Tom Corbett and Tom Wolf.

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Law Columbia

MAY 24, 2024

In 2008, the parties determined that “the scope of the London Convention and Protocol includes ocean fertilization activities,” and adopted a non-binding governance framework for those activities. Later, in 2013, the parties to the London Protocol adopted an amendment on marine geoengineering.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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Energy & the Law

JANUARY 13, 2022

Example: When Southern California Edison closed its San Onofre nuclear station in 2013 CO2 emissions jumped by 35% (That’s green California for you). million from 2015 to 2017 and spending nearly $400,000 for personal use or improper business expenses. Doesn’t seem like enough. He paid $500,000 to settle those charges.

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 1, 2021

The “ LL&E II ” decision finds that Act 312 charges the court, not the jury, to determine the funding needed to remediate property to government standards. If (and only if) an express contractual provision requires greater remediation than government standards, a jury may consider and award such “excess remediation” damages.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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