PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

On February 7, Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful announced the recipients of their recognition program for individuals, government, organizations and businesses whose efforts support and strengthen the mission of a clean and beautiful Pennsylvania. “We DeMichiel made a huge impact and stood out at their 2023 Tire War event.

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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

JANUARY 17, 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. million in 2013. In the U.S.

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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. million in 2013. In the U.S.

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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 c o-authored 2017 Harvard Business Review piece, we argue that the insurance industry could be the "adult in the room" here if insurers are allowed to risk price and to "price gouge" when risks rise.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 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. million in 2013. In the U.S.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 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. million in 2013. In the U.S.

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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. million in 2013. In the U.S.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 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. million in 2013. In the U.S.

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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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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. -- Be Inspired By Hundreds Of Environmental Stewardship Leaders From 2019! 197 Stories)! -- Be Inspired!

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

A 2017 survey of 37 utilities found that about half of the surveyed utilities collected fixed charges to cover only customer-related costs (including “the costs of the meter, service drop, a portion of the transformer, billing, and customer service”) while others also included “elements of distribution facilities or minimum system costs.”

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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.

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

My idea was that I would fund [the businesses] with a key,” Bushnell told Fast Company in 2017. In 1997 there were around 25 incubation environments in the UK, but by 2017 that number had risen to almost 400, according to a report from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Interestingly, this sense of urgency has compelled various scholars, governments, development practitioners, and activists to turn toward the language of security to convey the increasingly dire need to confront widespread ecological change. Woodrow Wilson Center Press Deudney, D. Millennium 19 (3): 461-476. Hardt, J.N.,

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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. Federal Government (via USA SPENDING). Federal Government (via SAM). The case was settled in 2014 after Argentina paid Repsol $5 billion.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Those calls have been ignored except for the adoption of the Act 13 drilling per well impact fee in 2013-- after the General Assembly and Gov. In 2011, it was Tropical Storm Lee , in 2017, it was Tropical Depression Harvey , in 2018 it was micro-storms causing flooding in communities all over the state and again just this week.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Reality: Between 1994 and 2013, the U.S. In 2017, Bad River Band voted not to renew Enbridge’s easement on the 12 parcels due to multiple historical events and ongoing safety concerns about the aged pipeline’s threat to the Bad River’s watershed and Lake Superior. government in 1836, 1837, 1842 and 1854.

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Physics World

MARCH 1, 2022

The ILC’s five-volume technical design report was published in June 2013 and included a 30 km-long linear collider operating at around 500 GeV. The Japanese government then laid out a condition that the ILC should be more widely supported by the Japanese and international scientific communities. When could the ILC see the light of day?

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

Grant Township has been fighting to keep out this frack-waste injection well since 2013. These laws have asserted rights for nature, the right of the community to local self-government, and the right to be free from the dumping of frack waste to protect those rights.”

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Mexico: Protesters are blocking access to Nestlé Tlahuapan to demand the water supply be handled with more care Cecilia Espinoza Galindo | Municipios Puebla | January 16, 2017 The protesters claim that the bottling giant extracts one million liters from the spring per day since its arrival in the municipality 20 years ago.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Mexico: Protesters are blocking access to Nestlé Tlahuapan to demand the water supply be handled with more care Cecilia Espinoza Galindo | Municipios Puebla | January 16, 2017 The protesters claim that the bottling giant extracts one million liters from the spring per day since its arrival in the municipality 20 years ago.

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Physics World

AUGUST 27, 2021

In 2017, Véronique Bommier of the Paris Observatory developed such a framework. Atomic physicists duly designed laboratory experiments to test this idea using broadband radiation, lasers and other light sources, but nothing conclusive was found. Courtesy: IRSOL – IAC).

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Those calls have been ignored except for the adoption of the Act 13 drilling per well impact fee in 2013-- after the General Assembly and Gov. On September 20, the Senate and House come back into voting session with only a few handfuls of voting days left until the end of 2021.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2022

The initial plan was approved in 2008 , with the second in 2013 , and the most recent iteration in 2017. Ultimately, the success of the 2022 Scoping Plan update will be measured by our ability to implement the actions modeled in the Proposed Scenario at all levels of government and society. Health & Safety Code § 38561(d).

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The conference has been held annually since 1992 and governments use it to agree on actions to limit global temperature increases associated with climate change. For example, in 2017, Puerto Rico was hit by hurricane Irma and Maria. Aggregate Trends of Climate Finance Provided and Mobilised by Developed Countries in 2013-2020 Shah, K.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 16, 2018

That could be changing, though, as modern-day climate activists like the Valve Turners vigorously protest industry and government inaction in the face of increasingly dire climate change threats. In 2013, Massachusetts District Attorney C. Common Dreams (March 10, 2017), [link]. May 30, 2017). June 7, 2017).

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CEQA Developments

MAY 3, 2021

5th 321, 329-330 (my April 5, 2019 post on which can be found here ) in setting out the general CEQA principles and standards governing its review in a case challenging an EIR’s content and analysis. of Directors (2013) 216 Cal.App.4th 4th 614, 623, my June 6, 2013 post on which can be found here.) Marin Municipal Water Dist.

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 5, 2017

Lenders who take security interests in securities accounts are familiar with the rules of Articles 8 and 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code that identify the governing jurisdiction for these transactions. The Convention was finally promulgated in 2003 but did not become effective until April 1, 2017. [2]

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Arnold Porter

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

in 2016 pursuant to Section 1651 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2013 (15 U.S.C. Under this final rule, and the FY2013 NDAA, the prime contractor cannot expend more than 50% of the amount paid by the government, exclusive of materials costs, on subcontractors that are not similarly situated entities.[[N:15

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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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CEQA Developments

MAY 2, 2023

DWR’s efforts in this regard took place from 2001 to 2006, involving “five federal agencies, five state agencies, seven local government entities, five Native American tribes, four local water agencies, and 13 nongovernmental organizations,” with three years of hearings and two years of negotiations. County of Nevada (2013) 221 Cal.App.4th

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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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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

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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