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Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice

Circle of Blue

Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice They are expensive, in many cases experimental, and take a long time to work. In 2019 the company applied its product to end a harmful bloom on Chippewa Lake in Ohio. But the Platte Lake advocates did not rely on federal law. By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue.

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The Gas Utility Industry is Gaslighting Us

Union of Concerned Scientists

Since then, however, the gas industry—much like the oil industry—has cribbed heavily from the tobacco industry’s playbook to block government regulation by manufacturing doubt about the reality and seriousness of its “NOx problem.” Likewise, they have been busy shoring up their markets.

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Third Circuit Restores Rule B Attachment Based On Breach of Contract Claim Under English Law, Implied Indemnity Claim Not Enough

The Energy Law Blog

When the Vessel arrived off the Mississippi River in February 2019, things went awry. In July 2019, Tongli initiated London arbitration proceedings against time charterer Bunge seeking indemnification for the settlement. Both the time charter and the voyage charter selected the law of England to apply. Grand China Shipping Dev.

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Reducing Gun Violence: What Role for the CDC?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Let’s think about that unconscionable prohibition, which only began to be lifted in 2019. That research is broad and heavily funded by the federal government, totaling more than $660 million in 2020 grants to the states alone. And virtually no federal funding for research into gun violence was available for many years prior to 2019.

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Republican House Bill Contains Natural Gas Industry Wish List Of Measures To Expand Natural Gas Drilling, Subsidize Pipeline Expansion, Automatically Approve Well Permits, Preempt Local Governments

PA Environment Daily

Seth Grove (R-York) introduced House Bill 2444 that contains a natural gas industry wish list of measures they want to expand natural gas drilling, subsidize pipeline expansion using DCNR Oil and Gas Fund revenue, automatically approve of well permits and preempting local government regulation of all facilities regulated by DEP.

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Calling Out Climate Lies for a Living

Union of Concerned Scientists

ExxonMobil spent at least $39 million on some 70 of these organizations from 1998 through 2020, more than any funder besides Charles Koch and his brother David, co-owner of Koch Industries until his death in 2019. Later in the hour, Tillerson told Rose that the federal government should end subsidies for renewable energy. “I

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Ask a Scientist: Can Election Science Ensure the Integrity of the 2024 Elections?

Union of Concerned Scientists

State legislatures have used their baseless allegations as a rationale for passing laws that restrict voting rights. That’s more than in any other year this past decade besides 2021, when legislators passed more than 30 restrictive laws. Most of the laws enacted last year will make it harder for voters to cast their ballots by mail.

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