Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

What’s Up With Water – November 1, 2021 – This week’s episode covers the start of COP26 in Glasgow , a political power shift in Sudan that could fuel tensions over a major dam in the region, and Circle of Blue’s coverage of state and local ballot measures in the United States related to water. In 2013, the average value of the salmon was $6.3

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

We watched, consumed, and internalized conflict as the pandemic layered social, political, economic, and climate crises. Some warn that the meaning of “resilience” has been diluted for “maladaptive political means and thus hamper the effectiveness of genuine attempts to mitigate damage” (Soubry & Sherren, 2022, p.1).

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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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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. Total operates the world’s largest* polystyrene factory in Carville, Louisiana, which released 28,114 lbs of toxic chemicals in 2020 including 21,776 lbs of styrene and 5,507 lbs of ethylbenzene, less than a mile away from the town of St.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. Total operates the world’s largest* polystyrene factory in Carville, Louisiana, which released 28,114 lbs of toxic chemicals in 2020 including 21,776 lbs of styrene and 5,507 lbs of ethylbenzene, less than a mile away from the town of St.

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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. Public Interest Research Group Education Fund (October 1999).

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. Total operates the world’s largest* polystyrene factory in Carville, Louisiana, which released 28,114 lbs of toxic chemicals in 2020 including 21,776 lbs of styrene and 5,507 lbs of ethylbenzene, less than a mile away from the town of St.

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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. Total operates the world’s largest* polystyrene factory in Carville, Louisiana, which released 28,114 lbs of toxic chemicals in 2020 including 21,776 lbs of styrene and 5,507 lbs of ethylbenzene, less than a mile away from the town of St.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. Total operates the world’s largest* polystyrene factory in Carville, Louisiana, which released 28,114 lbs of toxic chemicals in 2020 including 21,776 lbs of styrene and 5,507 lbs of ethylbenzene, less than a mile away from the town of St.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. Total operates the world’s largest* polystyrene factory in Carville, Louisiana, which released 28,114 lbs of toxic chemicals in 2020 including 21,776 lbs of styrene and 5,507 lbs of ethylbenzene, less than a mile away from the town of St.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

While environmental security remains a hotly contested idea, it is nonetheless an increasingly popular conceptual framing used by global actors who are concerned with stemming the dangerous ramifications of environmental change (Floyd and Matthew 2013). Guest Post by Julie Liebenguth , Ph.D.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2021

The district court in Oregon in 2016 seemed to favor such a right, but a divided Ninth Circuit concluded in 2020 that the plaintiffs lacked standing. The court found that this would violate the political question doctrine. The plaintiffs are now back in the district court seeking much more modest relief.).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Nestlé: Stop draining water from Pakistani communities and ensure that villages have access to safe drinking water Ekō (formerly SumOfUs) | 2013 Nestlé’s aggressive water grab is already descending like a plague on parts of Pakistan.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

Nestlé: Stop draining water from Pakistani communities and ensure that villages have access to safe drinking water Ekō (formerly SumOfUs) | 2013 Nestlé’s aggressive water grab is already descending like a plague on parts of Pakistan.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Recent & Ongoing Campaigns Spanish unions announce strike at Repsol IndustriALL Global Union | December 1, 2020 The joint union committee announced strike action from December 9 to 12 and from December 21 to January 9, 2021, after the company refused to negotiate. Read More Other Key Sources Business & Human Rights profile of Repsol S.A.

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Physics World

MAY 2, 2022

The proposal to build the BEPC, which lies in the west of Beijing, was approved in the early 1980s when China emerged from the Cultural Revolution – a nationwide political movement that had disrupted research and education. noa, who has been working at the BEPC since 1993 and served as BES’s co-spokesperson between 1999 and 2013. .

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

As a result, Japan’s CO 2 emissions increased, peaking in 2013. In its Nationally Determined Contribution , Japan has committed to reducing GHG emissions by 46% in 2030 from 2013 levels and achieving net zero emissions by 2050. As of May 2022 , there are 163 operating coal-fired power plants in Japan.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Climate change: Extinction Rebellion end blockade at Shell's Aberdeen HQ The BBC | January 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Climate change: Extinction Rebellion end blockade at Shell's Aberdeen HQ The BBC | January 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Climate change: Extinction Rebellion end blockade at Shell's Aberdeen HQ The BBC | January 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Climate change: Extinction Rebellion end blockade at Shell's Aberdeen HQ The BBC | January 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters.

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Law Columbia

JULY 16, 2013

There were up to two billion surplus of allowances as of the beginning of the EU ETS’s third phase of operation (running from 2013-2020), according to European Commission Directorate-General for Climate Action. euros a ton in April 2013, compared to its peak near 30 euros in July 2008.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Climate change: Extinction Rebellion end blockade at Shell's Aberdeen HQ The BBC | January 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Climate change: Extinction Rebellion end blockade at Shell's Aberdeen HQ The BBC | January 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters.

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Acoel

AUGUST 27, 2021

The district court in Oregon in 2016 seemed to favor such a right, but a divided Ninth Circuit concluded in 2020 that the plaintiffs lacked standing. The court found that this would violate the political question doctrine. The plaintiffs are now back in the district court seeking much more modest relief.).

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Climate change: Extinction Rebellion end blockade at Shell's Aberdeen HQ The BBC | January 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

The Sahara, which is the world’s largest hot desert, grew 10% bigger between 1920 and 2013. By 2020, the village has disappeared. However, spatial analysis revealed that the wetlands, which stretched over an area of about 2,600 km² in 2000, had receded to about 1,800 km² by 2020. Disappearing communities in Yusufari.

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CEQA Developments

MARCH 4, 2021

California Air Resources Board (2013) 217 Cal.App.4th The judicial development was the First District’s December 29, 2020 published decision in Santa Clara Valley Water District v. San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board (2020) 59 Cal.App.5th POET, LLC v. 4th 1214; CEQA Guidelines, § 15004(a).)

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

City of Dublin (2013) 214 Cal.App.4th Part 3 of 4), posted 12/1/21 on SLoG Law Blog (noting agency leaders, such as a city council, “are elected officials who inevitably pay attention to politics even when acting in a quasi-judicial capacity (hearing a CEQA appeal)”.) Citing Concerned Dublin Citizens v.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Though with the boom and bust nature of coal mining—where a significant drop in demand or political shifts towards clean energy can eliminate a mine’s buyers—hundreds of coal mines would close across the Pennsylvania and in Cambria County, stripping entire towns of their main livelihood.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 6, 2020

January 6, 2020. In 2013, legislators directed the water quality program to test an unproven in-lake technology to reduce algal growth as a possible substitute for nutrient reduction rules and appropriated $1.35 The lead recommendation in the UNC report is largely political; it focuses on how to fund nutrient reduction strategies.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In recent rounds of reauthorization, Congress reduced the AML fee: the 2006 reauthorization reduced the fee by 10 percent in 2008, and another 10 percent in 2013. The political story behind this change in financing has a main character: the Wyoming congressional delegation. In 2021, the fee was lowered by an additional 20 percent.

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JUNE 8, 2022

Even though gun violence is now the leading cause of death for children in the United States, overtaking car accidents in 2020, the use of federal funding has been prohibited to investigate the role of gun violence or possible means of reducing death and injuries from guns. Cars vs. guns. graphic: cdc.gov.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 22, 2021

Delayed a year by the pandemic , Euro 2020 is now in full swing. Gazprom is the state-owned Russian oil and gas company that played a key role in the imprisonment in Russia of 30 Greenpeace activists in 2013 after they had protested against oil drilling in the Arctic, and imprisoned them under conditions violating human rights.

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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. COM/FS/2020-03/GI-02 (2020).]] 83(1)(a)(ii).]]

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