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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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Student in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University As the urgent need to take tough action towards climate mitigation and sustainability gathers pressure, for most major power-holders today, including the markets, institutions, government agencies, media and countries, environmentalism has perhaps become the biggest fashion fad.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 5, 2024

Our latest report has modeled what is actually possible if federal and provincial governments take public transit seriously as a tool to fight climate change. There were fewer buses in service in peak periods across Canada in 2022 than there were in 2013, a year when transit systems served 2.7 million fewer people.

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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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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Last week, the Danish government pledged at least $13 million to developing nations which have experienced losses caused by the impact of climate change , becoming the first country globally to offer ‘loss and damage’. Flemming Moller Mortensen, Danish Minister for Development. Photo credit: Ida Marie Odgaard / Ritzau Scanpix/via Reuters.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 15, 2022

Borgen is back in 2022, albeit with a slightly different title: Borgen: Power and Glory. The plot was conceived during a conversation between Price and former Danish Climate and Energy Minister (and later Foreign Secretary) Martin Lidegaard , who incidentally served in Thorning-Schmidt’s government. A controversial issue.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

By Kunle Adebajo and Murtala Abdullahi, CCIJ — 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. We grew up here.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Rich Kruger began working at Exxon in 1981 and was Vice President from 2008-2013. But this spending is a tiny fraction of Suncor’s profits, which came to $9 billion in direct profits in 2022. MPs and government officials need to see through the oil and gas greenwashing and hold industry accountable. However, it is not too late.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

billion, down 6% compared to 2022. Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Food You’re Eating by Jeffrey M. June 2007). Smith (Yes!

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Last week, on Monday November 14, as part of its Economic Outlook and Fiscal Review , the Ontario government officially announced it would be developing a voluntary clean energy credit (CEC) registry. million between 2022 and 2026. So it’s up to governments to choose and procure renewable energy sources for their grids.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

Policies that had been put in place to protect species at risk have since been whittled down, most notably by the current provincial government, as a way to prioritize development. In 2019, the Ontario government announced that they would be making changes to the Endangered Species Act.

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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. Wolf will give his final state budget address on February 8 kicking off the FY 2022-23 budget season. Read more here. 8 Budget Address Gov.

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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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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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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2022

By Steve Kretzmann, CCIJ — July 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. Photo © Steve Kretzmann / CCIJ.

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Acoel

MARCH 10, 2022

Posted on March 10, 2022 by Jeffrey Haynes. The court analyzed the takings challenge under the unconstitutional-conditions doctrine: the government may not condition approval of a permit on mitigation that lacks an “essential nexus and rough proportionality” to impacts of the development. 595 , 606 (2013). The decision F.P.

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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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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In that post, we described the significant changes in the 2021 version from the 2013 version. EPA received adverse comments on that action and published a notification of withdrawal of the direct final rule on May 2, 2022. Of note, EPA only received 13 comments (. really, 13) on the proposed rule.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2022

For full disclosure, prior to joining the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA School of Law, I worked for CARB for more than a decade, although I did not have a role in writing the draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update. The initial plan was approved in 2008 , with the second in 2013 , and the most recent iteration in 2017.

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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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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In its Nationally Determined Contributions ( NDCs ), updated in 2022, India has made three major promises: a 45% reduction in its carbon emissions intensity (CO2 emissions per unit of electricity) based on 2005 levels, by 2030; 50% of installed electricity coming from non-fossil-fuel sources by 2030; and national carbon neutrality by 2070.

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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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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Guest Post by Michelan Wilson , 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. 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. OECD (2022). So why don’t these islands just adapt to climate change? Akiwumi, P.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The nursery will be planted this fall and maintained by Penn State Extension MWSs, locally educated and managed volunteers who address conservation priorities in collaboration with a broad partnership of organizations and local governments. Volunteers in the Lake Heritage community will also help install plants and help with maintenance.

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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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HumanNature

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Guest Post By Anna Clare Monlezun , 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. I work with government-owned conservation lands, coupled human-natural systems, that are managed to protect and conserve natural resources, provide public access to wild open spaces, and sustainably produce quality food for growing populations.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 26, 2022

NANCI is facilitating the creation of a national integrated fishing gear management strategy in collaboration with the Mexican Federal Government. This strategy will also be discussed with the governments of Canada and the United States to facilitate cross-border collaboration on ghost gear in North America.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 10, 2023

By Kevin Sliman, Penn State News In 2013, Penn State launched the Pennsylvania Mine Map Atlas, an interactive online database of Pennsylvania’s underground mines. Some maps were kept at PA DEP as well as mining companies, some at local government offices, some at academic institutions and even some in people's attics,” Kelly said.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill BNN Bloomberg PaulaR Wed, 01/17/2024 - 14:45 Monday, January 15, 2024 Read more Marcelo Rochabrun (Bloomberg) -- Repsol SA is being sued for $1 billion by an English law firm representing around 35,000 alleged victims for its involvement in Peru’s largest oil spill in 2022.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 28, 2022

Costs and fees collected to implement the program by county conservation district have experienced a deficit starting in FY 2013-14. Posted: June 28, 2022] PA Environment Digest The deficit started in DEP’s part of the program FY 2016-17 at $816,390 and increased to $1,438,062 in FY 2020-21. In FY 2020-21 the deficit was $6,889,551.

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Brag

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a report on November 3, 2022, entitled Renewable Fuel Standard: Actions Needed to Improve Decision-Making in the Small Refinery Exemption Program. GAO analyzed data and documents related to exemptions from 2013 through 2021 and interviewed agency officials and industry stakeholders.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In an opinion filed on December 29, 2021, and later ordered published on January 25, 2022, the First District Court of Appeal (Div. 4) affirmed a judgment upholding the City of Newark’s (City) use of Government Code § 65457’s CEQA exemption for a 469-lot residential subdivision on land adjacent to San Francisco Bay. 2016) 1 Cal.5th

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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

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 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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