Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. The Oil Spills of Ogoniland Amelia Collins | The Ecologist | May 17, 2019 Oil still contaminates the Niger Delta, over two decades after Shell was first called out for its destruction of the land.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. The Oil Spills of Ogoniland Amelia Collins | The Ecologist | May 17, 2019 Oil still contaminates the Niger Delta, over two decades after Shell was first called out for its destruction of the land.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. The Oil Spills of Ogoniland Amelia Collins | The Ecologist | May 17, 2019 Oil still contaminates the Niger Delta, over two decades after Shell was first called out for its destruction of the land.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. The Oil Spills of Ogoniland Amelia Collins | The Ecologist | May 17, 2019 Oil still contaminates the Niger Delta, over two decades after Shell was first called out for its destruction of the land.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. The Oil Spills of Ogoniland Amelia Collins | The Ecologist | May 17, 2019 Oil still contaminates the Niger Delta, over two decades after Shell was first called out for its destruction of the land.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 11, 2021

Another quote from JC; "But reducing carbon is thus, logically, just one item on the list of answers to "What can we do to raise GDP in 2100?," Asked that way, you can see that "lower carbon emissions" is about #100 on the list, even admitting the 5-10% of GDP thumb-on-the-scale estimates. See my 2014 lecture.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 11, 2021

The public consensus was that the approval was rubber stamped, so in 2014 we joined forces with another group, Voters Taking Action on Climate Change to challenge the permit in court , represented by the not-for-profit environmental law firm, Ecojustice. In 2019, we reached the Federal Court of Appeal. The Outcome.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The IPCC’s 5 th Assessment Report noted that, “Globally, economic and population growth continue to be the most important drivers of increases in CO 2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion”. 3 from IPCC, Fifth Assessment Report, Mitigation Report, Summary for Policymakers (2014). Figure SPM.3

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Much of the cradle-to-grave carbon intensity data that governments depend on to guide in photovoltaic arrays are instead based on modeling assumptions that are likely to have grossly under-estimated — if not made-up — solar’s carbon emissions because they cannot get insights from Chinese manufacturers.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

These new protections will include updates to power plant standards on carbon emissions , mercury pollution , and toxic coal ash pollution , just to name a few. But in reality the proposed emission targets were achieved 11 years early in 2019—without the plan ever even taking effect.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2022

metro area in 2014, Dr. Declet-Barreto lived in Phoenix, where the average daily temperature now tops 98 degrees F from late May through mid-September. A 2019 study found that nearly all of 108 formerly redlined urban areas across the country are on average hotter than nearby wealthier neighborhoods by 4.6 degrees F to as much as 12.6

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

19] France spends just over half as much per kilowatt-hour for electricity that produces one-tenth of the carbon emissions of German electricity. [20] 21] In 2019, German electricity prices were 45 percent higher than the European average. [22] gigawatts of highly-reliable, low-cost, and low-carbon power. [49]

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

still does not limit carbon emissions from existing power plants, which generate 25 percent of our greenhouse gases. On June 2, 2014 , this blog led with an almost-identical sentence about EPA releasing its rule to regulate climate change-related carbon emissions from existing power plants, known as the Clean Power Plan.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Noam Scheiber | The New York Times | March 25, 2021 The National Labor Relations Board on Thursday upheld a 2019 ruling that Tesla had illegally fired a worker involved in union organizing and that the company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, had illegally threatened workers with the loss of stock options if they unionized.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Noam Scheiber | The New York Times | March 25, 2021 The National Labor Relations Board on Thursday upheld a 2019 ruling that Tesla had illegally fired a worker involved in union organizing and that the company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, had illegally threatened workers with the loss of stock options if they unionized.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Noam Scheiber | The New York Times | March 25, 2021 The National Labor Relations Board on Thursday upheld a 2019 ruling that Tesla had illegally fired a worker involved in union organizing and that the company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, had illegally threatened workers with the loss of stock options if they unionized.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Noam Scheiber | The New York Times | March 25, 2021 The National Labor Relations Board on Thursday upheld a 2019 ruling that Tesla had illegally fired a worker involved in union organizing and that the company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, had illegally threatened workers with the loss of stock options if they unionized.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Noam Scheiber | The New York Times | March 25, 2021 The National Labor Relations Board on Thursday upheld a 2019 ruling that Tesla had illegally fired a worker involved in union organizing and that the company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, had illegally threatened workers with the loss of stock options if they unionized.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Noam Scheiber | The New York Times | March 25, 2021 The National Labor Relations Board on Thursday upheld a 2019 ruling that Tesla had illegally fired a worker involved in union organizing and that the company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, had illegally threatened workers with the loss of stock options if they unionized.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Noam Scheiber | The New York Times | March 25, 2021 The National Labor Relations Board on Thursday upheld a 2019 ruling that Tesla had illegally fired a worker involved in union organizing and that the company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, had illegally threatened workers with the loss of stock options if they unionized.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

2011 Supreme Court decides AEP case, barring lawsuits against carbon emitters using the federal common law of nuisance. 2012 EPA adopts regulation limiting carbon emissions for new cars. 2014 Supreme Court decides UARG v. 2019 Trump EPA revokes California’s waiver for regulating CO2 from new cars.

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

In 2019 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change warned that warming of 1.5 36] And a paper published in Nature in 2019 found that “agro-ecological” farming, which has long been promoted by European governments, US NGOs, and the UN, does not improve the agricultural productivity of small African farmers. [37] and around the world.

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MAY 8, 2020

In 2019, the court dismissed almost all of the companies’ claims, except for a single defamation claim and a related claim under California’s Unfair Competition Law arising from allegations related to a single set of statements. Luxembourg Pension Fund Will Report on Carbon Footprint Following Action by Greenpeace.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

US electricity sector emissions decreased 34 percent from 2005 to 2019, including an astonishing 10 percent in 2019, which is the largest year-on-year decline in history. Carbon emissions are thus following the same trajectory as other air pollutants.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

Perhaps the most consequential of all Paxton’s actions, however, is a lawsuit he and AGs from 19 other states, including Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina, filed in 2021 challenging the EPA’s authority to curb power plant carbon emissions. After she took office in January 2019, that pledge went out the window.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

A day after the court’s decision, BLM published a proposed rule to temporarily suspend or delay certain requirements until January 17, 2019. Challenge to Settlement in Utility Rate-Setting Case in New Mexico Cited Failure to Quantify Coal Plant’s Carbon Emission Risks. California v. Bureau of Land Management , Nos.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

21 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. -- PG: Study: Great Allegheny Passage Trail Is ‘An Economic Highway’ That Generated $121 Million In 2019 -- PG Editorial: Great Allegheny Passage Bike Trail Leads To Economic Growth -- PG: Pittsburgh Regional Asset District Budget Invests $7.8

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

2, 2014). [8]. in domestic or international efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Instead Mr. Ebell seems perfectly suited to eviscerate the efforts of the Obama Administration to reduce carbon emissions as part of the international cooperation to spare the globe from looming catastrophe. (#(@realDonaldTrump, Nov.

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