Legal Planet

MAY 30, 2024

2017 February. EPA moves to delay implementation of 2015 air quality standards limiting smog. As you can see below, Trump’s campaign to purge America of environmental regulations — particularly those impacting the fossil fuel industry — was stern and unrelenting. Easement granted for construction of Dakota Access pipeline.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 31, 2022

In a 2019 case, Judge Jackson held that environmental groups couldn’t challenge the border wall under various laws because Congress had stripped the courts of jurisdiction. Judge Kruger joined the California Supreme Court in 2015. is a frequent venue for environmental litigation, so she’s decided a fair number of cases. 3d 214 (D.S.C.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

On October 1, 2019, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals denied fossil fuel companies’ motion for a stay pending their appeal of the district court order remanding Baltimore’s climate change lawsuit against the companies to state court. Pursuant to a consent order, the remand order will not be entered until October 10, 2019.

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Physics World

JULY 28, 2021

From 2013–2015, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, US. Her research group was recognized with a 2019 Sloan Fellowship in Chemistry, 2019 DOE Early Career Award, and 2017 NSF CAREER Award.

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Physics World

JULY 7, 2021

She has served as the principal investigator on four space missions as well as being NASA’s first female deputy administrator from 2015 to 2017. Epstein was convicted of other sex-related crimes more recently and died in his jail cell in August 2019.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Her research has garnered numerous awards including the 2019 Harry B Gray Award for Creative Work in Inorganic Chemistry by a Young Investigator; the 2017 J Carlyle Sitterson Award for Teaching First-Year Students; 2016 Sloan Research Fellowship; and 2015 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering. She joined UNC in 2012.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

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. Darren Woods, ExxonMobil CEO from 2017 to the present. Photo: Pool/Getty Images) The history of that lie bears retelling.

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HumanNature

APRIL 14, 2022

Alarmingly, a drought in 2012 cost the agricultural industry $30 billion (Rippey 2015). For example, the Palmer Drought Severity Index (Dai 2019) uses past history of a region to determine what categories drought falls into. Last modified 12 Dec 2019. This leads us to our next question: How do we even define drought? Rippey, BR.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Peabody, a coal company, filed for bankruptcy in April 2016 and emerged from bankruptcy under a plan that became effective on April 3, 2017. 19, 2017); In re Constitution Pipeline Co. , Reorganized Peabody Energy Corp. County of San Mateo (In re Peabody Energy Corp.) , No. 16-42529 (Bankr. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. Sierra Club v.

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Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

1 Average number of named storms by day of the year in the historical record from 1851–2019 (dark blue line). 2020), and can cause an increase in vertical wind shear over the Atlantic ( Kossin 2017 ; Ting et al. 2015 ) are not clearly supported. 2019 ; Kossin et al. 1987-2007, 2019. Klotzbach et al. Walsh, and L.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

South Africa: VW workers still seeking compensation after 20 years Anna Majavuxx | Mail & Guardian | November 18, 2019 Hundreds of Eastern Cape auto workers are still fighting for compensation almost 20 years after Volkswagen South Africa (VWSA) fired them for holding an unprotected strike. assembly plant in Tennessee.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

South Africa: VW workers still seeking compensation after 20 years Anna Majavuxx | Mail & Guardian | November 18, 2019 Hundreds of Eastern Cape auto workers are still fighting for compensation almost 20 years after Volkswagen South Africa (VWSA) fired them for holding an unprotected strike. assembly plant in Tennessee.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

South Africa: VW workers still seeking compensation after 20 years Anna Majavuxx | Mail & Guardian | November 18, 2019 Hundreds of Eastern Cape auto workers are still fighting for compensation almost 20 years after Volkswagen South Africa (VWSA) fired them for holding an unprotected strike. assembly plant in Tennessee.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

South Africa: VW workers still seeking compensation after 20 years Anna Majavuxx | Mail & Guardian | November 18, 2019 Hundreds of Eastern Cape auto workers are still fighting for compensation almost 20 years after Volkswagen South Africa (VWSA) fired them for holding an unprotected strike. assembly plant in Tennessee.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

South Africa: VW workers still seeking compensation after 20 years Anna Majavuxx | Mail & Guardian | November 18, 2019 Hundreds of Eastern Cape auto workers are still fighting for compensation almost 20 years after Volkswagen South Africa (VWSA) fired them for holding an unprotected strike. By Jilil Kashgary for RFA Uyghur 2023.12.07

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

South Africa: VW workers still seeking compensation after 20 years Anna Majavuxx | Mail & Guardian | November 18, 2019 Hundreds of Eastern Cape auto workers are still fighting for compensation almost 20 years after Volkswagen South Africa (VWSA) fired them for holding an unprotected strike. assembly plant in Tennessee.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

South Africa: VW workers still seeking compensation after 20 years Anna Majavuxx | Mail & Guardian | November 18, 2019 Hundreds of Eastern Cape auto workers are still fighting for compensation almost 20 years after Volkswagen South Africa (VWSA) fired them for holding an unprotected strike. assembly plant in Tennessee.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

MAY 13, 2021

Kahn, 2015. " Kahn, 2017. Kahn, 2019. Kahn, 2019. " Rhode, 2012. Moving to Higher Ground: Migration Response to Natural Disasters in the Early Twentieth Century ," American Economic Review , American Economic Association, vol. 102(3), pages 238-244, May. Kahn Matthew E., 12(1), pages 25-30, August. Kahn, 2016. "

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

South Africa: VW workers still seeking compensation after 20 years Anna Majavuxx | Mail & Guardian | November 18, 2019 Hundreds of Eastern Cape auto workers are still fighting for compensation almost 20 years after Volkswagen South Africa (VWSA) fired them for holding an unprotected strike. assembly plant in Tennessee.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 12, 2023

South Africa: VW workers still seeking compensation after 20 years Anna Majavuxx | Mail & Guardian | November 18, 2019 Hundreds of Eastern Cape auto workers are still fighting for compensation almost 20 years after Volkswagen South Africa (VWSA) fired them for holding an unprotected strike. assembly plant in Tennessee.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

In December 2017, the Department of the Interior (DOI) released an opinion seeking to resolve this uncertainty that stated that the MBTA does not prohibit incidental take. In December 2017, the Department of the Interior (DOI) released an opinion seeking to resolve this uncertainty that stated that the MBTA does not prohibit incidental take.[[N:Dep’t

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Circle of Blue

MAY 25, 2023

As head of the Iowa Water Quality Information System since 2015, Jones backed his warnings with data; data he said made it clear that the state’s increasingly intensive industrial farm practices were pouring more nutrients into Iowa’s streams and rivers and water pollution was getting worse. Terry Branstad as a “war on Iowa farmers.”

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 15, 2024

The perpetrator of the 2019 Christchurch mosque touted his belief in white genocide and the great replacement theory. A 2017 study concluded that in Western Europe, violent far-right extremism was accelerated by ‘extensive public repression of radical right actors and opinions.’ Instead, the opposite is often true.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

In 2012, 2017, and 2021 the National Academies of Science and Engineering published three separate reports on threats to the grid, resilience, and the future of electricity. [1] 1] In its 2017 report, the Academies warned that U.S. 21] In 2019, German electricity prices were 45 percent higher than the European average. [22]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

According to the EPA’s 2017 National Water Quality Inventory Report issued to Congress, nearly a third of wetlands and nearly half of the nation’s river and streams are in “poor biological condition.” percent of land in the contiguous 48 states.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In 2019, Rep. Bizzarro noted the “legislation was previously introduced as HB/SB 95 during the 2019-2020 session and passed the Senate during the 2015-16 and 2017-18 [sessions] with overwhelming bipartisan support.” The Free Speech Protection Act will go far in accomplishing that.” Diamond teamed up with then Sen.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

Since the death of Charles Koch’s brother David in 2019, the Charles Koch Foundation has continued to finance this disinformation campaign, giving more than $17 million to 23 groups in 2019 and 2020 , pushing the Koch grand total north of $162 million. million on some 70 denier groups from 1998 through 2020. million and Chevron’s $39.47

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In 2019 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received reports of nearly 100 people sickened by toxic blooms nationwide. From 2017 to 2019, the agency counted 321 emergency department visits related to harmful algal bloom exposure. million from 1978 to 2017. million from 1978 to 2017. Grand Lake St.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 25, 2022

The challenge originates with the Obama Administration’s 2015 Clean Power Plan , which required states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants by 32 percent (below 2005 levels) by 2030, in line with the national commitment under the Paris Agreement. The court then paused the litigation while EPA revisited the issue.

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

3] From 1981 to 2015, the population of humans living in extreme poverty plummeted from 44 percent to 10 percent. [4] 12] Though pastureland and cropland expanded 5 and 16 percent, between 1961 and 2017, the maximum extent of total agriculture land occurred in the 1990s, and declined significantly since then, led by a 4.5

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Environmental and Urban Economics

OCTOBER 24, 2021

For a more formal discussion of these issues in a different setting, read my co-authored 2019 NBER paper. In our 2015 paper, Dora and I document the historical mortality gains that cities achieved back in the 1930s by investing in clean water infrastructure. Climate change will increase the risk of temperature extremes.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Shell faces lawsuit from climate change activists over fossil fuels Reuters | April 5, 2019 Environmentalist and human rights groups said on Friday they had started a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force the energy firm to cut its reliance on fossil fuels.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Even though this represented a fall from the $106 billion lent in 2020 and the $83 billion lent in 2019, it is still above the $49 billion and $50 billion figures of 2018 and 2017 respectively and represents a huge investment in an industry that should be radically shrinking and not growing if we are to have any hope of staying below the 1.5

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Shell faces lawsuit from climate change activists over fossil fuels Reuters | April 5, 2019 Environmentalist and human rights groups said on Friday they had started a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force the energy firm to cut its reliance on fossil fuels.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Shell faces lawsuit from climate change activists over fossil fuels Reuters | April 5, 2019 Environmentalist and human rights groups said on Friday they had started a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force the energy firm to cut its reliance on fossil fuels.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Shell faces lawsuit from climate change activists over fossil fuels Reuters | April 5, 2019 Environmentalist and human rights groups said on Friday they had started a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force the energy firm to cut its reliance on fossil fuels.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In 2017, there were fines topping $400,000 for violations in 2015 and 2016. In 2020, there was a $175,000 fine for a 2019 well failure. It says that the driller is stepping forward by choice — but leaves open the door to questions about how that participation and transparency is maintained. CNX has a history with penalties.

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