Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

For France, the “Affaire du Siècle” case was filed in the Administrative Court of Paris in May 2019 by four NGOs against the government for its failure to act on climate change. Two months later, in January 2019, the claimants sued the state before the Conseil d’Etat for rejecting their demands.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

Perhaps most importantly, the federal government has invested billions of dollars in clean energy. 2015 Paris Agreement adopted with strong U.S. 2019 Trump EPA revokes California’s waiver for regulating CO2 from new cars. We need the active support of the federal government. Bush signs and U.S. 1998 U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In 2019, 70 percent of Seattle residents lived within walking distance of a bus or train service running at least every ten minutes—up from 25 percent in 2015. Transportation choices ahead At every level of government, policymakers can make choices that lead to a more balanced transportation system.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 8, 2022

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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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

MARCH 22, 2022

The quality of China’s scientific research output exceeded that of the US in 2019. That is according to a new analysis by researchers in the US, which also found that China had already overtaken the European Union in terms of research quality by 2015. .

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The movement follows a worldwide upsurge in climate change-related cases, which have more than doubled since 2015. The court also ordered the State, considered remiss, to release the resources of the Climate Fund , a government program that aims to mitigate the impacts of climate change. Brazil) is also noteworthy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

By railing against what he calls a “radical climate change movement” and suing the federal government to protect corporate polluters. In 2015, when he took office as AG after stints in the Texas Legislature, he sued the Environmental Protection Agency for strengthening a standard for ground-level ozone, better known as smog.

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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. Ted Cruz , Florida Gov.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 27, 2024

Governments should be doing everything in their power to tackle both the climate and affordability crisis that is hitting so many of us. In fact, new analysis we released today finds that in 2023, the federal government provided the fossil fuel Industry with at least $18.6 What progress has the Government made?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Mitt Romney issued a press release crowing about all the money he secured for his state in the National Defense Authorization Act, the annual bill that lays out what the government will spend on the US military in the following fiscal year. Subsequent defense secretaries Chuck Hagel, who served from 2015 to 2017, and Gen.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 31, 2024

Mining giants told to pay $9.7bn over Brazil dam disaster BBC PaulaR Wed, 01/31/2024 - 13:57 Saturday, January 27, 2024 Read more Peter Hoskins A federal judge in Brazil has ordered mining giants BHP, Vale and their Samarco iron ore joint venture to pay 47.6bn reais ($9.67bn) in damages over a deadly dam burst in 2015. Corporation Vale S.A.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Five years ago, the World Bank said it would end investments in oil and gas extraction by 2019. World Bank President David Malpass , appointed in 2019 by climate-denying President Trump, damaged that organization’s credibility even further this fall by refusing, in a public forum, to acknowledge that human activities cause climate change.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

3), upheld the City of Livermore’s (“City”) approval of a 130-unit affordable housing project on a downtown infill site and its accompanying determination that the project was CEQA-exempt under Government Code section 65457 (“Section 65457”). ( Save Livermore Downtown v. 2015) 62 Cal.4th City of Livermore (2023) __ Cal.App.5th__

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The plants’ operating costs have been consistently higher than the average PJM market price of energy and capacity, and this difference accumulated to a loss of more than $900 million between 2015-2019 (see Table 4 here ). Ohioans were forced to subsidize some of these costs through various surcharges on their utility bills.

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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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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Founded in 1942 as a state-owned enterprise by the Brazilian government, it was originally named Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD). It was partially privatized in 1997 but the Brazilian government retains control. The Fundão disaster led to an initial R$20 billion ($4.8 to adequately repair.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In a widely read report in 2015 that ECCSCM conducted with the Michigan chapter of the Sierra Club, Taylor revealed for the first time that nearly 700 million gallons of liquid manure was spread annually in the western Lake Erie basin. Government agencies, nevertheless, are trying. There’s no way to stop it from reaching tiles.”.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2023

A more thorough history would include the settling and colonization of California by the Spanish (1500s) and Mexican (early 1800s) governments, but for brevity, I focus here on the intentional and duplicitous actions of the California state government (established in 1850) and its co-conspirator: the United States federal government.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The recommendations also relate to government aid, including technical and financial assistance to low-income communities and utilities. House Bill 5093 , introduced in 2015, would have required water and sewer utilities to report annually on water rates, average monthly bills, and the number of water shutoffs by ZIP code and census tract.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

So after returning home, he launched Dat Bike in 2019. Dat Bike is one of numerous partners the US government works with to meet this rapidly growing demand for clean energy. Since 2015, USAID support for new renewable energy generation capacity in Indonesia has brought clean energy to more than 3.3 Japan and other partners.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2023

The federal government has the power to give people more and better choices about what we eat, and this year presents an excellent opportunity for positive change. Farmers’ markets are a popular way to do this—in 2019 there were more than 8,700 in the United States. This does not mean that the situation is hopeless.

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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. Greg Lukianoff similarly notes that ‘France passed its Gayssot Act outlawing Holocaust denial in 1990, yet as recently as 2019 it held a 17% antisemitism index score’.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 20, 2023

Between 2000 and 2019, Indonesia lost more forest to mining than any other tropical country, with coal extraction the main driver, the first ever biome-wide assessment has found. He argues that the government should stop issuing mining licences in protected forests or conservation areas. “It Photo credit: Afriadi Hikmal / Alamy.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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Circle of Blue

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 want the government to help us. A floundering government response. We grew up here.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Big Tobacco’s Big Profits #ActOnTobacco Action on Smoking and Health | April 14, 2019 Today marks the start of a campaign by ASH and our partners, highlighting how Big Tobacco’s big profits continue to be built on a lethal trade and shady dealings. Wigand P.h. from 1989-93.

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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. 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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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. This, in spite of the fact the PA Supreme Court has specifically declared $1.3 Read more here. million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5 million; and DEP: $4.2

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Larry Duncan | Substance News | March 25, 2015 n March 19, 2015 a big contingent of striking BP refinery workers from Whiting, IN put on a protest rally in front of the multi-billion dollar corporation's Chicago headquarters in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange building. Federal Government (via USA SPENDING).

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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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