Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. The government proposes new measures to help meet the 2030 climate target, including 80% renewables by 2030. Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

Developing the Pathways Alliance project is currently projected to cost over $16 billion dollars , and Pathways Alliance CEOs like Pourbaix are insisting that governments should cover most of it – even as these companies are making record profits. Both were eventually rejected by governments. Sometimes the industry tells on itself.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 22, 2024

Fortunately, at the end of 2023, the EPA proposed strengthening the current standards—though the old rules still apply while the proposed changes are being debated. Together, we can encourage our government to take decisive action against rampant slaughterhouse water pollution and towards cleaner water for all.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In 2016, the Human Rights Council declared that damage to cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible, of any people, constitutes damage to the cultural heritage of humanity as a whole. In 2023, in the U.S., In 2023, in the U.S., What’s next for climate and cultural rights?

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Corp Watch

JULY 26, 2023

Madhya Pradesh govt cancels land allocation for Coca Cola plant Hindustan Times PaulaR Wed, 07/26/2023 - 13:15 Friday, February 25, 2022 Read more Shruti Tomar An official said the company had to start the work on setting up the plant within five years of the allotment of the land in 2016 but it did not do anything Bhopal : The Madhya Pradesh government (..)

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Circle of Blue

MAY 24, 2023

Water governance institutions of the past are not well-equipped to respond to the rapidly changing effects of climate change,” said Heikkila, the co-director of the Center for Policy and Democracy at the University of Colorado Denver. The time for more collective action at all scales of governance is here,” she said.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 25, 2024

I was reminded of this scene when I read recently that 2023 had the highest recorded number of newspaper editorials against climate action. For the first time since 2016, right-leaning newspapers were more likely to come out against climate action than support it, according to the media analysis by Carbon Brief. What happened?

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Washington Nature

JULY 3, 2023

The Nature Conservancy in Washington’s involvement in the climate advocacy space has progressively increased since 2016, as climate change has posed an increasing threat to nature and people around the world. Our journey began with 2016’s Initiative 732 and expanded with 2018’s Initiative 1631. 2023 priorities ).

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Decree 298 of 2016 on the National Climate Change System. For example, the law ordered the Colombian government to issue specific rules on the specific definition of short-, medium- and long-term as it relates to the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) (art. Among the main legal statutes are: Law 164 of 1994 on the UNFCCC.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Nestlé, Mars among chocolate makers criticised in cocoa-sourcing report Just Food PaulaR Wed, 01/03/2024 - 15:20 Monday, December 4, 2023 Read more Simon Harvey Ferrero, Mondelez and Lindt also labelled as “inadequate” in Ethical Consumer’s assessment.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Humanitarianism, Capitalism, and the Moral Economy of the Nestlé Boycott by Tehila Sasson (2016) Rigged: Supermarket Shelves for Sale by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) (2016) Nutrition Scientists on the Take from Big Food: Has the American Society for Nutrition lost all credibility?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

Data: NOAA 2023. In our analysis , we linked Californians’ survey-reported personal experiences of supply impacts and concern about future supply reliability with their recent exposure to extreme event hazards (2016–2021) and projections of future climate hazards (2035–2064). It has also shaped my career choice. Source: Dobbin et al.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2024

Just last year, in 2023, 64 projects requesting $26 million applied for the program. Signed into law in 2016, the DRBCA has successfully brought federal, state, and local governments together with regional partners to identify, prioritize, and implement restoration activities within the Delaware River Basin.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2023

The following editorial first appeared in the Citizens Voice on May 17, 2023 -- Breathe easy. Rather, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has found, the amendment is an invaluable and enforceable provision that empowers the state government to protect all Pennsylvanians’ right to clean air, water and more.

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Vermont Law

MAY 17, 2023

Decolonizing Through Food Sovereignty By Callum LaFrance , Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law May 17, 2023 Food is the fulcrum point for many people to pry away the tentacles of colonization. 11) Citations USDI BIA, Why Food Sovereignty Matters , [link] (last visited May 4, 2023). 27, 2023); J.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2023

The closure in January 2016 of one of Pittsburgh’s biggest coal-processing plants led to immediate and lasting declines in emissions of fossil fuel–related air pollutants. Before closing under community pressure, the plant had incurred millions of dollars in government fines for air and water pollution.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

On June 20, 2023, the Spanish Supreme Court handed down its final ruling in the case of Greenpeace v. In this case, environmental and human rights organizations, including Greenpeace and Oxfam (“the plaintiffs”), had taken legal action against the Government of Spain, alleging inadequate action on climate change. compared to 2005.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

RBC has contributed over $340B (CAD) in fossil fuel financing since the Paris Climate Agreement was signed in 2016, making it one of the world’s largest funders of the companies and industries driving climate change. “If They all have asked the Federal Government to kill the deal.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Will your story be included in 2023? Since June 2004, PA Environment Digest has printed or linked to over 6,290 articles about environmental stewards from all walks of life and all ages. Since June 2004, PA Environment Digest has printed or linked to over 6,290 articles about environmental stewards from all walks of life and all ages.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 22, 2024

In an opinion that is currently under appeal in the Third Circuit, the Middle District court held that, because the federal government has authority to determine transmission system needs and potential solutions, a state cannot deny a siting permit based on its own determination that a project is not needed. FERC Order No. Transource Pa.

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

The region will need to change its industrial structure and energy mix to meet national carbon targets, requiring policy and financial support from central government. between 2016 and 2019, and total energy consumption also rose far more than permitted by the 13th FYP targets. By Gao Baiyu. The Kubuqi desert. Photo credit: Alamy.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

for hiding information about acceleration problems from buyers and government officials, as well as $1 billion in compensation to car owners, after as many as 37 people were reported killed in runaway vehicles. Federal Government (via USA Spending) Toyota contracts with the U.S. It paid out a fine of $1.2 billion in 2014 to the U.S.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Issued on: 02/10/2023 - 14:20Modified: 02/10/2023 - 14:19 Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. 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. In the U.S.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Government Accountability Office report in September found that one-in-five water systems across six states had unsafe levels of PFOA and PFOS. Reforms in 2016 required deeper reviews of tens of thousands of chemicals already in use, plus the new ones introduced each year. In the case of PFAS alone, a U.S. For example, U.S.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Issued on: 17/11/2023 - 12:13 Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. 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.

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Washington Nature

DECEMBER 5, 2023

As 2023 draws to a close, Jamie Stroble, Director of Climate Action and Resilience reflects on the link between healthy community relationships and a healthy climate. As I look back over 2023, we have made brave and crucial steps forward at The Nature Conservancy in Washington towards climate & equity. Photo by Hannah Letinich.

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Cresforum

JANUARY 16, 2024

has only seen two new nuclear plants enter commercial operation since the 1990s with Watts Bar Unit 2 in 2016 and Vogtle Unit 3 in 2023. In December 2023, the Atomic Energy Advancement Act was introduced in Congress as bipartisan legislation by Reps. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) and Diana DeGette (D-Colo.).

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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

News that the Pakistan government plans to secure financing and start construction on a long-stalled 300-megawatt coal-fired power plant in the port city of Gwadar has triggered a debate on the direction of the country’s energy sector. The Gwadar coal power plant was first conceived in 2016, with an estimated cost of USD 542.32

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A Greener Life

JUNE 2, 2021

However, they fell far below what competitor BP had set out in their strategy, where Shell aimed to cut the carbon intensity of its products by at least 6% by 2023, by 20% by 2030, by 45% by 2035, and by 100% by 2050 from 2016 levels.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 21, 2023

When his grandfather passed away in 2016, Greg Strayer, now 48, took the farm over. Now that funding is available, it’s nice to see some of what I think the legislators and government want to get done, and coming to fruition at my level,” Strayer said. Strayer’s grandfather farmed the 116 acres in Shippensburg for 40 years.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Climate of fear: TotalEnergies implicated in repression of land and environmental defenders in East Africa Global Witness PaulaR Thu, 12/14/2023 - 13:39 Monday, December 4, 2023 Read more Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. In the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Latest Science A 2016 study led by health researchers at the University of Pittsburgh examined the adequacy of unconventional natural gas drilling setbacks in the three largest and most heavily drilled natural gas plays in the U.S. 26 On Cryptocurrency Mining Moratorium Bill [PaEN] [Posted: September 19, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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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. In the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

fatal occupational injuries per 100,00 Full Time Equivalent [FTE] workers) since 2016. Government standards and guidance, employer best practices, unions and worker health and safety committees are all part of the prevention toolbox, not to mention just plain common sense. That’s one every 101 minutes. They don’t need to happen.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Vehicles powered by biomethane consume about one percent of California’s transportation fuel, but in the first three quarters of 2023, biomethane used to fuel these vehicles accounted for 17 percent of LCFS credit generation. California’s LCFS is causing problems for other states and the federal government. ii] O’Malley, J.,

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Vermont Law

APRIL 4, 2023

The American Lawn and De-Colonizing the Permaculture Movement By Abigail Bailey , Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law April 4, 2023 Many Americans consider lawns synonymous with success, comfort, and community. (1) 9, 2023) [link] Schindler, supra note 1, at 394. 31, 2017, Updated Jan. 31, 2018) [link] Id.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

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. In the U.S.

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