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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. Healey issued the CID in connection with an investigation into unfair or deceptive acts or practices in trade or commerce with respect to fossil fuel products and securities. Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. Pritzker , Nos. 14-35806, 14-35811 (9th Cir. opinion Oct.

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Climate Activists Argue Criminal Acts Legally Excusable Under Necessity Doctrine

Vermont Law

On October 11, 2016, in an effort known as #ShutItDown, a group dubbed the “Valve Turners” traveled to five remote locations in North Dakota, Minnesota, Montana, and Washington, cut through locked enclosures, and turned the shut-off valves on five pipelines carrying tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada into the United States. reasonable.

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Sen. Yaw Proposes Independent Energy Office To Promote Development Of PA’s Diverse Energy Portfolio - Natural Gas, Nuclear Power, Coal

PA Environment Daily

Yaw noted the IEO would be modeled after Pennsylvania’s Independent Fiscal Office , which was created by Act 120 of 2010, and Act 100 of 2016. Yaw did not mention renewable energy in this announcement.] Click Here for a copy of Sen. Obviously, that doesn't add up quite, but there's a little bit of renewables included in that. “We

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Testimony of Michael D. Shellenberger Founder and President, Environmental Progress For the House Oversight Committee August 5, 2020

Environmental Progress

In a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi after that hearing I noted that I am aware that Congressional hearings involve some political theater. However, I am not a political appointee. I did not expect to be drawn into political theater that violates basic civility. That may be the case. I do not represent a large trade association.

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Greening the Land of Lincoln

Legal Planet

That’s crucial to the state’s decarbonization effort, given that over half of Illinois’s power generation is nuclear. There’s also $340 million for renewables, and $180 million to soften the economic impact on communities of closing fossil fuel plants.

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Michael Shellenberger talks with Nick O’Malley, National Editor of Climate and the Environment, Sydney Morning Herald

Environmental Progress

Most big environmental groups United States who take money directly from people that made their money in fossil fuels have budgets around 100 million a year, my budget is less than a million. Nick: I mean, it's something to think about when you're advocating an idea, like, lifespan for nuclear power. Michael: No.

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How Biden’s Foreign-Policy Team Got Rich

Corp Watch

But when Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election, two departing Obama officials were anxious for work. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Trump’s win had caught them by surprise. Major Shareholders Click here for the latest list. How Raytheon turned a potentially hard year into a good one.