Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

Cuba’s transition to renewable energy generation would reduce greenhouse gas emissions, helping to mitigate climate change and reduce local air pollution, while also providing a more resilient source of power compared to the current fossil fuel-heavy power system. The report builds on a previous report published by EDF in 2017.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The World Meteorological Organization Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. Energy investments, which accounted for just over 2% of global GDP annually between 2017 and 2021, rise to nearly 4% by 2030. The only way to bridge this gap is through rapid, transformational changes across the global economy in every sector within this decade.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 23, 2023

To the point that in its latest forecast, greenhouse gas emissions from gas plants are set to increase by over 400 per cent by 2030 and by almost 800 per cent by 2040 (compared to the 2017 level). It’s only the lack of political will and leadership holding us back.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 27, 2023

This blog is co-authored with Alienor Rougeot, Climate and Energy Program Manager Two prominent figures of Canada’s oil and gas industry were recently on Global TV’s politics show, The West Block with Mercedes Stephenson, where they spread a bunch of misinformation and half truths. Who are the executives who spread the misinformation?

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Air Pollution Index : Rank 26 Water Pollution Index : Rank 38 Greenhouse Gas pollution Index : Rank 10 Employment Practices Chad's ExxonMobil Workers Strike, Reducing Crude Output Emmanuel Tumanjong | Market Watch | June 28, 2021 Crude-oil production by Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp CVX.N

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A Greener Life

APRIL 19, 2022

Celebration when Emmanuel Macron was elected President of France in 2017. Photo credit: By Lorie Shaull CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia. By Anders Lorenzen. France could be at a crossroads, and it could be a worrying one if you care about the climate crisis.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 2, 2022

On November 22, 2022, sixteen municipalities of Puerto Rico filed a lawsuit in the federal district court in Puerto Rico seeking to hold coal, oil, and gas companies liable for losses resulting from storms during the 2017 hurricane season and ongoing economic losses since that time. In Municipalities of Puerto Rico v.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Air Pollution Index : Rank 26 Water Pollution Index : Rank 38 Greenhouse Gas pollution Index : Rank 10 Employment Practices Chad's ExxonMobil Workers Strike, Reducing Crude Output Emmanuel Tumanjong | Market Watch | June 28, 2021 Crude-oil production by Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp CVX.N and Chevron Corp CVX.N

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

At least twice between 2015 and 2017, former environment minister Amina Mohammed visited the wetlands in Yobe to study the situation. While admitting he owned one of the contracted companies, he said he stepped down as its chairman before accepting his political appointment. Though a 2017 senate probe revealed that ?530

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Vermont Law

MARCH 16, 2018

In deciding on necessity issues so closely related to systemic political choices, juries are essentially deliberating on policy issues, which implicates difficult questions of majority rule and separation of powers. Common Dreams (March 10, 2017), [link]. May 30, 2017). June 7, 2017). reduce the risk of a possible harm.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 13, 2020

The LCFS is a key pillar of California’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the transportation sector. The steady advance of LCFS credit prices since the summer of 2017 is well documented in CARB’s Credit Transfer Activity Reports. Concerns of Credit Price Run-up. Public Comments.

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 15, 2021

2 (10) rGD now uses the terminology `low-carbon hydrogen´, which is supposed to mean the hydrogen content of which is derived from non-renewable sources, which meets a greenhouse gas emission reduction threshold of 70%. Low- carbon hydrogen`is now one form of `low carbon gases´ (art. 2 (11) rGD).

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Legal Planet

APRIL 2, 2024

degrees Celsius above pre-Industrial levels by 2100) within reach or, at the very least, to reset the parameters within which ongoing political negotiations are conducted. degrees Celsius (the stretch goal in the Paris Agreement of keeping the world’s average surface temperature to no more than 1.5

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. political and public support) for fossil fuels, but we can tell our elected officials not to fall for CAPP’s pro-oil propaganda and to instead prioritize climate action.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2024

Subsequent federal transit funding bills generally followed the status quo, in which highways get a much greater share of funds than transit, and barely keeping pace with inflation and transit industry operational, managerial, and political factors that increase costs even higher. We got what we paid for—it wasn’t great.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Therefore, the applicants sought protection against the alleged continuing “unlawful interference”, which should have commenced in 2017 when the Czech Republic became a party to the Paris Agreement. ministries in this case) and not the general public, is a result of governmental political decision, not an exercise of public administration.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

A second bill would require annual reporting of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by a covered firm’s operations. Corporate and securities law – as well as companies and their leaders acting through lobbying and politics – also have major roles to play. [9] 24] SB 253 does not require materiality.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Major Shareholders Click here for the latest data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters.

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Real Climate

APRIL 19, 2022

Or that water vapor is the most important greenhouse gas? There was a conference last week (#DisInfo2022) on the role that disinformation is playing in our political discourse and had a lot of discussions on what it is and what should be done. van der Linden et al (2017) or [2] ). 1600008, 2017. e0175799, 2017.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Major Shareholders Click here for the latest data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Major Shareholders Click here for the latest data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Major Shareholders Click here for the latest data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The attorney general said that PwC also served from at least 2008 to 2013 as global advisor and report writer for the Carbon Disclosure Project, a non-profit organization that functions as a global disclosure system for environmental information, including greenhouse gas emissions, from companies including Exxon. 451962/2016 (N.Y.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Major Shareholders Click here for the latest data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Major Shareholders Click here for the latest data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Major Shareholders Click here for the latest data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In recent history, we have witnessed LUC exacerbating climate change due to disturbed soils, development of greenhouse gas (GHG) producing land uses, and more 4. A political view. Colorado Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Roadmap. IPCC guidelines for national greenhouse gas inventories 4 , 1–59 (2006). Adhikari, B. &

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Such infill development reduces urban sprawl, long homeowner commutes (known in planning circles as “vehicle miles traveled”), and welcome reductions in both conventional air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions that those commutes generate.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

In 2017, Joesley and Wesley Batista, two major shareholders of JBS, admitted to spending US$129 million to bribe nearly 1,900 politicians in Brazil in recent years, and agreed to pay a US$3.2 Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Major Shareholders Click here for the latest list.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

In 2017, Joesley and Wesley Batista, two major shareholders of JBS, admitted to spending US$129 million to bribe nearly 1,900 politicians in Brazil in recent years, and agreed to pay a US$3.2 Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Major Shareholders Click here for the latest list.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Vietnamese blogger who filmed chemical spill protests released from prison Radio Free Asia PaulaR Wed, 01/17/2024 - 14:44 Thursday, January 11, 2024 Read more Nguyen Van Hoa was arrested in 2017 following massive demonstrations against a Taiwan-owned steel plant. million tons of greenhouse gases that the project is expected to emit annually.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 12, 2021

It is one thing when a political leaders in a government make an ESG claim. In 2017 Sweden became the first nation to enshrine a ‘net zero by 2045’ target into law, but the law actually only requires 5 year reports on progress. carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, all emissions?). and such may be more philosophy than physics).

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

As with many environmental issues, when it comes to climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, this is no ordinary election. . As the province with the second highest greenhouse gas emissions in Canada, not doing enough to reduce these emissions is bad for the future of not just Ontario, but the whole country. .

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

This blogpost shows what is at stake regarding climate and energy policy, focusing on the election programmes of the different political parties. First, an introduction to the political landscape of the Netherlands will be given. This blog consists of three parts.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

The reason may have been the high political stakes in the car industry or the relatively easier task of setting standards for new products in a single industry using a single energy process. Tier 3 standards were phased in starting with 2017 cars. The following year, EPA proposed Tier 2 standards, including a 0.07 gpm NOx standard.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Economics is a vital link in any political system as there is a need to provide employment and funding for public services and investment and to ensure markets function. Political instability and a lack of unified program of care led to the demise of this subspecies, the story of its cousin to the south is a much different affair.

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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. 25] And that amount does not include the costs associated with local and state political opposition.

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