Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

While we aim to advance policy that works in the public interest, oil and gas executives, and their powerful allies, are using their political power to block climate action in order to personally profit from more oil and gas production. This is nothing new: these companies have been actively blocking climate policy for decades.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Whether you call it updating, modernizing, or reforming, changes to the water rights system have long been considered a political third rail —the electric kind you don’t touch. Earlier this summer, I wrote about three bills that were poised to make long overdue changes to California’s outdated and inequitable water rights system.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

From 2014 through 2017, more than half of all EVs sold in the US were purchased in California, but that fraction has now fallen to one third. The higher EV sales volume in Florida and Texas is in part tied to the higher population there, but there are signs that buyers across the political spectrum are interested in EVs.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Emissions trading systems are often launched with relatively lenient design features, typically justified as giving the system a chance to “learn-by-doing” and to gain political buy-in for approval of a program. . – Continual reform to improve ambition, integrity, and buy-in. Most ETS have fallen on the prices-too-low side.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 26, 2022

Like many other women-led and community-based organizations in Puerto Rico, Taller Salud has taken up the recovery and resilience development in their communities to face the acute climatic, economic, and social crisis that Puerto Rico is facing after the devastation caused by Hurricane María in 2017.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 2, 2022

Jason Gray (far right) is presented with the GCF Task Force Everyday Hero award in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2017. In 2017, Jason was presented with the task force’s “Everyday Hero” award , given to a civil servant who embodies the coalition’s commitment to public service, forest protection, and rural livelihoods.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

However, political and economic troubles in Venezuela caused oil exports to Cuba to fall by about half, resulting in Cuba increasingly seeking oil imports from Mexico and Russia. The report builds on a previous report published by EDF in 2017. Cuba’s relationships with other countries will be key to realizing the energy transition.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Wang is a leading expert on environmental governance and the law and politics of China. Since 2017, the project has produced more than 50 published outputs, including research and scholarly publications as well as legal, policy-oriented, and popular publications.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

She was a board member of the pro-oil Fraser Institute from 2017-2020. While we aim to advance policy that works in the public interest, oil and gas executives, and their powerful allies, are using their political power to block climate action in order to personally profit from more oil and gas production.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In applying this concept to climate change, we may be able to overcome even harsh political tension, conflict, and opposition, and move towards collaboration, if we can reframe the message in a way that is appealing to everyone. And if we can readjust the messaging, then we will be capable of implementing significant change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Vigorous lobbying by Australian diplomats prevented the Great Barrier Reef from being listed in 2021, and now yet another delay in considering this politically charged question has been recommended by the Convention’s secretariat, meaning a decision won’t be taken until the 2024 World Heritage Committee meeting.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Copyright: World Economic Forum/Jakob Polacsek From January 16-20, 2023, leaders in politics, business, civil society, media, and academia gathered in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting to discuss some of the world’s most pressing issues. We have plenty of solutions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Energy investments, which accounted for just over 2% of global GDP annually between 2017 and 2021, rise to nearly 4% by 2030. Under this scenario (which the IEA calls the Net Zero Emissions by 2050 or NZE scenario), renewables reach 60% of global electricity generation in 2030 and no new conventional coal plants are needed.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2023

Below are examples of going the WRONG WAY on environmental and energy issues from last week’s articles and NewsClips-- -- City & State PA: Norfolk Southern Spent Millions On Lobbying And Political Donations In Harrisburg/Washington, D.C.,

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 6, 2023

However, it is understood that the case referred to is the George Soros-funded Central European University (CEU), which was forced out of Hungary in 2017. Despite existing declarations and legal precedents, he called for strong political leadership to enshrine these principles in concrete legislation.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 20, 2023

Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile are all in complex political, social, and economic situations. However, extreme inflation numbers, among other political problems in Argentina, still make it a highly risky place for western companies to make serious investments.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2023

New Well Abandonments DEP reports conventional oil and gas operators received 3,575 notices of violations for abandoning wells without plugging them from 2017 through 2022. For more information on the federal well plugging program, visit DEP’s Oil & Gas Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Program webpage. Read more here. 2 Hearing On A 4.5

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Ambassador Thomas Shannon, Arnold & Porter, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (2016–2018). Juster , former Ambassador to India (2017–2021). Christopher J. Dodd, Arnold & Porter, former US Senator and member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (1981-2011). Ambassador Kenneth I.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 21, 2022

Thousands of people across Canada have called on political leaders to strengthen Canada’s most important environmental law. In 2017, the House Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development recommended strengthening CEPA, leading the government to introduce Bill S-5.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2021

As a government delegate, I have been involved in the UN climate negotiation process since 2017 to uphold Bangladesh’s and the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group’s position. By Finlay McWalter at English Wikipedia. – Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., CC BY-SA 3.0, [link].

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

And we’ve seem successes in other GCF Task Force countries, in particular in Indonesia, which has been a real leader over the last several years in achieving large reductions in deforestation – a 64% reduction from 2020-2022 as compared with 2015-2017.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

What we heard in plaintiffs’ case was not justiciable controversy, but rather a weeklong hearing of political grievances that properly belongs to the legislature, not a court of law,” said Assistant Attorney General Michael Russell. The admission says a lot about political will. I’m kidding, but only slightly.)

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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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Vermont Law

APRIL 7, 2022

18, 2021, [link] Vally Koubi, Climate Change and Conflict , 22 Annual Review of Political Science, 343, 343 (2019). Rebecca Pearse, Gender and climate change , 8 WIRES CLIMATE CHANGE, 1, 1 (2017) (“climate change could become a major contributing factor to conflicts by exacerbating the scarcity of important natural resources”).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Oil workers go on strike at Exxon Mobil in Nigeria: union Reuters | May 11, 2017 Nigerian workers at U.S. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell paid no tax in Australia for 2016 Sonali Paul | Reuters | December 7, 2017 Exxon Mobil Corp XOM.N

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Frontiers

MARCH 18, 2022

Debates about how far we’ve missed the chance to improve our social, political, and economic structures to better manage the expected climate-related disasters lead to interesting questions over whether we are sufficiently prepared to cope with challenges that await us as individuals, communities and nations.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Candidate in the Department of Political Science and Trainee in the CSU InTERFEWS Program In 2014 the Whanganui River in New Zealand was granted legal personhood. And, in 2017 environmental and other groups sued the state of Colorado and asked the court to grant the Colorado river legal personhood with all associated rights.

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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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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

As a scholar of political science, this provokes compelling questions about current relationships across states, their governments, and who offers protection. Political Geography 26 (6): 639–655 Browning, C., The Future of Critical Security Studies: Ethics and The Politics OfSecurity. Guest Post by Julie Liebenguth , Ph.D.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Oil workers go on strike at Exxon Mobil in Nigeria: union Reuters | May 11, 2017 Nigerian workers at U.S. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell paid no tax in Australia for 2016 Sonali Paul | Reuters | December 7, 2017 Exxon Mobil Corp XOM.N

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

We watched, consumed, and internalized conflict as the pandemic layered social, political, economic, and climate crises. Some warn that the meaning of “resilience” has been diluted for “maladaptive political means and thus hamper the effectiveness of genuine attempts to mitigate damage” (Soubry & Sherren, 2022, p.1). Reeves, K.

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Washington Nature

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Martha joined the board of The Nature Conservancy in Washington as a Trustee in 2017. The Nature Conservancy in Washington has earned the respect and support of a diverse range of people on both sides of the political spectrum."   © Martha Kongsgaard Martha continues to sit on the boards of several conservation groups and human rights groups.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The model performed a simulation over the period from 2010 to 2017, tracking plastics from land-based sources such as rivers and coastal cities, while taking into account important dispersion processes such as sinking, vertical/horizontal mixing, wind, and currents. But models such as the one from the study can help mitigate this problem.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Mexico: Protesters are blocking access to Nestlé Tlahuapan to demand the water supply be handled with more care Cecilia Espinoza Galindo | Municipios Puebla | January 16, 2017 The protesters claim that the bottling giant extracts one million liters from the spring per day since its arrival in the municipality 20 years ago.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Mexico: Protesters are blocking access to Nestlé Tlahuapan to demand the water supply be handled with more care Cecilia Espinoza Galindo | Municipios Puebla | January 16, 2017 The protesters claim that the bottling giant extracts one million liters from the spring per day since its arrival in the municipality 20 years ago.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Superstorm Sandy in 2012, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in 2017, and Hurricane Irma in 2021 were all accompanied by the same question. Will this smoke alarm wake us up?” So far, no alarm bell has been loud enough to stop the sleepwalking.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Major Shareholders Click here for the latest list Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of Repsol Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Royal Dutch Shell BP Total S.A. Major Procurement Contracts Raytheon contracts with the U.S.

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