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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Have technological capabilities to observe forest activity also increased? Advancements in both technological capabilities and in continuing access to these tools has been really important for tracking forest cover, deforestation rates, and increasingly, impacts from degradation. Gray: Yes, for sure.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 20, 2023

Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile are all in complex political, social, and economic situations. However, the country is now trying to create partnerships with foreign companies that can provide the required technology and technical capacities to get the business started. This challenge has not been successfully addressed yet.

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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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Physics World

MAY 20, 2021

Arm Holdings doesn’t build the chips, but licenses its technology to virtually every semiconductor company on the planet. Rivals could therefore manage their own supply chains, knowing they had access to advanced and widely used processor technology under reasonable terms. I hope they make the right decision.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 24, 2021

His work focuses on the political economy of environment, technology and development. During this research in 2017, Hurricane Irma hit Barbuda and damaged or destroyed almost every building on the island. Our main research expertise is the political economy of environment and development, not disasters, per se.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Mr. Minott holds two degrees in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. In 2002, Scientific American named Dr. Mann one of the fifty leading visionaries in science and technology, and in 2012, he received the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geophysical Union. from Villanova University School of Law.

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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

DECEMBER 17, 2021

For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. Each of them was adopted at some prior COP, after parties at some still-earlier COP made a political (i.e., The largest decision adopted this year, and the main focus of negotiations and political conflict, was called the “Glasgow Climate Pact.”

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Physics World

MAY 11, 2022

During its first years of operation, it was the most powerful example of particle accelerator technology in operation in Europe. Having achieved this technological leap, Liverpool’s synchrocyclotron would be used to make a more fundamental breakthrough at the heart of how matter behaves. Making strides and breaking laws.

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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. For years, in our sustainability law practice, we have assisted businesses manage carbon asset risk.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Bonomo, who first came to PennFuture as the organization’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in August 2016, has served as the organization’s President and Chief Executive Officer since October of 2017. energy technology policy. Since her promotion into the role of president, PennFuture has raised over $11.5

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Physics World

JUNE 19, 2021

What’s more, by 2017 new results from the two kinds of traditional proton-radius experiments started to confirm the muon data. That becomes a political question I guess,” he replies. So if CREMA’s result was right, it raised the thrilling prospect that the Standard Model might need overhauling. Decisions, decisions. Scattered doubts.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 11, 2024

Uber settles federal investigation into workplace culture Kate Conger | The New York Times | December 19, 2019 In 2017, a former Uber employee wrote a public essay describing how the ride-hailing company had permitted sexual harassment to fester at the workplace. Subsidiaries Note: Not all sources provide complete lists.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Uber settles federal investigation into workplace culture Kate Conger | The New York Times | December 19, 2019 In 2017, a former Uber employee wrote a public essay describing how the ride-hailing company had permitted sexual harassment to fester at the workplace. Subsidiaries Note: Not all sources provide complete lists.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

In 2017, Amazon bought up Whole Foods, an upmarket U.S. We have estimated that in 2017 Amazon’s tax avoidance from profit shifting alone cost the UK £52million. Founder Bezos is now worth some $200 billion, but millions of his workers struggle to make living wages in hazardous working conditions. federal government (via SAM).

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In 2017, Amazon bought up Whole Foods, an upmarket U.S. We have estimated that in 2017 Amazon’s tax avoidance from profit shifting alone cost the UK £52million. Founder Bezos is now worth some $200 billion, but millions of his workers struggle to make living wages in hazardous working conditions. federal government (via SAM).

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

In 2017, Amazon bought up Whole Foods, an upmarket U.S. We have estimated that in 2017 Amazon’s tax avoidance from profit shifting alone cost the UK £52million. Founder Bezos is now worth some $200 billion, but millions of his workers struggle to make living wages in hazardous working conditions. federal government (via SAM).

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In 2017, Amazon bought up Whole Foods, an upmarket U.S. We have estimated that in 2017 Amazon’s tax avoidance from profit shifting alone cost the UK £52million. Founder Bezos is now worth some $200 billion, but millions of his workers struggle to make living wages in hazardous working conditions. federal government (via SAM).

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In 2017, Amazon bought up Whole Foods, an upmarket U.S. We have estimated that in 2017 Amazon’s tax avoidance from profit shifting alone cost the UK £52million. Founder Bezos is now worth some $200 billion, but millions of his workers struggle to make living wages in hazardous working conditions. federal government (via SAM).

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

In his recent testimony to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, the coauthor of Princeton University’s Net-Zero America study noted that just because an energy technology is not reliable does not mean that it has no role in a reliable system. [8] percent of the grid’s power. We need to respect our grid authorities.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 6, 2020

In 2013, legislators directed the water quality program to test an unproven in-lake technology to reduce algal growth as a possible substitute for nutrient reduction rules and appropriated $1.35 million in 2017 for another DEQ pilot project to test algaecides and phosphorus-locking technologies to control algal growth.

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Water Research & Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

in Chemistry from the University of Minnesota in 2017, advised by Prof. And that is when I consider the birth of the Alex Pinto group, in Fall 2017. Maybe that reviewer is on a bad day or was not trained to express their opinions in a more polite way. Then, I moved to the USA for Graduate School. I obtained my Ph.D.

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Arnold Porter

JANUARY 18, 2023

On January 17, 2023, Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite announced that DOJ’s FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy would become known as the Corporate Enforcement and Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy , applicable to all criminal matters handled by the DOJ Criminal Division. POLICY ANNOUNCEMENTS. Blankfein , No. In re Cognizant Tech.

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CEQA Developments

JANUARY 2, 2023

of Governments (2017) 3 Cal.5th First, if you’re the Legislature, consider exempting your project entirely from CEQA – because you can (although there would probably be political hell to pay)! San Diego Assn. 5th 497, 516-517.). The EIR’s Biological Resources Impact Analysis Was Adequate.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 20, 2022

It entered into liquidation in January 2018 following a deterioration in cash flows in respect of several of its projects and an earlier announcement of an expected provision of £845 million in June 2017, causing its share price to fall significantly.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2023

DEP’s own analysis of applications it receives found in 2017 60 percent of erosion and sedimentation permit applications were incomplete or had technical deficiencies in the Oil and Gas Program and outside of that program as many as 80 percent of the permit applications DEP received were incomplete or had deficiencies. Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

From 2017 to 2019, the agency counted 321 emergency department visits related to harmful algal bloom exposure. million from 1978 to 2017. million from 1978 to 2017. million acres in both states in 2017. Technology for controlling phosphorus is available. The EQIP program is making the blooms worse, said the group.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Doing research on environmental issues or responses is usually an easy call for policy-makers and gets wide political support, even if there’s disagreement what to do about the issue. Because these harms are all mediated by political behavior, it is impossible to conclusively refute claims that they “could” happen.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Sentencing was scheduled for February 3, 2017. The petitioners said they wished to obtain a ruling on the merits prior to the scheduled May 2017 completion date for the pipeline in the event that the D.C. The count to which the defendant pleaded guilty involved a request for reimbursement of $363,668.50 United States v. Ruffatto , No.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2023

His highly-regarded film Dunkirk (2017) depicts the famous battle of World War II. Indeed, Nolan has shown consistent fascination with morally complex figures for whom the power and temptation of technology leads them and those around them to cross ethical boundaries.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 14, 2022

Instead it begins with this: A brief on how adept engineering for dams and aqueducts, government subsidy, technological development for pumps and water recycling, surpassing marketing, and an advantageous assemblage of natural resources – sun, warmth, blue sky, and open spaces – produced one of the greatest desert civilizations in human history. .

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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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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

trillion American food and fiber production sector that counts powerful allies in marketing, equipment, chemical, energy industries, and politics. . Department of Agriculture 2017 Census and U.S. The technology measures plant growth and soil conditions. are the frontline of an immense $1.1 The productivity of U.S. A last point.

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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 initial standard, set in the 1970 Clean Air Act, was 3.1 gpm NOx standard.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

But rather than admitting that their product is causing the problem, they continue to insist on producing tar sand oil and crossing their fingers that risky and underperforming CCS technology will allow them to get away with it. Pourbaix is pushing hard to take us away from effective climate action, and getting very rich while doing it.

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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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