A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

President-elect Gabriel Boric’s new government must address issues of decarbonisation, water crisis and lithium nationalisation, all while rewriting the country’s constitution. In our government, it will be a priority to avoid this destruction and to have development that is compatible with the environment.”. By Francisco Parra Galaz

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 9, 2019

July 9, 2019. The 2019 legislative session got off to a very slow start. Reallocation of state funding appropriated in 2018 to extend water lines in areas with well contamination caused by GenX. of the 2019 budget bill reallocates those funds for a number of projects unrelated to PFAS. Section 12.13

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Even so, it compares favorably with the national governments in places like the U.S. Renewables are relatively small, at only 6%, but growing rapidly, having doubled from 2010 to 2019. In 2021, South Korea set a target under the Paris Agreement of a 40% cut from 2018 levels by 2030. and Australia.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2022

In another respect, though, there’s more similarity: in both countries, subnational governments play a key role in climate policy. Regional governments. Although ultimate power remains in the national Parliament, the national government has devolved certain powers to regional governments in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions 1990–2019. By 2019, the largest growth in absolute emissions occurred in carbon dioxide from fossil fuels and industry. As one example, according to an analysis by Client Earth , in 2019 Chevron’s disclosed emissions amounted to 697 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. The government proposes new measures to help meet the 2030 climate target, including 80% renewables by 2030. Renewables are a third of electricity consumption. Renewables are 42% of electricity.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Tesla sues Swedish government after postal workers allegedly block license plate deliveries CNBC PaulaR Thu, 11/30/2023 - 13:12 Monday, November 27, 2023 Read more Ashley Capoot Tesla filed a lawsuit against the Swedish Transport Agency on Monday that claims it should be able to collect license plates directly instead of receiving them by mail.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In 2020, we presented the results of our 2018 survey to a team at the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigating scientific integrity violations and political interference at public health agencies. We also published the results of our 2018 survey in the journal PLoS One in 2020.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

Koch family-controlled foundations donated more than $145 million to a network of 90 think tanks and advocacy groups from 1997 through 2018 to disparage climate science and block efforts to address climate change. In the 2018 and 2020 election cycles, Koch Industries’ total outlay of $26.7 million was more than the $21.7 Rick Scott.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 27, 2019

December 27, 2019. The statutes do not require direct notice to either the local government or to owners of property along the affected shoreline. The bill creates a task force to report back to the legislature in February 2020 on rules to replace those amended in 2018. Section 3 amends the law governing how the N.C.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

On October 1, 2019, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals denied fossil fuel companies’ motion for a stay pending their appeal of the district court order remanding Baltimore’s climate change lawsuit against the companies to state court. Pursuant to a consent order, the remand order will not be entered until October 10, 2019.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 13, 2021

On November 24, Queen’s Park Today reported that in response to the Ontario Liberal Party’s campaign proposal to offer electric vehicle incentives, Minister Piccini claimed the Progressive Conservative government policies have already led to “a 210 per cent increase in EV (electric vehicle) sales year over year from Q2 2020 to Q2 2021.”.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

In November 2018, the Camp Fire in northern California was sparked by a nearly 100-year old transmission line owned by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), which negligently failed to properly maintain it. When PG&E proceeded with a 2-million-customer public safety power shutoff event in 2019, Robert Mardis Sr.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In 2019, 70 percent of Seattle residents lived within walking distance of a bus or train service running at least every ten minutes—up from 25 percent in 2015. The average Seattle resident drove just 6,150 miles a year in 2018, 17% fewer than in 2005. State and federal policy supported these local initiatives.

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Law and Environment

JULY 10, 2023

Covered buildings will be required to gradually reduce emissions, relative to a 2018–2019 baseline, over compliance periods starting in 2026 and 2030. It remains to be seen whether the BEUDO amendment signals a broader trend among local governments to push for ambitious emissions building reductions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Since then, however, the gas industry—much like the oil industry—has cribbed heavily from the tobacco industry’s playbook to block government regulation by manufacturing doubt about the reality and seriousness of its “NOx problem.” Since May 2018, AGA also has spent more than $113,000 on 440 Facebook and Instagram ads.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 21, 2024

This forum was principally aimed at addressing the digital challenges anticipated in the forthcoming 2018 Elections. government, including details about their affiliation with the foreign entity and any financial compensation received. The 2018 election landscape was shaped by the Lava Jato investigations.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

Only 5 percent said so in our 2018 survey. AD: Our surveys have provided critical insights into the state of scientific integrity at government agencies over the last two decades. When the survey first broached this topic, in 2018, the responses were so eye-opening that you co-authored a 50-page report on the issue.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The new wave of litigation also arose from the urgency of combating the rise in deforestation under the right-wing-oriented President Jair Bolsonaro, who left the government in January 2023 for the return of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula). The decision was made in a lawsuit filed by four political parties (PSB et al.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 14, 2024

Unable to reauthorize the 2018 farm bill by its September 30, 2023, expiration date, Congress enacted a one-year extension last November. OG: The agribusiness sector spent more than $793 million on lobbying on a range of issues between 2019 and 2023. Between 2019 and 2023, the agribusiness sector contributed $3.4 million to Rep.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 4, 2021

A brief recap of the saga to date: – About a decade ago, the Obama administration brokered a deal between automakers, California, and the federal government to set fuel economy and tailpipe emissions standards that would be applicable nationwide. mpg by 2025. A total of ten lawsuits ended up as a consolidated action in the D.C.

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Arnold Porter

OCTOBER 14, 2021

On March 16, 2018, just hours before Mr. McCabe's long-planned retirement, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that he had fired Mr. McCabe from the FBI and removed him from the federal civil service. McCabe is the latest example of its historical commitment to protecting government employees from partisan retaliation.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2022

Seth Grove (R-York) introduced House Bill 2444 that contains a natural gas industry wish list of measures they want to expand natural gas drilling, subsidize pipeline expansion using DCNR Oil and Gas Fund revenue, automatically approve of well permits and preempting local government regulation of all facilities regulated by DEP.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2024

For more than a century, the United States has recognized this, and maintaining roads and bridges has been a core function of federal, state, and local governments. The federal government embraced a role in supporting transit in the 1970s, but this was cut back for the past 40 years and didn’t rebound until the pandemic.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 2, 2021

percent in 2018. percent in 2018. The recommendations also relate to government aid, including technical and financial assistance to low-income communities and utilities. percent of disposable income on water and sewer in 2019, up from 10.9 percent of households in 1980 to 6.7 percent of households in 1980 to 6.7

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The measure proposed acquiring the two investor-owned utilities that distribute 97% of Maine’s electricity and operating them as a new publicly-owned utility called Pine Tree Power, that would be governed by an elected board. 70% of Mainers voted to reject the measure and 30% supported it (as of this posting).

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

In 2019, that same company was in the news for purchasing water rights throughout the state and attempting to sell and lease them, prompting an ongoing legislative review of water marketing. A 2018 deal showed the tremendous speculative value of land/water deals in the Columbia River Basin. Department of Agriculture 2018 report .

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 15, 2021

A private contractor in Florida is responsible for water outages among 250,000 people in 2019, a jury finds. The report found that flows through the Colorado River basin decreased by nearly 20 percent between 2000 and 2018, but Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico are still overusing their share of the river’s waters. IN RECENT WATER NEWS.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 8, 2022

“On December 2, 2022, Glen Riddle Station LP filed a formal complaint alleging that Sunoco Pipeline LP’s construction of Mariner East 2 and Mariner East 2X pipelines across and adjacent to its buildings, which house 124 residential apartments, caused severe disruption to its residents sufficient to constitute unreasonable service by the utility.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

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. However, the Supreme Court found that the Spanish Government had complied with the Paris Agreement and the EU legislation.

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Congress passed the last Farm Bill in 2018 and Congressional leaders aim for a new Farm Bill by mid-2024. Moreover, CRP contracts are generally for only ten years (although a 2018 program allowed some 30-year contracts ). The predominant modern government support is the federal crop insurance program.  Dietary Guidelines.

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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. In 2018, Toyota was ordered to pay out $21.9 It paid out a fine of $1.2 billion in 2014 to the U.S. China fined Toyota 87.6

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Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2022

In 2018, the GCF Task Force endorsed Guiding Principles for Collaboration and Partnership Between Subnational Governments, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. A key element of the actions that GCF Task Force states and provinces are taking to reverse these trends is close partnership with Indigenous peoples and local communities.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The White House creates an outline for states, tribes, and local governments to understand new infrastructure funding. 23 Billion : Federal aid given to farmers in 2018 and 2019 to offset financial losses due to the Trump administration’s tariff tussle with China. government water policy. The Rundown. By the Numbers. $23

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2024

Camera Bartolotta (R-Washington) circulated a cosponsor memo announcing she plans to introduce legislation to eliminate the ability of citizens, local governments and anyone else to appeal permits issued by DEP for natural gas pipelines and related facilities to the Environmental Hearing Board. 2018)) Sen. On May 16, Sen. F.E.R.C. ,

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 19, 2022

But today, there is virtually no climate policy in place in the province, and the Ontario government has resorted to becoming a climate pretender. In fact, practically nothing from the 2018 Made-in-Ontario Environment Plan has been implemented. Once upon a time, Ontario was a provincial leader in fighting climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2022

My first in-person attendance at a shareholders’ meeting since 2019 promises some drama, with #DefundClimateChaos organizing a rally outside and conflicting climate resolutions before shareholders. Retired ExxonMobil engineer Bill Hafker, who I interviewed back in 2018, posed four crucial climate questions in a recent opinion column.

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