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The Deceit Playbook: Fossil Fuel Interests Target  Opponents with Intimidation Campaigns 

Union of Concerned Scientists

The hacking, occurring between 2015 and 2018, targeted at least 128 individuals. The DC-based lobbying group paid Forlits multiple firms a total of $16 million between 2013 and 2018 (United States District Court, Southern District of New York 2025b). org, the Climate Investigations Center, Greenpeace, and the Rockefeller Family Fund.

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The Fires in Los Angeles

Legal Planet

Is federal and California law preventing the amount of prescribed burns or vegetation management we need from occurring? Some of those have been statutory, including changes to Californias Forest Practices Act through SB 901 in 2018.

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Mine Cleanup Law Weakened By Coal’s Decline

Circle of Blue

Coal mine cleanup law is still built for the industry’s roaring ’70s. So in August of 1977, when the nation’s coal mine cleanup law went into effect, it reflected the market’s optimism. To enforce cleanup, the law allowed states to revoke mining permits, a prized commodity. . In the eastern U.S., Photo © U.S.

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What the Expiration of the 2018 Farm Bill Means for Food and Agriculture

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

On October 1, 2023, the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 – more commonly known as the 2018 Farm Bill – expired. While it’s true that there are new and significant impacts beginning in the new year, the consequences of allowing the 2018 Farm Bill to expire without a replacement are already beginning to mount.

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DEP: Widespread Non-Compliance With Environmental Laws Continues In Conventional Oil & Gas Industry; 3,108+ Abandoned Wells; At Least 85% Conventional Well Owners Fail To Submit Production, Waste, Well Integrity Reports

PA Environment Daily

2,070 conventional wells-- 66% of those abandoned wells were not required to have a well plugging bond by law. 2,070 conventional wells-- 66% of those abandoned wells were not required to have a well plugging bond by law. 753 well owners covering 81,396 wells did report. 4,946 well owners were required to report.

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Attorney General Henry Announces Criminal Charges Against Equitrans For 2018 Natural Gas Explosion That Destroyed Home In Greene County

PA Environment Daily

regarding the energy company’s failure to fix a natural gas leak that caused a house explosion in Greene County in 2018. Three occupants of the home, a couple and their four-year-old son, sustained severe burns after the house at 161 Bowser Road exploded and caught fire on October 31, 2018.

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News Flash! International Cooperation on the Environment Remains Possible

Law and Environment

That is in spite of the discovery in 2018 of “rogue” use of chlorofluorocarbons, probably from factories in China. Even in this day and age, release of the 2018 report and the resulting attention brought to the issue was apparently sufficiently embarrassing to the Chinese government to cause it to crack down on the use of CFCs.

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