Legal Planet
APRIL 22, 2024
Earth Day is a perfect day to register to vote and to make sure people in your life are registered—and fully aware of what’s at stake in Election 2024. The first Earth Day in 1970 saw teach-ins, walkouts, and demonstrations grab the participation of 20 million Americans—about 10 percent of the total U.S.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 22, 2024
Leading up to Earth Day this year, I’ve been reflecting on the meaning and purpose of the annual celebration. Earth Day began under the Nixon Administration in 1970 as a day to support environmental protection and has grown to include nations and communities around the world in appreciation of Mother Earth.
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Legal Planet
MAY 13, 2024
By one count , Biden has overturned more than two dozen of Trump actions affecting the fossil fuel industry. The earliest action covered is Biden’s rejoining the Paris Agreement; the most recent is a burst of final actions taken around Earth Day 2024. October 26, 2022. August 9, 2022. August 16, 2022.
Corp Watch
OCTOBER 13, 2023
Behind the Shine: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth and others (2003). In the Niger River Delta, the company was responsible for an average of 2,976 spills a week between 1976 to 1991, on the land of the Ogoni people. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m
Enviromental Defense
APRIL 19, 2022
Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People- A coalition of environmental, health, and social justice groups are calling on Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault to ban the export of thermal coal from Canadian ports by 2023 and to release a roadmap of this ban on Earth Day.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 12, 2024
That includes 5 million deaths linked to breathing in the emissions of fossil fuels. In the United States, a 2022 study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin found that more than 50,000 lives per year would be saved by eliminating those emissions. He wrote in 2022 that deference “deserves a tombstone no one can miss.”
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
A March 2022 article in the Journal of Economic Literature took a careful look at the impact of the Clean Air Act on jobs. The figures for green jobs compares with “467,000 in mining, 200,000 in electricity generation and several hundred thousand elsewhere in manufacturing and construction related to fossil fuels.”
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