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COPs as Three-Ring Circus

Legal Planet

For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. Acute pressure mounts over the two weeks to get some announcable achievement, which almost always happens after all-night negotiations on the final day. These are the official negotiations, which take place inside closed or mostly- closed rooms.

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Senate, House Climate Caucus Calls On General Assembly To Act On Meaningful Climate Legislation, Protect Public Health

PA Environment Daily

Carolyn Comitta (D-Chester) and Minority Chair of the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, led a Senate-House Climate Caucus news conference celebrating Climate Action Week in Harrisburg. I want to thank all the lawmakers who have worked, and continue to work, on the eight recommended reforms made by the grand jury.

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Letters of Belpher to Kasgar:* On the Methods of Denying Climate Change

Acoel

With All Sincerity, Belpher January 13, 2023 Dearest Kasgar, Let me first discuss a tactic that we now disfavor – challenging scientific findings. Perhaps our greatest accomplishment in the scientific arena was convincing a Democratic President that “clean coal ” was real! — slight pause — And who will pay?”

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Little Evidence That Hate Speech Causes Real World Harm

Environmental Progress

While the violence of Indian lynch mobs, Sri Lankan vigilantes and genocidal regimes in Rwanda and Myanmar have all similarly been explained by the espousal of or engagement with hate speech. Meanwhile, Jacob Mchangama highlights that Nazi antisemitism did not work in many parts of Germany.

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The Deadly $125-Billion ICBM Boondoggle

Union of Concerned Scientists

Mitt Romney issued a press release crowing about all the money he secured for his state in the National Defense Authorization Act, the annual bill that lays out what the government will spend on the US military in the following fiscal year. Starting a nuclear war by mistake is the greatest existential risk to the United States today.

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2020 in Hindsight: Key Considerations for Directors in 2021

Arnold Porter

directors are responsible for ensuring that the company has in place information and reporting systems reasonably designed to provide the Board and senior management with timely, accurate information sufficient to support informed judgments about the risks facing the company. Derivative Litigation, 698 A.2d 2d 959 (Dec.

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1,198 New Stories In 2021 - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA - Is Your Story Being Told?

PA Environment Daily

Here are 1,198 articles published in local news media and in the PA Environment Digest during 2021 that tell the stories of thousands of individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.