DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 25, 2024
Weatherford, a lawyer from the corporate law firm Baker Hostetler, stated in opening arguments that Mann was so disliked that “even his own family won’t come to court to defend him.” Many other scientists on the IPCC panel have also said they won the 2007 award, Mann testified.
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 19, 2022
It’s a ridiculously ineffective program,” Drew Yewchuk, a lawyer with the University of Calgary’s Public Interest Law Clinic, told DeSmog. As early as 2007, Alberta’s provincial government instituted a carbon tax on large industrial emitters, which has raised U.S. 350 million (C $463 million) for energy research.”.
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R-Squared Energy
APRIL 10, 2021
In 2007 those mandates were expanded. The Bush Administration passed a number of laws aimed at accelerating the development of fracking. Many of those laws were staunchly criticized by environmental groups, but there is no doubt they helped spur an enormous increase in U.S. ” Treating an Addiction. .”
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
NOVEMBER 14, 2015
Google prides itself on having been carbon-neutral since 2007, with data centers that use 50% less energy than is typical. Cynthia Christensen of Namasté Solar might agree, though she got into solar almost by accident — after a bet she made as a pre-law student with a boyfriend that they couldn’t handle each other’s classes.
DeSmogBlog
JUNE 29, 2022
Properly plugging and abandoning oil and gas wells is vital to protect the environment and stop methane leaks – but for decades, oil operators have often slipped away without paying to clean up, leaving millions of deteriorating abandoned wells across the U.S. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law signed this past November set aside $4.7
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 13, 2021
The assertions also lack detail, face technical problems, ignore leaking methane emissions, and depend on government subsidies for funding. To complicate matters further, new research suggests that fugitive methane emissions from fracking operations are far higher than official data indicates. And that is from just one project.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
In 2007, Lily Ledbetter sued her employer, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, for years-long gender-based pay discrimination. The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 was the first piece of legislation signed into law by President Obama. Photo by Wake Forest University School of Law/Flickr. Sponsored Article.
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