DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Revelations about high-level and systemic failures of oversight — both private and public — come at a time when historic federal investments in renewable energy are threatening a constellation of fossil fuel interests and political coalitions vying to preserve profits as the U.S. economy is increasingly rocked by climate chaos.

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Business Green

JULY 31, 2021

A raft of UK supermarkets and retailers have also threatened to boycott products from Brazil over a law proposed in Brazil's parliament that environmental campaigners claim could authorise yet further destruction of the rainforest. Reign of fire. At least three, spanning more than 26 sq km, were linked to illegal deforestation.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who specializes in climate science, social science, policy and the law, the climate change effects that California has experienced so far are just the tip of what’s to come. According to Emily Williams, a Ph.D.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Every policy, law, regulation, study, analysis, proposal or action that has the climate crisis in mind is built on the basis of those two figures: 1.5 Like a chicken and egg dilemma, who came up with these goals first, politics or science? Political Origins of 2°C. It is 2009 and the 35th G8 Summit. Another time jump.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In fact, when California passed its landmark 2006 climate law — which directed the state to cut greenhouse gas emissions down to 1990 levels by 2020 — supporters claimed that it would save thousands of lives through improved air quality alone. California has done exactly that. Others say that it has received too much attention.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

One of Dye’s complaints alleges that several NW Natural employees manipulated meter test data to obscure the installation of a batch of defective meters in 2009 — which remained in the field for seven years.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

South can be traced back to 2009, when wood pellets were touted as a “transition fuel” that could be used to advance the EU’s climate goals — a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels, and a 20 percent increase in renewable energy by 2020. “As The rise of the wood pellet industry in the U.S.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The electronic engineer and MBA spent 19 years as a supply chain vice president at Unilever before joining Natura in 2009. She is a chicken farmer, a zoo doctor, a firefighter, a polar marine biologist, a park ranger and a political candidate. One in five is Black. Barbie is Rosa Parks, David Bowie and Susan B.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 was the first piece of legislation signed into law by President Obama. Given the state of Congress today, and our more general state of political polarization, it may be hard to resist the eye-roll — but resisting it is more important than ever. Sponsored Article.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

viii] Due to warmer winters, cases of Lyme disease increased more than 300% between 2009 and 2015. iii] The Canadian Public Health Association ,“Health Professionals to Federal Political Parties: Action Needed to Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change.” Sea Grant Law & Policy Journal (2020, Forthcoming). April 5, 2019.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It’s a complex process that can be hard to make sense of from the outside, but it’s how international law and institutions help solve problems that no single country can fix on its own. I worked for the United Nations for several years as a law and policy adviser and have been involved in international negotiations. The U.S. ,

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Home is a 2009 French documentary film directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. This documentary was created in reaction to the Trump administration’s slashing of the laws protecting these public lands. For decades, the American political system has seemed incapable of addressing climate change on the scale necessary.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The electronic engineer and MBA spent 19 years as a supply chain vice president at Unilever before joining Natura in 2009. She is a chicken farmer, a zoo doctor, a firefighter, a polar marine biologist, a park ranger and a political candidate. One in five is Black. Barbie is Rosa Parks, David Bowie and Susan B.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 was the first piece of legislation signed into law by President Obama. Given the state of Congress today, and our more general state of political polarization, it may be hard to resist the eye-roll — but resisting it is more important than ever.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 was the first piece of legislation signed into law by President Obama. Given the state of Congress today, and our more general state of political polarization, it may be hard to resist the eye-roll — but resisting it is more important than ever.

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2024

But the killings set off a political and scientific storm, with many biologists and advocates saying the operation called into question the core of the agency’s approach to managing wildlife, and may have even violated the state constitution. By 2009, the moose population had almost doubled. Is more hunting the solution?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Hayek told Fisher to forget about getting into politics and to engage instead in a “war of ideas.” Suddenly Fisher had a lot of time on his hands and a lot of people wanted to know how the IEA had managed to push UK politics so far to the right and so quickly. conservative politics — are all members).

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

It also birthed a class of oil barons whose wealth and conservative political interests shaped national politics and popularized Texas culture in movies and TV shows. Those left behind tend to be poorer and have less political power. In fact, the agency rarely fines companies that violate Texas air pollution laws.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

Political Shifts: Earth Day Gains Momentum Despite Political Turbulence. During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. This was no doubt a political win for Earth Day. struggled under these political constraints.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

Political Shifts: Earth Day Gains Momentum Despite Political Turbulence. During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. This was no doubt a political win for Earth Day. struggled under these political constraints.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, asserted (January 27), “If Russia invades Ukraine one way or another … we will work with Germany to ensure it (the pipeline) does not move forward.” Soon after pipeline construction began in 2018, the United States passed a law threatening sanctions on the Swiss ship laying the pipe.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 23, 2022

It took pressure from the whole world seeing Putin’s “horrific international law and human rights abuse,” Romanko said, for most of them to publicly announce they would pull out of their stakes in Rosneft, Gazprom, or other joint ventures. “Putin has deliberately weaponized fossil gas.” ” – Svitlana Romanko.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Braverman’s Head of Communications David Scullion is deputy political editor of The Critic magazine, which regularly publishes articles attacking climate action by Craig Mackinlay , a Conservative backbencher who runs the NZSG with Baker. He has previously held ministerial positions at the justice and health departments.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 24, 2020

Because tigers in the United States are regulated by a combination of federal, state and local laws, there is no single government agency monitoring the location, ownership or sales of the tigers or what happens to their parts when they die. Surprisingly, only an estimated 6% of the captive tiger population in the U.S.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Over the past year, many professional services organizations that previously had little to say publicly about their climate change strategy — from law firms to management consultants to ad agencies — found themselves under closer scrutiny not just for their own footprint but for supporting some of the biggest climate deniers around.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

business and political history. Fighting Public Utilities, Child Labor Laws One of the first campaigns in that spirit occurred within the electricity utility industry via an organization which eventually became known as the Edison Electric Institute. and global politics.

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 1, 2020

A 2009 CBS News/New York Times poll found that under the presidency of Barack Obama two thirds of Americans thought that race relations were generally good. Floyd is the latest in a seemingly unending stream of unarmed black men killed by law enforcement. However, the facts contradict his denial. citizens think race relations are bad.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

From his perch at Climate Depot , the blog he’s run since 2009, Morano has elevated fake climate experts, encouraged the harassment of real climate scientists , and promoted the myth of “global cooling.” million advertising blitz in favor of another disastrous energy law. In 2019, Ohioans weathered a $9.5

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Grist

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

between 2002 and 2009, when he was governor. The same year, he tried to salvage a measure that would have increased the administrative penalty for electric industry participants that violate state law or PUC rules. On Saturday, Turner warned about the soaring residential utility bills that Texans would be getting in the coming weeks.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Hoyle served as a representative in Oregon’s legislature from 2009 to 2017 and is currently the state Labor Commissioner. In April 2018, Jordan Cove sent $40,000 to a group called Oregonians to Maintain Community Standards, a political arm for a coalition of building trades unions. He quickly endorsed her. Joe Manchin III (D-WV). “So,

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