DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

million from 2002-2004. NW Natural acknowledged these “improvements in gas measurement and estimating” in its 2004 annual report. Based on gas cost data in company SEC filings from 2002-2004, if NW Natural reported 1 percent unaccounted-for gas to the OPUC during this period, it would be overestimating its gas costs by $4.3

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Finley, who is based in Dorset, UK, but has been the Cook Islands’ ambassador to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) since 2006, has been praised for his contributions to the agency by its Secretary-General. ‘Full Confidence’ of Cook Islands.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Since 2004, tornadoes have caused roughly $90 million in property damage in Pennsylvania alone. The laws of physics that govern atmospheric motions are agnostic about county, state and country,” he said. “If For organizations concerned with collective risk, like government agencies and insurance companies, these changes matter. “As

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JULY 7, 2015

For Cotter, this means when Luminalt has an entry-level position to fill, she first goes looking for new hires at community-based organizations, like Asian Neighborhood Design , an architecture and planning nonprofit that provides work training to help disadvantaged individuals become self-sufficient.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

“There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond],” says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. “But at the same time, when you look at the reality of it, it is sad.” California has done exactly that.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Bespectacled, tall, and barrel-chested, with blonde hair and a beard punctuated by gray, Cole stood confidently before a classroom of conference attendees at a University of Oregon environmental law symposium in 2008, less than a year before his death. Abascal gave Cole a desk and a phone, and Cole got to work. Early Influences.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 17, 2024

Those numbers say to me that he doesn’t believe we need to actually roll up our sleeves and work on climate change in a meaningful way,” said Bea Bruske, president of the Canadian Labour Congress, a national labour organization that’s been supporting ongoing federal legislation to foster climate-friendly union jobs.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 29, 2019

Blame Bolsonaro Opposition politicians, student activists, and Indigenous organizations have called for a congressional investigation into the cause of the fires. This includes changing environmental rules, defunding government oversight, failing to enforce existing laws and dissolving the Amazon fund's committees.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. political arena as president, a period said to have a concerted assault on many green organizations. “ Organize a screening of Earth Day related films.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Today K-Solv is legally allowed to release almost 20 times more volatile organic compounds — a class of chemicals that includes benzene — into the air each year than it did back then. Its main facility, opened in 2004, now occupies about 8 acres along the San Jacinto River in Channelview.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. political arena as president, a period said to have a concerted assault on many green organizations. “ Organize a screening of Earth Day related films.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2021

All four have been roundly panned by government agencies, environmental groups, tribal governments, Native American organizations and the public at large. By the time the public comment period ended in September 2020, people and organizations had sent BLM and BIA more than 35,000 comments and suggestions on the proposed plan revisions.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

From 1975 to 1987, average fuel economy rose quickly — but then it declined between 1988 and 2004, as the Energy Department reported last year. But efficiency advocates noted those numbers actually fell short of federal targets, faulting loopholes in the law that they say promote larger vehicles. Credit: Sicnag ( CC BY 2.0 ).

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2024

Elsewhere in the state, removing 96 percent of black bears in 2003 and 2004, reducing hunting, and killing wolves boosted the number of moose. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that federal agencies have ultimate authority over state laws in refuges; last year, the Supreme Court declined to hear the case. In 2022, the 9th U.S.

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Grist

JANUARY 29, 2020

Confinement elevates the risk of detonation, as does contamination by organic material such as dirt, grain, or oil. The rollback prompted lawsuits from the public-interest law firm Earthjustice and the United Steelworkers. “At Ammonium nitrate can be destabilized by an exceptionally hot fire, causing the pellets to melt.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2023

One of the best examples of this early support is a 2004 presentation by the Association of American Railroads in which it was arguing for regulators to allow the transport of nuclear waste by rail. We therefore are not the right organization to take on the task of performing the testing.”

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