This course is a seminar on the role of law in the management of international environmental problems. The course will begin with a brief introduction to public international law as it relates to the environment and a discussion of what international environmental law means. Participants in the course will study a range of environmental issues, legal sources, and institutions.
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Today the European Union has the most environmentally-friendly arsenal of rules in the world and has done more to tackle pressing ecological problems, such as climate change, than any other major power. But it has not always been like this. Caring for the environment did not feature in the Treaty of Rome, the document that gave birth to the modern day EU. Yet environmental problems were never far away. Europe’s love affair with the car was moving into top gear, industry was busy belching out pollutants and raw sewage was being pumped into our rivers and seas.
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http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-239972
I guess you can call this my first attempt at investigative journalism (while clearly exercising my right to editorialize).
My Congressman, Jason Chaffetz, is one of CNN.com’s “Freshman Bloggers.” His latest blog entry was titled, “Why we shouldn’t use tax law as a weapon.”
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/31/chaffetz.bailouts/index.html
This edition of The Angl? is about how Chaffetz himself is basically using the word “tax” as a weapon of fear aimed at his own constituents.
The sources for my information follow:
Congressman Chaffetz’ letter:
http://www.joepuente.org/chaffetz032709.pdf
Republican Ways & Means “Sources”:
Camp Statement: Hearing on Addressing Price Volatility in Climate Change Legislation:
http://republicans.waysandmeans.house.gov/showarticle.asp?ID=538
Camp-CBO Exchange on Cap-and-Tax Proposal:
http://republicans.waysandmeans.house.gov/showarticle.asp?ID=540
Orszag: Energy Tax Will Cost Families An Average of At Least $500 More Than ‘Make Work Pay’ (n.b. this is not a direct quote):
http://www.republicans.waysandmeans.house.gov/showarticle.asp?ID=501
Event: ‘Subcommittee On Energy And Mineral Resources: Oversight Hearing On Energy Outlooks, And The Role Of Federal Onshore And Offshore Resources In Meeting Future Energy Demand’:
http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/index.php?option=com_jcalpro&Itemid=27&extmode=view&extid=229
President Obama’s Energy & Environment policy:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/energy_and_environment/
Republican Leader on “Stealth Tax”:
http://republicanleader.house.gov/blog/?p=454
What is a “Stealth Tax”?:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_tax
Peter Orszag’s prepared statement to the House Ways & Means Committee:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/assets/testimony/030409_budget.pdf
Transcript for March 4 Ways & Means Committee Hearing (unavailable as of 4/5/09):
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/hearings.asp?formmode=detail&hearing=658
Linking Cap and Trade legislation to “Making Work Pay”:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Briefing-by-White-House-Press-Secretary-Robert-Gibbs-2/26/09/
The definition of “Tax”:
http://www.investorwords.com/4879/tax.html
What is Cap & Trade/Emissions Trading?:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap_and_trade
‘Emissions trading’ a success, MIT report says
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1997/emissions-1217.html
Democrats Take On GOP Climate Change Distortions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mOXPxyw90o
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Petition: http://foxattacks.com/ You won’t believe the lies and misinformation Fox News is spreading about global warming and climate change.
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May 27 (Bloomberg) — Scott West, head of intelligence and investigations at the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, talks with Bloomberg’s Erik Schatzker about the BP Plc oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and BP’s past safety violations.
West retired from the Environmental Protection Agency after, he says, the government pulled the plug on his investigation into negligence by BP in Alaska in 2006. (Source: Bloomberg)
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www.mandarintube.com-Your Chinese Learning Channel!-This lesson is talking about-The World is crumbling, the climate is changing: watching at the daily news is like watching a horror movie! Is there something we still can do to save our own World or everything is irremediably lost? A very simple action can contribute to big results, check it out.
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Alex also talks with Christopher C. Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Horner has represented CEI as well as scientists and members of the U.S. House and Senate on matters of environmental policy in the federal courts including the Supreme Court. He has written on numerous topics and is the author of two best-selling books: Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud and Deception to Keep You Misinformed and and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism.
http://cei.org/people/christopher-c-horner
http://prisonplanet.tv/
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Minister of Environmental Protection of Armenia Aram Haroutounyan attended the sixth Forum for the Ministers on a bicycle.
He is not alone, though, he is accompanied with his counterparts from 55 countries.
By using these types of ecologically friendly means of transportation they show their concerns about environmental issues.
And the material expression of their concerns is the fourth evaluation report on the Protection of the European Environment which was published at the Forum.
This is the main document approved during the Forum about the state of the stable development of the European region.
Armenian Minister of Environmental Protection Aram Haroutounyan presented the works done during the last years in our country in this respect in his report.
Aram Haroutounyan
Minister of Environmental Protection
“Armenia is the only country of the region which has invested the Water Resources Pool Management System. The Water Code is adopted and actively implemented in Armenia. Several steps are also taken for recovering forest resources, which were expansively cut during the energy-crisis years. The volume of the state funds assigned for recovering forests was increased ten times during the last three years. Non-state funds are also established.”
Representatives of NGOs and international donor organizations have also participated in the Forum.
They got an opportunity to present the work they have done and the projects that still need to be implemented, further cooperation programmes have also been discussed.
Among those programmes is the joint programme of the governments of Armenia and Norway, and the World Wildlife Fund.
The programme is directed to the protection of biological diversities and their breeding.
It started in the south regions of Armenia some months ago, yet the Ministers of our and the donor country’s — Norway’s Environmental Protection met within the framework of the Forum.
Aram Haroutounyan
Minister of Environmental Protection
“Today and yesterday I had an opportunity to talk to my counterpart and I have invited him to Armenia with great pleasure. As soon as he comes, we will get acquainted with the programme together at the very place of the implementation of the programme, as well as with general environmental issues.”
The programme supported by the Government of Norway comprises the management of Khosrov and Shikahogh enclosures; the investment of eco-tourism system, as well as development and informing of the communities next to the territory in this context.
The authors of the programme are sure that the Armenians’ experience is implemented also for the other countries of the region.
Karen Manvelyan — Director of World Wildlife Fund in Armenia
“A Tourism Center will be founded in Khosrov, where tourists will get information and they can attend there. Of course, people won’t be able to go there with large groups, by busses, but rather with limited groups containing 4-5 people; special tourist routes will be created, international tourist operators will be invited.”
The Ministers of Education were also for the first time present at the above mentioned Forum, since the issues of forming stable educational curriculums for environmental protection are included in the agenda of the Forum.
Our country will not make its first steps in this sphere as well, even though as Armenian Minister of Education and Science Levon Mkrtchyan mentioned, there are still many things to be done in the sphere.
Nelly Danielyan, ‘Yerkirn Aysor’ (The Country Today), Belgrade, Serbia.
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What the human greed and ignorence is causing to our fragile Enviroment.
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