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    The Climate Change Accountability Act is a Private Member's Bill that was submitted in the 39th, 40th and 41st Canadian Parliaments. It was originally...
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    energy and climate change, and three years of Affordable Care Act subsidies. It represents the largest investment towards addressing climate change in United...
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  • global economy. Layton tabled a private member's bill, the Climate Change Accountability Act (Bill C-224), which contained plans to respect Kyoto's targets...
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  • misconduct." Accountability cannot exist without proper accounting practices; in other words, an absence of accounting means an absence of accountability.[citation...
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    Climate change is impacting the environment and human population of the United Kingdom (UK). The country's climate is becoming warmer, with drier summers...
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    Greta Thunberg (category Swedish climate activists)
    immediate action to mitigate the effects of human-caused climate change. Thunberg's climate activism began when she persuaded her parents to adopt lifestyle...
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    reauthorization bill with substantial changes to several of the act's sections, while the House reauthorization bill kept most of the act's original language...
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  • To promote transparency and accountability, the act mandates 'monthly squaring of accounts'. To ensure public accountability through public vigilance, the...
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    Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. The bipartisan bill granted people the right to keep their insurance plan if they changed jobs, and also contained...
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    to end the Ontario Green Energy Act." Bill 57, also known as the Restoring Trust, Transparency and Accountability Act transferred the Environmental Commissioner...
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    increased majority in 2011. Leslie re-introduced the NDP's Climate Change Accountability Act in the House of Commons in June 2011 after it was defeated...
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    Eleanor Holmes Norton introduced a bill for statehood. Reintroduced in 2019 and 2021 as the Washington, D.C., Admission Act, the U.S. House of Representatives...
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  • Opioid Crisis Accountability Act of 2018". www.congress.gov. Retrieved 29 August 2019. "Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Hold Drugmakers Accountable for Opioid...
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  • doi:10.1111/j.1467-8519.2008.00688.x. PMID 19077128. S2CID 25203457. "Climate change victims estimated at millions in the near future, according to Christian...
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  • and renamed in 2013 as the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation) is a nonprofit organization under section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. tax code. It...
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    Child Left Behind Act, a major education bill. He also pushed for socially conservative efforts, such as the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act and faith-based...
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    Fossil fuel divestment (category Economics and climate change)
    divestment or fossil fuel divestment and investment in climate solutions is an attempt to reduce climate change by exerting social, political, and economic pressure...
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    countries. Other instances of usage have included the terms age of accountability, age of responsibility, and age of liability, The term minimum age of...
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  • Act of 1996. President Bill Clinton signed the Act into law and it became effective on April 1, 1997. The key components of the Act included increasing the...
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    person whose fostering of public accountability was unwelcome. Upon completion of testing in December 1969, the first C-5A was transferred to the Transitional...
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    order) America's Climate Security Act of 2007 Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act Community Broadband Bill Community Choice Act Comprehensive Immigration...
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    World Bank (category Organizations based in Washington, D.C.)
    December 2019. Lang, Marissa J. (6 December 2019). "Climate change protesters block downtown D.C. streets in hours-long protest". Washington Post. Retrieved...
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    believed otherwise. Case C-224/01, [2003] ECR I-10239 P Laboratoires Pharmaceutiques Bergaderm and Goupil v Commission Case C-352/98, [2000] ECR I-5291...
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    Scott Pruitt (category People appearing on C-SPAN)
    14 federal investigations. Pruitt denies the scientific consensus on climate change. Pruitt represented Tulsa and Wagoner counties in the Oklahoma Senate...
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    2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 was signed into law by President Donald Trump. Inside the final version of the bill was a repeal of the individual...
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  • (June 1, 2005). "On Issues of Concern about the Governance of the Climate Change Science Program" (PDF). pp. 10–11. Archived from the original (PDF)...
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    the Act. In 2024, the U.S. ranked 34th among 180 countries in the Environmental Performance Index. The country joined the Paris Agreement on climate change...
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    (2018). "Equity, Environmental Justice, and Urban Climate Change". Climate Change and Cities. pp. 173–224. doi:10.1017/9781316563878.013. ISBN 978-1-316-56387-8...
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  • Martin and in 1822 an anti-cruelty to cattle bill (sometimes called Martin's Act) became law. Martin's Act was supported by various social reformers who...
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    United States Postal Service (category 1971 establishments in Washington, D.C.)
    Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013, passed in March, reversed the cuts to Saturday delivery. The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 (PAEA) obligated...
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