Photo: Pixabay/Marisa04 Blanket bogs are a rare type of peatland usually lying in upland areas where there is lots of rain and temperatures are low. Often they are buffeted by strong winds all year round, which makes them ideal sites for wind farms. However, these installations could harm local ecosystems, […]
Read MorePrincipals, contractors and other building industry participants should take the opportunity in early 2023 to review contracts and procurement practices, specifically with respect to time bars in standard form contracts. Enforceability of a time bar clause, and the autonomy of parties to agree to terms in commercial contracts, has been […]
Read MoreDallas – Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added Virginia Peters as a partner in the Corporate practice, accompanied by both Michelle Boudreau and Laura Braasch as counsel. They join the firm’s Dallas office from Winston & Strawn LLP. Peters concentrates her practice on private equity, corporate governance, general […]
Read MorePhoto: Pixabay/terimakasih0 By Sonja Trierweiler When notable environmentalist Jay Westerveld coined the term “greenwashing” in the 1980s, it was a cheeky but revolutionary rebuke of what he saw as deception, even deceit, on the part of the hotel industry. Some 40 years later, the term is now a mainstay of […]
Read MoreCountry: Yemen Source: InterAction Chronic donor fatigue threatens to keep the needs unanswered. Further disengagement from donors and other international actors will have lasting effects for more than 21 million Yemenis.
Read MoreAs farmers struggle, production of key export crops remains low.
Read MoreThe median ages of populations are expected to continue rising over the coming decades. East Nanjing Road, Shanghai, China. Credit: Shutterstock. By Joseph ChamiePORTLAND, USA, Mar 27 2023 (IPS) Yes, lower the retirement ages! That is the key message that workers worldwide are conveying to their governments. Rather than increasing […]
Read MoreCountries: Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Yemen Source: International Rescue Committee The countries on this list all have something in common – despite contributing little to greenhouse gas emissions, they are especially vulnerable to the effects of […]
Read MoreBoston – A team of lawyers from K&L Gates LLP successfully represented mortgage lender James B. Nutter & Company in a tax foreclosure case before the New York Court of Appeals, with the Court, in a unanimous decision, adopting the firm’s arguments regarding the interpretation of the state’s Real Property […]
Read MoreIntroduction On 22 March 2023, the Office of the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (General Counsel) issued a policy memo (March 22 GC Memo)1 clarifying the recent McLaren Macomb decision by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board),2 which restricted the ability of employers to draft broadly worded […]
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