All sanctions against the McClintock Six were nullified by San Juan Superior Court Judge Oscar Dávila Suliveres on May 8, 2007, who determined that they had broken no programmatic or rule-based accord, and that they were free to run in the NPP's 2008 primary.

Caltech received $ 144 million in federal funding for the physical sciences, $ 40. 8 million for the life sciences, $ 33. 5 million for engineering, $ 14. 4 million for environmental sciences, $ 7. 16 million for computer sciences, and $ 1. 97 million for mathematical sciences in 2008.

Palamar ( 2008 ) notes an overshadowing by mainstream environmentalism of pioneering women in the early 1900s who fought for urban health ecology and brought about changes in environmental legislation.

In 2008, assurances from Russia's ambassador to Ghana concerning assistance to sustain the fight against mosquitoes and environmental pollution in the region were very much appreciated since they were the major problems confronting Accra.

In the 2008 elections for senators, the JDA fielded two candidates, two candidates stood as members of the campaign group " Jersey 2020 " ( focusing on environmental issues ) and two for " Time4Change / Reform ": none was successful.

A 2008 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science found that a nuclear weapons exchange between Pakistan and India using their current arsenals could create a near-global ozone hole, triggering human health problems and wreaking environmental havoc for at least a decade.

Consolidated Biscuit Company of McComb, Ohio, agreed to buy the Products plant in 2008, pending an environmental review.

The Russian-Georgian-Ossetian conflict ( 2008 South Ossetia war ) and environmental problems delayed the project, which was originally to be completed by 2010 but is now scheduled for completion by 2012.

Just as, Dove and Carpenter state, “ indigenous people have important environmental knowledge which could contribute to conservation ” ( 2008: 4 ).

There are some ISO standards relating to recycling such as ISO 15270: 2008 for plastics waste and ISO 14001: 2004 for environmental management control of recycling practice.

Oscar was adopted as the mascot for Waste Reduction Week in Canada, an environmental campaign that took place October 19 – 25, 2008.

In March 2008, Richard Branson hosted an environmental gathering at his private island, Necker Island, in the Caribbean with several prominent entrepreneurs, celebrities, and world leaders.

In the summer of 2008, the Letcher County Fiscal Court had signed an agreement with state officials stating that the county would do an environmental impact study before construction would begin.

Opposition to the nomination came from the Organic Consumers Association, which outlined in a November 2008 report several reasons why it believed Vilsack would be a poor choice for the position, particularly as energy and environmental reforms were a key point of the Obama campaign.

In 2008, Rutgers opened the Cousteau Coastal Center of its Institute of Marine & Coastal Sciences in the former David Sheppard House, a base from which it coordinates cutting-edge ecological research and develops modules for environmental learning at all educational levels from elementary school upward.

On September 15, 2008, the Village Board voted to accept a Negative Declaration on the State Environmental Quality Review for the proposed rink, which eliminates the need for further exhaustive site environmental impact studies.

These plans were later suspended in 2008 due to environmental concerns.

A coalition of environmental groups filed a complaint against Nestlé to the Canadian Code of Advertising Standards after Nestlé took out full-page advertisements in October 2008 claiming that " Most water bottles avoid landfill sites and are recycled ", " Nestlé Pure Life is a healthy, eco-friendly choice " and that " Bottled water is the most environmentally responsible consumer product in the world ".

Recently, the Class of 2008 designated its senior class gift to a Sustainability Fund to support initiatives to improve environmental sustainability on campus and in the greater community.

However, by October 2008 it was evident that the return of environmental flows to the Snowy River in 2009 would be no more than 4 % of natural flow with governments arguing the Snowy River needs to " pay back " the " Mowamba Borrowings ".

In January 2008, the Government of India launched a dedicated anti-poaching force composed of experts from Indian police, forest officials and various other environmental agencies.

52 environmental groups, recreational fishing groups, and divers ' groups formed the " Blue Wedges " group to oppose the proposed channel deepening and dredging with organised protests carried out, culminating in the group taking action in the Federal Court in January 2008 against the Commonwealth to stop it signing off on the project.

In 2008, the Federal government spent $ 23 million to buy Toorale Station in northern New South Wales, which allowed for the return of eleven gigalitres of environmental flows.

The environmental assessment is expected to be complete in 2008 and construction is scheduled to begin in 2010.

In 2008, ATSDR had cooperative agreements with 29 states and one tribal government, providing technical assistance to help those partners address local environmental health concerns.

New management had not yet had an impact on the team in 2008.

On 9 May 2008, the Falkland Islands Government asserted that the minefields which represent 0. 1 % of the available farmland on the islands " present no long term social or economic difficulties for the Falklands " and that the impact of clearing the mines would cause more problems than containing them.

On June 25, 2008, MLB installed a new plaque for Robinson at the Baseball Hall of Fame commemorating his off-the-field impact on the game as well as his playing statistics.

The economic impact of SU in the Seattle area in 2008 was $ 580. 4 million.

Traces the history of the medium since its beginnings in the 1950s and examines its varied impact on elections through 2008.

By 2008, such pressures appeared to have an insignificant impact on oil prices given the onset of the global recession.

As the largest employer in Orange County, UCI contributes an annual economic impact of $ 4. 2 billion with an operating budget of almost $ 1. 9 billion for 2008 including $ 328 million in extramural research funding.

A 2011 paper by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Harvard School of Public Health, “ The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the First Year ,” utilized Oregon ’ s 2008 decision to hold a randomized lottery for the provision of Medicaid insurance in order to measure the impact of health insurance on an individual ’ s health and well-being.

For the above formulation and its huge impact in practice, Cortes and Vapnik received the 2008 ACM Paris Kanellakis Award.

In 2004, Adams was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in recognition of his impact on the English game, and in 2008 he was placed third in the 50 Greatest Gunners poll on the club's website.

On 7 November 2008, former Batman Mayor Hüseyin Kalkan began looking into the possibility of suing Christopher Nolan, director of Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, and Warner Bros., distributor of the films, claiming the studios had been using " Batman ", the name of the superhero, without permission from the city, and " placing the blame for a number of unsolved murders and a high female suicide rate on the psychological impact that the films ' success has had on the city's inhabitants.

By 2008 the price of rice had more than tripled in some regions, which had an especially severe impact in developing countries.

In 2008, Guinness World Records listed it as the number seventy-nine arcade game in technical, creative, and cultural impact.

For a general idea on how an empowered women can impact a situation monetarily, a study found that of fortune 500 companies, “ those with more women board directors had significantly higher financial returns, including 53 percent higher returns on equity, 24 percent higher returns on sales and 67 percent higher returns on invested capital ( OECD, 2008 ).” This study shows the impact women can have on the overall economic benefits of a company.

At the 2008 Innovations for Poverty Action / Financial Access Initiative Microfinance Research conference, economist Jonathan Morduch of New York University noted there are only one or two methodologically sound studies of microfinance's impact.

The first randomized evaluation of the impact of introducing microcredit in a new market has been undertaken in slums in Hyderabad, India, in 2008.

Samoa participated in the first Cuba-Pacific Islands ministerial meeting in Havana in September 2008, aimed at " strengthening cooperation " between Cuba and Samoa, notably in coping with the impact of climate change.

In September 2008, over public opposition and in spite of Ontario Ministry of Environment ( MOE ) reports indicating off site leachate impact from the dump and the likelihood of runoff to the St. Lawrence River, the MOE permitted additional dumping at the " Big Ben " site of creosote and bitumin contaminated soils from Domtar's former No-co-rode Ltd. site.

* Alexander M. Peterson's 2009 Note in the Cornell International Law Journal detailing the dispute, clarifying the legal impact of the 2008 Sino-Japanese arrangement to cooperate in the East China Sea, and proposing increased Sino-Japanese cooperation.

In May 2008, Wired News reported that " experts say it will be 40 years or more before hydrogen has any meaningful impact on gasoline consumption or global warming, and we can't afford to wait that long.

( To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the original telecast, Clark and Wolff appeared at the Paley Center for Media in Manhattan on 22 September 2008, to discuss the broadcast and its impact, following a broadcast of the programme.