Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Primarily, these have focused on the 2007 EPA regulations, which were the first step in the phase-in of diesel engine standards meant to cut particulate emissions by more than 80 percent and smog-forming nitrogen oxides (NO X ) emissions by 90 percent. Industry can’t even agree with itself about this effect. Source: ERM 2022 ).
Circle of Blue
APRIL 21, 2022
Greg Mort painting “Circle of Blue” in 2007. In 2007, the Morts founded the Art of Stewardship Foundation, a nonprofit that encourages artists to work with environmental groups to make environmental responsibility a “subconscious” effort. Photo © Greg and Nadine Mort. Find out more here.
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Legal Planet
MAY 16, 2023
As in the US, Australia’s climate policy was long a victim of a lengthy period of divided government and political upheaval. From 2007 to 2016, control of the Australian House and Senate were generally in the hands of different parties, and the two parties almost never agreed on climate issues. As in the U.S.,
Real Climate
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
But the effect of greenhouse gases is not even investigated in the paper – which suggests the title is politically motivated. Is it sheer incompetence or is it politically motivated? Let’s hope it was not political on the part of that institution, but just a bad mistake. It is a scandal.
Enviromental Defense
MAY 1, 2024
While we aim to advance policy that works in the public interest, oil and gas executives, and their powerful allies, are using their political power to block climate action in order to personally profit from more oil and gas production. This is nothing new: these companies have been actively blocking climate policy for decades.
Circle of Blue
OCTOBER 19, 2022
It is Syria’s first outbreak of the waterborne pathogen since 2007. Social and political circumstances in Syria may have aided the outbreak. That is the number of cholera cases recorded in Syria from the end of August through the first week of October, in an outbreak that now spans the country.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 29, 2023
These fees and programs were established with legislation in 2007 and then were extended until 2024 with the passage of Assembly Bill 8 in 2013 (hence the name, “AB 8 fees”). Passing fees in California requires a two-third’s vote from both houses of the legislature, and when vote margins are slim, the politics get tricky.
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