Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Scientists say their findings could help close a legal loophole that enables the federal government to avoid considering greenhouse gas emissions impacts on threatened and endangered species.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2023

Furthermore, the EPA case studies in question were published in 2008 and the findings are for the first round of grants ever awarded under the Problem-Solving Program. In 2008, the EPA also published a model guide for the program that directly addresses the challenges covered in the case studies.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Perhaps less excitingly, but more consequentially, Brazil also has a long tradition of progressive environmental policies and climate governance, playing a key role in several international conferences. Under President Bolsonaro, Amazon deforestation soared to its highest rate since 2008.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. The government proposes new measures to help meet the 2030 climate target, including 80% renewables by 2030. New rates are large enough to spark expansion of renewable industry. Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The act provided $350 billion to local, state, and tribal governments that could be used for broadband, water and sewer, lost revenue, and pandemic response. million agreement with Phoenix in 2008. government water policy. .” — Rep. Several have done so , including the Gila River Indian Community, which signed a $27.6

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Physics World

JULY 30, 2021

Maskawa shared half the 2008 Nobel prize with the Japanese physicist Makoto Kobayashi for their work on the mechanism of “broken symmetry” that led to the prediction of a new family of quarks. It is the theory that explains this broken symmetry that has handed the 2008 prize to Maskawa. “Maskawa leaves an important legacy.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2023

Over the course of his 45-year career serving as a scientist for the US government, his research shaped the fields of minerology and geophysics and generated billions of dollars for industry. When he died in 2008, his Washington Post obituary read “A Rock Star of Geology.” Today, US-China relations are headed in a dangerous direction.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2022

Seth Grove (R-York) introduced House Bill 2444 that contains a natural gas industry wish list of measures they want to expand natural gas drilling, subsidize pipeline expansion using DCNR Oil and Gas Fund revenue, automatically approve of well permits and preempting local government regulation of all facilities regulated by DEP.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 29, 2024

The Portlands gas plant was built in 2008 and was designed as a peaker gas plant, meaning that it would only operate a few hours per month when electricity demand was high. The world is going through an energy transition yet the Ontario government is stuck in the past. This is not the work of a fiscally responsible government.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2023

First, it seeks to structure more flexible implementation support for subnational governments and communities for policy implementation and actions. Subnational governments, and the communities they serve, know their needs, realities, and opportunities best. Why the GCF Task Force?

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 13, 2022

Scientists have had reasons for concern about climate change for over a century, and the first government report on the problem was fifty years ago. At least by 1992, then, it is clear that there was widespread recognition at the highest levels of government that climate change was a serious problem.

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Energy & the Law

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The Injection Well Act (Chapter 27 of the Texas Water Code) governs the permitting process for underground injection wells in Texas. April 2008: ALJ recommends that the permit be issued. December 2008: TCEQ remands the application for more modeling. September 16, 2005: RRC no-harm letter.

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Legal Planet

MAY 25, 2023

A default would mean that the government wouldn’t have the funding to pay all its debts immediately. The grantees or government contractors would still get their money. government debt. And the government’s response to the recession could also matter. Remember 2008?) International repercussions.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

True, t he world was different in many ways in 2008 when Obama took office, including the energy sector. The earliest government estimate of the social cost of carbon was for 2010: $21/ton with a 3% discount rate and $35 at a 2.5% We can also take a rough stab at monetizing the amount of resulting harm. discount rate.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 19, 2023

Family farms are searching for creative ways to sustain themselves amidst these changes, all while coexisting with and conserving the nearby tropical rainforests — for which farmers receive a small amount of compensation from the government. Christian Thorsberg, Interim Stream Editor Recent WaterNews from Circle of Blue U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The Cherry Valley National Wildlife Refuge was established in 2008 to preserve critical habitat for migratory birds and threatened and endangered species. In a bipartisan vote, Congress overwhelmingly approved the 22,000-acre Cherry Valley National Wildlife Refuge Act in 2008.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 17, 2024

The lack of surprise came as Putin had forcefully removed any credible opposition to him with the largest threat to the president’s reign being the charismatic Alexei Navalny, who was first imprisoned by the Russian government, and was recently mystically found dead in prison.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The 2008-era slogan is shorthand for the Trump campaign’s energy policy, but we know much more about current conservative thinking on the subject thanks to Project 2025 , the 920-page transition plan for the next administration by policy strategists from the Heritage Foundation. “A Going Nuclear The Right is all-in on nukes.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

They will be working alongside our faculty director (formerly faculty co-director) Ted Parson—an accomplished scholar of environmental governance—as well as me and my colleague Cara Horowitz, shaping the strategic direction of the Emmett Institute. Wang is a leading expert on environmental governance and the law and politics of China.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Photo courtesy of Kristina Rosinsky, 2008/Undugu Society of Kenya YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN Due to the strains of population growth and inaccessible sanitation systems, the Nairobi River and surrounding farmland are becoming more polluted. Water stress throughout Kenya has prompted government action.

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Energy & the Law

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

If you have ever wondered how many ways a cocktail of stupidity*, treachery and feckless government can inflict financial harm on the undeserving, including the citizens the feckless government leaders are supposed to serve, see City of Dallas v. Energy, LLC.

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Legal Planet

JULY 22, 2021

As in 2008, about 20% of the population in 2019 were skeptics, while the remainder were either concerned or had mixed views. Given the heft of the federal government, however, we shouldn’t underestimate the impacts of even relatively moderate policies. Concern about climate action has gone up and down over the past two decades.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 27, 2022

Persistent melt in 2008 lifted the snow cover from a low-lying area of Greenland’s ice sheet, revealing a rough terrain crossed by melt water streams. Government public interest initiatives, even with the best of intentions and resources, are being curtailed by mistrust. Photo © Thomas Neumann / NASA GSFC. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The price of urea also surpassed its previous recorded spike in 2008 by approximately 18 percent. Data reported by the World Bank show that prices for two key fertilizers spiked dramatically between April 2021 and April 2022: diammonium phosphate prices went up 75 percent and potash prices rose a staggering 178 percent.

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Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A self-described career “unicorn,” Paul worked his way from the sales floor to becoming the furniture firm’s partner, and finally as a public service leader, despite having had no previous government experience. He was elected Kittitas County Commissioner in 2008, a role he held for a decade.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2024

She has been an effective advocate for environmental progress who never lost sight of her goal of protecting and improving the environment whether working in or out of government. Former DEP Secretary David Hess said-- “Joanne Denworth’s career paralleled my own in state government.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 29, 2024

The Satellite Database has subscribers from inside and outside governments from all over the globe. Since 2005, there have been destructive, space debris-producing anti-satellite weapons tests by China (2007), the United States (2008), India (2019), and Russia (2021).

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Rich Kruger began working at Exxon in 1981 and was Vice President from 2008-2013. MPs and government officials need to see through the oil and gas greenwashing and hold industry accountable. Let’s band together to tell our government that the oil and gas industry must stop polluting our climate and clean up their mess.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Amidst final-hour congressional negotiations to fend off a government shutdown, several policy “riders” have emerged as sticking points in reaching a deal on agriculture spending in particular. Congress directed USDA to modernize the P&SA in recognition of this unprecedented market consolidation in the 2008 Farm Bill.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 20, 2023

The regulatory decisions made by the Governments of Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile in the following months and years will set the course for the lithium industry, with significant consequences for the planet’s future. Therefore, even if the current Chilean Government wanted to take over lithium production, that won’t happen soon.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. We need governments to regulate industry. Under Baiton’s leadership, CAPP has lobbied the federal government 74 times in the first 9 months of 2023 – that’s once every 2.5

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The purpose of World Cleanup Day is to unite millions of volunteers, governments, and organizations in 197 countries and territories to tackle the global mismanaged waste crisis and help create a new, more sustainable work.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Despite adding to Japan’s rich legacy in neutrino physics, in 2008 – before Kajita was awarded the Nobel prize – he made a bold decision to switch research fields. Kajita became director of ICRR in 2008 and played a major role in getting KAGRA funded and constructed. Switching fields.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

Policies that had been put in place to protect species at risk have since been whittled down, most notably by the current provincial government, as a way to prioritize development. In 2019, the Ontario government announced that they would be making changes to the Endangered Species Act. Where do we go from here?

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Physics World

JUNE 6, 2022

In 2008, Olexandr received his PhD in computational chemistry. He was postdoctoral research fellow at the Case Western Reserve University and a scientist at the government research lab. Olexandr Isayev is an assistant professor at the Department of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 27, 2023

Digital Water Atlas The online water atlas shares data on statewide water use from 2008 to 2020. It also recommends actions tailored to each of six water planning regions across Pennsylvania: the Great Lakes basin and the Upper/Middle Susquehanna, Lower Susquehanna, Potomac, Ohio, and Delaware river basins. billion to 5.2

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Take action by telling the government to hold the oil and gas sector accountable for its pollution by urgently implementing a cap on emissions. Pierce proudly boasts about “driving government policy at federal and state levels” for the benefit of oil and gas companies. Is that you? million gas cars.

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