Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

I’ve written previously about how the truck industry is fighting regulations at the state and federal level with everything they’ve got. One of the scare tactics truck manufacturers have been pushing is the old industry canard of job-killing regulations. Why would truck regulations impact jobs? Source: ERM 2022 ).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Most of these pieces were about the company’s support for a seemingly independent network of anti-regulation, “free-market” nonprofits that spread falsehoods about the reality and seriousness of climate change. Later in the hour, Tillerson told Rose that the federal government should end subsidies for renewable energy. “I

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

Earlier in his political career, Bettencourt served as Republican House Majority Leader, and as the public face of the conservative agenda in the state’s House of Representatives. An even bleaker picture exists in Florida , where a dozen insurance companies have abandoned homeowners.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Harmful algal blooms are the biological consequence of a riptide of bloom-generating nutrients allowed by law and timid regulation to run off the land, particularly farm fields. After five months of investigation, and in interviews with more than 40 farmers, state regulators, advocates, and scientists in five states and Washington, D.C.,

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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. The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. We need governments to regulate industry.

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Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In other words: the court found that there is too much possibility for political influence on decisions on network-bound energy in Germany. How much are governments allowed to interfere with energy regulation? But what does this mean in detail? Will German Energy Law now have to undergo fundamental revision?

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

And while state laws across the region regulate how, when and why water rights are sold, some worry it won’t be enough to hold back the tide. “I This summer in Oregon the federal government shut off access to water in the Klamath River due to a historic drought, prompting some farmers and activists to threaten to take the water by force.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Both possibilities – that there might be proposals to use it, and that doing so might be on balance beneficial – imply a need to learn more, by doing research and discussing governance needs and possibilities. Considered together, as they must be, these represent real progress.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

More Accountable Is A Model For Others -- Post-Gazette Editorial: A Bureaucratic Reform Could Transform PA Government Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: February 8, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

To maintain leverage on Capitol Hill, Koch Industries ’ political action committee (PAC), affiliates and employees also contribute significantly more to federal candidates, party committees, outside groups, leadership PACs and 527 groups than their counterparts at BP America , Chevron , ExxonMobil or Shell. Ted Cruz , Florida Gov. Rick Scott.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

At least partly—if not largely—because the AGs and their political organization, the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), receive substantial financial support from fossil fuel companies, electric utilities, and their respective trade groups. How has Paxton responded?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

Getting this right is important, both for California and to ensure the LCFS remains a workable model for other states and the federal government. Moreover, absent reform, the LCFS is not a replicable model for other states or the federal government.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. This blog post summarizes the history of federal vehicle emissions regulations, the arguments made by Petitioners in Texas v. billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Michigan counts nearly 11,000 agricultural wells, 3,800 of them installed from 2010 to 2020. Michigan now counts nearly 11,000 agricultural wells, 3,800 of them installed from 2010 to 2020. Until the early years of this century, Michigan regulators and lawmakers paid scant attention to the supply of groundwater.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

A bare-chested old man lies in the emergency room of a government hospital in northeast Nigeria. In the pre-colonial era, mechanisms such as the traditional administrative system which regulated grazing activities and demarcated cattle migratory routes, known as the burti, were key to establishing clear boundaries between farmers and herders.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2024

Click Here to watch online. -- April 9-- House State Government Committee meets to consider House Bill 1169 (Warren-D- Bucks) requiring the installation of water bottle refilling stations in state buildings ( sponsor summary ). Room G-50 Irvis Building. Room 523 Irvis Building. Earthquake Shakes New Jersey, Felt Across Eastern PA; 4.0

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission regulations on climate disclosure, first proposed in March 2022 and likely to be issued in final form in October 2023, [1] have drawn considerable controversy and face an uncertain fate in the inevitable litigation. [2] This piece previously appeared in the CLS Blue Sky Blog.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2022

On March 28, Republicans on the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee voted to report out bills containing a laundry list of things the natural gas industry has wanted for years and to kill the final regulations reducing carbon pollution from Pennsylvania’s power plants. Note: The U.S. That’s not how interstate compacts work.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 7, 2023

That’s what more and more communities are looking to with landscape regulations, with zoning, with ordinances, with codes. Those sentiments are echoed at the highest levels of state government. Since 2010, the city has prohibited turf in the front and back yards of new homes. Housing policy is water policy,” Colorado Gov.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Water rates more than doubled between 2010 and 2020, while income of the city’s poorest one-fifth of residents inched up only 12 percent. And political power with it. Just lack of political capital. T his group now spends more than a quarter of their income on their water bill alone. Carl Ganter/ Circle of Blue.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This map shows nitrate concentrations in drinking water between 2016 and 2018 for federally regulated water systems. The result is nitrates are causing health and ecological trauma in farming regions across the country and around the world as farmers and governments intensify their efforts to produce more food from each acre of land.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2022

has been a member of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) leadership team since 2010, when he was first appointed Commissioner. An alumna of Elizabethtown College in Lancaster County, with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science, she lives in Mechanicsburg and is married with three children. Coleman Jr. Coleman Jr.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 24, 2019

In Climate Justice: Case Studies in Global and Regional Governance Challenges, Mushtaq ur Rasool Bilal and I looked at how hydropower was crucial for energy security and Pakistan. However, the project was never undertaken because of interprovincial distrust and political manipulation by successive governments.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The results, published in Nature magazine, provide a much clearer, evidence-based picture, which is likely to change government policy in the US and beyond. Michael Greenstone, a University of Chicago economist, first calculated it in 2010. What is the social cost of carbon? If the SCC is low, new laws might not be worth the effort.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The Major Questions Doctrine The MQD has quickly become a popular deregulatory tool for conservatives, and its specter looms over environmental regulation efforts. It has specifically been regulating disclosure of climate-related financial risk since 2010 ; the proposed rule is a “standardized and enhanced” continuation of that practice.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

And lastly, the federal government opens an Office of Climate Change and Health Equity. 32 billion gallons per year : Water use for hydraulic fracturing in the Permian basin , averaged across the years 2010 to 2019. government water policy. A DOE-funded collaborative publishes a roadmap for desalination technology research.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

for hiding information about acceleration problems from buyers and government officials, as well as $1 billion in compensation to car owners, after as many as 37 people were reported killed in runaway vehicles. Federal Government (via USA Spending) Toyota contracts with the U.S. It paid out a fine of $1.2 billion in 2014 to the U.S.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JUNE 9, 2021

So, this logic says that local quality of life causes economics growth if the geography of the location and the political economy of local land use regulation is such that the place allows new construction to take place. In 2021, I have published two books that flesh out this point. My 2021 book builds on these themes.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

On October 26, 2021, Observatório do Clima (OC), a network of 71 civil society organizations, filed a class action at the federal court of Amazonas against the Environmental Ministry and Brazilian government ( Laboratório do Observatório do Clima v. Omissions from the Brazilian government on climate policy. o C global warming scenario.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

This Advisory is the third in a series concerning environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations for the financial services industry and other companies. Although there has been some governance-based and political pushback, the focus on such disclosures and considerations has continued, largely unabated.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

This Advisory is the second in a series concerning environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations for the financial services industry and other companies. Since the election, not a week has passed without news that ESG is an increasingly critical focus of the financial regulators, federal and state lawmakers, and investors.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

The Freedom Industries chemical spill in Charleston, West Virginia exposed holes in state and federal regulations for chemical storage tanks. Almost immediately, politicians and community groups cried for new regulations to prevent something like the Elk River spill from happening again. Summary: . A new Senate bill – S.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Our analysis looked at drought responses within the upper Klamath Basin—an 8,000-square-mile ecological region that encompasses most of Klamath County and parts of northern California—and drew from interviews from dozens of sources, including scientists, agricultural groups, tribal representatives, conservation experts, and government officials.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Instead, it has been to stem and confuse the flow of information about climate change to the public and political leaders. The plaintiffs in Juliana have sued the federal government, arguing that the public trust doctrine vests it with an obligation to protect natural resources that are owned in common and necessary for collective well being.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 17, 2023

Tough cleanup goals Under a 2010 cleanup plan, formally known as the Bay’s total maximum daily load, the EPA assigned all six states in the Chesapeake watershed, along with the District of Columbia, specific goals for reducing nitrogen and phosphorus, the two nutrients largely responsible for the Bay’s poor water quality.

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Arnold Porter

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Considering social commentary, we look at Black History Month, the UK government’s review into the Human Rights Act and the plight of refugees from Afghanistan, as well as considering the FCA’s discussion paper on improving diversity and inclusion in the financial services sector and reviews of the Metropolitan Police.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

USA: Police break up three-month protest outside VW dealership using Covid-19 regulations James Baggot | Car Dealer Magazine | February 15, 2021 Two protesters who set up camp outside a VW dealership in London have been moved on by police using Covid-19 restrictions. Here, a critical retrospective of a German success story.

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