Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Superstorm Sandy in 2012, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in 2017, and Hurricane Irma in 2021 were all accompanied by the same question. A decade ago, a review of nearly 12,000 studies conducted between 1991 and 2011 found that 97.2 A 2021 analysis of more than 88,000 studies since 2012 now finds 99.9

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Flooding on the banks of Rio Negro in Iranduba, Amazonas, Brazil, 2021. As a scholar of political science, this provokes compelling questions about current relationships across states, their governments, and who offers protection. Guest Post by Julie Liebenguth , Ph.D.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Ambassador Thomas Shannon, Arnold & Porter, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (2016–2018). Dodd, Arnold & Porter, former US Senator and member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (1981-2011). Juster , former Ambassador to India (2017–2021). Christopher J. Ambassador Kenneth I.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 24, 2021

Lake Shasta was low enough on March 8, 2021 that a boat ramp at Bridge Bay did not reach the water. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – June 24, 2021. They are slow to begin but can last indefinitely, some “megadroughts” upending social and political stability over several decades. Photo © Brett Walton/Circle of Blue.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Recent & Ongoing Campaigns Spanish unions announce strike at Repsol IndustriALL Global Union | December 1, 2020 The joint union committee announced strike action from December 9 to 12 and from December 21 to January 9, 2021, after the company refused to negotiate. Major Procurement Contracts Raytheon contracts with the U.S.

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Washington Nature

MAY 13, 2022

For comparison, the left is a photo of the Fraser River from 2011, the right was taken on November 17, 2021, showing the floods from space. More work to find collaborative solutions upfront, results in more action, and more durable solutions on the back end. Credit: The Earth Observatory/NASA, @Cmdr_Hadfield/Twitter.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Total Penalties $794,315,508 (April 6, 2021) Number of Records 131 Books A Growing Concern: Protecting the Food Supply in an Era of Pharmaceutical and Industrial Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists, December, 2004). The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 31, 2024

Total Penalties $794,315,508 (April 6, 2021) Number of Records 131 Books A Growing Concern: Protecting the Food Supply in an Era of Pharmaceutical and Industrial Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists ,December, 2004). The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019).

Biotechnology 52

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

This survey took place following the release of a series of reports that American and global greenhouse gas emissions climbed significantly in 2021 after a short-lived pandemic decline. Considerable doubt endures about either strategy, with little opinion shifting from identical questions posed in 2011.

Climate Change 52

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

These protests, triggered by an issue in Kazakhstan’s energy sector, have rapidly expanded to cities all over the country and have broadened to include political demands and tense standoffs between protesters and the police. The government resigned on 5 January, and the situation continues to develop.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2021

GW Of Coal-Fired Electric Generation Capacity Retired Since 2011; 14.5 GW Of 317.6

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Total Penalties $794,315,508 (April 6, 2021) Number of Records 131 Books A Growing Concern: Protecting the Food Supply in an Era of Pharmaceutical and Industrial Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists ,December, 2004). The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019).

Biotechnology 52

Biotechnology 2019 2007 2013 52

A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

It was a sign of how much has changed since 2021 when the UK hosted the flagship COP26 UN climate summit with a promise “irrefutably to turn the tide and to begin the fightback against climate change”. Tory peer and journalist Lord Charles Moore was a GWPF trustee from 2015 to 2021, as was fellow peer Lord Peter Lilley from 2015 to 2019.

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Fossil Fuels 2024 2019 Conservation 52

Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Total Penalties $794,315,508 (April 6, 2021) Number of Records 131 Books A Growing Concern: Protecting the Food Supply in an Era of Pharmaceutical and Industrial Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists ,December, 2004). The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019).

Biotechnology 52

Biotechnology 2019 2007 2013 52

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Julie has served as the Executive Director of TTF since 2011. Her background in the political campaign world and passion for the environment has enabled her and her team to make a great difference in the communities they serve. Posted: December 14, 2021] PA Environment Digest

2011 52

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Total Penalties $794,315,508 (April 6, 2021) Number of Records 131 Books A Growing Concern: Protecting the Food Supply in an Era of Pharmaceutical and Industrial Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists ,December, 2004). The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019).

Biotechnology 52

Biotechnology 2019 2007 2013 52

PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Mr. Minott holds two degrees in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. Church joined PennFuture’s membership in 2021 and has since been an active volunteer, serving as a climate advocate, and writing Letters-to-the-Editor on climate change issues. from Villanova University School of Law.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 14, 2021

December 14, 2021. The California State Water Resources Control Board has been sending Fuller Acres violation notices since 2018, and gave the district a deadline of May 2021, to get the water into compliance. Around 2011, a salesperson for water filters tested his tap water and informed him it was contaminated. “We Circle Blue.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Total Penalties $29,196,927,856 (May 9, 2021) Number of Records 283 Books Adventure in Oil: The Story of British Petroleum by Henry Longhurst (Sidgwick and Jackson, 1959). Steffy (McGraw-Hill, 2011). Drowning in Oil: BP and the Reckless Pursuit of Profit by Loren C. complaints from 1995-present day.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

But the country changed course as a result of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, which led to the forced shutdown of nuclear power plants and greater reliance on fossil fuels. Japan is the world’s 5 th largest CO 2 emitter, with 85 % of emissions deriving from the energy sector, which heavily relies on the use of coal-fired power plants.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

At RePlanet Nederland, we are delighted that the European Commission has proposed, on December 31, 2021, to include nuclear energy in the sustainable finance taxonomy. Their inclusion appears to be the result of a political compromise with Member States rather than of scientific appraisal as in the case of nuclear energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

This reflects concerns raised by many stakeholders, myself included, at LCFS workshops since December 2021 (I submitted technical feedback on this topic six times over the last two years, and coauthored a paper on the subject ). A non-binding RFS is not a stable long-term situation, for both economic and political reasons.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

On June 17, 2021, the Tribunal of First Instance of Brussels rendered its decision in partial favor of the plaintiffs (see unofficial English translation here ). Indeed, political authorities remain at the interface of expertise and policymaking, the former informing the latter through the mediation of the law.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Chile’s president-elect Gabriel Boric speaks in Santiago, the day after his election victory in December 2021. A native of Chilean Patagonia, Boric became known as one of the leaders of the country’s student protests of 2011. Photo credit: ZUMA Press / Alamy.

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Frontiers

APRIL 24, 2023

Author: Sorcha Brennan Professor Jayati Ghosh taught economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi for nearly 35 years, and since January 2021 she has been a Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. With the correct political will, we could actually implement them very easily.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

As the report makes clear, though, agencies still have work to do to make sure that scientists at agencies can do their job free from political interference. Twenty-five of the 28 have designated scientific integrity officials responsible for overseeing policy implementation. Paul Tonko, would accomplish that.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Maine passed a constitutional amendment in 2021, called the “Right to Food” amendment, to address the high amount of food insecurity and users of state and federal food assistance programs that are vulnerable to political shifts, funding, and increasing disruptions to food systems caused by climate change. In Maine, it is.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Though with the boom and bust nature of coal mining—where a significant drop in demand or political shifts towards clean energy can eliminate a mine’s buyers—hundreds of coal mines would close across the Pennsylvania and in Cambria County, stripping entire towns of their main livelihood. 15 mine before discharging it into the West Branch. “I

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University If we could predict a flooding, drought, or heatwave event one month in advance, how many lives could be spared with more time to prepare? 2011): 150-157. Guest Post by Marybeth Arcodia , 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Ebert-Uphoff, I.,

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In 2021, the Biden administration and Congress responded to the deficit. In 2021, the fee was lowered by an additional 20 percent. The political story behind this change in financing has a main character: the Wyoming congressional delegation. Entrance to a coal mine in Kentucky, 2011. Photo © Appalachian Voices.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Testimony before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce For a hearing on “Power Struggle: Examining the 2021 Texas Grid Failure” Written statement submitted by: Michael D. is 32 years, as of January 2021. [14] percent, 47.4 percent, 51.5 percent, and 13.7 I believe the U.S.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JUNE 9, 2021

Back in 2011, my old friend Enrico Moretti published his important New Geography of Jobs book. 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.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Even though INTERPOL's Constitution prohibits the use of Red Notices to target political opponents or to pursue groundless or improper claims, the procedures by which INTERPOL issues and reviews Red Notices—and the options for challenging them—have not always been clear. 30, 2021).]]. III/IRPD/GA/2011 (2019).]]

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CEQA Developments

JANUARY 2, 2023

DSG certified the FEIR, issued findings, and adopted a statement of overriding considerations on July 30, 2021. City of Rocklin (2011) 197 Cal.App.4th First, if you’re the Legislature, consider exempting your project entirely from CEQA – because you can (although there would probably be political hell to pay)!

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In early 2021, Governor Jared Polis’ office in Colorado released a roadmap for the State’s ambitions of reducing GHG production and increasing carbon sequestration and storage 10. Progress in Planning 75 , 53–107 (2011). Reuters (2021). 16 , 044018 (2021). A political view. Works Cited Angel, S., Blei, A. &

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