Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

AB 2097 (Friedman) builds on work dating back to 2011 (I blogged about then-Assm. Otherwise, too many local governments have not gotten the memo that California’s climate and equity goals require more housing near transit and reduced need for residents to drive vehicles. But cities and counties have mostly lost that fight.

2011 185

2011 Renewable Energy Government 2030 185

Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Members of Congress from Oregon are asking the federal government to declare an emergency declaration as the state’s salmon population continues to die off in warming waters. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. Climate catastrophes are threatening the rivers Amazonian Indigenous tribes depend on. TODAY’S TOP WATER STORIES, TOLD IN NUMBERS.

2021 130

2021 Climate Change 2011 2013 130

A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

Germany has recently experienced fatal and apocalyptic climate- fuelled floods , after which the country’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, promised the government would do more to tackle climate change. Photo credit: CnndrBrbr via Wikimedia. By Anders Lorenzen. They could of course enter discussions to buy more clean energy from their neighbours.

Climate Change 98

Climate Change Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels Nuclear Power 98

PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Throughout his career, Minott and the Clean Air Council earned a reputation for holding government agencies and fossil fuel companies accountable. Mr. Minott holds two degrees in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. In 2011, Kraybill purchased his first electric car, a Chevy Volt.

Climate Change 117

Climate Change Fossil Fuels Clean Energy 2006 117

Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

The company sued the government of Argentina in 2012 for $10 billion after the country nationalized YPF with the backing of 80 percent of legislators of parliament. Mediterranean Reefs Will Be Destroyed Upon Repsol's Prospecting Published by Oceana | July 21, 2011 Information provided by Repsol Investigaciones Petrolíferas, S.

2014 52

2014 2009 Rainforest 2001 52

Circle of Blue

MAY 16, 2022

And “visceral political distrust,” particularly between leaders of majority-black cities and majority-white suburbs, further complicates consolidation, Teodoro said. Some water advocates have called for more financial help from state and federal governments. More state and federal assistance. It can pay for the loan,” Adriaens said.

2022 264

2022 Government Regulations 2011 264

Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Food You’re Eating by Jeffrey M. The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM). June 2007). Smith (Yes!

Biotechnology 52

Biotechnology 2019 2007 2013 52

Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

What we heard in plaintiffs’ case was not justiciable controversy, but rather a weeklong hearing of political grievances that properly belongs to the legislature, not a court of law,” said Assistant Attorney General Michael Russell. The admission says a lot about political will. I’m kidding, but only slightly.)

Fossil Fuels 217

Fossil Fuels Climate Change Greenhouse Clean Air Act 217

Corp Watch

JANUARY 31, 2024

Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Food You’re Eating by Jeffrey M. The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM). June 2007). Smith (Yes!

Biotechnology 52

Biotechnology 2019 2007 2013 52

Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Food You’re Eating by Jeffrey M. The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM). June 2007). Smith (Yes!

Biotechnology 52

Biotechnology 2019 2007 2013 52

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In 2015, the NGO Klimaatzaak and thousands of concerned citizens as co-plaintiffs initiated a judicial procedure against four Belgian governments—the federal government and the regional governments of Wallonia, Brussels, and Flanders—before the Tribunal of First Instance of Brussels. Facts, procedure, judgment.

Climate Change 85

Climate Change Government 2015 Law 85

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.

Rainforest 98

Rainforest 2011 Climate Change Politics 98

Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

But bad economic, managerial, and political choices serve to sharpen the teeth and deepen the bite. government ordered the seven states to correct a longstanding misalignment of water supply and demand. Unless the states acted, she said, the federal government would “protect the system” and apply its own remedy. Brett Walton.

2022 299

2022 Climate Change Government Law 299

Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Food You’re Eating by Jeffrey M. The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM). June 2007). Smith (Yes!

Biotechnology 52

Biotechnology 2019 2007 2013 52

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The government had abruptly stopped subsidies, dramatically increasing the price for consumers. 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.

Fossil Fuels 98

Fossil Fuels Natural Gas 2019 Greenhouse 98

Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Steffy (McGraw-Hill, 2011). Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of BP (British Petroleum) Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Repsol SA Royal Dutch Shell Total SA Federal Contractor Misconduct Database Project On Government Oversight's list of U.S. Federal Government (via USA SPENDING).

2010 52

2010 2020 2013 2019 52

Corp Watch

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Food You’re Eating by Jeffrey M. The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM). June 2007). Smith (Yes!

Biotechnology 52

Biotechnology 2019 2007 2013 52

Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Other Key Sources Business and Human Rights Resource Centre's profile on ExxonMobil - UK-based Business and Human Rights Resource Centre is an NGO that employs researchers on five continents who work with activists, companies and governments alike to advance human rights in business by eradicating abuse.

2017 52

2017 2021 2011 Air Pollution 52

Physics World

MARCH 11, 2022

As its clever title suggests, Tsu discusses not only written characters but also many characterful people from the Chinese worlds of computing, librarianship, politics, science and technology behind the transformation – most of whom are relatively unknown outside specialist circles.

Technology 91

Technology Technology 2011 Government 91

Frontiers

APRIL 24, 2023

Recent publications include When Governments Fail: Covid-19 and the Economy , Informal Women Workers in the Global South , and Demonetisation Decoded. With the correct political will, we could actually implement them very easily.” These are things that can be done, it requires political will.

Carbon Emissions 105

Carbon Emissions Climate Change Fossil Fuels Technology 105

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. The middle ring is the space of informal, improvised action by diverse actors, including national governments, international organizations, private business and industry, and environmental and other civil-society groups. Then things move on.

Paris Agreement 130

Paris Agreement Climate Change 2030 2015 130

Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Other Key Sources Business and Human Rights Resource Centre's profile on ExxonMobil - UK-based Business and Human Rights Resource Centre is an NGO that employs researchers on five continents who work with activists, companies and governments alike to advance human rights in business by eradicating abuse.

2017 52

2017 2021 2011 Air Pollution 52

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Many governments and NGOs have already generated reports on the effects of climate change and security. First, scarcity of natural resources can change the political economy of a state. After the drought, the Syrian conflict arose in 2011. The effects of climate change place external pressure on the political climate of nations.

Climate Change 40

Climate Change Sea Level Natural Resources 2006 40

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

SB 1145 requires CARB to create and maintain an online dashboard providing the public with information about the state’s progress on meeting its climate change goals, increasing government accountability. SB 6 and AB 2011 enable residential development in zones where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use.

2021 130

2021 2022 Sea Level Clean Energy 130

Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Investors and governments will be expected to refer to the Taxonomy in order to determine whether an activity they want to pursue can be considered sustainable, and under what conditions (screening criteria). Having an expiration date creates political investment uncertainty and risk, which is precisely what the Taxonomy intended to remove.

Fossil Fuels 52

Fossil Fuels Regulations Waste Technology 52

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.

Biofuels 260

Biofuels Deforestation 2030 2025 260

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.

2024 40

2024 Ocean Conservation Paris Agreement 40

Environmental Europe

JULY 12, 2017

In the paper we argue that there are, in principle, two different axes to think about governing or organizing monitoring and evaluation activities. The first is a distinction between formal, government-driven or funded evaluation and informal, society-driven evaluation. Global Environmental Change , 20 (4), 550-557. [2] 2] Huitema, D.,

Paris Agreement 52

Paris Agreement Government 2011 2010 52

Environmental Europe

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The Nature Directives had often been criticised in the past by key political groups in different member states (such as French hunters seeing shorter hunting seasons in the 1990s, or UK developers having to cope with great crested newts in the 2000s). According to Bauer et al.

2014 52

2014 2016 Politics Regulations 52

Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Something that advocates have been pushing for years is, how do we make government more inclusive? Around 2011, a salesperson for water filters tested his tap water and informed him it was contaminated. “We In the meantime, she and Hauptman have urged the federal government to adopt the same 1,2,3-TCP regulations as California.

Regulations 264

Regulations 2021 2018 2019 264

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.

Atmosphere 52

Atmosphere Ocean Climate Change 2022 52

Vermont Law

APRIL 6, 2015

The Bay’s grade is a “C,” unchanged since 2012 when the 2011 “D+” was upgraded to a “C.” Government officials were uninterested; as a result, the. In 2011, Maryland legislators passed the Fertilizer Use Act. Researchers at the. The lack of progress is discouraging. Chesapeake Bay Foundation. In Maryland, proposed.

2011 40

2011 2013 2014 2015 40

CEQA Developments

JANUARY 2, 2023

In a published opinion filed December 6, 2022, the Third District Court of Appeal reversed in part and affirmed in part the trial court’s judgment denying writ petitions in consolidated actions challenging the EIR for a major state government project affecting the Historic State Capitol Building and Annex in Sacramento. Save Our Capitol!

Government 76

Government Law 2019 2011 76

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

According to the Times article, since 2011 U.S. So too have the overpumped groundwater aquifers in California’s San Joaquin and Salinas Valleys that belatedly prompted state political leaders to enact California’s first-ever groundwater regulatory program in 2014. oil and gas operators have consumed about 1.5

Fossil Fuels 228

Fossil Fuels Climate Change Greenhouse Regulations 228

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Conflict issues Rescue operations are complicated by deep political fractures in the country of 7 million people that has lacked a strong central government and been at war on-and-off since a NATO-backed uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

Climate Change 52

Climate Change 2011 Politics Government 52

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 24, 2022

An Arizona agricultural coalition proposes the federal government pay farmers to conserve water. In 2011, an earlier deep freeze caused blackouts. Government officials have repeatedly blamed global climate change for extreme heat across several states and low water levels on the country’s largest rivers. 66 RIVERS .

2022 130

2022 2011 Government 2017 130

Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

Corporate and securities law – as well as companies and their leaders acting through lobbying and politics – also have major roles to play. [9] Gray, Mayer Brown LLP, “SEC’s Climate Risk Disclosure Proposal Likely to Face Legal Challenges,” Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, May 10, 2022, [link]. [3] 46] The U.S.

Regulations 98

Regulations Law 2023 Climate Change 98