Legal Planet

DECEMBER 13, 2023

At the time, the White House was focused on explaining to the American people how the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act would boost jobs and lift the economy. One top finding of this Fall 2023 survey is that more than 40% of registered voters have heard nothing about the Inflation Reduction Act.

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JANUARY 11, 2024

Next week, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments about whether to overrule the Chevron doctrine. Cost-benefit analysis has become a key part of the regulatory process. Cost-benefit analysis will simply have less room to operate if agencies are tightly constrained by courts. Presidents will lose that leverage. Policy wonks.

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MARCH 26, 2024

Traveling to the southern region of Colombia as a young child, Paula García remembers being taught by her elders about the deep interconnectedness between humans and the natural world. García took volunteer jobs as a park ranger during her summer vacations in Colombia, serving in stations from the Pacific Coast to the Amazonas.

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APRIL 22, 2024

Together with existing state and federal policies including the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), the IRA puts the US on a trajectory of about 34% reductions (with recent estimates ranging from 27% to 42%). One of our jobs at UCS is to help make sure it winds up benefiting communities most in need.

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APRIL 25, 2024

While valiantly cultivating the bureaucratic soil, none of these efforts offered the promise of holding government accountable when making one of the most fundamental decisions of governance—the distribution of benefits. 43 of the report. He’s right.

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JULY 25, 2022

It surveys the economic literature to find out what the data tells us about emission trading systems, the effects of pollutants, and effects of imposing tougher regulatory requirements in areas that failed to meet national air quality standards. I’ll start with what the paper tells us about environmental economics.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

Cost-benefit analysis is required for all major regulations. These FAQs will tell you what you need to know about how cost-benefit analysis (CBA) fits into the regulatory process, how it works, and why it’s controversial. Exactly what is cost-benefit analysis? Q: Why do agencies conduct cost-benefit analyses?

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APRIL 9, 2024

CLEE has just released a new report, Offshore Wind & Community Benefits Agreements in California: CBA Examples , detailing the CBA and other community provisions in California’s offshore wind leases, as well as examples of CBA precursors and models from other industries. Read it here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 4, 2024

Over the next 15 years, California will have to repurpose about 1 million acres of cropland, most of it out of the 5.5 To be clear, when I talk about extractive agriculture I am not talking about local farmers. You can check out a flyer about Nettie here. We are very concerned about cropland repurposing taking their jobs.”

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

One gigawatt is sufficient to meet electricity demand for about one million average homes in the state, according to the CEC ). This post will also look at the Plan’s treatment of Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs) and capacity building. This may be because tribal communities have been more vocal up to this point about this issue.

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MAY 1, 2023

That made me start thinking about the efforts that have been made to unite climate action with the interests of workers. From the start of his administration, Biden has linked jobs and workplace issues with climate action. Most programs are four to five years and involve both on-the-job and classroom instruction.”

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

I know their hearts are in the right place, but I wish they had thought twice about filing this case. I struggle to find any benefit from the litigation. The lawsuit claims that EPA must do far more about climate change, but the six conservative Justices have the contrary view. It has no apparent chance of success.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It’s doable —and the United States would reap significant health and economic benefits in the process. The studies the DOE reviewed also found that transmission investments would provide a host of benefits beyond access to clean energy. The good news? There has been mostly talk—and not enough action—in other parts of the country.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

While that is not a replacement for national and international leadership, we are encouraged by our findings about the impact that state-level action alone can have on reducing carbon pollution.”. The benefits of dramatically cutting power plant pollution are significant. And what about fossil fuel-dependent workers and communities?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 21, 2022

The grid operator estimates that these investments will provide $37 billion to $69 billion in benefits to ratepayers over the expected life of the projects. Tallying a more robust transmission system’s benefits. When you add up the stack of benefits, you can see why investing in the transmission system makes so much sense.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

org In a letter sent earlier today, twelve major climate and labour organizations called on Prime Minister Trudeau, Natural Resources Minister Wilkinson, and all parties’ House Leaders to expedite the passage of Bill C-50, the Sustainable Jobs Act, following months of delays. Building a sustainable workforce starts now – not in 2050.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Recently, The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) published a modeling analysis , Accelerating Clean Energy Ambition: How the United States Can Meet Its Climate Goals While Delivering Public Health and Economic Benefits that looked at different pathways for decarbonizing the US economy while optimizing for energy-system cost. micrometers.

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AUGUST 8, 2023

Solar projects can provide a host of benefits to these farming communities, including a more stable revenue stream for farmers and higher-paying and more stable jobs for farmworkers. As solar projects are sited in rural areas, we need to ensure that local communities receive the benefit from these projects.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

We asked them about their perception of staff departures, whether they perceived a lack of capacity and, if so, how that impacted their ability to fulfill their agency’s mission. Have you thought about working for the federal government? That’s largely because many universities do not promote government jobs as a lucrative career path.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 25, 2022

Wednesday is “hump day” for many working people with Monday to Friday jobs. For others with different schedules, shifts, multiple jobs, or work that spills over into their so-called off-time, Thursday is just another day. That adds up to a total of 4,764 fatalities—or about 13 workers every day. In the United States alone!

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Legal Planet

MARCH 9, 2023

It’s fair to ask: if all vehicles are “zero emission,” do we really need to care any more about how much driving we do, in terms of the climate impact? But I’ll stick with the climate benefits for now. Yet some pro-sprawl interests question whether this is necessary, given the advent of electric vehicles.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 14, 2022

As those who care about the reality of climate change beg Biden to use executive powers to declare a climate emergency, the chorus of denial has become even more hysterical. But labels can’t hide the real and growing body of information about the cost of inaction on global warming. Primal scream of disinformation.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Labor Day is a good time to talk about an important topic: the impact of environmental protection on jobs. In support of his deregulation campaign, President Trump promised to “cancel every needless job-killing regulation and put a moratorium on new regulations until our economy gets back on its feet.”

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MARCH 29, 2023

Yet policymakers still use the disinformation playbook to deceive and misinform the public about climate change, at the expense of our well-being and our future. The Diversion is Play 3 from UCS’s Disinformation Playbook : Manufacture uncertainty about science where little or none exists.

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JULY 25, 2022

These investments will bring more clean energy online, improve grid resiliency, and deliver significant consumer benefits and jobs. billion in benefits compared to a cost responsibility of just $1.4 in benefits. in benefits. This week, the Midwest’s regional electric grid operators approved nearly $10.5

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

Founded in 2015 on a single lot in East Boston, this urban farm has expanded to seven sites and is working to build climate adaptation and mitigation into urban farming, while offering education , green job training , green space , community gathering space , and affordable locally and regionally grown food. My dad is a farmer in India.

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MARCH 7, 2024

I wouldn’t blame you if you thought nobody was buying EVs or that sales were about to plummet. California, where the market is more mature, saw annual EV sales increase 29% year over year, but fourth quarter year-over-year sales grew only about 8% ( Veloz ). Finally, the VHS vs BETA Max moment for EV charging in the US has arrived.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Even though Black, Latino, and Indigenous “sacrifice zones” have endured decades of disproportionate pollution from redlining and industrial zoning, the GOP bill bans funding for the White House’s Justice40 initiative to direct the benefits of environmentally related investments to dumped-on communities.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

It has about the same GDP as Spain. Economic growth has hovered around a healthy 5% annually, meaning that GDP doubles about every 15 years and that carbon emissions will also surge without vigorous climate action. Nevertheless, it’s a job that needs to be done, for the benefit of not only Indonesia but the world.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

He’s talking up both the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) as a warm-up for his State of the Union speech on February 7. In these speeches , Biden talks about speeding up commutes and creating jobs. A measly 26% of registered voters think it will benefit their family.

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MAY 25, 2023

The Community Benefits Summit featured speakers like Athens, Ohio Mayor Steve Patterson, Cornell’s Director of Labor Leadership Programs Kathleen Mulligan, and the Department of Labor’s Rukku Singla, all of whom highlighted how community benefits and labor standards could help reimagine Appalachia.

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JUNE 21, 2023

Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs) are one tool that can help ensure that offshore wind energy and infrastructure projects empower and uplift communities. Local port activity may increase, for example, as developers begin to deploy contractors to capture images of the sea floor and gain other information about their lease sites.

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MARCH 12, 2024

The plan would also provide “a broad range of unquantified benefits, including improving visibility in national and state parks and increasing protection for sensitive ecosystems, coastal waters and estuaries, and forests.” But industry is already howling about the rule. Science leaves little doubt that the plan protects people.

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APRIL 25, 2022

Zero-NOx appliance standards would benefit public health, cut greenhouse gas pollution, and create jobs. billion in annual monetized health benefits. billion in annual monetized health benefits. Currently, fossil fuel appliances emit about 65 tons of NOx statewide per day—about 4.9

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2024

In small towns and rural areas, people move differently, and transit is deployed in diverse ways to fit diverse needs, such as in the small town of Poplar Bluff, MO , where the major bus route runs every half hour to provide critical access to jobs and services and can deviate a short distance away from the main route upon request.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Given the critical role played by the expert scientists who work in agencies like the EPA, CDC, and NOAA, who inform government decisions that impact our health and safety, we can all benefit from a stronger and more diverse federal STEM workforce.

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APRIL 18, 2024

The Pennsylvania Outdoor Corps has a successful track record helping young adults develop the job skills needed to succeed in today’s economy,” Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn said. It also teaches participants about public service and provides job skills to make them better employees.

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