Environmental and Urban Economics

AUGUST 8, 2021

A few months ago, I posted a Twitter tweet about how to use REPEC data to rank academic couples. My criteria takes the REPEC Ranking for one spouse + REPEC ranking for the other spouse. I used this list to find th e top ranked women in economics. For the actual rankings, I used the ov erall REPEC Ranking data. (as

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 1, 2022

Here are the details about my “quick and dirty” survey. I randomly selected 22 schools, which is about 15% of the total AALS membership. The list included one “top ten” school, two others in the top 20, and others that pretty much span the rankings. About the same number have clinics.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2023

The morning of this “lobby day” kicked off with the first of four meetings on food security with the congressional leaders known as the Four Corners: the Senate and House Agriculture Committee chairs and ranking members who will lead the drafting of the food and farm bill over the next few months.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

It has about the same GDP as Spain. Indonesia ranks in the top dozen carbon emitters. 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. It gets relatively attention in the United States.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 17, 2024

The data presents clear evidence about the warming trend. The EU`s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) announced that each of the last 10 months ranked as the world’s hottest on record, compared with the corresponding month in previous years. This is according to the EU’s climate change monitoring service.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 8, 2024

When speaking with friends and family about my work, I realize that many of the everyday topics I consistently think and talk about are issues that others don’t often consider. citizens are doing individually to take action against plastic pollution and their opinions about who bears the responsibility for tackling plastic pollution.

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Ocean Conservation Climate Change Waste 98

Physics World

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Also in this episode are Akihiro Kojima and Mike Lee, who are two of seven winners of the 2022 Rank Prize for Optoelectronics – which has been given “For the discovery and development of all-solid-state perovskite semiconductor solar cells”.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The SVI ranks counties on 16 social factors, including unemployment, race and ethnicity, and disability, and further groups them into four related themes (see the CDC SVI graphic below). Each county receives a ranking for each Census variable and for each of the four themes as well as an overall ranking.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2024

Ranks Pittsburgh Area Among Nation’s Most Polluted -- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Harrisburg, Lancaster Get F Grades For Air Pollution In American Lung Assn. has been skewering data for years to advance a radical agenda under the guise of just caring about the kids.' -- American Lung Assn.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 2, 2024

One study found that women were more concerned about traffic safety factors such as the presence of street lighting and automobile speeds when deciding whether to walk, and are limited by the lack of such infrastructure. It’s gut wrenching to think about my loved ones who shoulder this extra risk every day. Let’s start on the sidewalk.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2022

On Earth Day last week, Twitter banned “misleading” climate change ads , reversing its previous practice which blocked UCS and other organizations from advertising about the risks of climate change, but put the fossil fuel industry under no such restriction. Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok received the lowest rankings.

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Legal Planet

MAY 23, 2022

Australia was recently ranked last out of sixty countries in climate policy.The victorious Labor candidate told his supporters, “Together we can end the climate wars. The outgoing Liberals weren’t helped electorally by their foot-dragging about climate change. In case you’re wondering, the exchange rate is now about AU$1.40

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 5, 2022

On this theory, China seems to have a clear duty to pay: it emits about 28% of world carbon, so it should be paying a hefty fee to other countries to compensate them for the harm its current emissions will cause them now and in the future. China has 18% of global GDP, of which about 60% is consumed domestically.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Yet even with this growth, Pennsylvania ranks middle-of-the-pack compared to other states in the nation, ranking 15th in the growth of rooftop solar over the last decade. Rooftop solar had the technical potential to meet about 45 percent of U.S. electricity sales in 2022, but instead only generated about 1.5

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Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 22, 2024

You can learn more about this initiative, the Academy’s efforts to keep Philadelphia water clean and how you can get involved here. Cities are ranked by the total number of observations, the number of species and the number of people making observations.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

All the caveats that Leiter has indicated about the utility of looking at cite counts apply here. I also differ from Leiter in including scholars who are currently in government service in my totals. I used the same basic methodology as Leiter, and these are citations from 2016-2020, inclusive. Faculty First Name. Faculty Last Name.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

For more information about rabbit care, visit rabbit.org. If the pet food industry, which mainly feeds dogs and cats, were a country, it would rank as the 60th-highest greenhouse gas emitter, equivalent to the … Continue reading Why you should consider bunnies as your next pet Read the full story from the Washington Post.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2024

Find Pennsylvania’s ranking dates as well as other program information on the Pennsylvania NRCS Easement Programs webpage or contact your local USDA Service Center. To learn more about other technical and financial assistance available through NRCS conservation programs, visit Get Started with NRCS.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2024

Limiting Methane Pollution From Wells [PaEN] -- PennVEST Makes $274 Million Investment In Water Infrastructure Projects in 22 Counties [PaEN] -- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Ad Crable: Large Woody Material Stream Restoration Aims To Improve Stream Ecosystems In Pennsylvania -- Penn State Researchers Estimate Methane Emissions Potential Of Decommissioned (..)

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Inside Climate News

MARCH 8, 2022

By Liza Gross As climate change fuels more severe wildfires that burn through larger swaths of forestland and homes each year , firefighters are facing increasingly unpredictable, catastrophic blazes, leading many to speak out about suicide among their ranks, an occupational hazard they once kept to themselves.

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Climate Change 98

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 14, 2023

Florida: Hot spot of student voter suppression efforts Florida is ranked the number 1 state for higher education, an accolade due in large part to several high-ranking public universities in Florida, low tuition rates, and a robust in-state scholarship program that offers many Floridians a full ride to its colleges and universities.

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E2 Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Greenberg Traurig elevated its Environmental Practice national ranking by one band. Barsh , “each of whom contributes to all of these rankings.” The editors also ranked the firm’s Environmental Practice in Colorado, Florida, New York, and Pennsylvania. Barsh Florida Environment Christopher L. Bell Texas Environment S e an W.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 4, 2024

By this ranking, Biden came in first — surprisingly, ahead of progressives Jill Stein and Cornel West. Kennedy’s environmental tab is fairly long, but says little about climate change. Joe Biden PRESIDENT BIDEN: “WHEN I THINK ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE, I THINK JOBS.” Also surprisingly, RFK Jr. Also surprisingly, RFK Jr.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Home to about 65 million people across four countries, the lower Mekong is also prized for its diversity of aquatic species. In recent years I’ve been writing about global freshwater issues, with a particular focus on Southeast Asia’s Mekong River. Boats ply the waters of the Mekong River Delta, near Can Tho, Vietnam.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The Princeton Review ranked the college second in the nation on its list of “ Top 50 Green Colleges ” and named the institution to its annual “Green Honor Roll.” Visit Dickinson College’s Sustainability webpage to learn more about their initiatives. to reach carbon neutrality.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

By late 2021, after a decade of conservatives control of the executive branch, Australia was ranked last of sixty countries in terms of climate policy, below countries such as Saudia Arabia and Kazakhstan. About a year ago, Australia had a change of government, with the Labor Party taking control.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 26, 2022

EPA appears to be sanguine about how the listing will play out in the real world. If EPA thinks that it can manage the issue through the hazard ranking system process, what happens when it starts to score sites using the same data that yielded a health advisory for PFOA of 4.0 parts per quadrillion.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Perdue poultry farmers have been vocal at annual farmer council meetings, being transparent about their needs and barriers to conservation work. Lancaster County alone ranks 4th (out of 3,079 counties nationwide) in poultry production. In comparison, Pennsylvania dairy milk production ranks 10th in the nation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2023

In 2022, JPMorgan Chase’s biggest fossil fuel clients (in rank order) were TransCanada Pipelines, Vitol SA and Pacific Gas and Electric. From 2016 through 2022, TransCanada Pipelines, ExxonMobil and Saudi Arabian Oil (in rank order) received the most financing from the bank. Bank policies have major loopholes.

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Washington Nature

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To address these challenges, decision-makers must weigh the different inputs and outcomes related to stormwater solutions to make informed decisions about implementing greening measures like tree plantings, rain gardens, and other green stormwater infrastructure. How did their rankings compare with other experts?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Some of HSBC’s dealings were on behalf of Saudi Aramco, the world’s second-ranked company in Fortune’s Global 500 and often dubbed the world’s biggest polluter for being the largest corporate emitter of greenhouse gases. UN Secretary-General António Guterres said about those policies, “We must have zero tolerance for net-zero greenwashing.”

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Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 13, 2022

Tell us about your recent work. Young adults are prouder of their identity; they want to let other people know about the type of person they are, and stickers are an easy way to achieve this goal. At the same time, stickers can spark discussion about important topics. All the chosen species have a rank of S1, S2 or S3.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 20, 2022

There were some big wins, including a bill to create the nation’s first heat wave ranking system. An examination of mortality data from this period shows that thousands more people died on extremely hot days, estimating that extreme heat caused about 3,900 deaths. Heat Legislation. AB 2238 ( Rivas & E.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

If anything, use of clean energy is about to accelerate. Texas is also the leader when ranked by how much wind, solar and storage states have under construction or in advanced development.” According to the power sector news report UtilityDive : “Texas also led the country in renewable energy projects in 2021.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2024

This priority ranking must include the cause of the impairment and take into account both the severity of the pollution and the uses to be made of the waterbodies. Visit DEP’s PRP/TMDL Plan Requirements webpage to learn more about this program. How Clean Is Your Stream?

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Physics World

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Congratulations on winning the 2022 Rank Prize for Optoelectronics for your work on perovskite semiconductors. We were initially talking about a 3–4% energy conversion efficiency of these compounds, then I achieved around 10%. Now we have received the Rank Prize together. One of the early challenges was how to stabilize it.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Together they operate about 95% of Canada’s tar sands production. They tell the public they support vague and distant climate action like net-zero by 2050, but at the same time lobby against an effective regulation to cap emissions from their industry and internally strategize about how to feed climate denial and doubt.

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