Circle of Blue

JANUARY 17, 2023

The post Federal Government Advances Big Water Projects appeared first on Circle of Blue. “It means that every utility now really, really, really needs to go and get earmarks because they can’t count on the SRF funding in the state to be high enough,” she said.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 4, 2023

Following meetings between President Biden and Prime Minister Trudeau, Canada’s government pledges increased spending on the Great Lakes. Jurisdiction of the Kanienʼkehá꞉ka (Mohawk) territory of Akwesasne is shared three ways — a council elected by the Canadian government, a council elected by the U.S. Find all the work here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 19, 2021

First, the bad: The federal scientific workforce—in other words, the scientists and experts who work for the government on behalf of the public—needs help. Here at the Union of Concerned Scientists, we have bad news and good news. That workforce is aging quickly. It’s not as diverse as it should be. And federal agencies have […].

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Green , and James Bee On 18 December 2023, the UK government announced a proposal for a new carbon border adjustment mechanism (UK CBAM). The government intends the UK CBAM to work alongside the UK ETS to mitigate the risk of carbon leakage. Davies , Michael D.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 15, 2024

The Ontario public’s expectation is that Highway 413 will be re-designated fast enough to ensure that the provincial government does not have time to destroy key habitats or waterways during a gap in protections.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Municipal drinking water failures like the crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, are also threats to government legitimacy. Teodoro, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Circle of Blue that tap water in the United States is the “most intimate relationship between a government and its people.”

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Environment + Energy Leader

MARCH 23, 2023

It’s been an eventful last few years for Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), as increasing stakeholder demand for companies to improve their sustainability transparency has transformed the business world, pushing ESG discussions into places they’d never been.

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Environment + Energy Leader

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The post Governments of Canada and Ontario Invest $11.3M CHAR’s high temperature pyrolysis (HTP) process converts woody biomass to simultaneously produce two highly profitable green outputs ready for industrial application without generating greenhouse gases. in Woody Biomass Facility appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Scientific American

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Sean Kirkpatrick looked into the skies and deep into government archives for extraterrestrials. What he found is, to him, more concerning than little green men.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The Ontario government has failed to comply with its legislative obligation to respond to this request and has also failed to respond to an Information and Privacy Commissioner Order. The government is now under criminal investigation by the RCMP. This case is important to upholding the integrity of the access to information system. “We’re

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The conservative government in Ontario is pushing for changes to the province’s wetlands policy that would loosen protections for “provincially significant wetlands.”. “If Even though the government wants to offset losses by building replacement wetlands, ecologists say that it’s not a one-to-one trade. Ohio ’s governor announces $2.4

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Yale E360

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Seeking to offset rising energy costs, governments spent more than $1 trillion on subsidies for the consumption of fossil fuels last year, an all-time high. Read more on E360 →

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As governments in California and across the United States wrestle with how to address soaring housing costs, a significant flashpoint has been the issue of local control. Most land-use regulation in the United States is done by local governments: cities, counties, towns, villages.

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Yale E360

AUGUST 25, 2023

After Ecuadorians overwhelmingly voted to ban new oil wells in a prized national park, the government challenged the legitimacy of the referendum and said it would continue drilling. Read more on E360 →

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New Scientist

MARCH 12, 2024

Now, the US government wants to tackle the problem The computers that secure cryptocurrencies like bitcoin consume large amounts of power, pushing up electricity prices and potentially contributing to climate change.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In a recently published paper , we explore the emerging possibilities of green infrastructure through a governance lens, focusing on large scale implementation. Our findings suggest that LSGI projects face intertwined governance challenges that flow from their core strength: LSGI’s multi-benefit nature. Cano Pecharroman et al.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The proposed changes demonstrate the Government of Ontario’s persistence in prioritizing harmful projects over protection of even the very rarest of species and ecosystems. The MECP’s proposal makes clear that the Ontario government cares little about the unpayable costs of biodiversity loss.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

In that case, Our Children’s Trust represented a group of Oregon youths who sued the federal government, seeking redress for what the children claimed was the government’s failure to protect them from the environmental, health and economic damage wreaked by climate change. United States. The August 14th Held v.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 9, 2022

Short-Changing Michigan Local Governments Has Resulted in Deteriorating Water Systems and Other Services. Getting enough money from the state and federal governments to help maintain city services has become a struggle for many Michigan municipalities. Throughout the Great Lakes region and across the U.S., water systems are aging.

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Environment + Energy Leader

APRIL 19, 2023

from the UK Government appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. With support from the FIF, Entopy and Fujitsu will explore how Atamai Freight can be expanded to include other modes of transport The post Atamai Freight Solution to Receive $8.7M

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Governments watch as oil companies break the rules, raking in record profits while leaving an environmental disaster. It must be dismantled and rebuilt with a co-governing body, where downstream impacted Indigenous communities have policy-making authority and leadership roles,” said Jesse Cardinal, Executive Director at Keepers of the Water.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Water-related crises around the world have shown that current systems of governance and economic organization are unsuited for a world altered by global warming. But the water crisis is global, and it can be solved only with transformational thinking and new governance. Women in Rajasthan, a state in northern India, gather water.

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Scientific American

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Calculations determining the climate damage of greenhouse gas emissions—called the social cost of carbon—will be considered in federal agencies’ budgets, permitting decisions and, eventually, government purchases

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 5, 2024

Why would the government be ending it now with little notice?” Canadians are just now learning about heat pumps, the industry is booming, yet the government is pulling the rug out? The groups are calling on the Federal government to not only continue this program but to also expand the incentives to retrofit low-income homes.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Despite assurances that the legislation is a government priority, it has not yet been scheduled for a third reading. It’s time for the government to fulfill its 2019 promise. The impacts of the energy transition are already being felt across the country. Waiting any longer could be too late for some workers and their families.

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Nanotech

APRIL 12, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on April 8, 2024, that it is directing government contractors to purchase cleaning products for federal buildings that are free of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Government Custodial Contracts appeared first on Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

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Yale E360

JANUARY 7, 2022

Following that announcement, an INPE researcher said the government would stop monitoring deforestation in the Cerrado, owing to a lack of funds. Read more on E360 ?.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Our goal is to meet local governments where they are in their EV planning processes, build momentum, and ensure these communities are the focus of policymakers’ efforts to decarbonize transportation. The post How Can Local Governments Plan for Equity in EV Infrastructure? Download as PDF. appeared first on Legal Planet.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As more local governments in California and around the country develop robust climate action plans–and as federal action to reduce emissions remains unpredictable as ever–it is increasingly clear that local strategies will be a key driver of decarbonization and resilience. . The post How Can Local Governments Pay for Climate Action?

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Law and Environment

JUNE 3, 2022

In an effort to “redress inequities in [Federal] policies and programs that serve as barriers to equal opportunity,” the Biden administration has set forth an agenda to identify areas of improvement and advance equity across the Federal Government. Reporting agency results is vital in tracking agency progress and creating public transparency.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Guiding the summit’s discussions was the newly released “Global Indigenous Agenda for the Governance of Indigenous Lands, Territories, Waters, Coastal Seas and Natural Resources,” authored by the IUCN Indigenous partner organizations. A measure of success from this summit would be a change in the tune of future government decisions.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Piotrowski, Rutgers University – Newark; Erna Ruijer, Utrecht University, and Gregory Porumbescu, Rutgers University – Newark Governments increasingly rely on large amounts of data to provide services ranging from mobility and air quality to child welfare and policing programs.

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Yale E360

JANUARY 23, 2023

Two First Nations in Canada have forged historic agreements governing industrial development on their ancestral lands. Read more on E360 →

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Law Columbia

APRIL 2, 2024

In a new paper published today, the Sabin Center explores the governance challenges associated with ocean CDR research and (if deemed appropriate) deployment. The ocean is a globally shared resource and, as such, a number of international agreements have been developed to govern ocean-based activities.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The documents also offer evidence that Ministers’ offices, other than that of Housing Minister Steve Clark, were involved as early as January 2022, prior to the June 2022 election, and yet the government still kept Ontario voters in the dark. Of the four requests, two have now resulted in partial releases.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

We urge the government to strengthen the regulations, rather than weaken them. In particular, the federal government must hold the line on the end of life clause and the date that this clause comes into effect. We are also concerned that the government is considering weakening the standard itself and including offsets.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

The post Governing Emissions Trading in California and China appeared first on Legal Planet. Later this summer, our team will release a second report on California’s experience on emissions trading with further analysis of the California carbon ETS, the RECLAIM trading system, and China’s national carbon ETS. Stay tuned. Download as PDF.

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