Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 4, 2024

The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) joined hundreds of organizations and individuals in commenting on the proposed rules and testifying at EPA’s public hearings. This was a major disservice to communities around these facilities, as well as to first responders, after an incident occurred.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 14, 2024

However, other states’ courts have taken the opposite view, concluding that the “unconstitutional conditions” rules apply equally to individualized conditions imposed by administrators and broadly-applicable conditions adopted by government legislative bodies. Game over–but not quite.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Recent scientific studies further support that the inhalation of aerosol particles produced by infected individuals is the main mode of COVID-19 transmission. Individual and community response to COVID-19. Individuals are being called to make choices to help curtail the spread of COVID-19.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2022

Climate change has sped up the arrival of spring, with major consequences for wildfires (Fig. While the simultaneous occurrence of these factors led to unprecedented winter fires in 2017, climate change projections suggest that each individual contributing factor is likely to occur more frequently into the future. But is this normal?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 10, 2024

While this process occurs at the very small scale of an individual cell within an individual leaf, the cumulative impact of this process over time and across ecosystems is enormous.

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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.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

It involved to a legal challenge to the FAA’s refusal to prepare a full-scale environmental impact statement before approving a major Amazon distribution center at the San Bernardino airport. The majority opinion was written by Judge Eugene Siler, a George H.W. The majority judges clearly understood it to refer to conscious bias.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 9, 2023

Last June, the Supreme Court formally unveiled the “major questions” doctrine in the landmark environmental case West Virginia v. those that pose “major questions”) must be made “pursuant to a clear delegation” from Congress. I filed the brief in my individual capacity and not on behalf of UC Berkeley or CLEE.)

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Legal Planet

JUNE 23, 2021

Reversing a decision of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, a 6-3 Supreme Court majority ruled that the challenged regulation triggers a per se , compensable government “taking” of private property under the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Writing for a six-member conservative majority, Chief Justice John Roberts agreed.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 13, 2022

The majority opinion in the OSHA vaccine case essentially characterizes the OSHA regulation more a general public health rule than a workplace safety rule, because it is not tied to the risks of particular types of workplaces or industries. EPA , which involves the scope of EPA’s authority to restrict carbon emissions from power plants.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

policy context, and key initiatives for improvement in three categories where major fleets can help create positive outcomes: critical minerals mining; second life and recycling; and battery traceability. The report summarizes the market status of the batteries, U.S.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Blindsided by the announcement, the poor, majority-Black neighborhood of Junction began a desperate scramble to keep everyone safe. . But as a legal document, it would have shifted leverage to protect those rights to individual citizens. The majority can no longer be the majority of individuals who have a voice.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2023

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecast , released on May 25, calls for similar numbers: 12 to 17 total named storms, of which 5 to 9 could become hurricanes, with 1 to 4 being major. 2022 fortunately kept to the lower end of the forecast range with 14 named storms, eight hurricanes, and two major hurricanes.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 20, 2023

Second, it’s important that the Aquarium’s statements aren’t about an individual lobster producer, they’re about a large group of people. The Supreme Court allows libel suits about individualized false claims. It’s quite different when a claim is about a group. No doubt it also hopes to frighten its other critics into silence.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The New York Times recently published an article suggesting there could be a “major shift in China’s nuclear power and doctrine.” Unfortunately, the press can influence how decisions about US nuclear weapons policy are made, and more detailed analyses can be overlooked. The United States has 5,244 ).

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 25, 2022

We filed the brief in our individual capacities and not on behalf of our respective institutions.). EPA in defense of EPA’s authority to effectively regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Our client is Tom Jorling, a former Senate staffer and EPA official who was directly involved in drafting the Act in 1970. (We

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Legal Planet

JUNE 5, 2023

These are rules determining that certain categories of agency actions generally do not have significant environmental impacts and therefore do not require an individualized assessment. I’ve already written , for instance, about the mess created by an ill-considered effort to redefine the term “major federal action.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 2, 2023

Millions of acres owned by wealthy individuals and corporations (those not actively involved in farming) are leased out. According to the last Census of Agriculture in 2017, agricultural land is still primarily owned by families and individuals (201.5 million acres of cropland and 223.8 million acres of pastureland). The remaining 3.1

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Legal Planet

MARCH 9, 2023

Rather than waiting for global agreement, as many policy analysts had advised, individual jurisdictions and groups of jurisdictions had already begun to take the plunge on their own. In retrospect, the major stumbling block to the top-down strategy seems clear: It overlooked just how different individual jurisdictions were from each other.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 20, 2024

Why naming the climate villains matters Sometimes people ask why we’re calling out individuals instead of companies, and to be honest some people tell us we’re going too far. So I’m going to let you in on our strategy, and why we think naming individuals matters. All the information we use is publicly available.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 18, 2023

Climate cases are both growing and diversifying While the majority of climate cases are still filed in the Global North, we are now seeing new cases emerge in the Global South as well, with a particular focus on human and constitutional rights as the basis for legal arguments.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2024

Individuals, families, and groups are invited to register for the 28th annual CleanWater Conservancy Watershed Cleanup Day in Centre County. Volunteers can sign up as an individual or a group. Many sites are along roads but not major highways. The event will be held during Earth Day weekend on Saturday, April 20 from 8 a.m.

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E2 Law Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Renewable Action Through Project Interconnection and Deployment (RAPID) Act The RAPID Act proposes to streamline the environmental review and permitting of major renewable energy generation and electric transmission facilities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Expanding access to public transportation has multiple benefits One major, and sometimes overlooked, solution to reducing car pollution is already available to us: public transportation. But choosing to ride a bus or train as opposed to a car yields substantial benefits for the individual, community, and environment.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This presentation will discuss the environmental and economic risks of stormwater, review the public policies that led to the creation of the State's MS4 permit program, and highlight the resources that Penn State Extension has developed to help individuals and communities minimize stormwater runoff and pollution.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Here we show that pathogenic Vibrio bacteria were abundant in diseased individuals of the dark stinging sponge, during a deadly outbreak first observed in late 2021 in the Aegean Sea,” said Dr Manuel Maldonado, a senior scientist at the Spanish National Research Council (CEAB-CSIC) and a coauthor of the study. fortis , V. owensii , and V.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 31, 2022

Repeated exposure to major disasters does not make people mentally stronger, a recent study found: individuals who have been repeatedly exposed to major disasters show a reduction in mental health scores. Read the full story from Texas A&M University. Read more →

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Law Columbia

APRIL 10, 2024

Klimaseniorinnen : Major Substantive Take-Aways With Klimaseniorinnen, the Court follows in the footsteps of various national courts , most notably the Dutch Urgenda ruling (see also the extensive overview of the domestic case-law in paras. The majority of the Court disagreed.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2024

Individuals working in agricultural conservation can dive into professional development opportunities by attending the “ ACAP Ag Conservation Con ,” June 4-6 at Toftrees Golf Resort, located at 1 Country Club Lane in State College.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 16, 2024

Keith Brooks, Programs Director: “This budget is intended to be geared towards younger generations, but it fails to deal with a major source of anxiety for young people by offering little to address climate change. Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

For instance, 30 percent of Black Americans majoring in STEM fields graduate from a historically Black college or university (HBCU). MSIs remain some of nation’s leaders in producing BIPOC graduates with STEM degrees.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Voters in the November 2 election will be asked whether to amend the state’s foundational document by inserting language that would protect individual rights to unimpaired ecosystems. It was supported in the Democratic-majority Legislature by large margins, passing with 76 percent of the vote in the Senate and 82 percent in the Assembly.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Note: Clinton and Westmoreland counties host major unconventional shale gas drilling operations that use millions of gallons of water. [In Residents on drought warning are asked to reduce their individual water use by 10 to 15%, or a reduction of six to nine gallons of water per day.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 8, 2024

The biggest news since July was the passage of two major corporate disclosure laws. Senate Bill 253 requires major public businesses operating in California to report all emissions relating to their businesses, including those of suppliers and customers. California. The industry agreed not to challenge the standards.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 10, 2024

However, such an amendment to the Ontario Building Code will have a very limited impact unless the Premier reverses his decision to leave in place the municipal zoning bans that make it illegal to actually build these types of homes on the overwhelming majority of residential lots.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 9, 2024

The Three Climate Rulings While the three rulings are distinct in their individual circumstances, the cases share a common thread: they all center around governmental frameworks regarding climate change mitigation (i.e., None of the four individual applicants, the Court held, fulfills these criteria.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Cost-benefit analysis is required for all major regulations. However, since Ronald Reagan’s first days in office, Presidents have ordered agencies to make cost-benefit analysis for major regulations a major part of their decisions. Q: Let’s start with a basic question. Those laws are a minority.

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