Legal Planet

JUNE 14, 2023

Legislative leaders offered a compromise on Monday that would cover approximately $4 billion of the $6 billion anticipated deficit. Cuts to transit service would harm California cities’ economic recovery with a disproportionate impact on lower-income residents and communities most reliant on transit access.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Seeing lies pop up on Twitter and even in news articles is frustrating enough for those of us who are here in person. Seeing lies pop up on Twitter and even in news articles is frustrating enough for those of us who are here in person. Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Large parts of Planet Earth were drier than normal last year, and that is especially true of river basins in southern South America. S o says the World Meteorological Organization in its first report focusing on the availability of global water resources. It intends to report annually on the state of the world’s water.

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MARCH 25, 2022

One million US deaths from COVID-19. Catatonic politics on climate change. One respected recent survey , for example, found that 64 percent of Democrats but only 34 percent of Republicans have a “great deal of confidence” in the scientific community. Communities suffocating from environmental injustice.

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JUNE 22, 2023

A Los Angeles Times headline for reader letters on the floods said, “California rains are a wake-up call for climate upheaval to come.” A Vox headline on the orange skies from Canadian wildfires said, “Wildfire smoke reminded people about climate change. How soon will they forget?” Will this smoke alarm wake us up?”

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Legal Planet

MARCH 9, 2023

As the California Air Resources Board noted in the 2022 scoping plan appendix, even with a goal to have only zero-emission vehicles sold in the state by 2035, approximately 30 percent of light-duty vehicles on the road in 2045 will still burn fossil fuels. The less of that we burn through reduced driving, the better.

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Inside Climate News

MAY 16, 2023

A study finds one plastics recycling plant in the U.K. produces as much as 3 million pounds of microplastics a year—and that’s with filtering.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

still does not limit carbon emissions from existing power plants, which generate 25 percent of our greenhouse gases. Today’s the day for the long-awaited release of Environmental Protection Agency regulations to tackle planet-warming pollution by the nation’s power plants. In the year 2023, the U.S. Four years later under George W.

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MARCH 14, 2023

The planet stands to gain too, as EVs emit about half the global warming emissions of a comparable gasoline-powered vehicle, and transportation is the largest emitter of global warming emissions in the U.S., They are more dependent on their cars due to infrequent transit service and limited access to app-based services.

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MAY 12, 2022

Since its founding in 2017, the US Climate Alliance —a coalition of states committed to meeting the goals of the Paris climate accord—has grown to 24 states and one US territory. To help avoid the worst possible consequences of climate change, however, the alliance states need to reach that 100-percent objective much more quickly.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Yesterday, the Interior Department posted a proposed rule to limit flaring and venting of natural gas on public lands. You may be aware that EPA also regulates emissions from oil and gas operations, and you may be wondering why an additional rule is needed that covers emissions from oil and gas operations on public lands.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

En español NOTE: This piece was originally published on CommonWealth Magazine. Both Healey as a candidate, and the legislature during the last legislative session , have made commitments to build on the state’s climate goals to ensure a healthy, more prosperous Massachusetts where no one is left behind and we can all thrive.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In October, they dumped tomato soup on a Vincent Van Gogh painting London’s Gallery of Art, smeared mash potatoes on a Claude Monet painting at the Museum Barberini in Potsdam, and glued themselves to a Johannes Vermeer painting at the Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague. Fortunately all the paintings were protected by glass.)

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Eight percent of those deaths were attributed to carbon monoxide poisoning. A report by the Texas Department of Health and Human Services estimated that people aged 60 years or older comprised nearly 68 percent of Storm Uri’s fatalities. In 2021, Winter Storm Uri killed at least 246 Texans.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 18, 2021

That’s according to the Daily Maverick, a news group that says that local and federal agencies often blame each other, or simply downplay the urgency of the contamination, making it hard to hold any one agency responsible. Welcome to “What’s Up With Water,” your need-to-know news of the world’s water from Circle of Blue. city and county.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Last November, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) released an interdisciplinary study exploring the various pathways to meeting US goals to cut heat-trapping emissions economywide 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions no later than 2050. How are we doing on that? The good news?

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2022

Governor Newsom’s May Revise budget proposal includes this item: Methane Satellites—$100 million Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund on a one-time basis to expand the number of satellites launched for methane observations, which would provide weekly measurement of large methane emissions in the state and enhance enforcement capabilities.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Clearing the air on clean air Every soul walking this earth deserves to breathe clean air, and folks in Maryland are no exception. This all makes Maryland one of the deadliest states for diesel particulate pollution. Though medium- and heavy-duty trucks and buses make up only nine percent of the state’s 4.2

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 20, 2022

This region faces an unprecedented crisis,” said Jeremy Taylor of the Norwegian Refugee Council, referring to the scale and severity of the drought and its impact on livelihoods. Russia and Ukraine are top exporters of staple crops, accounting for 30 percent of global wheat exports and 20 percent of global maize exports.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 17, 2023

But whether the law will be reversed before it can get going is not one of those questions. For better or worse, it’s an incentives-based law that moves away from the reliance on traditional regulation and enforcement. This is not a regulation that you can turn on and turn off.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

These higher costs are being driven by a major overreliance on natural gas, which has sharply spiked in price and is currently the dominant fuel source in the US for both home heating and electricity generation. Henry Hub is the national benchmark for wholesale gas prices (Source: US Energy Information Administration ).

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 27, 2023

On February 16, 2023, head nurse Millicent gives oral cholera vaccine to a child at Madogo Health Centre in Tana River County, Kenya. The long-lived storm came ashore in Zambezia province on March 11, the second time in two weeks that Freddy made landfall in the southern African country.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

Part one of two in Circle of Blue’s series on abandoned coal mines. Home to the largest deposit of steelmaking metallurgical coal in the country, Illinois was one of the cradles of the nation’s labor movement. Midwest is the target of more dollars to secure water and revive former energy strongholds.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

” The situation crystallizes several conundrums of global development: the plight of indigenous peoples, the often conflicting imperatives of economic stability and ecosystem preservation, and the temptation that planet-warming fossil fuels present for impoverished areas. .” By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — November 1, 2021.

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APRIL 26, 2022

Plus, Circle of Blue reports on the links between Russia’s war in Ukraine and global food crises. The fees vary from basin to basin but all are based on the volume of water that is pumped. The fees vary from basin to basin but all are based on the volume of water that is pumped. Transcript. I’m Eileen Wray-McCann.

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

All but one of the country’s administrative districts have seen cases and 60 people have died. All but one of the country’s administrative districts have seen cases and 60 people have died. According to the Living Planet Report, since 1970 the average species has seen its population drop by 69 percent.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

You’ve likely seen the colossal shrines in the 1977 Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me, or more recently as a backdrop in this year’s remake of Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile. From every corner of the planet, governments, companies, charities, and private citizens joined together in an international effort to save the monuments.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The oil industry has a long, deplorable history on race issues. They made up 53 percent of the mining workforce and some 60 percent of their union’s local membership. They made up 53 percent of the mining workforce and some 60 percent of their union’s local membership. Oil and gas.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 13, 2022

Scientists have had reasons for concern about climate change for over a century, and the first government report on the problem was fifty years ago. You may be able to excuse the lack of energetic support then, because the issue was on the periphery of interest for both the scientific and policy communities at that point.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 22, 2024

There is one single thing you can give up that will help address climate change: voter apathy. One-third of eligible voters—80 million Americans—did not vote in the presidential election last time around. Because they just “weren’t registered” or they “weren’t interested in politics,” according to this Ipsos survey.

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JUNE 10, 2022

Holden Thorp, editor-in-chief of the journal Science , argued in an editorial that scientists “should not sit on the sidelines” and that unfettered gun ownership, justified by the gun lobby under the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms, is as inconsistent with the Constitution as were slavery and the prohibition on a woman’s right to vote.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

In the United Kingdom, government leaders are hoping to solve two problems with one effort. As the news site TechRadar reports, one option is to run fiber optic cables through water distribution pipes. As the news site TechRadar reports, one option is to run fiber optic cables through water distribution pipes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

One of the top agenda items at the 27 th annual UN Conference of the Parties (COP27) climate meeting in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt—now in its second week—is how to implement the Global Methane Pledge launched at last year’s COP26 negotiations in Glasgow, Scotland. The planet has already warmed 1.1 The planet has already warmed 1.1

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Legal Planet

APRIL 11, 2023

A new study on upzoning is out from the highly-respected Urban Institute , and it doesn’t have great news for YIMBYs: We find that reforms that loosen restrictions are associated with a statistically significant 0.8 percent increase in housing supply within three to nine years of reform passage, accounting for new and existing stock.

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JULY 19, 2021

The Delta Variant sounds like the title of one of those Robert Ludlum thrillers, like The Bourne Identity.Actually, though, it’s a lot scarier. It’s simply the average number of new people who any one victim will infect in a population with no immunity. so any one coronavirus victim was likely to inflict 2-3 other people.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 24, 2024

On October 21, 2020, he signed an executive order “On Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service.” He’s one of the main contributors to Project 2025 , the battle plan for a Trump transition (read more on the architects of this plan here ). Donald Trump could “F” the federal government.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

Now, only a week after the high court removed tens of millions of acres of wetlands from federal protection, a major study in the journal Nature found that human activities on Earth are breaching ecological limits for a host of vital systems. One key system is water. That is because too many rivers are altered by dams and development.

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