Circle of Blue

APRIL 18, 2023

April 18, 2023 Fresh is a biweekly newsletter from Circle of Blue that unpacks the biggest international, state, and local policy news stories facing the Great Lakes region today. Sign up for Fresh: A Great Lakes Policy Briefing , straight to your inbox, every other Tuesday. million price tag, CTV News reports.

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MGKF Law

MARCH 29, 2023

As I explained in that article, the exception bars tort claims that are based on discretionary government conduct—often following a policy-based analysis—but not claims that are based on simple negligence by government officials. United States, Case No. 3:15-cv-00221-RRB (Mar.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 4, 2022

Robert Glennon, a water law and policy expert and professor emeritus at the University of Arizona said that though the dollar figures may seem high at first glance, they are miniscule compared with the risks involved. Glennon asked about a nearly $2 billion annual price tag. “I Why should that be a deal breaker?”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 25, 2024

Those units are the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and the Climate Policy Office (CPO). The reason GAO’s recommendations matter is that agencies and the White House need to respond formally to their recommendations, while those of us in the public and nonprofit sector are easier to ignore.

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MGKF Law

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Greenwashing is defined as “ the act or practice of making a product, policy, activity, etc. Read More » Tags: Class Actions , Greenwashing , Illinois , Injunction , Landfill , Standing , Waste. appear to be more environmentally friendly or less environmentally damaging than it really is.

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MGKF Law

MARCH 14, 2021

FOIA’s fifth exemption “protects from disclosure documents generated during an agency’s deliberations about a policy, as opposed to documents that embody or explain a policy that the agency adopts.” Read More » Tags: Endangered Species Act , FOIA , Rulemaking. Sierra Club, Inc. ,

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

. -- EPA Objects To Allegheny County's Air Quality Permit For The US Steel Edgar Thomson Plant [PaEN] -- WESA/The Allegheny Front: EPA Orders Allegheny County To Include Stronger Testing In US Steel Thomson Plant Permit -- Beaver County Times: Shell CEO Puts Beaver County Petrochemical Plant Price Tag At $14 Billion -- Southwest PA Municipal Project (..)

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JANUARY 20, 2021

The Biden Administration could convene a national group of experts to create a Murder Taskforce to bring various social scientists together to identify different crime reduction strategies that have been rigorously tested in terms of "causal effects" and ranked relative to their price tags. My proposal does not strip them of this power.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 28, 2022

Fresh is a biweekly newsletter from Circle of Blue that unpacks the biggest international, state, and local policy news stories facing the Great Lakes region today. Sign up for Fresh: A Great Lakes Policy Briefing , straight to your inbox, every other Tuesday. June 28, 2022. Laura Gersony, Fresh Editor. This Week’s Watersheds.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

After the 2014 Toledo water crisis, the binational International Joint Commission tried to put a price tag on the event. If severe blooms repeat year after year, the price tag rises to $1 billion over a decade. . Fishing guides have grown accustomed to an annual cough, consistent with health warnings. Keith Schneider.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 11, 2024

However, implementing these systems comes with the sizeable price tag and there aren’t many farmers who can simply absorb that cost. “The importance of the need to grow food, agriculture products, good land stewardship is the most imperative investment for our children’s future.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

This is Part II of “Unraveling Hydrogen,” a series covering the basics of hydrogen policy. Or, perhaps more realistically, what if hydrogen policy evolves to artificially prop up the market for hydrogen, even where decision-makers could better serve the climate and the environment by promoting other strategies?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A Saner Path Forward President Joe Biden came into office promising to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in US national security policy. The initial estimate of the Sentinel program’s price tag was $95.3

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 13, 2022

When I think about summer, I think of the carefree days I spent playing kickball, kick-the-can, and tag with the kids in my neighborhood. We need policies in place to permanently protect people from having their utilities turned off. Heat is the silent killer, but we know that heat illness and death are preventable.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 14, 2023

GPA, Alysha is majoring in Earth Science and Policy and minoring in Political Science and Environmental Inquiry. Alysha aspires to combine her passions for environmental preservation and communication by pursuing a career in climate policy. With a 3.86 of eligible Girl Scouts.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 27, 2023

However, progress at the provincial level was mixed, with the roll-out of extreme anti-environmental policies in Alberta and some other provinces. At the international and federal levels, significant progress was made on climate action, plastic waste, toxic chemicals and biodiversity conservation. Learn more and take action at stopthe413.ca.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2023

Capitol -- WITF/Votebeat: PA Republican Senator’s Record On Election Policy Has Democrats, Voting Advocates Worried Passing Reform Will Be Difficult -- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Republican Sen. Mastriano, Ex-Presidents Admits Her Voter Fraud Claims Were False -- PA’s Role In Assault On U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 19, 2023

Resistance to direct action can come in the form of punishment, fines, censure, tags of illegitimacy—all unwelcome to be sure, but a system that doesn’t resist activism is probably not a system gravely in need of change, and an activist who doesn’t meet resistance is probably doing it wrong.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 17, 2023

Furthermore, India’s legislative frameworks afford limited protection because of fragmented state-wise tourism policies and the National Ecotourism Policy, 2022 plays a normative function at best. Preserving Nature's Playground a. However, it was an isolated event lacking transnational impact.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Saville says he can’t provide cost estimates at this time, but numbers provided by the Dutch Ministry for Infrastructure and Water Management in 2021 calculated a production price tag ranging from €1,500 to €6,800 per tonne, which translates to US$1,800 to $8,200.

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Frontiers

MAY 1, 2023

So, we fully support the August 2022 OSTP (Office of Science and Technology Policy) guidelines. And that data includes persistent identifiers (PIDs) such as that of ORCID for author identification, a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for the article itself, and tags to the relevant grant funding or research institution.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 4, 2024

The report also indicates that under current government policies, fossil fuel production will rise in the coming years, contrary to the Paris Agreement. Economic costs vs benefits of acting on climate change Tackling climate change may seem like a costly burden to some, but in reality inaction carries an even heavier price tag.

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Acoel

MARCH 7, 2022

Sadly, probably not, and that’s a policy problem. This calls for thinking about policy interventions designed to speed up the transition (I’m putting aside the possibility of fuel technology innovations that allow continued use of ICEs with extremely low emissions). Do the math. A tiny fraction of them were electric vehicles (EV).

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Comitta: Let's Work Together To Address Climate Change, But Stop Rehashing The Same Old Arguments Against RGGI That Are Not Protecting Our Planet And Our People [PaEN] -- DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee Meets Feb. Million In Tax Credits To Subsidize Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County; Total Expected To Be $1.17

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

That figure is consistent with the price tag for clearing American waters of contamination. A study by the Environmental Law and Policy Center in Chicago and the Washington, D.C.-based Department of Agriculture. They are not a solution for dissolved phosphorus.”. And third, more CAFOs are spreading more liquid manure.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

An environmental crisis of this magnitude requires systemic change and strong federal policy. Plastic pollution – and efforts to clean it up – comes with a high price tag. Plastic pollution, much like climate pollution, doesn’t recognize municipal, provincial or national borders. and Canada) alone is about $468 million per year.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 26, 2019

It is exceeding important for legislators and consumers to be aware that drastic shifts 100% renewable energy markets might placing a huge price tag on the consumer end. Twisha Balasubramanian is a third-year JD candidate and a Master of Science in Environmental Policy candidate at the Bard Center for Environmental Policy.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

and the European Union are leading the policy commitments to reduce methane emissions. Over 40 countries pledged to rapidly scale up technologies and policies to achieve a transition away from unabated coal power generation in the 2030s for major economies and in the 2040s globally. The companion Senate reconciliation bill is stalled.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 16, 2019

The escalating costs of damages from extreme weather events, many exacerbated by climate change, makes poignant a question with a serious price tag: who will be on the hook to pay for climate damages? Photo Credit: United States Coast Guard, PA2 James Dillard.

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JANZEN AG

AUGUST 10, 2021

.* You blogged about the story and expressed your opinion that farmers were not necessarily rejecting new technology, but rather did not feel that the incremental advancements offered by OEMs in the past few decades justified the high price tags on new machinery. Do you still hold that opinion? Where does tech fit into this transition?

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

trillion ( see ESA Policy News, Aug. Both Senators voted for a procedural motion to advance consideration of the bill, but they have expressed concerns about the total price tag. climate change and biodiversity conservation policies, including the 2050 net-zero emissions goal and the “30 by 30” conservation goal. 16, 2021 ).

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

While this bill bears a large price tag, it pales in comparison to the price tag of climate inaction, which carries unimaginable and inexcusable costs, in lives as well as dollars. As Evangelical Christians with a special care for the unborn, we especially celebrate the expanded policies for defending children’s health.

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Physics World

JULY 12, 2022

It was a stunning policy reversal that excludes Russian institutes from involvement in new scientific projects, subject to further review. Its advertised cost is in the order of $6bn, paid largely by the Chinese government, which can probably afford this price tag, given its strong economy and trade surpluses.

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Science Blogs

AUGUST 21, 2017

We publish papers in journals but it’s not really percolating into policy,” said Avelino Arellano, Jr. AQAST aimed to increase the utility of satellite data to researchers and public agencies while improving communication with stakeholders such as the public and government officials. “We lborkowski. Mon, 08/21/2017 - 03:23. air pollutants.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

This bill allows fishermen to exchange lionfish tails for fishing tags for other species. After the release of the Arctic Report Card, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy published the Arctic Research Plan for 2022-2026. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) introduced a bill ( H.R. Executive Branch.

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ESA

AUGUST 16, 2021

Both Senators voted for a procedural motion to advance consideration of the bill but have expressed concerns about the total price tag. Lander also that it’s important that these policies do not “fuel xenophobia or prejudice.” More news: Trust at the science-policy interface – Integration and Implementation Insights.

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Science Blogs

OCTOBER 20, 2017

chemicals policy. chemicals policy. I hope many others do too. cmonforton. Fri, 10/20/2017 - 09:09. Environmental health. Occupational Health & Safety. Pesticides. Air pollution. Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health. soil pollution. Water pollution. Environmental health. Pesticides. Research.

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