Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. We need governments to regulate industry. Under Baiton’s leadership, CAPP has lobbied the federal government 74 times in the first 9 months of 2023 – that’s once every 2.5 billion in 2016 to $11.6

Fossil Fuels

Physics World

MARCH 22, 2022

That beat the previous record of 100 million kelvin held for 20 seconds by South Korea’s KSTAR reactor in 2020. If their efforts succeed, that would put them well ahead of ITER, which largely froze its design in about 2001 and hasn’t been able to exploit recent huge advances in high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets.

2020

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 14, 2021

DCNR and the Bureau of Forestry were forced to develop this pilot program by the 2020 Fiscal Code amendment. Only two of the five Forests Districts identified in the 2020 legislation are currently part of the program. “It On November 23, 2020, the General Assembly amended the Fiscal Code again to direct DCNR to “.evaluate

Natural Resources

Physics World

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The US government is putting about $1.2bn into its National Quantum Initiative (NQI) programme, officially launched at the end of 2018, to provide an overarching framework for quantum information science R&D in academia and the private sector. Doug Finke. Dublin-based market-research company Fact.MR High hopes and expectations.

Technology

Environmental Europe

JULY 1, 2020

The EU is facing a key challenge in climate and energy governance. It has agreed to address climate change under the Paris Agreement , and put forward increasingly ambitious policy targets for 2020, 2030 and 2050. Multilevel Coordination in EU Energy Policy: A New Type of “harder” Soft Governance?’, Knodt, Michèle (2019).

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Here are 20 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. Thank you for your leadership! -- We Remember Sept.

Conservation

Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

2] The Texas grid operator, ERCOT, in its pre-winter 2020 report on winter power plant availability for the winter of 2020/2021, expected some of the gas and coal fleet to experience winter outages, along with the loss of some capacity in normal winter high-demand periods, with further losses in extreme weather. percent, 47.4

2021

Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

The company sued the government of Argentina in 2012 for $10 billion after the country nationalized YPF with the backing of 80 percent of legislators of parliament. Repsol: Another Petroleum Company in Ancestral U'wa Land Published by Amazon Watch | October 10, 2001 We are calling the attention of groups that support the U'wa people.

2014

HumanNature

APRIL 16, 2024

Candidate in the Department of Construction Management and the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University The Orange Sky is Not the Limit September 7, 2020, in Fort Collins, Colorado, unfolded with an eerie anomaly as I woke to a city engulfed in what seemed like an inferno. Photo Credit: Srijesh Pradhan.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

This has become a familiar sight in recent days, with many government ministers arriving to take part in high level discussions. The Adaptation Fund, which supports projects to help developing countries adapt to climate change, was created in 2001 at the last COP held in Marrakech (i.e., There is, however, still more work to do.

Paris Agreement

Enviromental Defense

MAY 24, 2023

Environmental Defence has also recommended that the federal government should explore developing a certification process where the critical minerals sourced for EV batteries must meet minimum ethical standards. The federal government has a key role to play. Question: Can the electricity grid handle all these electric vehicles?

Electricity

Ohio Environmental Law

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) issued a direct final rule without public comment amending the definition of the “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) which governs the scope of federal jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act (CWA). ACOE (2001)- Overruled ACOE jurisdiction of isolated wetlands based upon the migratory bird rule.

Clean Water Act

Ohio Environmental Law

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) issued a direct final rule without public comment amending the definition of the “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) which governs the scope of federal jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act (CWA). ACOE (2001)- Overruled ACOE jurisdiction of isolated wetlands based upon the migratory bird rule.

Clean Water Act

Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Even with its Director, Kenneth Blanco, departing this week, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has been active in taking steps to implement the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (AML Act), which was enacted into law on January 1, 2021 as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (NDAA).

2021

Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Investors and governments will be expected to refer to the Taxonomy in order to determine whether an activity they want to pursue can be considered sustainable, and under what conditions (screening criteria). Extending the license of existing installations is particularly efficient in environmental and economic terms.

Fossil Fuels

Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The primary purpose of the CTA, enacted as part of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (AML Act), is to protect the US financial system from being used for illicit purposes, including preventing corrupt actors, terrorists and criminals from hiding assets in anonymous shell companies.

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 9, 2024

In a 2023 national poll , 60% of respondents across party lines said that Big Tech has too much power, and nearly half said government should do more to regulate these companies. In the foreword to Barons , Eric Schlosser (author of the 2001 bestseller, Fast Food Nation ) calls unchecked market power “the central driving force of inequality.”

2018

Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Our analysis looked at drought responses within the upper Klamath Basin—an 8,000-square-mile ecological region that encompasses most of Klamath County and parts of northern California—and drew from interviews from dozens of sources, including scientists, agricultural groups, tribal representatives, conservation experts, and government officials.

2001

A Greener Life

AUGUST 9, 2021

Anyone who has been following the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will be well aware of the extreme heat many of the athletes have had to compete in. Greenpeace East Asia has been analysing how the scorching temperatures experienced at Tokyo 2020 are becoming more frequent in cities across East Asia. Photo credit: Loic Venance / AFP.

2001

A Greener Life

JANUARY 20, 2023

He argues that the government should stop issuing mining licences in protected forests or conservation areas. “It Jatam’s 2021 report reveals that coal permits issued by local and central governments cover 72,000 sq km of East Kalimantan’s 127,000 sq km, or 70% of the province. gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent.

Deforestation

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

Grid failures start fires From 2001 to 2023, roughly 92 million acres in the United States have been burned by lightning-caused fires , and about 68 million acres have been burned by fires caused by human activity , electrical operations being just one example. So how extensive is this problem and how does it happen?

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

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Conservation

Physics World

MAY 17, 2022

It further captured the imagination of the public through the 1966 television series Star Trek and the 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey , neither of which they cite, apart from an uncredited reference to astronauts who (as in Star Trek ) “boldly go where no man has gone before” and robots that “can go boldly where humans rightly fear to tread”.

2001

Law of the Lands

MARCH 23, 2021

In what Justice Robert Graesser has coined “ Magna Carta Lawful Rebellion” or “MCLR”, litigants are swearing allegiance to a UK nobleperson pursuant to Article 61 of the Magna Carta of 1215 and claiming that they are thereby released from the application of legislation, courts, police or government actors who are guilty of “high treason”.

2001

Environmental Progress

JULY 28, 2021

We need county governments to step up in their leadership. Drug addiction and drug dealing are rising fast, with nationwide drug deaths growing from 71,000 to 93,000 between 2019 and 2020. And we need to see California’s governor directly involved in creating real solutions, including a coordinated state-wide response.

2001

A Greener Life

APRIL 9, 2023

Those responsible ranges from the Paraguayan government to local ranchers – and international financiers, as a new analysis has detailed. The Global Witness report builds on the “ Grand Theft Chaco ” investigations released by UK-based nonprofit Earthsight in 2020, in which both companies were named.

Deforestation

Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Mobil was sued in 2001 for paying military officials $500,000 a year to work as security for the company in Aceh province, northern Sumatra, who allegedly engaged in battery, sexual assault, rape and wrongful deaths of local people. SEC 2020) Exxon Mobil subsidiaries (via U.S. and Chevron Corp CVX.N Exxon Mobil subsidiaries (via U.S.

2017

Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Mobil was sued in 2001 for paying military officials $500,000 a year to work as security for the company in Aceh province, northern Sumatra, who allegedly engaged in battery, sexual assault, rape and wrongful deaths of local people. SEC 2020) Exxon Mobil subsidiaries (via U.S. and Chevron Corp CVX.N Exxon Mobil subsidiaries (via U.S.

2017

Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 8, 2021

As part of its vision to build a European Health Union, the European Commission (Commission) announced the new pharmaceutical strategy for Europe (Strategy) on 25 November 2020. The Strategy refers to the Commission’s policy initiatives on intellectual property and data governance and how those can support innovation and competition.

2021

Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

1] I am an invited expert reviewer of the next assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment,” and author of the 2020 book on the environment, Apocalypse Never , published by HarperCollins. I will make four points in my testimony: 1. 3] Max Roser et al.,

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Here are 1,198 articles published in local news media and in the PA Environment Digest during 2021 that tell the stories of thousands of individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

Conservation

Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

German climate protesters block train carrying Volkswagen cars DW | July 14, 2019 Dozens of climate protesters tied themselves to a train track in front of a freight train to protest the German government's 'failed climate policy.' The ruling sets a precedent for thousands more cases. Here, a critical retrospective of a German success story.

2015

Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

German climate protesters block train carrying Volkswagen cars DW | July 14, 2019 Dozens of climate protesters tied themselves to a train track in front of a freight train to protest the German government's 'failed climate policy.' The ruling sets a precedent for thousands more cases. Here, a critical retrospective of a German success story.

2015

Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

German climate protesters block train carrying Volkswagen cars DW | July 14, 2019 Dozens of climate protesters tied themselves to a train track in front of a freight train to protest the German government's 'failed climate policy.' The ruling sets a precedent for thousands more cases. Here, a critical retrospective of a German success story.

2015

Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

German climate protesters block train carrying Volkswagen cars DW | July 14, 2019 Dozens of climate protesters tied themselves to a train track in front of a freight train to protest the German government's 'failed climate policy.' The ruling sets a precedent for thousands more cases. Here, a critical retrospective of a German success story.

2015

Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

German climate protesters block train carrying Volkswagen cars DW | July 14, 2019 Dozens of climate protesters tied themselves to a train track in front of a freight train to protest the German government's 'failed climate policy.' By Jilil Kashgary for RFA Uyghur 2023.12.07 The ruling sets a precedent for thousands more cases.

2015

Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

German climate protesters block train carrying Volkswagen cars DW | July 14, 2019 Dozens of climate protesters tied themselves to a train track in front of a freight train to protest the German government's 'failed climate policy.' The ruling sets a precedent for thousands more cases. Here, a critical retrospective of a German success story.

2015