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California’s Climate Leadership: A Timeline

Legal Planet

2002 SB1078. 2018 SB100. The Golden State has adopted a slew of climate change laws over the past twenty years, and an even greater number of regulations. To help you keep track, here is a timeline of California’s most important actions. California established first renewable portfolio standard (20% from renewables by 2010).

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Late 2018 — Bits and Pieces

Smith Enviorment

Back to North Carolina developments in late 2018: Executive Order on Climate Change and Clean Energy: On October 29, 2018, N.C. Reduce energy use per square foot in state-owned buildings by 40% from 2002-2003 levels. Governor Roy Cooper issued an executive order on climate change and clean energy.

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Risky Drinking Water Pathogen Has Outsized Effect on Black Americans

Circle of Blue

The CDC study compared Legionnaires’ cases in the last two decades to a baseline period from 1992 to 2002, after which case counts began to rise. Nationally, the number of cases in 2018, when adjusted for age differences, was about 5.5 times higher than the baseline period. Seasonal peaks are becoming more distinct, the study found.

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Dunes Sagebrush Lizard Back in Court

Endangered Species Law

Fish and Wildlife Service’s (Service) failure to make a timely 12-month finding on the group’s petition to list the dunes sagebrush lizard ( Sceloporus arenicolus ) (DSL), which was submitted to the agency in 2018. The DSL is no stranger to controversy. In 2004, the Service determined that.

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CMIP6: Not-so-sudden stratospheric cooling

Real Climate

The two big warming events in the earlier part of the record are the impacts of the El Chichon and Mt Pinatubo eruptions (and you’ll note quite a wide spread in magnitude of the latter event) and if you squint, you can see the solar cycle (maxima around 1981, 1991, 2002, 2014). 9919-9933, 2018. Thompson et al. Rozanov, A.

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German Atomic Energy Act Amendment Illegal - Case Comment BVerfG 1 BvR 1550/19

Energy and Climate Law

The German Federal Constitutional Court decided yesterday that the way in which compensation under the Atomic Energy Amendment Act of 10 July 2018 has been organized infringes the German constitution. The legislator opted for a mix of options 2 and 3 and launched the Atomic Energy Act Amendment of 10 July 2018.

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Who Should Own Our Electric Utilities?

Legal Planet

In terms of reliability, a 2018 Energy Information Administration analysis found that municipally-owned utilities had fewer outages and outages for shorter durations than IOUs or cooperatives. These conclusions were affirmed nationally by a Public Power Association report that analyzed Energy Information Administration data.