Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

It does not seek to discuss every aspect of Trumps EOs, nor to answer every question about the lawfulness of various provisions, nor to set out the exact mechanics for whats to come. However, aspects of Justice40 and the Biden administration’s focus on disadvantaged communities are embedded in federal laws and programs.

Paris Agreement

PA Environment Daily

MAY 28, 2025

To help agriculture professionals just beginning their journey in agricultural conservation, the Center for Agricultural Conservation Assistance Training , administered by Penn State Extension, is holding a June 24 webinar-- Conservation Cornerstone: Pennsylvania Right to Farm Laws -- from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m.

Conservation

Legal Planet

JUNE 13, 2025

Clarke’s Third Law reads: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Virtually alone among environmental law professors, I am a desalination booster (which I explain below). In other words, Clarke’s Third Law might need a corollary: “any sufficiently advanced technology appears indistinguishable from magic.”

Technology

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 1, 2025

2: Rescinding cost-effective, popular preparedness grant funding On April 4, the Trump administration ended one of FEMAs most effective and popular grant programs, the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program, that President Trump originally signed into law in 2018. Whats next?

2006

Nature

JUNE 17, 2025

Slip instability and state variable friction laws. Laboratory-derived friction laws and their application to seismic faulting. Coseismic and postseismic slip of the 2005 M w 8.6 Fault-network geometry influences earthquake frictional behaviour. Nature 631 , 106–110 (2024). Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Ruina, A.

2011

PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2025

On July 25, Patrick Cicero, former PA Consumer Advocate and counsel to the Pennsylvania Utility Law Project said one in five Pennsylvania households report difficulty paying energy bills and electric utility shutoffs are already up 38.1% so far this year.

Electricity

Legal Planet

JANUARY 15, 2025

Whats your assessment of the law at this point? Which parts of the law have the greatest positive impacts? The US Nationally Determined Contribution is a 50% reduction from 2005 levels by 2030}. With that as background, this is a write-up of our conversation. Wolfram: I think the topline assessment of our research still holds.

Fossil Fuels

Scientific American

JULY 16, 2025

The economic consulting firms results are among the bevy of energy models put out in the wake of the laws passage earlier this month. was on track to cut emissions between 38-56 percent by 2035 compared to 2005 levels. is on pace to reduce emissions 27-44 percent below 2005 levels. Now, it thinks the U.S. For context, U.S.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2025

Note: States that administer federal permit programs adopt state laws and regulations covering activities regulated by the federal agencies and laws covered by this order. [A A good example is surface coal mining where Pennsylvania has adopted specific laws and regulations regulating this activity.

Regulations

Physics World

JULY 29, 2025

Deeply held principle CPT symmetry – the idea that the laws of physics remain unchanged if charge, parity, and time are simultaneously reversed – is one of the most deeply held principles in physics. The BASE team started development in 2005 and had early successes in proton measurements by 2011.

2005

Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2024

In choosing the top environmental laws, I wanted to focus on those with the largest impacts on the environment, not just those that are most important to environmental lawyers or best known. I included all laws passed in the U.S., not just federal regulatory laws, and some of my selections may not be what you expected.

Law

Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

In 2022, the Labor coalition passed a law mandating that Australia cut greenhouse gas emissions 43% below 2005 levels by 2030 and reach net-zero by 2050. This March, Australia adopted a follow-up law to implement these targets. The law built on the Safeguard Mechanisms. This seems like Trumpian hyperbole.

2030

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Like the Illinois law, the North Carolina law enjoyed broad bipartisan support. Last week, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper signed an important piece of climate legislation. I wrote last month about major, bipartisan climate legislation in Illinois. The North Carolina legislature is under firm Republican.

Solar Power

Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

67% cut from 2005 by 2025. Did the companies initiate plans to cut emissions or were they forced to do so by state law? thanks to Jetta Cook, Berkeley Law ’22). (1) Carbon Reduction Goal : Reduce CO2 emissions rate by 67% by 2025 from an adjusted 2005 baseline. Fossil Fuel Use. VHC = Coal + Oil). Carbon Goal. Duke Power.

2030

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Despite adding six million more passenger cars, trucks, and SUVs to the roads over the last 10 years, California’s gasoline consumption has dropped over two billion gallons from its peak in 2005. Gasoline use per person has also fallen, from 445 gallons per year per person in 2005, to under 350 gallons per year per person in 2024.

Carbon Dioxide

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The Federal Cabinet adopts its first climate target, a 25-30% cut in carbon emissions by 2005 under 1987 levels. Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. German parliament adopts a law to end coal use by 2038 at the latest. German parliament adopts a law to end coal use by 2038 at the latest.

Nuclear Power

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

They are allowed by law and timid regulatory inertia to annually spread 400 millions of tons of solid manure, and 4 billion gallons of raw, untreated liquid animal feces and urine – 5,000 to 7,000 gallons per acre – on 600,000 acres across Michigan; . “If That’s 257 more CAFOs than Michigan permitted in 2005, according to state figures.

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 20, 2024

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean School Bus (CSB) Program was established by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to help communities reduce pollution from older, higher polluting school buses. The infrastructure law allows for some of the funds to be used for other types of buses including natural gas or propane-powered buses.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 16, 2024

Texas went first in 2005, with a law called SB 20. The law authorized the creation of new transmission to serve “renewable energy zones” and a process to identify and select such zones. Nevada adopted a law called SB 448 in 2021, directing utilities to build transmission that meets state goals.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

EPA decision is also harmful in a broader sense because it goes to the heart of federal agencies’ abilities to interpret existing laws based on the best available science, and to then set robust standards accordingly. Every hindrance, every delay, is deeply problematic given the urgency highlighted by the latest science.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

DTE’s goal is to reach “net-zero” emissions by 2050 while reducing its carbon emissions from 2005 levels 65 percent by 2028, 85 percent by 2035, and 90 percent by 2040. DTE was already far along in preparing its long-term energy plan when the law passed. What’s in DTE’s proposed plan?

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The average Seattle resident drove just 6,150 miles a year in 2018, 17% fewer than in 2005. Another important action is influencing how transportation funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is spent. Giving people more choices has helped them leave the car at home—or avoid purchasing a private vehicle to begin with.

Clean Energy

Environmental Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Share of Electricity in Total Final Energy Consumption, 2005-2030. Rachel Jean-Baptiste. Tue, 11/01/2022 - 05:04.

2005

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2023

State laws and practices manage the grid as a monopoly and regulate the siting and construction of new transmission. While the majority of states have clean energy portfolio laws, there are fewer that have taken on the task of expanding the grid to enable the clean energy transition and retirement of fossil fuel powerplants.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The court’s decision was premised on violations by UC Berkeley of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), a law that has long been a lightning rod for controversy in the state. The legal hook under CEQA here is a campus planning process in 2005.

2005

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Not to be outdone, 19 Republican state attorneys general also joined the fray in August, falsely claiming that “woke” asset managers are politicizing their investments by adopting ESG criteria instead of focusing solely on financial returns, as required by law, at the expense of their state pension funds. (No

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2022

The plan serets interim emissions targets: 55% below 2005 levels by 2030; 65% below by 2035; and 75% below by 2040, toward the ultimate goal of net-zero by 2050. In 2019, the city declared a climate emergency. In 2022, the city released the first draft of its Climate Emergency Action Plan.

2030

Environmental Law Reporter

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Economy-Wide and End-Use-Sector CO2 Emissions Reductions From 2005 for the IRA and No-IRA Scenario Rachel Jean-Baptiste Mon, 10/02/2023 - 04:56 Volume 53 Issue 10

2005

Energy & the Law

DECEMBER 10, 2021

August 2005: TexCom Gulf Disposal seeks a permit from the TCEQ for construction and operation of underground injection control wells for the disposal of non-hazardous industrial wastewater in Montgomery County. September 16, 2005: RRC no-harm letter. orders of state agencies could inform future actions and orders of both agencies.

2011

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A civil law breakthrough came in 2021, with the ruling of a Dutch court against Shell. In Smith v Fonterra , decided by New Zealand’s Supreme Court this week, we have perhaps the biggest common law breakthrough. All three of Smith’s claims will now proceed to what may the be first full climate tort claim in a common law jurisdiction.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

This is in total opposition to the US commitment under the Paris Agreement to achieve a 50-52 percent emissions reduction below 2005 levels by 2030, and net-zero by 2050. This year’s projections are a bit grim. We’re risking more impacts from climate change due to continued reliance on natural gas and oil.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

And indeed, that is what UC Berkeley had done in the plan in 2005, it just had failed to update that plan when circumstances intervened – in other words, once the enrollment numbers went beyond the predictions in the 2005 plan. Download as PDF. The post What is a project?

2005

Physics World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Learn how to use the formalism to obtain new conservation laws. Asher was a postdoctoral fellow (1998) in the Department of Electrical Engineering of Tel-Aviv University, Israel, and a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK, during 2005–2006, 2008 and 2012. Understand how MHD can be simplified mathematically.

2006

Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Statement by Phil Pothen, Ontario Environment Program Manager on An Act to amend the Greenbelt Act, 2005… Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat – By introducing legislation to return the 7,400 acres of vital habitat and prime farmland his Ministry wrongly removed (..)

2005

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

o C in 2100, relative to pre-industrial times, is still avoidable, but whether or not we are able to stay within these limits and avert catastrophic climate change depends on achieving our climate goals of emissions reductions at least 50 percent below 2005 levels in 2030, on the way to net-zero emissions in 2050.

Electricity

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A study by the Environmental Law and Policy Center in Chicago and the Washington, D.C.-based based Environmental Working Group identified 775 CAFOs in the western Lake Erie basin in 2018, 230 more than in 2005. million more tons than in 2005. “They are not a solution for dissolved phosphorus.”. The growth has been exponential.

2020

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Presumably Dagsvik and Moen are used to this kind of model, but they seem to be inexperienced with the models used for weather and climate, which on the other hand are based on the laws of physics. I also wrote a post on this topic in 2005 ( Naturally trendy? ), and even if it is a blog, it could provide some clues for Dagsvik and Moen.

Sea Level