Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

The EO proposes considering the elimination of unfair subsidies and other ill-conceived government-imposed market distortions that favor EVs over other technologies. The phrase EV mandate also jibes with a political antagonism to some electric vehicle tax credits.

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Inside Climate News

JULY 9, 2025

By Ryan Krugman By the third day after the levees broke in August 2005, misinformation in New Orleans about lawlessness and looting was rampant. Through so-called natural language processing, AI can identify misinformation, track its spread and monitor the digital information landscape in real time. But it has its limits.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 13, 2025

Clarke: Technology and Magic The great speculative fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke’s Third Law reads: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” In other words, Clarke’s Third Law might need a corollary: “any sufficiently advanced technology appears indistinguishable from magic.”

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

EPA explained the rule would result in significant emission reductions for that sector, from about 2,650 million tons in 2005, to 1,900 million tons in 2022, and 1,800 million tons in 2030–a 32% reduction in emissions below 2005 levels. at 65,041 (Oct. Interestingly, the Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) for CPP 2.0

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2025

Well drilled in 2005 (or so) and waste disposed of onsite in 2010. Owner did not respond to 2023 notices of violations. This well had a string of violations since it was first drilled. Violations from previous inspections continued. No response requested.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

Beginning January 1, 2005, DEP started receiving drinking water complaints related to the shale gas drilling over a nine square mile area. Shapiro Marks Milestone Of Plugging 300 Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Over 2 Years; New Technology Finding More Abandoned Wells [PaEN] -- The Derrick: FrenchCreek Twp., Read more here.

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Natural Gas 2025 2026 Regulations 65

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 1, 2025

The Technical Mapping Advisory Council (TMAC) was established by the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 to help improve and review FEMAs National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), to recommend updates to standards, guidance, and technology, and to incorporate climate change science. Whats next?

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 15, 2025

(The US Nationally Determined Contribution is a 50% reduction from 2005 levels by 2030}. In terms of the IRAs strengths, I personally really like the expenditure on nascent technologies like carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), direct air capture, and CCS pipelines. Those things are still true now. Given that the U.S.

Fossil Fuels 265

Fossil Fuels Paris Agreement Technology Technology 265

Scientific American

JULY 16, 2025

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. emissions were 20 percent below 2005 levels last year. When Rhodium estimated Americas emissions trajectory last year, it predicted the U.S. Now, it thinks the U.S.

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Carbon Emissions 2005 Greenhouse Electricity 98

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

Beginning January 1, 2005, DEP started receiving drinking water complaints related to the shale gas drilling over a nine square mile area. [In

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2026 Natural Gas Carbon Dioxide Fossil Fuels 65

Scientific American

JUNE 27, 2025

In 2005 Adolfo was part of a team that re-created this virus in the lab. He was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018. Eventually, the virus caused one of the deadliest pandemics in recorded history, with estimates suggesting it killed anywhere from 50 to 100 million people worldwide.

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Legal Planet

JULY 15, 2024

So in a sense, these are old technologies — about the same age as the very first internal combustion engines. But the scientific and technological advances that made these technologies competitive with fossil fuels are much more recent. Persian experts were sent by Genghis Khan to establish the technology in China.

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Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels 2005 Technology 265

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.

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Electricity Biofuels Technology Technology 291

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Guest post by Mark Richardson who is a Research Scientist in the Aerosol and Clouds Group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. For “recent decades” I removed solar datasets that end before 2005. All opinions expressed are his own and do not in any way represent those of NASA, JPL or Caltech.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

Over the past year, precisely as our ability to identify the specific magnitude of action required to hit 2030 climate targets of 50-52 percent below 2005 levels has resolved into ever clearer view, the range of viable pathways for meeting those targets has consistently and considerably narrowed. No pivoting, just pivotal.

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Clean Energy 2005 2030 Fossil Fuels 265

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

By expanding renewable power, phasing out fossil fuels, electrifying as much of the economy as possible, and deploying other technologies, the U.S. Technologies like biofuels and hydrogen, while necessary, come with potential drawbacks. The average Seattle resident drove just 6,150 miles a year in 2018, 17% fewer than in 2005.

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Clean Energy Biofuels Electricity Renewable Energy 356

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. Renewable energy generation increases faster than any other technology. Source: US Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2022 (AEO2022).

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Natural Gas Renewable Energy Climate Change Electricity 291

Real Climate

MARCH 5, 2023

It’s a fascinating story of technology, creativity, hubris, error, imagination, rivalry, politics, and (for some) a search for scientific consilience – worthy of movie script perhaps? A trip down memory lane and a lesson on scientific integrity. – but I want to highlight a minor little thing. K/decade 1979-1993 (+/- 0.18

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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. Despite past investments, thousands of older polluting school buses remain on the road.

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Electricity Natural Gas Nitrogen Oxides Air Pollution 311

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

Minnesota’s current goal is to reduce statewide carbon emissions 30 percent by 2025 compared to 2005 levels and 80 percent by 2050. In addition to political barriers like the Minnesota Senate , the current grid poses a physical, technological barrier to reaching the levels of renewable energy needed to address the climate crisis.

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Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels Solar Power Electricity 363

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The state plans to reduce heat trapping emissions 28 percent by 2025 and 52 percent by 2030 below 2005 levels, and to become carbon neutral by 2050. Rethinking the role of innovative pilots is an exciting development, because most utilities have not yet fully supported, let alone adopted, the technologies needed to reduce emissions.

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Clean Energy 2005 2020 Technology 247

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

This decision wrongfully precludes the agency’s authority to set robust power plant carbon pollution standards in line with today’s technologies and practices adopted on a sector-wide basis. Every hindrance, every delay, is deeply problematic given the urgency highlighted by the latest science.

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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. Join us in supporting a clean energy future and the goal of phasing out coal plants with solar, wind, energy efficiency and other clean energy technologies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

Sharp r eductions needed in gas generation to meet US climate goals Under the Paris Agreement, the United States has committed to reducing heat-trapping emissions to 50-52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 and to reaching net zero emissions no later than 2050.

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Fossil Fuels Electricity 2030 Clean Energy 308

Union of Concerned Scientists

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. The good news?

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Clean Energy Renewable Energy Electricity 2030 334

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

The power sector is the nation’s second-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, and every path to meeting our nation’s climate targets—be it 50-52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 or net-zero by mid-century —relies on a cleaned-up power sector doing an outsized share of the work. What this decision means for the climate.

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Fossil Fuels Clean Air Act Clean Energy Greenhouse 280

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2023

formal notice ) The general permit sets Best Available Technology requirements to meet emission limits for oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and carbon monoxide (CO). million metric tons in 2005 and natural gas production greenhouse gas emissions increased from 8.74 million metric tons in 2005. million metric tons.

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Carbon Monoxide 2005 Greenhouse Natural Gas 93

Physics World

AUGUST 27, 2021

Dr Y Shirley Meng received her PhD in Advance Materials for Micro & Nano Systems from the Singapore-MIT Alliance in 2005, after which she worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 16, 2024

The obstacles to new technology and more effective investments need to be addressed. Texas went first in 2005, with a law called SB 20. Much of our electricity system is 50 to 70 years old, yet current plans for domestic manufacturing, electric vehicle fleets, community solar gardens and more clean energy all depend on a modern grid.

Electricity 292

Electricity Renewable Energy Clean Energy Law 292

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

formal notice ) The general permit sets Best Available Technology requirements to meet emission limits for oxides of nitrogen (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO) and other pollutants. million metric tons in 2005 and natural gas production greenhouse gas emissions increased from 8.74 million metric tons in 2005. million metric tons.

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Carbon Monoxide 2005 Greenhouse Natural Gas 103

Physics World

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Zhichuan Xu is a professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He received his PhD from Lanzhou University, Institute of Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2008 with a period as an exchange student in materials chemistry at Brown University (2005–2007).

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Taking other technologies into account. For example, one of these estimates suggested that the use of SAF could potentially reduce US CO2 emissions by between 55% and 92% by 2050 when compared with 2005. Read original article ? Download original article (pdf).

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Physics World

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In 2005 archaeologists discovered a 1.5 And the technology didn’t exist at that time, in the Middle Bronze Age, for people to be able to generate fires of that kind of temperature.”. They have focused their attention on a Middle Bronze Age city called Tall el-Hammam, which is in the Jordan valley.

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Physics World

APRIL 20, 2022

Numerous commercial technologies for online treatment monitoring (OTM) in radiotherapy (RT) are currently available including electronic portal imaging device (EPID) in vivo dosimetry (IVD), transmission detectors and log file analysis. Want to take part in this webinar? Join the audience. Join the audience.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

For much of her career she taught an International Baccalaureate course in information technology, business, and math to high schoolers, some of whom are now friends. . 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.

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Water Research & Technology

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

in Department of Environmental Engineering at Yeungnam University, Korea, in 2005 and 2007, respectively. Currently, he is focusing on the development of innovative technologies for monitoring and removal of microplastics in the environment. I believe that AOPs could be promising technologies to degrade them in the environment.

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Environmental Science 2014 Technology Technology 98

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 7, 2023

For the target to ensure oil and gas companies are doing their part, it must increase to at least align with Canada’s national emissions reduction target, which is a 40–45 per cent reduction from 2005 levels by 2030. This fund should not replace actual emissions reductions.

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