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California’s Climate Leadership: A Timeline

Legal Planet

California established first renewable portfolio standard (20% from renewables by 2010). 2006 AB 32. To help you keep track, here is a timeline of California’s most important actions. 2002 SB1078. AB 1493 (Pavley Act).

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DEP Secretary Negrin Resigns Effective Dec. 8, On Medical Leave; Jessica Shirley Named Interim Acting Secretary

PA Environment Daily

Prior to joining DEP she worked in the Department of Labor and Industry on workforce development, labor law compliance and unemployment compensation issues from 2010 to 2011. Richard Negrin Richard Negrin served as Acting Secretary of DEP from January 17 until he was confirmed by the Senate on June 27.

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The politics of (bad) policy design: French solar panels and Northern Irish boilers

Environmental Europe

As one previous post on this blog detailed, the current political turmoil in Northern Ireland was sparked by a subsidy for renewable energy production. Though it is tempting to blame political carelessness, the ongoing RHI scandal prompts a broader reflection about renewable energy policy instruments. speculative ones.

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Starting with a Messy Slate: The Role of Environmental Law in Haiti after the 2010 Earthquake

Vermont Law

Summary: The country of Haiti does not have a history of effective environmental regulation and this has continued after the devastating 2010 earthquake due to a lack of political and economic infrastructure. Furthermore, in 2006 the provisional president, Boniface Alexandre, issued a Decree of Environmental Management.

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Nuclear Energy and Drought: A Recipe for Disaster

Vermont Law

Just look at the increasing amount of tension and war-like conditions currently developing between local communities and their government over water supply in politically unstable areas such as the Middle East. Two proposed additional units in 2010 were turned down due to. financial constraints. Image credit to cleantechnica.com.

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Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. political and public support) for fossil fuels, but we can tell our elected officials not to fall for CAPP’s pro-oil propaganda and to instead prioritize climate action.

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Solving the proton puzzle

Physics World

That made it nearly 4% smaller than the then official value set in 2006 by the Committee on Data of the International Science Council (CODATA) and, given the tiny error bars, completely at odds with it. But in 2010 along came CREMA with its muonic hydrogen spectroscopy measurements. Puzzling times. The resulting value of around 0.84

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