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California’s Climate Leadership: A Timeline

Legal Planet

2006 AB 32. 2015 SB350. Bush torpedoed climate action by the federal government early in his administration. California established first renewable portfolio standard (20% from renewables by 2010). AB 1493 (Pavley Act). Required CARB to create an inventory of GHG emissions. 2011 CARB adopted cap and trade system.

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Alex Pourbaix: The Big Oil Spindoctor

Enviromental Defense

Developing the Pathways Alliance project is currently projected to cost over $16 billion dollars , and Pathways Alliance CEOs like Pourbaix are insisting that governments should cover most of it – even as these companies are making record profits. Both were eventually rejected by governments. Sometimes the industry tells on itself.

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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. data: SOeS ). speculative ones.

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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

Dawes was instrumental in the reauthorization of the federal Abandoned Mine Lands Fund in 2006 and served as Chair of the campaign that led to Pennsylvania receiving $1 billion to address Pennsylvania’s mining legacy of more than 185,000 acres of unsafe, mine-scarred lands. from Villanova University School of Law.

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20 Years of Severe Drought Impede Huge Developments in Southwest

Circle of Blue

Persistent dry conditions are driving up the cost of water and prompting more resistance from government and citizens to new development. Groundwater use will total about 400 million to 500 million gallons annually, and local governments and citizen groups have objected. . One example is Sterling Ranch near Littleton, Colorado.

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Analysis: Central Asian drought highlights water vulnerability

A Greener Life

As parts of the region experience the worst drought in 13 years, experts say Central Asian governments must urgently look at options to mitigate extreme weather events. It states that salinisation resulting from the lake drying up meant 57% of croplands in Kazakhstan and about 20% in Kyrgyzstan lost productivity between 1982 and 2006.

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Land-use, climate change, and policy – Opportunities to act locally while thinking globally

HumanNature

A critical but difficult step in this process is for a government employee or independent valuator to determine the return on investment (ROI) to the public under various land use scenarios. 2006) is to associate different carbon storage potentials with different land-use types (Figure 2). Denver Colorado (2015). Adhikari, B. &