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How Bad Ballot Design Can Impact Election Outcomes—And What We Can Do 

Union of Concerned Scientists

After clicking around, I found one on a non-government site and reviewed the list of contests and ballot measures. Louis than occurred statewide in 2008 when election administrators there failed to clearly differentiate between contests. In 2008, these incomplete and uninformative instructions resulted in an overvote rate 2.5

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Germany’s Role in Climate Policy

Legal Planet

Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. The government proposes new measures to help meet the 2030 climate target, including 80% renewables by 2030. New rates are large enough to spark expansion of renewable industry. Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Renewables are 42% of electricity.

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The Stream, July 27, 2022: Greenland Heatwave Spurs Massive Ice Melting Event

Circle of Blue

Persistent melt in 2008 lifted the snow cover from a low-lying area of Greenland’s ice sheet, revealing a rough terrain crossed by melt water streams. In Context: In 2020, Chicago’s mayor Lori Lightfoot announced an $8.5 Photo © Thomas Neumann / NASA GSFC. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. Flash floods in Iran kill nearly two dozen.

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Our Satellite Database Reaches a Milestone. We’ve Learned Much Along the Way

Union of Concerned Scientists

The Satellite Database has subscribers from inside and outside governments from all over the globe. Since 2005, there have been destructive, space debris-producing anti-satellite weapons tests by China (2007), the United States (2008), India (2019), and Russia (2021).

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Life beyond the Nobel: Takaaki Kajita and the hunt for gravitational waves

Physics World

Despite adding to Japan’s rich legacy in neutrino physics, in 2008 – before Kajita was awarded the Nobel prize – he made a bold decision to switch research fields. Kajita became director of ICRR in 2008 and played a major role in getting KAGRA funded and constructed. Switching fields.

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Susannah Pierce: A Climate Villain Painting Big Oil Green

Enviromental Defense

Take action by telling the government to hold the oil and gas sector accountable for its pollution by urgently implementing a cap on emissions. Pierce proudly boasts about “driving government policy at federal and state levels” for the benefit of oil and gas companies. Is that you? million gas cars.

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General Assembly Diverted $3.602 Billion From Environmental Infrastructure Projects And Programs Into State Budget Black Hole

PA Environment Daily

Year after year environmental groups, conservation districts, farmers, local governments oppose the cuts and outline the critical environmental infrastructure needs communities have. Read more here. -- FY 2020-21 $48.8 This, in spite of the fact the PA Supreme Court has specifically declared $1.3 Read more here. million from DEP, $1.5

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