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What’s Been Killing U.S. Coal?

Legal Planet

It then tread water for a few years and began a steep decline in 2008, going from half of U.S. Since around 2008, natural gas use has been the mirror image of coal use. But the growth of f racking began in earnest around 2008, and it drove down the price of gas. Politically, what has happened to coal jobs may be more salient.

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

Standing in the voting booth, I asked myself how it was possible that someone like me, who has devoted my career to studying political science and elections and who does research ahead of time, was encountering such difficulties just trying to cast my vote? times higher than the rest of the state in 2008 and five times higher in 2010.

2008 188
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Germany’s Role in Climate Policy

Legal Planet

My foray into Germany climate policy left me with unanswered questions: What was the politics behind Germany’s history of climate action? Renewables are 6% of power. Renewable Energy Act sets fixed feed-in tariffs and gives renewables priority on the grid. New rates are large enough to spark expansion of renewable industry.

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The President and Congress Deliver $11 Billion for Abandoned Mine Cleanups

Circle of Blue

In recent rounds of reauthorization, Congress reduced the AML fee: the 2006 reauthorization reduced the fee by 10 percent in 2008, and another 10 percent in 2013. The political story behind this change in financing has a main character: the Wyoming congressional delegation. Coal production has been in precipitous decline since 2008.

2008 336
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DEP Climate Change Committee To Discuss Scope Of Next Climate Impacts Assessment Report, Climate Action Plan Feb. 21

PA Environment Daily

DEP’s Climate Change Advisory Committee is scheduled to meet on February 21 to discuss a proposed scope of work for the 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment and state Climate Action Plan as required by Act 70 of 2008. Wolf: 2021 Climate Impacts Report Projects Pennsylvania Will Be 5.9°

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Profs. William Boyd and Alex Wang Join Prof. Ted Parson in Emmett Institute Faculty Leadership

Legal Planet

Wang is a leading expert on environmental governance and the law and politics of China. William serves as project lead for the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force , a unique subnational collaboration of 38 states and provinces that is working to develop regulatory frameworks to reduce emissions from deforestation and land use.

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The United States and China Must Collaborate, Not Compete, to Meet Today’s Existential Threats to Humanity

Union of Concerned Scientists

When he died in 2008, his Washington Post obituary read “A Rock Star of Geology.” Over the course of his 45-year career serving as a scientist for the US government, his research shaped the fields of minerology and geophysics and generated billions of dollars for industry. Today, US-China relations are headed in a dangerous direction.