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The New Speaker Nominee and the Environment

Legal Planet

His lifetime average was pulled up by scores of 7% in 2019, 10% in 2020, and 22% in 2021. As I’ve noted in posts about some other candidates for the Speaker post, however, the 2021 scores in particular included votes that were not directly environmental, like voting to accept the results of the 2020 election (which applied in Emmer’s case).

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Top 10 Stories: Harrisburg/PA Politics Reported By Local News Media Last Week

PA Environment Daily

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. More Accountable Is A Model For Others -- Post-Gazette Editorial: A Bureaucratic Reform Could Transform PA Government -- Spotlight PA: Tracking Gov. Shapiro -- MCall - Paul Muschick: Gov. Shapiro’s Plan To Make Govt. Monday] -- U.S. Shapiro’s Plan To Make Govt.

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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. In 2008 and 2010, the county didn’t provide details on how voters could correct any errors they made on their ballots and instead told voters to refer to a separate instructional packet to learn how to fix their mistakes.

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California’s Climate Leadership: A Timeline

Legal Planet

California established first renewable portfolio standard (20% from renewables by 2010). Required state to reduce emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and gave broad authority to CARB to implement the standard. Bush torpedoed climate action by the federal government early in his administration. AB 1493 (Pavley Act). 2006 AB 32.

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Calling Out Climate Lies for a Living

Union of Concerned Scientists

ExxonMobil spent at least $39 million on some 70 of these organizations from 1998 through 2020, more than any funder besides Charles Koch and his brother David, co-owner of Koch Industries until his death in 2019. Later in the hour, Tillerson told Rose that the federal government should end subsidies for renewable energy. “I

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Ask a Scientist: New UCS Federal Scientist Survey Shows Real Progress

Union of Concerned Scientists

The report, which cited numerous examples of political appointees stifling agency research, was accompanied by a statement signed by more than 60 top scientists , including 20 Nobel laureates, denouncing the Bush administration’s misuse of science. Before the surveys, the extent of the problem was not clear.

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Climate—and a Cautionary Tale of Three New Hampshire Commissioners

Union of Concerned Scientists

Earlier in his political career, Bettencourt served as Republican House Majority Leader, and as the public face of the conservative agenda in the state’s House of Representatives. New Hampshire’s 2024 climate action plan: redux, revival or redo?