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New Analysis Shows Truck Manufacturers’ Scare Tactic Just a Bunch of Hot Air

Union of Concerned Scientists

I’ve written previously about how the truck industry is fighting regulations at the state and federal level with everything they’ve got. One of the scare tactics truck manufacturers have been pushing is the old industry canard of job-killing regulations. Why would truck regulations impact jobs? Source: ERM 2022 ).

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Fourth District Holds Addendum To 2010 Program EIR For Irvine Business Complex Vision Plan Violated CEQA Because Conclusion That Large Infill Project’s GHG Emissions Would Be Less Than Significant Lacked Substantial Evidence And Project Was Not Exempt

CEQA Developments

3) affirmed a judgment setting aside an addendum to a 2010 program EIR (PEIR) and accompanying approvals for a 275,000-square foot office complex on a 4.95-acre and (2) did substantial evidence show the project’s GHG emissions are within the scope of the 2010 PEIR? IBC Business Owners for Sensible Development v.

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As West Withers Corporations Consolidate Land and Water Rights

Circle of Blue

By Eli Francovich, Columbia Insight — December 7, 2021. And while state laws across the region regulate how, when and why water rights are sold, some worry it won’t be enough to hold back the tide. “I If climate change forecasts prove accurate, the summer of 2021 was a dress rehearsal for the future. World of scarcity’.

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Solar Panels may be Hazardous Waste No More

Greenbuilding Law

electric generation capacity, compared to just 4% in 2010. This change in the RCRA regulations could provide one system for handling all discarded solar panels, without regard to hazardous or not. Solar panels provide clean energy from the sun, and their prevalence as an energy source has been growing dramatically.

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An encroaching desert intensifies Nigeria’s farmer-herder crisis

Circle of Blue

A bare-chested old man lies in the emergency room of a government hospital in northeast Nigeria. 15, 2021, incident that harmed Mikaila and another farmer is just one in a larger pattern of growing hostilities between herders and farmers in this region. between 1984 and 2021, while the area experienced a 71.9% We grew up here.

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Farms in Six Southeast Michigan Counties Are Major Sources of Lake Erie Toxic Blooms

Circle of Blue

Another of the group’s members is Lynn Henning, an earlier Petoskey Prize winner who also was awarded the 2010 Goldman Prize, the world’s leading honor for environmental activists. Government agencies, nevertheless, are trying. Government pays all or a share of the cost of implementing the practices. Henning is a farmer, too.

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A Green Future is an Affordable Future

Enviromental Defense

Whether we experience an affordable and safe future, or one of spiralling costs and climate impacts, depends most on one thing: government action. While the federal and some provincial governments made key announcements in 2023 that will support climate action and improve the cost of living, they have more to do.