Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 4, 2024

Before going to my polling place to vote in the November 2023 local elections, I searched online to find a sample ballot. After clicking around, I found one on a non-government site and reviewed the list of contests and ballot measures. times higher than the rest of the state in 2008 and five times higher in 2010.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Studies and Reports Climate Risk for the TVA A government watchdog recommends that the Tennessee Valley Authority, a public power provider established by Congress, develop a more detailed plan to reduce climate change risks that could curtail its electrical output. Nominations are due March 2, 2023. government water policy.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Given this, over the last century, a large body of international law has been developed to govern ocean-based activities. In 2010, the parties adopted an assessment framework for determining whether a particular ocean fertilization project involves “legitimate scientific research,” and thus may be allowed.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 25, 2024

By Joshua Bledsoe , Kevin Homrighausen , and John Detrich On December 2, 2023, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a final report that substantially increases estimates of the social cost of greenhouse gases (GHG), including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide (collectively, SC-GHG). 3] EPA, Final 2023 Report, at 6.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 5, 2023

By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue – April 5, 2023 For decades, leading US farm leaders likened efforts to rein in harmful climate change as attacks on agriculture itself, aligning with oil and gas industry groups to block policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. A version of this article was co-published by The New Lede.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In 2023, Canada experienced its worst ever wildfire season , with 167,000 people forced to evacuate their homes under 211 federal evacuation orders. Whether we experience an affordable and safe future, or one of spiralling costs and climate impacts, depends most on one thing: government action.

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Fossil Fuels Cooling Climate Change Electricity 117

Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The new wave of litigation also arose from the urgency of combating the rise in deforestation under the right-wing-oriented President Jair Bolsonaro, who left the government in January 2023 for the return of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula). The decision was made in a lawsuit filed by four political parties (PSB et al.

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ESA

JANUARY 9, 2023

Fiscal Year 2023 Spending Bill Increases Funding for Environmental and Scientific Programs. The formal deadline to submit comments about shaping the NNA to OSTP is March 31, 2023. Fiscal Year 2023 Spending Bill Increases Funding for Environmental and Scientific Programs. Register here. Biden Finalizes “Waters of US” Rule.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

But summer 2023 was when the climate crisis got real for a lot of people. This investment is badly needed, as extreme weather fueled by climate change demonstrated during summer 2023. Flooding, excessive heat, and drought wreaked havoc on farms and ranches around the country, from California to Texas to Massachusetts.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 8, 2022

President Biden will sign a bill to allow veterans and their families to sue the government over drinking water contamination at Camp Lejeune. The stay extends through August 31, 2023. Researchers expect between three and seven days of high tide floods between May 2022 and April 2023. government water policy.

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Corp Watch

APRIL 18, 2023

German military security firm helps Somali warlord BBC PaulaR Tue, 04/18/2023 - 19:22 Monday, May 24, 2010 Read more Rival militias have turned the capital Mogadishu into a killing zone German lawmakers have voiced concern about a deal between a German military security firm and a warlord hostile to the UN-backed government in Somalia.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

BP's "Beyond Petroleum" Campaign Losing its Sheen Anne Landman | PR Watch | May 3, 2010 Back in July, 2000, British Petroleum launched a high-profile, $200 million public relations ad campaign designed by Ogilvy & Mather to position the company as environmentally-friendly. Federal Government (via USA SPENDING).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Later in the hour, Tillerson told Rose that the federal government should end subsidies for renewable energy. “I billion (in 2010 dollars) in federal tax breaks and subsidies for nearly 100 years. The company has yet to publish a report for its grantmaking in 2022, let alone 2023.

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Fossil Fuels Climate Change 2007 Carbon Emissions 337

Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

BP's "Beyond Petroleum" Campaign Losing its Sheen Anne Landman | PR Watch | May 3, 2010 Back in July, 2000, British Petroleum launched a high-profile, $200 million public relations ad campaign designed by Ogilvy & Mather to position the company as environmentally-friendly. Federal Government (via USA SPENDING).

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. Baiton was at COP27 and is expected to return for COP28, which runs from November 30th until December 12th, 2023. We need governments to regulate industry. CAPP is trying to buy and build the social license (ie.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

More Accountable Is A Model For Others -- Post-Gazette Editorial: A Bureaucratic Reform Could Transform PA Government -- Spotlight PA: Tracking Gov. EIA Forecasts Natural Gas Prices Will Drop Nearly 50% In 2023 -- Reuters: 46% Drop In U.S. Shapiro -- MCall - Paul Muschick: Gov. Shapiro’s Plan To Make Govt.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2024

The SEC released guidance in 2010 directing public companies to disclose risks resulting from climate-related regulation, legislation, and weather, among other sources. The rule was created in response to investor complaints that companies weren’t adequately disclosing information about climate-related financial risk.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Both possibilities – that there might be proposals to use it, and that doing so might be on balance beneficial – imply a need to learn more, by doing research and discussing governance needs and possibilities. Considered together, as they must be, these represent real progress.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 29, 2023

million EVs since 2010, including over 20 percent of new light-duty purchases so far this year. Californians have bought over 1.5 How ready are California cities to ensure equitable charging access? Answering this question is challenging, particularly given the still-nascent state of local EV action planning.

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Legal Planet

MAY 29, 2024

While these specific instances of corporate malfeasance are hardly atypical in the world of toxic harms, the current settlement dollars involving PFAS are quite large— more than $11 billion in 2023 , a figure that is expected to increase in coming years. From that vantage, risk assessment has been wildly successful.

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Arnold Porter

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Over the last several years, many investors, regulators and other stakeholders have increasingly sought environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosures from public companies. In 2010, the SEC published interpretive guidance (2010 Guidance) for public companies regarding disclosure requirements relating to climate change matters.[[N:Securities

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 24, 2023

York HACC Campus, 2010 Pennsylvania Ave. Posted: December 24, 2023] PA Environment Digest Offers Free Solar Sprint Student Competition Teacher Training Jan. 13 -- PA Farm Link: Jan. 23 Farm Succession Workshop. to 2:30 p.m. -- Save The Date! 22 RiverWatch Video Report -- First Street Foundation: Over 3.2

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 5, 2024

Giving her reasons for abdicating, the 83-year-old Margrethe II cited ill health and an operation in 2023 from which she had not properly recovered. In 2010 he wrote the foreword in the book Naturen og klimaændringerne i Nordøstgrønland (The Nature and Climate Change in Northeast Greenland).

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Climate Change 2009 2010 Renewable Energy 105

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 22, 2023

This editorial first appeared in the Republican Herald on August 22, 2023 -- Enthusiastic gas-drilling advocates in the state Legislature long have fallen over themselves in their hast to get out of the industry’s way.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Natural Gas Output Hit Record High In 2023, Demand To Fall, First Time Demand Would Fall For 2 Years In A Row - US. Natural Gas Output Hit Record High In 2023, Demand To Fall, First Time Demand Would Fall For 2 Years In A Row - US. Generation Capacity Retirements In 2023 -- U.S. Power Generating Capacity In 2023, With 29.1

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2024

The 2023 updates were the result of a yearlong review process by an advisory committee composed of regional governments, nonprofit organizations, and academic institutions. The population in the Potomac River watershed has increased by 13% since 2010.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Thanks largely to federal tax incentives, lower sticker prices, and more available models, EV sales have continued to surge in 2023. DR: California hit a new milestone for EV sales midway through 2023: One in four new passenger vehicles sold in in the state from April through June was a plug-in car, truck, or SUV. percent in 2021.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Additionally, the Uniform Partition of Heirs’ Property Act was passed in 2010 to prevent the kinds of forced sales described above from happening, but it has been enacted in only 23 states. But landowners won’t qualify for benefits from government sequestration programs if they don’t have a title to their land.

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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

electric generation capacity, compared to just 4% in 2010. On October 23, 2023, EPA announced a new rulemaking effort to improve the management of end of life solar panels. Some believe this end of life government subsidy to the solar industry is key to continuing the greater solar market uptick and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Waste 52

Waste Recycling Regulations Electricity 52

Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

government $265 million plus interest for over-billing on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and in 2010 it was ordered to repay the U.S. These payments included $3 million to the Japanese prime minister and $1.1 million to a Dutch prince. In 2007 Lockheed was ordered to repay the U.S. Air Force and the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

AD: Our surveys have provided critical insights into the state of scientific integrity at government agencies over the last two decades. The day after we published the report, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform followed up with a public hearing on the administration’s actions. Have they made a difference?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

Getting this right is important, both for California and to ensure the LCFS remains a workable model for other states and the federal government. Moreover, absent reform, the LCFS is not a replicable model for other states or the federal government. Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Program: Standards for 2023–2025 and Other Changes.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 7, 2023

Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – June 7, 2023 Mark Marlowe, who directs the water supply for fast-growing Castle Rock, a Denver suburb, has a dim view of lawns. Those sentiments are echoed at the highest levels of state government. Irrigating grass in summer consumes 40 percent of Castle Rock’s water.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The IEA World Energy Outlook 2023 , International Energy Agency’s annual report, which makes clear that without concerted action, current global energy choices are causing us to hurtle toward a 2.4˚C above 2010 levels, instead of the sharp downward trajectory we need. above 2010 levels, instead of the sharp downward trajectory we need.

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Fossil Fuels Paris Agreement Climate Change 2030 209

Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

government drop investigations into over-billing and contract fraud. There are no adequate records to indicate how the funds have been and are being spent.” The study also cited incidents of planes being used for joy rides. The company has paid millions to ensure that the U.S. Local 1505 and representatives from the Second District office.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission regulations on climate disclosure, first proposed in March 2022 and likely to be issued in final form in October 2023, [1] have drawn considerable controversy and face an uncertain fate in the inevitable litigation. [2] It went into effect in January 2023 and will be phased in over the next five years.

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Regulations Law 2023 Climate Change 98

Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

government drop investigations into over-billing and contract fraud. There are no adequate records to indicate how the funds have been and are being spent.” The study also cited incidents of planes being used for joy rides. The company has paid millions to ensure that the U.S. Local 1505 and representatives from the Second District office.

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