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Our 2012 Report Predicted the Future of Electric Vehicles in 2025: How Off Were We?

Legal Planet

Back in 2012, CLEE and the Emmett Institute released a report called Electric Drive by 25, with the relatively bold subtitle How California Can Catalyze Mass Adoption of Electric Vehicles by 2025. First, and most obviously, electric vehicles have taken off better than a lot of people thought.

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Predicted Arctic sea ice trends over time

Real Climate

2007) , and were compounded by the summertime record losses of sea ice in 2007 and then 2012. With an additional decade, how does that look now? Percent change in March (red) and September (blue) Arctic sea extent w.r.t. 1979-1988 in the CMIP3 ensemble and NSIDC observations. Kattsov, A. Barrett, M. Serreze, T. Pavlova, M. Holland, and W.N.

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Electric Vehicles Help Combat Climate Change, Here’s Why.

Union of Concerned Scientists

Emissions from electricity generation (and for using EVs) have dropped dramatically The first UCS analysis of the emissions from EV driving in 2012 showed promise for EVs, but the emissions for some parts of the country were equal to the efficient non-hybrid gasoline cars of the time.

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Seniors are mobilizing – we want to be part of the bigger climate action movement

Enviromental Defense

Nick De Carlo was active in the union movement from 1973 to retirement in 2012. He was the national representative for the environment and workers’ compensation for the CAW(Canadian Auto Workers) in the Health and Safety Department for 17 ½ years (1994 – 2012).

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The Top-Ten Lower Court Decisions on Environmental Law

Legal Planet

EPA (2012 ). This opinion overturned weak fuel efficiency standards adopted by the Bush Administration because the government had not considered the effects of its action on climate change in its environmental impact statement. It became a key precedent on the issue. Coalition for Responsible Regulation v. This is a D.C.

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FIRO to Avoid Water FOMO: How to Save Every Drop with Smart Reservoir Operations in California

Union of Concerned Scientists

FIRO started in California and has since gone worldwide Once upon a time, there was (and still is) a megadrought in California that peaked in the acute drought of 2012 to 2016. In other words, FIRO avoids the fear of missing out (FOMO) on water that you could have stored if you had better forecasting.

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The Season of Our Growing Discontent

Circle of Blue

The most destructive hurricanes of the last two decades – Sandy (2012), Harvey (2017), Maria (2017), Ida (2021), Ian (2022), Helene (2024) – arrived on or after Katrina’s initial landfall date of August 25. Katrina remains the most expensive weather disaster in U.S. history.