Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 1, 2025

All of which comes on top of a staffing gap that FEMA and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) agreed was at 35% in 2022 and the Congressional Research Service suggested is likely much higher. The cancellation of these grants will disrupt projects already underway or planned by emergency managers and local and Tribal governments.

2006

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2025

Any call for more studies should not preclude swift and meaningful action on the part of our government. And I certainly believe that this is not an either/or circumstance that we can do both, but it does require that government be far more involved than we have been in the past, and that includes funding for regulators.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

APRIL 8, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen In the wake of Donald Trump’s handing an ever-increasing role to Elon Musk in his government, people are right to be angry about the responsibilities and freedoms the worlds richest man can wield. It is presented as a state-media publication platform. Many might not know this, but Musk did not create Tesla.

Fossil Fuels

Scientific American

JUNE 6, 2025

A budget shortfall NASA has wanted to put people on Mars for decades, but both technological and budget limitations mean that probably will not happen until the 2040s under current plans. The technology entrepreneur has long talked of colonizing the red planet, but with little consideration of societal ethics or international norms.

Radiation

National Law Center

JULY 31, 2025

While there are approximately twenty-eight states that specifically prohibit or limit foreign ownership of agricultural land within the boundaries of their state, the federal government only monitors certain foreign acquisitions and landholdings in agricultural land through the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act (“AFIDA”) of 1978.

2013

New Scientist

JULY 25, 2025

In 2012, researchers at the University of Utah found that “frenemies” – ambivalent relationships that blow hot and cold – seem to accelerate the shortening of our telomeres , the protective caps at the end of chromosomes. “The

2012

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

They will be working alongside our faculty director (formerly faculty co-director) Ted Parson—an accomplished scholar of environmental governance—as well as me and my colleague Cara Horowitz, shaping the strategic direction of the Emmett Institute. Wang is a leading expert on environmental governance and the law and politics of China.

Law

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The process requires the government to assess past progress, project future emissions, and come up with a strategy to meet its climate goals. The 2012 scoping plan was challenged in court but upheld because of the painstaking process that the Board had followed.

Greenhouse

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 13, 2024

Instead, we recommend that states adopt accessible vote-by-mail systems that permit voters with disabilities to use online platforms that can be used with assistive technology to mark and submit ballots. When government election office websites offer translations, they are frequently computer generated.

2004

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Yet the Cambodian government revived the project in 2007, and in 2012 the dam became a joint venture between Cambodia’s Royal Group and China’s state-owned Huaneng Group, which remains the majority stakeholder. The analysis showed, however, that overall evaluations of environmental losses from hydropower dams have increased since 2012.

2012

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2023

Utility companies, as well as state and federal government regulatory agencies, made a series of questionable decisions that together created the situation we find ourselves in today. Consider what happened in New York City and northern New Jersey when Hurricane Sandy struck in 2012. That can prove disastrous.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

The Alberta government has allowed 1.4 The AER has rubber-stamped the industry’s tailings clean-up plans for decades, despite these relying on unproven or dangerous technologies. The Alberta government must be cautious not to overreach its jurisdiction.

Regulations

Physics World

MARCH 1, 2022

But with little support for the go-ahead from the Japanese government, in 2017 physicists looked for cost savings and revised the plans to reduce the ILC’s energy to 250 GeV — an energy aimed to study the 125 GeV Higgs boson, which was discovered in 2012 at the LHC. Looking elsewhere. Some remain unconvinced.

Technology

Ocean Conservancy

MAY 20, 2022

GGGI membership includes representatives from academia, governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the private sector dedicated to combat this most harmful form of marine debris. Connecting relevant stakeholders, including local government, communities, industry and academia.

2022

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The growing credits for electricity reflect the growing number of EVs on the road in California, and support California’s goal of phasing out combustion technologies in favor of zero emissions vehicles. California’s LCFS is causing problems for other states and the federal government.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Agricultural methane policies, where they exist, tend to take predominantly three forms: regulation , cap – and – trade programs , and government incentive programs. Finally, governments can implement direct incentive programs which fund or otherwise facilitate the implementation of agricultural methane reduction measures.

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Throughout his career, Minott and the Clean Air Council earned a reputation for holding government agencies and fossil fuel companies accountable. In 2002, Scientific American named Dr. Mann one of the fifty leading visionaries in science and technology, and in 2012, he received the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geophysical Union.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

APRIL 1, 2022

Yet the technologies needed to do this, collectively known as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), remains nascent, underfunded and largely unregulated. The report also estimates computer modelling costs at around $5 million per year and research into governance and issues such as equity at around $4 million per year.

Ocean

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

In 2012, four years after she started teaching a course on carbon capture, she wrote the world’s first textbook on it. That money is not without its controversies — CCS technologies are still in early stages — but Wilcox sees the opportunity in funding technologies with potential for significant carbon reduction.

2028

Physics World

JULY 28, 2021

Another great option is to take advantage of government tax incentives. It was launched in 2012 with the ambitious goal to “stimulate entrepreneurship and kick start the economy”. Here in the UK, the government has just completed a consultation on how these schemes can be improved to encourage more investment through them.

Government

ESA

MAY 26, 2022

Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), in collaboration with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, is requesting comment from the public on its draft Decadal Strategic Plan. . The Global Change Research Act requires the government to issue an assessment every four years. . See also: Federal Register Notice.

2022

Physics World

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Like other scientists who received the Nobel at a relatively young age (he was 42), Hulse found that the prize brought invitations to serve on advisory boards in academia, government and industry. His wife Jeanne, for her part, retired in 2020 from a long career in the pharmaceutical industry. Too many other things have not.

2004

Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

As of April 2018, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region, which encompasses the Basin, was home to approximately 34,000 warehouses with 1.17 According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012. Endnotes. [1] Endnotes. [1] 20, 2019). [6] 6] See 42 U.S.C.

Ozone

Physics World

JULY 16, 2021

In 2020, as part of a comprehensive review of defence spending, the UK government underlined the strategic importance of science and technology for national defence and security. That extra funding has led to a major recruitment drive at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) , the scientific division of the MoD.

Technology

Frontiers

AUGUST 24, 2021

His work focuses on the political economy of environment, technology and development. During our research in 2012, Hurricane Sandy hit New York city and flooded the Gowanus neighborhood. Will states or the federal government buy out homes that repeatedly flood to let nature take over and serve as a buffer for future storms?

Environmental Science

Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The sector has 8,230 direct jobs (compared to a massive 32,000 in 2010-2011… or 12,000 in 2012). So four to six percent of wind, solar and so on looks pretty miserable… And instead of working seriously on fixing this, the French government seems to be working on diversion. The governmental target for 2018 is 10.2

Wind Power

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 24, 2025

Were spotlighting Micheal Binnion, the Mastermind of Petro Populism, who has worked for decades to embed support for fossil fuels in the highest levels of the Canadian government. It has been largely inactive since 2015 but originally included political insiders on the governance board.

Fossil Fuels

Arnold Porter

AUGUST 4, 2021

Apple originally filed its motion to dismiss claiming that Omni lacked standing to file infringement claims against it (for patented technology allegedly used in the Apple Watch[[N:Blake Brittain, Apple Must Face Apple Watch Patent Claims, Fed Circ. Omni Medsci v. Apple , APPEAL NO. 20-1715 at 5.]] Affirms , Reuters (Aug.

2013

PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2023

I saw the importance of government help for recovery, and for alerts and warnings for natural disasters, and we didn’t really have any of that then.” It was a pretty impactful event for me, a lot of people were displaced for a long time, and it caused billions of dollars in damage,” she says. “I

Ocean

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Both states ranked in the top 10 for total generation in 2022 and total growth in small-scale solar since 2012, and each state produced about 4 times as much power from small-scale solar as Pennsylvania in 2022. Click Here for a copy of the report. Room G-50 Iris Building. Click Here to watch online.

Solar Power

Environmental Europe

JANUARY 16, 2017

The scheme, closed in early 2016, was set up in 2012 to encourage renewable heat uptake. The Renewable Heat Incentive scheme was a policy instrument set up to increase uptake in a variety of renewable heat technologies – from biomass boilers to solar thermals, biogas, heat pumps – for use by businesses from 2012 and in homes from 2014.

2015

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

AUGUST 28, 2024

Precision Agriculture The FFNSA dramatically increases support for precision agriculture technologies in conservation programs (Sec. The FFNSA also proposes creating Supplemental Activity Payments (SAP) for adopting and acquiring precision agriculture technologies through CSP. 2202, 2204, 2302).

Conservation

Vermont Law

AUGUST 11, 2014

Summary: New drone technology is offering environmental groups an innovative way to ensure compliance with environmental laws. Both federal and state authorities can regulate drone technology. of 2012 sought to regulate drone technology. Section 333 of the. FAA Modernization and Reform Act.

Technology

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 24, 2023

23 PA Bulletin [PaEN] -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Invites Comments On Cooperative Fish Nursery General Permit; Hearing Set For Feb. 23 PA Bulletin [PaEN] -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Invites Comments On Cooperative Fish Nursery General Permit; Hearing Set For Feb. 22 RiverWatch Video Report -- First Street Foundation: Over 3.2

2010

Law Columbia

JULY 16, 2013

Since 2009, however, the carbon market has experienced a significant imbalance between the supply and demand of emission allowances, largely due to the economic and financial crisis sweeping the entire world, but also to early over-allocation of allowances by national governments. As a result, the EUA price hit bottom: a record low of 2.63

2013

Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

So why is Ontario planning to ramp up the lone fossil fuel in the mix, when so many other governments are racing to do the opposite to cut carbon emissions? Why go for gas when renewables like wind and solar, and the battery storage technology that makes them reliable, are now the cheapest source of new electricity generation in Canada ?

Electricity

Vermont Law

MARCH 22, 2016

Whether the Paris agreement can avoid being another Kyoto Protocol depends on the technology and lifestyles that developing nations choose to adopt as they eventually earn more income and whether the American government steps up to be a leader in environmental protection. By Mark Latham. COP 21: A Kyoto Protocol Redux?

Carbon Emissions