Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

In 2012, 2017, and 2021 the National Academies of Science and Engineering published three separate reports on threats to the grid, resilience, and the future of electricity. [1] 11] Part of the reason for inadequate in-state electricity supply in California last August was that state regulators had closed in-state baseload power plants.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The court found that a 2012 no-jeopardy determination was unsupported, arbitrary, and capricious because it did not account for the owl’s recovery. 2012 CA 008263 B (D.C. States Filed Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration’s Changes to the Endangered Species Act Regulations. National Review, Inc. , Bernhardt , No. filed Sept.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The majority said it “reluctantly” concluded that “the plaintiffs’ case must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large” and “[t]hat the other branches may have abdicated their responsibility to remediate the problem does not confer on Article III courts, no matter how well-intentioned, the ability to step into their shoes.”

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Environmental Europe

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

America’s environmental agenda will be guided by true specialists in conservation, not those with radical political agendas. Ronald Reagan made removing environmental ‘over-regulation’ one of his key campaign objectives in the 1980s. 2] Examples of such principled opposition include calling for the respect for property rights (v.

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