Real Climate

MARCH 5, 2023

It’s a fascinating story of technology, creativity, hubris, error, imagination, rivalry, politics, and (for some) a search for scientific consilience – worthy of movie script perhaps? Instead, they chose to hide the structural uncertainty in the MSU retrievals (the TMT trends for 1979-2013 in UAH v5.5 and RSS v3.3

2014

Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Dernbach told Circle of Blue that these amendments act as a steadying force in state politics, for the reason that constitutions are more stable than policies and regulations, which can change from administration to administration. Rhode Island followed in 1987, and was the last state to do so.

2021

Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In the Nile River basin last week, a political power shift in Sudan could turn up the heat on a long-simmering dispute over a major dam in the region. According to Reuters news service, the military coup in Sudan is likely to make water diplomacy between Sudan and its neighbor Ethiopia more fragile.

2021

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

This methodology is similar to my own work combining climate science, political science, and history to reconstruct how UN climate negotiations have played out and what that implies for climate justice. The new paper in Science summarizes key statements by ExxonMobil executives between 2000 and 2013 that cast doubt on the science.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

While the Town of Jasper was burning as a result of fires made more probable and intense as a result of a warming climate, Alberta was producing a record amount of carbon-intensive tar sands oil, and doing its best to quash any internal opposition to a politically motivated, anti-free enterprise moratorium on vitally important clean energy.

Clean Energy

A Greener Life

JUNE 15, 2022

Nearly a decade ago, the Danish political drama Borgen gained international fame and recognition, depicting the life and travails of Denmark’s first female Prime Minister. Prior to his political career, he co-founded the green think-tank Concito. But as we know, political directions can shift fast given enough incentive. .

Politics

Enviromental Defense

MAY 15, 2024

Researchers working in the field of attribution science have been able to state with clarity that last year’s fires and droughts, the Alberta floods of 2013, BC’s atmospheric rivers, and the heat waves that have killed hundreds of people in the BC’s Lower Mainland, have all been intensified and magnified by human-caused climate change.

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

a joint venture of Shell, Petronas, Mitsubishi, PetroChina and Kogas): 2013 – 2021 Shell Canada Ltd.: 2010 – 2013 Shell Oil Company Inc.: As always, the format is satirical but the information is real. Shell Canada Products Ltd.: 2021 – present LNG Canada Development Inc. (a

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2021

Most of these provisions were enacted in the early 1970s during that great period of environmental lawmaking, but they received relatively little attention until a 2013 decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Robinson Township v. The court found that this would violate the political question doctrine.

Fossil Fuels

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

In 2013, there was a report in the Guardian about scientific studies that refuted the opinion that solar activity or cosmic radiation should explain climate change. We know from previous experience that it is likely that such cases will be used uncritically and selectively for political and economic goals.

Sea Level

Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2023

Several studies conclude that CEQA is decidedly not a primary driver of California’s housing/infrastructure backlogs and that political barriers, labor and materials costs, and exclusionary zoning are the real culprits. Courts largely have discretion to determine whether to follow the expedited schedule.

Law

HumanNature

MARCH 15, 2024

Therefore, the study and possible solutions of global energy transition should consider biological and natural processes as well as the socio economic and political trade-offs. The political economy of the ‘just transition’. Energy transition is a complex and non-linear process with multiple questions and interdependent factors.

2023

A Greener Life

JUNE 22, 2021

Gazprom is the state-owned Russian oil and gas company that played a key role in the imprisonment in Russia of 30 Greenpeace activists in 2013 after they had protested against oil drilling in the Arctic, and imprisoned them under conditions violating human rights. In addition, the organisation clamps down on free speech.

2020

Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

As a result, Japan’s CO 2 emissions increased, peaking in 2013. In its Nationally Determined Contribution , Japan has committed to reducing GHG emissions by 46% in 2030 from 2013 levels and achieving net zero emissions by 2050. As of May 2022 , there are 163 operating coal-fired power plants in Japan.

Paris Agreement

HumanNature

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Me and my dance partner Valtinho, performing in 2013 Despite the great effort by “normal schooling” to diminish my curiosity, I decided to pursue a Bachelor’s degree in economics. It seemed like a great mix of the subjects I loved: mathematics, politics, history, and geography.

Deforestation

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Political maneuvers from our elected officials who receive campaign donations from the coal mining companies sought to and succeeded in obtaining this deviation. Note: DEP also says, “Interested parties can submit questions or comment on the data on a continuing basis.] Read more here. Read more here.] Click Here for more.

2013

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

He is a close ally of French President Emmanuel Macron , and the appointment is seen as boost to Macron at a time where he is experiencing political difficulties. Hoekstra represents the centre-right political spectrum and has been under scrutiny as between 2005-6 he worked for the fossil fuel giant, Royal Dutch Shell.

Clean Energy

National Law Center

JULY 1, 2025

Katie Hobbs veto a bill broadly restricting Chinese ownership of Arizona land?

Endangered Species Act

HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Sounding Green” has not only become politically correct, but also a possible finance-generating mechanism. Climate is a global issue and when complex political systems around the world are brought together, solutions cannot be straightforward.

Renewable Energy

Law Columbia

JULY 26, 2025

The ICJ held that, under the principle of non-refoulement , states have an obligation not to return individuals to situations where there are substantial grounds to believe there is a real risk of irreparable harm to their right to life, as protected by Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Climate Change

Environmental Europe

JANUARY 16, 2017

Around this apparently simple scheme, a set of issues arose, amongst which three stand out: policy design, ex-post evaluation and compliance, and political reactivity. A political scandal. The RHI scandal truly turned ‘political’, and even constitutional, when it came to closing down the scheme. Faulty policy design.

2015

HumanNature

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

While environmental security remains a hotly contested idea, it is nonetheless an increasingly popular conceptual framing used by global actors who are concerned with stemming the dangerous ramifications of environmental change (Floyd and Matthew 2013). Political Geography 26 (6): 639–655 Browning, C., Dabelko (eds.).

2011

Law Columbia

JULY 16, 2013

There were up to two billion surplus of allowances as of the beginning of the EU ETS’s third phase of operation (running from 2013-2020), according to European Commission Directorate-General for Climate Action. euros a ton in April 2013, compared to its peak near 30 euros in July 2008.

2013

Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

I understand that Congressional hearings involve some political theater. However, I am not a political appointee. I did not expect to be drawn into political theatre that violates basic civility. I am told that Members from both sides sometimes act this way. That may be the case. I do not represent a large trade association.

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

. -- Washington County Judge Rules Sunoco Pipeline Did Not Have Eminent Domain Authority To Take Property For Mariner East Pipelines In Landowner Lawsuit Alleging Fraud [PaEN] -- The Energy Age Blog: Judge Rules Sunoco Didnt Have Eminent Domain Power For Mariner East Pipelines Work In 2013; Lawsuit Claims Company Coerced Property Owners Into Allowing (..)

2013

Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Even though INTERPOL's Constitution prohibits the use of Red Notices to target political opponents or to pursue groundless or improper claims, the procedures by which INTERPOL issues and reviews Red Notices—and the options for challenging them—have not always been clear. [[N: Id. , 83(1)(a)(ii).]] I/CONS/GA/1956 (2017). ]].

Politics

PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

Grant Township has been fighting to keep out this frack-waste injection well since 2013. The community in Grant Township has demonstrated true courage in the face of a legal, political, and economic system stacked against them at every turn. This is what resistance, resilience, and success can look like,” said CELDF’s Chad Nicholson.

Waste

Frontiers

AUGUST 24, 2023

In 2013 the systemwide faculty Academic Senate endorsed an Open Access Policy that affirmed its commitment to “disseminating its research and scholarship as widely as possible.” Learn more about open access at UC.

2013

Acoel

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The old growth grove where the Gandalf Tree stands became part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area in 2013 – a successful conclusion to this particular direct action effort, which lasted ten years. Tree sitting campaigns may be uniquely effective in moving the politics and policy needle.

2003

Vermont Law

APRIL 7, 2014

In the fall of 2013, some of these lawyers, a team at the nonprofit Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), announced a wonderful initiative—creation of a National “Do Not Adopt Registry;” a registry that will make historical data available, including the name and birth date of the convicted abuser. In 2013, ALDF.

2013

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

After several years of deadlock, parties established a work program on L&D in 2012 (at COP17 in Durban), further formalized in 2013 as the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage (WIM). The first explicit use of the term L&D was in the 2007 Bali Action Plan , in a section on enhanced action for adaptation.

Climate Change

Vermont Law

JANUARY 11, 2015

After a dry 2013-2014 winter, the drought forced farmers to uproot valuable walnut and almond trees and sell off cattle they could no longer husband. He graduated from Iowa State University in 2013 with majors in History and Political Science. Near the end of 2012, California fell into an unusual dry spell. The post.

2014

HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Unfortunately, the topic of climate change has been heavily politicized and used to draw yet another line in the sand between what are portrayed as ideologically divergent and mutually-exclusive political views. A political view. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 5 , 72–77 (2013). & Bastiaensen, J.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 27, 2021

As a candidate for the House in 1966 his platform was “For Clean Streams and Clean Politics.” Former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Ron Castille, who in 2013 wrote the plurality opinion in the Robinson Township v. It’s a very satisfying moment. I’m delighted to be here.”

Natural Resources

Physics World

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The UK’s National Quantum Technology Programme (NQTP) kicked off in 2013 with around £1bn promised over a 10-year period, and is now entering its second phase. The company, founded in 2001, expects to see applications not just for confidential financial and political information but for medical data and as a defence against cyber attacks.

Technology

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MAY 12, 2023

Towards the beginning of the 1960s, organizations such as the Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and community members in the South increasingly organized and held meetings to strategize around increasing Black political participation. Greenwood, 2013. Hamer began volunteering as a field organizer. 2, 1992, pp.

Government

Vermont Law

APRIL 6, 2015

As of October 2013, lawn fertilizer containing phosphorus is banned. In September 2013, District Court Judge Sylvia Rambo. phosphorus management regulations were caught in a political battle between outgoing Governor O’Malley (D) and newly inaugurated Governor Larry Hogan (R). In Maryland, proposed.

2011