CEQA Developments

JUNE 27, 2023

In a published opinion filed June 13, 2023, the Second District Court of Appeal (Div. City of Pomona (2023) Cal.App.5th. As relevant here, the City certified a Final EIR in 2014 (2014 EIR) for a General Plan Update (GPU) with a 2035 development horizon.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

At the beginning of the year Spain, Germany and the Netherlands announced that they generated 50 % of their electricity from renewables in 2023. The country managed to halve in 10 years its coal consumtion (from 249 TWh in 2014 to 113 TWh in 23) all the while closing its nuclear reactors too. Cleanest electricity ever.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 11, 2023

For three full days in 2014 , nearly half a million people were told their tap water was unsafe to drink, bathe in, or even touch. Toxic algae blooms in Lake Erie are now an annual event that is predicted and tracked and has forced residents of Toledo, Ohio, to resort to bottled water.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 29, 2024

This update, current with launches through May 1, 2023, collects 28 pieces of data on 7,560 actively-operating satellites. The Satellite Database has subscribers from inside and outside governments from all over the globe. One of my favorites is from Quartz in 2014.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

He will also discuss the NETL’s Direct Air Capture Center on its Pittsburgh campus, a recent initiative by the federal government to support the development of carbon capture. The Center was established in 2023 to jumpstart DAC technologies and accelerate the commercialization of DAC technologies beyond the conceptual stage.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 27, 2023

The oil and gas industry is asking governments for tens of billions of dollars in subsidies for CCUS, which hasn’t been proven to work and doesn’t address the emissions from the use of oil and gas. Every government dollar spent on CCUS is a dollar that doesn’t go to reliable solutions. Companies are seeing the writing on the wall.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

billion in 2014 to the U.S. for hiding information about acceleration problems from buyers and government officials, as well as $1 billion in compensation to car owners, after as many as 37 people were reported killed in runaway vehicles. Federal Government (via USA Spending) Toyota contracts with the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 1, 2023

With local and regional interest high, TNC and the partners joined forces with a then newly formed grassroots group— Friends of Cherry Valley —to mobilize a coalition of businesses, local governments and civic groups around lobbying Congress to authorize a National Wildlife Refuge. Posted: December 1, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Why it matters: With rainfall totals less than half of normal at best and just 10 percent of normal in the worst areas, Circle of Blue reported in 2014 that farmers were leaning on water from the Ogallala aquifer more than ever before. Those caught without a permit can be fined $2,000 and have their boat confiscated. ON THE RADAR.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Law 1715 of 2014 on non-conventional renewable energy sources. For example, the law ordered the Colombian government to issue specific rules on the specific definition of short-, medium- and long-term as it relates to the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) (art. In February 2023, the Tribunal of Cundinamarca decided the case.

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 29, 2022

Earlier this month, ocean leaders from governments, businesses and expert organizations around the world gathered for the seventh annual Our Ocean Conference in the island nation of Palau. billion were made, bringing the total to more than 1,800 total commitments worth approximately $108 billion since 2014.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

On the same day at COP28, the Indian government submitted its third “National Communication” to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In a written reply to parliament in August 2023, the coal minister stated that a “major leap in coal production over the years has been witnessed”. tCO2/tcs.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

January 5, 2023. Persistent dry conditions are driving up the cost of water and prompting more resistance from government and citizens to new development. Groundwater use will total about 400 million to 500 million gallons annually, and local governments and citizen groups have objected. . By Keith Schneider. Circle of Blue.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Will your story be included in 2023? Since June 2004, PA Environment Digest has printed or linked to over 6,290 articles about environmental stewards from all walks of life and all ages. Since June 2004, PA Environment Digest has printed or linked to over 6,290 articles about environmental stewards from all walks of life and all ages.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of BP (British Petroleum) Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Repsol SA Royal Dutch Shell Total SA Federal Contractor Misconduct Database Project On Government Oversight's list of U.S. Federal Government (via USA SPENDING). complaints from 1995-present day.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 2, 2021

With the federal government now projecting that Lake Mead will drop precipitously in the next two years — perhaps to levels not seen since the Great Depression, when the country’s largest reservoir was first filled — that emergency has arrived. trillion in economic activity, according to one 2014 study. million acres.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2023

Impacted communities and nuclear weapons policy experts know that US government-led testing and production of nuclear weapons in other regions of the United States also affected others, yet those living with the health and environmental impacts are being denied the opportunity to even apply for compensation. Louis area?

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

“Grant’s efforts have included the passage of multiple ordinances and a Home Rule Charter (local constitution) that we at the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) have worked to draft with them, and defend in court, since 2014. In the first case, brought in 2014, the judge – who owned stock in the oil company KBR, Inc.,

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Guest Post by Sam Leuthold , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University Over the course of the last two decades, there has been a shift in the general popularity of agricultural soils. Not so in the modern day, however.

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Washington Nature

JULY 25, 2023

In the years that followed, he helped advocate for a movement to close the landfill, and an ongoing project to clean and restore it for safe and healthy use in 2014. federal government accountable for the treaty rights secured for the Makah people in the Neah Bay Treaty of 1855," he said. He joined the Board of Trustees in 2023.

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

The region will need to change its industrial structure and energy mix to meet national carbon targets, requiring policy and financial support from central government. billion) over the three years 2014–16. The local government has to recognise its responsibilities.”. By Gao Baiyu. The Kubuqi desert. Photo credit: Alamy.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

Coal-Fired power plants targeted at the case, taken by Attorney Shunsuke Sugit In March 2023, two important decisions regarding the operation of newly built coal-fired power plants were handed down by courts in Japan. Nevertheless, the Japanese government chose to expand coal-fired power generation, which is a major source of emissions.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 4, 2023

The American Lawn and De-Colonizing the Permaculture Movement By Abigail Bailey , Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law April 4, 2023 Many Americans consider lawns synonymous with success, comfort, and community. (1) 394, 403-405 (2014). 9, 2023) [link] Schindler, supra note 1, at 394. at 394, 403-405.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MAY 5, 2023

In total, 18 witnesses representing conventional commodity producers as well as lenders and crop insurance providers shared their priorities and perspectives ahead of the 2023 Farm Bill. Nationwide, the number of WFRP policies sold have indeed increased from 1,804 last year to 1,876 in 2023.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Thank you to Governor Shapiro for coming to Yardley to sign House Bill 735 into law as Act 22 of 2023,” Rep. In late 2014 and early 2015 Sen, Santarsiero held townhalls and neighborhood meetings, as well as discussions with local stakeholders and elected officials. Warren said. “I

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

More financially quantifiable is Ann Arbor’s cost to respond to PFAS, another toxic chemical first detected by Ann Arbor in 2014 and later traced up the Huron River to the same chrome plating plant, Tribar. Since the discovery, Ann Arbor has spent $1.5 In the case of PFAS alone, a U.S.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2023

On March 29, 2023, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the obligations of States with respect to climate change. On March 1, 2023, Vanuatu announced overwhelming support for the draft resolution with 105 co-sponsor states.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Information unearthed by Environmental Progress points to a gaping oversight in how the figures influencing government net zero policy and investments in solar worldwide are compiled and collated due to the difficulty of collecting accurate information out of China, especially for the purification processes used to create silicon wafers.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 21, 2023

By Travis Rosenbluth In 2014, scientists of the IPCC agreed that human influence on the climate system is evident. It is a milestone that seems insignificant in 2023; however, as we’ve seen most recently in the medical space, getting experts — let alone scientists — to agree on anything seems like a colossal task.

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Vermont Law

MAY 2, 2023

By Travis Rosenbluth In 2014, scientists of the IPCC agreed that human influence on the climate system is evident. It is a milestone that seems insignificant in 2023; however, as we’ve seen most recently in the medical space, getting experts — let alone scientists — to agree on anything seems like a colossal task.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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CEQA Developments

MARCH 6, 2023

In a published opinion filed on February 23, 2023, the Fourth District Court of Appeal reversed a judgment of dismissal after the sustaining of a demurrer and held that an amended writ petition challenging a city’s street closure project sufficiently stated claims against the city for Vehicle Code, local ordinance, and CEQA violations.

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CEQA Developments

JUNE 20, 2023

In a published opinion filed June 9, 2023, the First District Court of Appeal (Div. In a published opinion filed June 9, 2023, the First District Court of Appeal (Div. Christ (2023) Cal.App.5th. Department of General Services (2023) 87 Cal.App.5th City of Oakland (2023) 89 Cal.App.5th at 738, Save Our Capitol!

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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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CEQA Developments

JANUARY 8, 2024

2023) Cal.App.5th 2014) 227 Cal.App.4th Department of General Services (2023) 87 Cal.App.5th The amendments extended the contracts, which were originally entered into in the 1960s for 75-year terms, so as to end in the year 2085, and made other amendments to their financial provisions. C096304, C096316, C096384). 2010) 48 Cal.4th

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