Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 2, 2024

When countries signed the Paris Agreement in 2015, they agreed that wealthy countries would provide financing to the most vulnerable countries (often referred to as the Global South) to help advance global climate action and respond to climate disasters.

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Inside Climate News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

By Bob Berwyn A trio of reports released ahead of next month’s COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan all show that the existing national policies to cut greenhouse gas emissions under the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement will heat the planet by close to 3 degrees Celsius by 2100, as warming has accelerated in the past few years.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Also in 2024, for the first time ever, solar and wind combined to generate more than coal , which was the largest source of US generation as recently as 2015. It added up to 24% of total electricity generation in 2024, compared with 23% in 2023.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 14, 2025

The average EV efficiency and location of EV sales (for the sales-weighted national emissions estimate) has been updated to reflect EV sales from 2015 through 2024 based on data from Atlas Public Policy. The manufacturing emissions now use GREET2024 and reflect a 95kWh battery for car/SUV EVs and 140kWh battery for EV pickup trucks.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Take Action: Tell Canada to Stop Big Oil’s Climate Villains Chairman of Canadian Natural Resources Limited: 1989 – present President of Edco Financial Holdings Ltd: 2003 – 2015 Penn West Petroleum (later Penn West Energy Trust): 1992 – 2005 Founding member at FirstEnergy Capital Corp: 1993 – 2016 Co-founder at Peters & Co. (..)

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Real Climate

JANUARY 26, 2025

2015 used surface height data from satellite, and the Worthington et al 2021 reconstruction uses a water mass regression based on RAPID data. Here is how the Terhaar reconstructions (bottom two) compare: Figure 4 Several AMOC reconstructions, with the RAPID measurements on top. The reconstruction by Frajka-Williams et al. Graph: Levke Caesar.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 2, 2025

Through subsequent regulation adopted in 2015, the state took the lead in the country by requiring metropolitan planning organizations and MassDOT to evaluate the emissions impacts of transportation projects, which you can now see in state transportation plans. In 2016, the landmark decision in Kain v.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 27, 2025

Los Angeles’s SRI requirements , for example, date back to 2015 and come in at 78 for low slope roofs and 20 for steep slope roofs. While Atlanta is not the first city to require cool roofs, its new standards are ahead of those found in some of the most climate adaptation-minded jurisdictions around the country.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In Toronto, the use of the city’s BikeShare program has been rising steadily since in conjunction with the creation of more dedicated bike lanes throughout the city with the number of rides climbing sevenfold from 655,000 in 2015 to 4.6 million by the end of 2022.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The country, still not over its financial woes following its Euro-Zone crisis in 2015, has been hit with severe floods and wildfires this year. We’re in October, and this weekend, we will have 34 degrees Celsius, – which means that we have already entered the climate crisis “.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 15, 2025

With this update, we will have completed more assessments and gotten a better picture of the status and distribution of a number of groups as compared to what we were able to do for the 2015 update. Through our work, we also helped in seeing a rare crayfish listed as PA endangered.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

When countries signed the Paris Agreement back in 2015, they agreed to centre equity in how we tackle the climate crisis. At COP29, countries must uphold the commitments made at COP28 and hold themselves accountable for making progress on those goals.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

We examined projects funded between 2015 and 2021 through the Organic Research and Extension Initiative (OREI) and the ORG. These programs stand as testaments to the power of dedicated research in propelling the organic sector forward, reinforcing that this is no time to stop growing or even suggest reducing their impact.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2025

Despite being one of the first states to enact a renewable portfolio standard (RPS) requiring 10% of the states energy to come from renewables, the requirement expired in 2015 with no meaningful updates since.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2025

During the 2015-2016 El Nio cycle, it reported 200 cases of heat-related illnesses, including 2 fatalities. Since 2015, at least 37 systemic cases have been successfully filed against states to strengthen commitments to mitigate or adapt to climate change. Malaysia regularly experiences high temperatures.

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HumanNature

MAY 2, 2025

By incorporating traditional knowledge into policy and working with traditional leaders, governments can create more inclusive policies that more culturally relevant, sustainable and driven by the local communities that are the most vulnerable to and affected by these disasters. References 1. Coppola, D. Dube, E., & Munsaka, E. Zamisa, N.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 19, 2025

The suit, which was filed in 2015, alleges that RWE’s historic GHG emissions—amounting to approximately 0.38% of GHG emissions since the Industrial Revolution—have materially contributed to climate change and, specifically, to the accelerated melting of mountain glaciers near Lliuya‘s hometown.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The PPA market has grown 33% on average since 2015 and catalyzed hundreds of billions of dollars of investment into the energy transition. PPAs certainly promote renewable energy growth and, according to BNEF, since 2008, corporations have announced PPAs for 198 GW of solar and wind around the globe.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 24, 2025

The 2015 launch of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) initiative was emblematic of the emphasis by Beijing to recast its investment activities in the Mekong subregion as regional public goods. After 2011, the completion rate increased to around 43%, and since 2016, it has risen further to nearly 70%.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Two previous editions were “History of Pennsylvania’s State Parks: 1893-1983” and “History of Pennsylvania State Parks: 1984 to 2015.” [ Click Here for copies.] Bill is widely regarded for his diligence in researching and writing three editions of the “History of State Parks” with the latest edition covering 2016 to 2023 published in 2024.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The Forest Fungi Project is a community science project that was launched in 2015 by the Lankau Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The project’s aim is to engage the broader community in the process of scientific research while generating data to address important ecological questions. Participation is easy and fun!

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Get Your Passport To 2025 PA Farm Show, Enhance Your Conservation Skills Starting Jan.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

In particular, it considered whether Irelands climate obligations should take priority over the alleged visual impacts of a proposed new wind farm.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 9, 2025

In 2015, the Conservancy established the scholarship in memory of Vanessa Joy Van Gorder. A recent graduate from West Chester University with a degree in education, Vanessa was passionate about the outdoors and loved exploring the lakes, rivers, and forests of the Upper Delaware River Region with her friends and family.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

APRIL 24, 2025

Figure 4: Average Loss Ratio 2015-2025 by Policy Type Note: This graph does not include Micro Farm data. State Breakdown First glance at the map below reveals that Washington state is the point of origin for most WFRP policies sold since 2015.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 28, 2025

In addition to a cleaner power supply, a key outcome of this microgridand a motivating factor for its installationwas cost savings: utility rates for residents after the microgrid was operational in 2015 were lower than rates in 2001. Remote microgrids can also help serve other needs besides resilience and cost-savings.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2025

Between 1984 and 2015, climate change had nearly doubled burned area in forests in the western US. Park Williams, Impact of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire across western US forests , which models forest fire area as a function of fuel dryness both with and without climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Within poultry processing, the focus on production led to increased line speeds from 70 birds per minute in 1979 to 91 in 1999 to 140 in 2015, even though there are proven and well-documented dangers of faster line speeds, making animal slaughtering and processing facilities the sixth most dangerous workplace for severe injuries.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 30, 2025

For example, Dick and I, along with several faith leaders, met with Susan Rice, President Obamas national security adviser, at the end of 2015, to urge the President to change US nuclear policy.

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National Law Center

JUNE 10, 2025

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

Million For Drill Pad Landslide In Greene County [November 2015] -- Sunoco Pipeline Fined $59,000 For Pipeline Wetlands Violations By DEP [November 2015] -- DEP Assesses $374,000 In Penalties For Methane Gas Migration Violations [August 2015] -- DEP Assesses $8.9

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 8, 2025

percent, relative to 2015. Hopefully, that’s information that land managers can use to think about preservation of important habitat. Future Stressors By 2046, the city of Kenai is expected to see its population grow by 13.3 Nearby Soldotna, home to about 4,500 people, is likely to grow at a similar rate.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 24, 2025

It was a big deal to get to Paris in 2015. I would say, this has been kind of a longer-term trend that we’re seeing the splintering of global governance around climate issues. And that was kind of a really unique moment.

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Legal Planet

MAY 20, 2025

That included the exhilarating success in 2015 , when nearly 200 nations committed to keep global warming in check by signing the Paris Agreement. As chair of the California Air Resources Board for nearly 20 years, I attended the annual conferences from Bali in 2007 to Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, in 2023. negotiations are held, not inside.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 5, 2025

The rise of wind and solar in the US Ten years ago, in March 2015, fossil fuels accounted for 65% of total electricity – with wind and solar at a meagre 5.7%. This energy technology has come a long way since March 2015, when it only accounted for 1% of electricity generation in the US. Will Trump change the energy trajectory?

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

Violations Increased Dramatically The number of total violations issued to conventional oil and gas well owners by DEPs Oil and Gas Program have increased dramatically since 2015-- -- 2024-- 7,294 Read more here. -- 2023-- 6,860 Read more here. -- 2022-- 5,416 Read more here. -- 2021-- 4,514 Read more here. -- 2015-- 1,024 Read more here.

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National Law Center

JULY 8, 2025

Truth in Labeling Law(suits) Research Fellows Rusty Rumley Solar Smarts Samantha Capaldo Samantha Mikolajczyk Bankruptcy Biofuels Biosecurity Biotechnology Carbon Checkoff Programs Commodity Programs Conservation Programs Cooperatives Cottage Foods Country of Origin Labeling Crop Insurance Disaster Assistance Programs Environmental Law Equine Activity (..)

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