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In Iowa, a Tale of Politics, Power, and Contaminated Water

Circle of Blue

In Iowa, a Tale of Politics, Power, and Contaminated Water Lawmakers silence Chris Jones, a prominent University of Iowa water quality researcher. The political pressure came with a personal connection: Sen. Jones warned in his blog that strategies to reduce harmful run-off of farm fertilizers and other nutrients were not effective.

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Germany’s Role in Climate Policy

Legal Planet

Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. German parliament adopts a law to end coal use by 2038 at the latest. Amendments to the Climate Action Law are adopted, setting a binding 2045 date for carbon neutrality, with a 2031 target of a 65% emissions reduction compared with 1990. Renewables are 42% of electricity.

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California’s Climate Leadership: A Timeline

Legal Planet

The Golden State has adopted a slew of climate change laws over the past twenty years, and an even greater number of regulations. 2015 SB350. 2018 SB100. That would be even more obvious if the timeline included the host of less notable, but still significant, laws passed during the same time period. 2002 SB1078.

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A Great Victory For Electric Cars

Legal Planet

The eight-year journey to procure new vehicles has been arduous and marked by political battles. He held this in 2018, six years after the Supreme Court ruled it constitutional. Once again, the Shultz Principle of American Politics applies: It’s Never Over. What could be the justification? You must be new here. Download as PDF.

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Late 2018 — Bits and Pieces

Smith Enviorment

Also elephants, giraffes, rhinos (of the non-political variety), Cape buffalo, baboons, uninvited monkeys at lunch, hippos, wildebeests, hyenas, warthogs and an unexpected (to me) penguin colony. Back to North Carolina developments in late 2018: Executive Order on Climate Change and Clean Energy: On October 29, 2018, N.C.

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These Attorneys General Are Defending the Fossil Fuel Industry, Not Their States

Union of Concerned Scientists

According to the nonpartisan National Association of Attorneys General, a state attorney general’s job is to represent the public interest—not private, special interests—by, among other things, “enforcing federal and state environmental laws.” When Moody ran for attorney general in 2018, she promised she wouldn’t politicize the office.

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What do U.S. states do at a COP, anyway?

Legal Planet

California Governor Jerry Brown in Bonn for the 2018 climate summit. Photo credit Alexandra Gay, member of the UCLA Law delegation that year. Under international law, only countries can be parties to these instruments, not U.S. states or other subnational goverments. federal climate action wavers or underdelivers.