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Germany’s Role in Climate Policy

Legal Planet

Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. Renewable Energy Act sets fixed feed-in tariffs and gives renewables priority on the grid. New rates are large enough to spark expansion of renewable industry. Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Renewables are a third of electricity consumption.

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

In 2015, when he took office as AG after stints in the Texas Legislature, he sued the Environmental Protection Agency for strengthening a standard for ground-level ozone, better known as smog. After she took office in January 2019, that pledge went out the window. How has Paxton responded?

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How molecular catalysts mediate the electrochemical generation of fuels

Physics World

Harry B Gray and Dr Jay R Winkler at the California Institute of Technology, completing her PhD in 2011. From 2011–2012, Prof. Dempsey was an NSF ACC postdoctoral fellow with Daniel R Gamelin at the University of Washington. She joined UNC in 2012.

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30 Years of U.S. Climate Policy

Legal Planet

2011 Supreme Court decides AEP case, barring lawsuits against carbon emitters using the federal common law of nuisance. 2015 Paris Agreement adopted with strong U.S. 2019 Trump EPA revokes California’s waiver for regulating CO2 from new cars. Obama helps negotiate Copenhagen Accord. 2017 Trump announces U.S.

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We have the tools to design climate-adapted forests. Should we intervene?

HumanNature

For species that are long-lived and have short dispersal distances, natural selection may be too slow to keep pace with rapid climate change (Renwick & Rocca, 2015). 2019; Pedlar et al., 2015; Rehfeldt et al., 2012; Ste-Marie et al., There are several types of assisted migration. 2012; Ste-Marie et al., link] Dumroese, R.

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General Assembly Diverted $3.602 Billion From Environmental Infrastructure Projects And Programs Into State Budget Black Hole

PA Environment Daily

million cut continued from the FY 2010-11 DEP and DCNR General Fund budget in FY 2011-12 budget; -- $8.3 million cut continued from the FY 2010-11 DEP and DCNR General Fund budget in FY 2011-12 budget; -- $8.3 million in across-the-board cuts to help fill gaps caused by reduced federal Medicaid appropriations-- $2.4 million; DCNR: $1.5

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Tackling Agricultural Methane: An Overview of the Science

Legal Planet

Searchinger, 2019 , Islam and Lee, 2019 , Adhya et al., 2014 , Moeletsi and Tongwane, 2015 , Kritee et al., 2020 , Ruminomics Report, 2015 , Roque et al, 2021 , Duin et al., 2016 , Benchaar and Greathead, 2011 , Gutierrez et al., 2015 , Williams et al., Searchinger, 2019 , Islam and Lee, 2019 , Adhya et al.,