Circle of Blue

JULY 20, 2022

Australia’s Kakadu Flood Plains in February 2022. Although total pollution incidents declined, the EA wrote that trends had not improved since 2015 and compliance with permits to discharge wastewater had worsened since 2020. Photo © Miles Nicholls / Flickr. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. Jane Johnston, Stream Editor. 90 PERCENT.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 25, 2023

This time, Alberta came out guns blazing against the term ‘just transition’ after the Federal government announced progress on its just transition strategy for workers affected by the transition to the low-carbon economy. billion deal with the government to keep coal in the ground. There is a real risk of an unjust transition.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 14, 2023

If 2022 was the year that corporate climate-related financial disclosure jumped out of the boardroom into the headlines, then 2023 may be the year when the global tide quietly turned in its favor. Yet the US government stubbornly remained behind the curve thanks to obstruction and disinformation by a few concentrated interests.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

2015 SB350. 2022 AB 1279. Bush torpedoed climate action by the federal government early in his administration. Effectively prohibited California utilities from using electricity from coal-fired generation. 2009 CARB established Low Carbon Fuel Standard for vehicles. 2011 CARB adopted cap and trade system. 2016 SB 32.

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ESA

MARCH 14, 2022

In this issue: Lawmakers Pass Fiscal Year 2022 Spending Bills. Lawmakers Pass Fiscal Year 2022 Spending Bills. Congress passed an omnibus spending bill completing appropriations for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022. The proposed rule is open for public comment through May 2, 2022. NSF receives a four percent increase.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 15, 2022

By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — August 15, 2022. Hardship swiftly followed: the government began periodic water shutoffs in early 2022, and declared a state of emergency in June. Water shortages have hit Monterrey almost every year since 2015. Tehuacán Valley, Mexico in 2005. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

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Acoel

MARCH 30, 2022

Posted on March 30, 2022 by Chester Babst. In 2022, the on-going debate will continue over the hotly contested definition of “waters of the United States” (WOTUS), a phrase that determines the scope of federal jurisdiction over streams, wetlands and other waterbodies under the Clean Water Act (CWA). Proposed Rule 1.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Click Here for the 2022 week-by-week list of articles! Conservation Leadership - 2004 to 2022: -- 1,198 New Articles In 2021 - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA -- 233 Stories: These Conservation Leaders Gave Us Cleaner Water, Land & Air In 2020! Posted: December 28, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Water utilities and governments are re-evaluating customer assistance for low-income residents. By Bryan Glenn – September 7, 2022. It provided $350 billion to state, local, and tribal governments to respond to Covid-19, invest in infrastructure, and recover lost revenue. Photo by Fran Jacquier on Unsplash. New models exist.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2024

Morton opened the door for environmental groups to sue over government actions, something that Justice Scalia had opposed since his days as a law professor. 743 (2015) (Justice Scalia ). 2587 (2022) (Chief Justice Roberts). Hill had involved protection of endangered species from the federal government. Michigan v.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

September 22, 2022 . That’s because phosphorus applications on farmland have increased since the early years of the century, according to a comprehensive 2022 evaluation by the U.S. EGLE has not compiled records for manifested waste for 2015. . By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue. Photographs by J. Carl Ganter, Circle of Blue.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

For the first eight months of the year, the rate of deforestation is 48 percent lower than the same period in 2022. The World Resources Institute reported that the world lost more primary rainforest in 2022 than in 2021. Q: The Brazilian government knows about these gains thanks to satellite data from Brazil’s space research agency.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

By railing against what he calls a “radical climate change movement” and suing the federal government to protect corporate polluters. 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.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Student in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University As the urgent need to take tough action towards climate mitigation and sustainability gathers pressure, for most major power-holders today, including the markets, institutions, government agencies, media and countries, environmentalism has perhaps become the biggest fashion fad.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 25, 2022

On January 25, the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee heard from several witnesses from Central Pennsylvania reporting that State Government has refused to pay stormwater management fees designed to help the Commonwealth meet Chesapeake Bay cleanup obligations and for other areas of the state. That’s exactly what’s happening.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

Perhaps most importantly, the federal government has invested billions of dollars in clean energy. 2015 Paris Agreement adopted with strong U.S. 2022 EPA issues tough new standards for carbon emissions from new vehicles. We need the active support of the federal government. Bush signs and U.S. 1998 U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Representatives Scott Peters (D-California) and María Elvira Salazar (R-Florida), the NCARS bill would improve how the federal government prepares and responds to extreme weather and climate-related disasters. Over a decade, from 2007-2017 , the direct costs of extreme weather events to the federal government was $350 billion.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The produce safety rules, which apply to irrigation water contaminants, were finalized in 2015. Public comments are due April 5, 2022. Much of the order is directed at the sources of energy used by the federal government. government water policy. Submit them at www.regulations.gov using docket number FDA-2021-N-0471.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In an opinion in a much-publicized case, filed December 28, 2022, and later ordered published on January 26, 2023, the First District Court of Appeal (Div. 5th 460 ( “Citizens’ Committee” ), as summarized in a prior post dated February 8, 2022, which can be found here. 2015) 62 Cal.4th Susan Brandt-Hawley (2022) 86 Cal.App.5th

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The movement follows a worldwide upsurge in climate change-related cases, which have more than doubled since 2015. The most emblematic decision came from the Federal Supreme Court, the highest Court in the Brazilian legal system, which ruled in July 2022 that the Paris Agreement is a human rights treaty. And somehow historical.

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ESA

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Similar to the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, countries must track and report their progress towards national biodiversity targets. The federal government has been operating under temporary stopgap measures since Oct. The Senate passed this bill in late November 2022. This bill passed the House earlier in 2022.

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ESA

JULY 1, 2022

WOTUS), in early October 2022. In the past, ESA and other science societies have supported the 2015 definition of WOTUS that is based in sound science including endorsing an amicus brief in a former court case. The Lake Champlain Basin Program received $28 million in fiscal year 2022. Fish and Wildlife Service receives $1.9

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 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. . One example is Sterling Ranch near Littleton, Colorado.

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ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

Science and Engineering 2022 report. 3531 ) that requires the federal government to develop a National Climate Adaptation and Resilience Strategy and authorizes a chief resilience officer position in the White House. The 60-day open nomination period will close on Monday, March 28, 2022. Scientific Community. 6461 & S.

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ESA

AUGUST 29, 2022

Over the long term, OSTP will continue to coordinate with federal agencies to ensure that government public access policies adapt to new technologies and emerging needs.”. OSTP Economic Analysis Report to Congress: 08-2022-OSTP-Public-Access-Congressional-Report.pdf (whitehouse.gov). More information: OSTP Free Access Memo : [link].

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Electric vehicles are “the most direct and efficient solution to improving the air quality in Vietnam , and in other countries in Southeast Asia,” Nguyen told Vietnam Investment Review in 2022. Dat Bike is one of numerous partners the US government works with to meet this rapidly growing demand for clean energy. . million people.

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HumanNature

MARCH 28, 2023

Guest Post by Clara Mosso , 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Rebuilding efforts in neighborhood affected by the Marshall fire (December 2021) in Superior, Colorado (Credits: Clara Mosso, November 2022). Transdisciplinarity as an approach to wildland-urban interface expansion (Credits: Clara Mosso, November 2022).

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

By Kunle Adebajo and Murtala Abdullahi, CCIJ — April 14, 2022. A bare-chested old man lies in the emergency room of a government hospital in northeast Nigeria. The government has even tried to retrain some herders to work as ranchers, but there is little known about the progress of this initiative. We grew up here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The simple fact that the government refers to FERC’s permitting authority as a “ backstop ” means that we shouldn’t look to FERC to meet our expectations for transmission investments to enable a clean energy future. It’s a contentious issue fraught with political and social dynamics that have largely doomed previous attempts.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 27, 2024

Governments should be doing everything in their power to tackle both the climate and affordability crisis that is hitting so many of us. In fact, new analysis we released today finds that in 2023, the federal government provided the fossil fuel Industry with at least $18.6 What progress has the Government made?

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

September 13, 2022 . In a widely read report in 2015 that ECCSCM conducted with the Michigan chapter of the Sierra Club, Taylor revealed for the first time that nearly 700 million gallons of liquid manure was spread annually in the western Lake Erie basin. Government agencies, nevertheless, are trying. Photographs by J.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The process requires the government to assess past progress, project future emissions, and come up with a strategy to meet its climate goals. The 2022 Revision. The scoping process has been key to California’s success in cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 2, 2021

First, reinstate the pre-2015 rules. The Government Accountability Office says that FEMA should use data beyond its floodplain maps to identify properties needing flood insurance. The agency expects a draft rule in the fall of 2022. government water policy. The Biden administration’s plan has two steps.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 24, 2022

on December 24, 2022 and 10:00 a.m. on December 25, 2022. 20, 2015 during the polar vortex. on December 24, 2022, and 10 a.m. on December 25, 2022, will help ensure adequate power supplies. PJM is communicating about the situation with state government officials throughout the region. At 4:00 a.m.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Germany reached 51,6% renewables last year – up from 47 % in 2022. More solar capacity than France, despite being much less populous, (18 Million people vs 68 million) Italy counted 11,6 GW of wind power capacity in 2022 and 28,6 GW of solar PV in september 2023. This is the first time it reaches such a high level.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2023

Mongabay reports that between 2015 and 2022, more than 200 people have died from drownings, cave-ins, and landslides. This Week’s Top Water Stories, Told In Numbers 2 Number of meters (approximately 6 feet) that the Kakhovka reservoir has dropped since November 2022, NPR reports.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

UCS’s 2015 Climate Deception Dossiers —cited in California’s complaint—highlighted an infamous 1998 internal API memo that outlined a roadmap to cultivate purportedly independent scientists as climate disinformers, confuse the public about climate science, and derail climate policies.

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