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. While some national political leaders are backing off their climate commitments , these subnational governments know they have to live with increasing fires , floods and deadly heat waves.

Rainforest

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?

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 10, 2025

Between 2000, when measles was declared eliminated in the US, and 2024, there were three reported deaths total due to measlestwo in 2003, and one in 2015. A ProPublica investigation found that political appointees at CDC halted release of an assessment that found that the risk of catching measles is high in areas with lower vaccination rates.

2003

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

18, 2015, pent-up gases at ExxonMobils refinery in Torrance triggered an explosion so powerful it registered as a magnitude 1.7 Im curious as to whether Goldsmith thought in 2015 that hed still be fighting this battle a decade later. On the morning of Feb. earthquake and sent industrial ash over entire neighborhoods.

2015

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2025

Mark Carney, a former governor of the Bank of England who was recently elected Canadian prime minister, laid out three principal types of risk that climate change poses to financial stability in a 2015 speech to insurance executives. Ten years later, that hard evidence has continued to mount.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 8, 2025

Approves Solar Energy Facility In Blair County -- WHYY - Sophia Schmidt: New Federal Clean Energy Rebates In Limbo For Residents Of PA, DE, NJ -- Reminder: Center For Agricultural Conservation Assistance Training Hosts Jan.

Carbon Dioxide

A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2025

Restoring the lost seeds in Syria For instance, the long-running civil war in Syria, which ended this year, has benefitted from the seed vault as, since 2015, they have been able to restore lost seeds. A seed deposit for the vault. Photo credit: Neil Palmer for the Crop Trust.

Climate Change

Circle of Blue

APRIL 21, 2025

He is pulling the United States out of the 2015 Paris Climate Accord , a collaborative international agreement to slow global climate change. The life-sustaining value of environmental protection attracted deep support from voters, regardless of their political affiliation. Even big business embraced Earth Days virtuous principles.

Earth Day

Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

27] A large hole in Friedmans Maximization Model is his assumption that business and its profit calculations are separable from the political system that is supposed to adopt laws to control pollution and other externalities. As Paul Hawken wrote more than 30 years ago: There is no polite way to say business is destroying the world. [39]

Law

Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

A National Science Foundation grant in 2015 helped to uncover the extent of lead contamination in Flint, Michigan. The GOPs move against the National Science Foundation is part of a broader Republican rejection of federally funded climate and environmental science that does not align with the partys political and cultural aims.

2015

Circle of Blue

JULY 10, 2025

Due to Environmental Protection Agency regulations set by the Obama administration in 2015, and by the Biden administration in 2024, the coal ash disposal site at the Cayuga station was closed, and the ash removed. Yet across Indiana several other ash disposal sites remain operational, including F.B.

2015

Circle of Blue

MAY 19, 2025

agriculture to kill insects after World War Two has a farm chemical been as important to American crop production, and come under more scientific, political, and legal scrutiny as the weedkiller Roundup, and its active ingredient, glyphosate. The scientific, legal, and political turmoil is weighing on Bayers top executives.

Biotechnology

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 26, 2025

Prior to the 2015 agreement, the Obama administration estimated that it could take as little as two to three months for Iran to produce enough uranium enriched to 90% to build a nuclear weapon. The attacks have undermined the rule of law and international diplomacy as key tools for nonproliferation and disarmament.

2003

A Greener Life

APRIL 28, 2025

As Canadians prepare to vote in the 2025 federal election, Carneys green credentialsonce a defining feature of his political risehave been tempered by economic realpolitik. Carney and his advisers would likely have identified that the Conservatives had used this as a political football, and they felt they had no choice.

2025

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Many activities involve multiple agencies, and that’s true for activities with support across the political spectrum. In 2015, Congress enacted FAST-41 to require federal agencies to more closely coordinate on EISs (and permitting more generally) for large projects in certain priority categories.

Regulations

A Greener Life

MARCH 10, 2025

Analysis: Canada elections: A new dawn for Canadian climate policy looks likely When the outgoing prime minister came into power in 2015 , he broke with the Conservative Party, where prime minister Stephen Harper had adopted a climate denial approach. He said he would forge a pro-climate action agenda.

2025

A Greener Life

JANUARY 21, 2025

When Trump left the agreement during his first term, several states and corporations joined an initiative named We Are Still In pledging to continue to adhere to what was set out in the agreement that world leaders signed in 2015 in Paris.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

APRIL 23, 2025

The data shows that while Latin America overall lost more tree cover than it gained from 2015 to 2023, progress is being made compared to historical trends, writes WRI. Among the 18 countries participating in Initiative 20×20, three countries gained tree cover from 2015 to 2023, 10 remained neutral and five experienced losses.

Earth Day

Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2025

Trump Signed One Damn Dirty Deal I have to admit I was wrong when I wrote in 2023 that repealing the Inflation Reduction Act was politically impossible because it was “a candy shop” for corporations and red states hungry for manufacturing jobs who would fight any repeal effort.

Climate Change

Yale E360

APRIL 15, 2025

View previous winners from 2024 , 2023 , 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , and 2014. Geothermal May Advance, Despite Political Headwinds Food & Agriculture In War Zones, a Race to Save Key Seeds Needed to Feed the World Climate Lightning Strikes the Arctic: What Will It Mean for the Far North?

2014

Scientific American

JUNE 25, 2025

For example, in an outbreak of H5N2 and H5N8 bird flus from 2014 to 2015 farmers lost more than 50 million poultry birds. Those numbers are brutal, but after the 2014–2015 outbreak of H5N2 and H5N8 poultry farmers knew what to expect from the virus in terms of bird losses. Jada Thompson: It’s different than 2015.

2015

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JULY 16, 2025

The budget reconciliation process, an optional budget procedure that can alter spending, revenues, and the federal debt limit, was first established in the late 1970s and has been used dozens of times by both political parties since 1980.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2025

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Shapiro -- Gov. Ohio- $2.98 PA- $3.26 -- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Rigs Same Again As Last Week- 15; 21 On Aug. 23 -- WESA: Could Locally Drilled Natural Gas Get More Expensive With New Republican Administrations Push To Increase LNG Gas Exports? Ohio- $2.98

Politics

Physics World

JUNE 9, 2025

At one point, he joked that all aircraft have four dimensions: span, length, height and politics. But as for the politics that threaten NASA in Trump’s second administration, Parker was silent. Let’s talk about something else This silence continued throughout the morning.

Politics

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 4, 2025

The budget reconciliation process, an optional procedure that can alter spending, revenues, and the federal debt limit, was first established in the late 1970s and has been used dozens of times by both political parties since 1980.

Conservation

Scientific American

JULY 22, 2025

In June 2015, Altman stated : “I think AI will probably, most likely, sort of lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there’ll be great companies created with serious machine learning. ” We are at a pivotal moment.

Precautionary Principle

Scientific American

JULY 16, 2025

Evans: [Laughs]2016 was when the announcement was made; 2015 was the discovery. That was the moment when we were upgrading to the Advanced LIGO detectors, and our first detection of gravitational waves was back in 2015. He has worked onboard oceanographic research vessels and tracked money and politics in science from Washington, D.C.

Cooling

Circle of Blue

JANUARY 11, 2023

Ahead of a high-profile UN conference, political forecasters issue water warnings. The World Economic Forum acknowledged once again that ecological shocks such as these reverberate mightily in politics and society. In the 2015 report , water crises were ranked as the risk having the most impact. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue.

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

of the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and 52 percent of the rise in global average temperatures between 1880 and 2015. It can, and must, start now to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees goal is threatened by political inaction. Why not just start with renewables?

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

As famines historically are caused by conflict or political issues, and socioeconomic vulnerabilities, the famine in Madagascar–one of the lowest emitters of carbon and greenhouse gasses in the world–stands out as being heavily influenced by climate change. In some pockets in the south, this number is one in three.

Climate Change

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

That’s a sizable increase from 2015, when the two counties’ CAFOs spread 170 million gallons and almost 93,000 tons on roughly the same amount of farmland. . EGLE has not compiled records for manifested waste for 2015. . In 2015, even Ohio prohibited spreading manure on snow-covered or frozen ground in the Western Lake Erie Basin. .

Regulations

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 29, 2021

This isn’t merely theoretical; the Under 2 Coalition was created, as I understand it, after a series of meetings between subnationals leading up to and around COPs and was launched at the Paris COP in 2015. (My That network of subnationals cooperating on climate change now includes areas accounting for 50% of global GDP.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

More than 450 financial firms worldwide representing $130 trillion in assets have pledged to meet the 2015 Paris climate agreement goal of net-zero emissions by 2050. EN: In my introduction, I cited some of the political attacks on ESG investment policies, which rest on the false allegation that financial firms are boycotting fossil fuels.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

My foray into Germany climate policy left me with unanswered questions: What was the politics behind Germany’s history of climate action? New rates are large enough to spark expansion of renewable industry. Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Renewables are a third of electricity consumption.

Nuclear Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It’s a contentious issue fraught with political and social dynamics that have largely doomed previous attempts. (UCS) UCS’s findings are consistent with the conclusions of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Transmission Needs Study , which it released last October.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

While this reactor was initially intended to transition to mixed oxide (MOX) fuel by 2015, delays in development led China to continue relying on Russian fuel. Transfers of highly enriched uranium happened in July 2004 , March 2014 , and July 2019. The CEFR reached criticality in July 2010 and connected to the grid in July 2011.

Nuclear Power

Legal Planet

AUGUST 16, 2021

Faulconer has taken credit for the passage of the city’s 2015 Climate Action Plan, which requires the city to cut its greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2035. .” Not good news for California’s climate programs. Kevin Faulconer. Unusually for a Republican, the former San Diego mayor endorses significant climate action.

Climate Change