Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2025

During the 2015-2016 El Nio cycle, it reported 200 cases of heat-related illnesses, including 2 fatalities. While no provision prohibits litigation related to the Act, it does create obstacles to using litigation as a means of government accountability. Malaysia regularly experiences high temperatures.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JULY 1, 2025

Thank You to Our Partners and the Public As we celebrate 30 years, DEP thanks our fellow Commonwealth agencies, local governments, businesses, nonprofits, academic institutions, and residents who have joined in our work. billion to date for reclamation efforts.

Environmental Protection

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 16, 2024

In the past year, weve seen significant victories that inspire hope, like the Swiss KlimaSeniorinnen case, which called for an improved government climate action plan; Held v. This tensionbetween exciting breakthroughs and persistent delaysunderscores the complexity of litigation’s role in climate governance.

2025

A Greener Life

APRIL 21, 2025

2016 The Paris Climate Agreement was signed on Earth Day. Reduce the dependency on fossil fuels It urges governments, companies, and individuals to reduce fossil fuel dependency and scale up sustainable alternatives. 1990 Earth Day expanded globally to 141 countries.

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

Read more here ] The Grand Jurys two-year investigation uncovered systematic failure by government agencies in overseeing the fracking industry and fulfilling their responsibility to protect Pennsylvanians from the inherent risks of industry operations. million in restitution for Pennsylvania landowners. Read more here.]

2014

National Law Center

JUNE 10, 2025

The term “final agency action” comes from the Administrative Procedure Act, the federal law that governs agency procedure, and is defined as an agency action that is “made reviewable by statute” or “for which there is no other adequate remedy” other than in a court of law. 5 U.S.C. § The plaintiff in CTM Holdings, LLC v.

2013

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Business is slow Our research references two Bloomberg Terminal ESG (environmental, social and governance) business databases. It is worth noting that these datasets are missing considerable amounts of pre-2016 data for Chinese firms, but the countrys actions and outcomes are clearly lagging behind. This sectors emissions fell by 16%.

Carbon Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 17, 2025

However, a rapid adoption by three major railroads caused the share of Class I railroad revenue from PSR-utilizing firms to increase from less than 7 percent in 2016 to 70 percent by 2019, where it remains today (privately owned BNSF is the only Class I carrier not yet to adopt PSR). For example, the rail industry leads to $3.3

Regulations

Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2025

government, Mr. Serpa said. One huge impetus for Project 2025 is to smash the federal government’s capacity for recovery after Donald Trump leaves office — if he ever does before his death. The goal is to protect scientific data against threats from the U.S.

2025

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 8, 2025

Liberty Energy, the fracking corporation he heads, describes its Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) focus as delivering secure, reliable, affordable access to energy. Fossil fuel interests have been in Trumps inner circle from the jump In 2016, President Trump tapped ExxonMobil Chair and CEO Rex Tillerson as his Secretary of State.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 11, 2024

One of the major areas thats sure to change is what federal government webpages say. The effort is currently spearheaded by the Common Crawl Foundation, Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI), Internet Archive, Stanford University Libraries, and University of North Texas Libraries.

Government

Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

3] Best interests of the corporation is further defined to include the following factors: (a) the interests of shareholders, employees, retirees and pensioners, creditors, consumers, and governments; (b) the environment ; and (c) the long-term interests of the corporation. [4] 5] Approximately two-thirds of U.S.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 28, 2025

A pair of initial reports about the incident, released in June by the Government of Spain and Red Electrica (the grid operator), are even more conclusive. The government report documents that inertia levels were more than adequate, as “the system operator indicates that before the incident the system had inertia levels of 2.3

Regulations

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Underlying vulnerabilities in Haiti such as poor governance, lack of sound infrastructure and technical capacities, and corruption provide the baseline for inconsistent or nonexistent environmental laws and regulation. 3, 2024), [link] [3] Francois Pierre-Louis, Earthquakes, Nongovernmental Organizations, and Governance in Haiti, 42 J.

Waste

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

The government’s real mission was to build Arctic capabilities so it could both operate and listen from somewhere much closer to the Soviet Union. In 2016 Schaefer, Briner and their collaborators exhumed the rock core and read it like a buried history book. The bedrock went into cold storage in the U.S.

Sea Level

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2025

This reality necessitates laws and regulations capable of protecting those put at risk by fracking, and a government willing to enforce them. Instead, we believe that our government often ignored the costs to the environment and to the health and safety of the citizens of the Commonwealth, in a rush to reap the benefits of this industry.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Editors Note: The complement for the Oil and Gas Program was frozen at 190 in December 2016. Federal government requirements require this to be done every 10 years, but you don't have the staffing to do it more than once every 30 years. Once every 30 years. In 2007, the Water Program had 778 filled positions.

2002

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 27, 2025

Our governments have a critical role to play in ensuring any progress is sustained. ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE ( environmentaldefence.ca ): Environmental Defence is a leading Canadian environmental advocacy organization that works with government, industry and individuals to defend clean water, a safe climate and healthy communities. –

2015

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2025

Over the past few months, we have witnessed a massive dismantling of science and scientific processes in the federal government, and especially at the U.S. Government Accountability Offices (GAO) High-Risk Series. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This is a mischaracterization of the challenges faced by IRIS.

Toxic Substances Control Act

Scientific American

JULY 14, 2025

States routinely let the government reclaim unspent money — or let available money go unused for as long as 20 years, according to an analysis of federal records by POLITICO’s E&E News. million of a $13 million mitigation grant it got in 2016. million hazard grant it got from FEMA after a wildfire in 2016, records show.

2016

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Trump didnt expect to win in 2016. He and his crew were completely unprepared to take over the government. I talked about areas of continuity in my last post. Today, Ill talk about some possible new twists. Better Organization. This time, we have Project 2025 and similar efforts that will provide a blueprint for the new Administration.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2025

Project 2025 Tracker A joint project between the Center for Progressive Reform and Governing for Impact, this tracks actions to implement actions related to Project 2025 across 20 federal agencies. Tracks actions back to 2016. The CRA The tracker is identifying and tracking CRA resolutions pending before Congress.

2017

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

In 2016, a lot of commentators and climate advocates, including ourselves, concluded that if Donald Trump won the 2016 election, it would be a ‘game over for action on climate change ’. However, throughout his time as president, one after the other, the sensible voices in his government left, mainly due to Trump firing them.

2024

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

“For years, Californias liberal government has prioritized environmental activism over effective forest management and disaster mitigation, Fitzgerald said in advance of the hearing. So, who are the California policy experts on whom Congress is relying? He has opined that California could abolish permitting rules.

Regulations

A Greener Life

MARCH 21, 2025

A Standing Rock solidarity march held in San Francisco in November 2016. ” – Greenpeace International Executive Director, Mads Christensen DAPL during its construction in North Dakota in 2016. If the Supreme Court upheld the ruling, one could draw a more national and government agenda. via Wikimedia. via Wikimedia.

2016

National Law Center

JULY 24, 2025

The new law includes several provisions typically associated with the Farm Bill, the omnibus spending bill that governs various agricultural and food programs in the United States. The OBBBA includes provisions related to agricultural commodity programs, nutrition programs, tax policies, and conservation programs.

2013

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2025

From 1958-2016, every region in the contiguous US observed an increase in the heaviest precipitation events. This signal is especially significant in the Northeast and the Midwest, where downpour intensity increased 55% and 42%, respectively, between 1958 and 2016.

Atmosphere

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 11, 2024

With a 10 percent tariff, they buy the produce item for $100 and pay a $10 tax to the government. In 2016 , US soybean exports to China totaled $14 billionrepresenting 62 percent of all US exports. If Retailer A, for example, buys a $100 produce item and sells it for $150, they make $50 in profit.

2018

Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

For example, in November 2016, the Obama administrations Bureau of Land Management (BLM) promulgated a regulation to reduce waste of natural gas from venting, flaring, and leaks during oil and natural gas production activities on public and Tribal lands.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 7, 2025

The juxtaposition is a near-perfect gauge of how heartless our government has become in the richest nation on Earth. Border czar Tom Homan said the United States government was targeting the worst of the worst for deportation. Another is that so far, ICE is as indiscriminate and incompetent as Amazon is efficient.

Government

National Law Center

JULY 21, 2025

Currently, the federal government pays fully for the cost of SNAP benefits, and the USDA and states split the costs of administering the program. Beginning in fiscal year 2028, if a state’s payment error rate is less than 6 percent, then the state will pay 0 percent, and the Federal government will pay 100 percent of the costs of benefits.

2013

A Greener Life

APRIL 8, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen In the wake of Donald Trump’s handing an ever-increasing role to Elon Musk in his government, people are right to be angry about the responsibilities and freedoms the worlds richest man can wield.

Fossil Fuels

Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

It tracks government attempts torestrict or prohibit scientific research, education or discussion, or the publication or use of scientific information, since the November 2016 election.Read moreabout the tracker andrelated resources.

2016

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

When the landowners, Wayne Land and Mineral Group, first went to court in 2016, the DRBC was still mulling fracking regulations in the watershed. The Commission said at the time that it would not consider any applications for wells or drilling until it had adopted final rules governing fracking.

Natural Gas

Acoel

JANUARY 29, 2025

Bergeson * It has been almost nine years since Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) stakeholders celebrated President Obamas enactment on June 22, 2016, of the Frank R. All these factors contributed to the cratering of public confidence in the federal governments ability to regulate chemicals and the hastening calls for legislative action.

Toxic Substances Control Act

Circle of Blue

JULY 23, 2025

This year, according to the forecast announced in June, the Lake Erie bloom will be “moderate,” neither as large as some years since 2011, nor as small as others since 2016. The federal government has spent tens of billions of dollars, much of it from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to coax farmers to use them. Same for Lake Erie.

2016

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2025

There’s a lot to unpack on how poorly the Trump administration’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) handled this disaster, as well as the roles the local and state governments had in contributing to the tragedy.

Government