Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

2016 SB 32. 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. 2015 SB350. 2018 SB100. 2022 AB 1279.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Westlands is a quasi-local government agency formed in 1952, and the largest agricultural water district in the United States. The federal government chose–wisely, as it turned out–not to participate in the case.) But that financial obligation has never been satisfied either.)

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Environmental Progress

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

and foreign government support for domestic censorship and disinformation, 2016 - 2022 Testimony by Michael Shellenberger to The House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government November 30, 2023 Chairman Jordan, Ranking Member Plaskett, and members of the Subcommittee thank you for inviting my testimony.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In a separate but similar Ninth Circuit appeal, the federal government filed a brief on October 18 urging the court to overturn a district court decision vacating the listing of a ringed seal subspecies as threatened based on climate change threats through the end of the century. 24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

In the past two years, however, the things have started trending upward after years of inaction by conservative governments. As in the US, Australia’s climate policy was long a victim of a lengthy period of divided government and political upheaval. As in the United States, state governments made some effort to pick up the slack.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 17, 2022

Caption: The Salar de Atacama salt works in Chile in 2016. Last week, the outgoing center-right government of President Sebastián Piñera signed over rights to two private companies to extract 160,000 tons of lithium. A battle is brewing over the future of lithium, an essential component of the world’s transition to renewable energy.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 23, 2022

A child collects drinking water in Rajasthan, India in 2016. Residents of Pir Koh staged several protests last week, demanding that the government declare a national emergency and fix the town’s ailing infrastructure. “We Climate change and mismanagement sowed the seeds of a cholera outbreak. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

Regardless, renewable energy requires land, and land for renewables creates lots of conflicts, with landowners, local governments, environmentalists, and competing development interests. And the volume of renewable energy required requires significant new transmission, which creates even more land use conflict.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

The Civil 7 (C7) is a non-governmental organization that brings together thousands of highly-skilled individuals from around the world who work to improve government responses to global environmental, economic, and social problems. President Biden supports expensive and unnecessary upgrades to the US nuclear arsenal.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

Developing the Pathways Alliance project is currently projected to cost over $16 billion dollars , and Pathways Alliance CEOs like Pourbaix are insisting that governments should cover most of it – even as these companies are making record profits. Both were eventually rejected by governments. Sometimes the industry tells on itself.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. The government proposes new measures to help meet the 2030 climate target, including 80% renewables by 2030. Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 17, 2021

Government agencies and nonprofit groups are preparing for difficult months ahead. In this blistering year in California drinking water wells are going dry in increasing numbers, rekindling memories of the historic drought of 2012 to 2016, when more than 2,600 wells across the state stopped producing water.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2022

In another respect, though, there’s more similarity: in both countries, subnational governments play a key role in climate policy. Regional governments. Although ultimate power remains in the national Parliament, the national government has devolved certain powers to regional governments in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Even so, it compares favorably with the national governments in places like the U.S. As of 2016, half of its total emissions are from the power sector, with 20% from industry and 15% from transportation, and. The government has also pledged that a third of new cars will be electric or hydrogen by 2030. and Australia.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2023

County of Monterey –a major case involving the authority of California local governments to limit oil and gas development within their borders. County of Monterey case raises important and difficult questions for both the justices and the Executive Branch of California state government.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 27, 2023

The Rundown At the UN Water Conference, the government commits funding for water and sanitation. Camp Lejeune Lawsuits A bill signed into law last year allowed people exposed to contaminated water at Camp Lejeune generations ago to file claims for compensation from the federal government. government water policy.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

A bare-chested old man lies in the emergency room of a government hospital in northeast Nigeria. At least 3,641 lives were lost to the crisis between 2016 and 2018, according to Amnesty International , with over half of the fatalities recorded in 2018 alone. We want the government to help us. A floundering government response.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 22, 2024

Recent research by the Environmental Integrity Project on slaughterhouses that paid little to no fines for their illegal water pollution between 2016 and 2018 concluded that “penalties and enforcements are rare.” Importantly, the agency affirmed that affordable technologies exist to help slaughterhouses meet the proposed standards.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2022

These activities involved collaboration with stakeholders, legislators, and agencies throughout state government. She also led the development and implementation of SGC’s Racial Equity Action Plan. In 2020, she won the Science in Public Service Award from the California Council on Science and Technology.

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Energy and Climate Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

It was initiated nine years ago, but now it comes back to haunt the German government with a vengeance. On 6 December 2016 the court largely rejected their main arguments against German`s nuclear phase out and the Atomic Energy Act ( BVerfG 1 BvR 2821/11, 1 BvR 321/12, 1 BvR 1456/12 ).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 1, 2023

EPA’s own scientists concluded in 2016 that the risk value of ethylene oxide is 60 times more toxic than previously understood. In 2016, the EPA updated the air value for ethylene oxide (called an “inhalation unit risk factor”) using more recent and robust science. These standards no longer adequately protect the public.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

I also differ from Leiter in including scholars who are currently in government service in my totals. I used the same basic methodology as Leiter, and these are citations from 2016-2020, inclusive. All the caveats that Leiter has indicated about the utility of looking at cite counts apply here. Faculty First Name. Faculty Last Name.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 14, 2021

When California voters legalized cannabis in 2016, a key argument for legalization was that legalization would benefit the environment. That raises real questions about whether legalization in California can deliver on the promises of environmental protection that were made to the voters in 2016.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2021

But what galvanized her political consciousness were the Standing Rock protests, a sustained resistance movement of Native American communities against the Dakota Access oil pipeline, beginning in 2016. “It government to allow Indigenous people to continue stewarding the lands as they did before colonization.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 9, 2022

Hurricane Matthew in early October, 2016. The British government orders water companies to create contingency plans in the case of water shortages. “We billion gallons) of water from state government as part of a massive water infrastructure project. Photo © Ryan Johnson/North Charleston on Flickr. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 24, 2023

Water governance institutions of the past are not well-equipped to respond to the rapidly changing effects of climate change,” said Heikkila, the co-director of the Center for Policy and Democracy at the University of Colorado Denver. The time for more collective action at all scales of governance is here,” she said.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 30, 2023

The PFAS Policy Dashboard, developed by the Rockefeller Institute of Government, gives users an overview of state-level legislation addressing PFAS across 50 states from 2016 to 2022 (note: ten states did not introduce any PFAS-related legislation). It is updated annually after the close of the year.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 7, 2022

OTTAWA | TRADITIONAL, UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE ALGONQUIN ANISHNAABEG PEOPLE – More than 5,000 people and a coalition of conservation groups are calling on the federal government to finally take action after waiting over six years to protect monarch butterflies. Since 2016, monarch butterflies have been in legal limbo in Canada.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The draft revision updates and expands on EPA’s original guidance issued in 2016. In its 2016 guidance, EPA defined “EJ concern” as: the actual or potential lack of fair treatment or meaningful involvement of minority populations, low-income populations, tribes, and indigenous peoples in the development, implementation. EJ Concerns.”

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Legal Planet

JUNE 7, 2022

Over the past few years, there has been a push in both Europe and the United States for a “Green New Deal” in which decarbonization efforts would be pushed by aggressive, direct government investments in clean energy technology and infrastructure.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 5, 2024

Our latest report has modeled what is actually possible if federal and provincial governments take public transit seriously as a tool to fight climate change. You have probably heard the federal government announce that billions of dollars are being invested in public transit. million fewer people.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Hours before a controversial set of new reporting requirements for government contractors was set to take effect, a federal court in Texas enjoined implementation of the requirements across the country. The violations are analyzed and taken into consideration by the agencies in awarding contracts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

The grid operator PJM, which covers the region from Illinois to Virginia, put these reliability rules and penalties into place in 2016 but this is the first full use of them. The self-governing PJM stakeholders put this in place after so many supposedly “firm” generators failed to perform in 2014. First, a bit more context.

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Corp Watch

JULY 26, 2023

Madhya Pradesh govt cancels land allocation for Coca Cola plant Hindustan Times PaulaR Wed, 07/26/2023 - 13:15 Friday, February 25, 2022 Read more Shruti Tomar An official said the company had to start the work on setting up the plant within five years of the allotment of the land in 2016 but it did not do anything Bhopal : The Madhya Pradesh government (..)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

A November report by the United Nations and several other climate science groups found that government plans add up to increases in coal production through 2030 and in oil and gas production through 2050—a date by which we’re supposed to be at net zero. trillion into fossil fuel projects since the Paris agreement went into effect in 2016.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

This was shown by Halldór Björnsson of the Icelandic weather service and presented at the Arctic Circle conference 2016. I discussed this here in 2016 and also in my 2018 RealClimate article “ If you doubt that the AMOC has weakened, read this ”, together with possible other alternative explanations of the ‘cold blob’.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 28, 2023

Our analysis found that sustainable nutrition science is severely underfunded by the federal government—which makes sense since it is missing from the REE’s mission and vision. And it’s about time.

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