Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2025

During the 2015-2016 El Nio cycle, it reported 200 cases of heat-related illnesses, including 2 fatalities. Yet, laws are meant to address the short-termism of politics, i.e., by ensuring credible climate commitments that endure beyond election cycles. Malaysia regularly experiences high temperatures.

Climate Change

Scientific American

JULY 25, 2025

Joerg Schaefer: [In] 2016 was the first study that was led by us that shows that you have these tools, these geochemical isotopic tools, to interview bedrock, and the bedrock actually talks to us. He has worked onboard oceanographic research vessels and tracked money and politics in science from Washington, D.C. Feltman: Hmm.

Sea Level

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

Data Centers - By John Quigley, Senior Fellow, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy [PaEN] -- Utility Dive Guest Essay: We At PJM Need Realistic Solutions, Not Politics To Take On Energy Challenges - By Aftab Khan, PJM Executive Vice President Of Operations, Planning and Security [PaEN] -- Bitfarms Announces Partnership To Develop A.I.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2025

Resource Links: -- DEP: Shale Gas Well Control Problem Caused Uncontrolled Release Of Wastewater For Over 34 Hours At Repsol’s Broadleaf Holdings Well Pad In Troy Twp., Data Center Development In Lackawanna County [PaEN] -- PA House Environmental Committee To Hold Aug.

Air Pollution

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 8, 2025

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. As I wrote at the time , Tillerson was an inappropriate and deeply troubling pick for the post, for countless reasonshere were five of the most distressing ones.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2025

Data Centers - By John Quigley, Senior Fellow, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy [PaEN] -- Utility Dive Guest Essay: We At PJM Need Realistic Solutions, Not Politics To Take On Energy Challenges - By Aftab Khan, PJM Executive Vice President Of Operations, Planning and Security [PaEN] -- FracTracker Alliance Releases National A.I.

Air Pollution

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 11, 2024

EDGI, which was formed in 2016 to document changes to federal environmental data, is accepting nominations for federal environmental and climate data to preserve. You can also access data from the past crawls here. In addition to preserving information on websites, there are also efforts to save data available on federal webpages.

Government

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

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

Data Centers - By John Quigley, Senior Fellow, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy [PaEN] -- Utility Dive Guest Essay: We At PJM Need Realistic Solutions, Not Politics To Take On Energy Challenges - By Aftab Khan, PJM Executive Vice President Of Operations, Planning and Security [PaEN] -- FracTracker Alliance Releases National A.I.

Air Pollution

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

It examines the implications of the 2010 earthquake on toxic waste management, and how the nations ongoing political crisis exacerbates the challenges of waste regulation. Haiti and the politics of governance and community responses to Hurricane Matthew, Disaster Health. 2016 Nov 22;3(4):151161. million people.[3]

Waste

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

Climate change is exposing land formerly covered by ice, heightening political tensions on the island nation—and in the waters surrounding it as sea ice also disappears. 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

AUGUST 9, 2025

MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day By Robert Hughes, Eastern PA Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation -- Physicians For Social Responsibility PA: The Harms And Impacts Of PA’s New A.I.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2025

In 2016, IRIS published a risk assessment linking ethylene oxide exposure to cancer, concluding that this toxic chemical is much more dangerous than previously thought. The 2016 IRIS risk assessment for ethylene oxide is the scientific foundation of these stronger health protective regulations.

Toxic Substances Control Act

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Trump didnt expect to win in 2016. While Trump’s second term will be a great case study for political scientists, the environment may be in tatters by the end, with longterm consequences for the planet as a whole. But there are a few additions to the cast and some new construction on the set. Better Organization. The Upshot.

Fossil Fuels

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 ’. The outcome will define global climate action and policies and could mean making or breaking for a liveable climate.

2024

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Trumps longtime strategy of flooding the zone aka overwhelming opponents with a flurry of announcements and superficial initiatives took a literal turn last week, when his administration ordered the release of a significant amount of water from two dams in the Central Valley to try to score political points.

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. Photo credit: Pax Ahimsa Gethen – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia. “We will not back down. .”

2016

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Trump won the 2016 election. President-elect Trump’s campaign rhetoric and the roadmap detailed in Project 2025 (which we’ve reported on here , here , here , and here ) certainly seem to suggest that federal agencies, federal scientists, and their work will once again be targets for political interference. Download the toolkit (PDF).

Climate Scientist

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2025

Data Centers - By John Quigley, Senior Fellow, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Pennsylvania May Not Have Enough Electricity For A.I. Headley, formerly with American Coal Council [Warning] -- TribLive Guest Essay: Coal Needs To Be Part Of America’s Energy Future - By Syd S.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 6, 2025

. -- DEP/EPA AirNow Forecast Code Orange Air Quality Action Day August 6 For: Scranton & Wilkes-Barre, Williamsport Areas -- FracTracker Alliance: Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County Released 17.9

Air Pollution

Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

With some exceptions, federal agencies formerly defending Biden administration climate actions requested that the cases be held in abeyance to allow new political leadership time to be briefed on the litigation and to determine how to proceed. Courts have generally granted these requests.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

Data Centers - By John Quigley, Senior Fellow, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy [PaEN] -- Utility Dive Guest Essay: We At PJM Need Realistic Solutions, Not Politics To Take On Energy Challenges - By Aftab Khan, PJM Executive Vice President Of Operations, Planning and Security [PaEN] -- Bitfarms Announces Partnership To Develop A.I.

Natural Gas

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

A Greener Life

APRIL 8, 2025

Elon Musks journey to the extreme right-wing It was not until relatively recently that Musk became heavily involved in politics, at least not when it did not directly implicate his business interests. Commentators who had followed him closely said he had become radicalised.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2025

Compound climate hazards are colliding with dangerous policies and politics. Climate change nearly doubled burned area in forests of the western US between 1984-2016, and more than a third of burned area has been traced to emissions from the largest fossil fuel producers and cement manufacturers. Climate hazards are colliding.

Fossil Fuels

Scientific American

JUNE 6, 2025

“Right now, with the budgets that are proposed, we can’t afford to send people to Mars,” says John Grunsfeld, an astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut who led the agency’s science programmes from 2012 to 2016. “We need to use the technology we have to the maximum extent,” he says.

Radiation

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2025

Data Centers - By John Quigley, Senior Fellow, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Pennsylvania May Not Have Enough Electricity For A.I. By Robert Hughes, Eastern PA Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation -- Physicians For Social Responsibility PA: The Harms And Impacts Of PA’s New A.I.

2025

New Scientist

JULY 2, 2025

The same applies to Hassabis’s comments on disease: the idea that AI will do the heavy lifting could engender complacency, when we need the exact opposite, both scientifically and politically. .” His anthropomorphic language of knowledge, intentions and deceit shows Kokotajlo has lost sight of what LLMs really are.

Technology

Physics World

APRIL 22, 2025

According to the 2016 book Grete Hermann: Between Physics and Philosophy by Crull and Guido Bacciagaluppi , she was raised according to her father’s maxim: “I train my children in freedom!” Hermann also became active in politics as an adviser to the Social Democratic Party.

Politics

Scientific American

JULY 16, 2025

Evans: [Laughs]2016 was when the announcement was made; 2015 was the discovery. He has worked onboard oceanographic research vessels and tracked money and politics in science from Washington, D.C. Feltman: Could you remind us what they are and what happened that was so exciting? Feltman: Well, that’s wild.

Cooling

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2025

Data Center Development In Lackawanna County [PaEN] -- PA House Environmental Committee To Hold Aug.

Air Pollution

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2021

Bernal was politically-minded from a young age. 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. In order for the land to be fruitful, there needs to be water,” she said.

2016

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

While they might seem like a small token of participation, “I Voted” stickers help normalize voting as an expected social norm – political scientists have highlighted that people are more likely to vote when they think that others around them vote, too. Back in 2016, the U.C.

2016

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 28, 2023

For a healthy democracy made up of educated and active voters, it would help to better understand the connection between educational attainment and political engagement, and ways to overcome this contradiction. Other on-campus factors beyond one-time events also contribute to increased student voter turnout.

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 7, 2023

The national student voting rate increased by 14% between just 2016 and 2020. The high yield rate between student registration and student turnout occurred in part due to increased youth political mobilization , with movements mobilizing students around pressing issues such as climate change and gun control.

2020

Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

As in the US, Australia’s climate policy was long a victim of a lengthy period of divided government and political upheaval. From 2007 to 2016, control of the Australian House and Senate were generally in the hands of different parties, and the two parties almost never agreed on climate issues. As in the U.S.,

2030

Legal Planet

JULY 28, 2022

There’s people living in Livingston Parish, for example, flooded in 2016, whose lives — everything in their life was destroyed,” he said. At other end of the country and the political spectrum, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill providing $640 billion to fund coastal resilience efforts. The bill includes $1.5

Sea Level