Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 9, 2024

In a 2023 national poll , 60% of respondents across party lines said that Big Tech has too much power, and nearly half said government should do more to regulate these companies. A “tsunami” of mega-mergers starting in 2016 (including the acquisition of Monsanto by Bayer) accelerated a trend already underway. The average U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 29, 2024

Voters are also worried: nearly two thirds (63%) agree that regulating AI should be a top priority for lawmakers in 2024. The Federal Election Commission and Congress are both pursuing policies to limit the use of deep fakes in campaign ads, but currently there are no federal laws or regulations as the 2024 primaries swing into full gear.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 19, 2021

On August 19, Kurt Klapkowski, Director of DEP’s Bureau Of Oil and Gas Planning and Program Management, told the PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council DEP is looking to develop the data to defend the development of a program to allow the road dumping of drilling wastewater across the state under new conventional drilling regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

On November 30, the Environmental Quality Board voted 15 to 2 to approve the emergency regulation setting VOC/methane emission limits for conventional oil and gas facilities. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) voted no on the regulation. Representatives for Sen. Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) and Rep. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. “We

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The Golden State has adopted a slew of climate change laws over the past twenty years, and an even greater number of regulations. 2016 SB 32. California seems to have conceived of its role as alternatively a backup for weak federal regulation or a model for future federal action. 2002 SB1078. AB 1493 (Pavley Act).

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In 2007, the Supreme Court held that EPA had jurisdiction to regulate greenhouse gases at the federal level. The perils of relying on administrative action became clear with the surprise victory of Donald Trump in 2016, which was followed by four years of unrelenting attack on Obama’ legacy. That hope died in 2010, however.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 6, 2023

But the good news is that this goal can still be achieved through other legal and political strategies. Briefly, in 2016 a local environmental group, Project Monterey County, sponsored a voter initiative–titled “Measure Z”–that qualified for the local ballot and was enacted by Monterey County voters by a 56% margin.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 1, 2022

A wave of frontline resistance is now breaking across the Upper Midwest and around the country as organized campaigns aimed at regulating concentrated animal feeding operations, known as CAFOs, are being felt at every level of government, and in state and federal courts. It’s now being raised as a political issue. As a legal issue.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 27, 2021

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) auction in February, 2016, for oil and gas drilling rights near Arches National Park was unremarkable. When conservation advocates are unable to participate in markets, they are forced to pursue what are often less effective and less efficient strategies such as litigation or lobbying for regulation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 28, 2024

Meanwhile, the American Petroleum Institute (API)—in which Shell holds a leadership role—launched a voluntary methane program in 2017 that internal documents reveal was explicitly designed “ to stave off future regulation.” A Chevron 2023 report says the company lobbies “ethically, constructively and in a nonpartisan manner.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2023

The appeals court ruled that the FDA needed to at least temporarily roll back a series of science-based regulatory decisions that the agency has made since 2016. And Judge Kacsmaryk’s history clearly shows his political and personal biases against reproductive rights, some of which he tried to hide during his senate confirmation.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2023

In 2016 Monterey County voters passed Measure Z, a citizen initiative intended to bar the drilling of new oil and gas wells in the county and ban the use of fracking technology for existing wells in Monterey County. Later this month the justices will hear arguments in Chevron U.S.A.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Germany agrees on EU regulation to make cars carbon neutral by 2035 (either zero emissions or net-zero). My foray into Germany climate policy left me with unanswered questions: What was the politics behind Germany’s history of climate action? Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 7, 2022

But public intervention ultimately means that our electricity and energy systems will be under greater political control. The lesson here: Public ownership in and of itself is probably not going to be the policy approach that advances decarbonization. Download as PDF. The post Will public power advance decarbonization?

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

In particular, Pourbaix spent years leading the development of the Keystone XL pipeline and the initial bid to have the project approved in the US, and has praised former US president Donald Trump’s approval of the pipeline and cuts to oil and gas industry regulations in the US. That followed 1,500 worker layoffs in 2015, and 440 in 2016.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. The plan must specifically address how EPA will consider the effects of Clean Air Act regulation on the coal industry. 451962/2016 (N.Y. Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. Pritzker , Nos. 14-35806, 14-35811 (9th Cir. opinion Oct. Pritzker , Nos. 16-35380, 16-35382 (9th Cir.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 3, 2024

This latest document is dripping with disdain for federal bureaucracies, especially environmental regulators. A second Trump administration would do more than ignore climate science; it would work to undermine successful climate policies, as well as current and future environmental regulations, during a critical 4-year window.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

On April 21, the European Commission (Commission) proposed legislation (EC Proposal) that would comprehensively regulate artificial intelligence systems in the European Union, including externally located systems with output used inside the EU.[[N: 21, 2021).]] The amended acts are Regulation 300/2008, 2008 O.J. (L N: See Peter J.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2022

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- PennLive - Jan Murphy: Gov. Trillion In 2022, How Will They Invest It? -- Harrisburg Politics Potpourri -- PennLive - Jan Murphy: Freezing Lawmakers’, State Officials’ Pay This Year ‘Is The Right Thing To Do’ Rep.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

Earlier in his political career, Bettencourt served as Republican House Majority Leader, and as the public face of the conservative agenda in the state’s House of Representatives. Bettencourt, encouraged New Hampshire residents to go out and buy flood insurance.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Most of these pieces were about the company’s support for a seemingly independent network of anti-regulation, “free-market” nonprofits that spread falsehoods about the reality and seriousness of climate change. Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO from 2006 to 2016. And Rose did, at times, ask follow-up questions.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In September 2018, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to loosen methane regulations over the oil and gas industry that would have otherwise harnessed $30 million dollars of wasted energy. Going Backwards: Rollback of Carbon Pollution Regulations. CO2 has a GWP of 1). appeared first on.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

At least partly—if not largely—because the AGs and their political organization, the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), receive substantial financial support from fossil fuel companies, electric utilities, and their respective trade groups. After she took office in January 2019, that pledge went out the window.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Finally, in recent years advocates of dormant Commerce Clause principles have advanced a third prong of the constitutional standard: that state and local governments should not be permitted to regulate “extraterritorially”–i.e., beyond their political borders. In North Dakota v. Heydinger , for example, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2023

On January 20, the natural gas industry and Senate Republicans launched an effort to unleash the industry by reducing regulations, requiring automatic approval of permits and limiting opportunities for public review of permits at a hearing of the Senate Republican Policy Committee in Pittsburgh. Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 11, 2022

But Michigan’s experience shows how political conflicts and logistical challenges can complicate the math. Clair River Corridor is just one place where state regulators are pushing towns to consolidate water systems for greater efficiency as aging, costly plants near their expiration date. Are Mergers The Answer?

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This map shows nitrate concentrations in drinking water between 2016 and 2018 for federally regulated water systems. Politically powerful farm lobbies, preferring voluntary measures to curb nutrient pollution, have held off oversight under the Clean Water Act and other statutes. Coulter has a particularly keen interest.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 6, 2022

In our 2016 book Gerrymandering in America , my colleagues and I investigated the structural origins of the legal conflict over gerrymandering. Gerrymandering in the courts. We focused on a 2004 Supreme Court case called Veith v Jubelirer. That ruling effectively left partisan gerrymandering claims to be decided by the states.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 23, 2022

The stick takes the form of a “methane emissions charge,” which EPA must collect from certain entities in the oil and natural gas sector, unless and until stringent regulations controlling the sector’s methane emissions are implemented. Starting with methane was likely more politically feasible than carbon dioxide for several reasons. (To

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 10, 2024

In recent years, journalists and political activists, predominantly from the right, have been forced into exile due to what they describe as judicial persecution. In 2020, the Brazilian Congress introduced the controversial " Fake News Bill ", intended to regulate social networks.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

APRIL 13, 2021

I agree with him that too few climate economists work on political economy issues. I have published a 2013 paper and a 2015 political economy paper on carbon tax voting. My 2011 paper with Matt Kotchen on political economy of regulation was discussed by Rush Limbaugh on his radio show!

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 10, 2022

The editors of Scientific American called for “a lasting stop to the political obstruction” against federally funded gun violence research, adding, “We need to become the kind of country that says the lives of children are more valuable than the right to weapons that have killed them.”. Back then, scientists were crushed by craven politics.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 27, 2023

The refinery was a major polluter, according to 2019 report by the City of Philadelphia it was the largest stationary source of air pollution and the largest single emitter of toxic pollutants in Philadelphia, accounting for 57% of total toxic emissions from larger sources in Philadelphia in 2016 including benzene and other known carcinogens.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

In a craven denial of climate impacts amid the political influence of oil, gas and coal companies, the court put children in the firing line of fossil fuel pollution and climate change, rather than rescue them from harm’s way. EPA decision where the Supreme Court said the EPA had the authority to regulate global warming gases.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 21, 2024

It was during this period that the Court's ministers voiced deep concerns over the potential replication in Brazil of events analogous to those of the 2016 United States elections — specifically, the election of Donald Trump amidst allegations of Russian interference and the widespread dissemination of fake news.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. We need governments to regulate industry. billion in 2016 to $11.6 CAPP is trying to buy and build the social license (ie. She also believes in getting the job done outside of the office.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 3, 2022

And because the state largely lacks the ability to force such spending, regulators could do little to ensure the upkeep of local systems. “As But in wealthier communities, experts say the issue is often a lack of political will to set rates that reflect the true cost of treating and delivering water. No oversight of financial health.

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