Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

About the Author. The post The Social Cost of Greenhouse Gas Emissions is About to Get Much More Expensive first appeared on Law and the Environment. How were the new SC-GHG estimates calculated, and why did the SCC estimate nearly quadruple? Josh Rosen is an associate at Foley Hoag, LLP.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2023

The Halton Hills Generating Station in Halton Hills, Ontario (Photo by Ian Willms) The “Clean Energy Advantage” In the budget, the government boasts about Ontario’s “clean energy advantage” even though it is actively whittling away at it. The government has shown time and time again that it does not care about climate change.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 20, 2021

I’ve written a lot about how the developing science around particulate exposure supports making the PM2.5 The post The Internal Combustion Engine Is Bad For Your Health — What Should We Do About It? NAAQS more stringent. It’s time to lower the PM2.5 It’s also time to replace the NAAQS approach itself with something better.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 9, 2023

From 2017 to 2022, shale gas operators sent a total of 911,006 cubic feet of radioactive TENORM waste to low-level radioactive waste facilities for disposal. That amount is down from the 236,150 cubic feet of TENORM (Technically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material) sent in 2021.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 5, 2022

After having phased out coal and successfully decreased pollution between 2005 and 2017, emissions started to rise again in 2018 – when the current government came into power. We reached out to the major parties to ask about their commitments to these types of policies. **Take the pledge to Vote For The Environment on June 2**.

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Acoel

AUGUST 16, 2021

As discussed in an earlier blog , it was not until 2017 that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court used Section 27 to hold a statute unconstitutional. On July 21, 2021, the state’s Supreme Court reaffirmed and extended its 2017 holding. A once-obscure area of environmental law is gaining in importance.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 1, 2023

The Halton Hills Generating Station in Halton Hills, Ontario (Photo by Ian Willms) The “Clean Energy Advantage” In the budget, the government boasts about Ontario’s “clean energy advantage” even though it is actively whittling away at it. The government has shown time and time again that it does not care about climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 26, 2024

Beginning in 2017, ClearWater worked with several partners, including the Radzwich Family, to restore and stabilize 3.8 This type of funding is used to address nonpoint source pollution, typically from agriculture or stormwater, in areas that have an approved watershed plan.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2024

Visit the Better Path Coalition website to learn more about its programs and initiatives. Justin's writing has helped lead to lawsuits, public dialogue, academic research and been taught at Harvard's School of Public Health. Click Here to register for this special program. You can view past briefings online.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2022

Until 2017, winter wildfires in California didn’t burn much area. In 2017, however, a record number of fires burned during the winter months. A cycle of climate impacts throughout the year can compound to create dangerous conditions, like we saw ahead of 2017’s unprecedented winter wildfires (Fig. Winter wildfires.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In September 2017, Eric Biber and I published a threat assessment after the first 200 days of the Trump Administration. For those who have buried their memories of that time, those were days of shock and despair about the future of environmental protection (and much else). And what does this says about Biden’s prospects?

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In what felt like one of the few times I’ve actually been right about a political prediction, I told my wife that Steve Scalise would probably be the GOP’s pick to replace Kevin McCarthy. Sadly, I was only right for about 24 hours. I could say more about Scalise’s views, but since he’s now kaput, let’s move on.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MARCH 8, 2024

food and agriculture and is a critical tool for farmers, researchers, and stakeholders because of the wealth of data it contains about everything from farmer demographics to cover crop acreage. years from 2017, continuing a long-term trend of aging in the U.S. million in 2017. billion in 2017. farm producers was 58.1

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Edouard Stenger

JANUARY 16, 2018

A lot has been said about the booming global capacities of solar and wind in the past few years. 2017 will remain for me the year energy storage broke ground. But wind works at a maximum 35% of the time for onshore and perhaps 45% for offshore wind. Solar PV is even lower, with 20 to 30% capacity factor.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Peabody, a coal company, filed for bankruptcy in April 2016 and emerged from bankruptcy under a plan that became effective on April 3, 2017. 19, 2017); In re Constitution Pipeline Co. , Reorganized Peabody Energy Corp. County of San Mateo (In re Peabody Energy Corp.) , No. 16-42529 (Bankr. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. Sierra Club v.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2024

At the time, the deal was touted by the agency, then led by Josh Shapiro, as a way to hold Energy Transfer and Sunoco accountable for leaking thousands of gallons of drilling fluid into groundwater, lakes, and streams from 2017 to 2021, and address residents’ concerns about whether their water was safe.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Six environmental groups launched the proceeding challenging the stay after EPA published notice of the stay in the June 5, 2017 issue of the Federal Register. filed June 5, 2017; emergency motion for stay granted July 3, 2017). June 29, 2017). June 28, 2017). June 28, 2017). filed June 9, 2017).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Mitt Romney issued a press release crowing about all the money he secured for his state in the National Defense Authorization Act, the annual bill that lays out what the government will spend on the US military in the following fiscal year. Cartwright’s coauthor for that 2017 column was William J. Last December, Utah Sen.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 28, 2020

Those provisions include the following four significant changes to the business tax provisions contained in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Taxpayers intending to take advantage of the expanded use of NOLs per the CARES Act should consider the impact on other changes in the tax law brought about by TCJA 2017.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2022

These resources convey information about critical environmental issues, and past and present agency activities, policies, and priorities. These snapshots are, unfortunately, not as comprehensive as they were intended to be, with many Spanish language resources missing from the January 19, 2017, snapshot, for example.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

I have spent the better part of the last 12 years writing about lies. During this stretch, I have written more than 200 articles and columns, and most of them were either about CEOs who lie, experts who lie, scientists who lie, attorneys general who lie, legislators who lie, or a president who lies.

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Real Climate

APRIL 19, 2022

What about the skill of predictions? or that Space Force is about to stage a coup!) Going further, what about information that is simply misleading? In exactly the same way that just because science is uncertain about some things it does not follow that everything is uncertain. van der Linden et al (2017) or [2] ).

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2023

So too for Austin Scott, who announced for Speaker on Friday morning, caused the release of eighty votes in his favor later Friday, and vanished before he could even really be interviewed about his candidacy. I wouldn’t have the heart to post about her anyway. I can’t resist another digression. Download as PDF

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

You can read their insights from their experiences—including being denied the opportunity to take the floor—and their efforts to engage with Dr. Avery in 2017 , 2018 , and 2019. At ExxonMobil’s 2017 AGM—when Dr. Avery was added to the board—a majority of shareholders for the first time approved a climate-related shareholder proposal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 2, 2023

According to the last Census of Agriculture in 2017, agricultural land is still primarily owned by families and individuals (201.5 million acres of US agricultural land—about 4.5 According to the 2017 Census of Agriculture, Black-owned land had dwindled to about 4.7 million acres of cropland and 223.8 The remaining 3.1

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 1, 2024

Several legislative hearings have documented the fact the state’s electronic waste recycling program just isn’t working, and that hasn’t changed since a 2017 Senate hearing. Click Here to read more about how the electronic waste recycling program can be fixed and recommendations on making the curbside recycling program more effective.

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Inside Climate News

JUNE 11, 2021

By Bob Berwyn The Pine Island Glacier, sometimes called the “soft underbelly” of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, suddenly started moving about 10 to 12 percent faster between 2017 and 2020, as about 20 percent of its floating ice shelf broke apart in a series of large iceberg calving events.

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Green Bang

APRIL 21, 2017

They include a preview release of SQL Server 2017, which Microsoft described as the first relational database management system with built-in AI. ” IDC: Cognitive, AI spending expected to hit $12.5B billion this year , a 59.3 percent increase over 2016 figures. Other new products featuring AI capabilities include Microsoft R Server 9.1

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Green Bang

APRIL 21, 2017

They include a preview release of SQL Server 2017, which Microsoft described as the first relational database management system with built-in AI. ” IDC: Cognitive, AI spending expected to hit $12.5B billion this year , a 59.3 percent increase over 2016 figures. Other new products featuring AI capabilities include Microsoft R Server 9.1

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 2, 2023

During the 1984 to 1999 period, the average wildfire burned about 6,600 acres. Notable 21 st century wildfires Since 2017, many western states have experienced record-breaking wildfires. And California’s eight largest wildfires on record have all occurred since 2017. They were the first fires on record in the US to do so.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

President & CEO of Cenovus Energy: 2017-2023 TC Energy: 1990-2017 Chief Operating Officer of TC Energy: 2015-2017 VP and President Development of TC Energy Corp: 2006-2014 Villain Career Profile Alex Pourbaix has always gone above and beyond to advocate for pipelines and the oil and gas industry.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We don’t need Taylor Swift to “fall in love with a climate scientist,” we just wish she’d write a song about the climate crisis. Though many of her lyrics are seemingly about personal relationships, those are often metaphors to explore universal themes. She is her own media company. Then there’s her songwriting. Cruel summer, indeed.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

Take Action: Tell Enbridge shareholders that you care about climate change and want Enbridge to stop lying about the cost and climate pollution associated with gas. These villains are more concerned about their profits and wealth than the future of the planet, and that’s why we’re profiling the ‘resume’ of each climate villain.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 14, 2021

Each of these programs received at least a $31 million plus-up over FY 2017.”. Trump didn’t say a peep about this provision when he signed the law, though he did complain about other sections unrelated to climate issues. Making military bases climate resilient has been a persistent goal in these bills.

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Energy & the Law

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This expressly includes the Offer to Purchase submitted to the Seller on or about April 10, 2017 …. The Connallys responded that there was no enforceable agreement for the sale and they had no intention of doing so due to the Barkleys’ “recent behavior toward the Connellys” (gotta wonder what that was all about).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Earlier this summer, I wrote about three bills that were poised to make long overdue changes to California’s outdated and inequitable water rights system. For the last 30 years, Oregon has been able to make surface water management decisions with better information about all its water users than California.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Tens of thousands of people marched in New York City and around the world, California filed a groundbreaking lawsuit and passed new corporate climate disclosure rules , and the Wall Street Journal published new revelations about ExxonMobil’s climate disinformation efforts. degrees C) as “something magical.”

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