Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In case you missed it: there’s some good news about Amazon deforestation continuing to plunge. Jason Gray and I spoke recently about why tropical deforestation is down in Brazil, Colombia, and Indonesia. Gray: This is really about a distinction between regulated compliance markets and voluntary carbon markets.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 1, 2023

While they may not be as well-known as other shark species, there are some things about oceanic whitetips that are unbelievably fascinating. About 900 crewmen were stranded in open water for more than three days before the first rescue operations team made it to them. See more wonderful ocean animals! Only 317 of those 900 survived.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 7, 2024

Back in 2019, at the last face-to-face Assembly, the Swiss proposed a resolution to assess the science and possible governance of ‘climate altering techniques’ aka geoengineering. Wider involvement The most striking development compared to 2019 was that this time around many more countries got involved. What’s the procedure?

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 9, 2019

December 4, 2019. The 2019 legislative session was distinguished by its slow pace and lack of movement on significant legislation until very late in the session. House Bill 111 ( Session Law 2019-242 ) provided base-budget funding for a number of state agencies, including the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ).

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2023

California has done well in terms of total emission reductions – about a 10% reduction from 2009 to 2019. California did this despite substantial growth over the decade from 2010 to 2020, adding about 2.4 Electric power related emissions went down about 40% from 2009 to 2019. as a whole.

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 9, 2019

July 9, 2019. The 2019 legislative session got off to a very slow start. of the 2019 budget bill reallocates those funds for a number of projects unrelated to PFAS. Few bills moved before the May 9 deadline for substantive bills to pass one chamber of the legislature to stay alive. Section 12.13

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Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Both processes are laborious, but while discussions and expropriation claims surrounding the nuclear phase-out have been largely settled, similar discussions about financial compensation for owners and operators of coal fired power plants in Germany gather pace. But what about foreign investors in German coal fired power plants?

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Legal Planet

APRIL 21, 2023

To quickly summarize the case background: The City of Berkeley passed an ordinance in 2019 prohibiting the use of “natural gas infrastructure”—gas piping on the building side of the gas meter—in newly constructed buildings, with some exceptions. Perhaps the most troubling question about this opinion is how far it extends.

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Renewable + Law

AUGUST 31, 2020

On August 19, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) issued a proposed decision accepting the 2019 Renewables Portfolio Standard Procurement Plans submitted by four new Community Choice Aggregators (CCAs): Butte Choice Energy Authority; Clean Energy Alliance; the City of Santa Barbara; and San Diego Community Power.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

Here we explore the latest IPCC information about climate change and explain why we need to adopt climate change mitigation tactics and ensure climate-resilience now to succeed in our changing world. C increase, the IPCC report states GHG emissions must be cut back by 43% by 2030 and 84% by 2050 (relative to 2019 levels).

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The Energy Law Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

The 2019 Private Target Mergers & Acquisitions Deal Points Study was recently released by the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association. If you have questions about the study or about market trends in M&A transactions you might be involved with, please contact Nina Skinner.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 22, 2024

The government first promised it in 2019, but only introduced it to Parliament in June 2023. The post Everything you Need to Know About the Sustainable Jobs Act (Bill C-50) appeared first on Environmental Defence. This will avoid the government having to wait five years only to realize their actions aren’t working as intended!

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Put in concrete terms this means that while York Region used about 6,400 acres between 2001 and 2019 the new plans would see it burn through roughly 25,000 more acres by 2051. The post Is York Region about to Hit the Accelerator on Car-Dependent Sprawl? acres per year – more than double the past rate.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

million ahead of 2019 and well above average. In 2019, the last non-COVID year, visitation totaled 27,636,924 from January to August.-- From January through August, 31,559,249 people visited State Parks in 2021, compared to 34,227,859 during the same period in 2020-- or 2.6 million fewer. percent less than in 2021.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 27, 2019

December 27, 2019. As interest in shellfish aquaculture has increased, so have concerns about the impact of the rapidly evolving aquaculture industry on water recreation and navigation. See an earlier post for more about the court’s decision.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions 1990–2019. The fossil fuel industry is the problem, not the solution Despite their well-funded campaigns to convince us otherwise, here are five reasons why we need to be skeptical about fossil fuel industry engagement in global climate policy. Source: IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 31, 2023

In 2019, we put together a list of every professor teaching an energy law class and everyone who had written an academic article about energy in the previous few years. We ended up with about 70 people. That may sound like a lot, but it amounts to about one energy law professors for every two or three law schools.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 14, 2024

For more details about the report’s findings, I turned to one of its coauthors, Omanjana Goswami , an interdisciplinary scientist with the Food and Environment Program. OG: The agribusiness sector spent more than $793 million on lobbying on a range of issues between 2019 and 2023. What can you tell us about the Farm Bureau?

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 11, 2021

John Cochrane has posted an important blog post about adapting to climate change. John is optimistic about our future; "The share of the world population in extreme poverty is plummeting. Asked that way, you can see that "lower carbon emissions" is about #100 on the list, even admitting the 5-10% of GDP thumb-on-the-scale estimates.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

He’s right about that. The numbers are really clear about the disconnect between the trajectories of GDP and emissions. US emissions went down by around 15% between 2007 and 2019, while GDP per person went up around 25%. What we really care about is making people better off, not growing their bank accounts.

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Acoel

JUNE 23, 2023

He had previously sought some quick advice about an upcoming meeting with Wisconsin DNR, but after that meeting, he wanted me to open a new file for the matter. 14, 2019). We each have only the information we can gather about what other parties are thinking and doing, and sometimes that information may be a little skewed.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

It’s that time of the year again, when many of us are relieved that the bitter cold weather is finally behind us, yet apprehensive about the dangerously extreme weather events that are likely to come. When PG&E proceeded with a 2-million-customer public safety power shutoff event in 2019, Robert Mardis Sr.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The grid operator is PJM, which serves about 50 million in mid-Atlantic and Midwest states. PJM believes, however, that these markets do not provide investors strong enough signals about the need for more generators.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 1, 2023

To increase awareness in Ontario about eco-friendly solutions like heat pumps, electric stoves, solar panels and more, Environmental Defence is launching #MyGreenFlags. links Ontario residents to information about government programs that offer financial incentives for residential retrofits. The website GreenFlags.ca

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Currently, despite its relatively small population of about fifty million, it’s the world’s twelfth largest economy — about the same size as Russia’s economy. Renewables are relatively small, at only 6%, but growing rapidly, having doubled from 2010 to 2019. With economic growth have come carbon emissions.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 28, 2024

It is expected to raise about $1 billion annually for transit and transportation investments. While no California city is quite like New York, as I wrote all the way back in 2019, the New York program certainly merits California policymakers’ attention. It is a monumental step, regardless of the outcome of these cases.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

A discussion about whether to list Australia’s Great Barrier Reef as “in danger” will be on the agenda for the 2024 meeting of the committee. Projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scenarios suggest a further rise of between 32 and 110 centimetres (about 12 to 43 inches) by the end of this century.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 25, 2022

Unlike previous floods in 2017 and 2019, this storm spared no parts of the city, triggering mudslides in areas rich and poor. They know about the risks. Campaign signs from South Africa’s 2019 elections patch up a damaged home in one of Durban’s many informal settlements. The destruction was concentrated in the slums.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Jumping size brackets, in 2019 a new species called Sato’s beaked whales was identified in the North Pacific , and in 2021, the 40-foot-long Rice’s whale was formally recognized in the Gulf of Mexico. In March 2023, a NPRW was spotted in Monterey Bay, California , making it one of about 20 sightings of the species in California since 1955.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The grid operator is PJM, which serves about 50 million in mid-Atlantic and Midwest states. PJM believes, however, that these markets do not provide investors strong enough signals about the need for more generators.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 28, 2022

It’s also about as much water as California is allocated from the river. Discussions about the Colorado River can resemble a doctor’s visit: filled with technical jargon, unfamiliar acronyms, and the anxiety that comes from incomplete understanding. Currently one foot of elevation change in Mead is equal to about 70,000 acre-feet.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 29, 2024

We’ve learned a lot in 18 years Along the way, we learned a lot about what users need (and don’t need). Commercially-owned satellites comprised just about half of all active satellites. satellites are commercial, mainly due to the Starlink constellation which makes up about three-fourths of the U.S. More than 90% of U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

While we don’t yet have a lot of granular details about this latest storm’s grid impacts, it’s worth going through what else the country might be in for this spring, as well as in future springs. About 70 percent of US coal is transported at least part of the way by trains.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 17, 2022

This is an historic effort though it falls short of the broader ‘ Green New Deal ‘ goals that were proposed in 2019, and doesn’t include all of the elements that were in the proposed 2021 reconcilliation package (the American Jobs Plan in “ Build Back Better “) that ultimately floundered.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 19, 2019

following a visit to the site of the recent air raids that “four bombs hit a forest and a field in a remote area outside of the northern Pakistani town of Jaba, about 100km north of the capital, Islamabad.” (“Splintered pine trees and rocks were strewn across the blast craters, and there was no evidence of any building debris or casualties.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 10, 2023

Plumes of intense rain and snow hit the state last week, raising concerns about flooding and landslides in areas that are recovering from wildfires. Between 2019 and 2021, groundwater depletion was five times higher than average over the previous 60 years. officials have an idea about how many people are being displaced.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Uncertainty and concern about the process is one reason some Maine voters rejected the proposal. In 2019, city officials in San Jose and San Francisco, explored a public takeover of PG&E, another particularly unpopular IOU, but did not pursue it. So how does a public takeover of an IOU actually work?

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