Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 10, 2025

Despite transit’s importance, Pennsylvania’s transit agencies have yet to fully recover from the pandemic, running around 12% less service in 2024 than it did in 2019. This amount would allow agencies to get back to 2019 levels of service and increase service by 10% outside of SEPTA and PRT.

2019

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Administrative Engagement We were in touch with career and political staff at USDA nearly daily in 2024, working hard to keep the agency in contact with farmers and organizations in the field and responsive to their needs through calls, meetings, and directing feedback from the field to USDA.

2024

A Greener Life

OCTOBER 24, 2024

He even ran for president in 2019 to push climate up the agenda, because any you can do that in America if you have a spare billion or two. We should direct our attention to what matters most, which is systemic change and politics, not little lifestyle changes.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2024

20 In Allegheny County -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - October 5 to 18 - Conventional Well Owners Issued 767 Violations For Abandoning Their Wells - So Far, More Than Double Number In 2019; Leaking Gas Storage Area Wells [PaEN] -- LancasterOnline Guest Essay: Are You Ready For The Next Natural Disaster?

Politics

Circle of Blue

MARCH 19, 2025

Once he was elected, Canadians started paying attention but the potential water grab was seen as logistically and politically problematic and unlikely to gain traction. Dont play politics Alliance CEO Joel Brammeier said: U.S. From Milwaukee, Riverkeeper Cheryl Nenn said: we should not play politics with the Great Lakes.

Politics

A Greener Life

JULY 6, 2025

In 2019, the Brumadinho dam disaster killed 270 people, raising concerns about mining safety. Political controversies and deforestation policies Brazil has made progress in reducing deforestation, with a 30.6% In 2000, the Petrobras oil spill in Guanabara Bay released 1.3 The 2015 Mariana dam collapse spilled 43.7

2025

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

(Waters has a fan following who turned her mirthless repetition of the phrase, reclaiming my time in the face of non-responsive testimony from former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin into one of the most viral political memes of the first Trump Administration.) Credit: Investigation Report by the U.S. Nanette Barragn and Asm.

2015

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This isn’t a new concept—bills in this vein have been proposed before, and one even passed (before being vetoed) in 2019. Here are a few things legislators could consider: Measures to prevent backsliding if current federal protections disappear.

Government

Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2025

The resulting San Jos Declaration (II) recognized the importance of strengthening coordination and enhancing dialogue between regional human rights courts, in light of the Kampala Declaration signed on October 29, 2019.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The state of flooding emergency called for LA in 2017 and the devastating flooding in the US Midwest in 2019 was a similar situation. Political stunts aren’t helping Levee breached in Pajaro River in 2023. The political theater didnt stop there. Despite this, President Trump unexpectedly ordered the U.S.

Politics

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

Benefits Outweigh Costs 3-12 Times] Between 1970 and 2019 , emissions of common air pollutants decreased 77 percent while our economy more than tripled. Drastic cuts in EPAs budget will inevitably undermine states ability to implement their own environmental programs. Click Here for a copy of the letter and list of signatories.

Clean Air Act

Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

8] In 2021, a court in the Hague found that Royal Dutch Shell violated its fiduciary duties under Dutch law by failing to address its climate risk adequately and ordered the company to reduce CO 2 emissions by net 45% by the end of 2030 against a 2019 baseline. [9] Fiduciary duties must change, even if that will be difficult. Ripple, et al.,

Law

Legal Planet

APRIL 30, 2025

heating targets; Its biggest problems are political, social, and legal (not scientific or technological): how to navigate and control it; and how not to let it trigger international conflict or destabilization. Its on individuals, so not well-targeted to predict political outcomes with interest-group mobilization.

Politics

A Greener Life

APRIL 28, 2025

As Canadians prepare to vote in the 2025 federal election, Carneys green credentialsonce a defining feature of his political risehave been tempered by economic realpolitik. Carney and his advisers would likely have identified that the Conservatives had used this as a political football, and they felt they had no choice.

2025

Legal Planet

MARCH 19, 2025

The CDC’a research journal has been coopted by political appointees. The climate for science in America was bad in Trump’s first term, as I wrote in a 2019 post. Kennedy, Jr., whose views are often detached from the scientific evidence, to head the Department of Health and Human Services. Download as PDF

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

MAY 21, 2025

This is all about politics for Premier Smith. They claim to care about Albertans but keep killing jobs thirty-four thousand since 2019 in favour of automation. She knows her fortunes as Premier are tethered to keeping her base angry and resentful of the federal government.

Renewable Energy

Circle of Blue

MAY 29, 2025

Forty years later, in 2019, the end of the Three Mile Island story seemed perfectly apparent when Unit 1 also was shut down, joining the fleet of 12 U.S. Reactors produce radioactive waste that requires permanent disposal, but political opposition in Nevada has prevented the U.S. Utility executives quickly closed Unit 2 permanently.

Nuclear Power

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Nonetheless, potential policy changes in three areas could undercut new energy investment under a second Trump administration: protectionist trade measures and deglobalization; regulatory uncertainty and political risk; and fiscal and monetary policy. Regulatory Uncertainty And Political Risk Energy is a quintessentially global business.

2025

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 7, 2025

A joint report in December by USFWS and NOAA found that the rate of wetland loss in coastal watersheds from 2009 to 2019 was less than the rate of loss from 1998 to 2009, indicating “progress towards reducing net wetland loss.” We spoke on the condition that the discussion was solely on the beauty of the place and not about politics.

Endangered Species Act

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Million Settlement Of Air Pollution Violations For 2019 Philadelphia Refinery Explosion, Fire; Public Comments Invited [PaEN] -- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: EPA Reaches $4.2 Million Settlement, Largest Of Its Kind, Over 2019 Philadelphia Refinery Explosion [Includes Copy Of Proposed Settlement] -- WHYY - Sophia Schmidt: EPA Reaches Historic $4.2

Conservation

Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2025

Like many other students in my specialization, movies like the 2019 Black Waters and the 2000 Erin Brockovich biopic had captivated me with depictions of a resilient advocate going after a massive, negligent corporation and winning hard-fought justice for the affected community.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 30, 2025

And why is that industry and its political enablers not yet paying the price for what they’ve done to all of us? According to my team’s 2019 analysis, Killer Heat , without strong action to curb emissions, cities across the country can expect historically rare heat index conditions of 105 F or greater to become commonplace by mid-century.

2025

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

Yale E360

MAY 28, 2025

For the study, researchers amassed data on breast, ovarian, cervical, and uterine cancer across North Africa and the Middle East from 1998 to 2019. Georgie Pauwels via Flickr New research finds a link between increasingly extreme heat in the Middle East and rising rates of cancer in women.

Air Pollution

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 5, 2025

In 2019, there were fewer than 1,000 new zero-emission trucks, buses, and vans registered in the United States.” When Trump offered to payback oil industry donations with political favors , I don’t think oil executives themselves could have even dreamed up that this wishlist would be granted within 7-months of his reentering the White House.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2025

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Shapiro -- Gov. Ohio- $2.98 PA- $3.26 -- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Rigs Same Again As Last Week- 15; 21 On Aug. 23 -- WESA: Could Locally Drilled Natural Gas Get More Expensive With New Republican Administrations Push To Increase LNG Gas Exports? Ohio- $2.98

Politics

Physics World

APRIL 16, 2025

Periodicals, I said, have art and music critics as well as sports and political commentators, and book and theatre reviewers too. As the years go by, I have found myself improvising, inspired by politics, books, scientific discoveries, readers’ thoughts, editors’ suggestions and more.

Politics

Scientific American

JUNE 19, 2025

She moved into Supportive Care and died the following year in July, 2019. She has covered education, politics and diverse communities, and her work has been published by NPR, Reveal , Marketplace , the Miami Herald and Houston Public Media, among others. Not until at age 89: she was diagnosed with frontotemporal lobe dementia.

Atmosphere

Physics World

AUGUST 5, 2025

Her experience of business and academia led her to set up QURECA in 2019, which offers resources, careers advice and education to people who want to work in the burgeoning quantum sector. There are physicists who’ve gone into politics and into sport. You see physicists going into biology and saying “Oh cancer, I can do that”.

2011

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Perhaps the closest to a climate anthem is the 2019 Fatboy Slim mash-up of Greta Thunberg’s U.N. Take “ Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince ” from her 2019 Lover album for example. The song paints a narrative of a high school couple and metaphorical high school to comment on disillusionment in contemporary American politics.

Climate Change

Law and Environment

JUNE 16, 2021

Membership fell to twelve when New Hampshire dropped out in 2019. The post TCI Update: Final Model Rule Addresses EJ, but Political Will May Be Lacking first appeared on Law and the Environment. economy, it’s not clear at this point whether enough member states will participate for the program to have a meaningful impact.

Politics

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In 2019, the Utah State Legislature passed the Community Renewable Energy Act (HB 411). There may be hope that the politics of climate change is beginning to detoxify. Nonetheless, it has begun to move in the direction of climate action. That would be a very promising sign for future climate action. Download as PDF.

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 7, 2024

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- Top Stories Of 2023 -- City & State PA: Our Picks For Stories Of The Year -- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: State Treasurer Touts Cost-Cutting, Return Of Military Medals -- Gov. National- $3.08

Politics

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2023

However, his average before 2019 was more like 1%. His lifetime average was pulled up by scores of 7% in 2019, 10% in 2020, and 22% in 2021. Emmer’s scores from the League of Conservation Voters are about par for a House Republican: 5% for both the 2022 scores and the lifetime score.

Biofuels

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Delhi, 2019: Don’t Breath The Air. Environmental Politics, 1945-1970 , several proposed building massive fans on the Santa Monica Mountains to blow the smog out to sea. So it shocked me when the Indian Express reported that last week, Bombay’s air was even worse than Delhi’s.

Air Pollution

Legal Planet

MAY 18, 2022

Food prices are hitting all-time highs, pushing hundreds of millions of people deeper into poverty and food insecurity and threatening political stability in regions around the world. Price Shocks, Political Stability, and Food Protectionism. For starters, food price shocks are a political nightmare for weak governments.

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 20, 2022

He is echoing the lessons learned during the RISE Conference held on his campus in 2019, where more than five hundred academics, community members and government officials met to discuss the role of universities in disasters. Universities and communities can build a more just, resilient response to disasters.

2019