Circle of Blue
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Drought, a financial crisis, and political collapse are accelerating the country’s decline into all-out famine. This summer’s political upheaval has kneecapped response efforts, pushing the country into famine. Well before Afghanistan’s political upheaval this summer, drought was pushing the country to the brink of a food crisis.
Legal Planet
AUGUST 15, 2023
Montana represents a sweeping victory for lead plaintiff Rikki Held and her 15 co-plaintiffs–all minors when the case was filed in 2020. Supreme Court–decided in a 2020 ruling that the young Juliana plaintiffs lacked legal standing to bring their lawsuit under federal law. The court’s 103-page decision in Held v.
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Legal Planet
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. The government proposes new measures to help meet the 2030 climate target, including 80% renewables by 2030. My foray into Germany climate policy left me with unanswered questions: What was the politics behind Germany’s history of climate action?
Circle of Blue
JUNE 21, 2021
Since late 2020, Iran has received only four inches of rain, 40 percent less than the nation’s long-term average. From December 21, 2020, up to March 20, 2021, we had our worst period in terms of rainfall in the past 52 years,” Ghasem Taghizadeh Khamesi said in April. Recent months have been uncommonly dry.
Circle of Blue
MARCH 20, 2023
Part pep rally, part trade show, part performance review, the UN Water Conference is pitched by its co-hosts, the governments of the Netherlands and Tajikistan, as an opportunity for the world to recommit to ambitious goals of safely managed water and sanitation for all people and ecosystems. But the failures are just as glaring.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 29, 2024
ExxonMobil spent at least $39 million on some 70 of these organizations from 1998 through 2020, more than any funder besides Charles Koch and his brother David, co-owner of Koch Industries until his death in 2019. Later in the hour, Tillerson told Rose that the federal government should end subsidies for renewable energy. “I
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 17, 2022
Our data covered 2014-2020 in San Diego County. First, the state has enacted legislation that strongly encourages local governments to consider the fire risks in approving new development. Local government decisions vary greatly in what they do – likely responding to different political and economic pressures.
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