Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 14, 2023

If 2022 was the year that corporate climate-related financial disclosure jumped out of the boardroom into the headlines, then 2023 may be the year when the global tide quietly turned in its favor. Yet the US government stubbornly remained behind the curve thanks to obstruction and disinformation by a few concentrated interests.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 9, 2023

It turns out that we don’t actually know current food insecurity levels—at least not based on federal government sources. The federal government only reports food insecurity data once a year, but new research shows that if people are asked about food insecurity on a monthly basis, the rates go up by one-third.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

That’s why the 2023 food and farm bill needs to redefine food security to protect our right to sustainable nutrition for all. Our vision for 2023 We need to reimagine food security to reflect our collective priorities: healthy lives in healthy environments. How can the federal government support sustainable nutrition security?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

For the 2023 farm bill to adequately support farmers, the voices of farmers of color must be amplified and implemented. The 2023 farm bill can facilitate more equitable land access This is why the National Young Farmers Coalition is calling on Congress to invest $2.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Globally, the circulation of the atmosphere, which governs where weather patterns set up, would change in intensity. In the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report , published in 2023, scientific consensus stated that there was a “medium chance” the AMOC would collapse before the end of the 21 st century.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 5, 2023

To regionalize or not to regionalize remains unanswered Early in the legislative session, Assemblymember Chris Holden introduced Assembly Bill 538 which would have changed the governance of the California’s grid operator from a governor-appointed board to an independent structure that would allow for a more coordinated, region-wide grid.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2023

My name is Melissa Kaplan and I joined the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) as senior manager of government affairs back in January. We can do this in part by strongly funding science, equity, and climate-focused federal research, as well as supporting government programs to protect land conservation and soil health.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

These initiatives are designed to empower local governments and communities with the tools and funding necessary to build long-term climate resilience. Both programs received multi year funding in the 2022 Climate Budget and each awarded its first round of grants in 2023.

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Yale E360

JUNE 29, 2022

The Dutch government is capping the number of flights from Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport at 440,000, a 12 percent cut from pre-pandemic levels. The new policy, set to take effect at the end of 2023, is the world's first to limit flights for environmental reasons. Read more on E360 ?.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 23, 2024

Figure 1 Top Ten Oil and Gas Company Lobbyists Environmental Defence Canada has just released a new report called Big Oil’s Big Year: A Summary of Big Oil’s 2023 Federal Lobbying that digs into it all. The report finds that oil and gas companies and industry associations try to influence the government through persistent lobbying.

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Yale E360

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Deforestation in the Colombian Amazon is down 70 percent, year on year, through the first nine months of 2023, the government estimates. Read more on E360 →

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Yale E360

JANUARY 8, 2024

Forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon was down 50 percent, year on year, in 2023, according to government figures. Read more on E360 →

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

Judge Seeley did so after presiding over a two-week, non-jury trial in June 2023–the first such climate change trial in U.S. In a series of pretrial motions, the Montana government defendants had pressed a number of procedural arguments in an effort to get the Held lawsuit dismissed. legal history. United States. Stay tuned.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Statement from Aly Hyder Ali, Oil and Gas Program Manager, Environmental Defence Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – We welcome the Government of Canada’s Oil and Gas Greenhouse Gas Pollution Cap draft regulation, which aims to curb pollution from the oil and gas industry.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 10, 2025

This report (at page 13) notes that in 2017-18, California and the federal government conducted about 80,000 acres of prescribed burns in the state. The totals from 2023 are three times higher , with about 250,000 acres treated with prescribed burns.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 9, 2024

An assessment would have given decision-makers and the public a chance to better understand how this project would impact the climate, environment, and Indigenous rights before the government had to make a final decision on whether or not it could go ahead.

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Yale E360

APRIL 24, 2023

Provincial governments in China approved more new coal power in the first three months of this year than they did in all of 2021, according to a new analysis from Greenpeace. Read more on E360 →

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 15, 2024

Last month, the federal government amended the IAA – and the changes mean that major projects can no longer be rejected based on their climate impacts. A strong project review process is the only way governments can assess the environmental and social impacts of major projects like pipelines, mines, transmission lines and dams.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Today, the Sabin Center published an end-of-year report on the state of climate change litigation in 2023. The report begins with a brief analysis of the growth of climate litigation in 2023, both in terms of the number of cases and the jurisdictions included in the databases. Drawing from the Sabin Center’s United States (U.S.)

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 12, 2023

On November 30, 2023, the Higher Administrative Court Berlin-Brandenburg ruled in DUH and BUND v. Germany that the federal government must adopt an immediate action program (‘Sofortprogramm’) under the Federal Climate Change Act (CCA). These three parties have very different climate policies and visions for climate governance.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Big Oil had 695 lobby meetings with the federal government between January and September 2024. We’ve compiled all the insights about oil and gas lobbying in 2023 in a new report Big Oil’s Big Year: A Summary of Big Oil’s 2023 Federal Lobbying. It’s no wonder that climate policies in Canada are moving forward at a snail’s pace.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

By October 1, Congress will need to fund the government for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 and determine how to extend ( again ) the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill). In 2023, Congress also struck a deal to raise the federal debt-ceiling by setting a cap on FY2024 and FY2025 defense and non-defense discretionary (NDD) spending.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 26, 2023

State government units. Prior to the 2023 amendments, NEPA § 102(2)(D) provided for preparation of environmental impact statements by state agencies for federally funded projects. The 2023 amendments retained this provision but renumbered is as subsection (G). Below I discuss some of the main issues.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Mayors must deliver a resounding “no” to this corrupt, anti-democratic push that would subject boundary decisions to the same corrupting forces that led the provincial government to force sprawl on their communities in the first place. We trust they have the intelligence and integrity not to fall for it.”

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Governments watch as oil companies break the rules, raking in record profits while leaving an environmental disaster. It must be dismantled and rebuilt with a co-governing body, where downstream impacted Indigenous communities have policy-making authority and leadership roles,” said Jesse Cardinal, Executive Director at Keepers of the Water.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Yet in 2023, China accounted for about 60% of the world’s new renewables and electric vehicles. Investment in infrastructure and manufacturing capacity grew by 6-7% in 2023. The amount of new solar capacity in 2023 was double 2022’s, and new wind capacity was up 66%. million exports in 2023. auto sector.”

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Legal Planet

MARCH 3, 2025

Successes in Other States: Vermont After catastrophic floods in the summer of 2023 that took lives and caused billions in damages, Vermont became the first state in the nation to pass a polluters-pay law. The legislation passed in May 2024, and Governor Phil Scott allowed it to go into effect without his signature.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 28, 2023

The Agriculture Resilience Act (ARA) of 2023 was re-introduced in Congress today. Our analysis found that sustainable nutrition science is severely underfunded by the federal government—which makes sense since it is missing from the REE’s mission and vision.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 22, 2023

Since local and state governments are on the frontlines of paying for worsening wildfires, they should also be on the leading edge of holding fossil fuel companies accountable. Perhaps less obvious is the importance of state and local governments in holding the fossil fuel industry accountable. Source: Statista 2023.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2025

Total centralized capacity grows from 33 MW in 1900 to 1,281,892 MW in 2023, while total distributed capacity grows from 0 MW in 2003 (before data collection began) to 122,518 MW in 2023. A log-scale plot showing the change over time of centralized and distributed generation capacity. Data source: U.S. Energy Information Agency.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Since 1999, after the Chinese government approved the reactor plans, TVEL, Russia’s nuclear fuel company and a Rosatom subsidiary, worked with the China Institute of Atomic Energy to supply highly enriched uranium fuel (64.4% billion in 2023. U-235) for China’s CEFR. Overall, Russia exported enriched uranium worth $2.7

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 31, 2023

This month, the federal government will officially (and in my opinion, prematurely) end the pandemic food assistance expansion. Few would know that the poverty threshold in the United States originated in the 1960s and was determined using the cost of a government-determined diet in 1963. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Despite assurances that the legislation is a government priority, it has not yet been scheduled for a third reading. It’s time for the government to fulfill its 2019 promise. Andréanne Brazeau, Analyst, Climate Policy, Équiterre Background: Bill C-50, the Canadian Sustainable Jobs Act, was tabled in Parliament in June 2023.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

According to a 2023 Pew Research Center report , 60% of Americans viewed the Republican party unfavorably, and a different 60% of those surveyed viewed the Democratic party unfavorably. This means there should be policy congruence between democratically elected governments and the voters. Why do we only have two parties?

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

In 2023 at COP28 , countries agreed to “transition away from fossil fuels” and scale up renewable energy and energy efficiency. Background information: Vulnerable regions say that a $1.3-trillion This was an important milestone recognizing that oil, gas, and coal are the biggest cause of climate change.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 23, 2025

Treaty 6 Territory | Edmonton – After two years of tireless work by Indigenous communities, environmental organizations, and the public demanding governments hold Imperial Oil accountable for its egregious behaviour, the AER has finally laid charges against the company. Background: The Imperial Oil tailings disaster allowed 5.3

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 11, 2023

By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – January 11, 2023. Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy, recently published its risk watch-list for 2023. It ranks water stress tenth, arguing that governments are treating water scarcity as a “temporary crisis” and not the systemic threat that it is. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue.

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