Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 16, 2023

The provincial and federal governments must do better in addressing this issue. They’ve already committed to reducing phosphorus levels by 40 per cent by 2025, but how they plan to achieve this is still unclear. Photo by NASA of 2011 algae bloom, the worst Lake Erie had experienced in decades.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Last week, regulators in the local assembly of Tokyo , the capital of Japan , ruled that all new homes constructed by large-scale homebuilders after April 2025 must install solar panels to cut emissions. By 2030 the Tokyo Metropolitan Government has set targets that aim to halve greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions compared to 2000 levels.

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Law and Environment

JULY 5, 2022

EPA need look no farther than Massachusetts, which issued its Clean Energy and Climate Plan for 2025 and 2030 the same day that the Supreme Court extended its crusade against the modern world by limiting EPA’s authority to regulate in the absence of a clear delegation by Congress. Until we do, everything else is just a patchwork.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2022

On October 11, members of the Chesapeake Executive Council met for their annual meeting and elected EPA Administrator Michael Regan chair and began the discussion of the steps needed for states to get closer to meeting the 2025 pollution reduction milestones. Not Meeting Milestones On October 4, the U.S. Read more here.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 19, 2022

We need to see more done by governments to ensure that there is widespread adoption of these practices. . The provincial and federal governments must do better on this. They’ve already committed to reducing phosphorus levels by 40% by 2025, but how they plan to achieve this is still a mystery. Check it out!

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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 current government acts like it’s somehow responsible for this feat.

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Brag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

EPA states that this proposal includes steady growth of biofuels for use in the nation’s fuel supply for 2023 , 2024 , and 2025. EPA will also propose new regulations governing the generation of qualifying renewable electricity made from renewable biomass that is used for transportation fuel in electric vehicles.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 5, 2023

Governments are, it seems, beginning to listen to the growing chorus of scientists who have warned that deploying CDR is essential to avoid catastrophic climate change. Government funding for research and deployment of CDR is increasing. Yet, key issues around definitions, guidance, and climate governance remain.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 4, 2021

The index measures the performance of companies’ environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices. Released in April 2021, PPG’s 2020 Sustainability Report highlights the company’s progress in achieving its 2025 sustainability goals and progress in key ESG areas.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 16, 2023

history during which entities that do not have federal tax liability – including local and state governments and agencies, nonprofit organizations, tribes and municipal utilities – can reap the benefit of these incentives. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is chock-full of tax incentives for climate and clean energy projects.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 17, 2024

Background The Singaporean government introduced the ICC Framework in November 2022, in tandem with the progressive increase in carbon tax rate under the Carbon Pricing (Amendment) Act 2022 from the current S$5 per tonne of emissions to S$25 per tonne in 2024 and 2025, and S$45 per tonne in 2026 and beyond.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The OEB decision would eliminate the subsidy for housing developers to connect to the gas system effective January 1, 2025. The government’s assertion that the OEB decision would halt the construction of homes is false. The speed at which this decision was made by the Ministry is also concerning.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 25, 2022

On January 25, the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee heard from several witnesses from Central Pennsylvania reporting that State Government has refused to pay stormwater management fees designed to help the Commonwealth meet Chesapeake Bay cleanup obligations and for other areas of the state. I don’t get that.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 28, 2022

Charged by the government with developing a pricing mechanism and strategy as an acceptable alternative to joining the ETS in 2025 … Continue reading A new farming proposal to reduce carbon emissions involves a lot of trust – and a lot of uncertainty.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2023

First, it seeks to structure more flexible implementation support for subnational governments and communities for policy implementation and actions. Subnational governments, and the communities they serve, know their needs, realities, and opportunities best. Why the GCF Task Force?

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2021

On October 14, the Department of Environmental Protection presented a proposed regulation that would adopt California’s existing Zero Emission Vehicle Program that requires 22 percent of the new passenger and light duty vehicle fleets offered for sale in the state be zero emission vehicles starting in model year 2025.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 29, 2023

billion giveaway of public rights to land speculators, Premier Ford admitted clearly, for the first time, that his government might restore protection to some areas of the Greenbelt. After the Auditor General’s report, a reversal of the removals in their entirety is certainly this government’s only plausible way out of this scandal.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 23, 2024

Two years after Prime Minister Trudeau first promised to limit and reduce Canada’s oil and gas emissions, the federal government finally released a regulatory framework at COP 28, in December 2023. The draft regulations will then be followed up with final rules, so that the emissions cap is active by the start of 2025.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 17, 2021

Federal government declares, for the first time, a Tier 1 shortage due to low water at Lake Mead. The federal government acknowledged changing conditions in the drying American Southwest on Monday, declaring a Tier 1 shortage for the lower Colorado River basin. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 15, 2022

Those goals call for a statewide reduction in net greenhouse gas emissions 26 percent by 2025, with a further 80 percent reduction by 2050 from 2005 levels. Wolf’s 2019 Executive Order also established the PA GreenGov Council, which develops strategies to help state government reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The city government has sought funding to buy bicycles that citizens can hire at bus stops and railway stations. The city government has also sought funding to revive its surface water sources and networks. The local government wants to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 9.64% every year by 2026-27, using 2017-18 as a baseline.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 27, 2023

Direct pay – which is already in effect as of January 1, 2023 – allows tax-exempt entities, including local governments, to claim the value of certain clean energy and other tax credits as a cash payment, rather than as an offset to tax liability that they do not have. Written comments are due on August 14, 2023.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

Getting this right is important, both for California and to ensure the LCFS remains a workable model for other states and the federal government. Moreover, absent reform, the LCFS is not a replicable model for other states or the federal government. It is hard to understand precisely how CARB modeled Alternative 1. billion gallons.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The Government Accountability Office says that Congress needs to come up with a permanent solution , since the Yucca Mountain storage site has been taken off the table. There is a 44 percent chance by 2024 and a 66 percent chance by 2025 that Mead falls below elevation 1,025 feet. government water policy. By the Numbers.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 24, 2023

We definitely recognize that we’re not going to meet that 2025 deadline…We need to recalibrate.” — Michael Regan, the EPA administrator, addressing the House Agriculture Committee about how the Chesapeake Bay watershed will not meet water-pollution targets that were set for two years from now. government water policy.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 23, 2021

Last spring, we released a report – Paying Polluters: Federal Financial Support to Oil and Gas in 2020 – that revealed the federal government announced a minimum of nearly $18 billion to the oil and gas sector in 2020. Companies put their own remediation programs on hold while they waited for the government to pay to clean up their mess.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2023

A more thorough history would include the settling and colonization of California by the Spanish (1500s) and Mexican (early 1800s) governments, but for brevity, I focus here on the intentional and duplicitous actions of the California state government (established in 1850) and its co-conspirator: the United States federal government.

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Nanotech

AUGUST 17, 2023

Since the current National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) award cycle ends in 2025 , the conference organizers are looking ahead to the future and the next national resource in science and technology infrastructure. government agencies. and online. The registration deadline is September 1, 2023.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The regulation requires an overall recycling recovery rate of 65% by 2025 and 70% by 2030. Higher recovery rates are specified for the more valuable materials: in 2025 the recovery rate of cobalt, nickel, and copper must be 90% and lithium 50%, increasing to 95% and 80% respectively in 2030.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 20, 2022

By 2025, local manufacturers will no longer be allowed to make any of these harmful products for export to other countries. And because voluntary measures won’t spark the shift we need, the government needs to set reuse targets for companies whose single-use packaging is polluting the environment. million tonnes over ten years.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 13, 2021

Next week the federal government, for the first time, will likely declare a Tier 1 shortage on the lower Colorado River, opening a new chapter in the beleaguered river’s history and illustrating its vulnerability in a region that is drying because of the buildup of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 24, 2022

Restaurant Brands International commits to eliminating PFAS in food packaging by 2025 in all stores worldwide, including Burger King, Tim Hortons, and Popeyes. The federal government recently introduced Bill S-5 to reform the country’s toxics legislation, the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA).

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 15, 2022

To date, the province has not provided any updates on the progress being made towards reducing phosphorus loading into the Lake by the target date of 2025. . Take Action: Tell the federal and provincial governments to stop delaying and put their plan to work to Save Lake Erie. A complex issue but not without solutions or hope. .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 27, 2022

This increase will result in vehicle batteries comprising a much higher percentage of the recycling stream; retirements are expected to be 6 to 7 times higher in 2025 than in 2020 and 20 to 40 times higher in 2030. This group consists of automotive and battery manufacturers, government agency representatives, and public interest groups.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 24, 2022

With a series of live announcements held across the country, the federal government finally released the final regulations to ban six single-use plastics – straws, stir sticks, check out bags, cutlery, some takeout containers, and six pack rings. . The government estimates that the bans will mean 1.3 Big news this week!

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

All in all, the rule as currently proposed is estimated to have a net societal benefit of nearly $47 billion through 2050, accounting for significant reductions in health expenditures, savings to fleets from reduced fuel and maintenance costs, and costs to governments and businesses for the buildout of vehicle charging infrastructure.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In a draft plan, the government of Greece Identified areas for private development, with the long-term intention of lessening dependence on fossil fuels. The plan includes 25 eligible development areas in the Aegean, Ionian and Mediterranean seas that will become available in two time periods, some between 2025 and 2032, and some later.

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