Legal Planet

OCTOBER 19, 2023

All told, Newsom is slated to visit 6 cities in 5 provinces, including Guangdong, Jiangsu, and Shanghai—where he’s signing a new climate agreement. million electric vehicles , with sales in 2022 accounting for 29% of all auto sales in China. Jerry Brown and that he will sign a fresh one of his own with Shanghai.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Furthermore, these loopholes could cross over into the electrolytic emissions accounting framework, threatening to fully undermine the rigor of the three-pillars approach. These issues all come to a head around how biomethane and fugitive methane are defined and accounted for within the 45V analytical framework.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

So far, 149 countries have signed on to the Global Methane Pledge, and collectively they account for 45 percent of global heat-trapping methane emissions. Identifying the largest polluters is crucial to keep polluters accountable and confirm whether mitigation efforts are having the intended effect.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Signed into law by Richard Nixon on January 1, 1970, NEPA stands for two simple, but revolutionary propositions: before a federal agency does something with big environmental impacts, it should consider alternatives and, before the agency makes a final decision, it should invite input from the people who will have to live with the consequences.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 18, 2023

In recent years, there has been a growing movement to hold corporations accountable for the harm caused by the climate change that has resulted from their products. In recent years, there has been a growing movement to hold corporations accountable for the harm caused by the climate change that has resulted from their products.

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JULY 11, 2023

In the absence of accountability from the Global North, there are warning signs the Glasgow Leaders' Declaration on Forests and Land Use is set up for failure.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

Among many, here are some that stood out to us: Corporate Climate Accountability California moved climate accountability efforts forward in a big way with the passage of two first-in-the-nation climate disclosure bills , SB 253 (Wiener) and SB 261 (Stern) , that will force critical transparency about corporate climate emissions.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

State Capitol, Sacramento, California After a hard-fought battle, the California Legislature passed the second of two nation-leading corporate climate accountability bills yesterday afternoon. What do the bills do? Both bills would complement a federal rulemaking process at the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

But the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) will soon have the chance to save ratepayers large sums of money—in excess of $100 million for a single year—and hold OVEC and its shareholders accountable for their profligate practices. That would be outrageous, wouldn’t it? But that’s exactly what’s happening right now.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2024

Comments are due May 6 and may be submitted through the Air Quality resource account at RA-EPSEROAQPUBCOM@pa.gov. PA Bulletin, page 2392 ) That location is now at the Davenport Elementary School, 1 E. PA Bulletin, page 2392 ) That location is now at the Davenport Elementary School, 1 E. Oak Street in Norristown starting at 6:00 p.m.

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Energy & the Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The dueling agreements When Billie Pat McCaskle signed a Saltwater Reclamation, Treatment, Water Purchase and Saltwater Disposal Agreement with Darkhorse on his (or hers, not sure, don’t make me say “their”, there’s only one of ’em) 20 percent interest in a tract of land. Birch Operations Inc.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

They’re also hoping to circumnavigate efforts to hold them accountable for their contribution to climate change. Here are some obstacles ahead on the road to corporate accountability based on the signs we see. Chevron was the first to validate market expectations of a banner year for oil and gas, posting annual earnings of $35.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act requires both public and private US-based corporations operating in California with annual revenues greater than $1 billion to disclose the full range of their global warming emissions and verify their calculations with a third party.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Eligibility List followed the signing of an inaugural Article 6 implementation agreement with Papua New Guinea on carbon credits cooperation. The Eligibility List sets out the approved host countries, carbon crediting programmes, and methodologies that meet the established Eligibility Criteria in Singapore.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In South Africa, garbage and high levels of bacteria are contaminating the country’s rivers, and environmental activists are struggling to hold government officials accountable. In the Middle East, Israel and Jordan have signed an agreement extending their long record of water cooperation. I’m Eileen Wray-McCann.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Mary Nichols tells me that she’s paying particular attention to accountability questions, including requirements that third parties verify claimed emission reductions. Accounting may not be glamorous but without standards there is no way to assure pledges become real,” she says. will also be on his radar.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Consider IPAA’s website Energy in Depth (EID), which attacks UCS and other climate accountability experts while promoting disinformation, such as claims that fossil gas and fracking benefits the environment. And a look at the groups ExxonMobil remains allied with suggests IPAA may just be an embarrassing outlier.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 9, 2022

Should regulators take into account harm to people in other countries? regulators to coordinate with regulators in other countries and to take the benefits of coordination into account in issuing their own regulations. What about harm to future generations? Should we give special attention when the disadvantaged are harmed?

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

On Wednesday, Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed a package of four clean energy bills. In signing the bills, Governor Brown observed that, “as we have all been experiencing, climate change is no longer a distant threat. These bills move Oregon to the forefront of climate action. It is here. As far as I can figure out, that’s about $7.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The subpoenas requested that they turn over key documents they failed to produce in response to the committee’s initial request, which focused on the period beginning in late 2015, when nearly 200 countries signed the Paris climate agreement. Companies Plot “Greenwashing” Campaigns.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

For the first time ever, annual sales surpassed one million vehicles , accounting for more than seven percent of new vehicles sold. Despite all these major milestones, there’s been a lot of focus lately on signs the recent rapid growth in EV sales may be slowing. 2023 was a milestone year for electric car sales in the US.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

More recently, Jordan has led the congressional attack on pro-ESG companies, threatening companies with antitrust action if they take climate risks into account. Jim Jordan got 45% of the votes while running against Scalise for the Speakership, which is a sign of where the House GOP is on the issues today. That left Jim Jordan.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

This new kind of pain is poorly understood, as there is often no sign of injury, but as Graham Lawton explains in this personal account, we are finally starting to make inroads

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JANUARY 3, 2023

No mode or manner of legal gymnastics is likely to save parties from the legal effect of a contract they didn’t bother to read before they signed it. They also testified that they did not read the agreement prior to signing it. Accounting was error. The agreement. Springbok sued the Cooks to enforce the letter agreement.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

And lastly, President Biden signs budget and defense spending bills that fund water systems. Groundwater is like a bank account, and when you take more out than you are putting in, at some point the account runs dry.” — Gwendolyn Davies, U.S. .” — Gwendolyn Davies, U.S. The Rundown. By the Numbers. News Briefs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2023

Right in the middle of Danger Season , we are going through a period of unprecedented global extreme temperatures driven by fossil-fueled climate change. The unrelenting heat has caused a dizzying number of air and ocean temperature records to be broken in recent weeks. This is causing devastation to human and nonhuman communities. Image via NOAA.

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AUGUST 16, 2022

Under the voluntary agreement signed in 2019 that governs the cuts, no other basin state is required to limit its withdrawals. To account for this, Reclamation also runs a “ probable minimum ” scenario. Without additional cuts, federal forecast projects Lake Mead to continue its decline in next two years. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 30, 2023

The latest policy brief from the UCLA Emmett Institute examines California’s existing real estate disclosure practices and suggests mechanisms to improve them to account for the accelerating risk of rising sea levels and ultimately inform potential buyers. In fact, the U.S. A single inch of flooding may cost up to $25,000.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2024

Comments are due May 6 and may be submitted through the Air Quality resource account at RA-EPSEROAQPUBCOM@pa.gov. Montgomery County. ( PA Bulletin, page 1865 ) The potential emissions from the facility are as follows: 246.3 tons per year (tpy) carbon monoxide, 0.008 tpy Lead, 93 tpy hydrogen chloride, 520.3 tpy particulate matter, 163.2

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MARCH 25, 2023

For more information on environmental programs in Pennsylvania, visit DEP’s website , Click Here to sign up for DEP’s newsletter, sign up for DEP Connects events, sign up for DEP’s eNotice , visit DEP’s Blog , Like DEP on Facebook , Follow DEP on Twitter and visit DEP’s YouTube Channel.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Utilities then adjust the customer’s account to eliminate or reduce their debt. States, tribes, and territories have received the $1.1 billion that Congress allocated 20 months ago to the Low-Income Household Water Assistance Program , or LIHWAP. Now the challenge is ensuring that the funds reach people in need.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Publicly owned-utilities, on the other hand, have their rates set by the publicly-accountable officials (either elected or appointed) that run the utility. Photo from Tony Webster at [link] This week voters in Maine rejected a ballot measure to implement a public takeover of the state’s two investor-owned utilities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 18, 2024

Once the conference committee finishes its work, the final bill is sent to the president to be signed into law. In the last two weeks, however, a package of six appropriations bills—including agriculture—was finally approved by the House and Senate and signed by President Biden. which began in October 2023. What’s in this year’s bill?

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Circle of Blue

MAY 8, 2023

With higher water releases this year, temporary “shadow accounting” on the Colorado River system goes away. The Rundown The EPA agrees to a timeline for updating slaughterhouse water pollution standards. Lawmakers introduce bills on PFAS liability for water utilities and labeling non-flushable wipes.

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New Scientist

MARCH 10, 2022

Packages of RNA and proteins that bud off from cells have reversed some signs of ageing in mice, and they may account for the rejuvenating effects of young blood

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MAY 30, 2024

This period is marked as the crossover, where the bills that passed off the floor of their house of origin, move to the other house for the review process to begin again. A little more than 2,000 bills were introduced in both houses this session, which is about average. In the Assembly, 931 bills advanced out of 1520 total (61%).

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2024

Since November 2022, DEP has been working around the clock to keep Pennsylvanians safe and hold Equitrans accountable for the uncontrolled release of natural gas at Rager Mountain. Accounts from DEP personnel and members of the public described the odors and noise produced by the venting of natural gas as akin to a jet engine.

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