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Solar Panels Are More Carbon-Intensive Than Experts Admit

Environmental Progress

Photo by Liu Xin/China News Service/Visual China Group via Getty Images) By C. Last August, in an amalgamation of ‘The Green New Deal’ meets ‘Build Back Better’, President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act gifted the renewables industry with billions of dollars worth of taxpayer-funded subsidies. What he discovered unnerved him.

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First District Reverses Judgment In Controversial “People’s Park” CEQA Case, Holds UC Regents’ Program/Project EIR For Long Range Development Plan And Site-Specific Student Housing Project At The Park Failed To Adequately Analyze Alternative Housing Sites, Noise And Displacement Impacts

CEQA Developments

The EIR determined that the housing project would result in a substantial adverse change to a historic resource, which no one disputed constitutes a significant environmental impact under CEQA. Citing Protect the Historic Amador Waterways v. We do not take sides on policy issues. Our task is limited. f)(2)(B).) 4th 1099, 1109.)

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Waste and Water Woes

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

Photo credit: USDA Editor’s Note: This guest post by Michael Happ, Program Associate for Climate and Rural Communities at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, (IATP), discusses how popular conservation programs should focus on small-scale and sustainable farms, not industrial-scale farms. as it relates to EQIP.

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Policy News: December 20, 2021

ESA

2773 ) is that the Senate bill funds the program through penalties paid for natural resources and environmental violations while the House bill does not specify a funding source. It also directs the secretaries of the military departments to conduct an assessment of climate risks to infrastructure under their jurisdiction.

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53 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

PA Environment Daily

Here are 53 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

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Climatology: The Science of Global Weather Systems over the Long Term

Environmental Science

Climatology, or sometimes known as climate science, is the study of the Earth's weather patterns and the systems that cause them. Natural Variables That Influence Our Climate. Here are some of the natural trends. The word “climatology” comes, as may scientific words and terms do, from the Greek. Oscillations.

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A Big Year on Legal Planet

Legal Planet

climate movement. We saw rapid implementation of landmark federal climate laws, a series of big actions on methane emissions , a deal on Colorado River water usage, and bigger-than-expected climate victories in Sacramento. The approval sparked uproar because it goes against many of the administration’s climate goals.

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