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Building a Better Power Grid for Minnesota

Union of Concerned Scientists

Minnesotans are facing concurrent crises of climate change, high energy prices and inflation, and the inequitable public health impacts of fossil fuel air pollution. Minnesota’s current goal is to reduce statewide carbon emissions 30 percent by 2025 compared to 2005 levels and 80 percent by 2050.

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What’s Been Killing U.S. Coal?

Legal Planet

From 1960 to 2005, coal use grew more or less steadily by 18 million tons per year. Politically, what has happened to coal jobs may be more salient. It then tread water for a few years and began a steep decline in 2008, going from half of U.S. electricity to about one-fifth today.

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Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: Economically, Socially Deprived Areas In PA Have A Much Greater Chance Of Having Oil & Gas Waste Disposed In Their Communities

PA Environment Daily

But we had data from 2005 to 2019, and so information here was at the well level. Here's a map of which county subdivisions did and did not receive waste between 2005 and 2019. More deprived communities were more likely to receive any well waste, as well as a larger cumulative volume of waste from 2005 to 2019 in Pennsylvania.

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AG Shapiro: Coterra Energy, Formerly Cabot Oil & Gas, Pleads No Contest To 15 Criminal Charges Related To Polluting Water Supplies In Dimock, Susquehanna County

PA Environment Daily

Between January 1, 2005 and November 1, 2022, DEP said it received and resolved 4,859 water supply contamination complaints for both conventional oil and gas and unconventional shale gas well drilling. On November 29, Attorney General and Governor-elect Josh Shapiro announced Coterra Energy Inc., As part of the plea Coterra will pay $16.29

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Alaska’s Atmospheric Public Trust: A Right Without a Remedy?

Vermont Law

The Court affirmed that Kanuk’s specific policy requests are non-justiciable political questions. [9]. air pollution. , By constitution, statute, and precedent, Alaska’s duty to preserve natural resources probably does extend to air, and maybe to airborne effects on more traditional trust elements. 15]. . . .

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Explainer: China launches first national soil survey in 40 years

A Greener Life

Those who work on soil issues have long hoped for a new study, with well-known soil scientists calling for one as early as 2005, at the government’s annual Two Sessions meetings. The last four decades have seen rapid, resource-intensive economic growth in China. Forty years of change. Rapid acidification. meaning a 2.2-fold

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Fossil Fuels Must Go: Re-inventing US Transportation

Union of Concerned Scientists

We’ve made progress The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) contribute significantly towards the US’s 2030 climate targets (50-52% reduction of global warming emissions below 2005 levels) and exceed these targets by 2035.