Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As we said previously , “Fiona caught Puerto Rico’s government utterly unprepared, leaving the population unprotected. Issues related to the power grid (turned inoperable after María) and the government handling of its “recovery” led to confusion, chaos, and more suffering for Puerto Ricans.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, the United States voluntarily pledged to reduce its global warming emissions at least 50 percent below their 2005 levels by the end of this decade and reach net-zero emissions no later than 2050. EN: What does your report recommend that the federal and state governments do going forward? Your thoughts?

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 15, 2022

Tehuacán Valley, Mexico in 2005. Hardship swiftly followed: the government began periodic water shutoffs in early 2022, and declared a state of emergency in June. The government has had to crack down on illegal water siphoning from the few pipes that still flow. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 16, 2024

How we do this, and how well it happens, depends on planning and collaboration across local, state and federal government. At the state level, governments need to do more to facilitate new transmission lines. Texas went first in 2005, with a law called SB 20. To be successful, grid expansion will require collaboration.

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Electricity Renewable Energy Clean Energy Law 299

Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 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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A Greener Life

JANUARY 16, 2025

While the government has made the right noises about protecting these wetlands , it has been accused of not backing up its words with action. The Conservation Society of Monavale (COSMO), a support group founded in 2005, took it upon itself to promote and protect Monavale Vlei in Harare. This is not an isolated case.

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Climate Change Carbon Dioxide Conservation Government 97

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2023

Transmission policy is vital to supplying grid modernization, and some state governments see their role in planning ahead for the grid we need. In addition, state governments have much greater potential for an inclusive dialogue amongst constituents than utilities do. Where do we go for that modern infrastructure?

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The Federal Cabinet adopts its first climate target, a 25-30% cut in carbon emissions by 2005 under 1987 levels. Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. The government proposes new measures to help meet the 2030 climate target, including 80% renewables by 2030. trillion tons.]

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It’s an expert, hours-long guided excursion across Lenawee County during which Taylor explains the cross-cutting complexities, underperforming government programs, ineffective conservation investments, and cascading ecological and health threats from liquid manure that aren’t visible but exist everywhere across her region’s bucolic landscape.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Officials at the state and federal level have launched a full-court press against what the financial industry calls “environmental, social and governance” (ESG) investing. LP: A 2005 United Nations report , Who Cares Wins: Connecting Financial Markets to a Changing World , introduced the term and the acronym.

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Fossil Fuels Climate Change Carbon Emissions Politics 362

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The consequences of heirs’ property In situations where natural disasters such as hurricanes and tornadoes occur and impact the properties, these families have difficulty accessing FEMA funds or government assistance. The commission will be comprised of members from select nonprofit organizations, judges, and government officials.

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Carbon Dioxide 2005 2023 Atmosphere 59

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The average Seattle resident drove just 6,150 miles a year in 2018, 17% fewer than in 2005. Transportation choices ahead At every level of government, policymakers can make choices that lead to a more balanced transportation system. And in Washington, driving declined by more than in any other state between 1996 and 2021.

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Clean Energy Biofuels Electricity Renewable Energy 356

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 26, 2022

The country had a dip in transportation emissions around 2005 after Hurricane Katrina, when damage to refineries and production caused oil prices to spike above $70 a barrel (that’s a lot). Transportation is now the largest source of US greenhouse gas emissions. Bleviss, 2020 ).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 10, 2024

I dug into this complexity with my energy colleagues in the context of their recent analysis of pathways for how the US can meet its goals to cut heat-trapping emissions 50%-52% below 2005 levels by 2030, and achieve net zero emissions no later than 2050. That analysis assumed the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2025

Pennsylvania will need to generate more energy in the next two decades, even as the state has set a goal to reduce greenhouse gases 80 percent by 2050 from 2005 levels. John Walliser is senior vice president of legal and government affairs for the Pennsylvania Environmental Council.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Background Information Premier Smith’s decision to place a moratorium on Alberta’s renewable energy sector, while allowing industry players in the oil and gas business to continue to develop greenhouse gas (GHG) producing projects, demonstrates a government bias against wind, solar and geothermal energy production in Alberta.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 18, 2024

For the first time, the government will regulate fugitive or “unintended” emissions and require permanent total enclosure of sterilization operations. Sterilization facilities must reduce EtO emissions The key victory in this rule is that EPA will now require a combination of control measures and emissions limits at sterilization facilities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Last November, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) released an interdisciplinary study exploring the various pathways to meeting US goals to cut heat-trapping emissions economywide 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions no later than 2050. The good news?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

This will threaten rulemaking authority not just across EPA, but the whole of the federal government; in other words, a staggering array of federal rules are now potentially vulnerable to a subjective veto by the least publicly-accountable branch of government. What this decision means for the climate. That’s for two reasons.

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Fossil Fuels Clean Air Act Clean Energy Greenhouse 279

Stack Environment

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Nevertheless, under certain conditions, the government can take some or all of your property, even if you do not agree to it. It is true that local, state or even federal government agencies can acquire land from private citizens if it is for the use of the public good. Why are they taking my land?

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Circle of Blue

MAY 31, 2022

But in many respects, water is also a fairly traditional resource commodity, one that governments have invested billions in maintaining. The vast majority of new water infrastructure in Ontario is paid for by municipal governments, and much of what we use today was laid in the immediate postwar years of the mid-20th Century.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

The classic version of a project would be the government constructing a highway or a dam – or granting approval to a private entity to construct a hotel or a housing development. CEQA only applies to projects (defined in Pub. Resources Code Section 21065) – a term that has led to much CEQA jurisprudence and much ambiguity.

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Energy & the Law

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The Injection Well Act (Chapter 27 of the Texas Water Code) governs the permitting process for underground injection wells in Texas. August 2005: TexCom Gulf Disposal seeks a permit from the TCEQ for construction and operation of underground injection control wells for the disposal of non-hazardous industrial wastewater in Montgomery County.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 16, 2023

billion dollar giveaway of development rights in the Duffins Rouge Agricultural preserve and prevent land speculators from suing the government for undeserved “compensation”. The scandal won’t be over until Highway 413 and all the government’s other sprawl initiatives have been abandoned and reversed.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

At last year’s edition of the climate negotiations, the Government of Canada made a promise to cap oil and gas emissions – a bold and historic first. The federal government’s announcement last year was a big deal – it sent a strong signal that this government is finally ready to tackle the oil and gas industry’s pollution.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 9, 2023

emissions to 32-51% below 2005 levels in 2035,” reads the latest “ Taking Stock” report from the Rhodium Group, an independent research firm. This recent buzz of activity in Washington represents what the Biden administration has called its ‘whole of government’ approach to climate change. Something’s not working.

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Fossil Fuels Clean Energy 2005 Politics 246

Circle of Blue

MAY 10, 2022

The Michigan Welfare Rights Organization, working with the economist Roger Colton, developed an alternative billing structure in 2005 for Detroit’s poorest residents. Any assistance program will have to clear legal hurdles like the Headlee amendment, which limits the ability of local governments to raise taxes. Read the full series.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

And it gives every citizen the authority to bring suit against polluters and government agencies that are doing just that in violation of the public trust. “If Every five years since 2005, Michigan has issued a general CAFO permit for the state’s largest livestock farms, where thousands of animals are confined indoors for their entire lives.

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Regulations Waste 2022 2015 354

Enviromental Defense

JULY 27, 2022

Recently, York Region voted to seek provincial government approval for their draft Regional Official Plan. The approval of the York Region plan depends on the provincial government overriding the development prohibitions of the Greenbelt and Oak Ridges plans. .

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 14, 2023

The new information shows that in 2021 GHG emissions were over eight per cent lower than in 2005. However, to reach the federal government’s 2030 climate targets – a 40-45 per cent reduction from 2005 levels – significantly more reductions are needed. This reduction in emissions is a critical indicator of climate progress.

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NRDC

DECEMBER 19, 2024

government today pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions 61-66 percent by 2035 below 2005 levels, joining other nations in ratcheting up climate goals as called for in the 2015 Paris climate agreement, which was signed. WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 20, 2024

The Government of Canada has until the end of this year to set a new greenhouse gas reduction target for 2035. They help us to focus and coordinate efforts both within governments and across different parts of society. Plus, climate targets help us hold governments and businesses accountable for their actions.

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Greenhouse Fossil Fuels 2005 Government 112

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

This new research found that ExxonMobil’s climate projections from its internally developed models accurately projected the temperature rise that has happened since then and that its calculations were in line with independent research produced at the time by academic and government scientists.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Statement by Aly Hyder Ali, Oil and Gas Program Manager Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – We applaud the Government of Canada for releasing the much awaited framework on the oil and gas emissions cap. The government should not distribute free allocations.

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2030 Government Fossil Fuels 2005 118

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2022

And, of course, the US must secure policies to deliver on its commitment to cut its heat-trapping emissions 50-52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. President Biden’s PREPARE initiative has some important elements to help advance climate resilience but without adequate funding, those efforts will fall far short.

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Climate Change Paris Agreement Sea Level 2005 312

Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Nearly two years after filing an outrageous lawsuit against the federal government, Big Plastic is getting its day in court. The company started out as part of an Alberta Crown Corporation and is now wholly owned by a deep-pocketed investment arm of the Abu Dhabi government.

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Fossil Fuels 2005 Regulations Government 145

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. Of course this means that the federal government has to fast track the development of the cap. The framework is by no means perfect.

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