Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 20, 2024

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean School Bus (CSB) Program was established by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to help communities reduce pollution from older, higher polluting school buses. The infrastructure law allows for some of the funds to be used for other types of buses including natural gas or propane-powered buses.

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Environmental Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Share of Electricity in Total Final Energy Consumption, 2005-2030. Rachel Jean-Baptiste. Tue, 11/01/2022 - 05:04.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

EPA decision is also harmful in a broader sense because it goes to the heart of federal agencies’ abilities to interpret existing laws based on the best available science, and to then set robust standards accordingly. Every hindrance, every delay, is deeply problematic given the urgency highlighted by the latest science.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

DTE’s goal is to reach “net-zero” emissions by 2050 while reducing its carbon emissions from 2005 levels 65 percent by 2028, 85 percent by 2035, and 90 percent by 2040. DTE was already far along in preparing its long-term energy plan when the law passed. What’s in DTE’s proposed plan?

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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. Another important action is influencing how transportation funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is spent. Giving people more choices has helped them leave the car at home—or avoid purchasing a private vehicle to begin with.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The court’s decision was premised on violations by UC Berkeley of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), a law that has long been a lightning rod for controversy in the state. The legal hook under CEQA here is a campus planning process in 2005.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2023

State laws and practices manage the grid as a monopoly and regulate the siting and construction of new transmission. While the majority of states have clean energy portfolio laws, there are fewer that have taken on the task of expanding the grid to enable the clean energy transition and retirement of fossil fuel powerplants.

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Environmental Law Reporter

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Economy-Wide and End-Use-Sector CO2 Emissions Reductions From 2005 for the IRA and No-IRA Scenario Rachel Jean-Baptiste Mon, 10/02/2023 - 04:56 Volume 53 Issue 10

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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2022

The plan serets interim emissions targets: 55% below 2005 levels by 2030; 65% below by 2035; and 75% below by 2040, toward the ultimate goal of net-zero by 2050. In 2019, the city declared a climate emergency. In 2022, the city released the first draft of its Climate Emergency Action Plan.

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Energy & the Law

DECEMBER 10, 2021

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. September 16, 2005: RRC no-harm letter. orders of state agencies could inform future actions and orders of both agencies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

While the Center has done this work in South Carolina since our inception in 2005, we have always received calls from heirs’ property owners across the United States wondering if we were providing similar services in their state, only to be disheartened when they found out we did not.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

While the analysis did not include provisions of the federal Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) or Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, NREL did release some updated 100-percent-by-2035 scenarios with and without the IRA in its December 2022 Standard Scenarios Report.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A civil law breakthrough came in 2021, with the ruling of a Dutch court against Shell. In Smith v Fonterra , decided by New Zealand’s Supreme Court this week, we have perhaps the biggest common law breakthrough. All three of Smith’s claims will now proceed to what may the be first full climate tort claim in a common law jurisdiction.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 16, 2025

A natural resource under threat According to the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA), wetlands cover 3% of Zimbabwe s area, while the country has seven Wetlands of International Importance. Longcheng Plaza, built on restricted wetlands in the Zimbabwean capital Harare. Photo credit:: Global Press / Alamy.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

And indeed, that is what UC Berkeley had done in the plan in 2005, it just had failed to update that plan when circumstances intervened – in other words, once the enrollment numbers went beyond the predictions in the 2005 plan. Download as PDF. The post What is a project?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

This is in total opposition to the US commitment under the Paris Agreement to achieve a 50-52 percent emissions reduction below 2005 levels by 2030, and net-zero by 2050. This year’s projections are a bit grim. We’re risking more impacts from climate change due to continued reliance on natural gas and oil.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Learn how to use the formalism to obtain new conservation laws. Asher was a postdoctoral fellow (1998) in the Department of Electrical Engineering of Tel-Aviv University, Israel, and a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK, during 2005–2006, 2008 and 2012. Understand how MHD can be simplified mathematically.

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Energy & the Law

AUGUST 27, 2021

Lexington purchased the property in 2005 from the Hoffman heirs for development of a subdivision. Prior to 2005 a Phase 1 environmental site assessment and Phase 2 site investigation showed tanks, a number of wells, pits and tank batteries and other evidence of contamination.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2025

The Court further ruled that the State is obliged to adopt climate change measures arising from international law and generally accepted scientific standards. The Court interpreted the Paris Agreement as imposing an obligation to implement mitigation measures to achieve the NDCs.

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Energy & the Law

JUNE 2, 2021

2005: Broadway Bank, Trustee, conveys mineral interests in DeWitt and Gonzales Counties to John in fee simple. 2005: Broadway Bank, Trustee, conveys mineral interests in DeWitt and Gonzales Counties to John in fee simple. Yates Energy Corp. The dispute. The dispute. John does not sign this instrument. Material corrections.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Statement by Phil Pothen, Ontario Environment Program Manager on An Act to amend the Greenbelt Act, 2005… Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat – By introducing legislation to return the 7,400 acres of vital habitat and prime farmland his Ministry wrongly removed (..)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

o C in 2100, relative to pre-industrial times, is still avoidable, but whether or not we are able to stay within these limits and avert catastrophic climate change depends on achieving our climate goals of emissions reductions at least 50 percent below 2005 levels in 2030, on the way to net-zero emissions in 2050.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A study by the Environmental Law and Policy Center in Chicago and the Washington, D.C.-based based Environmental Working Group identified 775 CAFOs in the western Lake Erie basin in 2018, 230 more than in 2005. million more tons than in 2005. “They are not a solution for dissolved phosphorus.”. The growth has been exponential.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), signed into law in August, will also turbocharge new clean energy, clean vehicle, and clean building infrastructure. Overall, the law is a $369-billion investment in climate and energy solutions, and is expected to reduce economy-wide emissions by 40 percent below 2005 levels.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

compared to 2005. Following the EU’s lead with the approval of the European Green Deal , Spain has produced a new framework to address climate change, including strategies, plans, and laws. The PNIEC and the Law on Climate Change include a target of GHG emission reduction of 23% by 2030 compared to 1990.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 27, 2022

The draft plan violates the Provincial Planning Act that mandates that municipalities must complete and submit plans that comply with provincial law, policies and plans. In the end, only minor adjustments were made to refine the mapping from when the Greenbelt was established in 2005.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Presumably Dagsvik and Moen are used to this kind of model, but they seem to be inexperienced with the models used for weather and climate, which on the other hand are based on the laws of physics. I also wrote a post on this topic in 2005 ( Naturally trendy? ), and even if it is a blog, it could provide some clues for Dagsvik and Moen.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In 2005, the Energy Policy Act provided FERC authority to issue permits for construction or modification of electric transmission facilities in National Corridors—i.e., The post FERC Proposes to Implement Expanded Transmission Siting Authority first appeared on Law and the Environment. Background.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 22, 2021

Lexington Land purchased the property in June 2005 but did not obtain from the prior owners an assignment of the right to sue for property damage that occurred before the 2005 sale. Although Lexington Land had these assessments in 2005, it did not file suit until December 2007 following a pipeline rupture on the property.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 27, 2023

The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) recently released its 2023 draft Coastal Master Plan , which is required by law to be updated every six years. The most recent draft is the fourth update since it was first adopted by the Louisiana Legislature in 2007 following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. [1]

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 22, 2023

A 2021 North Carolina law requires the N.C. More below on the requirements of Session Law 2021-165 (also referred to as House Bill 951) and NCUC action in response. The law limits offsets to 5%. First, the law is directed to the Utilities Commission rather than the electric utilities. The Reduction Goal.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 20, 2019

Supreme Court resolved a circuit split regarding maritime law and the “bare metal” defense, namely whether manufacturers have a duty to warn when their bare metal product requires later incorporation of a dangerous part in order for the integrated product to function as intended. In Air & Liquid Systems Corp. Devries , No. 17-1104, — S.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

MAY 13, 2021

Back in 2005, I wrote my first paper in this tradition and then I just kept going. Kahn, 2005. " Such estimates are useful but they are not "laws of physics". These cause and effect papers represent "natural experiments". 87(2), pages 271-284, May. Applied researchers estimate conditional correlations.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Factual Background A recreational boating accident occurred on navigable inland waters of Louisiana in May of 2005 resulting in the death of a 22-year old passenger. 4] This case is the first pronouncement from the Louisiana Supreme Court that punitive damages are available under general maritime law. Shelter Mutual Ins. 10/18/17), So.

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Arnold Porter

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The Washington College of Law Annual International Commercial Arbitration Lecture, provides a public forum to present and discuss current issues and trends in international Commercial and Investment arbitration. Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 22, 2021

Lexington Land purchased the property in June 2005 but did not obtain from the prior owners an assignment of the right to sue for property damage that occurred before the 2005 sale. Although Lexington Land had these assessments in 2005, it did not file suit until December 2007 following a pipeline rupture on the property.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 22, 2021

Lexington Land purchased the property in June 2005 but did not obtain from the prior owners an assignment of the right to sue for property damage that occurred before the 2005 sale. Although Lexington Land had these assessments in 2005, it did not file suit until December 2007 following a pipeline rupture on the property.

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