Real Climate

MARCH 5, 2023

It’s a fascinating story of technology, creativity, hubris, error, imagination, rivalry, politics, and (for some) a search for scientific consilience – worthy of movie script perhaps? I had reason to be reviewing the history of MSU satellite retrievals for atmospheric temperatures recently. and that had a raw trend of -0.01

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

By the end of next year, the commission must to develop a plan for reaching these goals involving the “least cost path.”.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

To help voters determine which candidates would deliver the needed course correction, Environmental Defence and its allies in the Ontario Priorities Working Group asked each of the province’s major political parties whether – and how – they would deliver the rapid emissions reductions Ontario will need to head off climate catastrophe. .

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

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. That’s 257 more CAFOs than Michigan permitted in 2005, according to state figures. Carl Ganter/ Circle of Blue. More Phosphorus Not Less.

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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

APRIL 16, 2024

Texas went first in 2005, with a law called SB 20. This insistence on power-sharing reflects the divided political opinions in government today, and may actually be the path forward. In some states, when the legislature created new clean energy goals they also started transmission planning to help meet those goals.

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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. These projections show that without additional policies or incentives, the US is very much in danger of not meeting our climate goals.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

This methodology is similar to my own work combining climate science, political science, and history to reconstruct how UN climate negotiations have played out and what that implies for climate justice. The present is always being created out of past actions that led to where we are today.

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

oil and gas sector by 87 percent below 2005 levels by the end of the decade, the agency said. The proposed rules, announced Friday at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, would strengthen and expand pending regulations that were first proposed in November 2021. Combined, the new rules would reduce methane emissions from the U.S.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

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. We know from previous experience that it is likely that such cases will be used uncritically and selectively for political and economic goals. Hence my friend’s question about COP28.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

While we aim to advance policy that works in the public interest, oil and gas executives, and their powerful allies, are using their political power to block climate action in order to personally profit from more oil and gas production. This is nothing new: these companies have been actively blocking climate policy for decades.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

In its early years, between 2005 and 2010, the RFS helped launch the massive scaleup of corn ethanol that established 10 percent ethanol as the de facto standard for US gasoline. A non-binding RFS is not a stable long-term situation, for both economic and political reasons.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

He is a close ally of French President Emmanuel Macron , and the appointment is seen as boost to Macron at a time where he is experiencing political difficulties. Hoekstra represents the centre-right political spectrum and has been under scrutiny as between 2005-6 he worked for the fossil fuel giant, Royal Dutch Shell.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 20, 2023

2005: The Conservatives and New Democrats united with the Ontario Liberal Government to include the DRAP in the Greenbelt. 2005: Pickering Mayor Dave Ryan betrayed the other parties to the agreement by having Pickering unilaterally release easements it was entrusted to hold for the people of Ontario.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2025

The Court found no binding legal provision quantifying Czechias climate reduction obligations, except for the EU Effort Sharing Regulation , which mandates a 26 percent emission reduction by 2030 (relative to 2005 levels). However, the Court noted that nothing prevents Czechia from setting more ambitious climate goals.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

According to Cooper, energy use is the largest driver of Penn State’s greenhouse gas emissions, costing the University more than $30 million annually to provide heat, air conditioning, electricity and hot water to its buildings and fuel for its vehicle fleet. Photo: The 70 MW solar array in Franklin County.) ( Reprinted from Penn State News.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Despite the IRA’s substantial assist to emission cuts, we will need additional policies to push emissions 50% below 2005 levels. A mid-August 2022 report from a Princeton research group, concluded that IRA would close two-thirds of the remaining emissions gap between current policy and the nation’s 2030 climate target (50% below 2005).

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

I understand that Congressional hearings involve some political theater. However, I am not a political appointee. I did not expect to be drawn into political theatre that violates basic civility. I am told that Members from both sides sometimes act this way. That may be the case. I do not represent a large trade association.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 24, 2025

We hope that by highlighting the individuals, not just the companies, profiting from climate crises, you can better identify their bias in op-eds, public attacks on climate policies, or political endorsements. fracking ) gas company, his LinkedIn profile states my passion remains political advocacy.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Through the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) published in 2016, Brazil committed to reducing GHG emissions by 37% by 2025 and by 43% by 2030 as compared to a 2005 baseline. The first NDC was based on the second inventory, which estimated 2005 emissions in 2.1 Background: Regression in Brazil’s NDC. In PSB et al.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2022

close two-thirds of the remaining emissions gap between current policy and the nation’s 2030 climate target (50% below 2005). Federal subsidies create new national political dynamics. Opposition also decreases for another reason: Fossil fuel companies then have smaller market shares, fewer workers, and less political clout.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

As climate change has become a more pervasive and urgent political issue, governments around the world have started to look to soil as a potential part of the solution. It was a topic for farmers or agronomists, outside the sphere of influence for most people. Not so in the modern day, however. Soils are becoming a true kitchen table issue.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 20, 2014

The Court affirmed that Kanuk’s specific policy requests are non-justiciable political questions. [9]. also indicates that enforcement of an expanded obligation depends on the political branches. 3d 745,755 (Alaska 2005). [23]. 3d 745, 755 (Alaska 2005)). [25]. He wanted the Court to order specific climate policies, [7].

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CEQA Developments

MARCH 3, 2023

Its prior 2005 LRDP planned only 2,600 new beds through 2021, 10,000 short of projected enrollment increases over that period, and UC constructed less than half of those, while at the same time increasing enrollment beyond the plan’s projection.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Intriguingly, these scientific studies took on a wider political importance during the Second World War. Viewed in this way, the problem was “solved” by the Scandinavian physicists Boris Gudiksen and Åke Nordlund in 2005, who used just 3.375 million cells. But is their invocation of Kolmogorov’s argument correct? The jury is still out.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

But make no mistake, the larger issue is the regulation for the first time of GHGs (including carbon) which will literally change the structure of the global economy, our political order, market capitalism and even our biological selves.”. We have been doing this GHG work since 2005.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Major Shareholders Click here for the latest list Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of Repsol Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Royal Dutch Shell BP Total S.A. Major Procurement Contracts Raytheon contracts with the U.S. Repsol Subsidiaries (via U.S. SEC 2018) Repsol Subsidiaries (via U.S.

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Washington Nature

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Kyle completed four tours in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2005. The beauty of nature is something that everyone can enjoy and find value in, regardless of political views. Kyle graduated from Gonzaga University as an Army Lieutenant on May 11, 2001, just four months before the September 11 terrorist attacks.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Interior’s authority to regulate offshore wind comes from the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which amended the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to expressly authorize Interior to issue leases for renewable energy projects in federal waters. Status of Wind Energy in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Law Columbia

JULY 16, 2013

The EU Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS), established under a Directive of European Parliament and Council in 2005, has been the world’s largest market-based emission trading system designed to meet GHG emission reduction targets set by the Kyoto Protocol.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 9, 2021

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres lamented that the final texts, “take important steps, but unfortunately the collective political will was not enough to overcome some deep contradictions.” only recently relinquished its infamous distinction as the leading greenhouse gas producer to China in 2005. We in the U.S. What can you do?

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

A DeSmog investigation – compiled in this interactive map – reveals the scale of this network, mapping the connections between oil, gas and coal companies, wealthy political donors, right-wing think tanks, anti-climate media outlets, and senior figures in the ruling Conservative Party. percent (£1.8

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

British American Tobacco is drawn into Israeli damages claim Judy Siegel-Itzkovich | BMJ | November 12, 2005 British American Tobacco (BAT) has been added by the Jerusalem district court as a defendant in a multibillion dollar lawsuit over compensation for damage to members of Israel's largest health maintenance organisation.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

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.

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HumanNature

APRIL 12, 2021

Disagreements and resulting discomfort can result in the social lens being seen as political and therefore something to be avoided, all while implicitly being a fundamental concern and determinant of sustainability outcomes. OR Routledge, Paul, Andrew Cumbers, and Kate Driscoll Derickson. Geoforum 88:78–86. Theory and Society 34(4):391–428.

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