2005 Politics Regulations 
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators Cause of Michigan’s worst water pollution is too much waste spread on too little land. 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.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2023
From 1960 to 2005, coal use grew more or less steadily by 18 million tons per year. The decline probably wasn’t due to environmental regulation. Regulation may have made a difference, since coal requires more extensive pollution controls than competing fuels. Politically, what has happened to coal jobs may be more salient.
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Enviromental Defense
OCTOBER 31, 2024
With every spill, every fine for violating environmental rules, every increase in emissions, and every lobbying push for subsidies and looser environmental regulations, Edwards cements his place as a true master of fossil-fueled villainy. Let’s just say “safety first” isn’t quite their motto.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 3, 2022
Instead, the Court has ruled that, though the agency can still regulate carbon emissions, it must do so narrowly and set standards solely based on options available at individual power plant facilities, such as efficiency measures to improve plant-level heat rates.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 22, 2022
Minnesota’s current goal is to reduce statewide carbon emissions 30 percent by 2025 compared to 2005 levels and 80 percent by 2050. In addition to political barriers like the Minnesota Senate , the current grid poses a physical, technological barrier to reaching the levels of renewable energy needed to address the climate crisis.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 16, 2024
Texas went first in 2005, with a law called SB 20. States have only a few means to work with the federally-regulated regional grids to expand the transmission system, but regional and federal bodies are gradually adopting new approaches for state-led efforts. Reform around this is a huge and active policy debate.
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. Germany agrees on EU regulation to make cars carbon neutral by 2035 (either zero emissions or net-zero). Note: the estimates of 1990 emissions that I found are not entirely consistent, with one estimate closer to 1.2
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