Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2023

States should be heard on transmission When regulators make policy, utilities listen. State regulators can call meetings for utilities to work on the modernization and decarbonization of the grid. Regulators can convene working groups of stakeholders to develop shared interests and goals, answer questions and work on solutions.

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Clean Energy Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels Regulations 245

Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency has proposed more stringent methane regulations for the oil and gas industry that would dramatically curb emissions of the potent greenhouse gas. 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.

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Regulations Carbon Dioxide 2030 2005 98

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

That’s because the case, which was about the nature and scope of EPA authority in regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants, turned on a rule that does not exist. Because while this decision does still recognize EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, it simultaneously sharply curtails the agency’s ability to do so.

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Fossil Fuels Clean Air Act Clean Energy Greenhouse 278

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 22, 2023

Since the drilling boom began in Pennsylvania between 2005 and 2010, the state government has played a game of catch-up, long hindered by lawmakers who refused to conduct studies relative to public health.

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Regulations Natural Gas Fossil Fuels 2005 98

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. Minnesota’s state agencies and regulators should ensure inclusive, equitable siting and permitting processes for these transmission projects that ensure robust public participation and community engagement.

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Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels Solar Power Electricity 361

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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Nuclear Power Renewable Energy Carbon Emissions 2030 203

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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Solar Power Carbon Dioxide Fossil Fuels 2005 246

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.

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Electricity Renewable Energy Clean Energy Law 284

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. What’s in DTE’s proposed plan?

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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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Natural Gas Renewable Energy Climate Change Electricity 290

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 is thanks to fuel economy regulations and more electric vehicles on the roads.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A decade later, in 2005, the agency contemplated banning new commercial sterilizers from using the gas, forcing them to use alternatives. EN: Ethylene oxide is just one of 188 hazardous air pollutants the EPA regulates, and the agency typically regulates them in isolation—despite the fact that people are exposed to multiple toxins.

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Clean Air Act 2006 2016 Air Pollution 242

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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Clean Energy Renewable Energy Electricity 2030 329

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The state plans to reduce heat trapping emissions 28 percent by 2025 and 52 percent by 2030 below 2005 levels, and to become carbon neutral by 2050. Other state regulators are setting an example. Utilities, meanwhile, are calling for a higher budget cap. Indiana Michigan Power, for example, recommended a $5-million cap.

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Clean Energy 2005 2020 Technology 236

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.

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Climate Change Fossil Fuels Carbon Emissions Nitrogen Oxides 281

Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The industry is trying to stop much-needed federal regulation of plastics, and we’ll be there to greet them. Warns investors in a recent Annual Report that “new or more restrictive regulations and rules related to plastic waste could reduce demand for the Company’s plastic products and could negatively impact the Company’s financial results.”

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Fossil Fuels 2005 Regulations Government 145

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The legal hook under CEQA here is a campus planning process in 2005. Plaintiffs in the lawsuit contend that UC Berkeley is in violation of CEQA because it has never examined the impacts of the increase in campus enrollment since the 2005 EIR.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 7, 2023

We urge the federal government to move swiftly and release the draft regulations in the coming months, at the latest by February 2024. However, to be fully aligned with Canada’s climate commitments, the federal government must strengthen these rules and bring the regulations into force as soon as possible.

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2030 Government Fossil Fuels 2005 139

Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Restricting the power of the Minister or Cabinet to remove Greenbelt land by regulation alone is a useful step. Yet, given Minister Calandra’s ambiguous comments in the legislature, there is cause for concern that the 10 year annual review process will be manipulated to create a pretext for future attempts to remove Greenbelt land.

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2005 Government Regulations Conservation 145

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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Electricity Biofuels Technology Technology 290

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The EU presents the NDC as one Party ( Regulation (EU) 2018/842 ). Under Annex 1 of the EU Regulation, by 2030, Spain must have reduced its GHG emissions by 37.7% compared to 2005. Alignment with EU Policy Spain’s climate policy and regulation have aligned with the EU’s since its accession to the Union in 1986.

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Paris Agreement 2030 Climate Change Regulations 139

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

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. The 1972 Clean Water Act immunizes crop farmers from government regulations to control agricultural runoff. The growth has been exponential. The study found that CAFOs spread 5.5

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2020 2010 Waste Conservation 317

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.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 23, 2024

The next step is the release of the draft regulations, by April 2024. The draft regulations will then be followed up with final rules, so that the emissions cap is active by the start of 2025. The emissions cap regulation has already been delayed repeatedly. We can’t afford further delays in this key policy.

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2030 Climate Change Greenhouse Government 139

The Energy Law

JULY 25, 2013

Holden EPA’s most recent NPDES regulations for stormwater permitting of oil and gas facilities were vacated by the Ninth Circuit in 2008 and new regulations have not been promulgated. EPA subsequently issued regulations implementing this exemption. The 2006 regulations were judicially challenged and eventually vacated.

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Regulations Energy Policy Act 2008 Clean Water Act 40

Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The oil and gas sector’s emissions are the largest and the fastest growing source of climate pollution in Canada – having increased by nearly 20 per cent since 2005. Not surprisingly, these companies and CAPP are adamantly against the proposed oil and gas emissions cap that is projected to be implemented by the end of this year.

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Fossil Fuels 2005 Government Regulations 98

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 19, 2023

This is outrageous, especially given that Ontario successfully phased out coal-fired power plants between 2005 and 2017 and brought down greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector by 93 per cent. Ontario recently announced it would contract new polluting gas plants to generate electricity for the province. What a boondoggle!

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Electricity 2030 2017 Government 98

Enviromental Defense

JULY 13, 2021

And if that’s not gross enough, Big Plastic is also suing the federal government to try to prevent regulations to reduce plastic pollution that is harming the environment and threatening human health. NOVA was fined $550,000 more than two years after a 2005 spill of cancer-causing benzene from one of its plants near Sarnia, Ontario.

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Fossil Fuels 2005 Regulations Government 103

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2023

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Electricity nerds might be writing off the prospect of new gas plant contracts because of the forthcoming Federal Clean Electricity Regulations (CER). One is that gas plant contracts signed (or renewed) before 2025 will be able to evade meeting the national CERs beyond 2035 which is when the regulations are supposed to kick in. .

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Renewable Energy Electricity Wind Power 2005 103

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

Gas prices: Without a cap, the flood of bio-based diesel into California will continue, requiring a rapid increase in stringency to stabilize LCFS credit markets, sending 2030 stringency from the 30 percent proposed in the regulation to 34.5 The lower stringency results in lower costs and reduced economic impact of the regulation.

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Biofuels Deforestation 2030 Fossil Fuels 295

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 13, 2023

DC Ambler purchased the property in 2005 and imported a large quantity of regulated and non-regulated fill material in 2012. The Ambler site in Montgomery County was formerly used as a disposal site for asbestos product manufacturing waste from the early 1930s until 1974.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As outlined by the OAG, delays in implementing important net-zero regulations is one of the most significant barriers to delivering emissions reductions. In 2021, the Government of Canada set out a target to reduce 40-45 per cent of its emissions by 2030, from 2005 levels. Additional delay is not an option.

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2030 Regulations Government Electricity 83

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. Circle Blue 2022-05-04 10:21:43 2022-05-09 22:56:05 Michigan’s Lack of Septic System Regulations is Causing Problems for Some of its Most Pristine Lakes. Circle Blue.

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2022 Government 2018 Electricity 306

Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2023

As a result, between 2005 and 2017 greenhouse gas pollution from Ontario’s electricity system dropped by 93 per cent. But, there’s a loophole in its draft regulations: New gas plants are allowed to be built before 2025 and to continue operating and polluting beyond 2035.

Clean Energy 103

Clean Energy Government Electricity 2017 103

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2025

Well drilled in 2005 (or so) and waste disposed of onsite in 2010. Owner did not respond to 2023 notices of violations. This well had a string of violations since it was first drilled. Violations from previous inspections continued. No response requested.

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2025 Waste Natural Gas 2023 90

Frontiers

MAY 25, 2023

Andréen Scientists studied the ‘egress complex’ of Macrotermes michaelseni termites from Namibia, which appears to promote moisture regulation and gas exchange. They based their experiments on the scanned and 3D-printed copy of an egress complex fragment collected in February 2005 from the wild. Image credit: D.

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Wind Power 2005 Regulations Technology 116