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New Analysis Shows Truck Manufacturers’ Scare Tactic Just a Bunch of Hot Air

Union of Concerned Scientists

Primarily, these have focused on the 2007 EPA regulations, which were the first step in the phase-in of diesel engine standards meant to cut particulate emissions by more than 80 percent and smog-forming nitrogen oxides (NO X ) emissions by 90 percent. Industry can’t even agree with itself about this effect. Source: ERM 2022 ).

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Federal Government Continues Efforts to Reform Colorado River Operations

E2 Law Blog

Department of Interior (DOI) is seeking public comments on new strategies to replace the 2007 Colorado River Interim Guidelines for Lower Basin Shortages and the Coordinated Operations for Lake Powell and Lake Mead that will expire at the end of 2026.

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The Winding Path of Australian Climate Policy

Legal Planet

In the past two years, however, the things have started trending upward after years of inaction by conservative governments. As in the US, Australia’s climate policy was long a victim of a lengthy period of divided government and political upheaval. As in the United States, state governments made some effort to pick up the slack.

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Our Satellite Database Reaches a Milestone. We’ve Learned Much Along the Way

Union of Concerned Scientists

The Satellite Database has subscribers from inside and outside governments from all over the globe. Since 2005, there have been destructive, space debris-producing anti-satellite weapons tests by China (2007), the United States (2008), India (2019), and Russia (2021).

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War and the Environment

Legal Planet

The Costs of War Project says illegal logging by US-backed warlords and wood harvesting by refugees caused more than one-third of Afghanistan’s forests to vanish between 1990 and 2007. It does seem likely to increase the odds of armed conflict in combination with weak economies, ethnic conflict, and impaired governance.

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Public Concern for a Cleaner Energy Grid vs. Corporate Interests: Who Will Win?

Union of Concerned Scientists

To protect its markets, PJM’s governance , their way of doing business in other words, is hostile to the involvement of state governments and state policies. State governments control power plant decisions and transmission construction and siting. But what action they take depends on where they stand in the industry.

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Arnold & Porter Strengthens Government Contracts Practice with Addition of Partner Michael Barnicle in Chicago

Arnold Porter

CHICAGO, December 1, 2021 — Arnold & Porter is pleased to announce that Michael Barnicle has joined the firm’s Government Contracts practice as a partner, resident in Chicago. In 2007, he co-founded the John Marshall Law School Veterans Legal Support Center & Clinic in Chicago.