Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The price of urea also surpassed its previous recorded spike in 2008 by approximately 18 percent. Data reported by the World Bank show that prices for two key fertilizers spiked dramatically between April 2021 and April 2022: diammonium phosphate prices went up 75 percent and potash prices rose a staggering 178 percent.

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Carbon Dioxide Fossil Fuels 2008 Natural Gas 299

Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

True, t he world was different in many ways in 2008 when Obama took office, including the energy sector. The earliest government estimate of the social cost of carbon was for 2010: $21/ton with a 3% discount rate and $35 at a 2.5% We can also take a rough stab at monetizing the amount of resulting harm. discount rate.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 27, 2022

Persistent melt in 2008 lifted the snow cover from a low-lying area of Greenland’s ice sheet, revealing a rough terrain crossed by melt water streams. Government public interest initiatives, even with the best of intentions and resources, are being curtailed by mistrust. Photo © Thomas Neumann / NASA GSFC. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN.

2022 246

2022 Sea Level 2008 Government 246

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 29, 2024

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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Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

A 2008 law governs access to it—with an exemption for Illinois. As aquifers dry up, some Midwest communities are looking to the region’s greatest natural resources for a solution.

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2008 2030 Natural Resources Climate Change 98

Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Scientists say their findings could help close a legal loophole that enables the federal government to avoid considering greenhouse gas emissions impacts on threatened and endangered species.

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Greenhouse 2008 Government 96

Nanotech

JANUARY 12, 2022

In December 2021, the German Environment Agency (UBA) published a document entitled Risk Governance of Advanced Materials: Considerations from the joint perspective of the German Higher Federal Authorities BAuA, BfR and UBA.

Government 64

Government 2008 Regulations Sustainable Development 64

Energy & the Law

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The Injection Well Act (Chapter 27 of the Texas Water Code) governs the permitting process for underground injection wells in Texas. April 2008: ALJ recommends that the permit be issued. December 2008: TCEQ remands the application for more modeling. September 16, 2005: RRC no-harm letter.

2011 130

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 24, 2024

But even in countries with strong free speech protections like the First Amendment to the US Constitution, governments have a right—indeed an obligation—to curtail speech that is harmful. In 2008 I was the sole civil society representative in the room when parties finalized negotiations on the implementation guidelines.]

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Fossil Fuels 2009 2008 Climate Change 352

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The two industry-funded studies ( NERA 2008 and ACT Research 2022 ) claim much higher impact on sales than either the academic (RZW 2018) or government ( EPA 2021 ) studies. Four studies purporting to examine whether a pre-buy effect occurred on heavy-duty truck sales can’t agree on the magnitude or timing of any such effect.

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2007 Nitrogen Oxides Regulations 2004 299

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

These components are also being assessed and used in regulatory decision-making by some government agencies at the local, state, or federal level. For example, compliance demonstrations for the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) are based on multi-source analyses. But we cannot stop there.

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Air Pollution Toxic Substances Control Act Environmental Protection Ozone 279

Physics World

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Despite adding to Japan’s rich legacy in neutrino physics, in 2008 – before Kajita was awarded the Nobel prize – he made a bold decision to switch research fields. Kajita became director of ICRR in 2008 and played a major role in getting KAGRA funded and constructed. Switching fields.

2008 141

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Michigan responded in 2008 by requiring farmers to register any new well capable of pumping at least 100,000 gallons a day and forming a team of state regulators to issue or deny new registrations. There’s a reason that farmers, notoriously resistant to government oversight, support the work of the Water Assessment Unit.

2009 348

2009 Natural Resources 2020 2010 348

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 24, 2023

Voice for Farm Workers Act : Established in the 2008 farm bill, the farmworker coordinator position within the USDA serves as a dedicated liaison between the department and farmworkers. Historically this position has lacked sufficient staff and resources to adequately fulfill its duties.

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Energy & the Law

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

If you have ever wondered how many ways a cocktail of stupidity*, treachery and feckless government can inflict financial harm on the undeserving, including the citizens the feckless government leaders are supposed to serve, see City of Dallas v. Energy, LLC.

2008 130

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Photo courtesy of Kristina Rosinsky, 2008/Undugu Society of Kenya YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN Due to the strains of population growth and inaccessible sanitation systems, the Nairobi River and surrounding farmland are becoming more polluted. Water stress throughout Kenya has prompted government action.

Climate Change 130

Climate Change 2023 2008 Government 130

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The Cherry Valley National Wildlife Refuge was established in 2008 to preserve critical habitat for migratory birds and threatened and endangered species. In a bipartisan vote, Congress overwhelmingly approved the 22,000-acre Cherry Valley National Wildlife Refuge Act in 2008.

Conservation 105

Conservation 2008 2014 Natural Resources 105

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Year after year environmental groups, conservation districts, farmers, local governments oppose the cuts and outline the critical environmental infrastructure needs communities have. This, in spite of the fact the PA Supreme Court has specifically declared $1.3 Read more here. million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5 million; and DEP: $4.2

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

Germany has recently experienced fatal and apocalyptic climate- fuelled floods , after which the country’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, promised the government would do more to tackle climate change. Photo credit: CnndrBrbr via Wikimedia. By Anders Lorenzen. They could of course enter discussions to buy more clean energy from their neighbours.

Climate Change 98

Climate Change Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels Nuclear Power 98

Legal Planet

APRIL 20, 2023

The regulatory decisions made by the Governments of Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile in the following months and years will set the course for the lithium industry, with significant consequences for the planet’s future. Therefore, even if the current Chilean Government wanted to take over lithium production, that won’t happen soon.

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Government Politics 2030 Natural Resources 130

A Greener Life

OCTOBER 12, 2021

With just weeks to go before COP26 kicks off, all eyes are on the British hosts and the Conservative government and its leader Boris Johnson. And the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson , when Mayor of London (2008-2016) used his Telegraph column to air doubts about whether climate change was real. Photo credit: UN Photo / Cia Pak.

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Climate Change Fossil Fuels Conservation Government 98

Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A self-described career “unicorn,” Paul worked his way from the sales floor to becoming the furniture firm’s partner, and finally as a public service leader, despite having had no previous government experience. He was elected Kittitas County Commissioner in 2008, a role he held for a decade.

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Government 2008 2012 Conservation 105

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 27, 2023

Digital Water Atlas The online water atlas shares data on statewide water use from 2008 to 2020. It also recommends actions tailored to each of six water planning regions across Pennsylvania: the Great Lakes basin and the Upper/Middle Susquehanna, Lower Susquehanna, Potomac, Ohio, and Delaware river basins. billion to 5.2

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2022 2002 2008 Natural Resources 99

Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The purpose of World Cleanup Day is to unite millions of volunteers, governments, and organizations in 197 countries and territories to tackle the global mismanaged waste crisis and help create a new, more sustainable work.

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2023 Sustainable Development 2008 Waste 116

Legal Planet

MARCH 2, 2022

The task force was created in 2008 by California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and nine other governors from Brazil, Indonesia, and the U.S. The task force is a coalition of 38 states and provinces working to protect tropical forests, reduce emissions from deforestation, and promote rural development that maintains forests.

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Deforestation 2017 2008 Climate Change 130

Washington Nature

JUNE 8, 2021

by Pascale Chamberland, Masters of Public Administration Candidate 2021, University of Washington Evans School of Public Policy & Governance From a massive social media campaign to plant 20 million trees to businesses planting a tree for each product sold, people seem eager to fight climate change using natural climate solutions (NCS).

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Climate Change 2007 2009 2008 98

Physics World

APRIL 25, 2021

Graphene is an emerging strategic material and while the roadmap to industrialization is long and full of challenges, the BGI is aiming to accelerate it through a collaboration between government, industry and academia. I started research in graphene in 2008. We believe we are on the eve of a “graphene era”. Who funds the institute?

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 17, 2023

Over the past several years – and especially in the past few months – Premier Doug Ford’s government has made sweeping changes to environmental protection and land use planning rules across Ontario. . Flow direction is shown on the map from the 2008 Watershed Report Card. This is a guest blog by Brendon Samuels.

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Conservation Government Regulations Environmental Protection 145

Physics World

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In 2004 I moved to the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics before heading to University College London in 2008. I already had some connections in China as I had been regularly visiting Tsinghua University between 2008 to 2010 thanks to a programme called China-UK Fellowship for Excellence. What are your main research areas?

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2026 2008 2004 2011 107

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Since the beginning of the Appalachian shale gas boom in 2008, the twenty-two largest gas producing counties in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia have lost a collective 10,000 jobs and nearly 50,000 residents, even as gas production far outpaced industry expectations. 28 to Oct. Million In Base Grant In 2023] -- Senate Passes Sen.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

We will not dither He was keen to outline how far clean energy has come since he was last in government, “Renewables are the cheapest form of new energy infrastructure, a statement I could not have made in 2008”, he enthusiastically said.

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Clean Energy Fossil Fuels Government 2008 59

Circle of Blue

MAY 4, 2022

Meanwhile, as early as 2008, E.coli bacteria was at alarming levels in Elk Lake. Many residents did not want the government interfering with their private property rights by forcing them to switch from septic systems. The Village of Elk Rapids was no exception.

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Regulations 2008 Waste 2016 246

Physics World

JUNE 6, 2022

In 2008, Olexandr received his PhD in computational chemistry. He was postdoctoral research fellow at the Case Western Reserve University and a scientist at the government research lab. Olexandr Isayev is an assistant professor at the Department of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2024

She has been an effective advocate for environmental progress who never lost sight of her goal of protecting and improving the environment whether working in or out of government. Former DEP Secretary David Hess said-- “Joanne Denworth’s career paralleled my own in state government.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

14 of the Climate Change Act 2008 ( CCA ). It requires the UK Government to set, and meet, legally binding targets to reduce carbon emissions. Through affirming the CCA’s enforceability, the court case ensures that the UK Government is held accountable to its climate commitments. First, that the Government had breached s.13

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Carbon Emissions Government Climate Change 2022 90

CEQA Developments

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The Terminal is long-term leased by Chinese government-owned entities (“China Shipping”) from the City entities and handles about 17% of the Port’s total cargo. The Terminal’s operations are authorized by a permit issued to China Shipping by the City entities. Predictably, this led to CEQA litigation.

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Physics World

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Here in the UK, the government has already earmarked up to £215m for SMRs as part of a larger Advanced Nuclear Fund to invest in the next generation of nuclear. Apart from being small and cheap, the big advantage of SMRs is that they are designed to be built in factories and then transported in modules to sites for installation.

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Nuclear Power Technology Technology Electricity 116