Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The fossil fuel industry is propped up in part by government subsidies , which help preserve an unsustainable industry that could not compete with renewables if it took into account its true costs to society. According to the International Monetary Fund, globally , fossil fuel subsidies were $5.9 trillion or 6.8%

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

3), upheld the City of Livermore’s (“City”) approval of a 130-unit affordable housing project on a downtown infill site and its accompanying determination that the project was CEQA-exempt under Government Code section 65457 (“Section 65457”). ( Save Livermore Downtown v. City of Livermore (2023) __ Cal.App.5th__ 5th__ (“ SLD” ).)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 26, 2023

In the 1960s, when the threshold was introduced, the federal government determined that families spent about one-third of their household income on food, and if this was not enough for a specific household to purchase a government-determined meal plan each month, that household would be considered poor.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Fracking company XTO Energies, acquired by ExxonMobil in 2010, helped fund the site’s launch in 2009, along with oil supermajors Chevron, BP, and Shell.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Both possibilities – that there might be proposals to use it, and that doing so might be on balance beneficial – imply a need to learn more, by doing research and discussing governance needs and possibilities. Considered together, as they must be, these represent real progress.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2023

The federal government has the power to give people more and better choices about what we eat, and this year presents an excellent opportunity for positive change. Double Up Food Bucks started in 2009 in Michigan and has since expanded nationally. It is quite clear that, for many, eating sustainably and nutritiously is not an option.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The expanded report also provides a historical overview of efforts since 2009 when the first Sustainability Manager was hired. These relationships, along with our county Green Team, have allowed us to expand our efforts as we integrate environmental best practices into county government. Click Here for a copy of the report.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Yet the Cambodian government revived the project in 2007, and in 2012 the dam became a joint venture between Cambodia’s Royal Group and China’s state-owned Huaneng Group, which remains the majority stakeholder. But like most Cambodians, he is reluctant to criticize his government and its policies. “I

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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. A recent appeals court ruling affirmed that the warnings are “factual and uncontroversial.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

EN: In 2021, the executive director of the world’s foremost energy authority, the International Energy Agency (IEA), warned : “If governments are serious about the climate crisis, there can be no new investments in oil, gas and coal….” EN: What does your report recommend that the federal and state governments do going forward?

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Physics World

JULY 30, 2021

In 1970 he then moved to Kyoto Univeristy before heading to Kyoto Sangyo Univeristy from 2003 to 2009. Physicists were sure that all these symmetries held for elementary particles but in the 1950s, physicists discovered that charge symmetry breaks in the weak interaction, which governs radioactive beta decay.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Government Accountability Office found that the federal government has invested $1.1 billion on carbon capture and storage demonstration projects at coal-fired power plants since 2009, but with little success. Read the full story at S&P Global Intelligence. A 2021 report from the U.S.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

government turned over more than 600 acres of the former Loring Air Force Base to the Aroostook Band of Micmacs in 2009, the land was so polluted it was categorized as a federal superfund site. Read the full story in the Bangor Daily News. When the U.S. While many of the toxins have been removed, concerning… Read more →

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Legal Planet

JULY 21, 2023

A more conventional ‘risk-benefit’ analysis of geoengineering – such as that by the Royal Society back in 2009 – already attends to climate risks, insofar as they are affected by geoengineering. But in conclusion I want to note some contrasts between the OSTP report and another recent government announcement. So what’s new?

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Physics World

DECEMBER 3, 2021

One was to observe nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll as one of the two representatives from the Chinese Nationalist government. Zhao could have stayed in the US or followed the Nationalist government to Taiwan, but his allegiance lay with the land of his birth and its people. Great power rivalry. Erecting barriers. Read more.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 5, 2024

Denmarks incoming king Crown Prince Frederik attending the Nordic Climate Solutions in 2009. He was one of several authors of the 2009 book focusing on climate challenges, the Polar Cruise Royal, with a foreword by Kofi Annan. Photo credit: Johannes Jansson / norden.org, CC BY 2.5 dk via Wikimedia.

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Legal Planet

JULY 13, 2021

By 2009, environmental challenges–especially climate change–were severe enough that humans have obligations to understand how technologies can help overcome them and to use these technologies, as appropriate. Some of these appear both feasible and necessary to achieve important sustainability and human welfare objectives.

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Arnold Porter

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This anticipated spending provides significant opportunities for government contractors. But companies seeking government contracts should be aware that there is a new cop walking this beat. For example, concrete is an essential component of many construction projects, including road and bridge projects managed by government agencies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 19, 2023

Uber founded in 2009; Lyft in 2012), public micromobility systems such as scooters and bikeshares, electrification, shared automated vehicles : all came with the promise of “ faster, smarter, greener ” cities that would be “ connected, heterogenous, intelligent and personalized.” New ride hailing services (e.g.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The US Energy Information Administration is forecasting the wholesale price of gas to reach its highest level since the winter of 2009-2010 in inflation-adjusted terms. In the short term, low supply and high demand for gas has enabled oil and gas companies to make up for a bad financial decade, with 2020 being the worst year for them.

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Environment, Law, and History

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In a series of publications, most importantly her 2009 book, Chasing the Wind , Noga Morag-Levine has argued forcefully for distinguishing between continental European-style "police" regulation and common-law-style environmental regulation based on a nuisance conception.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

During Joanne’s tenure, the Authority was awarded the 2009 Best Local Government Program by the National Recycling Coalition. She also assisted with the conversion of the recycling collection vehicles to renewable natural gas. Joanne has served on many boards and associations to improve recycling programs across the Commonwealth.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2023

“In addition to greening festivals and fundraisers, PRC offers commercial businesses, institutions and local governments across the state a wide variety of Zero Waste services including technical assistance, audits and analysis,” explains PRC Executive Director Darren Spielman.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 6, 2022

And between 2009 and 2016, Ontario built over 2000 MW of solar power and about 3000 MW of wind power. Had the current provincial government not canceled over 750 renewable energy projects in its first term, we would already be in a better position. Tell the Ontario government to stop expanding dirty gas!

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Back in 2009, countries set a finance goal of $100 billion. Even worse, oil and gas companies operating in Canada have huge plans to expand the production of fossil fuels – and governments in Canada are letting them do it. This is what is known as climate finance.

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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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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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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 22, 2022

In Maryland’s Somerset County, an area facing both high rates of sea level rise and land subsidence, 2 percent of farmland was lost to salt between 2009 and 2017 , totaling over 1400 acres. .

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Among these relevant “governance attributes” is Part 11 compliance, as applicable, including maintaining “access controls and audit trails to demonstrate the provenance of the registry data and to support traceability of the data. 2009) (2009 Guidance). ”[[N:Id.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog post highlights three ways in which this pioneering carbon capture and storage (CCS) operation could advance the field—through its economic aspects, climate governance, and the pertinent international legal regime. This amendment was adopted at the 2009 Conference of the Parties to the LP. It enables the provisional (i.e.,

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Our team will also be tracking the participation in the negotiations and proceedings by the Government of Canada, provincial leaders, and oil and gas lobbyists. This new framework aims to replace the existing 2009 commitment from developed countries to provide $100 billion annually between 2020 and 2025 — a target missed by years.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 7, 2024

From 2009 through March 2024, the average retail price of electricity leapt by $3.21 Contributes To Rising Electricity Bills Fracking development may also be contributing to Pennsylvanians’ rising electricity bills. per kilowatt hour in Pennsylvania as the state’s share of natural gas increased by 16%. 28 to Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 2, 2023

According to PRC Executive Director Darren Spielman, “In addition to greening festivals, footraces and fundraisers, PRC offers commercial businesses, institutions and local governments across the state a wide variety of Zero Waste services including technical assistance, audits and analysis.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 8, 2021

I work with government-owned conservation lands, coupled human-natural systems, that are managed to protect and conserve natural resources, provide public access to wild open spaces, and sustainably produce quality food for growing populations. 2009) (Fig. Do you see how much human-to-human contact would be required here?

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Breezometer

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

A former banker, Simon Birkett left the financial world in 2009 and pursued a new calling - tirelessly campaigning for clean air in London. As Founder and Director of Clean Air in London, Simon pressured city and federal governments for nearly a decade and managed to get the U.K. Simon Birkett - Clean Air in London.

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Law Columbia

JULY 1, 2022

The case, which was filed in 2020, relates to the government’s failure to disburse payments from the Climate Fund. Brazil’s Climate Fund was established in 2009 as a financial instrument of the National Climate Policy Plan. However, the majority ruled that the protection of the climate is a constitutional value.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 11, 2021

Citizens and government officials resorted to drastic measures this year to prepare for the annual dry season in Vietnam’s Mekong delta. As debate rages over the causes of and solutions to the drought, the government is building large reservoirs to deal with the increasingly dry delta. Rice-first policy. Resolution 120.

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