Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In 2010, U.S. Politically, what has happened to coal jobs may be more salient. But the growth of f racking began in earnest around 2008, and it drove down the price of gas. Growth in renewable energy, which was likely driven by state energy policies, took an extra bit out of the market for coal. Another key factor is often overlooked.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 20, 2022

Continued high food prices could produce a “tsunami effect” of famine, political destabilization, and mass migration. The global food price spike coincides with an existing hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa that recalls a severe drought in 2010-11 in which more than 250,000 people died. The Kenyan government estimates about 1.5

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2022

Between 2010 and 2020, the death rate from floods, storms, and droughts in high vulnerability areas was 15 times higher than in low vulnerability areas. There is still time to reduce carbon emissions — though scaling up a low-carbon economy requires marshalling political will, public support, technical expertise, and financing.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

It took until 2010 to get a CDC leader who was willing to deal with the issue. The drug industry has enormous political clout and were adept in selling their ideas through all kinds of channels, using the playbook of deception first pioneered by Big Tobacco. There were a number of reasons for these failures.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 4, 2024

Standing in the voting booth, I asked myself how it was possible that someone like me, who has devoted my career to studying political science and elections and who does research ahead of time, was encountering such difficulties just trying to cast my vote? times higher than the rest of the state in 2008 and five times higher in 2010.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Though manufacturers largely didn’t adopt the necessary emissions control technology to meet the NO X requirement until 2010, the 2007 standard did require new technologies to be deployed, at an increased upfront cost. <mic drop> So, is industry just full of it? It’s not clear whether such late-breaking support will be enough.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The dealers themselves made clear they are feeling the pain of these actions and are struggling to fight back against the manufacturers, embodied best in a plea from one dealer to CARB at the recent hearing to get the manufacturers to “act in the spirit of the Clean Truck Partnership agreement and stop putting politics ahead of public services.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The higher EV sales volume in Florida and Texas is in part tied to the higher population there, but there are signs that buyers across the political spectrum are interested in EVs. million since 2010), other states across the US are also seeing accelerating sales. EV sales are quickly growing in states across the country.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The CEFR reached criticality in July 2010 and connected to the grid in July 2011. Since 1999, after the Chinese government approved the reactor plans, TVEL, Russia’s nuclear fuel company and a Rosatom subsidiary, worked with the China Institute of Atomic Energy to supply highly enriched uranium fuel (64.4% U-235) for China’s CEFR.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Water rates more than doubled between 2010 and 2020, while income of the city’s poorest one-fifth of residents inched up only 12 percent. And political power with it. Just lack of political capital. T his group now spends more than a quarter of their income on their water bill alone. Carl Ganter/ Circle of Blue.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

In its early years, between 2005 and 2010, the RFS helped launch the massive scaleup of corn ethanol that established 10 percent ethanol as the de facto standard for US gasoline. After 2010, bio-based diesel fuels (biodiesel and renewable diesel) have been the main beneficiary of the RFS.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

That’s when Gates’ 100C paid $171 million for 14,500 acres of land (10,500 acres of it irrigated farmland) from the Boston-based John Hancock Life Insurance Company, which had paid $75 million for the parcel in 2010. The number of farms in Washington decreased by 7% between 2010 and 2019, according to a 2020 USDA report .

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Michigan counts nearly 11,000 agricultural wells, 3,800 of them installed from 2010 to 2020. Michigan now counts nearly 11,000 agricultural wells, 3,800 of them installed from 2010 to 2020. Michigan farmers irrigate with 187 billion gallons of groundwater a year. Is the state prepared for more? Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

Lula, who served as President of Brazil from 2003 to 2010 (and is the first President in the country to return for a third term), is known for supporting policies to protect the environment and disenfranchised social groups. The decision was made in a lawsuit filed by four political parties (PSB et al.

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Environmental Europe

JANUARY 26, 2017

As one previous post on this blog detailed, the current political turmoil in Northern Ireland was sparked by a subsidy for renewable energy production. Though it is tempting to blame political carelessness, the ongoing RHI scandal prompts a broader reflection about renewable energy policy instruments. speculative ones.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In 2010, for example, we knew that at least 20 countries had the highest emissions and the least climate vulnerability at the national level—an inequality that has only been exacerbated since. The IPCC still plays this role today, with the sixth assessment cycle of reports published earlier this year.

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Vermont Law

JULY 28, 2014

Summary: The country of Haiti does not have a history of effective environmental regulation and this has continued after the devastating 2010 earthquake due to a lack of political and economic infrastructure. Starting with a Messy Slate: The Role of Environmental Law in Haiti after the 2010 Earthquake. appeared first on.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Prior to joining DEP she worked in the Department of Labor and Industry on workforce development, labor law compliance and unemployment compensation issues from 2010 to 2011.

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Of course, climate politics is never as straightforward as it appears. Political targets. The models underpinning these figures often contain purely political targets for coal use and they assume India will follow the exact same development pathway as China. Right now coal, oil and natural gas account for 75% of energy use.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

My microeconomics research, as sketched out in my 2010 Climatopolis book and my 2021 Adapting to Climate Change books, argues that capitalism accelerates our ability to adapt as market price signals encourage substitution and innovation. In my 2010 Climatopolis book, I asked; “If Milton Friedman ran the U.S Why reward “bad behavior”?

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Physics World

DECEMBER 11, 2021

His latest book takes the reader through the current literature on the origins of science denial and the motivations of deniers, both political and personal. What becomes clear to him is that their beliefs are deeply rooted in their identity and sense of belonging – making them much harder to shift.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Those counties grew by 13 to 18 percent since 2010; all except Cache are along the Wasatch Front. Soothing sentiments like these will be part of the political dance around the Bear River. The Bear River Development would deliver two and a half times more water than the Lake Powell pipeline. Child asks. Ruin your own ground.”.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Like the experienced political leaders they are, the Commission simply took the fact of the controversy over field experiments as given, without going into the arguments over whether it makes any sense. So, what happens now?

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 5, 2024

Impressive CV The 55-year-old crown prince already has an impressive CV, having gained an MSc degree in political science from the University of Aarhus, with the concluding year spent at Harvard University. And so she felt that due to her current state of health, it was right to make way for the next generation.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The model performed a simulation over the period from 2010 to 2017, tracking plastics from land-based sources such as rivers and coastal cities, while taking into account important dispersion processes such as sinking, vertical/horizontal mixing, wind, and currents. But models such as the one from the study can help mitigate this problem.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

For example, during a drought in 2010, the water bank paid farmers to pump approximately 101,000 acre-feet of groundwater, according to a summary report on the program. In 2010—a year when the water bank funded heavy pumping—water levels in Klamath Valley wells fell by an average of 20 feet between spring and fall, according to a U.S.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 11, 2021

Take a look at David Sattherthwaite's 2010 tough review of my 2010 Climatopolis book. In my own microeconomic research on the climate change challenge, I have not emphasized policy priorities today because I believe that the political economy is such that global greenhouse gas emissions will continue to rise. My Thoughts; 1.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

They pointed to the fact that since 2010 the cost of solar, wind and battery technology has decreased by up to 85%. The report makes clear that we urgently need the political will to leave fossil fuels in the ground, advance renewable energy and invest in nature-based carbon dioxide removal through forest and ecosystem protection.”.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

At COP27 we saw some potential progress as nine countries joined the Global Offshore Wind Alliance (GOWA) , committing their collective resources and political will to accelerate the deployment of offshore wind energy. Individual nations, like Vietnam, made new commitments as well.

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Ocean Fossil Fuels Paris Agreement Greenhouse 131

Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

In 2010, satellite image analysis shows an inhabited village in Sadan. While admitting he owned one of the contracted companies, he said he stepped down as its chairman before accepting his political appointment. We do not always have a successful rainy season. We only see rain just about eight times a year, and that is not enough.”.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 28, 2024

With the Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint in 2010 , the six Bay states and Washington, D.C., History shows us that Chesapeake Bay restoration progress only happens when people of all walks of life and political stripes come together around a common goal. There the governors of the six Bay watershed states, mayor of D.C., Maryland Gov.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Instead, it has been to stem and confuse the flow of information about climate change to the public and political leaders. These points are largely undisputed. What remains very hotly disputed is whether they do or should add up to legal liability on the part of companies that profit from the extraction and sale of fossil fuels.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

BP's "Beyond Petroleum" Campaign Losing its Sheen Anne Landman | PR Watch | May 3, 2010 Back in July, 2000, British Petroleum launched a high-profile, $200 million public relations ad campaign designed by Ogilvy & Mather to position the company as environmentally-friendly. complaints from 1995-present day.

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Legal Planet

JULY 25, 2024

In 2010, a major climate change law passed by the House died in the Senate, but 12 years later, a major climate law passed both Houses. If cellphone prices had dropped as fast since 2010 as the cost of power from solar panels, you could buy a new iPhone for about thirty bucks today. But the overall picture is consistent.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 24, 2019

However, the project was never undertaken because of interprovincial distrust and political manipulation by successive governments. After the 2010 floods, which resulted in huge losses to the country’s economy—$49 million in communication infrastructure, $2.5 The dam was supposed to be completed by the year 1989.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

Japan’s dependency on fossil fuel s had been slightly declining until 2010. According to the interpretation of the Osaka High Court, claims related to the regulation of GHG emissions cannot be enforced by individuals as they should be addressed as policy issues by the political branches.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2023

However, the request also references international human rights instruments, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. That initiative ultimately failed due to strong political opposition.

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