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Germany’s Role in Climate Policy

Legal Planet

Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Renewables are a third of electricity consumption. Renewables are 42% of electricity. My foray into Germany climate policy left me with unanswered questions: What was the politics behind Germany’s history of climate action? How much of a role did the Green Party play?

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Is Russia Helping China Expand Its Nuclear Weapons Program? 

Union of Concerned Scientists

The CEFR reached criticality in July 2010 and connected to the grid in July 2011. One of the CFR-600s may have reached criticality in mid-2023, though whether it is connected to the electricity grid remains unclear. U-235) for China’s CEFR. Transfers of highly enriched uranium happened in July 2004 , March 2014 , and July 2019.

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Nuclear Plant Closures And Renewables Increase Electricity Prices & Unreliability, Testifies Michael Shellenberger to U.S. Senate

Environmental Progress

Congress took questions relating to the security of America’s electricity supply seriously before more than a dozen states experienced energy shortages last month, but those events make this hearing all the more urgent. electrical grids were increasingly “complex and vulnerable.” [2] Shellenberger. 5] The U.S.

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Drought, The Everything Disaster

Circle of Blue

They are slow to begin but can last indefinitely, some “megadroughts” upending social and political stability over several decades. The Las Conchas fire in northern New Mexico in June 2011 pumped so much ash into the Rio Grande that the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority had to close its drinking water intake on the river.

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The Stream, November 17, 2021: Meet The Activist Saving a Polluted Chinese Lake

Circle of Blue

HotSpots H2O: In Afghanistan, Political Upheaval Aggravates Drought-Fueled Famine – Drought, a financial crisis, and political collapse are accelerating the country’s decline into all-out famine. Rainstorms Wreak Havoc in British Colombia. TODAY’S TOP WATER STORIES, TOLD IN NUMBERS. MILLION GALLONS. 369 LAKES .

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A Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Union of Concerned Scientists

The CI is determined through a lifecycle analysis of the global warming pollution associated with the production and use of gasoline, diesel, biofuels, electricity, or other alternative fuels. A non-binding RFS is not a stable long-term situation, for both economic and political reasons. Unfortunately, this is far from the truth.

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Opinion: So, Germany, you want to do more to tackle climate change?

A Greener Life

The country’s struggle to reduce its reliance on coal was significantly helped by the purely ideological and populist decision to phase out all its nuclear power stations by 2022 (initially following the Fukushima accident in 2011 in Japan) .