Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2022

Rivers and water bodies across South Africa have become too polluted for use, and the government is doing an increasingly poor job of addressing the situation. The number of critical treatment works listed in the last report – from 2013 – was 248. The average Green Drop score across all provinces in 2013 was 61%.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In that decade, the federal government created the U.S. And state governments began to secure those same rights for individuals in their constitutions. Environmental Protection Agency and passed landmark environmental laws to protect air, land, and water. The state of Maine also has a ballot measure linked to water.

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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.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 17, 2022

Under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), government agencies and developers are required to mitigate (where feasible) the environmental impacts of new discretionary projects, including impacts to transportation. CLEE and others have previously proposed “bank” and “exchange” programs to manage these capacities.

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New Scientist

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Investment that the UK government started in quantum technologies in 2013 seems to have paid off by enabling the existence of companies at the cutting edge of research

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

This new research found that ExxonMobil’s climate projections from its internally developed models accurately projected the temperature rise that has happened since then and that its calculations were in line with independent research produced at the time by academic and government scientists.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Before joining the UCS staff in 2013, Reichmuth—who has a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley—worked at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California, where he conducted a cost-benefit analysis of the relative benefits of vehicles powered by batteries, hydrogen fuel cells, and petroleum.

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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 Milpitas (2013) 217 Cal.App.4th 5th__ (“ SLD” ).)

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Members of Congress from Oregon are asking the federal government to declare an emergency declaration as the state’s salmon population continues to die off in warming waters. In 2013, the average value of the salmon was $6.3 YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. Climate catastrophes are threatening the rivers Amazonian Indigenous tribes depend on.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 30, 2024

But as I showed in my 2013 and 2021 reports, the hype surrounding SMRs is way overblown, and my conclusions remain valid today. Getting past this obstacle has proven to be one of the main impediments to SMR deployment.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 1, 2023

The Halton Hills Generating Station in Halton Hills, Ontario (Photo by Ian Willms) The “Clean Energy Advantage” In the budget, the government boasts about Ontario’s “clean energy advantage” even though it is actively whittling away at it. The current government acts like it’s somehow responsible for this feat.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

As usual, most of the headlines will also focus on the Summary For Policy Makers (SPM) which was approved word by word by the governments over the last two weeks (full disclosure, I was advising the US delegation), but the full report will be worth dipping into over the next few months (there is a lot there to digest!).

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

To rapidly reduce methane emissions, governments (at the local, state, and national level) will need to develop legal, regulatory, and incentive policies that require implementation of available cost-effective methods and support development of new strategies. 2013 , IPCC 6th Assessment Report, Chapter 6 , González et al.,

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2021

United States case, plaintiffs sought an order directing the federal government to slash the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. The recent successes by plaintiffs in Pennsylvania and Montana may inspire similar efforts in other states, especially if the federal government continues to fall short in combating climate change.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Given its potency and short life, experts believe that reducing methane emissions is the highest-yield action that governments and businesses can take to curb near-term warming. The result, according to the California Air Resources Board , has been a methane emissions reduction of over 3 million metric tons of CO 2 equivalent since 2013.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 5, 2024

Our latest report has modeled what is actually possible if federal and provincial governments take public transit seriously as a tool to fight climate change. There were fewer buses in service in peak periods across Canada in 2022 than there were in 2013, a year when transit systems served 2.7 million fewer people.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 15, 2022

The plot was conceived during a conversation between Price and former Danish Climate and Energy Minister (and later Foreign Secretary) Martin Lidegaard , who incidentally served in Thorning-Schmidt’s government. Climate and energy have been a constant focus of Lidegaard throughout his career. A controversial issue.

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 1, 2021

The “ LL&E II ” decision finds that Act 312 charges the court, not the jury, to determine the funding needed to remediate property to government standards. If (and only if) an express contractual provision allows greater remediation than government standards, a jury may consider and award such “excess remediation” damages.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Last week, the Danish government pledged at least $13 million to developing nations which have experienced losses caused by the impact of climate change , becoming the first country globally to offer ‘loss and damage’. Flemming Moller Mortensen, Danish Minister for Development. Photo credit: Ida Marie Odgaard / Ritzau Scanpix/via Reuters.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 22, 2022

Under the voluntary agreement signed in 2019 that governs the cuts, no other basin state is required to limit its withdrawals. Texas sued in 2013, alleging that groundwater and surface water extraction in New Mexico is depleting water rightfully owed to Texas, thus violating the Rio Grande Compact. government water policy.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 20, 2022

The report recorded 62 serious pollution incidents last year, the highest total since 2013. California has not made significant strides to reduce urban water use, and consequently, residents could face tighter government restrictions. Jane Johnston, Stream Editor. For more drought news, read Circle of Blue’s weekly round up.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JANUARY 4, 2022

This is a highly optimistic adaptation paper and it puts Government at the center of achieving adaptation progress. In the absence of government regulation, insurance prices for real estate will rise there. Frank Wolak and I discuss this in our 2013 energy paper. Suppose that fire risk is rising in a fire zone.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 2, 2021

With the federal government now projecting that Lake Mead will drop precipitously in the next two years — perhaps to levels not seen since the Great Depression, when the country’s largest reservoir was first filled — that emergency has arrived. Taking into account the system cuts, the Bureau of Reclamation counts just over 2.8

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Legal Planet

JUNE 23, 2023

The Petitioners argued that the City’s 2013 and 2015 rate methodology for the SFR class violated the requirement of Proposition 218 that rates charged to any parcel be proportional to the cost of providing service to that parcel. And as a result, agencies would be afforded greater flexibility to set rates that advance these objectives.

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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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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

GEO and the roadmap advisory committee have also taken their findings on the road throughout their development process to engage with additional stakeholder groups, including Maine’s municipal government, economic development, and environmental nonprofit leaders.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2023

Most recently, Barrow has served as Chief of Staff for Chairman Gladys Brown Dutrieuille since 2013. From 2008 to 2013, Barrow served as Chief of Staff in the Office of Commissioner Wayne E.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Supreme Court has agreed to hear and decide an important “regulatory takings” case from California that has major implications for federal, state and local governments nationwide. Finally, in the 2013 case of Koontz v. The case is Sheetz v. County of El Dorado, Docket No.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

Past DCNR roles included serving as Deputy Secretary of Conservation and Technical Services from 2007-2013, where she led the Conservation Landscape program and oversaw the grant program, which provides $30-$60 million annually for conservation and recreation throughout the Commonwealth.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

From 1983 to 2013, Walter went on to teach and consult in the areas of environmental engineering and water policy. Public Health Service in Washington D.C. serving as Assistant Chief of the Planning and Development Branch, Division of Engineering Resources from 1950-1954.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In other words, who has standing to bring challenges to government action under the ERA. 2013), claims under the ERA had very little teeth without a supporting claim of a violation of some other statutory or regulatory provision, and an ERA claim often served as strongly worded bluster without any substance. 2013)) (citing Pa.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 22, 2021

One of the star players of the tournament, Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo, caused headlines and outrage from UEFA (Europe’s governing football body) when, at a press conference, he removed a bottle of Coca Cola from the table and replaced it with a bottle of water. Delayed a year by the pandemic , Euro 2020 is now in full swing.

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Breezometer

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

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. government to provide the official figures on premature deaths caused by air pollution. And while progress has been made, the fight for clean air is not yet over.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Student in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University As the urgent need to take tough action towards climate mitigation and sustainability gathers pressure, for most major power-holders today, including the markets, institutions, government agencies, media and countries, environmentalism has perhaps become the biggest fashion fad.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2024

He served four terms on the WeConservePA board of directors (2007-2013 and 2015-2021) and continues to serve on the WeConservePA policy council. Tom went on to work for Larry Schweiger at the Joint State Government Committee on environmental matters (and thereafter became Executive Deputy for the Susquehanna River Basin Commission).

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Physics World

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Quantum science and technology is a hot ticket today, with governments, major tech companies and financiers around the world pouring money into research and development. The book links today’s intense interest in quantum cryptography – particularly in China – with the 2013 release of US classified documents by Edward Snowden.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The trend dates to a 2013 Edison Electric Institute report highlighting the disruptive challenges of distributed resources and recommending that utilities impose higher fixed charges. The federal government has also recognized the necessity of electricity as a social good and provides assistance nationwide.

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