Legal Planet

JANUARY 16, 2025

The core of the study and its fatal weakness is a survey of all federal appeals court decisions involving NEPA lawsuits from 2013 through 2022. On a superficial level, this seems like a comprehensive survey of all of the relevant litigation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 13, 2024

In a world where voters increasingly rely on government websites for election information, it is important for state and local election officials to design high-quality and effective online voter education materials. When government election office websites offer translations, they are frequently computer generated.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The website serves as a resource library for residents, community groups, municipal governments, and others interested in addressing issues such as flooding, habitat loss, and local water pollution. This free resource provides a one-stop shop for guidance on how residents can protect waterways by reducing stormwater runoff.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

since 2013 have been integral to creating the conditions that led to the County’s actions, is also a member of the County coalition. This field is governed by the Baldwin Hills Community Standards District, which imposes a unique set of standards on oil and gas operations. STAND-L.A., As we look to the future, we hope the City of L.A.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2022

Seth Grove (R-York) introduced House Bill 2444 that contains a natural gas industry wish list of measures they want to expand natural gas drilling, subsidize pipeline expansion using DCNR Oil and Gas Fund revenue, automatically approve of well permits and preempting local government regulation of all facilities regulated by DEP.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The share of online transactions among total US sales grew from just under six percent in 2013 to around 15 percent in 2021, according to the Census Bureau’s Annual Retail Trade Survey. Companies like Pepsi have successfully deployed electric tractor trucks carrying payloads up to 82,000 lbs. on routes between 250 and 450 miles.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2023

Another study found that climate change made severe flooding in the United Kingdom 43 percent more likely during the winter of 2013-14. By identifying the major sources of emissions and their geographical or sectoral origins, attribution science can help governments develop targeted policies to address climate change at its source.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

TAKE ACTION: Tell the Alberta government it’s time to turn the power back on for Alberta’s clean energy future! The Alberta government is opposing any meaningful policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that the federal government is attempting to implement. So, let’s take a crack at connecting these dots.

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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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Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2025

Between 1970 and 2013, Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah, and Sarawak experienced surface mean temperature increases of 0.14C0.25C per decade. While no provision prohibits litigation related to the Act, it does create obstacles to using litigation as a means of government accountability.

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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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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 26, 2024

In 2013, I returned to university to complete a master’s degree with a research focus on energy transition. When Canada’s federal government first started talking about legislation to support a just transition – I must admit, I was hopeful. I decided I needed to start working on a solution – and find the ‘yes’ to the ‘no.’

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 10, 2024

In North America, the land carbon sink between 2004 and 2013 offset roughly 39% of fossil fuel emissions , but varied substantially year to year. This carbon absorption occurs through photosynthesis, where plants use water, light, and the nitrogen-rich enzyme RuBisCo to turn CO 2 into sugars and other carbon compounds.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Take action by telling the government to hold the oil and gas sector accountable for its pollution by urgently implementing a cap on emissions. a joint venture of Shell, Petronas, Mitsubishi, PetroChina and Kogas): 2013 – 2021 Shell Canada Ltd.: 2010 – 2013 Shell Oil Company Inc.: Is that you? million gas cars.

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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

MARCH 21, 2022

Currently three-fifths of the Lower 48 is in some form of drought, the highest share since 2013. government water policy. Federal forecasters dry conditions to persist or worsen in the next three months in the western half of the Lower 48 — from Louisiana and the Great Plains to South California and the Columbia River basin.

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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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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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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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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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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Last week, on Monday November 14, as part of its Economic Outlook and Fiscal Review , the Ontario government officially announced it would be developing a voluntary clean energy credit (CEC) registry. Now, the Ontario government is crafting an official Clean Energy Credit system that will presumably require transparency.

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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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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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

The shale gas wells were drilled from 2009 to 2013 in the earlier days of the shale gas revolution and never produced. Drilled in 2013 but not produced. [ Their inactive status expired without being renewed between 2019 and 2022, which means they should have been plugged three to six years ago. Drilled in 2011 but not produced. [

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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

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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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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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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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 7, 2025

The Pennsylvania iMapInvasives program was launched in 2013 with the goal of spearheading a movement to share invasive species data across local, state, and government entities within Pennsylvania and to provide a tool for natural resource professionals to effectively track and manage invasive species.

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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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Enviromental Defense

MAY 15, 2024

Researchers working in the field of attribution science have been able to state with clarity that last year’s fires and droughts, the Alberta floods of 2013, BC’s atmospheric rivers, and the heat waves that have killed hundreds of people in the BC’s Lower Mainland, have all been intensified and magnified by human-caused climate change.

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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 16, 2025

14 - Shale Gas Well Ordered Plugged After 8 Years; 20 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Shale Gas Well Leaking Gas For 23 Months And Counting [PaEN] -- What The Shale Gas Industry Leaves Behind: DEP: Southwestern Energy Prod Co.

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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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