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Upcoming Developments in International Governance of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal

Law Columbia

The next week has the potential to bring important developments for international governance of marine carbon dioxide removal (CDR). Even if the resolution is adopted, it would not be binding in the same way as a formal international agreement, but it could still impact how countries regulate marine CDR. seaweed) for carbon storage.

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The Ontario government boasts about a “clean energy advantage” while dismantling it

Enviromental Defense

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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An encroaching desert intensifies Nigeria’s farmer-herder crisis

Circle of Blue

A bare-chested old man lies in the emergency room of a government hospital in northeast Nigeria. In the pre-colonial era, mechanisms such as the traditional administrative system which regulated grazing activities and demarcated cattle migratory routes, known as the burti, were key to establishing clear boundaries between farmers and herders.

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What’s Up With Water – November 1, 2021

Circle of Blue

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. Rhode Island followed in 1987, and was the last state to do so.

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Protecting Public Health Is Complicated. But Science Can Help, and the Time Is Now.

Union of Concerned Scientists

It was a big step towards providing adequate health protections, but Environmental regulations need to look at people, not just pollutants—and the way to get there is by assessing cumulative impacts. But the requirements in the rule were developed considering that one carcinogen from that one type of facility.

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Ask a Scientist: It’s Getting Easier for US Car Owners to Go Electric

Union of Concerned Scientists

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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What’s New About Income-Graduated Fixed Charges?

Legal Planet

Regulators and policymakers began to reevaluate their approach to rate design. Despite California regulators’ stated interest in pricing based on marginal costs, however, fixed costs have often been bundled into volumetric rates. Regulators are acting on these redistributive concerns.