Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

That was repealed in 2014, and the ensuing period saw little progress. As in the US, Australia’s climate policy was long a victim of a lengthy period of divided government and political upheaval. In the past two years, however, the things have started trending upward after years of inaction by conservative governments.

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AUGUST 16, 2021

Cox has said of climate change: “I don’t know how much of it is caused by humans. He isn’t an outright climate skeptic, though he is unconvinced that climate change has anything to do with California’s current wildfires. ” Not good news for California’s climate programs.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

PennFuture celebrated 25 years of fighting climate change and industrial pollution by holding anniversary celebrations in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to honor seven Pennsylvanians for their contributions to restoring and protecting the environment. Michael Mann - Climate Champion Award PennFuture honored Dr. Michael E.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 22, 2025

org, a climate advocacy group, found that from 1996 to 2014 Enbridge pipelines in the U.S. The energy sector and pipeline politics of the 21 st century are much different than they were decades ago. And its owned by a Canada-based company, Enbridge Inc., that has amassed a truly worrisome record of unsafe operations.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Since 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea conditions in Ukraine have not exactly been peaceful and stable, and there has to some extent been a civil war ever since between groups loyal to Russia and those more loyal to the West and the EU. Conflicts are bad news for climate action.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 11, 2021

John Cochrane has posted an important blog post about adapting to climate change. I have working on the costs of climate change for 15 years now going back to my 2005 Death Toll paper. I am a microeconomist and I said to Marty; "Many of us know that we do not know what risks climate change will pose.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Solar activity provides no alternative explanation for today’s climate change Dagsvik and Moen claim that recent research indicates that variations in the sun’s magnetic field are of great importance for long-term fluctuations in solar activity. Our job is to be thorough and verify questionable results. It has taken time.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 28, 2022

The nearly 23,000-member Gila River Indian Community is modernizing: adding to its group of casinos, preparing to expand its irrigated farm acres, and elevating its influence in Arizona’s politics and economy. That seems certain to change. And soon, because of climate change. A Cogent Look at What to Expect.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Over many years, as Big Agriculture in the state got bigger and bigger, such unbridled pumping led to a race to the bottom for too many aquifers, and drought and climate change only intensified the need to pump.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Doing research on environmental issues or responses is usually an easy call for policy-makers and gets wide political support, even if there’s disagreement what to do about the issue. SG would cool the Earth, temporarily and imperfectly offsetting some of the climate effects of elevated greenhouse gases, by reflecting a bit (around 0.5%

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 26, 2022

The Press Democrat newspaper reports that the new rules proposed in Sonoma County come from the state’s sustainable groundwater management law, which was passed in 2014. If food production in Ukraine continues to be curtailed, countries who depend on imports have higher risk of famine, political destabilization, and mass migration.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

The source of concern, confrontation, and new practices is the deep drought that has settled on the Southwest since 2000 that is exacerbated by climate change. Similar concerns are buffeting Santolina, a 13,700-acre planned development proposed in 2014 by Western Albuquerque Land Holdings. Path Forward is Tricky For Hughes.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Unseen and Unprotected: The Ongoing Struggle of Climate Refugees in the United States by Isaiah Gonzales and Professor Siu Tip Lam I. Introduction As climate change accelerates, environmental disasters will leave millions homeless. Historical Background of Climate Change The scientific consensus on climate change is undeniable.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Photos by Evan George) When California lawmakers enacted the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act in 2014, it was an effort to tame the wild , wild west of water. It is also a warning of what may be in store for other over-drafted water basins as climate change makes drought worse and water more precious.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

But the oil and gas lobby doesn’t care about the facts or the climate, it cares about what’s in the best interest of its private corporations and their shareholders – keeping the oil and industry profits flowing. This is nothing new: these companies have been actively blocking climate policy for decades.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 27, 2023

This blog is co-authored with Alienor Rougeot, Climate and Energy Program Manager Two prominent figures of Canada’s oil and gas industry were recently on Global TV’s politics show, The West Block with Mercedes Stephenson, where they spread a bunch of misinformation and half truths. Who are the executives who spread the misinformation?

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 30, 2023

CAPP is well known for lobbying the government directly against climate action and against the industry’s own highly promoted net-zero targets. But that’s not all, they’re also investing heavily in advertising campaigns, both traditional and on social media, to weaken public support for climate policy.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 13, 2022

The same political power that caused the problem is the same political power that is continuing to over-pump groundwater,” said Jennifer Clary, the California Director of Clean Water Action, a nonprofit advocacy group. Every day since 2014, they’ve relied on bottled water to drink. It was scary.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Guest Post by Philip Cafaro , Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Colorado State University Scientists and climate ethicists argue that more attention needs to be given to population growth’s role in the climate crisis. 3 from IPCC, Fifth Assessment Report, Mitigation Report, Summary for Policymakers (2014).

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 5, 2024

There’s a direct line of culpability between fossil fuel corporations and climate change – it’s why so many oil and gas CEOs have topped our list of Climate Villains. Will you help hold the financial sector accountable for real climate action?

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

For Canada’s major oil and gas producers, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a get-out-of-jail-free card, which allows them to keep on polluting while appearing as though they are taking the threat of climate change seriously. The Carbon Capture Facility at the Boundary Dam Power Plant in Saskatchewan went into service in 2014.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

The impacts of climate change are downright frightening. Rich Kruger is the CEO of Suncor, a company responsible for nearly 35 million metric tons of climate pollution annually – the equivalent of 8.3 Their climate report does not include a 1.5-degree Introducing Rich Kruger – the nightmare on Oil Street.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 7, 2024

used the words “ climate change ” expressly. The consequences of the climate crisis are already visible and devastating, such as rising temperatures, melting ice caps, sea level rise, extreme weather events, droughts, floods, wildfires, biodiversity loss, food insecurity, water scarcity, displacement, conflict, disease, and death.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 27, 2023

The majority of Canadians understand that climate change is one of the most important issues we face. Enter, Canada’s Top Climate Villains The influential players behind Canada’s oil and gas industry, who should be held responsible for their outsized role in causing the climate crisis, aren’t the ones feeling the heat.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 19, 2021

From physics to politics William D Magwood IV, director-general of the Nuclear Energy Agency, thinks nuclear power can help us meet net-zero targets. Frustratingly, he had responsibility only for the technical, rather than the political, aspects of nuclear energy. Courtesy: NEA). Except that, in 1999, it was. A clearer understanding.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

As background, I am an invited expert reviewer of the next assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment.” In a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi after that hearing I noted that I am aware that Congressional hearings involve some political theater.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Second, because most development is approved at the local level in California, any response either requires state intervention into local land-use regulation (always politically controversial) or alternatively getting local governments to address the problem themselves, no small task in a state with hundreds of cities and counties.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

When I was growing up, climate change wouldn’t have qualified as a typical topic of conversation around the dinner table, let alone soil health or the ability of soils to store carbon. billion USD to support the USDA’s efforts to mitigate climate change via agricultural soils. Not so in the modern day, however.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

Take Action: Tell Enbridge shareholders that you care about climate change and want Enbridge to stop lying about the cost and climate pollution associated with gas. This is nothing new: these companies have been actively blocking climate policy for decades. A very reasonable request, we thought.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement included this commitment and additional Bay restoration goals. 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. The process should remain transparent and open to the public.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The resulting closures caused great unemployment and hardship in coal-mining areas, together with much social and political violence and unrest in 1984-5. The project which is a long-running saga was first proposed in 2014 and has since been kicked back and forth before finally being approved by the government. Strong pushback.

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MARCH 9, 2014

March 7, 2014. You promised climate change reform. This first step will make it easier for future climate change reform. There are political consequences. She submitted this comment to President Obama on March 7, 2014. I am not a list of nine Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. I am only myself.

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Physics World

MAY 8, 2021

The test also received a brief mention in The Imitation Game , the Oscar-winning 2014 biopic about Turing’s wartime code-breaking work. But then in 2014 a chatbot posing as a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy fooled the benchmark 30% of the judges. But the underlying questions of representation, reasoning and how machines think remained.

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OCTOBER 20, 2014

But it found no reason to do so absent a legislative or executive delineation of state rights and obligations regarding climate change. He wanted the Court to order specific climate policies, [7]. The Court affirmed that Kanuk’s specific policy requests are non-justiciable political questions. [9]. 12, 2014). [3].

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2023

And now, I participated in a seminar that PJM was part of in New York City, and one of the comments made is the political policies that we as legislators in the various states associated with PJM probably give to PJM. "In "Obviously, that doesn't add up quite, but there's a little bit of renewables included in that. “We Read more here.

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 11, 2015

California is experiencing one of the worst droughts on record, resulting in a state of emergency since January 2014. The drought foreshadows a drier state of affairs in much of the West as climate change takes its toll. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the restrictions in March 2014. A panel of the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

The past two years have yielded unprecedented executive and regulatory engagement in the climate change discussion. In November 2014, the United States and China—two of the world’s most significant emitters—. international climate change agreement. jointly committed. to reducing their carbon emissions.

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