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The Winding Path of Australian Climate Policy

Legal Planet

That was repealed in 2014, and the ensuing period saw little progress.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

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Murray Edwards: The Fossil Fuel Fanatic

Enviromental Defense

Edwards was also a key player in the Mount Polley tailings dam disaster of 2014 , where Imperial Metals, of which he is a controlling shareholder, experienced a catastrophic breach to one of its tailings ponds that released billions of liters of toxic waste into nearby waterways.

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2021 Election Preview: The Expensive Battle in Maine over Hydropower Imports

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And it would apply the two-thirds vote retroactively to projects approved since 2014. They worry that scrapping the project after it was approved by state and federal regulators would set a bad precedent for the state and subject future permitting decisions to partisan politics. This is the only new segment of the route.

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Why Do Baby Carrots Drink So Much Water?

Union of Concerned Scientists

In 2014, the California legislature passed into law the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) , and for the first time, groundwater basins in the state would need to start cutting back on over-drafting our shared groundwater resource.

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Electric Vehicle Sales in US Hit the Accelerator Pedal

Union of Concerned Scientists

From 2014 through 2017, more than half of all EVs sold in the US were purchased in California, but that fraction has now fallen to one third. Florida and Texas are now second and third in cumulative EV sales, despite state leadership that has been antagonistic towards EVs and a more conservative-leaning population.

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The Recall

Legal Planet

Elder, a conservative talk radio host, is probably the leading Republican candidate at this point. Ose’s lifetime score from the League of Conservation Voters was 12%. In 2014, he said he was skeptical of climate science. Cox has said of climate change: “I don’t know how much of it is caused by humans. ” Larry Elder.

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Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators

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million a year on a research group – the Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) – to evaluate how well the more than $5 billion a year that the agency spends on conservation is performing. In 2014, many of those EGLE staff members provided the technical details underlying Republican Gov. The USDA spends $8.2