Legal Planet

JUNE 24, 2024

One post focused on the federal government’s successful criminal prosecution of a San Joaquin Valley water district manager who illegally diverted millions of gallons of water from the government’s Central Valley Project for more than two decades.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

Read more here ] The Grand Jurys two-year investigation uncovered systematic failure by government agencies in overseeing the fracking industry and fulfilling their responsibility to protect Pennsylvanians from the inherent risks of industry operations. million in restitution for Pennsylvania landowners. Read more here.]

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

This blog post takes a closer look at REAPs investments from 2014 to 2025, highlighting their critical role in making long-lasting impacts on rural communities, and what stands to be lost if the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) continues to withhold payments on signed contracts. billion of rural development invested in rural communities.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Their collective trauma dates back to August 2, 2014, when she and half a million other Toledoans woke to alarming news: the water coming out of their taps was toxic. After the 2014 Toledo water crisis, the binational International Joint Commission tried to put a price tag on the event. Carl Ganter, Circle of Blue. September 20, 2022

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Among the long list of grievances Ontarians already have, we can now add a number of others to the list: The Ontario government politicized the highway planning process and prioritized projects such as Highway 413 and the Bradford Bypass over the recommendations made by ministry staff. No charges have been laid for contraventions since 2014.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Xi Jinping first used a variation on this phrase in 2014, and its current form (百年未有之大变局) has been a staple of his speeches since 2017. The Law makes it clear that China wants a greater part in shaping the rules of global governance, and to continue to promote its own international initiatives within that system.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 10, 2022

Another point relates to the pace of global change and of our ability to adapt: Compared with its prior report in 2014, the 2022 report concludes that “levels of risk for all Reasons for Concern (RFC) are assessed to become high to very high at lower global warming levels” than previous expected. The pace of change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2023

The federal government has the power to give people more and better choices about what we eat, and this year presents an excellent opportunity for positive change. An evaluation from 2014 (the only one I could find) found that LAMP served 19,423 producers, and programs with a goal of direct market development served 3.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Since 1999, after the Chinese government approved the reactor plans, TVEL, Russia’s nuclear fuel company and a Rosatom subsidiary, worked with the China Institute of Atomic Energy to supply highly enriched uranium fuel (64.4% Transfers of highly enriched uranium happened in July 2004 , March 2014 , and July 2019.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Reducing the harm of eviction post-disaster In the days and weeks after a disaster, the priority for all levels of government should be meeting people’s immediate needs and stabilizing communities. Every state hit by disaster has the ability to request assistance from the federal government and enact its own emergency plan.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

The self-governing PJM stakeholders put this in place after so many supposedly “firm” generators failed to perform in 2014. PJM stakeholders voted on this policy to penalize energy suppliers who merely claim to be reliable and to use that money to reward the suppliers that actually exceed their expected performance.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 4, 2023

In 2014, CAISO launched the Western Energy Imbalance Market (WEIM), a real-time energy market for the West that as of 2022 included 19 participants. Governance would expand beyond state borders. A regional grid would need a new governance structure, otherwise there’s no chance that utilities outside of California would join.

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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. trillion in economic activity, according to one 2014 study. million acres.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 4, 2024

It was unused for decades and was often referred to by commentators as the “nuclear option” that governments would always avoid employing out of fear of public backlash. Why should this escalation be worrisome for civil society organizations and those who support them?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This graph depicts actual growth in solar installations since 2014 and projections for further growth in the next five years. (GW The idea is to “create best practices that solar companies, local governments, and other stakeholders can use to effectively site solar projects.”

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The community action group Detroit Water Brigade delivered water in August 2014 to city residents whose water had been shut off because of late payments. The recommendations also relate to government aid, including technical and financial assistance to low-income communities and utilities. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2022

In this blog post, we summarize our research on how some local governments in California are regulating development in high fire areas. But a majority of the housing units that San Diego County approved in 2014-17 were in those areas. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the results varied widely by jurisdiction.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The revised 2030 energy and climate plan, unveiled by the government, targets the expansion of wind and solar power. Since 2014, Greece has doubled its renewable energy output with a series of new solar and wind projects, and they have shut down most of their coal-fired plants.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

The Alberta government has allowed 1.4 Since 2014, the AER has only collected 71 cents from oil sands companies to pay for cleanup. The Alberta government must be cautious not to overreach its jurisdiction. Until there is a solution and clean up underway, there must be a moratorium on tailings production.

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New Scientist

AUGUST 12, 2022

A pair of astronomers say that classified US government sensors detected an interstellar meteor hitting Earth in 2014. Now they want to mount a $1.6 million expedition to find fragments of it on the sea floor

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 14, 2024

Since then, the company has experienced staffing problems, delays with clearance processing, information technology infrastructure challenges, and supply chain disruptions, according to a 2023 report from the Government Accountability Office.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 18, 2024

For the first time, the government will regulate fugitive or “unintended” emissions and require permanent total enclosure of sterilization operations. Prior to last week, regulations for commercial sterilizers had not been reviewed in nearly two decades and had been due for review in 2014.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

Back in 2018, California legislators were considering a bill that would have created an independent governance structure for California’s grid operator , the California Independent System Operator (CAISO). Western utilities may be more interested in sticking with California and joining EDAM if CAISO has an independent governance structure.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 10, 2025

It was in 2014 that the government ramped up ambitions and committed the funds for a fully electric railway. A series of five-year plans set out priority lines, with many transitioning straight from steam to electric, cutting out the diesels in the middle to avoid exposure to volatile oil prices.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2024

Chevron began publishing its list in 2018 after more than 30 percent of investors approved a resolution directing the company to disclose its “policy and procedures governing lobbying, both direct and indirect, and grassroots lobbying communications.”

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Yet the Cambodian government revived the project in 2007, and in 2012 the dam became a joint venture between Cambodia’s Royal Group and China’s state-owned Huaneng Group, which remains the majority stakeholder. Construction began in 2014. But like most Cambodians, he is reluctant to criticize his government and its policies. “I

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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. 2014) 227 Cal.App.4th City of Livermore (2023) __ Cal.App.5th__

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014. The scientists who wrote the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report earlier this year warned that governments must act quickly to keep the 1.5 The database is transparent and available for all to see.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 21, 2021

In 2014, in the town of East Porterville, so many wells went bust that Tulare County set up portable public showers. The trend lines aren’t promising, so government agencies and nonprofit groups are preparing for a difficult summer in which thousands of wells could fail. California is not yet to that level of emergency.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. We need governments to regulate industry. Under Baiton’s leadership, CAPP has lobbied the federal government 74 times in the first 9 months of 2023 – that’s once every 2.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The two industry-funded studies ( NERA 2008 and ACT Research 2022 ) claim much higher impact on sales than either the academic (RZW 2018) or government ( EPA 2021 ) studies. Four studies purporting to examine whether a pre-buy effect occurred on heavy-duty truck sales can’t agree on the magnitude or timing of any such effect.

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Legal Planet

MAY 7, 2024

In 2014, CAISO expanded the territory of its real-time market , through which utilities can buy small amounts of electricity to correct real-time fluctuations in customer demand and electricity dispatched by generators. These efforts are called the “ West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative.”

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Our data covered 2014-2020 in San Diego County. First, the state has enacted legislation that strongly encourages local governments to consider the fire risks in approving new development. Local government decisions vary greatly in what they do – likely responding to different political and economic pressures. Implications.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

By Kelly Jedrzejewski, Penn State News In 2014, Jane Cook joined the second-ever training class of Penn State Extension Master Watershed Steward volunteers. She was already active in the Monocacy Creek Watershed Association , but since then, she has logged more than 1,000 volunteer hours educating the public and restoring local watersheds.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In August, the oil and gas industry had 64 lobby meetings with the federal government, with the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) being the most active fossil fuel lobbyist once again. It lobbied the government 10 times in August and 65 times throughout 2023 so far. So, how much is CAPP spending to promote its agenda?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 29, 2024

The Satellite Database has subscribers from inside and outside governments from all over the globe. One of my favorites is from Quartz in 2014. This update, current with launches through May 1, 2023, collects 28 pieces of data on 7,560 actively-operating satellites.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2023

Utility companies, as well as state and federal government regulatory agencies, made a series of questionable decisions that together created the situation we find ourselves in today. This system worked so well in the past that gas plants totally dominated new power plant investment from 1990 through 2014.

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