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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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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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DECEMBER 20, 2021

Boats on the shore of Lake Chad in 2014. At present, the western reaches of the country are torn apart by an ongoing armed conflict between government forces and separatist groups. Climate change has made rainfall in the Sahel more variable, straining Cameroon’s agriculture industry and sparking ethnic tensions.

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MAY 30, 2022

General Secretary said in 2014: “The environment has long been a silent casualty of war and armed conflict. The Ukrainian government says that it intends to seek compensation based on the Gulf War precedent. It was not only the youth of Europe who were mown down by that senseless conflict. It remains true, now as much as ever.

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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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APRIL 17, 2023

Impacted communities and nuclear weapons policy experts know that US government-led testing and production of nuclear weapons in other regions of the United States also affected others, yet those living with the health and environmental impacts are being denied the opportunity to even apply for compensation. Louis area?

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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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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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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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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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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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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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APRIL 27, 2023

After the EPA proposed the Clean Power Plan in 2014, for example, fossil fuel interests and their backers tried to argue that the proposal’s 2030 emission-reduction targets were completely unrealistic, and that the country would see astronomically high costs and blackouts due to the rule.

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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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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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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

So too have the overpumped groundwater aquifers in California’s San Joaquin and Salinas Valleys that belatedly prompted state political leaders to enact California’s first-ever groundwater regulatory program in 2014.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Government regulators expect that the chemical distribution problem will be short-lived. In India, a government program is bringing running water to more homes in areas of high-poverty. Earlier this month, the federal government announced a new office that will focus on health problems linked to climate change.

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AUGUST 11, 2021

Thousands of wells in the state went dry in the previous drought , in 2014 and 2015, mostly in the southern San Joaquin Valley. In this time of need Glenn County officials are looking to higher levels of government for assistance. For those whose wells have gone dry, getting water is a costly chore. Photo courtesy of Maralee Childs.

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JUNE 7, 2021

Undark reports that state and local governments are often unprepared for flooding and don’t recognize the risk posed by dams that are near toxic waste sites, leaving communities vulnerable to disaster and environmental contamination. trillion in economic activity, according to a study in 2014. million acres. That emergency is here.

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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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JUNE 27, 2023

It’s likely our neighborhood was most exposed from the time the neighborhood was developed in 2007 until 2014, when the plants installed scrubbers in their smokestacks. The local government and school district now are spending $250,000 to install air monitors in Laredo to collect data on the community’s exposure.

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MAY 11, 2023

For three full days in 2014 , nearly half a million people were told their tap water was unsafe to drink, bathe in, or even touch. Toxic algae blooms in Lake Erie are now an annual event that is predicted and tracked and has forced residents of Toledo, Ohio, to resort to bottled water.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

Just Moms STL activist Dawn Chapman has worked tirelessly since 2014 to get the federal government to test for radioactive material in more regions where the creek floods. Chapman says, “They [The US Government] fought us for years. Community organizers fight for testing and clean-up. In a 2017 Nation Public Radio report , Ms.

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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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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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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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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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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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JANUARY 6, 2023

Persistent dry conditions are driving up the cost of water and prompting more resistance from government and citizens to new development. Groundwater use will total about 400 million to 500 million gallons annually, and local governments and citizen groups have objected. .

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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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