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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Circle of Blue

JUNE 17, 2021

Government agencies and nonprofit groups are preparing for difficult months ahead. So many wells went dry in 2014 in the town of East Porterville that Tulare County supplied portable public showers. It is trying to reach people who might be leery of government intervention. California is not yet to that level of emergency.

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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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Arnold Porter

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This anticipated spending provides significant opportunities for government contractors. But companies seeking government contracts should be aware that there is a new cop walking this beat. For example, concrete is an essential component of many construction projects, including road and bridge projects managed by government agencies.

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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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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2024

The 300-400 attendees each year come from land trusts, county and local municipal governments, state agencies, trail groups, watershed associations, and other organizations. Topics of interest for presentations encompass anything that can help land trusts and governments to improve upon their conservation-related work.

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Legal Planet

MAY 31, 2021

General Secretary said in 2014: “The environment has long been a silent casualty of war and armed conflict. It does seem likely to increase the odds of armed conflict in combination with weak economies, ethnic conflict, and impaired governance. It was not only the youth of Europe who were mown down by that senseless conflict.

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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

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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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Despite frequent petrochemical and climate disasters, the federal government has not updated its disaster guidance relative to people with disabilities since 2014,” said co-author Hilary Flint, Director of Communications and Community Engagement for the Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community.

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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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Legal Planet

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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Circle of Blue

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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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

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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CEQA Developments

JUNE 27, 2023

As relevant here, the City certified a Final EIR in 2014 (2014 EIR) for a General Plan Update (GPU) with a 2035 development horizon. The Findings addressed each of the environmental issues studied in the 2014 EIR and compared the effects of the Project to those of the adopted GPU.

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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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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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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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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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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In 2014, during the last severe drought, she helped start the lake water testing program that has drawn government attention to the degradation of Clear Lake. One site posted a record-high reading for anatoxin-a, another cyanotoxin that damages the nervous system. But the uptick is also because of a change in environment.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Those eligible to apply include nonprofit organizations and government agencies. Those eligible to apply include nonprofit organizations and government agencies. Eligible applicants are encouraged to partner across the food and healthcare system. Apply here ; additional details are here. NIFA announced approximately $36.3

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Legal Planet

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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Legal Planet

MARCH 27, 2023

In 2014, California enacted the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), which aims to protect groundwater resources by requiring groundwater sustainable agencies (GSAs) to formulate plans to sustainably manage groundwater resources within their basin. Groundwater use is a topic of dire importance in California.

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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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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

If Capital Power can’t square the economics of a CCS project that would have received massive subsidies, why would the federal government fork over $16 billion for such a risky project with a low possibility of success? The Carbon Capture Facility at the Boundary Dam Power Plant in Saskatchewan went into service in 2014.

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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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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 7, 2022

OTTAWA | TRADITIONAL, UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE ALGONQUIN ANISHNAABEG PEOPLE – More than 5,000 people and a coalition of conservation groups are calling on the federal government to finally take action after waiting over six years to protect monarch butterflies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

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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E2 Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The current disclosure regime was introduced in 2014 by Directive 2014/95/EU. EU law requires certain large companies to disclose non-financial information on the way they operate and manage social and environmental challenges.

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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

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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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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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

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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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Year after year environmental groups, conservation districts, farmers, local governments oppose the cuts and outline the critical environmental infrastructure needs communities have. million from the Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant Fund to balance the state budget; -- FY 2014-15 budget continues the $102.8 Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 2, 2022

Delhi’s government will fund two reservoirs along the Yamuna River to boost water supplies. The move comes after Ukraine cut off fresh water supplies along the canal in 2014. The government in Delhi has approved an additional two reservoirs along the Yamuna River to store excess monsoon water. In Recent Water News. On the Radar.

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