Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Transfers of highly enriched uranium happened in July 2004 , March 2014 , and July 2019. 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% U-235) for China’s CEFR.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

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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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. aquifers.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Based on this wealth of data and analysis, ERM came to a clear conclusion: The results of this study demonstrate that there is no material impact of the 2004, 2010, 2007, and 2014 HDV emission regulations on industry employment. <mic drop> So, is industry just full of it?

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Physics World

MARCH 18, 2022

Under president Vladimir Putin, Russia had already invaded the country in 2014 – annexing the Crimean peninsula – and supported Russian separatist forces in the Donbass region. The letter’s withdrawal was a chilling reminder of what Russia’s political climate has become.

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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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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Our data covered 2014-2020 in San Diego County. Local government decisions vary greatly in what they do – likely responding to different political and economic pressures. The first blog post (providing an overview of the issue) is here. The second blog post (summarizing the relevant law) is here. Implications.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

Similar concerns are buffeting Santolina, a 13,700-acre planned development proposed in 2014 by Western Albuquerque Land Holdings. You’re not doing that development without water,” said Kathy Freas, co-founder of East Mountain Protection Action Coalition, a citizens group. . billion gallons of water a year to serve its 90,000 residents.

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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. A boycott banner hangs alongside Highway 166 outside the Cuyama Buckhorn hotel. Boycott signs are starting to pop up in Cuyama Valley.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

And the company maintains positions on just about every ag and water related board and commission in Kings, giving it considerable political heft. . It is also tasked with reviewing groundwater plans under the state’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), passed in 2014. The company is run from its Pasadena offices by James W.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

This post was originally published on the Law and Political Economy blog as part of a symposium on inflation. But as the clean energy transition accelerates, these broader questions of politics and price making should be front and center. Ras Laffan LNG terminal in Qatar. Photo credit: Matthew Smith, Flickr.

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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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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

This debate is not new and there was a similar public discussion about long-term memory in the climate system and trends in 2014 on a Dutch website, Climate Dialogue. We know from previous experience that it is likely that such cases will be used uncritically and selectively for political and economic goals.

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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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Physics World

MAY 17, 2022

A management assessment report in 2014 had slammed the ITER Organization for inflexible and top-heavy management, slow decision-making and the failure to foster an effective management culture. ” Bigot has been an outstanding political leader and reliable friend far beyond the ITER project. We will miss him greatly.

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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.

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AAEE

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

An interesting study conducted in 2014 in collaboration between the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, and The Associated Press at NORC, classified American attitudes towards the environment. The national survey included 1,576 adults over 18.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

The Carbon Capture Facility at the Boundary Dam Power Plant in Saskatchewan went into service in 2014. Instead, it requires ingenuity, creativity and entrepreneurship; something that Albertans have in spades, but that our political leaders and legacy energy companies have conveniently forgotten.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 10, 2021

Senate returns to session September 20, 21, 22 -- Committee Schedule House returns to session September 27, 28, 29 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- BeaverT: Shell Ethane Plant 80% Complete; First Electricity Exported To Grid -- S&P Global: PA Shale Gas Permits Increase In June As Gas Prices Strengthen -- PG: As Road Travel Resumes, (..)

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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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Environmental Europe

DECEMBER 7, 2016

This blog post reflects back on this two-year debate, raging since the beginning of the Juncker Commission in 2014, and what it tells us about the prospect for future EU-level environmental policy dismantling , that is, cutting, weakening or removing existing policy. The Nature Alert Saga. According to Bauer et al.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

“Grant’s efforts have included the passage of multiple ordinances and a Home Rule Charter (local constitution) that we at the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) have worked to draft with them, and defend in court, since 2014. In the first case, brought in 2014, the judge – who owned stock in the oil company KBR, Inc.,

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Physics World

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The plank had the message “vote liberal” painted on it, as he was politically quite left-leaning. In 2014 Hawking told the BBC that “the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. Hawking was caught suspending a plank from one of the bridges across the river as an undergraduate in Oxford.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Candidate in the Department of Political Science and Trainee in the CSU InTERFEWS Program In 2014 the Whanganui River in New Zealand was granted legal personhood. Guest Post by Curtis Kline , Ph.D. In 2016, the Constitutional Court of Colombia came to a similar decision about the Atrato River.

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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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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Mr. Minott holds two degrees in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. Church was an elementary school counselor in Philadelphia until 2014. Throughout his career, Minott and the Clean Air Council earned a reputation for holding government agencies and fossil fuel companies accountable.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2023

However, the request also references international human rights instruments, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. That initiative ultimately failed due to strong political opposition.

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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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A Greener Life

MARCH 7, 2024

Lack of nuance and depth of the causes and solutions of the climate crisis, such as the role of the fossil fuel industry, the systemic and structural barriers, the social and behavioural changes, and the political and economic transformations.

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

The Senate bill, on the other hand, reauthorized CSP, but would have reduced total enrollment from the current 70 million acres of land enrolled in CSP under the 2014 Farm Bill. An unfortunate result of the lapse in Farm Bill authority upon expiration of the 2014 bill was that 39. The recently passed 2018. smaller programs.

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MARCH 9, 2014

March 7, 2014. There are political consequences. She submitted this comment to President Obama on March 7, 2014. Dear Mr. President, I am writing you this letter to ask you one simple question, will you please oppose TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline? I am not a list of nine Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. I am only myself.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

As climate change has become a more pervasive and urgent political issue, governments around the world have started to look to soil as a potential part of the solution. The amount of drawdown in agricultural lands can be quite dramatic— a 2014 study found that at peak growth, the US Corn Belt (i.e., Not so in the modern day, however.

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JANUARY 11, 2015

California is experiencing one of the worst droughts on record, resulting in a state of emergency since January 2014. After a dry 2013-2014 winter, the drought forced farmers to uproot valuable walnut and almond trees and sell off cattle they could no longer husband. Laurie Ristino and Joseph Simpson. . A panel of the U.S.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 11, 2021

See my 2014 lecture. In my own microeconomic research on the climate change challenge, I have not emphasized policy priorities today because I believe that the political economy is such that global greenhouse gas emissions will continue to rise. Spatial prices adjust and a new dynamic compensating differentials equilibrium is achieved.

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OCTOBER 20, 2014

The Court affirmed that Kanuk’s specific policy requests are non-justiciable political questions. [9]. also indicates that enforcement of an expanded obligation depends on the political branches. S–14776, 2014 WL 4494394 (Alaska Sept. 12, 2014). [3]. 26, 2014). [4]. 26, 2014). [6]. Mississippi. ,

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

We watched, consumed, and internalized conflict as the pandemic layered social, political, economic, and climate crises. Some warn that the meaning of “resilience” has been diluted for “maladaptive political means and thus hamper the effectiveness of genuine attempts to mitigate damage” (Soubry & Sherren, 2022, p.1). Ugly feelings.

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JUNE 7, 2023

Elmore (2014) Coca-Cola: The Alternative Report by War on Want (2006) The Coke Machine by Michael Blanding (2010). USA: Coke, EPA to reach settlement in Clean Air Act ammonia violation charges Shane O'Halloran | Food Engineering Mag | March 19, 2014 EPA alleged 27 violations at a Minute Maid juice processing facility in Michigan.

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