Circle of Blue

JANUARY 22, 2025

org, a climate advocacy group, found that from 1996 to 2014 Enbridge pipelines in the U.S. The energy sector and pipeline politics of the 21 st century are much different than they were decades ago. And its owned by a Canada-based company, Enbridge Inc., that has amassed a truly worrisome record of unsafe operations.

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

In response to this growing threat and 2014 legislation designed to put an end to chronic overdraft, many basins have identified managed aquifer recharge (MAR) as an essential supply-side tool for managing water resources.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

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. The higher EV sales volume in Florida and Texas is in part tied to the higher population there, but there are signs that buyers across the political spectrum are interested in EVs.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 16, 2021

In 2014, he said he was skeptical of climate science. She also favors defunding high speed rail and using the money for border security instead. Ose formerly represented a suburban Sacramento district in Congress. Ose’s lifetime score from the League of Conservation Voters was 12%.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

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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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. This is especially useful when dealing with transmission across state lines that can often face political and financial obstacles. Governance would expand beyond state borders.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

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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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In 2014, many of those EGLE staff members provided the technical details underlying Republican Gov. How this happened is a study in what the Whitmer administration and EGLE officials assert is a political compromise. To date, there is no evidence of a declining trend in phosphorus loads,” wrote the report’s authors.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. political and public support) for fossil fuels, but we can tell our elected officials not to fall for CAPP’s pro-oil propaganda and to instead prioritize climate action.

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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. China’s new Foreign Affairs Law, which went into force on July 1 st , formalizes its foreign policy practice, codifying the goals, priorities and guiding principles of its engagement with the world.

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Circle of Blue

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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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In 2014 they created their ‘astroturf’ group, Canada’s Energy Citizens, to challenge and mimic the growing success of grassroots climate activists. For nearly a decade CAPP has used this facade of public favour for oil and gas to secure both public and political support for the fossil fuel industry. The influence doesn’t stop there.

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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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Physics World

JUNE 19, 2021

In both cases, the green band shows the official 2014 recommended value from CODATA, while the red line shows the (very precise) value obtained from muonic hydrogen. Mohr says it “made less sense to average” the large and small radii in 2014 than it did four years later, given the absence of independent confirmation at that time.

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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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DECEMBER 24, 2024

that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. In 2014, a family from Tuvalu sought refugee status in New Zealand because rising sea levels threatened their home. Cruz Galicia v.

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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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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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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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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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Enviromental Defense

JULY 27, 2023

Imperial Oil Ltd: 2019-Present Exxon Mobil Corp: 1983-2009 & 2014-2019 Esso Petroleum Co Ltd: 2009-2014 Villain Career Profile Corson has spent his entire career extracting and marketing oil and gas, working mostly for Imperial Oil and its parent company ExxonMobil. Leaks and Spills 2022 / 2023 (ongoing) — Kearl Lake, AB 5.3

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 5, 2024

While we aim to advance policy that works in the public interest, oil and gas executives, and their powerful allies, are using their political power to block climate action in order to personally profit from more oil and gas production. Will you help hold the financial sector accountable for real climate action?

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

New calculations by Investors for Paris Compliance show that Enbridge’s total emissions, including the pollution caused when people use the gas it sells, have gone up by 76% since 2014 to a total of 805 million tonnes. That’s 20 times greater than the company reports, and more than all of Canada’s emissions.

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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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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

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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JANUARY 17, 2024

The case was settled in 2014 after Argentina paid Repsol $5 billion. The Local | December 14, 2014 Protesters plunged half-naked into the icy sea and unfurled banners Saturday to try to stop oil prospecting near Spain's Canary Islands, a major tourist destination. Repsol fined for anti-competitive practices.

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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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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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JANUARY 15, 2024

But political scientist Scott Strauss found that only five to ten percent of Rwandans were exposed to radio broadcasts and there was no correlation between the initial violence and broadcast coverage. This is because, as Strossen notes, ‘not a single study showed that exposure to violent video games caused minors to act aggressively.’

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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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Environmental Europe

JANUARY 16, 2017

The Renewable Heat Incentive scheme was a policy instrument set up to increase uptake in a variety of renewable heat technologies – from biomass boilers to solar thermals, biogas, heat pumps – for use by businesses from 2012 and in homes from 2014. A political scandal. To political interference within one party?

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