Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Our study, which examined net-zero legislation and litigation in Brazil, China, Germany, and the United States, will become even more pertinent as nations grapple with implementing their commitments under the Paris Agreement from 2015 and the more recent consensus reached in Dubai.

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JUNE 17, 2021

Government agencies and nonprofit groups are preparing for difficult months ahead. When this photo was taken, in April 2015, the well at their nearby home had been dry for 18 months and they visited the depot twice a week for water. It is trying to reach people who might be leery of government intervention.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Water utilities and governments are re-evaluating customer assistance for low-income residents. It provided $350 billion to state, local, and tribal governments to respond to Covid-19, invest in infrastructure, and recover lost revenue. It is past time that local governments seek solutions to these persistent and systemic problems.

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

The breakthrough happened in 2015, at the landmark conference in Paris. Government ministries from Albania, Morocco, and Peru also signed on. By championing skills development, data exchanges, systematic approaches, research and development, governance, and financing, the Paris Pact, in its intent, helped set the course for the climb.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

A bare-chested old man lies in the emergency room of a government hospital in northeast Nigeria. The government has even tried to retrain some herders to work as ranchers, but there is little known about the progress of this initiative. We want the government to help us. A floundering government response. We grew up here.

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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. Problem solved, right? Unfortunately, no.

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JUNE 16, 2022

Even so, it compares favorably with the national governments in places like the U.S. Last year, South Korea strengthened its renewable portfolio standard to 25% renewables by 2034 The government hopes to reduce electricity consumption 14% by 2030. What is South Korea doing to cut its emissions? and Australia.

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AUGUST 15, 2022

Hardship swiftly followed: the government began periodic water shutoffs in early 2022, and declared a state of emergency in June. Water shortages have hit Monterrey almost every year since 2015. The government has had to crack down on illegal water siphoning from the few pipes that still flow.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In a widely read report in 2015 that ECCSCM conducted with the Michigan chapter of the Sierra Club, Taylor revealed for the first time that nearly 700 million gallons of liquid manure was spread annually in the western Lake Erie basin. Government agencies, nevertheless, are trying. There’s no way to stop it from reaching tiles.”.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

We have a series of laws governing these harms: OSHA for the risks to workers; the Clean Water Act and the Oil Spill Act for water pollution; the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act for strip mining; and special legislation dealing with public lands, coastal areas, and offshore drilling. Combustion of fuels is an even bigger problem.

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

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2024

A 2015 survey by UCS and the international climate disclosure organization CDP found that few companies were willing to disclose their memberships or discuss whether their public stance on climate change aligned with the groups they funded (associations are not required by law to disclose their members or boards of directors).

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The movement follows a worldwide upsurge in climate change-related cases, which have more than doubled since 2015. The court also ordered the State, considered remiss, to release the resources of the Climate Fund , a government program that aims to mitigate the impacts of climate change. Brazil) is also noteworthy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2023

A more thorough history would include the settling and colonization of California by the Spanish (1500s) and Mexican (early 1800s) governments, but for brevity, I focus here on the intentional and duplicitous actions of the California state government (established in 1850) and its co-conspirator: the United States federal government.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Representatives Scott Peters (D-California) and María Elvira Salazar (R-Florida), the NCARS bill would improve how the federal government prepares and responds to extreme weather and climate-related disasters. Over a decade, from 2007-2017 , the direct costs of extreme weather events to the federal government was $350 billion.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 25, 2022

In 2015, the EPA published the Clean Power Plan (CPP), which established mechanisms for reducing power plants’ greenhouse gas emissions that included shifting power generation toward lower- and non-emitting energy sources. As of now, there is no rule governing greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants in effect under Section 111(d).

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

For France, the “Affaire du Siècle” case was filed in the Administrative Court of Paris in May 2019 by four NGOs against the government for its failure to act on climate change. As a result, the Conseil d’Etat requested the government to justify how the reduction path to 2030 can be respected without stricter measures.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. The government proposes new measures to help meet the 2030 climate target, including 80% renewables by 2030. Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 18, 2024

Since 2015.” Prior to the closing months of 2015, no notable OSW survey, construction, or maintenance vessel traffic existed in the Atlantic Ocean.1 Testimonies from the United Kingdom show that resolving the climate crisis has been the priority for the government over concerns related to wildlife and environmental impacts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

of the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and 52 percent of the rise in global average temperatures between 1880 and 2015. It can, and must, start now to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The process requires the government to assess past progress, project future emissions, and come up with a strategy to meet its climate goals. The scoping process has been key to California’s success in cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

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DECEMBER 22, 2021

One water utility, Southern Water, was fined £90 million for deliberately dumping wastewater into waterways from 2010 to 2015. The pollution has sparked criticism from the public, prompting stricter laws from the government and promises from utilities to lower pollution. Sewage pollution is rampant in U.K. ON THE RADAR.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 26, 2024

First deployed in 1970, the Minuteman III has undergone extensive maintenance and upgrades, with the most recent, completed in 2015, totaling more than $7 billion to extend the missiles’ life to 2030. The United States currently deploys 400 Minuteman III missiles in underground silos in five Plains states.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Founded in 2015 on a single lot in East Boston, this urban farm has expanded to seven sites and is working to build climate adaptation and mitigation into urban farming, while offering education , green job training , green space , community gathering space , and affordable locally and regionally grown food.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The simple fact that the government refers to FERC’s permitting authority as a “ backstop ” means that we shouldn’t look to FERC to meet our expectations for transmission investments to enable a clean energy future. It’s a contentious issue fraught with political and social dynamics that have largely doomed previous attempts.

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DECEMBER 2, 2021

The recommendations also relate to government aid, including technical and financial assistance to low-income communities and utilities. House Bill 5093 , introduced in 2015, would have required water and sewer utilities to report annually on water rates, average monthly bills, and the number of water shutoffs by ZIP code and census tract.

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NRDC

APRIL 22, 2024

Back in 2015, governments in the UNFCCC agreed to negotiate a new collective quantified goal (NCQG) for climate finance prior to 2025. What are the key elements that countries need to agree on?

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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. The federal government should expand funding that promotes access to local markets, and continue robust evaluation of LAMP to fully understand its benefits for communities.

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JUNE 8, 2022

Belan Ruia makes every drop of water count as she washes dishes in April 2015 in her East Porterville, California, home. ” – Scott Faber, vice president of government affairs for Environmental Working Group. Like her neighbors, her well went dry during the state’s historic drought. Photo & copy; J. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN.

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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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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 15, 2022

In addition, the state has required local governments, when they are developing their general plans that control land-use and development, to account for the risk of fire. CEQA generally requires disclosure and feasible mitigation of significant environmental impacts from government-approved development projects in the state.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The plants’ operating costs have been consistently higher than the average PJM market price of energy and capacity, and this difference accumulated to a loss of more than $900 million between 2015-2019 (see Table 4 here ). Ohioans were forced to subsidize some of these costs through various surcharges on their utility bills.

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Physics World

MARCH 22, 2022

That is according to a new analysis by researchers in the US, which also found that China had already overtaken the European Union in terms of research quality by 2015. . She also points out that government policy has targeted leading areas of research. “We

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, the United States voluntarily pledged to reduce its global warming emissions at least 50 percent below their 2005 levels by the end of this decade and reach net-zero emissions no later than 2050. EN: What does your report recommend that the federal and state governments do going forward? Your thoughts?

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JUNE 21, 2021

Between 2002 and 2015, the number of wells nearly doubled but they were able to pump out less and less water. 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. The study was published in the journal Nature.

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Circle of Blue

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. . One example is Sterling Ranch near Littleton, Colorado.

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AUGUST 6, 2021

Sustainability-related financing has tripled since 2015, with a tenfold increase in flows to environmental, social and governance (ESG) funds, an eight-fold increase in sustainable debt issuance and a doubling in the value of ESG-related deals by private equity and venture capital firms, according to a report by Generation Investment Management.…

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