Environmental Progress

JANUARY 18, 2024

LISA LINOWES and ERIC TURNER on behalf of the SAVE RIGHT WHALES COALITION Since 2016, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has declared three Unusual Mortality Events (UME) involving large whale species in the Atlantic Ocean. The UMEs for the humpback and minke whales include deaths in 2016 and 2017, respectively.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 17, 2022

Caption: The Salar de Atacama salt works in Chile in 2016. Last week, the outgoing center-right government of President Sebastián Piñera signed over rights to two private companies to extract 160,000 tons of lithium. A battle is brewing over the future of lithium, an essential component of the world’s transition to renewable energy.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 23, 2022

A child collects drinking water in Rajasthan, India in 2016. Residents of Pir Koh staged several protests last week, demanding that the government declare a national emergency and fix the town’s ailing infrastructure. “We Climate change and mismanagement sowed the seeds of a cholera outbreak. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

Regardless, renewable energy requires land, and land for renewables creates lots of conflicts, with landowners, local governments, environmentalists, and competing development interests. And the volume of renewable energy required requires significant new transmission, which creates even more land use conflict.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2022

In another respect, though, there’s more similarity: in both countries, subnational governments play a key role in climate policy. Regional governments. Although ultimate power remains in the national Parliament, the national government has devolved certain powers to regional governments in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Climate Week events highlighted commitments and actions needed from the financial sector and other corporations to support and spur government ambition. While Citi touts its $1 trillion Sustainable Finance by 2030 Goal, that figure includes the bank’s full range of environmental, social, and governance investments.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 17, 2021

Government agencies and nonprofit groups are preparing for difficult months ahead. In this blistering year in California drinking water wells are going dry in increasing numbers, rekindling memories of the historic drought of 2012 to 2016, when more than 2,600 wells across the state stopped producing water.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

The Alberta government has allowed 1.4 The Alberta government must be cautious not to overreach its jurisdiction. This includes the Joint Oil Sands Monitoring Program (JOSM) set up in 2012 and the Oil Sands Advisory Group (OSAG) set up in 2016.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2023

County of Monterey –a major case involving the authority of California local governments to limit oil and gas development within their borders. County of Monterey case raises important and difficult questions for both the justices and the Executive Branch of California state government.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Even so, it compares favorably with the national governments in places like the U.S. As of 2016, half of its total emissions are from the power sector, with 20% from industry and 15% from transportation, and. The government has also pledged that a third of new cars will be electric or hydrogen by 2030. and Australia.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2022

These activities involved collaboration with stakeholders, legislators, and agencies throughout state government. She also led the development and implementation of SGC’s Racial Equity Action Plan. In 2020, she won the Science in Public Service Award from the California Council on Science and Technology.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

I also differ from Leiter in including scholars who are currently in government service in my totals. I used the same basic methodology as Leiter, and these are citations from 2016-2020, inclusive. All the caveats that Leiter has indicated about the utility of looking at cite counts apply here. Faculty First Name. Faculty Last Name.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 24, 2024

On the ground, this means communities, local, state and the federal government, territories and tribes have less time to prepare for the next event and less time to respond after an event. And the damages to transmission and distribution systems can be costly. According to FEMA’s latest report , the DRF could be more than $6.8

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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. At least 3,641 lives were lost to the crisis between 2016 and 2018, according to Amnesty International , with over half of the fatalities recorded in 2018 alone. We want the government to help us. A floundering government response.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 14, 2021

When California voters legalized cannabis in 2016, a key argument for legalization was that legalization would benefit the environment. That raises real questions about whether legalization in California can deliver on the promises of environmental protection that were made to the voters in 2016.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 1, 2023

EPA’s own scientists concluded in 2016 that the risk value of ethylene oxide is 60 times more toxic than previously understood. In 2016, the EPA updated the air value for ethylene oxide (called an “inhalation unit risk factor”) using more recent and robust science. These standards no longer adequately protect the public.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 21, 2024

Our brief speaks in particular to the important role that local governments play in reducing GHG emissions statewide, and the chilling effect that a lack of certainty about preemption by the State’s 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, or CLCPA, could have on their ability to pass ambitious laws to address climate change.

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Energy and Climate Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

It was initiated nine years ago, but now it comes back to haunt the German government with a vengeance. On 6 December 2016 the court largely rejected their main arguments against German`s nuclear phase out and the Atomic Energy Act ( BVerfG 1 BvR 2821/11, 1 BvR 321/12, 1 BvR 1456/12 ).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 22, 2024

Recent research by the Environmental Integrity Project on slaughterhouses that paid little to no fines for their illegal water pollution between 2016 and 2018 concluded that “penalties and enforcements are rare.” Importantly, the agency affirmed that affordable technologies exist to help slaughterhouses meet the proposed standards.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 9, 2022

Hurricane Matthew in early October, 2016. The British government orders water companies to create contingency plans in the case of water shortages. “We billion gallons) of water from state government as part of a massive water infrastructure project. Photo © Ryan Johnson/North Charleston on Flickr. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2021

But what galvanized her political consciousness were the Standing Rock protests, a sustained resistance movement of Native American communities against the Dakota Access oil pipeline, beginning in 2016. “It government to allow Indigenous people to continue stewarding the lands as they did before colonization.

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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. Since 2016, monarch butterflies have been in legal limbo in Canada.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Hours before a controversial set of new reporting requirements for government contractors was set to take effect, a federal court in Texas enjoined implementation of the requirements across the country. The violations are analyzed and taken into consideration by the agencies in awarding contracts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

The grid operator PJM, which covers the region from Illinois to Virginia, put these reliability rules and penalties into place in 2016 but this is the first full use of them. The self-governing PJM stakeholders put this in place after so many supposedly “firm” generators failed to perform in 2014. First, a bit more context.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 5, 2024

Our latest report has modeled what is actually possible if federal and provincial governments take public transit seriously as a tool to fight climate change. You have probably heard the federal government announce that billions of dollars are being invested in public transit. million fewer people.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 30, 2023

The PFAS Policy Dashboard, developed by the Rockefeller Institute of Government, gives users an overview of state-level legislation addressing PFAS across 50 states from 2016 to 2022 (note: ten states did not introduce any PFAS-related legislation). It is updated annually after the close of the year.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 28, 2023

Our analysis found that sustainable nutrition science is severely underfunded by the federal government—which makes sense since it is missing from the REE’s mission and vision. And it’s about time.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

Since 2016, the Los Angeles Regional Open Space and Affordable Housing Collaborative (LA ROSAH) has been working to advance parks and affordable housing projects and educate stakeholders and decision makers about the benefits of joint development. Wilmington Townhomes development with tot lot. Photo by Abode Communities.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 18, 2021

A new report out of the UK calls on the government to improve the country’s climate adaptation plan. In this blistering year in California drinking water wells are going dry in increasing numbers, rekindling memories of the historic drought of 2012 to 2016, when more than 2,600 wells across the state stopped producing water.

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Corp Watch

JULY 26, 2023

Madhya Pradesh govt cancels land allocation for Coca Cola plant Hindustan Times PaulaR Wed, 07/26/2023 - 13:15 Friday, February 25, 2022 Read more Shruti Tomar An official said the company had to start the work on setting up the plant within five years of the allotment of the land in 2016 but it did not do anything Bhopal : The Madhya Pradesh government (..)

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 17, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed amendments to the regulations that govern the Agency’s review of new chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to improve efficiency and align with the 2016 bipartisan TSCA amendments under the Frank R. Yesterday, the U.S. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

But other localities, such as Austin, TX , and Miami-Dade County, FL —have been barred by their state governments from enacting local protections. At the local level, a few localities—including Phoenix , Tucson , and Pima County , Arizona—have passed ordinances protecting city or county workers. Shorter-than-needed acclimatization periods.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 25, 2023

This was shown by Halldór Björnsson of the Icelandic weather service and presented at the Arctic Circle conference 2016. I discussed this here in 2016 and also in my 2018 RealClimate article “ If you doubt that the AMOC has weakened, read this ”, together with possible other alternative explanations of the ‘cold blob’.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 16, 2021

On the back of the dark and sombre Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) cli mate report released last week, the US government agency National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has confirmed that this July was the warmest month ever experienced on Earth. of a degree C higher than the 2016 record.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Canadian officials urge the federal government to spend more money on water projects in Indigenous communities. While residents in an impoverished village in South Africa go without running water and plumbing, its government built community centers that have gone unused. IN RECENT WATER NEWS. 138 MILLION. 5 MILLION RAND ($313.3

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HumanNature

MARCH 28, 2023

2016; Moritz et al., This discourages early career scientists from getting involved in transdisciplinary approaches, since they are expected to produce frequent and highly cited publications, present at conferences, teach, and bring funding to academic institutions while enduring precarious labor conditions (Lerchster, 2016).

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