Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 22, 2024

It’s perhaps not surprising then that Congress has provided the majority of DRF funding through the often last minute, politically fraught supplemental appropriations. While 2022 had fewer billion-dollar disasters (18), it was a record-setting year for the cost of damages with a total cost of $165 billion.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2025

The NWS’ own assessment in 2017 found that private businesses can derive up to $13 billion dollars in economic value from weather knowledge, and that its freely-available data powers a $7 billion-dollar market that creates tailored weather products for business and people. That investment totals about $1.3

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FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The state of flooding emergency called for LA in 2017 and the devastating flooding in the US Midwest in 2019 was a similar situation. Political stunts aren’t helping Levee breached in Pajaro River in 2023. The political theater didnt stop there. Despite this, President Trump unexpectedly ordered the U.S.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2025

Economics will trump politics here, so long as demand growth remains robust and supply chains and project costs are not too adversely affected by tariffs, inflation and regulatory uncertainty. But politics in 2025 is pretty different from what many imagined. Q: You’ve previously done work on wind energy deals.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 8, 2025

In 2017, Tillerson said he disagreed with President Trumps decision to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement. The IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 However, limiting warming to 1.5 degrees C, could substantially reduce these risks, highlighting the critical importance of ambitious global climate action.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

3,108+ Abandoned Conventional Wells DEP reported 3,108 conventional wells were cited for abandonment in the eight years between January 2017 and December 2024-- only 17% appeared to be abandoned prior to January 2017. That we are still leaving this up to taxpayers and political whims. 4,946 well owners were required to report.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 11, 2024

For example, after the Trump administration took office in 2017, there were stark changes in how federal agencies talked about climate change. Administrations have different appointed officials, different priorities, and, increasingly, different ways of talking about specific issues.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Second, the incoming Republican majorities need some sort of revenue source to offset the extension of the tax cuts they enacted in 2017 a step that currently is estimated to cost a few trillion dollars if it occurs. First, the Trump Administration has made repealing climate policy a top priority. That process will not end.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

27] A large hole in Friedmans Maximization Model is his assumption that business and its profit calculations are separable from the political system that is supposed to adopt laws to control pollution and other externalities. As Paul Hawken wrote more than 30 years ago: There is no polite way to say business is destroying the world. [39]

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

It examines the implications of the 2010 earthquake on toxic waste management, and how the nations ongoing political crisis exacerbates the challenges of waste regulation. 10] Mickens Mathieu, Spotlight on the law of September 21, 2017: to better address the challenges of the solid waste management system in Haiti, UNDP Haiti (Mar.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 30, 2025

And in 2017, May Day demonstrators opposed Trumps first attacks against immigrant workers. Alicia Race Notably, May Day 2006 marked the largest protest in the US for immigrant rights in response to anti-immigrant legislation passed by Congress in the House (which went on to fail in the Senate).

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

There will be those on the progressive sides of politics who have been left severely frustrated about the Biden Administration and what the Harris campaign has promised on climate and issues such as Gaza. The only choice for climate action Harris has pledged to carry on with Biden ’s ambitious climate agenda and even go further.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 21, 2025

Court ruling overview A court in oil-rich North Dakota found on Thursday that Greenpeace, which relies on independent founders to run its operations, must pay the pipeline and energy company First Transfer $667 million in damages for the pipeline protests in Standing Rock against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) between 2016 and 2017.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 16, 2025

But then things heated up: wind and solar generated more than 5% of monthly electricity for the first time in 2013, passed the 10% point in 2017, leapt past 15% in 2021, and soared past 20% just one year later, in 2022. Wind and solar have supplied at least 10% of US electricity in every single month since September 2021.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2025

Since the inauguration, I’ve found solace in slowly rewatching The West Wing, a good bedtime story for anyone who feels nostalgia for partisan politics of yesteryear. And there are lessons from previous environmental protests relevant to the current political moment, as others have noted. Anyone else doing this? In April when Sen.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 1, 2025

4: Establishing a political “Review Council “ On January 24, President Trump signed an Executive Order establishing a FEMA Review Council to provide the president recommendations on how to improve FEMA and give states more of a role in disaster response.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Nonetheless, potential policy changes in three areas could undercut new energy investment under a second Trump administration: protectionist trade measures and deglobalization; regulatory uncertainty and political risk; and fiscal and monetary policy. Regulatory Uncertainty And Political Risk Energy is a quintessentially global business.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 10, 2025

Trumps political appointeesmany with a record of science denial or close ties to the industries theyre supposed to be regulatingare threatening to stop enforcement and roll back rules on chemical safety, clean transportation, emissions standards, pollution control, and other important issues.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 8, 2025

Elon Musks journey to the extreme right-wing It was not until relatively recently that Musk became heavily involved in politics, at least not when it did not directly implicate his business interests. Commentators who had followed him closely said he had become radicalised.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JULY 16, 2025

Spanning nearly 900 pages of legislative text, OBBB relies on draconian cuts to the American social safety net – including Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) – in order to fund an extension of 2017 tax cuts that will disproportionately benefit the wealthiest Americans.

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Scientific American

JUNE 6, 2025

Trump’s latest rhetoric on Mars echoes decisions he made during his first term as president, when, in 2017, he announced that NASA would send astronauts back to the Moon. Whatever NASA, Congress and Trump decide, the current political uncertainty is a huge challenge, Harrison says.

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JUNE 9, 2025

Gone is the campy do-gooder; she’s been modernized, made savvy to the social and political tenor of the current day. As director Patty Jenkins explained while promoting 2017’s Wonder Woman, “There is no bad guy. We are all to blame.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

While the operation of the CEFR and supply of highly enriched uranium to the reactor attracted less attention from foreign media, the construction of the two China Fast Reactor (CFR)-600 reactors in Xiapu, China, in 2017 sparked widespread discussion. energy and weapons) capabilities.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Shapiro -- MCall - Paul Muschick: Gov. Shapiro’s Plan To Make Govt. More Accountable Is A Model For Others -- Post-Gazette Editorial: A Bureaucratic Reform Could Transform PA Government -- Spotlight PA: Tracking Gov. Monday] -- U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Whether you call it updating, modernizing, or reforming, changes to the water rights system have long been considered a political third rail —the electric kind you don’t touch. Earlier this summer, I wrote about three bills that were poised to make long overdue changes to California’s outdated and inequitable water rights system.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Emissions trading systems are often launched with relatively lenient design features, typically justified as giving the system a chance to “learn-by-doing” and to gain political buy-in for approval of a program. . – Continual reform to improve ambition, integrity, and buy-in. Most ETS have fallen on the prices-too-low side.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The song paints a narrative of a high school couple and metaphorical high school to comment on disillusionment in contemporary American politics. She’s been extremely successful in affecting political change in the past too. Take “ Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince ” from her 2019 Lover album for example. shows recently.

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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

OCTOBER 2, 2023

My foray into Germany climate policy left me with unanswered questions: What was the politics behind Germany’s history of climate action? Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector. Renewables are a third of electricity consumption. Feed-in tariffs are replaced by auctions for renewables.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Wang is a leading expert on environmental governance and the law and politics of China. Since 2017, the project has produced more than 50 published outputs, including research and scholarly publications as well as legal, policy-oriented, and popular publications.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Between 2012 and 2017, four major companies — including Peabody energy, the world’s largest coal company, which produces 20 percent of the coal in Illinois — shed more than $5 billion owed for environmental cleanup, and health care for retired workers. . A Political Quagmire. Photo © Prairie Rivers Network.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Vigorous lobbying by Australian diplomats prevented the Great Barrier Reef from being listed in 2021, and now yet another delay in considering this politically charged question has been recommended by the Convention’s secretariat, meaning a decision won’t be taken until the 2024 World Heritage Committee meeting.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 9, 2024

When our family participated in the Science March at the Minnesota Capitol in 2017, one of our signs said, “What do we want – Science Based Policy! When do we want it? After Public Comment!” It was not a catchy slogan to write on a cardboard sign, but the message is important to all of our lives.

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OCTOBER 27, 2022

Energy investments, which accounted for just over 2% of global GDP annually between 2017 and 2021, rise to nearly 4% by 2030. Under this scenario (which the IEA calls the Net Zero Emissions by 2050 or NZE scenario), renewables reach 60% of global electricity generation in 2030 and no new conventional coal plants are needed.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

About 90% of its farms are considered “family owned,” according to the 2017 US Department of Agriculture farm census. From 2002 to 2017, the most recent USDA farm census, the number of farms in Kings County declined 16.6%. Like its neighbors, Kings is intensively farmed. The data show that’s already happening. No,” he said.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

To help voters determine which candidates would deliver the needed course correction, Environmental Defence and its allies in the Ontario Priorities Working Group asked each of the province’s major political parties whether – and how – they would deliver the rapid emissions reductions Ontario will need to head off climate catastrophe. .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

Should we expect a political showdown and stormy fight on the floor ? Driven by drought and water quality conditions in the Klamath River, since 2017 the Karuk committed to only harvesting 200 salmon for their ceremonies. Senate Bill 389 (Allen) : Water Board can investigate and verify pre-1914 water rights.

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