Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

It galvanized the environmental movement and it pushed the federal government and Congress to carry out scientific research on pesticide contamination and to act on that research. Carson also explicitly called out the hypocrisy inherent in government agencies at the time. These concerns are still alive today.

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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. Photo by Murtala Abdullahi.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The new wave of litigation also arose from the urgency of combating the rise in deforestation under the right-wing-oriented President Jair Bolsonaro, who left the government in January 2023 for the return of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula). The decision was made in a lawsuit filed by four political parties (PSB et al.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 17, 2023

The story illustrates the critical importance of the role science plays in government decisions and the harsh reality of what can happen without it. In a 2018 deposition conducted as part of a class-action lawsuit in US District Court, Dr. Wright left his post with the FDA, he was offered and accepted a job at Purdue Pharma.

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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. My foray into Germany climate policy left me with unanswered questions: What was the politics behind Germany’s history of climate action?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 26, 2022

In the 19 th century, both freed and escaped slaves ( cimarrones ) settled in Loíza because they could easily remain hidden in the complex mangrove environment, and these geographic conditions had political implications. They have built their support network—the one that the government does not provide—and they have built it themselves.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2024

For more than a century, the United States has recognized this, and maintaining roads and bridges has been a core function of federal, state, and local governments. The federal government embraced a role in supporting transit in the 1970s, but this was cut back for the past 40 years and didn’t rebound until the pandemic.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

President-elect Gabriel Boric’s new government must address issues of decarbonisation, water crisis and lithium nationalisation, all while rewriting the country’s constitution. In our government, it will be a priority to avoid this destruction and to have development that is compatible with the environment.”. By Francisco Parra Galaz

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A 2018 deal showed the tremendous speculative value of land/water deals in the Columbia River Basin. Northwest Natural Holding Company— formed in 2018 as the parent company of longtime Portland-based NW Natural Gas Company—has recently expanded into public water utility ownership. Department of Agriculture 2018 report .

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2021

As a government delegate, I have been involved in the UN climate negotiation process since 2017 to uphold Bangladesh’s and the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group’s position. Negotiations over Article 6 were highly technical and contentious in COP24 (2018) and COP25 (2019) but were then finally agreed at the last moment of COP26.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Also elephants, giraffes, rhinos (of the non-political variety), Cape buffalo, baboons, uninvited monkeys at lunch, hippos, wildebeests, hyenas, warthogs and an unexpected (to me) penguin colony. Back to North Carolina developments in late 2018: Executive Order on Climate Change and Clean Energy: On October 29, 2018, N.C.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Faced with a generational opportunity to improve the futures of farm families nationwide, this deal instead prioritizes politics. Learn more and get involved at: [link] The post Comment: NSAC Responds to Government Funding Deal appeared first on National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 3, 2022

Many Rural Towns Have Neglected Drinking Water Systems for Decades As some rural towns lose population and government funds shrink, some drinking water systems are one failure away from crisis. There is a general lack of political will, certainly. Can’t afford government loans. water systems are aging. Marvin Hasso, Jr.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 27, 2023

In 2018, while a Senior Fellow for the University of Pennsylvania Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, she wrote a report, Beyond Bankruptcy the Outlook for Philadelphia’s Neighborhood Refinery , which accurately predicted that the refinery was headed back into bankruptcy again.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The two industry-funded studies ( NERA 2008 and ACT Research 2022 ) claim much higher impact on sales than either the academic (RZW 2018) or government ( EPA 2021 ) studies. Four studies purporting to examine whether a pre-buy effect occurred on heavy-duty truck sales can’t agree on the magnitude or timing of any such effect.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2022

In 2018, the GCF Task Force endorsed Guiding Principles for Collaboration and Partnership Between Subnational Governments, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. A key element of the actions that GCF Task Force states and provinces are taking to reverse these trends is close partnership with Indigenous peoples and local communities.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2023

Digitalization is reshaping environmental governance in profound ways. To explore the intersection of digitalization and environmental governance and the power dynamics that are at play, I interviewed three social scientists on the matter. The Belizean government is another strong proponent of SMART, Stinson claims.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It’s the lowest level for the month of August since 2018 and it continues a downward trend. Q: The Brazilian government knows about these gains thanks to satellite data from Brazil’s space research agency. But in 2023 the script has been flipped and the good news keeps on coming. percent compared to last August. Gray: Yes, for sure.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 3, 2021

One was to observe nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll as one of the two representatives from the Chinese Nationalist government. Zhao could have stayed in the US or followed the Nationalist government to Taiwan, but his allegiance lay with the land of his birth and its people. The China that Zhao left had been a major US ally. Read more.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 18, 2024

Since 2018 especially, something has been hinky in Ontario. Emails, ERO input, mass protests, appeals to the federal government to intervene – it was all or nothing for the Greenbelt and democracy. First, hundreds of clean energy contracts were cancelled with the stroke of a pen. You know when you can feel it in your gut, right?

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 9, 2021

Bridge Michigan and Circle of Blue interviewed experts in agriculture, water policy, climate adaptation, local government and business, asking them to envision what a climate-prepared Michigan might look like, and what it will take to get there. In December 2018, Pew Research Center asked 2,500 adults about their views of America in 2050. .

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 30, 2021

Why it matters: In 2018, a World Economic Forum survey found that private sector executives in Egypt, Iran, Namibia, and Pakistan ranked “water crises” as the top business risk in their countries. Circle of Blue reported that fluctuations in the availability of fresh water are even more apparent the deeper one looks at the report.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 21, 2022

This Playbook updates the 2018 U.S. Climate Alliance member feedback and seeks to account for changing climate and political developments and… Read more → The 2021 Governors’ Climate Resilience Playbook outlines 12 foundational steps to set and achieve an effective state-level climate resilience agenda.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Preparation, both in inter-sessional meetings and in diplomatic efforts by the Egyptian host government, was weak. There was no progress on getting national governments to state stronger ambitions in their NDCs, in the additional specification of global targets, or even in non-binding language regarding intentions to cut fossil fuels.

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Of course, climate politics is never as straightforward as it appears. Political targets. The models underpinning these figures often contain purely political targets for coal use and they assume India will follow the exact same development pathway as China. Right now coal, oil and natural gas account for 75% of energy use.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Fuller Acres’ water has consistently tested at around 15 parts per trillion since 2018, when the state began requiring water companies to monitor for the chemical. Something that advocates have been pushing for years is, how do we make government more inclusive? I think it’s a matter of how we prioritize disadvantaged communities.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Student in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University As the urgent need to take tough action towards climate mitigation and sustainability gathers pressure, for most major power-holders today, including the markets, institutions, government agencies, media and countries, environmentalism has perhaps become the biggest fashion fad.

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Acoel

JANUARY 20, 2023

An expensive proposition for government. The first challenge is political: we cannot afford to save everything, so that needs to be recognized and tough decisions will need to be made about what to do and what to save. And it won’t be led by the federal government. The rich, the poor, the elderly, the disabled, the young?

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 19, 2022

It gradually became more frequent until the overflow became permanent in late 2018, with sewage engulfing their yards. of the 2019/20 budget and more than half – 52.5% – in the 2018/19 financial year. Johan said the sewer line started to get blocked on a regular basis from 2009. Her friends don’t visit anymore.”. It was 36.7%

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Frontiers

JANUARY 10, 2022

To predict plastic accumulation zones in Mediterranean marine conservation areas, the researchers conducted a three-year simulation (between 2016 and 2018) of the distribution of plastic particles in the Mediterranean Sea using a so-called basin-scale particle drift model. Where do plastics accumulate?

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

According to the White House , the National Climate Assessment is a critical resource for “[p]eople who make risk management decisions,” a large group that includes “local government officials, city planners, utility managers, healthcare providers, adaptation specialists, educators, farmers, and small business owners.” 175577 (Exhibit C).

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Environmental Europe

JULY 1, 2020

The EU is facing a key challenge in climate and energy governance. In a new open access paper , recently published in the journal West European Politics , we argue that the EU’s challenge has emerged from legislative change and the way in which the Member States contribute to achieving the EU’s overall renewable energy targets.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Our analysis looked at drought responses within the upper Klamath Basin—an 8,000-square-mile ecological region that encompasses most of Klamath County and parts of northern California—and drew from interviews from dozens of sources, including scientists, agricultural groups, tribal representatives, conservation experts, and government officials.

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Frontiers

DECEMBER 10, 2021

With a seemingly never-ending list of accolades and achievements, including being named one of BBC’s 100 Most Influential Women in 2018, Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, TED Senior Fellow and National Geographic Explorer, I felt honored to have had the chance to speak to a true trailblazer and someone I have looked up to for years.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Interestingly, this sense of urgency has compelled various scholars, governments, development practitioners, and activists to turn toward the language of security to convey the increasingly dire need to confront widespread ecological change. Guest Post by Julie Liebenguth , Ph.D.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 13, 2024

In response, the International Maritime Organization (IMO)—the United Nations body that governs global shipping—passed a new strategy to eliminate the sector’s greenhouse gas emissions in July 2023. It is composed almost entirely of methane, which is 27-30 times more potent than CO 2 as a greenhouse gas over a 100-year timeframe and is 82.5

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The Loyalsock Creek, Pennsylvania’s River of the Year in 2018, is a beautiful mountain stream that travels through Lycoming County on its way to the West Branch of the Susquehanna River. From 2008 to 2018, the industry reported taking 595,172,958 gallons from our Loyalsock, which in many places is no more than knee deep from shore to shore.

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