Legal Planet
OCTOBER 13, 2022
Among the targets of the critics is the work of William Nordhaus, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2018 for advancing economic analysis of climate change, and for his steadfast advocacy of a carbon tax. I think these political constraints are a key reason economists focused so long – too long – on carbon pricing.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Farm Bill Reauthorization As of posting, we anticipate that Congress will finish 2024 with yet another extension of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill). In September, we published a new report: Stewarding Success: CSP Under the 2018 Farm Bill.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 14, 2023
These tactics include regulations on actions directly connected to voting and attempts to limit freedom of speech and academic life on public campuses, both of which can disengage students from the political process. Now these on-campus polling sites could be thwarted by a parking regulation for polls.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 28, 2023
For a healthy democracy made up of educated and active voters, it would help to better understand the connection between educational attainment and political engagement, and ways to overcome this contradiction. Another shared attribute was the occurrence of more political action on campus.
HumanNature
MAY 2, 2025
Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University Despite being one of the lowest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions that are causing climate change, Africa has experienced widespread losses and damages attributed to human-induced climate change. Participants Governmental Disaster Management Agencies.
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 16, 2021
As famines historically are caused by conflict or political issues, and socioeconomic vulnerabilities, the famine in Madagascar–one of the lowest emitters of carbon and greenhouse gasses in the world–stands out as being heavily influenced by climate change. The last public records, from 2018, show the purse at $20 billion short.
Legal Planet
DECEMBER 13, 2021
In 2018, as I described in a previous post , Utah funded a University of Utah project to devise a climate plan for the state. There may be hope that the politics of climate change is beginning to detoxify. Last week, the board of the state’s largest utility, which serves rural areas, also adopted a net-zero goal for 2050.
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