Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2025

Thats why I believe the Climate Accountability Act is a critical step for Wisconsin, especially given all the ways the federal government is trying to move us backward on addressing climate change. the federal government is trying to move us backwards on addressing climate change. Madison is our home.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 15, 2024

Last month, the federal government amended the IAA – and the changes mean that major projects can no longer be rejected based on their climate impacts. A strong project review process is the only way governments can assess the environmental and social impacts of major projects like pipelines, mines, transmission lines and dams.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 7, 2025

Lets fast forward to today; more than half a century of government housing policy favoring sprawling, car-dependent development has spawned long commutes, increased exposure to air pollution, and segregated communities. But this American Dream has come at a steep cost. miles per day ).

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HumanNature

MAY 2, 2025

2 While many of the current climate and disaster strategies and plans are clear on the need for disaster risk governance and institutional frameworks, there is still emphasis on top-down approaches. Communities therefore remain passive recipients of disaster management activities as frameworks put much of the responsibility on governments.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2023

However, his average before 2019 was more like 1%. His lifetime average was pulled up by scores of 7% in 2019, 10% in 2020, and 22% in 2021. When government starts mandating, it creates an imbalance in the marketplace.” ” More recently, Emmer has been a big advocate of permit reform.

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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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APRIL 9, 2025

It is timely given substantial investment by the federal government in geological mapping since the early 1990s, with significantly enhanced … Continue reading Economic Analysis of the Costs and Benefits of Geological Mapping in the United States of America from 1994 to 2019

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2023

California has done well in terms of total emission reductions – about a 10% reduction from 2009 to 2019. Electric power related emissions went down about 40% from 2009 to 2019. Total direct transportation emissions in 2019 were about the same as those a decade earlier. What’s the Overall Verdict? Some Puzzles Remain.

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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. Two months later, in January 2019, the claimants sued the state before the Conseil d’Etat for rejecting their demands.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Despite assurances that the legislation is a government priority, it has not yet been scheduled for a third reading. It’s time for the government to fulfill its 2019 promise. The impacts of the energy transition are already being felt across the country.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 25, 2022

Unlike previous floods in 2017 and 2019, this storm spared no parts of the city, triggering mudslides in areas rich and poor. Sutherland’s work documents how residents of the slums rebuild quickly after disasters, spontaneously forming self-governing structures to distribute resources. The destruction was concentrated in the slums.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

In a pathbreaking opinion, the German Constitutional Court ordered the government to adopt much stricter emissions targets for 2030. By taking weak initial measures, the government hadn’t entirely precluded the possibility of compliance with the Paris target. Here, I want to briefly summarize some key rulings. C as possible.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The UK government has released a long-term vision for the country’s burgeoning space sector. The National Space Strategy includes several measures that it says will “unleash” the industry’s potential and brings together – for the first time – the UK government’s civil and defence space activities. UK space sector set for take-off.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Even so, it compares favorably with the national governments in places like the U.S. Renewables are relatively small, at only 6%, but growing rapidly, having doubled from 2010 to 2019. The government has also pledged that a third of new cars will be electric or hydrogen by 2030. What is South Korea doing to cut its emissions?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The US government is also committed to bolstering domestic recycling. Since 2019, the Department of Energy’s ReCell Center has been researching effective and affordable battery recycling technology. Governments and industry can leverage these five tactics to move energy storage batteries towards a more circular end-of-life stewardship.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In 2015, the Dutch environmental organization Urgenda Foundation with nearly 900 co-plaintiffs took the Dutch government to court. They argued that the government was failing to take sufficient action to combat climate change, which was, in their view, a violation of its duty to protect its citizens’ well-being. In the Leghari v.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 17, 2022

This is an historic effort though it falls short of the broader ‘ Green New Deal ‘ goals that were proposed in 2019, and doesn’t include all of the elements that were in the proposed 2021 reconcilliation package (the American Jobs Plan in “ Build Back Better “) that ultimately floundered.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 20, 2023

This week, on March 21 and 22, the federal government is defending its Impact Assessment Act (IAA) (formerly Bill C-69) at the Supreme Court of Canada. When the new law was finally introduced in 2019, environmental groups didn’t get everything we wanted, but it did make some important improvements. Remember Bill C-69?

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Legal Planet

APRIL 14, 2022

The Norwegian Government Pension Fund dropped the company from its portfolio because of environmental destruction from mining in Indonesia. In 2019, it signed an agreement with a Chinese steelmaker to find ways to reduce emissions from steel making. A planned mine in Arizona may create a two-mile sinkhole a thousand feet deep.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

The prospect of climate interventions, particularly SAI, might offer large reductions in climate-change risks that are not possible through emissions cuts, adaptations, or atmospheric removals alone, but also raise serious new uncertainties, risks, and governance challenges. This may be on the cusp of changing, but it hasn’t yet.).

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency announced the federal government has settled its final federal Clean Air Act (CAA) claim against Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining and Marketing, LLC pertaining to the June 21, 2019 fire and explosion at its former South Philadelphia refinery. On October 8, the U.S.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 24, 2022

The study also found that in 2019, customers without a water meter, paid an average of $500 more per year for water than metered customers. Since December 2020, the federal government has allocated over a billion dollars for water debt relief, but due to administrative hurdles that money has been slow to reach families in need.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In 2019, 70 percent of Seattle residents lived within walking distance of a bus or train service running at least every ten minutes—up from 25 percent in 2015. Transportation choices ahead At every level of government, policymakers can make choices that lead to a more balanced transportation system.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

One deals with a setback rule of a kilometer [from a shale gas well ] [ accepted for evaluation by DEP in November 2024 , but a recommend not yet presented to the EQB], I believe, and then one deals with a cap and trade program as well [ accepted for evaluation by DEP in April 2019 , but a recommendation not yet presented to the EQB].

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

What is our government doing to keep us safe from harm? EPA proposed changes to its MON rule in 2019, regulating toxic emissions for about 200 chemical plants that produce solvents, plastics, and pesticides across the country.

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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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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The recommendations also relate to government aid, including technical and financial assistance to low-income communities and utilities. percent of disposable income on water and sewer in 2019, up from 10.9 Teodoro, who co-authored the 2019 national water affordability study, has offered alternatives to the percent-of-income metric.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 13, 2024

According to an MLB and Dodgers press release in 2019, when the 76 advertisements were reinstalled at the stadium, It’s a connection quite literally built into the history of the park and the memories of many players, fans and other Los Angeles Dodgers greats. So why are the Dodgers sullying their brand with big oil?

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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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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Otherwise, too many local governments have not gotten the memo that California’s climate and equity goals require more housing near transit and reduced need for residents to drive vehicles. In the past, powerful anti-housing local governments resisted such a state override. But cities and counties have mostly lost that fight.

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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% Transfers of highly enriched uranium happened in July 2004 , March 2014 , and July 2019.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

In 2019, the team announced that Chevron was renewing the deal and would continue as the “presenting sponsor of the Chevron STEMZONE at Levi’s Stadium and the 49ers STEM Leadership Institute” (STEM being Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). She’s right.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 26, 2022

Today marks one year since the precedent-setting court ruling in the Netherlands, which ordered Shell to cut its activities’ carbon emissions by 45 percent compared to 2019 levels to align with the Paris climate agreement. The industry’s actions, the CHR report said, were driven “not by ignorance, but greed.”

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Groundwater has not been governed like surface water has. But there are few treaties that govern how groundwater is apportioned. According to policy experts, though, there is some hesitation at the local and national levels, because public officials are wary of ceding control to regional governing bodies.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 20, 2022

He is echoing the lessons learned during the RISE Conference held on his campus in 2019, where more than five hundred academics, community members and government officials met to discuss the role of universities in disasters. We believe President Rodriguez’s piece is a call to action.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In 2019, that same company was in the news for purchasing water rights throughout the state and attempting to sell and lease them, prompting an ongoing legislative review of water marketing. In Washington—and elsewhere—there are rules governing the sale of water. For example, water rights must be used, or they are relinquished.

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