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

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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OCTOBER 2, 2023

Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. The government proposes new measures to help meet the 2030 climate target, including 80% renewables by 2030. Renewables are a third of electricity consumption. Renewables are 42% of electricity.

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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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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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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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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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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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Circle of Blue

JUNE 14, 2021

Critics say the Nigerian government’s tepid response has encouraged vigilante justice and fueled ongoing violence. In 2019, the government released its National Livestock Transformation Plan, which proposed a shift from free-roam herding to confined grazing reserves in areas that have experienced the most violence.

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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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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Between the discriminatory practice of redlining, which made African-American neighborhoods like Junction ineligible for government-backed mortgage loans through the 1960s, its fair share of white flight, and its industrial workforce in steady decline since the 1970s, money has been fleeing the city for much of the 20th century. .

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JANUARY 31, 2022

Jakarta, Indonesia in 2019. The root of these diverse challenges is, at least in part, political and institutional. Depending on how effectively they are addressed, water issues could slice 7 percent from Indonesia’s GDP in 2045—or boost it by 3 percent. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

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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. The government has even tried to retrain some herders to work as ranchers, but there is little known about the progress of this initiative. We want the government to help us. A floundering government response. We grew up here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In 2019 and 2020, I served as a member of a committee involved in the implementation of California’s Assembly Bill 617. Through this process, residents, alongside industry partners, local government, and community-based organization representatives, gathered to discuss air monitoring and emission reduction strategies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

In 2019, air pollution more broadly was responsible for about 6.7 With all that said, there are many ways policymakers at virtually every level of government can bring more certainty and speed to the retirement of fossil fuel power plants and the installation of clean energy capacity to replace them. micrometers or less.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The hunger crisis worsened along with the country’s political deterioration, which culminated in the Taliban takeover in August. Newark began replacing the pipes in 2019, following the discovery of high lead levels in tap water in schools and homes. City leaders had expected the project to take up to 10 years.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 27, 2023

The explosion at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) refinery in June of 2019 and subsequent bankruptcy and decommissioning marked the end of a refinery whose history goes back 150 years and predates the automobile era. Sunoco used aggressive legal and political strategies to reduce their obligations to clean up their pollution.

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Legal Planet

JULY 21, 2023

But to security experts, and students of political science, geoengineering appears as a hybrid, dual-use security technology. But it puts more emphasis on diverse climate responses than on the social and political context. To research advocates, steeped in climate science, it might appear obvious that climate change would be the logic.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 23, 2021

(To be fair, some local governments in California–the City of Sacramento, for example–have supported and complied with the new state housing reform laws.). One of the first actions taken by Governor Newsom upon taking office in 2019 was to bring a housing enforcement lawsuit against the City of Huntington Beach.

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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. Find more information on the 12 th Annual Meeting of the GCF Task Force here.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2021

United States case, plaintiffs sought an order directing the federal government to slash the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. The court found that this would violate the political question doctrine. Not so in the United States. Most recently, in the famous Juliana v.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Litigation by the Freedom Front Plus (FF+), a conservative political party, has been brought against the Lekwa Local Municipality within which Standerton falls, seeking compensation on behalf of the Lotter and Habile families, but so far, nothing has come of it. . of the budget in 2019/20. of the budget in 2019/20. It was 36.7%

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JULY 12, 2023

What we heard in plaintiffs’ case was not justiciable controversy, but rather a weeklong hearing of political grievances that properly belongs to the legislature, not a court of law,” said Assistant Attorney General Michael Russell. The admission says a lot about political will. I’m kidding, but only slightly.)

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Legal Planet

MARCH 10, 2022

Neighborhood oil and gas extraction poses serious public health and environmental risks to communities across California – and campaigns by local advocates and political leaders over the last decade have pressed state agencies and local governments, including the City of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County , to better protect those at risk.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The government had abruptly stopped subsidies, dramatically increasing the price for consumers. These protests, triggered by an issue in Kazakhstan’s energy sector, have rapidly expanded to cities all over the country and have broadened to include political demands and tense standoffs between protesters and the police.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Something that advocates have been pushing for years is, how do we make government more inclusive? Although the companies deny any wrongdoing, they’ve settled dozens of lawsuits over the matter, paying out millions to local water systems to install filtration systems, including an undisclosed amount to Fuller Acres in late 2019.

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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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Washington Nature

JUNE 8, 2021

by Pascale Chamberland, Masters of Public Administration Candidate 2021, University of Washington Evans School of Public Policy & Governance From a massive social media campaign to plant 20 million trees to businesses planting a tree for each product sold, people seem eager to fight climate change using natural climate solutions (NCS).

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JUNE 7, 2023

In terms of political will to do something risk tolerant and using a local actor, we also are not going to have anyone there.” — Benham Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington. But these governments are not interested in enforcing sanctions and intercepting shipments.

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JULY 1, 2020

The EU is facing a key challenge in climate and energy governance. Deploying renewable energy technologies is a key way to reduce emissions, but the EU’s own Environment Agency warned in late 2019 that current policy efforts are insufficient to reach the 2030 and the 2050 (net zero) emissions targets. Knodt, Michèle (2019).

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Law Columbia

JUNE 22, 2022

It creates regulatory instruments, a new crosscutting governance, and opportunities for public participation. This blog explores these elements and how they imply a paradigm shift in Chilean climate governance, becoming a leader in Latin America for climate action. Governance.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 18, 2021

As parts of the region experience the worst drought in 13 years, experts say Central Asian governments must urgently look at options to mitigate extreme weather events. A 2019 article in the International Journal of Climatology identified this as a rising trend. There are many options available to individual governments.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 23, 2021

In 2021, courts worldwide further defined governments’ and companies’ duty of care in relation to climate change, as well as a governments’ extraterritorial responsibility for climate harm. National courts advance climate mitigation pushing governments towards increased action. See an analysis of the decision here.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

By Adam Barnett DeSmog catalogues how oil and gas firms have forged ties with the highest levels of government, the media, and influential think tanks. million has been given to pro-fossil fuel think tanks by Tory donors since the 2019 general election. Graph credit: DeSmog. This comes as DeSmog and Democracy for Sale reveal that £6.8

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MARCH 24, 2023

Through high school and college, I continued to spend my summers farming and eventually started my own mixed-vegetable operation, which I ran between 2009 and 2019. Yes, there are ecological factors at play, but human governance, or lack of governance, creates a stage for degradation. The work was very rewarding.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Despite being in the same political party that created it, the UK’s new prime minister, Liz Truss, is in the process of completely changing the country’s energy policy. The revamped UK government, almost unrecognisable from the one led by Boris Johnson , has opened up new licenses for North Sea oil and gas production. Energy Security.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Wolf nominated, and the Senate confirmed the second woman in 2019, but never have we had a commissioner of African-American, Hispanic or Asian descent on either board. This isn't "government that works." This would greatly reduce political meddling into the affairs of the commissions, making them more independent.

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