Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

They introduced a similar bill last session, and the legislation has the public support of more than 170 political scientists who submitted a public letter of support to the House of Representatives. And this public sentiment isnt off base: political scientists agree our democracy is backsliding. According to Reps.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 28, 2021

They worry that scrapping the project after it was approved by state and federal regulators would set a bad precedent for the state and subject future permitting decisions to partisan politics. An effort in 2020 was invalidated by the Maine Supreme Court. Proponents of the transmission line have spent more money on their campaign.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2023

His lifetime average was pulled up by scores of 7% in 2019, 10% in 2020, and 22% in 2021. As I’ve noted in posts about some other candidates for the Speaker post, however, the 2021 scores in particular included votes that were not directly environmental, like voting to accept the results of the 2020 election (which applied in Emmer’s case).

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

How SWOT will influence the political balance of power is a question that Faisal Hossain is tasked with understanding. Political sensitivities are an important consideration. In the Mekong basin, Thailand filed a complaint with a regional consultative body in 2020 about China’s dams in the river’s upper reaches.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Here’s how the races are rated by two leading political forecasting outfits: State. But after 2020, if the Republicans control Congress, they could flip the White House to the Republicans even if the Democrats win at the polls. Cortez (D). Open (currently R). Warnock (D). Would that happen?

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 13, 2021

By 2020, over 24 communities had signed onto the Community Renewable Energy Act plan, including Ogden, Orem, and Salt Lake City. There may be hope that the politics of climate change is beginning to detoxify. In 2019, the Utah State Legislature passed the Community Renewable Energy Act (HB 411). Download as PDF.

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PA Environment Daily

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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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

On March 27, 2020, following years of research and evaluation, and months of compromise, professional staff at the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy completed the final permit conditions for livestock farmers to manage manure and other wastes produced by the state’s 291 concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs. .

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 21, 2021

Since late 2020, Iran has received only four inches of rain, 40 percent less than the nation’s long-term average. From December 21, 2020, up to March 20, 2021, we had our worst period in terms of rainfall in the past 52 years,” Ghasem Taghizadeh Khamesi said in April. Recent months have been uncommonly dry.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

While they might seem like a small token of participation, “I Voted” stickers help normalize voting as an expected social norm – political scientists have highlighted that people are more likely to vote when they think that others around them vote, too. Here are some of my favorites!

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Updated analysis from 2020 shows that emissions traced to the 88 largest carbon producers contributed approximately 60 percent?of degrees goal is threatened by political inaction. degrees C is scientifically possible; the reason the world might blow past it is political. Why not just start with renewables?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

But solar is the big winner here, with it’s share of total US capacity increasing from 7% in 2020 to 29% in 2050. Capacity factors for existing natural gas combined cycle plants are cut in half, from nearly 60% in 2020 to below 30% in 2050. EIA also recently reported that US coal exports increased 23% between 2020 and 2021.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Water rates more than doubled between 2010 and 2020, while income of the city’s poorest one-fifth of residents inched up only 12 percent. And political power with it. Just lack of political capital. It came as little surprise when, in 2020, the bill was struck down in federal court for being overly vague.

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

By Dr Romain Mauger, Groningen Centre of Energy Law and Sustainability (GCELS) On 19 November 2020, the Conseil d’Etat (the French supreme administrative court) issued a historic ruling in the Commune de Grande Synthe case , potentially the first step towards a landmark climate litigation outcome in France.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

According to US SIF: The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment, by January 2020, assets using sustainable investing strategies represented a third of all US assets under professional management. LP: Investor demand for ESG products has increased dramatically, and asset managers are listening.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Just look at how protest songs helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement , anti-war demonstrations in the Sixties , anti-police brutality activism in the early 2000’s , and the Black Lives Matter marches of 2020. She’s been extremely successful in affecting political change in the past too. climate speech. shows recently.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

And the company maintains positions on just about every ag and water related board and commission in Kings, giving it considerable political heft. . There is some uncertainty by El Rico GSA with regard to this request because of the hidden nature of Sandridge’s operations,” Wyrick wrote in the June 2020 letter. No,” he said.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In the Nile River basin last week, a political power shift in Sudan could turn up the heat on a long-simmering dispute over a major dam in the region. According to the Bangor Daily News, Maine’s transmission line referendum is the second-most expensive election campaign in state history, behind the 2020 U.S. Senate race.

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JUNE 16, 2022

These “mega-watersheds” have redrawn the map, helping cities and farms to grow large and productive, but also becoming political flashpoints with steep environmental costs. “It The issues there are both environmental and political or social.”. On the other hand, it has consequences. They have depleted water for native fish.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Michigan counts nearly 11,000 agricultural wells, 3,800 of them installed from 2010 to 2020. Michigan now counts nearly 11,000 agricultural wells, 3,800 of them installed from 2010 to 2020. In 2020, farmers and livestock operations used 187 billion gallons of water, double the amount in 2009. Is the state prepared for more?

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 20, 2023

The political dimension is a huge part of the solution to the water crisis,” said Federico Properzi, chief technical adviser of UN-Water. He said that game changers will be those supported by money or political power, or those that can be applied at scale, across multiple areas. But the failures are just as glaring.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 4, 2024

Standing in the voting booth, I asked myself how it was possible that someone like me, who has devoted my career to studying political science and elections and who does research ahead of time, was encountering such difficulties just trying to cast my vote? For example, in 2020 New York, New Mexico, and Arkansas had more than 2.5

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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? Renewables are 42% of electricity. Carbon emissions are 707 billion tons, a 30% cut below 1990 emissions. Climate Action Act is adopted, with a 2050 net-zero target and 55% cuts by 2030 compared with 1990.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Host a webinar series to STEM the Vote In order to bring scientific research and data into discussions on political concerns we organized a STEM the Vote series of webinars focused on the top voter concerns of the 2020 election. The topics included public health, climate change, gun control, education, food security, and immigration.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 19, 2022

The county’s “rights to nature” amendment was passed overwhelmingly by Orlando-area voters in 2020 by a nine-to-one margin. 4) Drought Is Political. And across the American West, Indian tribes are increasingly involved in the political landscape of water. Their plan is due next month. 5) Drought Is Probably the Wrong Word.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

” Lobbying and financially supporting US politicians who block climate action In the 2019-2020 U.S. election cycle, RELX, Elsevier’s parent company, contributed thousands of dollars to the campaigns of political candidates who obstruct action on climate change.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2024

EVP estimates that “over 8 million environmentalists did not vote in the 2020 presidential election and over 13 million skipped the 2022 midterms.” But behind California’s reputation for environmental protection there is a lot of tough political infighting. Environmental Voter Project. Alas, that is not the world we live in.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The pledge is a voluntary agreement to reduce global methane emissions by 30 percent below 2020 levels by 2030. Despite the obvious dangers of fossil fuel production and the multi-decade climate disinformation campaigns fossil fuel producers have perpetrated, the industry still holds political sway.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Oh, and by the way, he didn’t vote to overturn the 2020 election. Finally, although he opposes fracking bans, he supports a plan to invest revenue from fracking into R&D for solar, wind, nuclear, and hydroelectric. Seems almost too good to be true. Download as PDF

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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

A new report finds water and energy use from Oahu hotels did not decrease in 2020 despite lockdown orders. HotSpots H2O: In Afghanistan, Political Upheaval Aggravates Drought-Fueled Famine – Drought, a financial crisis, and political collapse are accelerating the country’s decline into all-out famine. A study from the S.

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New Scientist

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

People in the US who purchased a gun during the pandemic were more likely to support extreme political beliefs and engage in violent behaviour than people who bought a gun before March 2020

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. political and public support) for fossil fuels, but we can tell our elected officials not to fall for CAPP’s pro-oil propaganda and to instead prioritize climate action. billion in 2016 to $11.6

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 13, 2022

The same political power that caused the problem is the same political power that is continuing to over-pump groundwater,” said Jennifer Clary, the California Director of Clean Water Action, a nonprofit advocacy group. The State Water Board says that the plans don’t do enough to protect domestic wells.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Cecil Township is considering an ordinance with a 2,500 foot setback from homes and a 5,000 foot setback from schools and hospitals as recommended in a 2020 Office of Attorney General Grand Jury Report. Read more here. 16 [PaEN] -- EPA Files $4.2 Million Settlement Over 2019 South Philly Refinery Explosion, Fire -- AP: EPA Reaches $4.2

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Of Agriculture: New PA Maple Map Connects Consumers With Maple Products, Businesses -- MCall: Winds, Dry Weather Increase Wildfire Risk In Lehigh Valley, Weather Service Says -- Delaware RiverKeeper Oct. 18 RiverWatch Video Report -- Warren Times: Warren Conservation District, DCNR, FirstEnergy Green Team Plant 2.5 Ohio- $3.03 Ohio- $3.03

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Energy and Climate Law

JUNE 26, 2020

On 1 July the rotating presidency of the European Council is moving for one and a half years to Germany (1/July/2020), Portugal (1/January/2021) and Slovenia (1/July/2021). The three countries that will take over the presidency from 1 July 2020 drew up a unified action programme for the coming years.

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Energy and Climate Law

OCTOBER 7, 2020

13 of European Commission Communication `Stepping up Europe’s 2030 climate ambition Investing in a climate-neutral future for the benefit of our people´ (Communication) COM (2020) 562 final ) and has a rather surprising solution to offer. The European Commission partly admitted this (p.13 It argues: `However, (.)

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