Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Some of the resulting statutes passed included the Vermont Global Warming Solutions Act of 2020, which held Vermont to even stronger goals than the Paris Agreement, and the 2017 Climate Change Scoping Plan Update, which created an extensive plan for California to achieve its climate goals.

Paris Agreement

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 21, 2025

Billion Shortfall, Top Republican Says -- Inquirer Guest Essay: Transportation In Pennsylvania Is A Bipartisan Issue - By Former Governors Mark Schweiker and Ed Rendell -- Beaver Times/Spotlight PA: After Minnesota Shootings, Some PA Lawmakers Seek Privacy, Personal Protection Increase -- Dept.

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 22, 2024

It’s perhaps not surprising then that Congress has provided the majority of DRF funding through the often last minute, politically fraught supplemental appropriations.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

APRIL 1, 2025

From fiction to reality: Borgen and Greenlands 2025 political shake-up Precise measurements A study published last month in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change compares satellite imagery in the northern hemisphere that tracked receding glaciers from 2000 to 2020.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2025

Its receipt of seed deposits peaked in 2020 with the receipt of 60,000 samples. The seed vault is the world’s largest and most significant seed bank. Since its inauguration in 2008, it has accumulated the safe storage of 1.3 million seeds.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

27] A large hole in Friedmans Maximization Model is his assumption that business and its profit calculations are separable from the political system that is supposed to adopt laws to control pollution and other externalities. As Paul Hawken wrote more than 30 years ago: There is no polite way to say business is destroying the world. [39]

Law

Yale E360

APRIL 4, 2025

The AI model was trained on detailed satellite data, from 2014 to 2020, on lightning strikes, weather, and other factors. Geothermal May Advance, Despite Political Headwinds Food & Agriculture In War Zones, a Race to Save Key Seeds Needed to Feed the World Climate Lightning Strikes the Arctic: What Will It Mean for the Far North?

2014

Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2025

Consequently, the Court found that the defendants had been in default since December 18, 2020, when the UNFCCC Secretariat received an updated EU NDC. The POK Assessment also noted that 29 percent of the existing measures were not properly implemented. Both parties appealed against this judgement.

Paris Agreement

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

It examines the implications of the 2010 earthquake on toxic waste management, and how the nations ongoing political crisis exacerbates the challenges of waste regulation. 13, 2020), [link] [6] Glenn R. Haiti and the politics of governance and community responses to Hurricane Matthew, Disaster Health. million people.[3]

Waste

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 24, 2025

Lets look at Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who shares many political views with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith (at least until the current spat over using oil as leverage with President Trumps threatened tariffs). That was then and this is now, and today Ontario faces a growing political challenge – affordability. MT in 2020, or 13.5

Government

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2025

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Shapiro -- PennLive: Gov. Shapiro Issues Sharp Rebuke To President Over Treatment Of Ukrainian Leader; PA Home To 150,000 Ukranians -- Gov. Ohio- $2.80 PA- $3.32 -- Independent Fiscal Office Reports 2024 PA Natural Gas Production Down 1.8%, PA Natural Gas Price Up 19.1%

Politics

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2025

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Shapiro Says Presidents Tariff Plan Makes No Sense; Only Means Higher Prices For Pennsylvanians; Why Did He Do It? -- Post-Gazette: Shapiro, Fetterman Responses To President Spotlight Political Differences, Challenges For Democrats -- Gov. Ohio- $2.80

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 26, 2025

After the United States’ targeted killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in 2020 , Iran stated that it would no longer limit its uranium enrichment activities. While the other parties continued to uphold their end of the deal, Iran began to gradually exceed its limits, though the IAEA continued to monitor Iran’s activities.

2003

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2025

The dollar costs of a ton of CO 2 emitted in 2020, using a 2% discount rate, are $190. This is not just ordinary politics and run-of-the-mill disagreements on policy details. These estimates are based on cutting-edge climate science and economics, and went through an extensive peer-review and public comment process.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

US 2020 election: Analysis – Georgia paves way for a climate-ambitious Biden administration If we are to believe the polls, Trump and Harris are neck and neck only three days out from election day. The only choice for climate action Harris has pledged to carry on with Biden ’s ambitious climate agenda and even go further.

2024

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

However, during the 2018-2020 time period, NWDO [Northwest District Office] staff became aware that the operator had stopped operating the wells and had started another business venture. That we are still leaving this up to taxpayers and political whims. Click Here for written testimony.

Waste

Yale E360

MARCH 24, 2025

For the research , published in Nature Climate Change , scientists tracked the movement of 1,500 coastal glaciers from 2000 to 2020, finding that retreating ice had unveiled hundreds of miles of coastline, largely in Greenland.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

. -- Environmental Groups File Notice Of Intent To Sue The Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County For Air Pollution Violations: Similar Action In 2023 Resulted In $10 Million Settlement [PaEN] -- Low-Flow Water Conditions Trigger Big Jump In Susquehanna River Basin Water Withdrawal Restrictions, Most Shale Gas-related [PaEN] -- Chesapeake Bay Program: (..)

Nuclear Power

A Greener Life

APRIL 28, 2025

As Canadians prepare to vote in the 2025 federal election, Carneys green credentialsonce a defining feature of his political risehave been tempered by economic realpolitik. Carney and his advisers would likely have identified that the Conservatives had used this as a political football, and they felt they had no choice.

2025

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Many activities involve multiple agencies, and that’s true for activities with support across the political spectrum. Indeed, the 2020 CEQ regulations specifically provided that they overrode any inconsistent NEPA procedures adopted by the agencies.

Regulations

Acoel

APRIL 23, 2025

In 2020, I was asked by my alma mater, Brandeis, to share my views with students on a number of environmental topics. Recognize that environmental dialogue and decision-making should be based on science and fact, not political ideology. My title, which was posted during the COVID crisis, reflected the notion of seeking common ground.

Law

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

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 2, 2025

Of Justice Agreement -- Interfaith Partners For The Chesapeake Bay: Sept. Of Justice Agreement -- Interfaith Partners For The Chesapeake Bay: Sept.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

MAY 13, 2025

JB Ruhl and I examined this dynamic in The Greens Dilemma and it has become a concern shared on both sides of the political aisle. In the current political landscape, where challenges to environmental protections are coming fast and furious, plans for permitting reform legislation may seem a second order concern.

Environmental Protection

Legal Planet

MARCH 7, 2025

So Donald Trump has imposed massive tariffs on Canada and Mexico, and then paused them, and then imposed them again, and then paused them — as always, he is the master of political coitus interruptus. In only one year did they really drop precipitously: 2020, when COVID hit and the economy collapsed.

Climate Scientist

Circle of Blue

APRIL 1, 2025

Greenlands political leaders already favor water export as an economic opportunity. Its report , published in 2020, noted that the Government of Greenland actively supports the prospect of drinking water export from this immense resource. President Trumps escalating threats are dangerous and indecent.

Ocean

Legal Planet

JANUARY 17, 2025

And the state passed a law relatively recently, AB 3074 (2020), directing CALFIRE to adopt fire safety rules, often called zone zero rules, that would provide guidance aboutwhat should and should not be in the spaceimmediately next to a house. The very idea is abhorrent, when families of all political stripes are in desperate straits.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2025

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Billion In Products To China In 2024] -- Financial Times: China Says It Can Live Without US Farm, Energy Goods [PA Exported $3.1 Ohio- $3.18 Billion In Farm Products To China In 2023] -- AP: US Economy Shrinks 0.3%

Politics

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2024

By Melissa Ostroff & Charlie Palladino, EarthWorks With the incoming Trump administration planning rollbacks on climate progress, political leadership in heavy oil and gas-producing states like Pennsylvania must step up now more than ever. It just takes political will.

Natural Gas

A Greener Life

MARCH 10, 2025

In 2021, Greenpeace analysis found that after Carney joined Brookfield Asset Management as a vice chair in 2020, it had invested billions of dollars in fossil fuel projects, including a coal port and an oil sands pipeline. There are also concerns that Carney would still support continued investments in tar sands.

2025

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2025

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Shapiro -- PA Capital-Star: Gov. Shapiro Slams Presidents Tariffs As 'Disastrous, Reckless Policy That Will Drive Up Costs On Consumers, Businesses In Pennsylvania -- MCall: Gov. Billion In Products To China , $2.6 Ohio- $3.18

Politics

Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

With some exceptions, federal agencies formerly defending Biden administration climate actions requested that the cases be held in abeyance to allow new political leadership time to be briefed on the litigation and to determine how to proceed. Courts have generally granted these requests.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Nonetheless, potential policy changes in three areas could undercut new energy investment under a second Trump administration: protectionist trade measures and deglobalization; regulatory uncertainty and political risk; and fiscal and monetary policy. Regulatory Uncertainty And Political Risk Energy is a quintessentially global business.

2025

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Shapiro -- The Center Square: Shapiros Office Deleted Emails Relevant To Sexual Misconduct Complaint -- Spotlight PA: Thousands In Limbo As Shapiro Administration Again Tries To Convince Lawmakers To Fund Home Repair Program -- PennLive: Gov. Ohio- $2.92

Politics

ESA

AUGUST 5, 2025

But as you can imagine, things in our world became rather tumultuous at that time, and it felt like an all-out sprint just to keep up with developments in the political realm, so we’re later than usual in pulling this report together. But this isn’t normal, is it?

2024

PA Environment Daily

JULY 11, 2025

Read more here In addition to supporting the initiative and pointing out her personal experiences with shale gas drilling in her community, she referenced the 2020 state Grand Jury Report which found the state failed to protect citizens from the health and environmental impacts of the shale gas industry.

Natural Gas

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Troubled waters ahead as BP lowers its climate ambition The influential investor was critical of the green energy-focused strategy former CEO Bernard Looney initiated in 2020 and has lobbied hard for the company to change course. Why are fossil fuel giants abandoning net-zero? Is BP finally moving beyond petroleum?

Fossil Fuels