Yale E360

OCTOBER 6, 2022

High-profile initiatives to plant millions of trees are being touted by governments around the world as major contributions to fighting climate change. But scientists say many of these projects are ill-conceived and poorly managed and often fail to grow any forests at all. Read more on E360 ?.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

These include: Data collection and data deserts The impact of climate change and infrastructure resilience Jurisdictional overlap and gaps While these issues do not represent the entirety of the challenges and opportunities facing Indian country, I think they highlight the three most common transportation issues across Tribal governments.

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Yale E360

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Researchers are citing the health impacts on downstream villages, but the government has yet to act to stem the widespread use of the highly toxic chemical. A boom in small-scale gold mining in Bolivia has raised concerns about pollution from mercury used in the mining process. Read more on E360 →.

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Legal Planet

MAY 6, 2024

Is it unconstitutional for the government to build a levee that reduces the risk of urban flooding but diverts the water to nearby farmlands? The answer could be yes, unless the government pays for flood easements on the rural lands. But if the government doesn’t build the levee, it faces no liability from the urban landowners.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 20, 2022

Government dysfunction has multiplied drought risks. Water levels behind Impofu Dam — which forms the second-largest reservoir in Nelson Mandela Bay district — dropped too low for extraction on June 13, according to data released by the local government. The national government has taken over in a last-minute bid to avert disaster.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

To expand and modernize the nation’s electric infrastructure, the federal government recently announced new funding. This continues a 100-year-old tradition of government shaping the electric grid.

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Yale E360

JANUARY 8, 2024

Forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon was down 50 percent, year on year, in 2023, according to government figures. Read more on E360 →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Source: Olamide Martins Ogunlade The conference brought together representatives from local communities, grassroots leaders, civil society organizations, government officials, women’s groups, youth movements, environmental advocates, and international allies, toward the goals of advancing a just energy transition and building climate resilience.

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Scientific American

DECEMBER 20, 2024

As the bird flu virus moved into cows and people, sluggish federal action, deference to industry and neglect for worker safety put the country at risk

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Critically, AB 3233 clarifies and confirms local government authority to regulate, and even prohibit outright, oil and gas operations. In so doing, the law acknowledges the traditional role of local governments in exercising land use controls to protect the public health and safety of their residents.

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Yale E360

MARCH 22, 2022

But fear of the country’s authoritarian government has silenced the project’s critics. A massive hydroelectric dam under construction in Tanzania threatens to flood part of a famed game reserve and deprive villages and mangrove forests of the water they depend on, experts warn. Read more on E360 ?.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 20, 2024

It offers a critical mechanism through which members of the public can have a direct say in the decisions our government is making. Four key steps Several studies suggest that trust in government is strongly associated with whether the public feels that government is responsive to their feedback.

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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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Yale E360

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Since attorney and activist Tiza Mafira cofounded PlasticDiet Indonesia in 2013, the group has helped more than 100 local governments pass single-use plastic bag bans and is now tackling straws, cutlery, and sachets. Next up: slashing subsidies for petrochemical companies. Read more on E360 →

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Environment + Energy Leader

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Growing scrutiny from responsible business practices from shareholders, regulators and other stakeholders is driving a boom in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting. The post Integrate Your Supply Chain to Meet ESG Objectives appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 22, 2023

Since local and state governments are on the frontlines of paying for worsening wildfires, they should also be on the leading edge of holding fossil fuel companies accountable. Perhaps less obvious is the importance of state and local governments in holding the fossil fuel industry accountable. Source: CCST 2020. Source: YouTube.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Taken together, the need for governments to meaningfully regulate these super polluters has never been clearer. Advisory opinions provide a court or judge’s interpretation of a law, and are delivered in response to a question from an official, agency, or government.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In Facilitating Equity-Oriented Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Investments , we examine three process strategies that governments and community stakeholders can employ to design equity-oriented EV infrastructure investments, including community oversight councils, participatory budgeting, and Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 24, 2024

On the ground, this means communities, local, state and the federal government, territories and tribes have less time to prepare for the next event and less time to respond after an event. According to FEMA’s latest report , the DRF could be more than $6.8 billion in the red by September.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

So, what do we do to protect science-based government decisionmaking processes from political interference at the state level? Decisions by state governments impact the health and safety of all their residents so we should push them to use the best available science and not politicize it. Our report offers many recommendations.

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Yale E360

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The city of Linhares, Brazil, has granted legal personhood to the waves at the mouth of the Dolce River, the first instance in which a government has conferred rights upon part of the ocean. Read more on E360 →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 19, 2022

New Jersey has formed a commission to create recommendations for solar panel recycling, and North Carolina directed their Department of Environmental Quality to adopt rules for governing panels’ end-of-life management in utility-scale projects. The federal government has a role to play, too. The US could create similar rules here.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JANUARY 4, 2023

Since acquiring Golder Associates, WSP has been able to take advantage of increasing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) trends and achieve exceptional strategic growth to fulfill the rising need for environmental services and sustainably sound infrastructure development.

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Yale E360

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Deforestation in the Colombian Amazon is down 70 percent, year on year, through the first nine months of 2023, the government estimates. Read more on E360 →

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2024

As quick background, the basic driver for a PES approach is that we need much more funding to conserve natural capital than philanthropy and governments can provide. This can happen through stringent government regulation, reputation, private certification, or some combination of these. The need could not be more critical.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 31, 2023

This month, the federal government will officially (and in my opinion, prematurely) end the pandemic food assistance expansion. Few would know that the poverty threshold in the United States originated in the 1960s and was determined using the cost of a government-determined diet in 1963. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 10, 2024

A landmark ruling in the Swiss Women’s case criticized governments for not acting in line with science and unequivocally stated that inadequate government action on climate change constitutes a violation of human rights. The other two cases were dismissed due to procedural issues, not due to the merits of the cases.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 26, 2023

State government units. Moreover, agencies can apparently give greater responsibility to local government units (which aren’t covered by subsection (G)) and to state governments for actions that are federally regulated but not federally funded. This seemingly simple language will not be quite so simple to implement.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 10, 2024

He did so without ever notifying federal officials of those diversions, much less paying the federal government for the millions of dollars worth of water Falaschi ordered stolen from the CVP. for sports and concert tickets, private slot machines, etc. At that point, Falaschi resigned from his position as general manager of the District.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Governments and developers should work to educate the public about the safety mechanisms incorporated into battery storage systems. Codes and standards are typically developed by model code-making organizations, then become law when adopted by state or local governments. Fire department preparedness is incredibly important.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

In the past two years, however, the things have started trending upward after years of inaction by conservative governments. As in the US, Australia’s climate policy was long a victim of a lengthy period of divided government and political upheaval. As in the United States, state governments made some effort to pick up the slack.

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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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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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Legal Planet

APRIL 8, 2024

Probably the more serious barrier to adaptation is that Nigeria has what is politely referred to as a governance problem. US AID is pretty blunt about this: “There are roadblocks to a strong democracy in Nigeria at all levels of government. If that continues, it will be hard-pressed to find the resources to adapt to climate change.

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Yale E360

AUGUST 28, 2023

Critics are concerned the deals will not benefit Africans and will just help foreign governments perpetuate high emissions. A company established by a Dubai sheikh is finalizing agreements with African nations to manage vast tracts of their forests and sell the carbon credits. Read more on E360 →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

It also encourages badly needed reforms inside and outside of government and will help create new political coalitions. These government efforts highlight Germany’s commitment to not just setting climate goals but also ensuring their practical realization through legal means.

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