Yale E360

DECEMBER 20, 2021

As scientists rapidly improve their ability to decipher past climate upheaval through ice cores and other "proxies,” historians are re-examining previous political and social turmoil and linking it to volcanic eruptions, prolonged droughts, and other disturbances in the natural world. Read more on E360 ?.

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Yale E360

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

What’s needed is “systemic adaptation” that fundamentally changes our economy, our politics, and our priorities in ways that put community and the planet first. Adapting to climate change does not address the societal systems and values that spawned the current crisis. Read more on E360 →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 3, 2021

The John Lewis Voting Rights advancement act must be passed to protect the universal right to vote and keep it free from political influence.

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Yale E360

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The challenges are daunting, but the politics will change when the economic benefits are widely felt. The key to shifting away from fossil fuels is for consumers to begin replacing their home appliances, heating systems, and cars with electric versions powered by clean electricity. Read more on E360 ?.

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Fossil Fuels Electricity Politics 352

Circle of Blue

JANUARY 11, 2023

Ahead of a high-profile UN conference, political forecasters issue water warnings. The World Economic Forum acknowledged once again that ecological shocks such as these reverberate mightily in politics and society. Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy, recently published its risk watch-list for 2023. Water still matters.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2022

First, the article very briefly glosses over the politics of carbon pricing – as the article puts it, “the political reality that taxes are a hard sell.” I think these political constraints are a key reason economists focused so long – too long – on carbon pricing. Politics is central in policy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Florida is a state notorious in recent years for politicizing science-based decisions on Covid-19 and other matters in favor of positions that resonate with an anti-science political base. So, what do we do to protect science-based government decisionmaking processes from political interference at the state level?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It is an important question, ever more urgent in the current political and media environment, in the midst of a pandemic, amid […]. Hotez, Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, wrote an op-ed in the Boston Globe entitled “Who will defend embattled scientists?”

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Politics 312

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A new UCS report found that the oil and gas industry has spent massive amounts of money in Colorado to buy political influence and block public health and environmental safeguards.

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Fossil Fuels Politics Climate Change 290

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

At a time when we are experiencing increased reliance on and benefits from advancements in science, alongside the need to regulate emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence , we need STEM students and professionals to be politically engaged. Scientists have held US political office from national to local levels.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

On November 9, 30 volunteers organized by 2nd Century Alliance and Litter Lifters of West Vincent collected 168 bags of litter, 5 dumped TVs, 6 bikes, a baby stroller, a lawnmower, and over 300 political campaign and business yard signs in Coatesville, Chester County.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2024

But for the first time since the Cold War ended, those numbers are starting to rise, and some political forces in the United States are using fears about China to justify a major expansion of the US nuclear arsenal. In prior wars, peace meant a return to normal. The war machine, having fulfilled its purpose, was dismantled.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A year of financial and political crises have left Pakistan’s economy on a knife-edge. Pakistan, which is already facing political and economic turmoil, has been thrown into the front line of the human-induced climate crisis,” a U.N. statement read earlier this week. .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 20, 2023

We hear a lot of encouraging rhetoric from our political leaders about wanting to preserve an existing international order based on the rule of law. If our governments are currently incapable of doing this, then civil society must step into the breach and take on an essential responsibility our political leaders are neglecting.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JUNE 20, 2023

Despite economic and political distractions, consumers remain focused on sustainability and are willing to pay a premium for products that align with their values.

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Politics 245

Legal Planet

JUNE 24, 2024

Perhaps more importantly there is also a massive imbalance of power and resources between climate justice activists and the political and commercial interests resisting transformative climate action. Climate justice activism has been met with continued political resistance, and in several countries, by moves to suppress and criminalize it.

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Politics Climate Change Climate Scientist 2024 263

Legal Planet

AUGUST 18, 2022

One option, a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, gets the most attention but seems politically impossible. If a carbon tax were politically feasible, there would be a lot to be said in its favor. The problem is that a carbon tax seems out of the question politically. It could be designed to avoid regressive impacts on the poor.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

Client politics, where the benefits are concentrated and the costs are diffuse; 2. Entrepreneurial politics, where the benefits are diffuse and the costs are concentrated; 3. Interest group politics, where the costs and benefits are concentrated; and. Majoritarian politics, where the costs and benefits are diffuse.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Climate action is limited by political will (not technology) In this pivotal moment of history, where the imperative to avert the worst impacts of climate change is clear, the world stands at the cusp of a transformative shift toward a renewable energy paradigm. What’s lacking is political will.

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Fossil Fuels Climate Change Renewable Energy Carbon Dioxide 340

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The political dynamics of decarbonization that Ive sketched out are very specific to time, space, and economic sector. Different political, technological, and economic challenges await decarbonizing other sectors, such as transportation, industry, or housing. Again, the specifics will depend on the technology, politics, and economics.

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Politics Fossil Fuels Electricity Technology 130

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

A large part of what we call politics is creating and propagating perceptions of ourselves, others, the world, and its future. Politics is also a blood sport, and their domestic adversaries will take advantage. Paradoxically, however, autocracy is more congenial to political change if that’s what an autocrat desires.

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Politics Government Technology Technology 246

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The political momentum for water law reform continued apace in 2023, as evidenced by the Legislature’s passage of SB 389. But it’s not the end of the road to water reform; rather, it’s a key step in a larger and longer water reform movement–one that has considerable political momentum behind it.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2024

How can we ensure a long-term commitment to decarbonization in the face of possible retrenchment, and the inevitability of changes in who is in power politically? The result can be renewable lock-in in which renewable and other carbon-free energy sources become dominant both economically and politically. There is a risk here though.

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Fossil Fuels Politics Technology Technology 130

Legal Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

” Assiduously nonpartisan and apolitical, the Little Hoover Commission has garnered widespread respect and praise over its 61-year history from across the political spectrum. new housing legal and political battles: last year, Berkeley residents relied on CEQA to successfully oppose U.C.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

But the effect of greenhouse gases is not even investigated in the paper – which suggests the title is politically motivated. Is it sheer incompetence or is it politically motivated? Let’s hope it was not political on the part of that institution, but just a bad mistake. It is a scandal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

The petitioners who brought this case include state-level political officials and coal companies who are single-mindedly determined to block climate action and perpetuate fossil fuel dependence to serve their narrow political or business interests.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Third, enacting policy is necessarily a political process. Thus, what is politically feasible is an essential component to climate policy. All five of these goals emissions reductions, economic efficiency, technological innovation, political economy, and equity are important. But they will also involve choices.

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Politics Technology Technology Greenhouse 130

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2021

Bernal was politically-minded from a young age. But what galvanized her political consciousness were the Standing Rock protests, a sustained resistance movement of Native American communities against the Dakota Access oil pipeline, beginning in 2016.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Furthermore, climate responses, both practical and political, are viewed and acted upon through a cultural lense. The same is true at the decision-making and political levels, where Indigenous and local communities have not had the platform to speak for themselves, rather than mediated through the voices of others.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 2, 2023

That was his way as a political leader: working tirelessly and proactively to make connections and fight to ensure everyone had the right to a safe and healthy environment. According to scholar and advocate Dr. Passing the EJ for All Act would mark a major step forward in alleviating a legacy of environmental harm and systemic racism.

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Air Pollution Clean Air Act Clean Water Act Fossil Fuels 360

Legal Planet

JANUARY 26, 2024

For much of the last 12 years, state political leadership has prioritized efforts to develop voluntary agreements (VAs) with water users over completing updates to the watershed’s water quality standards. Updates to flow and other regulatory requirements for California’s Bay-Delta watershed are long overdue.

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Regulations Politics 278

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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Politics 2024 Air Pollution Government 290

Legal Planet

JULY 11, 2022

Q: When does an issue have “major political significance”? . A: “Political significance” seems to have a narrow meaning. . Roberts mentions only one thing that bears on political significance: Congress had repeatedly considered but not passed legislation to create a carbon trading market.

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Politics Regulations Law Climate Change 264

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2023

This decision is a political move, not a military one. These weapons, too, are political signals, justified by NATO as a symbol of US commitment, alliance solidarity, and reassurance. But these political signals are still harmful when they come from the United States.

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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. Conflict—triggered by political competition and communal, ethnic, religious or resource allocation rivalries—poses a major threat to democracy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

The increasing threat is influencing South Korean domestic politics, with President Yoon publicly declaring South Korea may consider the option to build its own nuclear weapons. Political purpose – what message is it trying to send? Soon after, Yoon assessed that North Korea had completed preparations for its seventh nuclear test.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 18, 2022

We need a way of understanding white supremacy as an ever emboldened and central fact of our country’s political life. He is an astute political thinker, a powerful public speaker, and a man who has been arrested many times for his convictions. The Poor People’s Campaign offers one such analysis.

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