Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Thus, the reasons must relate to psychology or political science, not philosophy. This research is suggestive, but my impression is that there is a lot we still don’t know about political psychology. The combination of authoritarianism, extreme conservative ideology, and anti-environmentalism is common globally, not just in U.S.

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Politics Paris Agreement 2025 Environmental Protection 59

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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Politics 363

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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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 17, 2024

There are significant political movements aligned around rejecting researching and discussing these interventions, let alone doing them. Modeling and predicting the climate is a lot more feasible than doing the same for the weather. Second, no one is doing anything like these proposed interventions now. Download as PDF

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

While lawmakers of all political stripes have for years said they support mid-rise housing, zoning enacted under the Planning Act still prohibits buildings of five storeys or higher on almost all of Ontario’s existing residential lots. million new homes the province will need by 2031.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The program has been so successful in replacing high carbon petroleum-based fuels with lower emissions vehicle fuels that interest groups from all sides of the political spectrum have come forward to demand radical changes that they argue will fix problems.

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Air Pollution Fossil Fuels Greenhouse 2010 279

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

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The legal, political, social, and environmental conditions in an area shape water measurement and reporting practices and whether those practices produce adequate information about water diversion and use to support a water market. ” Here are four key takeaways: 1. Institutional context affects water measurement and reporting.

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Government Politics Climate Change Technology 264

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 334

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2024

F]ull implementation will likely result in ten-fold increase in political hires. Political loyalists would take their place. Schedule F will reach well into agency middle management and impact many experienced and knowledgeable career civil servants with management, science, technical and other specialized expertise. [F]ull

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2025 Politics Natural Resources Climate Change 130

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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Politics Government 2024 305

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Representational sovereignty is the right of Indigenous peoples and other marginalized groups to control how their stories are told and to have a voice in how they are represented in the public sphere—whether in the media or in political decision-making processes.

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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?”

Politics 288

Politics 288

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Fossil fuels, which are central to mitigation discussions but were largely avoided, reflecting ongoing political tensions. Scientists must remain engaged, ensuring the reports reflect the best available evidence, not just what is politically convenient. With AR7 now in motion, the real work begins.

Climate Change 179

Climate Change Carbon Dioxide Technology Technology 179

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Send articles, comments to: PaEnviroDigest@gmail.com. Posted: November 17, 2024] PA Environment Digest

Politics 110

Politics 2024 Conservation 110

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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Politics Climate Scientist Atmosphere 2018 264

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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Politics Technology Technology 2018 260

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

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 19, 2025

Send articles, comments to: PaEnviroDigest@gmail.com. Posted: January 19, 2025] PA Environment Digest

2025 111

2025 Politics Conservation 111

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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Politics Waste Government Law 281

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 26, 2025

Send articles, comments to: PaEnviroDigest@gmail.com. Posted: January 26, 2025] PA Environment Digest

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2025 Politics Conservation 102

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.

Fossil Fuels 278

Fossil Fuels Carbon Dioxide Politics Air Pollution 278

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Also like a sine graph, Union of Concerned Scientists will keep moving forward no matter what (and backward technically, but I am political science major and way out of my depth here, so let’s pretend they only move forward, give me kudos for an awesome simile, and get to the recap!). Much like a sine graph , this year had highs and lows.

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Fossil Fuels Recycling Clean Energy 2004 233

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Send articles, comments to: PaEnviroDigest@gmail.com. Posted: February 23, 2025] PA Environment Digest

2025 90

2025 Politics Conservation 90

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 337

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2025

Send articles, comments to: PaEnviroDigest@gmail.com. Posted: January 12, 2025] PA Environment Digest

2025 111

2025 Politics Conservation 111

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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Law Conservation Politics 2023 317

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Fossil fuels, which are central to mitigation discussions but were largely avoided, reflecting ongoing political tensions. Scientists must remain engaged, ensuring the reports reflect the best available evidence, not just what is politically convenient. With AR7 now in motion, the real work begins.

Climate Change 147

Climate Change Carbon Dioxide Technology Technology 147

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2025

Send articles, comments to: PaEnviroDigest@gmail.com. Posted: March 9, 2025] PA Environment Digest

2025 85

2025 Politics Conservation 85

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.

Politics 276

Politics Law Government Regulations 276

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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2016 Climate Change Politics Carbon Emissions 360

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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Climate Change Paris Agreement Politics Carbon Emissions 329

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 218

Circle of Blue

JANUARY 31, 2025

Many options are on the table even a farfetched pipeline carrying desalinated water from Mexico but they require delicate political negotiation, wads of money, or both. Behind all the political maneuvering is one overriding question: How should Arizonas limited water be used?

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2025 Politics 2024 Technology 245

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Send articles, comments to: PaEnviroDigest@gmail.com. Posted: October 20, 2024] PA Environment Digest

Politics 84

Politics 2024 Conservation 84

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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Climate Change 2010 Carbon Emissions Government 245