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Climate Attribution and the Willow Project: Federal Obligations to Evaluate the Effects of Fossil Fuel Leasing on Endangered Species

Law Columbia

2011) ; Regehr et al. 2003) (finding that NOAA’s defined “action area” was unreasonably narrow because it excluded areas where project impacts were “perhaps less direct but no less certain to occur”). This kind of closed loop, circular reasoning is inappropriate when addressing the impacts of a massive fossil fuel project.

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Green on Top: Zoning Against Climate Change with Green-Roof Legislation

Vermont Law

As Catherine Malina wrote in a Georgetown International Environmental Law Review article in 2011, however, green-roof zoning laws could be effective and cost-efficient options to mitigate heat pollution from urban microclimates known as. In fact, EPA estimates that “a city with 1 million people or more can be 1.8–5.4°F

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Third District Addresses Significant CEQA Issues In Mixed Decision On Placer County’s EIR For Specific Plan/Rezoning Allowing Development of Martis Valley Timberlands

CEQA Developments

City of Rocklin (2011) 197 Cal.App.4th The widening was approved as a policy matter in 2003 when County approved the MVCP, the EIR for which stated that there would be a separate environmental study in the future if and when Caltrans moved forward with the project. Citing Clover Valley Foundation v.

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Climate Feedback Unscientifically Confuses "Disasters" & Weather Events & Endorses Pseudoscientific Claim That We Are in A "Sixth Mass Extinction"

Environmental Progress

In 2011, the British scientific journal Nature published an article titled “Species-Area Relationships Always Overestimate Extinction Rates from Habitat Loss.” Two authors, Daniel Swain and Hausfather, admit my claim, “Fires have declined 25% around the world since 2003,” is accurate, but somehow misleading. more land and wind 5.8x

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Bad science and bad ethics in Peter Gleick’s Review of “Apocalypse Never” at Yale Climate Connections

Environmental Progress

Gleick claims they did not claim fossil fuels were scarce in the 1970s, and points to a book published in 2003 where Holdren said, “What environmentalists mainly say on this topic is not that we are running out of energy, but that we are running out of environment…” But I make this exact point in Apocalypse Never.

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9th Compendium Of Studies On Health & Environmental Harms From Natural Gas Development Released - ‘The Rapidly Expanding Body Of Evidence Compiled Here Is Massive, Troubling And Cries Out For Decisive Action’

PA Environment Daily

in ecology from the University of Michigan, is the author of a trilogy of award-winning books on environmental health and from 2003-2021 served as the Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. Sandra Steingraber , Senior Scientist with the Science & Environmental Health Network , holds a Ph.D.

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Raytheon Makes Nuclear War More Likely

Corp Watch

And in 2003 Raytheon agreed to pay $3.9 USA: Drone protest leads to arrest at Tucson’s Raytheon Missile Systems The Nuclear Resister | October 3, 2011 dozen activists gathered outside of Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, Arizona at 7 a.m. In 1993, Raytheon paid out $3.7 million to settle U.S. million radar contract. Residents in St.