Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

It has also been reported that between the years of 2002 and 2018 more than 20 million hectares of tropical forests were cleared in the Amazon purely for beef production. Reference list: (1) Steiger Carlos (2006), Modern Beef Production in Brazil and Argentina, Vol. 2 pp 105-110. (2) 2) Geraldo B. 110, pages 173-177. (3)

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

2006) is to associate different carbon storage potentials with different land-use types (Figure 2). World urbanization prospects: The 2018 revision, online edition. Department of Economic and Social Affairs PD New York, NY, 2018). IPCC guidelines for national greenhouse gas inventories 4 , 1–59 (2006). United Nations, D.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

3] California has long led the nation in adoption of environmental rules, including the first motor vehicle emission standards in 1966, energy efficiency standards for appliances in the 1970s, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, and many others. [4] 4] The new corporate climate disclosure bills may well continue that tradition.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

The plaintiffs in lawsuits challenging the cap-and-trade program had argued that it was not authorized by the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 and that the requirement to purchase emissions allowances constituted a tax that required approval by a two-thirds majority of the State legislature.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO from 2006 to 2016. Its 2018 campaign to kill a federal income tax credit for electric vehicle buyers, trotting out the same phony argument it made against wind tax breaks. And Rose did, at times, ask follow-up questions. The 28 extreme weather events collectively caused nearly $93 billion in damage.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

Only 5 percent said so in our 2018 survey. More recently, in May 2022, I testified before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis on the state of scientific integrity at public health agencies and mentioned our 2018 survey findings in my opening remarks and my written testimony.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 8, 2022

11) Global warming, in part, is a result of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. 15) Although Methane’s presence in the atmosphere is less than Carbon dioxide, during a 100-year timeframe, according to the EPA, Methane holds twenty-five times the heat in the atmosphere than Carbon dioxide. (16)

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

32] Part of the reason the planet is greening stems from greater carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and greater planetary warming. [33] Similarly, the 2018 Carr fire burned through areas where there had been treatment of wood fuels over the last three decades. 6 (2018), [link]. [25] 8] Xiaoping Liu et al., 9] Christopher D.

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ESA

JANUARY 9, 2023

Appropriators increase the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s budget $6.2 The Supreme Court failed to reach a consensus in the 2006 Rapanos v. Lucas and Johnson had a strong bi-partisan partnership after Democrats retook the House in 2018. million, a $94.5 million increase. billion, a nearly 5.5%

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

3692 ), which requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to develop climate impact management plans for marine mammals that are at significant risk due to climate change. Christiansen became the Forest Service chief in March 2018, after former Chief Tony Tooke resigned amid allegations of misconduct. 1816 & H.R.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The guidebook was originally published as a PDF in 2018 and then updated and adapted to a website in 2022. The fungal infection was first discovered in New York in 2006 and is now found in most of the tricolored bat’s range, which spans North America. NASEM: The Board on Atmospheric Science and Climate released a review of the U.S.

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