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The Future is : Gender Inclusion in Climate Crisis Solutions

Vermont Law

Countless research has warned of the climate catastrophe that will happen if anthropogenic carbon emissions continue to rise: sea-level rise will accelerate, tropical storms will occur in greater number with greater severity, and droughts will grow harsher and longer. (1) Rainey & G. Gaard, supra note 4.

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Seven essential books on energy and climate change

Edouard Stenger

For example nuclear energy has become uneconomic if not exhorbitant and clean coal is still not a reality (although this might change ). – Factor Five (2009). Author Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker contends that our economies could use five times less energy and still achieve the same levels of comfort.

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May 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Circuit’s January opinion vacating EPA’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants. Lawsuit Sought to Compel Response to Petition for Reconsideration of 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding. 15,2 2009). Louisiana v.

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May 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Columbia Climate Law

The plaintiffs alleged among other things that the defendants the two projects’ cumulative impacts on carbon emissions. A climate change-related argument rejected by the trial court—that sea level rise projections in the Plan were too high and not based on best available science—did not appear to have been before the appellate court.

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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The plaintiffs alleged that Peabody (and a number of other fossil fuel companies) caused greenhouse gas emissions that resulted in sea level rise and damage to their property. The anti-backsliding study was due in June 2009, 18 months after EISA’s enactment. Attorney General of New York , No. __ (N.Y.

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1,198 New Stories In 2021 - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA - Is Your Story Being Told?

PA Environment Daily

Check Out C-SAW -- Trout Unlimited, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers New R.I.S.E Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4 Posted: December 26, 2021] PA Environment Digest

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Policy News: October 8, 2021

ESA

Among other provisions, the bill directs the Forest Service to create a voluntary carbon credit system in which non-federal entities can provide funds to the Forest Service to contract and implement projects designed to increase carbon sequestration or avoid carbon emissions.

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