Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

To avoid the worst of these impacts, it is critical that we rapidly implement actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build resilience to the effects of a changing climate. Local governments – cities, counties, and special districts – are critical for successful implementation for several reasons.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

This optimizing includes where we put our cities and how we designed our infrastructure. Climate change puts us in the position of companies that optimized inventory costs with just-in-time reliance on China, only to see the system collapse during COVID. If you turn up your thermostat 2 ºC (about 3.6

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Hurricane season just ended on November 30. Just like in 2021, a lot of us may be thinking “it was not too bad.” Issues related to the power grid (turned inoperable after María) and the government handling of its “recovery” led to confusion, chaos, and more suffering for Puerto Ricans. And then there are the hurricanes.

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Washington Nature

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Thirty years ago, Washington state passed the Growth Management Act (GMA) to help our cities and counties accommodate rapid growth, while protecting what makes the Evergreen state a great place to live: working farms, healthy rivers and forests, vibrant cities, and a beautiful, mountainous rural landscape. A farm in Carnation, Wash.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

During my more than two decades of federal service, I learned many things about the function of government. Funding can act as a transformative force, not just holding things together but enabling innovation and repair, much like duct tape’s ability to fix and enhance. has ever seen.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 4, 2024

We must not forget that at that time the economic options for Black Americans were scarcely more than sharecropping on former plantations or brutal industrial labor in northern cities; political and social freedoms were systematically denied. But how can we do things right? Sometimes telling a story is the best way to explain an idea.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2022

For several years, India’s capital of Delhi has been synonymous with awful air quality: just living there is the equivalent of smoking nearly 2,000 cigarettes a year. Check out Siddharth Singh’s wonderful book, The Great Smog Of India , for more). Air Pollution In A Bombay Garbage Dump: More Work Where That Came From.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

With summer largely over, a priority in the coming cooler months should be to use this respite to build equitable resilience to next year’s inevitable deadly heat. Basic inequities of keeping cool Climate change causes harm and suffering primarily by creating and exacerbating weather extremes, like extreme heat.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 24, 2022

What was rare is becoming more common. But today, in places like Nenana, Alaska and Dawson City, Yukon, river ice breakup often occurs around a week earlier than a century ago. In this case what used to be quite rare (only once in a generation, or once in a lifetime) is now more common. to 1% chance in any year ).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

A human rights-based approach to cultural heritage protection is an essential cornerstone for climate justice and just resilience, but it often seems completely missing from the climate policy equation. World Heritage cities such as Venice, Italy, and Hoi An, Vietnam, are threatened.

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Washington Nature

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In the face of a changing climate, it’s become clear that the GMA also needs to be updated to respond to the climate crisis by addressing our need to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and building community resilience. Thanks to the collaborative hard work of many, it has been re-introduced as HB 1181 this legislative session.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

Unfortunately, the Minnesota Legislature failed to act on climate and clean energy investments this session, leaving progress toward a more affordable, equitable, healthy Minnesota on the table. billion in benefits from the LRTP Tranche 1 portfolio of investments, versus a cost estimate of just $2.8 That’s where MISO comes in.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2023

But as a climate scientist, I know the reasons why these changes are happening— climate change and forest management , to name two—and I’m acutely aware of the evidence that’s shown how western wildfires are burning larger areas more severely and over a lengthening period of the year. The fire’s footprint includes 69% of the park.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Much of this air pollution comes from diesel trucks rumbling along the state’s many highway corridors, in particular I-95 which connects many major cities along the East Coast. What we don’t avoid by reducing global warming emissions, we’ll have to make up for in climate resilience measures. I love living in Maryland.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 24, 2021

Lewis, Brooklyn College (City University of New York). We didn’t plan to research green gentrification, and then resilience gentrification, we confronted it as part of our lived experience as environmental sociologists. During our research in 2012, Hurricane Sandy hit New York city and flooded the Gowanus neighborhood.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Amid a three-year-long lead contamination crisis in the city’s water system, residents are still advised to drink only bottled water. Worse yet, the rising water rates in this impoverished southwest Michigan city of 9,100 people still haven’t been enough to cover the city’s cost to maintain its water system.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Stormwater sewers are being overwhelmed by more intense storms. . A group of researchers is instead helping cities use their current systems better. . Kerkez says a rainstorm doesn’t hit a city the same way everywhere at the same time. Kerkez says a rainstorm doesn’t hit a city the same way everywhere at the same time. “So

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 13, 2022

We already have so many of the foundational technological building blocks of the clean energy transition at hand: renewables, energy efficiency, energy storage, and pathways to electrifying a vast array of energy end uses. That means more time spent on tackling vested interests head-on. And yet, we aren’t.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

DECEMBER 15, 2023

After heavy grazing, a mixed summer forage is still building soil. Last week’s post highlighted the stories of farmers who have used practices from the Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry practice list to build climate resilience and mitigation solutions. The mix includes sorghum-sudangrass, sunn hemp, cowpeas, and millet.

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Washington Nature

AUGUST 2, 2023

By Anya Blaney  © Lylianna Allala Lylianna Allala, Climate Justice Director for the City of Seattle, discusses the connection between nature and culture, her work to address environmental inequities, and her vision for a future where marginalized communities can thrive in the face of climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The latest UpStream newsletter from Chester County-based Stroud Water Research Center features articles on a new educational program bring stream life to you, shows how adding green space can reduce flooding and that you’re never too old to learn how to build soil health. Click Here to read the article. Click Here to read the article.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 12, 2021

Reuters reports that the call came after state media and the environmental ministry made unannounced visits to cities and prefectures in the watershed and secretly shot footage. It’s not just one fire. The recordings took place over three months and revealed a number of ecological issues, including water scarcity and pollution.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JUNE 1, 2022

So, they set out to better understand how historical housing policies and flood hazard zones have unequally effected various communities within our city. The Academy reached out to learn more. Ultimately, I want to work with climate resiliency and environmental justice. Tell us about yourselves. .

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Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2022

For more than a decade of leadership and innovation, member states and provinces of the Governors’ Climate and Forests (GCF) Task Force have been developing strategies, programs, investment plans, and new legal structures to address tropical deforestation, embark on a low-emissions development path, and benefit their populations and the climate.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2023

Funding just one but not the other is a problem , because without both we won’t be able to expand public transit at the scale and pace necessary to meet our climate goals. Because cars that are bought typically stay on the road for 15 years or more – there is a big delay between new cars becoming electric and all cars becoming electric.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2023

What does it take to create a more sustainable region? But the region’s many nonprofits, municipalities, and businesses haven’t always compared notes on how best to promote a healthy and resilient region where everyone can thrive. Each working group collectively develops regional targets for a more just and sustainable region.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 13, 2022

If the agencies in charge of the canals don’t fix them, water deliveries to thousands of farms and some cities across the valley’s $25 billion agricultural economy will continue to be affected, impacting everyone from farm owners to low-wage farmworkers. But there’s an issue with the sales pitch.

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Washington Nature

DECEMBER 5, 2023

As 2023 draws to a close, Jamie Stroble, Director of Climate Action and Resilience reflects on the link between healthy community relationships and a healthy climate. She lists several ways every person can contribute to a thriving planet. She lists several ways every person can contribute to a thriving planet.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The Governor approved a notable slate of climate legislation with a package that includes more stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets and measures designed to reduce the state’s reliance on fossil fuels. The ambitious new target will require much more drastic reduction tactics across all sectors of California’s economy.

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Washington Nature

APRIL 9, 2021

By Hannah Kett, Cities Program Manager As we move into Spring, city streets and the trees around them reflect the changing season as leaves emerge. These projects are an opportunity to contribute to the health and resiliency of communities. A Dirt Corps leader works with youth learning how to care for urban trees.

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Washington Nature

APRIL 24, 2023

The Washington State Legislature has adjourned for the 2023 session, and our team is reflecting on some of our biggest successes, and where we can build to from here. Learn more. Our teams worked tirelessly to advance our priorities and be a voice for nature in Olympia. TNC Forest Manager at Ellsworth Creek Preserve.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Ferocious monsoon floods submerged one-third of Pakistan, devastating the agriculture sector in Sindh province, displacing 8 million people, and killing more than 1,700. They are also a result of poor decisions about where to build, what to subsidize, or how to allocate land and water. Economies were not spared.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 26, 2022

Philadelphia was approved as one of just 16 communities across the U.S. In an average year, heat kills more people in the U.S. In Philadelphia, the Department of Public Health found that hotter temperatures due to climate change will cause more heat-related illness and death as the years go on. Brooklyn, N.Y.,

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2023

Sister Jean continued, “We are grateful to the Pennsylvania Solar Center for their leadership in solar energy and for helping to guide individuals and organizations in Pennsylvania to make choices that will create more resilient communities.” “At This is one of several regional awards programs held by the PA Solar Center.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

MAY 13, 2021

Competition to remain resilient protects all of us. Back in 2005, I wrote my first paper in this tradition and then I just kept going. Will Climate Change Cause Enormous Social Costs for Poor Asian Cities? ," Asian Development Review , MIT Press, vol. While this has obvious costs, it offers at least one benefit. Kahn, 2005. "

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

acre water-permeable green parking lot along Corrigan Drive and Brownsville Road, just about the historic fairgrounds. Overall, these improvements have made the AgWorks system more sustainable and provided multiple growing solutions for students and community members. Completed in December 2021, the county installed a 2.5-acre

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 16, 2022

More than six months have gone by since record-breaking tornadoes tore through western Kentucky the evening of December 10th into the early morning of the 11th. Evidence is accumulating that climate change contributes to conditions that provide more power to storms capable of producing tornadoes. Heroes like my mom and dad.

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