Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Image by Danielle Anz It’s been three months now since 16 young plaintiffs suing the state of Montana for climate harms piled into a Helena courtroom so small that the attorneys worried whether everyone would fit. Montana was monumental for many reasons: it was the first-ever constitutional climate trial in the U.S.;

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In 2023, the court issued two major decisions relating to climate change. In upholding the PUC, the court said that the commission was “charged with protecting the right to a life-sustaining climate system.” Sunoco , involved a suit against oil companies for their role in fostering climate change. It deserves more.

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MARCH 29, 2023

Just last week, we heard that with regard to climate change, “ humanity is on thin ice—and that ice is melting fast.” Yet policymakers still use the disinformation playbook to deceive and misinform the public about climate change, at the expense of our well-being and our future. No kidding, Senator. Source: Google maps.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2022

As the world heads into COP27 , there is no room for bad information on climate change in our major newspapers. Allow me to share the latest on what’s happening in Greenland based on information from scientists whose major focus includes study of the ice sheet and the Arctic region. Surprising?

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The fifth international conference on regional climate ( ICRC 2023 ), organised by World Climate Research Programme’s ( WCRP ) coordinated downscaling experiment ( CORDEX ), has just completed. It worked impressively well, and the CORDEX ICRC 2023 streaming is available from the WCRP CORDEX YouTube channel.

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MARCH 28, 2023

The ARA is comprehensive, science-based legislation that covers many topics related to environmental and climate concerns in agriculture, including conservation on both agricultural and pasture land, renewable energy, and food loss and waste. On top of these trends, the impacts of climate change are accelerating.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

A friend asked me if a discussion paper published on Statistics Norway’s website, ‘ To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions? ’, was purposely timed for the next climate summit ( COP28 ). I don’t know the answer to his question. But this discussion paper is problematic for sure.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Each year since 1995, the countries of the world have gathered to negotiate what to do about climate change. They do so under the auspices of the Framework Convention on Climate Change , the universally adopted climate change treaty that sets a goal of avoiding dangerous interference with the climate system.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Since this is Black History Month, I thought it would be appropriate to talk about some of the prominent contributions by Blacks to understanding and addressing climate change. He has pioneered computer modeling of climate change. Washington at a meeting of climate modelers in the 1990s. … He looked like me!’

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2024

Beyond this year’s measurements, it’s critical to consider what our snow levels mean for water management in a warming climate, and what needs to change so we can better prepare for the future. The scenery I saw before me is undergoing serious transformations, with critical implications for the whole state.

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JULY 19, 2021

Environmental health has always been of concern to me, as it is to many of us.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 7, 2023

But to hear climate lawsuits against other companies, the plaintiffs would need to show that the lawsuits have enough of a relationship to California to justify suing here. In their efforts to get the cases into federal court, the oil companies argued that federal law bars state lawsuits about climate change.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So it shocked me when the Indian Express reported that last week, Bombay’s air was even worse than Delhi’s. This isn’t about a freak weather pattern: it is about climate. Wind is famously difficult to model, but climate researchers have concluded that climate change is stopping wind and changing wind patterns.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2023

We are at the height of Danger Season , the time of year when extreme weather events driven by climate change are most prevalent across North America. The power sector is the second highest source of climate pollution in the U.S. thus, it is crucial that we address carbon emissions from power plants.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2023

My commute now mostly consists of the distance from my bedroom to the laptop in my home office (with a short detour to the kitchen for coffee) because I’m fortunate enough to have a job and employer that allows me to work from home. And while I miss seeing my colleagues in person, at times I also miss my commute! Parking is also cheaper.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 29, 2024

According to WBUR , some legislators around the country are so pleased with how well CERCLA works that they have proposed a “Climate Superfund Act,” replicating CERCLA in order to fund climate resiliency projects as well as projects to repair damages caused by climate change. first appeared on Law and the Environment.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Rather than entering that debate, I’d like to reflect on how issues of colonialism might relate to climate change. It seems to me that, at its core, the idea of colonialism revolves around two key concerns. China has been one culprit here, although it recently announced a change in policy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

“Excuse me, what did they say?” The urgency of implementing change now For decades, scientists have been warning about the upcoming dangers of climate change; however, all we have to do today is look around to see the current impacts. Further, to implement systematic change, we also need to get politicians onboard.

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MAY 30, 2023

I love unmuffling as I—and the world around me—shake off winter. Those numbers look better in spring not just because of stronger generation, but also because of changes to the “denominator”—the overall demand for electricity. I love flowers popping up, trees leafing out, birds singing their hearts out.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 12, 2024

However, something is different this time around: This is the first legislative session after the landmark climate youth trial in Montana. A petition from more than 40 groups filed in late February asks the Montana Public Service Commission (PSC) to open a rulemaking to integrate climate impacts in its regulatory decisions.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Thanks to advances in attribution science, we now understand many of these extreme events have been worsened by climate change. The fossil fuel industry plays the dominant role globally in causing climate change and therefore their profits come at the expense of our global health and safety. billion and $35.5

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Over the years, the Maine Fishermen’s Forum has been an important event for me; I go to listen and engage with different stakeholders of the Gulf of Maine. Gulf water chemistry and temperature are changing. The Gulf of Maine Research Institute climate dashboard clearly indicates sea surface temperature anomalies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Climate change smothered us in heat this season, here in the US and across much of the world , but it has not affected us as equals: some of us can stay relatively safe and cool while many of us cannot and suffer instead. Climate change is only accelerating, and so the threat to vulnerable people is mounting.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

And just like summertime in the US, this period (December, January, and February) has transformed into a “ danger season ” as a result of climate change, replete with deadly heatwaves, drought, and wildfires. Sixty times more likely is a remarkable figure to me.

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Law and Environment

APRIL 7, 2023

The proposal is not a massive rewrite of Circular A-4, but it would make a number of important changes. Given that regulations’ costs are generally incurred early and benefits often accrue over time, the change will significantly improve the benefit/cost ratio for many regulations. This seems appropriate to me.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 25, 2024

Badger takes him into the smoking room for a lecture, and then brings the repentant Toad out to tell his friends that he has seen the error of his ways: “Toad, I want you solemnly to repeat, before your friends here, what you fully admitted to me in the smoking room just now. In 2021 the UK hosted the international climate talks in Glasgow.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 11, 2023

After a landmark 2022—a record $54 billion committed to climate spending and legislation that codified the state’s goals of carbon neutrality by 2045 and 90 percent clean electricity by 2035—a significantly gloomier budget forecast gave rise to fears that California’s climate programs would take a hit.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Hang with me, this relates to environmental management, and I’ll get to that soon.) Traveling by map got me farther off the beaten path, and I had amazing experiences including some that inspired me to embark on my current career. Hear me out. When I started riding, I had a guidebook. here and here and here ).

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2022

I’m not sure he really felt that way himself, but the song rings a chord with me. Chicago is also, as it turns out, ground zero for climate change. Climate change is making old solutions obsolete. Chicago has been confronting an unusual problem that may be linked with climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 28, 2023

to integrate food and farm policy in a way that addresses climate change and helps farmers reduce their carbon emissions. During its previous introduction, the ARA was widely supported by science, farm, and climate groups and considered a landmark piece of legislation in mitigating climate emissions from agriculture.

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JUNE 6, 2022

While summer is still summer and we on the climate team at UCS look forward to ice cream and late sunsets as much as anyone, there’s something we need to tell you: Climate change has transformed summer into our country’s Danger Season, and we’d best start seeing it as such so that we can adequately prepare.

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

I love the way the state isn’t afraid to lead in times of great change. To me, the museum is a testament to transition. There is so much at stake for our state right now Today, we are in another time of upheaval and change The world just had its hottest three months on record with record-breaking sea-surface temperatures.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 21, 2023

It was the site for one of the most iconic climate policy photos. In the run-up to the Copenhagen climate negotiations in 2009, President Mohamed Nasheed held a cabinet meeting in scuba gear 20 feet underwater to show what awaited the low-lying island nation of the Maldives if serious action were not taken to reduce greenhouse gases.

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

Climate change has made rainfall in the Sahel more variable, straining Cameroon’s agriculture industry and sparking ethnic tensions. The deadly clashes reflect heightened competition over natural resources in an area experiencing rapid environmental change. Boats on the shore of Lake Chad in 2014.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The destruction caused by climate change is directly linked to human activity, primarily burning fossil fuels. There are multiple realistic, tangible solutions that would rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, yet policy addressing anthropogenic climate change remains slow and insufficient.

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APRIL 27, 2023

As a fellow with the National Young Farmers Coalition, I aim to discuss and analyze my own lived experiences in order to understand the various ways in which the upcoming farm bill will dictate farm policy in the United States and impact the farming future of people like me.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Black History Month, for me, has always been a time to celebrate Black people, and our contributions to society. As a Black scientist, it’s especially important to me to acknowledge and celebrate Black scientists and activists who made major contributions to all fields of science despite the barriers of systemic and structural racism.

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