Legal Planet
MAY 19, 2024
(credit: PBI Actuarial Consultants) Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, in coordination with an equally myopic and partisan Florida Legislature, has approved new state legislation ( HB 1645 ) that eliminates the term “climate change” from numerous existing Florida statutes that former Republican Governor Charlie Crist signed into law in 2008.
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Although a 1977 memo alerted Jimmy Carter to the problem of climate change, the first tentative responses to climate change didn’t emerge until he left the White House. The Act acknowledged the possible dangers of climate change. He attempted to undermine climate action by state governments.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
The subsequent 1966 Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights also recognizes the right of “everyone to take part in cultural life” and requires signatories to take the steps “necessary for the conservation, the development, and the diffusion of science and culture.”
Legal Planet
AUGUST 24, 2023
Somewhat to my surprise, there was a question at the first GOP debate about climate change. It’s even possible that reality has started to make a dent into the party;’s reflexive climate denial. I’m the only person on the stage who isn’t bought and paid for, so I can say this: The climate change agenda is a hoax.”He
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
In the first legislative act under his watch, his Republican majority last month passed an appropriations bill that seeks to gut many federal programs meant to fight climate change. He holds that climate change is due to “natural cycles.” It blocks funding for state net zero programs and tighter building energy codes.
Legal Planet
APRIL 12, 2024
The case involves a constitutional challenge brought by a coalition of conservative (“red”) states to E.P.A.’s Supreme Court disagreed with the Bush Administration a year later in its very first climate change case, the landmark Massachusetts v. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. EPA decision.)
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 6, 2023
Human-caused climate change is redistributing species across the globe, re-ordering ecological communities, and even driving genetic changes in some populations. We need to better understand these changes, and to adapt biodiversity conservation strategies to take them into consideration. Photo: UNESCO/David G.
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