Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Today, Emma Shumway joins the Sabin Center as a Climate Justice Fellow. Her work focuses on the environmental justice and equity implications of developments in climate change law and policy at the national, state, and local levels. Emma graduated from Columbia Law School in 2023, where she was a Ruth Bader Ginsburg Scholar.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Dan has joined the Sabin Center as a Smart Surfaces Fellow, as part of our Cities Climate Law Initiative. Prior to that role Dan was a Climate Law Fellow at the Sabin Center focused on international climate change litigation, climate risks and opportunities in the reinsurance industry, and the law and science of climate change attribution.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2023

On June 6, Inside Climate News reported a study in the journal ACS Omega , researchers have reported the discovery of harmful volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, leaking from 48 conventional abandoned wells in Western Pennsylvania.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

On February 11, Jon Hurdle of Inside Climate News reported the Department of Environmental Protection took nine days to inspect the Energy Transfer Revolution Cryogenic Natural Gas Processing Plant in Washington County after an explosion and fire on Christmas Day. Click Here to read the entire Inside Climate News story.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

By “party” I mean the increasingly ambitious climate liability litigation against Big Oil. Gavin Newsom answered a question by the New York Times’ David Gelles, who leads the Climate Forward newsletter. It’s not unusual for legal complaints to cite news stories in the fine-print citations. I didn’t know.” That’s how Gov.

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Inside Climate News

APRIL 26, 2024

By Marianne Lavelle In 1971, President Richard Nixon’s science advisers proposed a multimillion dollar climate change research project with benefits they said were too “immense” to be quantified, since they involved “ensuring man’s survival,” according to a White House document newly obtained by the nonprofit National Security Archive and shared exclusively (..)

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Energy & the Law

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Here is news and opinions about climate change that counters climate-alarm truthiness from emanating from some quarters. Incidentally, he believes the climate is getting warmer and offers realistic solutions. Climate-change dissent is muffled. Alex Epstein deflates several “facts” he deems to be climate myths (e.g.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Breaking news! Once enacted by the Governor, these two bills will set a new national standard for greenhouse gas emissions reporting and for disclosure of climate-related financial risks consistent with the framework established by the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD).

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Legal Planet

APRIL 16, 2024

and climate change. But by a wild coincidence, E&E News released a story the very next day about its interview with Kennedy that addressed those questions. Climate policy Kennedy hadn’t previously said much policy approach to climate change during the campaign. And they see a mirror of that in climate.”

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Conspiracy theories about climate change are widespread. They cover a wide range, but the theme is generally that the world is run by some elite that is secretly using climate change as an excuse to take over the world. Here’s a sample: Climate Lockdowns. About 4% of the U.S. public apparently believe this.) For instance.

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New Scientist

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The latest news from the COP26 climate summit taking place in Glasgow, UK.

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APRIL 11, 2024

climate efforts. It also points to a conundrum for the Kennedy-Shanahan ticket: how to address concerns about the climate implications of another Trump Administration. Khanna’s point was simple: Shanahan cares about climate change, but the RFK candidacy might help elect Trump, who would have a devastating effect on climate policy.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The latest issue of Wild Heritage News from the PA Natural Heritage Program features articles on-- -- Climate Change Vulnerability Of Plants In PA -- Tracking Changes In Pennsylvania’s Peatlands -- Invertebrate Discoveries -- A Thousand Invertebrates Get Some Love For State Wildlife Action Plan -- Limestone Cliff Updates -- Specimen Data Sharing Improvement (..)

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

On April 26 Inside Climate News published a comprehensive article by Stacey Burling on issues surrounding the disposal of 2.6 Inside Climate News quoted Manuel Bonder, a spokesman for Gov. More On Article The Inside Climate News article is a comprehensive report on what happens to the 2.6 27 Released 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The Allegheny Front and Environmental Health News investigated the mental health impacts of air and water pollution and climate change in western Pennsylvania. Reporting also uncovered the growing gap in mental health care as more people are traumatized by worsening climate change. -- Part 1: Feeling anxious about climate change?

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Inside Climate News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

By Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News and Carlos Nogueras, Texas Tribune IMPERIAL, Texas—Mounds of dirt towered over Bill Wight, who stared helplessly at the piles that had once been pasture for his cattle. A recent well blow-out in West Texas highlights the challenges of finding and plugging thousands of wells across the state.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee called the report ” a fundamental policy document for shaping climate action in the remainder of this pivotal decade.” limit is achievable but it will take a quantum leap in climate action.” You know what makes news? You know what doesn’t make news? Is that the right outlook?

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Legal Planet

MARCH 27, 2024

Take the latest, science-backed climate policies that are gaining traction in state houses around the country — and then do the exact opposite. That seems to be the Florida playbook for dealing with the climate crisis facing Floridians in the form of rising sea levels and deadly temperatures. If signed by Gov. In June 2023, Texas Gov.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 27, 2022

It means that vulnerable systems are even more at risk in a changing climate. As the nation prepares to pour hundreds of billions of federal dollars into rescuing water systems, the Great Lakes News Collaborative investigates the true cost of water in Michigan. Great Lakes News Collaborative Examines Water’s True Cost.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2024

Last year, I wrote that fossil fuel companies made billions of dollars in profit during 2022 as people around the world suffered billions of dollars in damage from climate and weather related disasters. They need to be held accountable for these actions.” The fire also left toxic ash in its wake, the disposal of which has proven problematic.

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Inside Climate News

APRIL 7, 2024

But it hasn’t gotten enough this year, and likely won’t in the future, a victim of a climate crisis it didn’t cause. By Georgina Gustin CHONGWE, Zambia—Benson Chipungu sits in a leather armchair and reaches for the remote to switch off the news. Pieces of fabric hang over the windows, darkening the room against the heat.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 2, 2023

May 2, 2023 Fresh is a biweekly newsletter from Circle of Blue that unpacks the biggest international, state, and local policy news stories facing the Great Lakes region today. We work together to produce news and information about the impact of climate change, pollution, and aging infrastructure on the Great Lakes and drinking water.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2023

climate movement. We saw rapid implementation of landmark federal climate laws, a series of big actions on methane emissions , a deal on Colorado River water usage, and bigger-than-expected climate victories in Sacramento. The approval sparked uproar because it goes against many of the administration’s climate goals.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

So why did its recent departure from a single trade association make news? The ExxonMobil lobbying report evaluated 56 trade associations—the 5% of its memberships the company estimates are active on climate policy—on their climate positions. What could those “areas of work” be, you ask?

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Yale E360

JULY 15, 2021

New research indicating Russia’s vast forests store more carbon than previously estimated would seem like good news. But scientists are concerned Russia will count this carbon uptake as an offset in its climate commitments, which would allow its emissions to continue unchecked. Read more on E360 ?.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This month , Jacob Elkin joins the Sabin Center as the 2021-2022 Climate Law Fellow. He holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago. Prior to the Sabin Center, she was a senior attorney at the Environment Program of the Cyrus R.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Fresh is a biweekly newsletter from Circle of Blue that unpacks the biggest international, state, and local policy news stories facing the Great Lakes region today. Climate change could hike the cost of maintaining Ontario ’s transportation infrastructure by over $1.5 Fresh from the Great Lakes News Collaborative. In the News.

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Inside Climate News

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Inside Climate News’ Liza Gross had her own thrilling brush with a cougar kitten in a den discovered deep in the forest on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2024

Here’s what you need to know: Climate Transportation is the largest source of climate emissions in the US (29 percent) and passenger cars and trucks account for the majority of this pollution. That’s the equivalent of four years’ worth of climate pollution from today’s entire US transportation sector.

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Real Climate

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The paper results from a major computational effort, based on running a state-of-the-art climate model (the CESM model with horizontal resolution 1° for the ocean/sea ice and 2° for the atmosphere/land component) for 4,400 model years. In addition they show major shifts in tropical rainfall belts.

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Inside Climate News

APRIL 18, 2024

But local governments have so far failed to coordinate an international response to address the problem, which scientists believe is triggered by global pollution, the climate crisis and a shortage of funds to mitigate it.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The omnibus spending bill is by no means a “climate law.” Because it spans the entire government, though, it has many provisions relating to climate change. But the fact that they can pass as part of a bipartisan spending law is a sign of how climate change is slowly becoming normalized as a political consideration.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 17, 2023

In south and central Florida , where decades of Everglades restoration projects are already underway, climate change is forcing engineers to pivot. Extreme rains and a warmer climate are uprooting fishing and farming in Trinidad and Tobago. 4 Number of Category 5 storms experienced so far in 2023, Yale Climate Connections reports.

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Inside Climate News

DECEMBER 30, 2023

CO2 released by burning biogas from cow manure is counted as an emission reduction, rather than a climate pollutant, and multiple state programs are taking credit for the cuts that some see as phantoms.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2023

In a few days, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release its latest synthesis report that provides a comprehensive assessment of the current state of scientific knowledge on climate change, including its causes, impacts, and potential solutions. Approaching 1.5

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 21, 2022

By David Shribman, Former Editor Pittsburgh Post-Gazette This article first appeared on Inside Climate News on August 21, 2022 -- Extractive industries, she says, “gut” communities. But at least in Pennsylvania, “we're talking about individuals and communities making decisions…and that is a good model for the rest of the country.”

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

This week’s episode of What’s Up With Water covers what to expect at COP27, new research on the link between water and the fossil fuel industry in Texas, and an update on Jackson, Mississippi’s failing water system. Welcome to “What’s Up With Water” – your need-to-know news of the world’s water from Circle of Blue.

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