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Legal Planet
MARCH 26, 2024
I’ve blogged quite a bit about the challenges of interpreting the NEPA amendments that snuck through as part of last year’s debt ceiling bill. The first reason is that NEPA may not be a major reason why the process gets delayed. I haven’t said much about their impact. some careful empirical research suggests the contrary.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 4, 2024
I have been working with this new InfluenceMap dataset in my own research, and here I’ll share how I’m using it and offer a look at heat-trapping emissions from five major investor-owned fossil fuel companies: ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, BP, and ConocoPhillips. Let’s look at their cumulative emissions since the 1950s in Figure 2.
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Real Climate
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
is a major advance in AMOC stability science, coming from what I consider the world’s leading research hub for AMOC stability studies, in Utrecht/Holland. If you’re not familiar with the issues surrounding the risk of abrupt ocean circulation changes, I briefly summarized ten key facts on this topic last year in this blog post.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 4, 2024
That 2013 headline resulted from the first effort to quantify emissions from the ‘carbon majors’ —fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers whose businesses have contributed an outsized amount of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere. This case uses the Carbon Majors Dataset to quantify RWE’s contribution to global historic emissions.
Legal Planet
JANUARY 29, 2024
When the 2023 amendments to NEPA passed as part of the debt ceiling bill, I wrote a series of blog posts about the drafting errors. Section 102(2)(C) sets out the mandate to prepare an environmental impact statement and applies only to “major Federal actions.” Here’s the problem. I feel positive that this was an oversight.
Legal Planet
MARCH 7, 2024
When the 2023 amendments to NEPA passed, I wrote a series of blog posts about the drafting errors. It turns out that one major puzzle was probably the result of a failure to delete an old provision when adding the replacement. I added another post later when I discovered new glitches.
Circle of Blue
MAY 25, 2023
The Iowa saga began in March when two senior Republican state lawmakers decided a state water quality researcher, who was tracking and mapping water quality problems and writing a blog about agriculture’s culpability, was getting a little too much attention. No threat to funding was ever made because of the content of a blog,” he said.
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