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COP30: Twelve environmental facts about Brazil in 2025

A Greener Life

2020 for example, the Amazon saw its highest deforestation rate in over a decade. While the expansion of wind and solar power is seen as essential to reducing reliance on fossil fuels, large-scale projects have sometimes sparked local opposition due to their environmental impact. million hectares destroyed between 2001 and 2020.

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Seven County Infrastructure Coalition: The Supreme Court’s “Substantial Deference” Standard and Implications for Judicial Review under NEPA

Law Columbia

For example, the agencies that are responsible for managing public lands and approving fossil fuel development on those lands operate under much broader mandates than the STB, including mandates related to multiple use, sustainable use, conservation, and environmental protection. 3] See Prosser & Keeton on Torts, 5th Ed.

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What Is FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund? What You Should Know, Why Costs Keep Rising and What We Can Do About It

Union of Concerned Scientists

According to FEMA, since 2001, the agency has implemented INF restrictions 9 times, including last year. Already this year, the President has declared 117 disasters, 87 of which have been major disaster declarations (compared with 71 major disaster declarations in 2023, 47 in 2022, 58 in 2021 and 104 in 2020).

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168 Years of Climate Science

Legal Planet

Scientist calculates greenhouse effect from fossil fuels and matches it to recorded global temperature changes. above 1850-1900 in 2011-2020. English scientist John Tyndall publishes similar finding in a better-known paper. Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius predicts changes in surface temperature due to greenhouse effect.

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Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. The biggest barrier to climate action in Canada is the oil and gas lobby.

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RePlanet Nederland’s review of the draft Delegated Regulation on nuclear energy and gaseous fossil fuels in the sustainable finance taxonomy

Environmental Progress

Notably, in the same proposal, the Commission has also included screening criteria for gaseous fossil fuels. The Regulation sets a time limit on the inclusion of nuclear energy but not on fossil fuels and grants the Commission special powers to rule on nuclear taxonomy compliance.

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Electric Vehicle Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Enviromental Defense

Question: Some people claim EVs are worse for the environment than gasoline cars Answer: Battery-Electric vehicles (BEVs) have on average two thirds lower lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions than gasoline cars today, and this will improve as electricity grids get cleaner by cutting out fossil fuels.