Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Solar activity provides no alternative explanation for today’s climate change Dagsvik and Moen claim that recent research indicates that variations in the sun’s magnetic field are of great importance for long-term fluctuations in solar activity. Our job is to be thorough and verify questionable results. It has taken time.

Sea Level

Inside Climate News

JANUARY 7, 2024

By Jake Bolster In July 2002, 18 miners working at the Quecreek mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, entered a chamber 240 feet below ground and accidentally broke through the wall of an abandoned, flooded mine, unleashing millions of gallons of trapped water.

2002

Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 8, 2023

However, climate change has sucked the air out of the room leaving almost no meaningful opportunity for businesses to talk about potable water quantity and quality or humanity’s other environmental impacts, leaving businesses at risk of being single minded to the point of being subject to jeopardy.

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

Take Action: Tell Enbridge shareholders that you care about climate change and want Enbridge to stop lying about the cost and climate pollution associated with gas. This is nothing new: these companies have been actively blocking climate policy for decades. A very reasonable request, we thought.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

AUGUST 6, 2023

However, it’s a disappointment to the initiative’s proponents and to a larger group of environmental advocates who seek to promote California’s quick transition from reliance on heavily-polluting and climate-damaging fossil fuels to renewable energy resources.

Law

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

See his 2002 book, two decades before the spate of recent national hydrogen plans. Prizing efficiency above all else, it has been locked in through the economics profession and political systems. The frequently discussed fear that digital technologies will make millions of workers obsolete? Rifkin wrote a book about that in 1995.

2002

HumanNature

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University What do a crack on Glen Canyon Dam and a Van Gogh painting covered in tomato soup have in common? Yet, even when faced with widespread evidence of a climate crisis, there is a compulsion to deny that climate change will be as bad as climate models predict.

2022

Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

2009 – 2010 TC Energy Corporation: 2002 – 2008 Villain Career Profile Climate Villain Susannah Pierce works hard to raise global temperatures on behalf of the oil and gas industry, with two decades of experience marketing, developing, and lobbying the government for further expansion of fossil fuels. 2010 – 2013 Shell Oil Company Inc.:

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 11, 2023

Westmoreland County; Meeting July 13 -- City & State PA Guest Essay: Hydrogen Energy Sounds Too Good To Be True - Because It Is - By Clean Air Council -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: What The Wildfire Smoke From Canada Tells Us About Climate Change - By Larry Schweiger -- Penn State Hosts Online Solar Law Symposium Aug.

Natural Gas

HumanNature

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

As a scholar of political science, this provokes compelling questions about current relationships across states, their governments, and who offers protection. Guest Post by Julie Liebenguth , Ph.D. In short, how we conceptualize environmental security will shape our response to environmental challenges.

2011

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2022

Advisory Committee And Small Communities Advisory Subcommittee, Deadline Oct. 31 -- DEP, Partners Join In Luzerne County Litter Cleanup, Call On Pennsylvanians To Help Pick Up Pennsylvania This Fall [PaEN] -- Wilkes-Barre Times: Pick Up Pennsylvania Targets Local Litter -- DEP Posts 61 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In Oct.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 14, 2024

6 -- Inquirer: Federal Agency Is Pushing Urban Agriculture As A Climate Change, Social Issues Solution -- The Heinz Endowments Commits $9.3 Million To Improve Region’s Climate, Environment, Health Outcomes -- Post-Gazette: Heinz Endowments Awards $9.3 4-9 In State College For H.S.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 9, 2022

25 PA Lake Erie Forum Webinar On Climate Hazard Mitigation & Climate Migration [PaEN] -- Natural Areas Assn. 25 PA Lake Erie Forum Webinar On Climate Hazard Mitigation & Climate Migration [PaEN] -- Natural Areas Assn. 7 [PaEN] -- Penn State Oct. 22 [PaEN] -- PA Sea Grant, DEP Host Oct. 7 [PaEN] -- Penn State Oct.

2002

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On September 23, 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) delivered a landmark decision in Daniel Billy and others v Australia (Torres Strait Islanders Petition) finding that the Australian Government is violating its human rights obligations to the indigenous Torres Strait Islanders through climate change inaction.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

It was a sign of how much has changed since 2021 when the UK hosted the flagship COP26 UN climate summit with a promise “irrefutably to turn the tide and to begin the fightback against climate change”. This comes as DeSmog and Democracy for Sale reveal that £6.8

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 9, 2022

2 Hazelwood Green Pittsburgh -- Sustainable Pittsburgh: Insights For A Successful Regional Decarbonization Strategy -- StateImpactPA: PA Climate Forum Brings Informed Public Into Problem-Solving Effort -- AP: Low-Income Communities Learn To Tackle Climate-Fueled Heat [Philadelphia Included] -- PA Sea Grant, DEP Host Oct.

Conservation

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Edited by Michael Burger (Sabin Center for Climate Change Law), Teresa Parejo (UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network) and Lisa Sachs (Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment). Theoretically, a gap might involve subject matter, stringency, coverage, legal character, enforcement, resources, institutions, or political will.

Law

Circle of Blue

MAY 2, 2022

Regional bodies are working to coordinate investments and collaborate across political jurisdictions. . Many rural water districts are relying on distribution systems that have not been updated for decades, due to lack of funds or no political will. percent of GDP in 2002 ($9.3 billion) to 1.35 percent ($6.1

Government

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Harmful algal blooms now rank with climate change as a systemic ecological threat and a severe public policy challenge. That was 200,000 more acres than in 2002, when the USDA began tracking that data. Powerful resistance to oversight from the $1.1 trillion-a-year U.S. million acres in both states in 2017. That once was the U.S.

Clean Water Act

Circle of Blue

MARCH 14, 2022

Climate change is disrupting the rules of the development game. One that rallies federal, state, tribal, and local governments to unify opposing forces and bring water supply and demand into balance in the era of accelerating climate change. Can this desert bounty be sustained for another 100 years, or even another 50?

2004

PA Environment Daily

JULY 29, 2023

“Pursue Your Happiness In Pennsylvania” Senate next voting day September 18, 19, 20; Oct. 28 [PaEN] -- Warren Times: Groundwater Level Remains Low In Warren County -- Delaware River Basin Commission Holds Aug. 9 Hearing On Water Withdrawals; Next Business Meeting Sept. 9 Hearing On Water Withdrawals; Next Business Meeting Sept.

Natural Gas

Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In August, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted that in the coming years, agricultural and ecological droughts are likely to become even more frequent in the West. . But farmers, an important political constituency, bristle at the idea of retiring farmland to reduce demand for water. “It

2001

Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 1, 2021

While the idea of ESG began in 2004 with a United Nations initiative to influence capital in non-Western markets, in 2021 the legal and political institutions in the United States and the EU are demanding those ideas be implemented by businesses posthaste. But, no more.

Paris Agreement

HumanNature

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

We watched, consumed, and internalized conflict as the pandemic layered social, political, economic, and climate crises. Some warn that the meaning of “resilience” has been diluted for “maladaptive political means and thus hamper the effectiveness of genuine attempts to mitigate damage” (Soubry & Sherren, 2022, p.1).

2007

Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Also elephants, giraffes, rhinos (of the non-political variety), Cape buffalo, baboons, uninvited monkeys at lunch, hippos, wildebeests, hyenas, warthogs and an unexpected (to me) penguin colony. Back to North Carolina developments in late 2018: Executive Order on Climate Change and Clean Energy: On October 29, 2018, N.C.

2018

Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World's Water by Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke (2002) For God, Country, and Coca-Cola: The Unauthorized History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company that Makes It by Mark Pendergrast (1993). Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians.

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World's Water by Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke (2002) For God, Country, and Coca-Cola: The Unauthorized History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company that Makes It by Mark Pendergrast (1993). Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians.

2015

Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World's Water by Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke (2002) For God, Country, and Coca-Cola: The Unauthorized History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company that Makes It by Mark Pendergrast (1993). Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians.

2015

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

-- National Academies Of Science: Practices, Standards For Plugging Orphaned And Abandoned Hydrocarbon Wells White Paper, Workshop -- DCNR Announces $79.4 Million In Grants To Support 307 Recreation, Land Conservation, Tree Planting Projects Across Pennsylvania; Next Grant Round Opens Jan.

Nuclear Power

Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

New Shell documents could aid climate cases, attorneys say Follow the Money PaulaR Thu, 01/25/2024 - 16:59 Thursday, January 18, 2024 Read more Matthew Green, Merel de Buck & Birte Schohaus Latest Shell-files show that the company reflected on climate change caused by fossil products as early as the 1970s.

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Riding the Dragon: Royal Dutch Shell and the Fossil Fire by Jack Doyle (2002). Climate change: Extinction Rebellion end blockade at Shell's Aberdeen HQ The BBC | January 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Riding the Dragon: Royal Dutch Shell and the Fossil Fire by Jack Doyle (2002). Climate change: Extinction Rebellion end blockade at Shell's Aberdeen HQ The BBC | January 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Riding the Dragon: Royal Dutch Shell and the Fossil Fire by Jack Doyle (2002). Climate change: Extinction Rebellion end blockade at Shell's Aberdeen HQ The BBC | January 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Riding the Dragon: Royal Dutch Shell and the Fossil Fire by Jack Doyle (2002). Climate change: Extinction Rebellion end blockade at Shell's Aberdeen HQ The BBC | January 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Riding the Dragon: Royal Dutch Shell and the Fossil Fire by Jack Doyle (2002). Climate change: Extinction Rebellion end blockade at Shell's Aberdeen HQ The BBC | January 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Riding the Dragon: Royal Dutch Shell and the Fossil Fire by Jack Doyle (2002). Climate change: Extinction Rebellion end blockade at Shell's Aberdeen HQ The BBC | January 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Germany: Activists throw cake amid protest at Volkswagen meeting DW | May 11, 2023 The climate change and human rights activists targeted Volkswagen executives at the German carmaker's AGM. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. In the end everything turned out differently.

2019