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Climate Change and Me

Academy of Natural Sciences

In his 2002 book The Philadelphia Area Weather Book , Schwartz takes readers on another journey through time to let us know what the weather’s been like lately… in a Philadelphia of 2075, after continued decades of global warming. Ozone smog pollution reached unhealthy levels on twenty days.

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These Attorneys General Are Defending the Fossil Fuel Industry, Not Their States

Union of Concerned Scientists

In 2015, when he took office as AG after stints in the Texas Legislature, he sued the Environmental Protection Agency for strengthening a standard for ground-level ozone, better known as smog. million to his campaigns since 2002, according to OpenSecrets’ compilation of contribution data.