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The Revolution, the Enlightenment and the Climate Crisis

Legal Planet

This is followed by an expression of the social compact theory, that governments derive “their just powers from the consent of the governed.” For instance, a 2021 Pew poll found that: “There has been a steady decline in confidence in medical scientists among Republicans and Republican leaners since April 2020.

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Critical Native American Water Rights Cases Come Before the Supreme Court: Arizona v. Navajo Nation

Legal Planet

Remarkably, however, and despite the fact that the federal government negotiated two important 19th century treaties with the Navajo Nation, the U.S. government has never seen fit to expressly provide federal water rights to the Nation to make its expansive reservation fully habitable. Navajo Nation and U.S. Navajo Nation.

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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. We need governments to regulate industry. Under Baiton’s leadership, CAPP has lobbied the federal government 74 times in the first 9 months of 2023 – that’s once every 2.5 billion in 2016 to $11.6

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Top 20 Leading Weather & Climate Voices to Follow in 2021

Breezometer

Nancy is a staunch advocate for leveraging Earth observations and environmental intelligence to improve decision-making on the individual, business, and government levels. Stephanie Abrams has worked as an on-air meteorologist for The Weather Channel since 2003. Paul Walsh. Nate Johnson.

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ExxonMobil Accurately Projected Rising Temperatures While Publicly Disparaging Climate Science

Union of Concerned Scientists

This new research found that ExxonMobil’s climate projections from its internally developed models accurately projected the temperature rise that has happened since then and that its calculations were in line with independent research produced at the time by academic and government scientists. Let’s dig into what Supran et al.’s

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Cultural Heritage is a Human Right. Climate Change is Fast Eroding It.

Union of Concerned Scientists

Some sites and traditional practices that need protection for future generations are recognized under UNESCO’s 1972 World Heritage Convention , and the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Heritage , and more are being added to the protected lists every year. What’s next for climate and cultural rights?

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The Chemical Compound—December 2021

Arnold Porter

Our primary focus continues to be on chemical substances which are the subject of regulatory activity or scrutiny by various federal and state government agencies and potential litigants. 21-70168 (9th Cir.)]] The proceedings had been stayed since April 2021 at EPA’s request. 13, 2021).]] 13, 2021).]] N:Alaska Cmty.

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