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Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant

HumanNature

Guest Post By Erin Boedicker , 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. AMAP Assessment 2015: Black Carbon and Ozone as Arctic Climate Forcers.” Candidate in the Department of Chemistry You’re driving down the road on a beautiful day, maybe your windows are down and you’re listening to your favorite music. Arctic Council.

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Why is future sea level rise still so uncertain?

Real Climate

The CPDW is thought to be affected by the shift in the westerly winds around Antarctica which have increased in recent decades due to a combination of greenhouse gas forcing and the polar ozone hole ( Miller et al, 2006 ). Antarctic contributions to sea Level scenarios from DeConto et al (2021). 2020) or Sadai et al.

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Guest Essay: Our Addiction To Fossil Fuels Fuel War: ‘Only Truly Addicted People Chase After Their Next Hit With Singular Focus As The Consequences Of Their Addiction Pile Up Around Them’

PA Environment Daily

Bush’s words from his January 2006 State of The Union message, “America is addicted to oil.” This is to say nothing of the other respiratory illnesses caused or exacerbated by smog (ozone), another dangerous byproduct of fossil fuels, or the risks borne by the 310,896 PA kids who attend school within a half mile of an oil and gas facility.

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Testimony of Michael D. Shellenberger Founder and President, Environmental Progress For the House Oversight Committee August 5, 2020

Environmental Progress

For example, the IPCC notes that France had 4,000 fewer deaths than anticipated from a heat wave in 2006 thanks to improved health care, an early-warning system and greater public consciousness in response to a deadly heat wave three years earlier. Better preparedness for heat waves, which could increase in a hotter world, will save lives.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

ESA

The bill repeals section 20001 of the 2017 Tax Act, which required the Bureau of Land Management to offer oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and cancels the leases sold in January 2021. By Annie Snider, PoliticoPro, 11/18/2021. 273 ) passed the full Senate in September 2021. Applications are due Dec.

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Policy News: June 14, 2021

ESA

The final bill includes just eight additional amendments, each of which added language to the bill but did not modify any of the initial provisions of the bill introduced by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in mid-May 2021. by Annie Snider, Alex Gullien, Kelsey Tamborrino and Anthony Adragna, PoliticoPro, 6/11/2021.

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Policy News: October 10, 2022

ESA

The Supreme Court failed to reach a consensus in the 2006 Rapanos v. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals used Kennedy’s “significant nexus” test when they sided with the EPA in a 2021 ruling in this case. EPA – Public Meeting of the Chartered Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) and CASAC Ozone Review Panel (Nov.

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