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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

PennFuture celebrated 25 years of fighting climate change and industrial pollution by holding anniversary celebrations in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to honor seven Pennsylvanians for their contributions to restoring and protecting the environment. from Villanova University School of Law.

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Municipalities of Puerto Rico v. Exxon: a unique class action against fossil fuel companies presses for climate accountability in the United States

Law Columbia

Exxon , the cities and towns allege that the fossil fuel companies were liable because they knowingly produced and marketed products that have caused climate change harms, while concealing and misrepresenting the associated dangers. and global climate litigation movement.

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Droughts Push More People to Migrate Than Floods

Circle of Blue

Indications of migration due to water scarcity and groundwater depletion came as early as 2006 in Mexico’s Tehuacán Valley where a combination of declining rainfall and factory farms caused community wells to go dry. “It is not easy to be outside of one’s homeland,” she told Circle of Blue in 2006.

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Alex Pourbaix: The Big Oil Spindoctor

Enviromental Defense

This is despite the expense of CCS , its record of failures and underperformance , and recognition from climate and energy experts that we need to phase out fossil fuels to avoid climate disasters. He also wants Canada’s efforts to fight climate change watered down , including the emissions cap on oil and gas pollution.

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Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

The biggest barrier to climate action in Canada is the oil and gas lobby. 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.

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Nuclear Energy and Drought: A Recipe for Disaster

Vermont Law

Can it serve as a bridge to moving away from fossil fuels? Just look at the increasing amount of tension and war-like conditions currently developing between local communities and their government over water supply in politically unstable areas such as the Middle East. Questions that often arise are: Is it safe? By Allen Smith.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. and non-U.S. The California Supreme Court denied three petitions for review.

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