Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

State Water Project Allocations In April 2023, the California Department of Water Resources (“DWR”) announced that the State Water Project, which is a key water source for California’s Central Valley, South Bay Area, and Southern California, would — for the first time since 2006 — meet 100% of all water allocations in 2023.

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2023 Regulations 2024 Climate Change 147

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As a Māori leader with an interest in customary land, Smith argued that the defendants’ actions would harm him through impacts related to rising sea levels, loss of sites of cultural and spiritual significance, damage to fisheries, and adverse health impacts. 109, quoting R v Rimmington [2005] UKHL 63, [2006] 1 AC 459.

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Law Climate Change Regulations Ocean 68

Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

The plaintiffs in lawsuits challenging the cap-and-trade program had argued that it was not authorized by the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 and that the requirement to purchase emissions allowances constituted a tax that required approval by a two-thirds majority of the State legislature.

2017 40

2017 Clean Air Act Climate Change Renewable Energy 40

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO from 2006 to 2016. There is, in fact, substantial scientific evidence that there’s a strong link between global warming and heat waves and coastal flooding from sea-level rise,” I said. And Rose did, at times, ask follow-up questions.

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Fossil Fuels Climate Change 2007 Carbon Emissions 347

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 5, 2023

It was an apocalyptic encore of the worst-ever 2006 season that saw 9.9 This could melt all glaciers from Glacier National Park, raise sea level enough to inundate half of Everglades National Park, dissolve coral reefs in Virgin Islands National Park through ocean acidification, and damage many other natural and cultural resources.”

Climate Change 240

Climate Change 2018 2020 Paris Agreement 240

Environmental Progress

AUGUST 8, 2020

To take just one example, France in 2006 had 4,000 fewer deaths from a heat wave than anticipated thanks to improved health care, an early-warning system and greater public consciousness in response to a deadly heat wave three years earlier. Perhaps, but the IPCC doesn’t predict that happening. The IPCC agrees.

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Rainforest Climate Change Deforestation Natural Gas 88

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

In 1989, according to an Associated Press article, a UN official [said] entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if global warming is not reversed by the year 2000. In 2006, of course, we know that Al Gore said humanity has 10 years left before the point of no return.

Natural Gas 52

Natural Gas Climate Change Electricity Greenhouse 52

ESA

JUNE 28, 2021

This central database entitled the National Coastal Data Information System, would help coastal communities prepare for future natural disasters through data analysis product development and the collection of maps and data on rising sea levels. A bill ( H.R. 3864) from Rep. NOAA – Ocean Exploration Advisory Board Meeting (June 30).

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2021 Ocean 2026 Conservation 105