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The Supreme Court’s Top-10 Environmental Law Decisions

Legal Planet

EPA lost all three of the biggest cases since 2008. Since Obama’s election in 2008, the two sides have more or less switched. 497 (2007) (Justice Stevens ). The case involved EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act. The two most recent losses were particularly serious.

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No Word on Climate from Presidential Candidates Stumping in New Hampshire Amid Record Global Heat

Union of Concerned Scientists

Candidates did not use climate change as a defining issue in the 2008 presidential general election because there was no daylight between presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama with respect to climate science, a sense of urgency, and policy solutions! Cannot the past be prologue?

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As Soon as Possible

Real Climate

And by the 2007 IPCC AR4 report, or in Lean and Rind (2008) ), at best, scientists had concluded that solar activity wasn’t likely to be responsible for more than 10% or so of the long term rise in global temperature. Lean, and D.H. 32, 2005.

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How are Natural Climate Solutions showing up in Olympia?

Washington Nature

These strategies aim to conserve, restore, and improve land management in order to increase carbon storage and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. After peaking in the 2007-2008 legislative session, the number of climate bills proposed and passed fell greatly between 2009 and 2016, corresponding to the recent recession period.

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Should the official Atlantic hurricane season be lengthened?

Real Climate

In 2008, after a series of Atlantic hurricane seasons that began earlier than normal, a study was published that explored whether the anomalously early starts may be part of a larger trend ( Kossin 2008 ). 1987-2007, 2019. The days of formation for the 2020 named storms are shown by the red squares. References. 57-70, 2021.

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‘Trust The People’- Amend The State Constitution To Authorize Citizens To Establish New Laws Without The General Assembly

PA Environment Daily

His last bill-- Senate Bill 137 -- was given a hearing by the Senate State Government Committee in May of 2007, but never saw action before his tragic death in 2008. Matthew Brouillette of the Commonwealth Foundation said in testimony at that 2007 hearing-- Senate Bill 137 would “. Read more here.

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Analysis: Ecocide in Gaza: Who will hear and heal its dying environment?

A Greener Life

According to Forensic Architecture, over 2,000 agricultural sites, including farms and greenhouses, have been obliterated since October 2023. In 2008–2009, IDF damaged one-third of Gaza’s farmland. These actions have long-term consequences for both Palestinians and the environment in Gaza.

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