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Should the official Atlantic hurricane season be lengthened?

Real Climate

The difference is due largely to the differences in the regional atmospheric response that occurs in concert with the SST warming. In particular, they don’t just respond to SST changes, but also how the atmosphere changes as the SSTs change. 1987-2007, 2019. 2013 ; Sobel et al. 2016 ), could increase again in concentration.

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What Happened During the Montana Youth Climate Trial

Legal Planet

Not stopping there, Bellinger also asked Seeley to establish a constitutional standard that 350 parts per million of atmospheric CO2 is a target to guide state energy permitting. That question was put to a Missoula-based climate scientist named Steven Running who worked on the 2007 IPCC report as part of the team that won a Nobel Peace Prize.

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These Attorneys General Are Defending the Fossil Fuel Industry, Not Their States

Union of Concerned Scientists

EPA decision , upheld the EPA’s authority to regulate such emissions under the Clean Air Act but significantly constrained its ability to do so. The case ultimately wound up in the US Supreme Court, which, in its controversial West Virginia v. Landry’s deep ties to the oil and gas industry predate his time as Louisiana’s AG.

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The Endangerment Finding Is in Danger. Will EPA’s Zeldin Uphold Climate Science?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Back in 2007, the Supreme Court reached a landmark judgment in Massachusetts et al. establishing that heat-trapping emissions (or greenhouse gas emissions) are air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. What is the Endangerment Finding? Environmental Protection Agency et al. What is Zeldin being directed to do?

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Trump’s Earth Day Purge

Circle of Blue

The administration eliminated USAID, which brought to a close the extensive international conservation programs that protected endangered species, battled poaching and illegal fishing, and provided millions of people clean water and safe sanitation. Other than his desire to re-open closed coal-fired power plants and revive U.S.

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The Endangerment Finding Is in Danger. Will EPA’s Zeldin Uphold Climate Science?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Back in 2007, the Supreme Court reached a landmark judgment in Massachusetts et al. establishing that heat-trapping emissions (or greenhouse gas emissions) are air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. What is the Endangerment Finding? Environmental Protection Agency et al. What is Zeldin being directed to do?

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Roe v. Wade Draft Bodes Ill for Air, Wetlands and EPA

Union of Concerned Scientists

Outside of bird protection acts of the early 20 th century, protections for water, air and the atmosphere are a late 20 th -century development, created in the wake of Rachel Carson’s 1962 treatise on pesticides, Silent Spring.