Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

Now comes the court’s crippling of the most important federal weapon available to avoid catastrophic climate change and its associated killing of tens of thousands of Americans every year with fossil fuel air pollution. The talks ended with no serious agreements and carbon dioxide levels soaring to new records.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2024

497 (2007) (Justice Stevens ). The case involved EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act. The Court also ruled that EPA could consider only the science relating to climate change in deciding whether to exercise this authority. Massachusetts v. EPA, 549 U.S.

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Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

For my first article since hurricanes Harvey and Katrina, I could have written another article on how not solving climate change would cost us trillions of dollars. Local air pollution (and global climate change) ; 4. Trees are very efficient at absorbing carbon dioxide. Switching from cars to bikes.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

Whether climate change impacts to Montana’s environment can be measured incrementally. Whether climate impacts and effects in Montana can be attributed to Montana’s fossil fuel activities. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They are: Whether Plaintiffs’ injuries are mischaracterized or inaccurate.

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Edouard Stenger

AUGUST 21, 2017

While it is undeniable that we are ramping up our actions against climate change, it is hard to deny that global warming is getting scarier every week. This could increase the speed of climate change even more as this greenhouse gas is 24 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

Take Action: Tell Enbridge shareholders that you care about climate change and want Enbridge to stop lying about the cost and climate pollution associated with gas. Natural” gas is a fossil fuel that’s bad for the climate and harmful to human health, but you wouldn’t know it from the gas industry’s branding.

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Testimony before the House Agriculture Committee for a Hearing on “Climate Change and the U.S. Technological change and agricultural modernization will significantly outweigh climate change in the U.S. Technological change and agricultural modernization will significantly outweigh climate change in the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

The rule, which also applies to new gas plants, would avoid as much as 617 million metric tons of carbon dioxide through 2042, the EPA calculated , the equivalent of the annual emissions of 137 million passenger vehicles—about half of the cars in the country. Those currently operating fossil fuel plants generate 25 percent of U.S.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Sea level rise within the Pacific has already surpassed the 2007 estimate from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and further predictions infer a further 2m increase within the century. [1] Greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide are great absorbers of heat radiation coming from the Earth’s surface.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 1, 2022

Two reports published in the US look seriously at the practicalities and responsibilities of altering the ocean to tackle the climate crisis. It’s now widely acknowledged that to avoid catastrophic climate change we’ll need to physically remove CO2 from the atmosphere. But ocean-based interventions have also been contentious.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

Today, the Supreme Court decided its most important environmental case since 2007. Chief Justice Roberts’s majority opinion leaves EPA other options to reduce carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants. We didn’t dodge the bullet. It’s more than a flesh wound but it didn’t hit any vital organs.

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Acoel

JANUARY 16, 2024

This land used to be vast wetlands, native grass-covered prairie, or forest — natural systems adept at storing carbon, producing abundant wildlife, and filtering polluted water but over time has been converted for agricultural use. For example, between 2007 and 2012, 7.8 The good news is that this sector is ripe for change.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

Following the 2007 landmark Supreme Court case Massachusetts v. billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Bush had already “established a comprehensive global climate change policy.” 497 (2007), the Supreme Court reversed EPA’s denial.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2021

At President Biden’s climate summit in April all parties agreed that everyone must pull together to mitigate climate change. Its State Council introduced a plan for responding to climate change in 2007 and in 2020, President Xi announced that China will be carbon neutral by 2060.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2022

And there at Geisinger, I am the founding director of the Environmental Health Institute, which we founded in 2007. We founded the Environmental Health Institute in 2007. Finally, this industry has fugitive emissions of methane and the burning of gas releases carbon dioxide.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Burning coal in these two regions account for a little under two gigatonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year, with 1.29 Burning coal emits twice as much carbon dioxide as natural gas and up to 50 times more than solar and wind in their entire lifecycles (manufacturing and recycling included). A moral imperative.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2010

497 (2007), in which the Supreme Court held that greenhouse gases were “pollutants” under the Clean Air Act and ordered EPA to determine whether greenhouse gases “may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare” under Section 202 of the Act. See 74 Fed. 66496 (Dec. EPA, 549 U.S. EPA relied on assessments by the U.S.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The academic research and development report finds that biological and biomedical science and engineering have accounted for 60% of total research space growth from 2007 to 2019. Farming boom threatens Biden’s climate and conservation ambitions – Food and Environment Reporting Network. International. Register here.

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 12, 2022

Supreme Court issued a decision striking down an Obama era rule regulating carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from existing power plants. A 2007 Supreme Court decision ( Massachusetts v. In 2009, EPA made a finding that six greenhouse gasses endanger public health and welfare because of their contribution to climate change.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

Nobel Prize recipients urge G7 leaders to take transformative action to address climate change. Climate: The Environmental Protection Agency does not list a timetable to act on a new carbon dioxide rule for existing power plants. International. IPCC and IPBES released joint workshop report. Scientific Community.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Damn, it’s Awfully Hot!” – So Long to The Federal Government’s Meddlesome Efforts to Combat Climate Change. With only one brief peek, it is exceedingly clear that very little will remain of the federal efforts to address climate change once President Trump takes charge. profile saying that “People prefer warmer climates.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

And there at Geisinger, I am the founding director of the Environmental Health Institute, which we founded in 2007. We founded the Environmental Health Institute in 2007. Finally, this industry has fugitive emissions of methane and the burning of gas releases carbon dioxide.

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