Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

Though the case caught fewer headlines, it, too, threatened Earth-shifting implications all its own by thrusting into question a critical EPA lever for addressing climate change. EPA did not revoke EPA’s underlying authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. What this decision means for the climate.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

As in the US, Australia’s climate policy was long a victim of a lengthy period of divided government and political upheaval. From 2007 to 2016, control of the Australian House and Senate were generally in the hands of different parties, and the two parties almost never agreed on climate issues. As in the U.S.,

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

As I outlined here , Montana state law prohibits the consideration of greenhouse gas emissions or climate impacts–– inside and outside the state’s borders––when reviewing projects and approving permits. This now-infamous climate prohibition has been called a “limitation” on the Montana Environmental Policy Act, or MEPA.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 3, 2021

A new study finds greenhouse gas emissions from the world’s reservoirs are higher than earlier estimates. A complex and arcane water banking program in the lower Colorado River basin, adopted in 2007 and later amended, was designed to incentivize water conservation, prevent waste, and boost storage in a waning Lake Mead. 29 PERCENT.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 9, 2024

EPA as part of our ongoing amicus efforts to support strong federal climate regulations. The case involves EPAs 2024 Vehicle Standards that set new air pollutant and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for model year 2027 through 2032 Light- and Medium-Duty Vehicles, which have been challenged by states and industry groups.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

On February 28, DEP Interim Acting Secretary Jessica Shirley told the House Appropriations Committee funding for DEP’s Oil and Gas Regulatory Program will be in the red by Fall and an “all sectors” greenhouse gas reduction program will not be recommended to implement the PA Climate Change Action Plan. Read more here.

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Washington Nature

JUNE 8, 2021

by Pascale Chamberland, Masters of Public Administration Candidate 2021, University of Washington Evans School of Public Policy & Governance From a massive social media campaign to plant 20 million trees to businesses planting a tree for each product sold, people seem eager to fight climate change using natural climate solutions (NCS).

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Edouard Stenger

MARCH 21, 2023

Yesterday the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its latest report and compared our current situation to defusing a time bomb. This should be front news and urge us all to change our lives radically. When I started covering climate change on this blog in 2007, climate change was a distant threat.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

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.

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Real Climate

JULY 24, 2023

The AMOC has repeatedly shown major instabilities in recent Earth history , for example during the Last Ice Age, prompting concerns about its stability under future global warming, see e.g. Broecker 1987 who warned about “unpleasant surprises in the greenhouse”. 2007) and later confirmed by Drijfhout et al.

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Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

But this also raises other questions: 1) Can we expect the season to continue to lengthen as global warming from increasing concentration of globally well mixed greenhouse gas (GWM-GHG) continues to warm the Atlantic SSTs? 1987-2007, 2019. 1987-2007, 2019. Li, "Past and Future Hurricane Intensity Change along the U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 25, 2024

And it’s central to solving the climate crisis and the challenges of sustainability. In this blog series, we will delve into the issue of sustainable finance, and the relationship between climate change and finance. Who is funding climate change? Why are financial institutions funding climate change?

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 6, 2010

By Stephen Wiegand On December 15, 2009, EPA published in the Federal Register its final endangerment findings with respect to greenhouse gases. In its findings published on December 15, EPA concluded that six greenhouse gases taken in combination may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health and public welfare. See 74 Fed.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. 636 fossil fuel lobbyists were part of official country delegations to the last United Nations climate negotiations ( UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and Conference of Parties 27, or COP27 ).

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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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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Loss and damage, the term for the detrimental impacts of climate change that cannot be addressed through mitigation or adaptation, will be a central point of discussion at COP27. and other major greenhouse gas emitters? By Andrea Nishi. Credit: Flickr. and other developed nations. Although he claimed that the U.S.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Since 2007, only 2009, 2013 and 2014 had more ice at the end of the melt season. Unless and until we get a handle on climate change, these trends are likely to continue. This past summer was relatively cool and stormy, which limited the loss of summer sea ice in the Arctic. But you can help turn the tide.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 12, 2017

On November 21, 2017, the High Court of Ireland blocked a climate change case concerning construction of a new airport runway from moving forward, but made a groundbreaking decision in recognizing “a personal constitutional right to an environment” for the first time. By Dena Adler. Photo Credit: Malcolm MacLeod via Wikimedia Commons.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

L&D has a specific meaning in climate talks that may not be obvious to anyone not immersed in the process: harms caused by climate change that are not avoided by adaptation. Given any particular trajectory of realized climate change (which of course depends on how fast emissions are cut), adaptation measures (e.g.,

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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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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] Ideally, the best way to save these islands is to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. References. [1] 3] Gombos, M.,

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Edouard Stenger

JANUARY 3, 2023

I started that blog back in 2007 when sustainability was a vague buzzword and climate change a future threat. Nowadays, sustainability is increasingly embedded in our lives and climate change is a present and imminent danger to most if not all of us. This marks the beginning of my 17th season of blogging.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 10, 2019

On December 28, 2018, California adopted comprehensive amendments to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines , which include a suite of provisions aimed at improving the analysis of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change impacts in state environmental reviews. GHG Emissions Analysis.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Plans for a third runway at the Vienna-Schwechat airport (pictured at right) were first submitted for review by the government of Lower Austria (one of Austria’s 9 regions) in March 2007. After reviewing several estimates, the court concluded that a third runway would increase Austria’s annual CO2 emissions by between 1.79 and 2.02% by 2025.

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Law Columbia

MAY 24, 2024

On May 21, 2024, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) released its long-awaited advisory opinion on climate change. There was little discussion, either in the written statements or at the oral hearing, of so-called “marine geoengineering” activities that seek to use the ocean to combat climate change.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Summary: Allen Smith, a rising 3L at Vermont Law School, spent the summer in Rhode Island working on climate change policy in both the Statehouse and the Department of Environmental Management. Upon starting my internship, I was immediately brought into a long process that had been ongoing since 2007. By Allen Smith.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The court’s decision adds to a list of successful climate ambition cases that began with the Netherlands’ Urgenda decision in 2007. These cases, and pending cases in South Korea , Canada , the European Court of Human Rights , and Italy , face down a daunting question: what is a country’s “fair share” of effort to combat climate change?

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Vermont Law

MARCH 16, 2018

That could be changing, though, as modern-day climate activists like the Valve Turners vigorously protest industry and government inaction in the face of increasingly dire climate change threats. Climate change issues have cast doubt on our legal system’s ability to address systemic problems. Northeast Jud.

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Law Columbia

MAY 10, 2021

On April 29, 2021 the German Constitutional Court (the Bundesverfassungsgericht, or GCC) rendered a ground-breaking judgment, requiring the German government to establish specific plans to achieve its mid-century greenhouse gas emissions goal. (An An English press release is available here. Background.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It is 33 years now since the IPCC in its first report in 1990 concluded that it is “certain” that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities “will enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting on average in an additional warming of the Earth’s surface.” It’s not hard to understand.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

Two seasons in one The presidential primary season coincides with “ Danger Season ”—the period between May and October when the Northern Hemisphere experiences back-to-back extreme weather augmented by climate change. Candidates are crisscrossing New Hampshire amid climate-related and climate-boosted catastrophes.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The consequences of climate change aren’t reserved for the oceans and atmosphere: Diseases have secured a larger presence in recent years thanks to global warming. We never imagined the magnitude of diseases impacted by climate change. Climate’s Contagion. A Conservative Crystal Ball.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 9, 2023

And lastly, the White House issues new climate accounting guidelines for environmental impact statements. The guidance directs agencies to evaluate greenhouse gas emissions in dollar terms, using an accounting aid known as the social cost of carbon. By the Numbers.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 29, 2023

These fees and programs were established with legislation in 2007 and then were extended until 2024 with the passage of Assembly Bill 8 in 2013 (hence the name, “AB 8 fees”). It’s clear , and it has been clear for decades, that to stave off the worst impacts of climate change we must drastically reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2025

Shale gas extraction and use also contributes to climate change, which poses other health impacts for every resident of Pennsylvania, and indeed for people worldwide. Shapiros term. However, the DEP has failed to fulfill this mission on several fronts.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

The impacts of climate change are downright frightening. Rich Kruger is the CEO of Suncor, a company responsible for nearly 35 million metric tons of climate pollution annually – the equivalent of 8.3 Their climate report does not include a 1.5-degree Their climate report does not include a 1.5-degree

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 17, 2022

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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