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Report from COP22: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s Call to Action

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where wind generation has tripled since 2008 and solar generation has increased thirty times over, creating thousands of well-paying jobs. Secretary Kerry expressed optimism that these trends will continue, as “[m]ost businesspeople have come to understand: investing in [wind and solar] energy simply makes good economic sense.

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July 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Bureau of Land Management failed to take a hard look at the indirect and cumulative impacts of greenhouse gases associated with a coal lease that authorized expansion of a coal mine. ruled in 2019 that BLM had failed to adequately assess the potential impacts of greenhouse gas emissions for certain oil and gas leases in Wyoming.

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