PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2023

I saw the importance of government help for recovery, and for alerts and warnings for natural disasters, and we didn’t really have any of that then.” It was a pretty impactful event for me, a lot of people were displaced for a long time, and it caused billions of dollars in damage,” she says. “I

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The US Energy Information Administration is forecasting the wholesale price of gas to reach its highest level since the winter of 2009-2010 in inflation-adjusted terms. In the short term, low supply and high demand for gas has enabled oil and gas companies to make up for a bad financial decade, with 2020 being the worst year for them.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 22, 2022

In Maryland’s Somerset County, an area facing both high rates of sea level rise and land subsidence, 2 percent of farmland was lost to salt between 2009 and 2017 , totaling over 1400 acres. . NOAA forecasts a 1-foot rise in relative sea level by 2050 and a 3-foot rise by 2100.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2023

In counties such as Beaver, Cambria, Washington, and Westmoreland whose government leaders are greatly in favor of the Marcellus and Utica shale development, admitting that the industry poses a risk to the community may not sit well with them, especially since many leaders have leases with the industry.

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Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

In fact, the impact assessment supporting the Commission’s proposed 2040 target suggests that the EU may need to remove up to 400 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere annually by 2040, and significantly more to achieve net-negative emissions after 2050.

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HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

Student in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University Most people remember the water cycle they learned in school: water evaporates from lakes, rivers, and the ocean, air carrying this moisture rises, cools, condenses, and forms clouds, and these clouds precipitate water back down to the surface.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

A long-term objective would be that, consistent with other environmental legislation in which California has taken a lead, the federal government may eventually take over and establish a comprehensive corporate climate disclosure regulation of its own. Jody Freeman, “The Private Role in Public Governance,” 75 N.Y.U. 36] Michael E.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

For almost three decades, world governments have met nearly every year to forge a global response to the climate emergency. There are also question marks over the commitment of the new Japanese government. Poor countries were promised at the Copenhagen Cop in 2009 that they would receive $100bn a year by 2020. What is COP26?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

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. They appear to have a sympathetic ear in Justice Alito. During February’s oral arguments in West Virginia v.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 10, 2022

billion tons of carbon, which will all stay in the atmosphere. And maybe the stars won’t actually come in alignment again for major legislation in the next eight years — after all, we’ve gone thirteen years since the last time we got close to passing anything, in 2009. But it’s actually worse than that. The gamble.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 25, 2024

The report describes SC-GHG as “the monetary value of the net harm to society from emitting one metric ton of that GHG into the atmosphere in a given year.” [1] 1] The new estimates are intended to serve as a tool for decision-makers, aiding in the cost-benefit analysis of actions that would reduce or increase GHG emissions. 2016), [link]. [6]

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ESA

MARCH 20, 2023

Across administrations, the President’s Budget Request is typically viewed as a “wishlist” and allows the administration to demonstrate its priorities and vision for the federal government. What form should the final product(s) take to be most accessible and useful to you, your community, and the government?”

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

Bernhardt’s reasoning was that it would be impossible to establish the requisite causal link between GHG emissions, global climate change, and specific localized effects on species and their habitat due to the “complex and independent processes active in the atmosphere and the ocean acting on GHGs.” See Karuk Tribe of California v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

He is now serving as a subject matter expert — so despite Mr. Bettencourt’s public advocacy for limited government, he must know he’s promoting a federal government program. New Hampshire’s 2009 Climate Action Plan is the product of a very diverse and thoughtful steering committee. We can make a difference.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Other developments in climate change cases brought by local and state governments in the past month include: Fossil fuel companies appealing the District of Hawaii’s remand order in cases brought by the City and County of Honolulu and the County of Maui asked the Ninth Circuit for a 60-day extension of time in which to file their opening brief.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

The federal district court for the Northern District of Texas dismissed for lack of standing a lawsuit against the EPA in which an individual pro se plaintiff asserted that EPA restrictions since 1990 on aerosols in the atmosphere had caused global warming. All of the briefs are available on the case page.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 23, 2021

The decision has already started to populate briefings in other climate cases brought by state and local governments against fossil fuel companies, and it will undoubtedly occupy a good deal of debate as those cases progress, both in the current stage of removal-remand battles and in the motions to dismiss that will follow.

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

32] Part of the reason the planet is greening stems from greater carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and greater planetary warming. [33] Governments and farmers have known what “biosecurity” measures to take for decades, and enacted them, partly, in response to the 2005 avian flu (H5N1) epidemic. MacCracken, P.R. Mastrandrea, and L.L.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The court said its August 2017 decision rejecting challenges under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Natural Gas Act to DOE’s authorization of LNG exports at another Texas facility largely governed the resolution of the instant cases. The anti-backsliding study was due in June 2009, 18 months after EISA’s enactment.

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ESA

OCTOBER 25, 2021

White House Office of Science and Technology seeks input about how the federal government can advance equity in science and technology. Congress and the president did not approve appropriations bills that fund the federal government into law before the federal government FY 2022 began Oct. between FY 2009 and 2020.

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ESA

APRIL 3, 2023

Courts Environmental groups sue the federal government for failing to protect corals. The state of Texas and industry groups sued the federal government, arguing that the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. USGRP aims to include advances in climate and social science since 2009 and adds a focus on informed climate decisions.

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