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Alaska Communities Struggle for Baseline Water Data Amid Climate Uncertainty

Circle of Blue

What had once seemed an impossibility to Cameron, who moved to the coastal community in 2008 from Idaho and began working for the city in 2009, was suddenly her problem to fix: How could you have a drought and water shortages in Alaska? Between 1950 and 2009, the average summer temperature on the upper Kenai Peninsula was 53.6

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Guest Essay: Paying The Price For Natural Gas And A.I. Data Centers

PA Environment Daily

The budget bill is also going to increase greenhouse gas emissions and that's where federal policies may be the most damaging. On Tuesday, US Environmental Protection Agency proposed to rescind the 2009 endangerment finding that increasing greenhouse gas emissions threaten the public health and the welfare of current and future generations.

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100 Days of Trump 2.0: Considerations for Cities and Community Partners

Law Columbia

Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund The IRAs Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) program is the largest of EPAs program terminations by dollars. The Endangerment Finding was EPAs 2009 determination that greenhouse gases endanger public health and endanger public welfare.

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“Hi, Can you Hear Me?” A CPUC Debrief

Legal Planet

Sarah Sharpe, from the Central California Asthma Collaborative, noted that her group has been doing “deep community engagement in a dozen communities… that would be prime candidates for a pilot,” especially because they are hot, climate affected areas that lack cooling in homes.

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The Energy Secretary Pushes Pseudoscience

Legal Planet

Late last month, Energy Secretary Chris Wright and the Energy Department rushed a report called “Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. This massive tax dollar-wasting infrastructure reform is based on the false premise that CO2 greenhouse emissions cause climate change,” another person wrote.

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Should the official Atlantic hurricane season be lengthened?

Real Climate

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? 2009 ), a quiescent period of volcanic eruptions ( Mann et al. 778-781, 2009. 2013 ; Sobel et al.

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Arctic Sea Ice Reaches its 2021 Minimum

Ocean Conservancy

This past summer was relatively cool and stormy, which limited the loss of summer sea ice in the Arctic. Since 2007, only 2009, 2013 and 2014 had more ice at the end of the melt season. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. That’s equivalent to the combined size of Texas, California and Montana.