A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The G20 group of nations provided nearly US$200 billion in support of fossil fuels in 2021, despite the worsening impacts of the climate crisis and their pledge in 2009 to phase out “inefficient” subsidies. These are the world’s biggest economies, many of them home to the finance and technologies needed to tackle the climate crisis.

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Frontiers

MARCH 24, 2023

Through high school and college, I continued to spend my summers farming and eventually started my own mixed-vegetable operation, which I ran between 2009 and 2019. Is it too late or do we still have room to tackle these issues based on implementation of advanced research, technology, policies, etc.? “At The work was very rewarding.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Cop stands for conference of the parties under the UNFCCC, and the annual meetings have swung between fractious and soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama and the occasional triumph ( the Paris agreement in 2015 ) and disaster (Copenhagen in 2009). They found a vast difference between the damage done by 1.5C An increase of 1.5C

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

In response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Massachusetts , EPA issued its “ Endangerment Finding ” in 2009, which concluded that “six greenhouse gases … taken in combination endanger both the public health and the public welfare of current and future generations.”

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

The coal company’s petition presented the question of whether Section 111(d) “grants the EPA authority not only to impose standards based on technology and methods that can be applied at and achieved by that existing source, but also allows the agency to develop industry-wide systems like cap-and-trade regimes.” 15,2 2009).

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Environmental Progress

JULY 9, 2020

I was only coming slowly to pro-nuclear in 2009. Well, in the United States, they just have announced that they can run for 80 years, you know, and Nick: The one that they made that announcement for 80 years, could be inundated by sea level rise far sooner than that, surely that's a concern. Michael: No. Michael: No.

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ESA

OCTOBER 8, 2021

President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology meets for the first time in the Biden administration. Environmental justice communities already face a disproportionate amount of pollution emanating from political disenfranchisement and racist policies like redlining. Executive Branch. International. Executive Branch.

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