Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 4, 2024
That 2013 headline resulted from the first effort to quantify emissions from the ‘carbon majors’ —fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers whose businesses have contributed an outsized amount of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere. Nearly two-thirds of industrial heat-trapping emissions can be traced to just 90 entities.
CEQA Developments
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
The City certified an EIR in 2010 and approved a specific plan for certain land (Areas 3 and 4) next to the Bay, which allowed development of up to 1,260 residential units and a golf course and trails. It also discussed climate change and sea level rise impacts, noting the Bay level could rise as much as 5.5
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Academy of Natural Sciences
APRIL 26, 2021
Haiti (2008), Pakistan (2010), Australia and Thailand (2011), Nigeria (2012), Germany and The Philippines (2013),?England?and Their proximity struck him as a shared vulnerability that seemed to unite people. Mendel continued to photograph and document flood zones around the world, visiting?Haiti He photographed flooding in the U.S.
HumanNature
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
SIDS face a range of risks, including extreme floods, storms, droughts, unpredictability of precipitation patterns and sea-level rise, ocean acidification and deoxygenation (World Health Organization, 2018; Douglas & Cooper, 2020, Thomas, 2020). Small Islands, Large Oceans: Voices on the Frontlines of Climate Change. OECD (2022).
Law Columbia
OCTOBER 17, 2013
In other words, rather than just considering the greenhouse gas emissions from individual projects, environmental impact statements are now regularly considering how a proposed project will be affected by anticipated sea level rise, increased storm surges, more intense heat waves, and the like. Governors Island. acres and up to 10.34
Law Columbia
JANUARY 10, 2019
These amendments flesh out many of the provisions on climate change and energy that were first added to the CEQA Guidelines in 2010. 4th 832 (2013) (invalidating EIR that based its significance determination partly on comparing the project’s emissions to statewide emissions). GHG Emissions Analysis. of Fish & Wildlife, 62 Cal.4th
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 29, 2024
I first wrote about ExxonMobil in March 2013 after I saw the company’s then-CEO, Rex Tillerson, on the Charlie Rose talk show, who provided me with fodder for perhaps my favorite of two dozen ExxonMobil-related columns. billion (in 2010 dollars) in federal tax breaks and subsidies for nearly 100 years.
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