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Another Historic Climate Court Ruling in the Netherlands

Legal Planet

In the face of disappointing legislation and regulation, activists have increasingly turned to courts in the last fifteen years. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. However, given the unprecedentedruling’s questionable logic, I doubt that it stand on appeal.

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Species on the Move: How Climate Change Is Re-Making Ecosystems

Union of Concerned Scientists

In the oceans, prolonged periods of unusually high sea surface temperatures are having a major impact. These annual marine heatwaves (MHWs) have increased by 54% during the last century, and eight of the ten worst MHWs have occurred since 2010. National Park Service scientist Erik Stabenau calls this “fighting water with water”.

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Future costs of emissions three times higher than assumed finds study

A Greener Life

Michael Greenstone, a University of Chicago economist, first calculated it in 2010. It captures the changes in mortality rates that are going to happen… the changes in crop yields… the changes in sea level rise, and the damages that will cost…”. If the SCC is low, new laws might not be worth the effort.

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Can Fossil Fuel Companies Be Held Liable for Climate Change?

Law Columbia

Circuit and Supreme Court; and. * Gerald Torres , a professor at Cornell Law School whose recent work has focused on interactions between social movements, litigation, and legislative change. Lorenzen , an attorney at Crowell & Moring LLP who has led the coalition of petitioners challenging the Clean Power Plan before the D.C.

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Is there any Climate Justice or is it Just-us? A focus on the Caribbean

HumanNature

According to the US EPA, environmental justice is “ the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people, regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies ”. Current Issues in Tourism , 13 (5), 495-505.

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Environmental Impact Statements Addressing Resiliency and Adaptation

Law Columbia

Columbia Center for Climate Change Law. 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.

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Chesapeake Bay Foundation 2022 State Of The Chesapeake Blueprint Report Finds Restoration Efforts Are Off Track

PA Environment Daily

Since the Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint was established in 2010, states have put practices in place to achieve an estimated 42 percent of the nitrogen-pollution reductions and 64 percent of the phosphorus reductions that the Blueprint requires. The effects of climate change are being felt across the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

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