Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In many ways the superlatives are derived from a fevered atmosphere. government ordered the seven states to correct a longstanding misalignment of water supply and demand. Unless the states acted, she said, the federal government would “protect the system” and apply its own remedy. Colorado River Basin’s Moment of Reckoning.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

Except in this case, it appears she helped tie the department’s hands: According to the Daily Montanan , Nowakowski herself drafted the original 2011 MEPA limitation for a state senator. I could see even a narrow ruling finding in favor of the youth plaintiffs on those issues.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

To meet these goals, the state is facilitating burgeoning carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) (CCS) technologies that capture carbon from point sources to store, as well as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which removes carbon from the atmosphere. Land Use and Building Decarbonization. Conclusion.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Because methane has 28 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide and a shorter atmospheric life of only 12 years, immediate action to reduce methane emissions —including from agriculture—is critical to slow our warming climate, especially in light of expanding global populations and food demand. 2018 , Petersen et al.,

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

From 2011 to 2016, DEP’s Air Quality Program only required oil and gas operators to maintain records of how frequently they conducted pigging operations. DEP only requires the applicant for these general permits to notify the local government where the facility is to be located that it is applying for coverage under these general permits.

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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.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

A critical but difficult step in this process is for a government employee or independent valuator to determine the return on investment (ROI) to the public under various land use scenarios. Progress in Planning 75 , 53–107 (2011). Interim report to USDA under Contract# GS-23F-8182H 53 (2011). Works Cited Angel, S., Blei, A. &

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

So why is Ontario planning to ramp up the lone fossil fuel in the mix, when so many other governments are racing to do the opposite to cut carbon emissions? In fact, 2020 brought the largest single increase in methane in the atmosphere since we started measuring this in the 1980s. Ontario Energy Output by Fuel Type: 2020 .

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

The ideas of Thomas Malthus (center) were used by British governments to justify the Irish Famine, 1845-1848 (left) and Bengali Famine, 1943-1945 (right) before becoming the basis for 20th Century environmentalism. That talk helped the [National Center for Atmospheric Research] scientists to see the big picture clearly and early on.”

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Legal Planet

APRIL 26, 2023

Supreme Court gave state and local governments a big–if preliminary–legal win against the fossil fuel industry. This climate change litigation template was quickly embraced and replicated by state and local governments across the United States, who followed suit by filing their own, similar cases against the fossil fuel industry.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

In 2011 I invited Reagan-era economist Art Laffer to speak to a hall filled exclusively with New Hampshire Republicans, both leaders and rank and file conservatives. As a climate scientist recently said on CNN, “Until we stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere we have no idea what the future looks like.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 23, 2023

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Seasonal Outlook for September through November, the majority of the country is expected to see above-normal temperatures during this time. This unrelenting heat is far longer than the 100-degree day streak back in 2011 that lasted 27 days.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Lawmakers are working to pass a short-term spending package to keep the government open in October. Australia passes first climate legislation since 2011. Congress appears likely to pass a short-term spending measure keeping the government funded through Dec. The current government fiscal year ends Sept. Executive Branch.

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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.” 2011) ; Regehr et al.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 20, 2017

government doing to make sure this harm would be minimal? START), signed by the United States and Russia in 2011, limits these two countries to only 1,550 strategic nuclear warheads each deployed on 700 long-rage delivery systems. million metric tons of black carbon aerosol particles into the atmosphere to shade the earth for years.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

In three other cases brought by local and state governments against fossil fuel companies, the Supreme Court granted petitions for writ of certiorari seeking review of decisions affirming remand orders. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS Supreme Court Sent Other Climate Cases Back to Lower Appellate Courts for Review of Other Grounds for Removal.

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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. Friends of the Santa Clara River v. County of Los Angeles , No. B296547 (Cal.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 20, 2022

Third, these lower incomes and high-risk jobs leave rural areas dependent on government subsidies. As climate change continues to increase the cost of living in rural regions, these areas will continue to be vulnerable if government support cannot account for imbalances in increasing costs. This map shows projected changes in U.S.

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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. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , No. 1:17 -cv-02031 (D.D.C.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

By railing against what he calls a “radical climate change movement” and suing the federal government to protect corporate polluters. Since 2011, the industry has donated $78,450 to her campaigns for state treasurer and attorney general, according to OpenSecrets data , placing the sector among her top 10 industry contributors.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

In addition, the agency expects to propose an updated rule governing the venting and flaring of methane pollution from onshore oil and gas leases in October but did not estimate when it would finish work on that regulation. 20 executive order that called for a review of energy and environment-related rules across the federal government.

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ESA

MARCH 6, 2023

This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for ecologists to provide input to the US government on how nature, biodiversity and ecosystems will be measured to provide the information needed to manage ecosystems and biodiversity within the United States. The comment period ends March 31, 2023. Stacy Plaskett (D-VI) and Rep.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Appropriations: Congress is working this week to pass a short-term spending deal to keep the government open after the end of the fiscal year Sept. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) prevents the federal government from creating a “Schedule F” classification for federal workers. NSF to host lecture titled “Trends in U.S.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Trump, the fact that each month is warmer than the same month the previous year has nothing to do with the adverse consequences associated with spewing obscene amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. into the atmosphere each year, with no end in sight. manufacturing non-competitive.”

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ESA

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Courts Republican-led state sue to block environmental, social and governance retirement investing rule. Matt Cartwright (D-PA) will be ranking member of the House Commerce, Justice and Science Subcommittee, which funds the National Science Foundation, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, among other agencies.

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