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What Happened During the Montana Youth Climate Trial

Legal Planet

Whether climate change impacts to Montana’s environment can be measured incrementally. Whether climate impacts and effects in Montana can be attributed to Montana’s fossil fuel activities. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They are: Whether Plaintiffs’ injuries are mischaracterized or inaccurate.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE.

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Environmental Health Project: PA’s Natural Gas Boom - What Went Wrong? Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health?

PA Environment Daily

He created the Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission in 2011. And so all of these have very significant impacts on climate change. And climate change is happening now, it's affecting health now, and it's affecting the health of Pennsylvanians now. So this industry has local, regional, and global impacts on health.

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Ripe for Disaster Declarations: Heat, Wildfire Smoke…and Death Data

Union of Concerned Scientists

In making their case, the 31 environmental groups cite data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, projecting that financial cost of extreme heat in the United States will explode fivefold to half a trillion dollars a year by 2050. across the US from 2011 to 2020. the eastern US).”

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Will President Biden's Low Carbon Policy Efforts be Slowed Down by the Gruenspecht Effect and Slow Economic Growth?

Environmental and Urban Economics

The Gruenspecht effect refers to an economist who in his Yale PHD thesis argued that the Clean Air Act can unintentionally make air pollution worse in the short run if car drivers keep their old cars longer because regulation raises the price of new cars (a regulation induced substitution effect). This point generalizes.

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National Environmental Justice Art Campaign - We Refuse To Die - Launching In Pittsburgh Area

PA Environment Daily

Featuring libation and prayer, local speakers, West African drumming and dancing, and the ritual planting of the carving in the ground. -- A new petition seeks to hold US Steel accountable for their harmful pollution and violation of the Clean Air Act. Melanie came to environmental justice after experiencing incredible loss.

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Brazil: Volkswagen will pay more than R$10 million in labor lawsuits

Corp Watch

Germany: Activists throw cake amid protest at Volkswagen meeting DW | May 11, 2023 The climate change and human rights activists targeted Volkswagen executives at the German carmaker's AGM. Major brands like Volkswagen, Air France, Total, Dow Chemicals, and GDF Suez were among the many companies targeted.

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