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2021-2022 California Environmental Legislation: What’s Been Enacted?

Legal Planet

SB 6 and AB 2011 enable residential development in zones where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use. Land Use and Building Decarbonization. The Governor signed notable new laws designed to address the housing affordability crisis, with GHG reduction co-benefits.

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White House To Nominate PA Native David Applegate As Director of the U.S. Geological Survey

PA Environment Daily

As Associate Director for the Natural Hazards Mission Area since 2011, he is responsible for USGS’s geologic hazard programs, including coordination of the bureau’s hazard response activities, as well as the bureau’s coastal and marine program, which plays a critical role in analyzing the impacts of climate change, such as sea level rise.

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Conflict & Climate Change: The Real Triple C

Vermont Law

Climate change causes sea-level rise, natural resource scarcity, and natural disasters. First, scarcity of natural resources can change the political economy of a state. Southern Sudan started experiencing drought as a result of sea level temperature rise in the Indian Ocean.

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How we Conceptualize Security will Shape our Response to Environmental Challenges

HumanNature

As FEW nexus policy prescriptions are increasingly securitized (discussed and understood through the lens of security), my research finds that such spaces produce an environmental security narrative that situates economic productivity as that which is most at risk from threats posed by natural resource scarcities (Liebenguth 2020).

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California Adopts CEQA Guidelines Aimed at Improving Consideration of GHG Emissions and Climate Change Impacts in Environmental Reviews

Law Columbia

The California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA) has explained that this sentence is intended to signal that a “full ‘lifecycle’ analysis that would account for energy used in building materials and consumer products will generally not be required.”. See California Building Industry Association v. City of Los Angeles, 201 Cal.App.4th

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May 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Columbia Climate Law

As a threshold matter, the court found that Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and one of the state petitioners (New York) each had standing based on potential injuries from climate change which were caused in part by HFC emissions and which would be redressed by restrictions on such emissions. Wheeler , No. 18-1172 (D.C.

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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The plaintiffs alleged that Peabody (and a number of other fossil fuel companies) caused greenhouse gas emissions that resulted in sea level rise and damage to their property. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. Alternatively, the states and environmental groups asked the D.C. 17-2780, 17-2806 (2d Cir. filed Oct.

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