Environmental News Bits

APRIL 14, 2022

Allergy seasons are likely to become longer and grow more intense as a result of increasing temperatures caused by humanmade climate change, according to new research from the University of Michigan. By the end of this century, pollen emissions could begin 40 days earlier in the spring than we saw between 1995 and 2014.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Recent research shows that 97% of tailings spills between 2014-2023 went uninspected, despite AER claims of routine inspections. The AER has consistently failed to fulfill its mandate to ensure safe, environmentally responsible energy development.

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Real Climate

APRIL 4, 2024

There has been a lot of commentary about perceived disagreements among climate scientists about whether climate change is, or will soon, accelerate. These simulations used historical GHG concentrations and aerosol emissions to 2014, and a mid-range scenario (SSP2-4.5) The screening uses the likely range of 1.8 Russell, J.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 2, 2022

The move comes after Ukraine cut off fresh water supplies along the canal in 2014. IPCC Climate Report: Six Key Findings for Water — Scientific body warns of ‘rapidly closing window’ for action. . Michigan Faces Water Challenges Amid Bid for Climate Refuge. Experts say climate change is driving more intense downpours.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 6, 2024

These were the following, showing northern mid-latitude extreme events from 1950-2013: Cohen et al (2014). 627-637, 2014. Caesar, "Global Land-Based Datasets for Monitoring Climatic Extremes", Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society , vol. Much of that effort was wasted. Francis, K. Dethloff, D. Entekhabi, J.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2025

The NPDES permit for the Oceanside facility, expired in 2014 but had been administratively reissued ever since. Fencl Looming Deadlines analysis shows sh*t coming to your shores soon All of the above is further complicated by climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

From 2014 through 2017, more than half of all EVs sold in the US were purchased in California, but that fraction has now fallen to one third. Gasoline continues to be at near-record prices and as we see more impacts from climate change people are interested in what they can do to lower emissions.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 16, 2021

Cox has said of climate change: “I don’t know how much of it is caused by humans. He isn’t an outright climate skeptic, though he is unconvinced that climate change has anything to do with California’s current wildfires. ” Not good news for California’s climate programs.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The fossil fuel industry has long been the main driver of climate change, but Big Oil’s CEOs and profiteers would like you to believe that it is a part of the solution. One of the people peddling this idea is the man behind Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL) – Murray Edwards, the Fossil Fuel Fanatic.

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Real Climate

MAY 21, 2023

A new paper by Ben Santer and colleagues has appeared in PNAS where they extend their previous work on the detection and attribution of anthropogenic climate change to include the upper stratosphere, using observations from the Stratospheric Sounding Units (SSUs) (and their successors, the AMSU instruments) that have flown since 1979.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Their collective trauma dates back to August 2, 2014, when she and half a million other Toledoans woke to alarming news: the water coming out of their taps was toxic. The expansion of industrial-scale farming in the basin, plus rainstorms made worse by climate change, have caused the blooms to surge in recent years.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014. When thinking about global emissions, don’t picture an individual—point your finger at powerful corporations, specifically the 88 companies that are largely responsible for climate change. The database is transparent and available for all to see.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2024

More and more shareholders have been pushing companies to stop funding these astroturf groups because of their role in the distraction, deception, and delay around climate change. A leaked 2014 presentation by Reheis-Boyd laid out WSPA’s plan to attack climate-related policies like low-carbon fuel standards.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

PennFuture celebrated 25 years of fighting climate change and industrial pollution by holding anniversary celebrations in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to honor seven Pennsylvanians for their contributions to restoring and protecting the environment. Church was an elementary school counselor in Philadelphia until 2014.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 24, 2024

It’s remarkable that California’s landmark Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), enacted in 2014, does not require groundwater monitoring data to be collected and reported for the state’s chronically over-drafted groundwater basins.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 10, 2022

Another point relates to the pace of global change and of our ability to adapt: Compared with its prior report in 2014, the 2022 report concludes that “levels of risk for all Reasons for Concern (RFC) are assessed to become high to very high at lower global warming levels” than previous expected.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

And this problem will only get worse as the impacts of climate change become more frequent and severe. While it’s clear we need to rapidly reduce gas generation to help limit the worst impacts of climate change, it’s less clear how much fossil gas capacity we actually need to maintain reliability in a future decarbonized grid.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

This blog post takes a closer look at REAPs investments from 2014 to 2025, highlighting their critical role in making long-lasting impacts on rural communities, and what stands to be lost if the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) continues to withhold payments on signed contracts. billion of rural development invested in rural communities.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

A decade ago, Australia had a climate tax. That was repealed in 2014, and the ensuing period saw little progress. The law also provides a new kind of safeguard for the overall performance of the system, which is designed to ensure that new or expanded sources doesn’t have the effect of breaching climate targets.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

I followed with great interest the launch of the sixth assessment report Working Group 1 (The Physical Science Basis) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on August 9th. This is likely an effect of man-made climate change. Maybe give them a quiz to see how much they remember. .

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The frightful phenomenon is on a scale proportional to and correlated with the climate altering changes in Earth’s atmosphere. Her endorsement of global forest restoration to mitigate the effects of climate change is clear, and some of her research has identified biochemical connections between forests and the sea.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Solar activity provides no alternative explanation for today’s climate change Dagsvik and Moen claim that recent research indicates that variations in the sun’s magnetic field are of great importance for long-term fluctuations in solar activity. Our job is to be thorough and verify questionable results. It has taken time.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 14, 2024

“Judaism and climate change.” ” Religion Compass, e12491.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Note: On September 26, 2019, the Vanuatu Permanent Mission to the United Nations hosted a workshop on seeking an advisory opinion on climate change from the International Court of Justice. By Michael B. Professor Michael Gerrard gave a presentation about the legal and procedural issues that would be involved.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 22, 2025

org, a climate advocacy group, found that from 1996 to 2014 Enbridge pipelines in the U.S. Oil pipelines are a target of opposition campaigns, many focused on reducing carbon fuels to combat climate change, that have stopped proposed oil pipelines. And its owned by a Canada-based company, Enbridge Inc.,

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 28, 2021

As a result, in 2014, the Canadian company Enbridge moved that a new, larger Line 3 be built, a proposition that immediately disregarded indigenous land rights and Anishinaabe culture. One of the lines, Line 3, has “extensive corrosion” and would require 7,000 digs to repair, according to its replacement project director.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 2, 2023

We work together to produce news and information about the impact of climate change, pollution, and aging infrastructure on the Great Lakes and drinking water. Davenport, Iowa, is used to such floods — waters reached similar levels in 2019, 2014, and 2008. reports.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

In this blog post, we will briefly explain (i) the background of climate change laws in Colombia, (ii) the nature and reach of the ‘ Acción de Cumplimiento ,’ and (iii) the two judgments and their implications for climate action in Colombia. Law 1715 of 2014 on non-conventional renewable energy sources.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Climate change touches many aspects of our lives, including the food on our plates. Many of our foods are vulnerable as climate impacts worsen, from staple crops like maize to much-loved treats like coffee and chocolate. Climate change is making the ocean warmer, more acidic and lower in oxygen.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Since 2014, Greece has doubled its renewable energy output with a series of new solar and wind projects, and they have shut down most of their coal-fired plants. ” He pointed out, however, that the revised plan did not deal with the problem of how to adapt to the climate change that is already happening.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 4, 2024

In 2014, the federal government – in which Mr Poilevre was a Cabinet Minister – was very eager to suppress the voices of organizations like Environmental Defence (and others) who spoke out about the risks of climate change and Canada’s oil and gas industry’s contributions to it.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 18, 2021

A new report out of the UK calls on the government to improve the country’s climate adaptation plan. Adaptation remains the Cinderella of climate change, still sitting in rags by the stove: under-resourced, underfunded and often ignored.” – Baroness Brown, the chair of the UK’s climate change committee.

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HumanNature

APRIL 14, 2022

Candidate in the Department of Biology and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University Over the past two decades, the United States has seen a high increase of dry periods without rain otherwise known as drought across the entire country (IPCC 2014). The last step is to combat climate change itself.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2023

An evaluation from 2014 (the only one I could find) found that LAMP served 19,423 producers, and programs with a goal of direct market development served 3.5 million customers. In addition, each dollar invested resulted in an estimated $2.67 for the local community.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Over many years, as Big Agriculture in the state got bigger and bigger, such unbridled pumping led to a race to the bottom for too many aquifers, and drought and climate change only intensified the need to pump.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This graph depicts actual growth in solar installations since 2014 and projections for further growth in the next five years. (GW Other energy development, in this country and elsewhere, has most often gotten it wrong with respect to local communities and the environment, not to mention climate change.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 26, 2021

A unique photographic exploration of the impact of flooding on communities around the world due to climate events opens Saturday, May 1 at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Gideon Mendel: Drowning World is a stark portrayal of the human condition within the context of climate change. Courtesy of the artist.

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