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Ask a Scientist: Calling Out the Companies Responsible for Western Wildfires

Union of Concerned Scientists

percent of total emissions. Since that 2014 study, which laid the foundation of what is called climate source attribution science , UCS scientists have collaborated with Heede on two other studies that pinpointed the major carbon producers’ culpability for specific climate change-related trends. Licker et al.

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Using the Free Market to Affect Change: An Argument for Environmental Taxes

Vermont Law

to reducing their carbon emissions. In August 2015, the Obama administration announced the. which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. Nevertheless, in December 2015, 195 countries adopted an. social cost of carbon. carbon dioxide. jointly committed.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

Healey issued the CID in connection with an investigation into unfair or deceptive acts or practices in trade or commerce with respect to fossil fuel products and securities. Opponents of EPA Carbon Standards for New Coal-Fired Power Plants Filed Initial Briefs. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Acidification : Reducing the pH rating of a substance making it more acidic in nature, for example, increased carbon emissions lead to the oceans absorbing more of it, increasing acidification and damaging ecology such as coral bleaching. They are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, CFCs, and hydrofluorocarbons.

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Roe v. Wade Draft Bodes Ill for Air, Wetlands and EPA

Union of Concerned Scientists

Fossil fuel and chemical polluters, business lobbyists and conservative private land interests have fought these laws and the EPA since their inception and they made fresh headway during the Trump administration, which undertook a widespread effort to gut environmental protections and slashed staffing of the EPA back to levels of the 1980s.

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Guest Essay: Shifting Toward Clean Energy Can Lower Costs For Pennsylvanians; Unlike Natural Gas, Clean Energy Does Not Suffer From Wild Price Fluctuations

PA Environment Daily

And it reveals how American families and businesses bear the brunt of wild price fluctuations in fossil fuels and deserve more stable, cleaner sources of energy. Fuel costs don’t change for wind- and solar-powered electricity over time because the wind and sun are free, and clean energy produced in the U.S. According to the U.S.

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Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Transportation Sector: A Cap-and-Invest Approach

Vermont Law

Several factors¾including the effects of the economic recession, shifts in energy markets from coal to natural gas and renewable energy sources, and carbon pollution mitigation and clean energy programs like renewable portfolio standards¾have been identified as principal drivers of these reductions. [2]. emissions from the power sector. [3].