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Gideon Mendel: Drowning World Opens May 1

Academy of Natural Sciences

© GIDEON MENDEL, Vilian Sousa da Silva,Taquari District, Rio Branco, Brazil, March 2015 C-print. and India (2014), Brazil and Bangladesh (2015) and France (2016 and 2018). Courtesy of the artist. Programming. Haiti (2008), Pakistan (2010), Australia and Thailand (2011), Nigeria (2012), Germany and The Philippines (2013),?England?and

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Why Energy Bills Will Be Even Higher This Winter

Union of Concerned Scientists

To dig into how the country got here, it’s helpful to split up the contributing factors into the three main “gas value chain” categories: the production of gas via drilling (“upstream”), the transportation of gas via pipelines (“midstream”), and the facilities that receive the gas, such as gas-fired power plants (“downstream”).

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

Texas Federal Court Ordered Jurisdictional Discovery in Exxon Case Against Massachusetts Attorney General, Citing Concern That State’s Investigation Was Undertaken in Bad Faith. The Texas federal court said that ExxonMobil’s allegations raised concerns that Healey had issued the CID in bad faith, which would preclude Younger abstention.

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DOJ Defeats Motion to Dismiss in Precedent-Setting Criminal Wage-Fixing Case

Arnold Porter

Mazzant III of the United States District Court in the Eastern District of Texas denied a motion to dismiss the government’s first ever criminal indictment for alleged wage-fixing. N:In re High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation 2015 WL 5159441 (N.D. 2, 2015).]] On November 29, 2021, Judge Amos L.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Two other states—Texas and North Dakota—filed an amicus brief supporting EPA; the petitioners opposed their participation on procedural grounds. Clean Air Council v. Pruitt , No. 17-1145 (D.C. filed June 5, 2017; emergency motion for stay granted July 3, 2017).

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9th Compendium Of Studies On Health & Environmental Harms From Natural Gas Development Released - ‘The Rapidly Expanding Body Of Evidence Compiled Here Is Massive, Troubling And Cries Out For Decisive Action’

PA Environment Daily

And so what this study did was looking at 2002 to 2015 Medicare claims, the authors took advantage of a stark difference in fracking activity between Pennsylvania, where the practice started becoming widespread in 2008, and in New York, where fracking was and still is banned. It also offers a review of trends in research findings.

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Nuclear Plant Closures And Renewables Increase Electricity Prices & Unreliability, Testifies Michael Shellenberger to U.S. Senate

Environmental Progress

6] But events in mid-February throughout the center of the country, including Texas, and last summer in California, suggest that attempting to replace nuclear plants with variable renewable energy sources could make electricity grids less resilient. In Texas, there was no mechanism to ensure that baseload plants were ready for the weather.