Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 1, 2024
But in trying to shape a regulation that would mollify opponents—largely industries responsible for the heat-trapping gases that cause climate change—the SEC failed to relieve investors of responsibility for determining how companies will fare in the clean energy transition.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 4, 2024
My fellowship is based on using data that trace heat-trapping emissions to major fossil fuel producers in order to understand how they have affected the climate, particularly global sea levels, and to aid efforts to hold these producers accountable. Let’s look at their cumulative emissions since the 1950s in Figure 2.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 29, 2024
Most of these pieces were about the company’s support for a seemingly independent network of anti-regulation, “free-market” nonprofits that spread falsehoods about the reality and seriousness of climate change. And since 2015, they have claimed that their company supports the goals of the Paris climate agreement, which was brokered that year.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 4, 2024
UCS’ recent co-authored submission drew heavily on these data to illustrate that addressing the climate crisis requires that states regulate corporations. InterAmerican Court of Human Rights where Colombia and Chile requested an advisory opinion to clarify states’ human rights obligations in light of climate change.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 29, 2023
In 2015, when he took office as AG after stints in the Texas Legislature, he sued the Environmental Protection Agency for strengthening a standard for ground-level ozone, better known as smog. EPA decision , upheld the EPA’s authority to regulate such emissions under the Clean Air Act but significantly constrained its ability to do so.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 22, 2023
The costs of increased risks from natural hazards—wildfires, floods and sea level rise— are driving insurers away. Regulations inhibiting premium increases are blamed as well, though wouldn’t unleashing the free market in this case force thousands of people to abandon and leave their homes?)
Circle of Blue
JUNE 14, 2021
1,071 feet : Elevation, above sea level, of Lake Mead. The agency will request that rules that existed prior to the Obama administration’s rewrite in 2015 be applied until a new rule can be written. Sixteen contaminated sites such as Hanford and Savannah River were part of the audit. House Committee Advances Wastewater Bill.
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