Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

While “natural” gas is mostly composed of methane, a greenhouse gas that’s 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide during its first 20 years in the atmosphere, Ebel and his industry counterparts have succeeded in minimizing the perception of its climate impact.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2023

Below are examples of going the WRONG WAY on environmental and energy issues from last week’s articles and NewsClips-- -- City & State PA: Norfolk Southern Spent Millions On Lobbying And Political Donations In Harrisburg/Washington, D.C.,

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The emissions don’t lie: Shell’s flagship LNG project will add 14 million tonnes of greenhouse gas pollution to the atmosphere every year, which is the equivalent of adding over 3 million gas-powered cars. She was a board member of the pro-oil Fraser Institute from 2017-2020. million gas cars.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2023

PA Congressional Lawmakers Want Commitment National Institutes Of Environmental Health To Help Respond To Norfolk Southern Train Derailment 6th Oil/Natural Gas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables [ There Is No Limit To What Oil/Natural Gas Industry Can Make You Pay ] -- EnergyWire: LNG Natural Gas Industry Urges U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The WMO’s GHG bulletin’s headline takeaways are stark: Atmospheric concentrations of three major heat-trapping gases, carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), methane (CH 4 ) and nitrous oxide (N 2 O) hit all-time highs in 2021 (see table below). Source: UNEP 2022 Emissions Gap Report. The World Meteorological Organization Greenhouse Gas Bulletin.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

But in nearly every instance, Rose listened politely, refrained from challenging Tillerson on the facts, and went on to his next question. Darren Woods, ExxonMobil CEO from 2017 to the present. And Rose did, at times, ask follow-up questions. We do not support climate denial,” he replied. “We

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 27, 2023

Yemen is still reporting cases, despite having an outbreak starting in 2017 that infected more than one million people and was the worst in modern times. Diseases do not respect political borders. Ethiopia is having one of its longest outbreaks on record due to conflict in the Oromia region.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Doing research on environmental issues or responses is usually an easy call for policy-makers and gets wide political support, even if there’s disagreement what to do about the issue. The way to do this that now looks most promising would be to spray a fine mist of reflective aerosols in the upper atmosphere.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

What we heard in plaintiffs’ case was not justiciable controversy, but rather a weeklong hearing of political grievances that properly belongs to the legislature, not a court of law,” said Assistant Attorney General Michael Russell. The admission says a lot about political will. I’m kidding, but only slightly.)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Superstorm Sandy in 2012, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in 2017, and Hurricane Irma in 2021 were all accompanied by the same question. Will this smoke alarm wake us up?” So far, no alarm bell has been loud enough to stop the sleepwalking.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2023

East, Gulf Coasts -- The Guardian: ‘Tornado Alley’ Is Shifting Farther Into Eastern U.S.,

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Replacing these massive carbon sink forests with machinery which continuously pumps vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the Earth’s atmosphere is increasing the rate of global warming. It is also important to realise that politics and governments have a lot of control on the land they govern. 2 pp 105-110. (2) 2) Geraldo B.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

20, 2017, around 7 a.m. Natural disasters in 2017 were of epic proportion. Natural disasters in 2017 were of epic proportion. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the summer of 2017 was the hottest on. In August 2017, Hurricane Harvey required around 10,000. differences.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Like the miner’s canary, the Indian marks the shift from fresh air to poison gas in our political atmosphere; and our treatment of Indians, even more than our treatment of other minorities, reflects the rise and fall in our democratic faith.”. In 2017, Salt River Project (SRP), the owners of NGS, announced plans to . created.

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 16, 2017

presently hostile political administration. to the atmosphere than CO2, and methane emissions produced by landfills are the. For more electrifying information and discussion about the world’s long-term energy solutions, attend the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law’s 2017 Symposium: The Energy Transition. great success.

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Science Blogs

AUGUST 29, 2017

The release of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels is, conceiveably, the most important environmental issue in the world today. — "Costs and benefits of carbon dioxide," Nature , May 3, 1979. And along with the economic costs will come social and political side effects. Tue, 08/29/2017 - 08:57.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Unfortunately, the topic of climate change has been heavily politicized and used to draw yet another line in the sand between what are portrayed as ideologically divergent and mutually-exclusive political views. A political view. Ecological Modelling 345 , 30–40 (2017). 122 , (2017). Van Hecken, G. & Adhikari, B. &

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

trillion American food and fiber production sector that counts powerful allies in marketing, equipment, chemical, energy industries, and politics. . Department of Agriculture 2017 Census and U.S. In the last decade, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. are the frontline of an immense $1.1

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

Corporate and securities law – as well as companies and their leaders acting through lobbying and politics – also have major roles to play. [9] Gerken, “Distinguished Scholar in Residence Lecture: A User’s Guide to Progressive Federalism,” 45 Hofstra Law Review 1087 (2017). [11] 46] The U.S. See, e.g., Heather K.

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Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The monitoring of the atmosphere, of the surface of the Earth, of what’s going on in the ocean and under the ice — all of that is overwhelmingly funded by the federal government.”. Fri, 09/15/2017 - 04:27. Communication and Politics. The data gap problem. Former Obama science adviser John Holdren. Consequences. fossil fuels.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 16, 2022

A political fight Today, this familiar fight has taken on heightened urgency. Springdale is part of Pennsylvania’s newly redrawn 17th Congressional district, one of 26 races that the Cook Political Report considers a toss-up for 2022. million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent into the atmosphere. It is permitted to emit 2.2

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Physics World

AUGUST 3, 2021

In August 2017 Freeman had her next shot with the so-called “Great American eclipse”. With this ring You can build a holiday around a solar eclipse, as Tami Freeman and her family did in 2017, as you know years in advance where you will need to be. Courtesy: John Gill).

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ESA

JUNE 28, 2021

Senators confirmed Richard Spinrad to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by a voice vote. He served as NOAA’s chief scientist from 2014 and 2016 and has also led both NOAA’s Office of Atmospheric Research and the National Ocean Service. Former President Donald Trump shrank the size of both of monuments in 2017.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court stated: “Plaintiffs’ claims for public nuisance, though pled as state-law claims, depend on a global complex of geophysical cause and effect involving all nations of the planet (and the oceans and atmosphere). 2017 CA 006685 B (D.C. It necessarily involves the relationships between the United States and all other nations.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Intriguingly, these scientific studies took on a wider political importance during the Second World War. Colourful corona This image shows a part of the solar corona observed over an active region using the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on 12 July 2017. million kelvin (green).

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A Greener Life

APRIL 5, 2023

Several rivers meander through the flat, swampy county and overflow after intense downpours, the kind that are occurring much more frequently as a warmer atmosphere leads to more intense rain events. O’Leary didn’t start out as a flooding expert or a political leader. It’s the very nature of the low-lying landscape.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

After concluding in 2011 that listing of the Pacific walrus was warranted due to threats that included sea-ice loss through 2100, the FWS issued a final decision in October 2017 that the Pacific walrus no longer qualified as a threatened species. Reynolds v. State , No. 1D20-2036 (Fla. May 18, 2021). NEW CASES, MOTIONS, AND OTHER FILINGS.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The court previously reached the same conclusion in December 2018, but the California Supreme Court directed it to reconsider the case in light of the Supreme Court’s 2017 decision in Friends of the Eel River v. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration , No. Ireland , 2017 No. Democracy Forward Foundation v.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receives $1.24 15 briefing will provide background on the most relevant science, politics, justice, and solutions. NSF also receives $3.43 Then, drawing on the recent IPCC report, the panelists will explain why it is imperative to limit future global warming to 1.5

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The bill repeals section 20001 of the 2017 Tax Act, which required the Bureau of Land Management to offer oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and cancels the leases sold in January 2021. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5 Lawmakers also allocate $9.7

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ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

Even when Republicans controlled both the House and Senate in 2017 and 2018, Congress largely rejected these steep cuts. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The Trump administration proposed steep cuts across the government in its president’s budget request, especially to scientific and environmental programs.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The developing science of climatology with its understanding of the need for chemistry made scientists concerned for the future on seeing masses amounts of carbon released into the atmosphere (8) , but also (as it was previously) regarding trees as a resource and the potential for depletion. Conservation Economics. Conservation Movement.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

The court previously ruled that the 2017 issuance of NWP 12 violated the Endangered Species Act because the Corps failed to undertake Section 7 consultation. Keystone XL was authorized under the 2017 NWP 12. Center for Biological Diversity v. Scott , No. 4:21-cv-00047 (D. filed May 3, 2021); Northern Plains Resource Council v.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Trump, the fact that each month is warmer than the same month the previous year has nothing to do with the adverse consequences associated with spewing obscene amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. into the atmosphere each year, with no end in sight. manufacturing non-competitive.”

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