Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

As I outlined here , Montana state law prohibits the consideration of greenhouse gas emissions or climate impacts–– inside and outside the state’s borders––when reviewing projects and approving permits. This now-infamous climate prohibition has been called a “limitation” on the Montana Environmental Policy Act, or MEPA.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Both are leading scholars in their fields, exceptional classroom educators, and leaders of public interest initiatives that are shaping climate change and environmental law and policy in California, the U.S., and jurisdictions around the world. Carlson is taking a leave of absence from UCLA Law to fulfill her governmental duties.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

A group of youths in Hawaii used their states Green Amendment to sue the Hawaii Department of Transportation for its increased release of greenhouse gas emissions, which contributes to man-made climate change. In Hawaii, the state constitution safeguards citizens rights to a clean and healthful environment.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Land-Use and Climate Change Growing urban populations are accelerating land-use change (LUC) around the globe, as witnessed in the Front Range of Colorado 1–3. In recent history, we have witnessed LUC exacerbating climate change due to disturbed soils, development of greenhouse gas (GHG) producing land uses, and more 4.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

As of 2021, 30 emissions trading systems were in force globally, covering 16 – 17 % of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. – Emissions trading as part of a portfolio of climate policies. As a closing note, we reiterate our firm belief in the importance of continued international collaboration on climate change policy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Four important global reports released in the last two days set up a deeply sobering context for the upcoming annual international climate talks in Egypt, also called COP27. Source: UN Climate Change 2022 NDC Synthesis Report. Source: UN Climate Change 2022 NDC Synthesis Report. The UNEP Emissions Gap Report.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Climate Change and Emissions Reductions. Following a recent Auditor General report that Ontario is failing in its progress on tackling climate change, Minister Piccini made some dubious claims about Ontario’s work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. MT in 2017 to 12.4 Absolutely not. MT in 2019.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

As with many environmental issues, when it comes to climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, this is no ordinary election. . For the past four years, Ontario has been failing on climate change. Will your party commit to reducing the province’s greenhouse gas emissions by 60% from 2005 levels by 2030?

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Farmers received billions of dollars from two of the largest federal agricultural conservation programs between 2017 and 2020, but only a small proportion of the money funded practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, according to a new report from the Environmental Working Group (EWG). .

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Of all the troubling headlines emerging from the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) WG1 report, one warning will surely dominate headlines in the next days and weeks: Earth is likely to reach the crucial 1.5? That’s also in line with earlier research (Henley and King, 2017) on the high RCP8.5

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Colombia accounts for 0.4 % of the global greenhouse gas emissions (“GHG”). 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.

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Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

But this also raises other questions: 1) Can we expect the season to continue to lengthen as global warming from increasing concentration of globally well mixed greenhouse gas (GWM-GHG) continues to warm the Atlantic SSTs? 2020), and can cause an increase in vertical wind shear over the Atlantic ( Kossin 2017 ; Ting et al. Emanuel, C.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 6, 2024

Statement by Emilia Belliveau, Energy Transition Program Manager Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – At today’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development (ENVI), Members of Parliament grilled the fossil fuel industry about their climate pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

By: Deborah Klenotic, Deputy Communications Director Climate change is a major challenge facing Pennsylvania, and the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is leading many efforts to fight back and protect communities. Find more materials at DEP’s Climate Change webpage.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 23, 2023

Oliver made it clear on many occasions that he does not believe in human-induced climate change and that he doesn’t think climate change is responsible for extreme weather. Oliver has also stated that he doesn’t think Canada should do anything about climate change because it wouldn’t make a difference anyway.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. 636 fossil fuel lobbyists were part of official country delegations to the last United Nations climate negotiations ( UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and Conference of Parties 27, or COP27 ).

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2023

To no one’s surprise it contained zero funding to address climate change – not even for clean energy – which the document referred to multiple times. As a result, between 2005 and 2017 greenhouse gas pollution from Ontario’s electricity system dropped by 93 per cent. It will be something to watch.

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Law Columbia

JULY 27, 2023

As the frequency and number of climate change cases continue to rise, a robust body of legal precedent is forming, shaping a well-defined field of climate law. The Report builds upon previous reports from 2017 and 2020 , providing a comprehensive update on the current state of, and trends in, climate change litigation worldwide.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Just days before the conference she was featured in an article where she attempted to shift blame away from the fossil fuel industry by saying that oil companies can only decarbonize as fast as the rest of the economy – a comment that completely ignores the fact that the oil and gas industry is Canada’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 20, 2021

DEP’s Climate Change Advisory Committee is scheduled to meet August 24 to review the latest Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory for Pennsylvania and hear an overview of DEP’s Energy Office Clean Energy Program Plan. million tons in 2017 to 241.12 million tons in 2017 to 241.12 million tons in 2018. million tons.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 31, 2023

These contribute significantly to global greenhouse gas emissions (amounting to 10% of energy-related emissions according to the most recent figures from 2017) and climate change. About a quarter of the world’s electricity currently comes from power plants fired by natural gas.

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Washington Nature

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In the face of a changing climate, it’s become clear that the GMA also needs to be updated to respond to the climate crisis by addressing our need to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and building community resilience. Smoke from Pacific Northwest wildfires reaching across the United States.

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CEQA Developments

JUNE 8, 2023

In response to that case, BAAQMD put out new guidelines in 2017, but quickly determined those guidelines were out of date. In BAAQMD’s own words: “The 2017 revision did not address outdated references, analytical methodologies, or technical information improvements. of Supervisors (2017) 17 Cal.App.5th (2015) 62 Cal.4th

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. filed June 5, 2017; emergency motion for stay granted July 3, 2017). June 29, 2017).

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HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

But this simplified pathway misses a key step in cloud formation–and one that could help us combat climate change. Without these changes to clouds, the Earth would already be warmer. C above pre-industrial levels by 2100 to avoid the most severe impacts of climate change. C temperature target. C temperature target.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 3, 2021

Pennsylvania is the fourth largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the United states and the third biggest electric power generation state. The latest EPA Greenhouse Gas Inventory presented in 2020 shows a 19 percent reduction in emissions between 2005 and 2017, primarily due to the switch from coal to natural gas-fired electricity generation.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

But it actually just gives the company an excuse to continue its regular operations, without decreasing its own greenhouse gas emissions. Trading schemes like the one being proposed (well, already being used), do almost nothing to increase investments in renewable power or drive down greenhouse gas emissions. .

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The court determined the project was not in the public interest after weighing the social and environmental costs of the project, including an extended consideration of how the project would worsen climate change. This blog provides a quick review of the case and its noteworthy developments. An Overview of the Case. Section 4.15(1)

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Physics World

AUGUST 1, 2021

Worldwide, nations are pledging to reach net zero emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, if not earlier. Could the breakdown of rocks mitigate climate change? That’s the finding of a new study that evaluates this proposed geoengineering scheme and estimates the costs involved.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 19, 2023

This is outrageous, especially given that Ontario successfully phased out coal-fired power plants between 2005 and 2017 and brought down greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector by 93 per cent. The Ontario government may not care about climate change but the Federal government says it does.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 19, 2024

Recently, CEOs from five of the biggest oil and gas companies in Canada were called to parliament to testify about their failure to bring greenhouse gas emissions down, despite billions of dollars in annual profits. All the CEOs tried to evade this fact and the CEO of Cenovus even denied it, falsely claiming emissions peaked in 2017.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Under the Paris Agreement, countries will need to track greenhouse gas emissions at the level of individual ‘super emitters’, such as power plants, in close-to-real time. chatów between 2017 and 2022. By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer. w power station in central Poland. Image credit: Pawel Brzozowski / Shutterstock.com.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 12, 2017

On November 21, 2017, the High Court of Ireland blocked a climate change case concerning construction of a new airport runway from moving forward, but made a groundbreaking decision in recognizing “a personal constitutional right to an environment” for the first time. By Dena Adler. In Friends of the Irish Environment CLG v.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 15, 2022

When Secretary Zinke terminated the moratorium in 2017, litigation ensued and, in 2019, the Court ruled that the Zinke Order was subject to NEPA. BLM’s own analysis states that cumulative greenhouse gas emissions from the coal lease applications that were suspended under the Jewell Order would amount to more than one billion tons/year.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 22, 2021

How would such a legal system work, and could giving rights to nature help in the legal battle against climate change? In 2017, four rivers sought and in some instances won legal rights: the Whanganui River in New Zealand, the Rio Altrato in Colombia, and the Ganga and Yamuna rivers in India. What are the “Rights of Nature”?

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 29, 2024

Gas plants also emit greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming, which we know have been linked to wildfires. Last year, Canadians experienced the horrible effects of climate change with over 18 million hectares of forest burned. We have cheaper, cleaner options available to us now, such as wind and solar.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

Take Action: Tell Enbridge shareholders that you care about climate change and want Enbridge to stop lying about the cost and climate pollution associated with gas. Natural” gas is a fossil fuel that’s bad for the climate and harmful to human health, but you wouldn’t know it from the gas industry’s branding.

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