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5 Ocean Victories of 2021

Ocean Conservancy

But when I look back on this year, I am so energized by what we have accomplished for our ocean. Through a changing administration, an ongoing global pandemic and a tumultuous political environment, we at Ocean Conservancy have never lost sight of our goal of a healthy and resilient ocean that supports us all.

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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Peabody, a coal company, filed for bankruptcy in April 2016 and emerged from bankruptcy under a plan that became effective on April 3, 2017. 19, 2017); In re Constitution Pipeline Co. , Reorganized Peabody Energy Corp. County of San Mateo (In re Peabody Energy Corp.) , No. 16-42529 (Bankr. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. Sierra Club v.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Six environmental groups launched the proceeding challenging the stay after EPA published notice of the stay in the June 5, 2017 issue of the Federal Register. filed June 5, 2017; emergency motion for stay granted July 3, 2017). June 29, 2017). June 28, 2017). June 28, 2017). filed June 9, 2017).

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These Attorneys General Are Defending the Fossil Fuel Industry, Not Their States

Union of Concerned Scientists

At least partly—if not largely—because the AGs and their political organization, the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), receive substantial financial support from fossil fuel companies, electric utilities, and their respective trade groups. How has Paxton responded?

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House Speaker Mike Johnson’s Climate Change Playbook: Deny the Science, Take the Funding

Union of Concerned Scientists

Despite the United States having spewed a quarter of all the world’s cumulative global warming gases, Johnson blathered at a 2017 town hall: “What about Africa? He holds that climate change is due to “natural cycles.” they burn huge areas and forests, and they do all these things without impunity.” billion per year in adjusted dollars.

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Building Resilience in Afro-Puerto Rican Community Based on Feminist Practices

Union of Concerned Scientists

Like many other women-led and community-based organizations in Puerto Rico, Taller Salud has taken up the recovery and resilience development in their communities to face the acute climatic, economic, and social crisis that Puerto Rico is facing after the devastation caused by Hurricane María in 2017.

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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

The physics-based models describe how energy flows through the atmosphere and ocean, as well as how the forces from different air masses push against each other. Furthermore, the volume of the oceans increases from the melting of land ice. The global sea level acts like the mercury in a thermometer because warmer water expands.

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