HumanNature

APRIL 14, 2022

People defining drought will thus rely on the historic climate to determine whether drought is occurring. For example, the Palmer Drought Severity Index (Dai 2019) uses past history of a region to determine what categories drought falls into. The last step is to combat climate change itself. Climate change 2014.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2024

This photo shows the inside of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, eastern France, on February 7, 2019. They complained about the past and current effects of climate change on their enjoyment of human rights, as well as the expected worsening of the climate crisis and its future effects on their rights.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2024

Discharges would need to be treated by an approved series of at least two BMPs. -- Site Inspections —The Department is proposing to require that site inspections be conducted only by qualified personnel. Three options would be available to demonstrate that a person is qualified.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

I followed with great interest the launch of the sixth assessment report Working Group 1 (The Physical Science Basis) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on August 9th. This is likely an effect of man-made climate change. Maybe give them a quiz to see how much they remember. .

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

Those following debates on active climate interventions have been expecting – and worrying about – something like this for a few years. Could this activity change the climate? And in all likelihood, they are not breaking any current law or regulation.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2022

On January 5, the Department of Environmental Protection reported their inspections found 4,386 violations of environmental regulations at conventional oil and gas operations during 2021 -- nearly two and a half times the violations reported just two years ago in 2019 and 337 more than in 2020. Click Here for the 2019 report.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

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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CEQA Developments

MAY 2, 2023

Department of Water Resources (2019) 39 Cal.App.5th But on December 11, 2019, SCOCA again granted the Counties’ petition for review. Butte County, Plumas County and Plumas County Flood Control and Water Conservation District (“Counties”) then filed two lawsuits (later consolidated) against the project. See, County of Butte v.

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Washington Nature

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In 2019, the Water 100 Project kicked off an effort to identify, assess, fund, and implement the 100 most substantive solutions for improving system conditions, benefiting humans and nature in ways that extend well beyond stormwater pollution. How did their rankings compare with other experts? How could the tool be applied?

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Sabin Center wrapped up Climate Week NYC last Friday with an event exploring the opportunities and challenges posed by ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR). As evidenced by the 150-plus people in attendance, ocean CDR is attracting growing attention as a possible climate change mitigation option.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

A top-down approach begins with atmospheric emissions as recorded by sensors or satellites which can then, by a variety of methods, be attributed to geographic regions or particular categories of emitters. This appears to be the only national level agricultural methane target currently in law.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

January 30, 2019. Back to North Carolina developments in late 2018: Executive Order on Climate Change and Clean Energy: On October 29, 2018, N.C. Governor Roy Cooper issued an executive order on climate change and clean energy. 26 that could not by any normal definition fall into any of those categories.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 17, 2023

In a December 24 article published in The Toronto Star , The Halton Region Conservation Authority is quoted saying: “ 95 per cent of its Provincially Significant Wetlands could be re-evaluated under the province’s proposed changes.” . Dark green (Category 1 Protection) represents existing Provincially Significant Wetlands.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

So, to address global climate change, we must better protect tropical forests. While the California Air Resources Board adopted the California Tropical Forest Standard in 2019, it has not yet approved any jurisdictional offset credits for us in California’s Cap-and-Trade Program.

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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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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2020

Since the initiation of climate change litigation several years ago, various state governments and interest groups have filed lawsuits against fossil fuel companies and governing authorities. Below we take a closer look at each category of lawsuits and provide an update on where they stand today. People by James v.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In September of this year, Governor Hochul announced a framework to do just that, setting 10 gigawatts (GWs) of deployed distributed solar by 2030 as the goal, enough to power 700,000 New York homes – even more than the 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act’s (CLCPA) six-GW deployment requirement. Community Adder.

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Science Blogs

APRIL 29, 2019

And human impacts on the environment, like climate change and land development, very well may hurt beneficial insects and help harmful ones. Many scientists are currently analyzing the roles that climate change , land use , chemical pesticides and other factors have played in reported declines in many insect species.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 2, 2024

The temporal and substantive proximity of these cases, across no less than four different international forums, is a reflection of the immense frustration that civil society and State actors who are the most vulnerable to the harms resulting from climate change feel with the status quo. Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines and St.

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Earthava

APRIL 13, 2021

Blue whales don’t break the record in every category, but it’s still worth noting some other amazing feats. Current protections have allowed for a minimal rebound, but human threats do still exist, like vessel strikes, fishing gear entanglement, and climate change. Other Blue Whale facts.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In an October 2020 presentation to the Climate Change Advisory Committee, DEP said in 2018 two conventional oil and gas well operators abandoned approximately 2,750 oil and gas wells between them. Read more here. -- CNX agreed to plug 141 conventional coalbed methane and gas wells and 5 unconventional wells in October 2019.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 21, 2023

To quickly summarize the case background: The City of Berkeley passed an ordinance in 2019 prohibiting the use of “natural gas infrastructure”—gas piping on the building side of the gas meter—in newly constructed buildings, with some exceptions.

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Montrose

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

IRVINE, CA (September 4, 2020) —Environmental Business Journal®* (EBJ), a business research publication which provides high value strategic business intelligence to the environmental industry*, has honored Montrose Environmental Group (Montrose) with an award for Business Achievement in Mergers & Acquisitions in 2019. “In

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A Greener Life

JUNE 10, 2022

Passed in 2019, the law requires existing buildings over 25,000 square feet to start lowering emissions in 2024 and to reach a reduction of 40 percent by 2030 and 80 percent by 2050. Robert Clark falls into this latter category. Even more important to BlocPower — which specializes in clean energy retrofits — is Local Law 97.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 21, 2022

On September 22, 2022, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and the Columbia Climate School co-hosted a Climate Week NYC webinar on “Siting Renewables in New York: Ambitious Climate Goals, a New Siting Process, and How It Is Going.” Background.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

This year the world has had front row seats to the climate crisis with one extreme weather event after another. The UN body, The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), has said that the number of weather disasters driven by climate change has increased fivefold over the past 50 years. trillion in total losses.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Also in the United States, a new report finds that climate change is making it costlier to insure commodity crops against severe weather. That time period includes unusually high crop losses in the Midwest due to drought in 2012 and flooding in 2019. Even with that record of risk nitrate pollution is in a category to itself.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

“And what’s really becoming clear is that these very extreme precipitation events are occurring more frequently than they used to and the main reason for that is human-caused climate change.” – Daniel Swain, a UCLA climate scientist. Days later, local and state officials have begun to tally the extensive damage. 5,000 HOMES.

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Manning Law

DECEMBER 14, 2023

UN Climate Change News, 13 December 2023 – The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) closed today with an agreement that signals the “beginning of the end” of the fossil fuel era by laying the ground for a swift, just and equitable transition, underpinned by deep emissions cuts and scaled-up finance.

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Arnold Porter

JULY 22, 2021

CEQ proclaims that the administration “is committed to accelerating the responsible development and deployment of CCUS to make it a widely available, increasingly cost-effective, and rapidly scalable climate solution across all industrial sectors.” degrees Celsius.

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Science Blogs

APRIL 11, 2019

George Monbiot Q + A – How rejuvenating nature could help fight climate change. Natural climate solutions let nature do the hard work in the fight against climate change by restoring habitats such as forests and wetlands. Thu, 04/11/2019 - 12:42. Categories. Read the original article. Environment.

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Law Columbia

MAY 10, 2023

It will also worsen global climate change. million acres between 1999 and 2019. The land covered by ConocoPhillips’ NPR-A leases falls into the second category. Climate change is already having significant adverse effects on the surface resources of the NPR-A. surface resources.”

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

We know we must now work to both cut greenhouse gas emissions to reduce the severity of climate change and at the same time work to adapt to the impacts we can no longer avoid. Gleick disagrees and defends the Malthusian notion that future food surpluses are highly uncertain due to climate change, and argues that I ignore such risks.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 23, 2021

Climate Litigation in the Age of Trump: Full Term , takes stock of 378 U.S. climate cases that responded or interacted with federal policy and law during the Trump administration. In the final two years, cases increased, as 219 were filed from 2019 until the end of the term. Climate Change Litigation Database.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

The case involves an Olympus Energy land use application for the Dionysus shale gas well pad submitted to West Deer Township, Allegheny County in 2019. Click Here for a summary of 2022 shale gas and conventional violations. It also offers a review of trends in research findings.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The case involves an Olympus Energy land use application for the Dionysus shale gas well pad submitted to West Deer Township, Allegheny County in 2019. Click Here for a summary of 2022 shale gas and conventional violations.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 28, 2024

Cement production, the main ingredient of concrete, accounted for 7% of global CO2 emissions in 2019, according to estimates by the International Energy Agency (IEA), and thus belongs to the category of industries harder to decarbonise.

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