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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

On October 1, 2019, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals denied fossil fuel companies’ motion for a stay pending their appeal of the district court order remanding Baltimore’s climate change lawsuit against the companies to state court. Pursuant to a consent order, the remand order will not be entered until October 10, 2019.

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Should the official Atlantic hurricane season be lengthened?

Real Climate

1 Average number of named storms by day of the year in the historical record from 1851–2019 (dark blue line). and European Clean Air Acts and Amendments of the 1970s ( Mann and Emanuel 2006 ; Dunstone et al. 2019 ; Kossin et al. 1987-2007, 2019. 2013 ; Sobel et al. Walsh, and L. Emanuel, and A.

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

EPA decision , upheld the EPA’s authority to regulate such emissions under the Clean Air Act but significantly constrained its ability to do so. After she took office in January 2019, that pledge went out the window. The case ultimately wound up in the US Supreme Court, which, in its controversial West Virginia v.

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Do We Dare Continue to Flare?

Vermont Law

Juris Doctor Candidate (VLGS '23) and Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law April 8, 2022 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) establishes air quality standards under the Clean Air Act. (1) Turner, Jr. 2) Therefore, various state agencies administer their jurisdiction’s “methane gas” policy. (3)

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Policy News: December 20, 2021

ESA

6180 ) to incentivize removing invasive lionfish from the oceans. Other report highlights include the cascading impacts of warming on Arctic ecosystems: The Arctic is experiencing high rates of ocean acidification, with implications for marine food chains. Ocean CDR is a set of strategies to sequester carbon dioxide in ocean waters.

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Policy News: May 28, 2021

ESA

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The Combating Sexual Harassment in Science Act ( H.R. This bill passed the full House in 2019 but did not advance in the Senate. The full House passed the Coastal and Ocean Acidification Stressors and Threats (COAST) Research Act (H.R. billion for NOAA, a $1.4

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ESA Policy News: November 8, 2021

ESA

The EPA receive $100 million for air quality and climate research and NASA gets $115 million for climate research. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5 Michael Bennet in 2019 ( S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS®) Advisory Committee Public Meeting (Nov. NOAA – U.S.

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