PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

On April 25, the Department of Environmental Protection announced the release of the 2024 Climate Change Action Plan Update and 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment Report. Visit DEPs Climate Change webpage for more information on these and other Pennsylvania climate initiatives. from 2019 to 2020 and 44.4%

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

This opinion overturned weak fuel efficiency standards adopted by the Bush Administration because the government had not considered the effects of its action on climate change in its environmental impact statement. Corey (2019). National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (2007). It became a key precedent on the issue.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2023

Attribution science , which is about understanding the role of climate change versus natural weather patterns and climate variability, can help us better understand the connections between extreme weather and climate change, provide new insight into what specific emissions are driving the worst impacts, and help shape climate solutions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Storage represented 20% of the new US electrical capacity installed in the first three quarters of 2024, up from 14% in 2023 (and 1% in 2019). And for the first time since 2019, the United states is now manufacturing the solar cells that are the building blocks of solar panels. Cumulative US utility-scale battery power capacity.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 14, 2021

The conflict is a consequence of extreme heat and worsening droughts, byproducts of climate change, which bruises Africa’s Sahel region and nearby countries more deeply than almost anywhere else in the world. Temperatures here are rising 1.5 times faster than the global average. It is an endless spiral.”.

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HumanNature

MAY 2, 2025

Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University Despite being one of the lowest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions that are causing climate change, Africa has experienced widespread losses and damages attributed to human-induced climate change. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 13, 2024

This seems out of place, to say the least, in a stadium in Los Angeles, California, a city and a state forging pathbreaking climate policies and working mightily to combat the effects of climate change. So why are the Dodgers sullying their brand with big oil?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Climate change, one of the defining challenges of our time, demands multifaceted approaches to drive action and accountability. Two central players in this arena are climate litigators and United Nations (UN) climate negotiators. Meanwhile, in the United States, the recent Held v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Together with Scientists for Global Responsibility, we’ve launched a petition demanding that Elsevier and its parent company, RELX, detail their plans to align their business practices with their public commitments to address climate change. But reining in climate change requires us to quickly transition away from fossil fuel use.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 19, 2022

What has Ontario done about climate change the last 4 years? Once upon a time, Ontario was a provincial leader in fighting climate change. But today, there is virtually no climate policy in place in the province, and the Ontario government has resorted to becoming a climate pretender. Not by a long shot. .

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2022

Chicago is also, as it turns out, ground zero for climate change. Climate change is making old solutions obsolete. Chicago has been confronting an unusual problem that may be linked with climate change. Judging from a 2019 report , the drivers of lake level variability are still not well understood.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 8, 2025

The summer of 2019 began with its usual verve, and as May turned to June turned to July, the height of the busy season, the sleepy town was still dreaming. But between June and August of 2019, fewer than three inches of rain had fallen , roughly half a foot behind seasonal averages. Fishing charters fill. Bellies, too.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 4, 2024

Can the new advisory opinion interpreting the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) move us beyond the lethargy of unmet climate change policy needs ? By accepting the COSIS request, ITLOS boldly advanced the international law of climate change to take full account of its harmful impacts on the marine environment.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Support climate change adaptation and mitigation research. The escalating effects of climate change on agriculture, including wildfires, floods, and droughts, are already affecting agricultural production. UCS analysis estimated that between FY 2016 and FY 2019, just $15.7

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Legal Planet

APRIL 14, 2022

That made an investor revolt last week over the giant mining company’s climate disclosures especially notable. It’s also notable that this took place in London, showing that investor worries about climate change are worldwide. Even before last week’s investor revolt, the company was under pressure to address climate change.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Frustrated by years of algal blooms and drinking water emergencies, residents of Toledo collected over ten thousand signatures to trigger a 2019 special election that LEBOR. The impacts of climate change and loss of biodiversity are getting worse. In this regard, consider the example of the Lake Erie Bill of Rights (LEBOR).

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2023

However, his average before 2019 was more like 1%. His lifetime average was pulled up by scores of 7% in 2019, 10% in 2020, and 22% in 2021. He doesn’t seem to be a climate denier. Emmer’s scores from the League of Conservation Voters are about par for a House Republican: 5% for both the 2022 scores and the lifetime score.

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Inside Climate News

JULY 26, 2021

By Haley Dunleavy In 2019, Emily Choy rappelled off the side of a guano-covered cliff almost 400 feet above Hudson Bay, and reached for a sleek black-and-white seabird. New studies suggest that rising temperatures may prove disastrous for species of birds, fish and other animals that are adapted to the cold of Arctic climes.

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Legal Planet

MAY 23, 2025

Congress approved an overhaul of the aging levees in 1960, but the project was delayed until 2019 because of cost-benefit concerns and coordination challenges. Institutionalizing cross-sector collaboration is key to addressing climate change impacts and biodiversity loss, and using public resources more efficiently.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Delhi, 2019: Don’t Breath The Air. This isn’t about a freak weather pattern: it is about climate. Wind is famously difficult to model, but climate researchers have concluded that climate change is stopping wind and changing wind patterns. Move right along. But not so fast. There is no safe place.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2023

If you compare California with the country as a whole, however, it does seem clear that our climate policies have had a real impact on emissions. California has done well in terms of total emission reductions – about a 10% reduction from 2009 to 2019. decrease was due to other states enacting their own climate policy, so the U.S.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Japan ) and a second in Yokosuka in 2019 ( Yokosuka Climate Case ). In the 2019 case, the judgments focused on the procedural aspect of the replacement of the coal-fired power plant and discussion of the climate issues was limited. The court viewed climate change as an uncertain future danger.

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This ruling was released in the context of a surge in climate litigation cases in France and all over world. For France, the “Affaire du Siècle” case was filed in the Administrative Court of Paris in May 2019 by four NGOs against the government for its failure to act on climate change.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 22, 2022

On June 13, 2022, Chile published its Climate Change Framework Law (“the Climate Act”). The Climate Act includes a binding goal of net zero emissions by 2050 at the latest, following the recommendations of the IPCC. In 2019, Chile became President of the 25th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

Scientific evidence is clear that climate change is affecting winter storms, making extreme events happen more frequently. Like most older millennials, climate change has shaped my time on planet Earth. Count of extreme events in Yolo and Sacramento counties from Sept 2011 to July 2019. Data: NOAA 2023.

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Inside Climate News

AUGUST 17, 2024

Arizona State and UC San Diego will begin requiring climate courses this academic year. Columbia, Harvard and Stanford are going even further, creating schools devoted to climate change. As she lifted her eyes from her phone back to her three children playing in her basement, she knew she had to fight for them.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 26, 2022

Today marks one year since the precedent-setting court ruling in the Netherlands, which ordered Shell to cut its activities’ carbon emissions by 45 percent compared to 2019 levels to align with the Paris climate agreement. N ovel Approaches to Climate Litigation. The Importance of Climate Litigation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2025

Fencl Looming Deadlines analysis shows sh*t coming to your shores soon All of the above is further complicated by climate change. Notably, San Franciscos separate Bayside facility has also been operating under an expired NDPES permit, incurring Clean Water Act violations, and reason clean water advocates threatened to sue in 2024.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

The rail infrastructure to transport coal from the Powder River Basin in Montana and Wyoming–the country’s primary coal source –was proven to be vulnerable to extreme floods in the spring of 2011 , and even more extreme floods in the spring of 2019. The link to climate change is clearer, however, with floods.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

US emissions went down by around 15% between 2007 and 2019, while GDP per person went up around 25%. In California, the state with the strictest climate policy, the trends were even clearer. We should also keep in mind that climate change itself is likely to be a drag on economic growth.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

While climate adaptation planning is more widespread than ever, the U.N. T here is a huge gulf between what communities are spending to prepare for climate change and what they ought to spend, a new U.N. This gap is widening, as the costs of climate adaptation increase due to rising global temperatures. report found.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Those targets are to be keyed to achieving the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping climate change below 2 °C and as close to 1.5 °C Specifically, the court ordered Shell to cut emissions due to its products and operations 45% from 2019 levels by 2030. C as possible. The German ruling was based on two constitutional provisions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Trading in disinformation In its climate lobbying report, ExxonMobil deemed 52 associations “aligned” for acknowledging the risks of climate change, publicly backing the Paris Agreement goal of limiting average global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius and taking steps to reduce carbon emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Yaw was attempting to prevent actions like Bucks County took to join a lawsuit charging oil companies intentionally deceived the public about the role fossil fuels play in worsening climate change. Million Settlement Over 2019 South Philly Refinery Explosion, Fire -- AP: EPA Reaches $4.2 Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

Scientists from a range of disciplines and institutions joined me to ask questions of corporate decision-makers and speak in support of climate action. You can read their insights from their experiences—including being denied the opportunity to take the floor—and their efforts to engage with Dr. Avery in 2017 , 2018 , and 2019.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 20, 2024

But with estimates suggesting that sea level rise will affect more than one billion people around the world in the next 25 years, this is one member of the dysfunctional climate change family that shouldn’t be ignored. Why is this? Read on for the science you need to know about sea level rise, in seven parts.

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