A Greener Life

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Delaying tactics Amin Nasser laid out the case, that he believes carbon capture and storage (CCS), and improving the efficiency of fossil fuel production, should be the priority in reducing emissions. Climate scientists say the world needs to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 43% by 2030, compared to 2019 levels.

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

It turns out, for example, that climate-change researchers fly more frequently than scientists in other fields. Change 65 102184 ), climate scientists jet off two to three times a year on average, whereas other researchers get on planes just twice during that time. But other scientists also fly a lot.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

After a decade of global warming trends, the world experienced the second warmest year on record in 2019. Humans everywhere are experiencing the impact of climate change. Yet, governments aren’t addressing the threat fast enough. Individual citizens and businesses ready to make a change need an avenue for actionable, measurable impact.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

With announcements from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) growing bleaker by the year, climate change activism has become increasingly bold and desperate. [1] Extinction Rebellion pours fake blood on the steps of the Trocadero in Paris in 2019.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In fact, a recent study examined parts of this heat wave—from late November up until December 11, 2022—and found that climate change made the event 60 times more likely. As a climate scientist, I’m used to reading attribution numbers on the order of magnitude of 15, 20, or maybe 30 times more likely.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Edil is both a climate scientist and environmental attorney working to advance decolonization for Puerto Rico and achieve environmental justice for Puerto Ricans. So it really is no surprise that Puerto Rico is among the three countries that were most impacted by climate change between 1999 and 2018, according to Germanwatch.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

A 2019 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that temperatures initially considered remarkable are unremarkable about five years later. Not-a-scientist Milloy further pontificated , “This doesn’t kill anybody. This has got nothing to do with climate.This is not because of fossil fuels.”

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

Gleick falsely accuses me of cherry-picking a quote from a 2019 New York Times story on Amazon fires. “If As it became clear that the growth in the global birth rate had peaked, Malthusian thinkers started to look to climate change as a replacement apocalypse for overpopulation and resource scarcity.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2022

Climate scientists at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) have dubbed the six-month stretch from May through October the “ Danger Season.” Not only has much of what climate scientists have been warning about come to pass, many of the extreme weather events the planet is now experiencing are worse than they expected. “To

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Democrats said the General Assembly has been holding hearings on the RGGI regulations since the concept was first proposed in October of 2019 and Senate Republicans have yet to offer a plan for reducing carbon pollution or a proposal for helping workers and communities caught in the market-driven transition to clean energy. Read more here.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Plaintiffs aim to hold the federal government accountable for worsening the dangers of climate change through increased reliance on fossil fuels and for breach of its fiduciary obligation to protect the atmosphere and oceans under the public trust doctrine. The case, however, may not even get to trial. attorneys. brought suit.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 126. Fourth Circuit Declined to Stay Remand Order in Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies; Companies Sought Stay from Supreme Court. Rhode Island Federal Court Denied Motion to Stay Remand Order in Rhode Island’s Climate Change Case.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 5, 2023

It makes them ripe for disproportional impacts from climate change, relative to the nation in general. Hope through the haze That question can easily be extended to ask, in what world is it okay to allow our crowning jewels of nature and landscapes to be depleted by our extraction of fossil fuels?

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

It was a familiarly stark report card on the world’s progress on cutting emissions from the IPCC, which has been monitoring climate change since 1988. Despite the panel’s regular reports about the consequences of burning fossil fuels, between 1990 and 2019 global emissions rose 54 percent and they are still rising.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Fossil fuel and chemical polluters, business lobbyists and conservative private land interests have fought these laws and the EPA since their inception and they made fresh headway during the Trump administration, which undertook a widespread effort to gut environmental protections and slashed staffing of the EPA back to levels of the 1980s.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 14, 2025

But theres a more insidious culprit with far greater responsibility for the climate mess were in: major fossil fuel corporations such as BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Shell. UCS is providing links to more than a dozen internal documents , company reports, and other key pieces of evidence so you can assess them yourself.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

The forest product company had alleged that Greenpeace’s campaign labeling the company a “Forest Destroyer” and a major contributor to climate change was “malicious, false, misleading, and without any reasonable factual basis.” The fossil fuel companies asked the court to grant only a 30-day extension.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

The US House Oversight and Reform Committee kicked off its investigation of the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long climate change disinformation campaign last fall by inviting top executives from BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell to testify about their role and subpoenaing their companies for internal documents.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

Circuit Said EPA Endangered Species Determinations for 2019 Renewable Fuel Rule Were Arbitrary and Capricious. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2019 rule setting renewable fuel volumes in the Clean Air Act’s Renewable Fuel Standard Program. Mayorkas , No. 20-55777 (9th Cir. July 19, 2021). July 16, 2021).

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ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

This bill passed the full House in 2019 but did not advance in the Senate. The full House similar legislation in 2019. Global Change Research Program executive director, the office that produces the National Climate Assessment. Climate Change Forces Brutal Choices at National Parks – The New York Times. Executive Branch.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 15, 2025

Weve seen this in the pastconsider the case of climate scientist Michael Mann, who as an employee of public universities in the late 1990s and early 2000s was subjected to hate mail, threats, defamation, and spurious legal attacks from anti-science forces allied with the fossil fuel industry. Weve seen this movie before.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Meeting more stringent standards does not directly require reductions in GHGs, but reducing sources of combustion that create NOx, such as fossil fuel combustion, indirectly may reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 2019); Birckhead v. 2019); Sierra Club v. 17-1271, 2019 WL 847199 (D.C. FERC , 925 F.3d 3d 510 (D.C.

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