Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Earlier this month the International Energy Agency (IEA) released data showing that global carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions hit an all-time high in 2021, rebounding sharply from the 2020 decline caused by COVID-19 related economic slump. It’s clear we cannot continue to live this way, it will destroy our civilization.”.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

Phillips, who has a doctorate degree in ecology from the University of Georgia, was a Kendall fellow at UCS from 2018 to 2020 and then a researcher at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. percent of total emissions. Ekwurzel was joined by Heede, then-UCS climate scientist Peter Frumhoff , and four other scientists. Licker et al.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

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Legal Planet

APRIL 7, 2025

Rather, our knowledge has grown over 168 years, since an American scientist first discovered the heat-trapping properties of carbon dioxide. Systematic measurements of atmospheric CO2 levels begin at Mauna Loa observatory. First paper on risk of sea level rise due to climate change. above 1850-1900 in 2011-2020.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

EPA lawsuit—Landry joined 18 other AGs, including Paxton and AGs from Mississippi and South Carolina, on a letter to two Senate committees urging them to vote against tighter restrictions on methane emissions, which are considerably worse for the climate than carbon dioxide.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Those five years were up on 31 December 2020, but the pandemic prevented many countries coming forward. above pre-industrial levels, and greenhouse gas emissions are still on an upward trend. Poor countries were promised at the Copenhagen Cop in 2009 that they would receive $100bn a year by 2020. An increase of 1.5C

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. In 2020, the Trump Administration promulgated a new rule for model years 2021 through 2026 that reduced the required emissions reduction to only 1.5% Heat waves can also cause costly infrastructure damage in cities and exacerbate air pollution.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

May 1, 2020). 3, 2020; request for publication granted May 4, 2020). The dissenting judge would have found that the 2018 rule was an interpretive rule because it “did no more than articulate the EPA’s view of what was required by Mexichem in the ‘near term’ and pending further rulemaking.” Natural Resources Defense Council v.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

carbon budgets in international agreements and state or regional GHG emissions reduction targets); and/or (2) assessing the project's potential impacts on climate change indicators (e.g., ocean acidification, sea-level rise, or storm events). 2020), appeal dismissed, No. 20-35410, 2020 WL 4673856 (9th Cir.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

On June 16, 2021, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a joint motion to dismiss appeals of a November 2020 order vacating U.S. The Court of Appeal noted that the Commission staff used more recent sea level rise data and recommendations, which the homeowners’ consultant acknowledged provided current sea level rise estimates.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

On April 15, 2021, federal defendants, defendant-intervenors, and environmental groups filed a stipulation for dismissal of appeals of a district court’s November 2020 decision finding that the U.S. The federal defendants, the States of Wyoming and Utah, and several trade groups appealed the district court’s November 2020 decision.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The SCC is a metric that seeks to capture all of the costs that emitting a ton of carbon dioxide (or equivalent amounts of other greenhouse gases such as methane) imposes on society by contributing to climate change over the hundreds of years it remains in the atmosphere. N: Missouri v. Biden , Civ. 4:21-cv-00287-SPM (E.D.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

National Audubon Society alleged that the rule “vastly expands potential sand mining projects in delicate coastal barriers” and further alleged that coastal barriers would become even more important due to climate change and were expected to mitigate $108 billion of sea level rise and flooding damages over the next 50 years.

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