Circle of Blue

JANUARY 5, 2022

Lacking faith in government, South Africans take it upon themselves to deliver basic necessities like water to their communities. Researchers, scientists, and government agencies are hoping to implement “smarter” technologies to monitor the Great Lakes. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. They are instead about which right a diverter has.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 18, 2023

A first ever trial on constitutional protections from climate change is underway in Montana. and the third branch of government, the courts, are the new frontier for driving global warming policy for the nation. , and the third branch of government, the courts, are the new frontier for driving global warming policy for the nation.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 4, 2023

Following meetings between President Biden and Prime Minister Trudeau, Canada’s government pledges increased spending on the Great Lakes. Jurisdiction of the Kanienʼkehá꞉ka (Mohawk) territory of Akwesasne is shared three ways — a council elected by the Canadian government, a council elected by the U.S. Find all the work here.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

PennFuture celebrated 25 years of fighting climate change and industrial pollution by holding anniversary celebrations in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to honor seven Pennsylvanians for their contributions to restoring and protecting the environment. Since assuming elected office in 2020, Rep.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Most of these pieces were about the company’s support for a seemingly independent network of anti-regulation, “free-market” nonprofits that spread falsehoods about the reality and seriousness of climate change. Later in the hour, Tillerson told Rose that the federal government should end subsidies for renewable energy. “I

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

This is an integral step towards cleaning our air and reducing climate-warming emissions. California’s fleet of commercial trucks and buses is responsible for an outsized impact on air quality and climate change. There are more than 1.8 pollution from vehicles. The rule was prompted in part by Gov.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 2, 2023

On July 28, 2023, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) proposed reforms to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations governing how federal agencies review the environmental effects of major federal projects. Before those amendments, the regulations had remained largely unchanged since 1978.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 10, 2024

Switzerland , the Grand Chamber established that climate change is “one of the most pressing issues of our times” and poses a threat to human rights. Notably, the Court responded to (and preempted) criticism as to the undemocratic role of courts in relation to climate change (paras. 410-414 and 449-451).

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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. On January 10, 2020, the New York Attorney General’s Office stated that it will not appeal the trial court’s decision.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The regulations (known as Advanced Clean Cars II) deliver on a commitment Governor Newsom made in a 2020 executive order and build on decades of emissions reduction programs from CARB. Many local governments are already developing comprehensive zero-emission transportation plans, but only some–like Oakland –are prioritizing equity throughout.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 2, 2022

Michigan counts nearly 11,000 agricultural wells, 3,800 of them installed from 2010 to 2020. Amid claims that the state could be a climate refuge, experts say Michigan faces its own water woes. Amid claims that the state could be a climate refuge, experts say Michigan faces its own water woes. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Edmonton, AB — The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) quietly released a report on its web site last week showing that oil sands tailing ponds grew another 90 million cubic meters in 2020, despite a drop in oil production. She added, “We can smell the toxins in the air, they’re in our water and have been for years, but no one in government cares.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Does our failure to adequately prepare for this crisis portend a future under-investment to invest in self-protection to reduce our exposure to climate change risk? These for profit firms anticipated that the probability of a major contagion is low and if this state of the world occurs governments would not allow them to "price gouge".

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Mismanaged water structure and climate change — Iraq is the fifth-most vulnerable country to its impacts — compound the situation, Yale reports. In 2020, the Trump administration announced the policy’s reversal. Crops that were grown in ancient Mesopotamia — barley, pomegranates, and wheat — were still harvested.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Climate change adaptation refers to our individual and collective ability to cope with Mother Nature’s more intense weather punches in terms of extreme heat, drought, fire, flood and many other place based risks. An example would be government price supports for agriculture that create a moral hazard effect.

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HumanNature

APRIL 16, 2024

Candidate in the Department of Construction Management and the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University The Orange Sky is Not the Limit September 7, 2020, in Fort Collins, Colorado, unfolded with an eerie anomaly as I woke to a city engulfed in what seemed like an inferno. Photo Credit: Srijesh Pradhan.

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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.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Governments watch as oil companies break the rules, raking in record profits while leaving an environmental disaster. Indigenous and environmental groups sent a letter to the federal and Alberta governments , urging action on the Imperial Oil leak, such as bringing federal charges under the Fisheries Act.

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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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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

This summer, people across Canada experienced the impacts of climate change in a way that was impossible to ignore. Extreme events — record-breaking wildfires, droughts, high-temperature days, deadly floods and skies obscured by smoke — forced climate change, caused by burning coal, oil and gas , into the spotlight.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2023

His lifetime average was pulled up by scores of 7% in 2019, 10% in 2020, and 22% in 2021. As I’ve noted in posts about some other candidates for the Speaker post, however, the 2021 scores in particular included votes that were not directly environmental, like voting to accept the results of the 2020 election (which applied in Emmer’s case).

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The Golden State has adopted a slew of climate change laws over the past twenty years, and an even greater number of regulations. Required state to reduce emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and gave broad authority to CARB to implement the standard. 2002 SB1078. AB 1493 (Pavley Act). 2006 AB 32. 2006 AB 32. 2015 SB350.

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Breezometer

OCTOBER 31, 2021

As COP26 gets underway this week in Glasgow, Scotland and the World Meteorological Association warns that the past seven years are set to be the warmest on record, we thought this the right time to explore the associated impacts of climate change on the air we breathe. a harmful pollutant. Allergy Sufferers. Pregnant Women.

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Physics World

APRIL 22, 2021

Published each April, the report brings together data from national meteorological bodies and the European Union’s Copernicus climate change service. The report confirms, among other things, 2020 as the warmest year, winter and autumn on record for Europe with temperatures in winter 3.4 °C C above pre-industrial levels.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In that time climate change has gone from being a fringe issue to a global priority. President of the summit is the physicist and politician Alok Sharma MP , who previously served as business secretary in the UK government. C above pre-industrial levels within the next two decades. James McKenzie.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JANUARY 23, 2022

They simultaneously seek to earn profit and to please the powerful Central Government. How does their agenda affect the macroeconomy, the wealth distribution and the risks posed by climate change?" What if the Federal Reserve was run by John Cochrane and there was no Climate Change Mandate?

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Legal Planet

JULY 4, 2022

This is followed by an expression of the social compact theory, that governments derive “their just powers from the consent of the governed.” For instance, a 2021 Pew poll found that: “There has been a steady decline in confidence in medical scientists among Republicans and Republican leaners since April 2020. Download as PDF.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

Attorneys general (AGs) in the five states most vulnerable to climate change, however, are doing the exact opposite: Instead of defending their constituents, they are defending the fossil fuel industry. By railing against what he calls a “radical climate change movement” and suing the federal government to protect corporate polluters.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 23, 2022

Read the full post from the Government Accountability Office. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently reported that emissions from power plants have increased from 2020 to 2021, reflecting growth in coal-fired power generation.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 24, 2024

Donald Trump could “F” the federal government. Far-right policy strategists are laying plans, largely endorsed by the Trump campaign, for getting rid of federal government workers who might otherwise stand in the way of a radical deregulation agenda. None of this is a stretch. Trump did it once before.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 13, 2022

Whatever you want to say about climate change, you can’t say we’ve been blindsided. The US has had decades to take action against climate change, and we spent nearly half that time deliberately making things worse. Developed countries “should take the lead in combating climate change and the adverse effects thereof.”.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2022

Catatonic politics on climate change. The Biden administration, despite its efforts to restore respect for science throughout federal government, and its pledges to account for racial disparities, has frequently tripped over itself in bowing to political and economic pressures to drop restrictions.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The global climate crisis requires immediate action, and we can start here at home in our Commonwealth, where we produce more than one percent of global greenhouse gases annually. The ERA is surprisingly not well known in government or by the public. Peduto was selected for the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 22, 2023

Both extreme heat and wildfires are directly linked to climate change. Since local and state governments are on the frontlines of paying for worsening wildfires, they should also be on the leading edge of holding fossil fuel companies accountable. Source: CCST 2020.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

But first, it’s critical to understand this phenomenon’s connection to climate change. Forests in western North America are particularly susceptible to wildfires due to development, land management, and climate change. That 37% equates to 19.8 million acres scorched in the western United States and southwestern Canada.

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HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

But this simplified pathway misses a key step in cloud formation–and one that could help us combat climate change. The Paris Agreement is an international treaty adopted at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2015, with the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C 2020, June 9). C temperature target.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 1, 2021

While the government has often justified Minister’s Zoning Orders by asserting they were requested by municipal governments, the Auditor General found that in 68 per cent of cases, these requests actually completely circumvented the upper-tier municipal governments that are actually in charge of regional land-use planning and public services.

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