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Climate Change Is Turning California’s Wildfire Season into Wildfire Year

Union of Concerned Scientists

Climate change has sped up the arrival of spring, with major consequences for wildfires (Fig. Between 1950-2020, an average of 9,923 acres burned annually across December, January, and February (Fig. Climate change has disrupted historical trends and created conditions for year-round wildfires. But is this normal?

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Brazil Advances in Climate Change Litigation

Legal Planet

A new wave of cases differs from traditional environmental lawsuits by highlighting the connections between preserving the Amazon and the climate, the grave risk of greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation, and the critical role of the forest as a major global carbon sink. The timing of these climate disputes is not accidental.

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Montana “Youth Citizens” Win Landmark Climate Change Case Against State Government

Legal Planet

A Montana state district court has issued its long-awaited decision in a major climate change case brought by Montana children against state officials. Montana represents a sweeping victory for lead plaintiff Rikki Held and her 15 co-plaintiffs–all minors when the case was filed in 2020. In Held v. legal history.

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The Transformation of European Climate Change Litigation: Introduction to the Blog Symposium

Law Columbia

In a transformative moment for European and global climate litigation, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled today that the state has a positive duty to adopt, and effectively implement in practice, regulations and measures capable of mitigating the existing and potentially irreversible future effects of climate change.

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Fighting Climate Change and Unhealthy Air, California Wants to Electrify Trucks, Too

Union of Concerned Scientists

California’s fleet of commercial trucks and buses is responsible for an outsized impact on air quality and climate change. Gavin Newsom’s 2020 executive order , which set a goal for the state’s heavy-duty vehicles to transition to zero-emissions vehicles by 2045, although the rule alone will not meet this goal.

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Bipartisan Climate Initiative Officially Launches Education Effort To Use PA Environmental Rights Amendment To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Adapt To Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

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. Climate change is a global issue, but Pennsylvanians know that the local impacts are increasingly severe. Peduto was selected for the U.S.

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Too extreme to be true? The links between extreme weather and climate change

HumanNature

In the background , the question always looms, “Are these extreme weather events caused by climate change ? ”. Julia Aylen wades through waist deep water carrying her pet dog as she is rescued from her flooded home during Hurricane Dorian in Freeport, Bahamas, Tuesday, Sept. As society evolves, extreme weather also changes.