Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

Meltwater from Greenland’s ice sheets have caused about a quarter of the rise in the world’s sea levels. It finds more evidence that severe weather events are linked to carbon in the atmosphere and that those weather events are becoming more extreme. Just as human behavior causes atmospheric warming, it can also prevent it.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Lest one thinks this disconnect is a failure of the global climate architecture, the failure lies much closer to home—in the domestic politics in the US and many other countries that continue to favor the interests of the rich and powerful , and fossil fuel companies, at the expense of the health and safety of everyone else and the planet.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Even before adoption of the 1992 Framework Convention, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) had proposed an “International Insurance Pool” to pay vulnerable countries based on observed sea level rise. The first explicit use of the term L&D was in the 2007 Bali Action Plan , in a section on enhanced action for adaptation.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 5, 2022

billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions into our atmosphere—the equivalent of 300 coal-fired power plants—and these facilities are sited in predominantly low-income communities and communities of color. More plastic means more pollution—for the climate, coastal communities and our ocean. By 2030, plastic production will contribute 1.3

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

There is, in fact, substantial scientific evidence that there’s a strong link between global warming and heat waves and coastal flooding from sea-level rise,” I said. Maybe if we took the subsidy off and it was challenged and had to perform, people would take it to a new level.” His reply ?

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

EPA’s response to the petitions is due June 3, 2021. 29, 2021); North American Coal Corp. 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. West Virginia v. 20-1530 (U.S.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

July 15, 2021). July 1, 2021). July 19, 2021). Circuit Said EPA Endangered Species Determinations for 2019 Renewable Fuel Rule Were Arbitrary and Capricious. July 16, 2021). July 16, 2021); Indigenous Environmental Network v. July 30, 2021). State of Washington ex rel. Haskell v. 98719-0 (Wash.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

Energy choices are key to climate resilience—but there’s resistance within state government Science tells us the extent and degree of future flooding depends on how fast we can reduce heat trapping emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. It cannot be a plan that reflects the opinions and interests of the powerful.

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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. As for hurricanes, Texas suffered no fewer than 81 tropical or subtropical cyclones from 1980 through 2021.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

The New Jersey part of PennEast Pipeline was canceled in September, 2021. In December 2021, the company requested DEP to withdraw/revoke their permits for PA portion. You cannot have cleaner green energy projects without fossil fuel. Read more here. **The Read more here. Read more here. That was in 1969.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

March 8, 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. 4:21-cv-00287-SPM (E.D.

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