National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Organic practices enhance soil health and biodiversity, foster resource regeneration, and help mitigate and build resilience to climate change. We examined projects funded between 2015 and 2021 through the Organic Research and Extension Initiative (OREI) and the ORG. However, challenges remain.

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

This plan could be a real game-changer in helping reduce harmful greenhouse gasses (GHG) from the country’s largest polluters. Let’s go back to 2021, when Prime Minister Trudeau promised to set limits on oil and gas pollution. Canadians are already feeling the effects of climate change, from extreme weather to rising costs.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

JANUARY 9, 2025

By Liu Lican Chinas first Biennial Transparency Report on Climate Change was released last week, and the country confirmed it has yet to peak its carbon emissions. The report, submitted to the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), discloses China s greenhouse gas inventory in 2020 and 2021.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 2, 2025

Driving away from state climate targets Transportation has been the biggest sector contributing to climate change in Massachusetts practically every year since the earliest emissions inventory for 1990 and most recently has contributed 38% of state greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2021. Fast forward to 2021.

2018

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 6, 2025

In 2021, The Government of Canada made a bold and necessary commitment to limit and reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from the oil and gas industry – the largest source of GHG pollution in Canada. From wildfires and floods to droughts and crop failures, the cost of climate inaction is growing by the day.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has concluded that CDR will be needed, alongside deep emissions cuts, to limit global warming to 1.5 to 2 o C in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement. may be authorized under a permit.” Solar radiation management is distinct from CDR.

Carbon Dioxide

A Greener Life

JUNE 10, 2025

gigatons (Gt) of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions , which compares to slightly more than India’s annual fossil fuel CO2 emissions. However, in many tropical forests, the impacts of climate change, desertification, the conversion of cleared land to agriculture make this challenge even greater, while also increasing the risk of further fires.

2024

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 20, 2025

To build a clean economy and avoid a climate disaster, Canada needs an emissions-free electricity supply. As we electrify everything, from our cars to our home heating systems, we need electricity to come from sources that dont emit greenhouse gases. The regulations come up short of what is needed to tackle climate change.

Electricity

Law Columbia

JULY 29, 2025

These advisory opinions cap a remarkable four-year run of advances for the right to a healthy environment, beginning with its recognition in Resolution 48/13 of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council in October 2021.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Japan ) and a second in Yokosuka in 2019 ( Yokosuka Climate Case ). In the 2019 case, the judgments focused on the procedural aspect of the replacement of the coal-fired power plant and discussion of the climate issues was limited.

2025

Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2025

History of the Case Background to the Claim In April 2021, a group of plaintiffs led by the Czech Climate Litigation Association ( Klimatick aloba R ), and including a municipality and several individuals, filed a case against the central government of the Czech Republic and four subsidiary ministries for their inaction on climate change.

Paris Agreement

Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2025

In the EIS, STB acknowledged that increased oil production was a foreseeable result of the project, and included estimates of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions attributable to the combustion of fuels refined from the crude oil transported on the line. 1984; Knobe & Shapiro (2021). [4] 3] See Prosser & Keeton on Torts, 5th Ed.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Similarly in a newer case being brought before the ECHR, Müllner v Austria , an individual applicant has argued that his health and wellbeing are severely impacted by heatwaves and Austria has failed to mitigate the impact they haveit has on climate change. Source or company which has caused. Exxon Mobil Corp. ,

Climate Change

Vermont Law

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Mere proximity to a CAFO harms people, but CAFOs are also nefarious contributors to climate change—the effects of which are borne overwhelmingly by poor and minority communities. Methane is a greenhouse gas that traps heat more effectively than carbon dioxide. Greenhouse gases are major drivers of global climate change.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

JULY 15, 2025

The IACtHR described the ongoing climate emergency as an existential threat to the future of humankind (paras. 289, 302), and identifies the right to a healthy environment “as the principal right affected by climate change” (para. debt, poverty, inequality), with the long-term goal of being carbon neutral.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

A new chapter of global climate accountability has hopefully begun, as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) prepares to issue an advisory opinion on the Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change. Hearings for that opinion began today with over 100 countries and other parties presenting over two weeks. L to R: Ms.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

It’s a common misconception that Congress has never passed any climate change legislation. But it has passed laws regulating two powerful greenhouse gases, and some other climate laws stretching back over the past five decades. Only laws that specifically cover climate or greenhouse gases are included.

Law

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

During Trump’s first term, the US became the first nation in the world to announce its withdrawal from the Paris Agreement (a decision reversed by Joe Biden in 2021). A potential new path forward The past two decades have seen some progress in the realm of climate finance, but not enough. This will be a decisive issue at COP29.

Paris Agreement

Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

coal, gas, and oil) without considering how to contribute to a global economic transition toward more climate-friendly sources of power (such as solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, and nuclear). 9] On appeal, quantification of a reduction target was nullified, but the overall holding of a fiduciary duty to consider climate risks was affirmed. [10]

Law

Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

Among the EOs rescinded on Monday was President Bidens 2021 Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad (EO No. The Endangerment Finding was EPAs 2009 determination that greenhouse gases endanger public health and endanger public welfare and that new motor vehicles contribute to this pollution.

Paris Agreement

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2025

Penn State University To Host 5th Annual Online Solar Law Symposium Aug. 19-21, Sept. Penn State University To Host 5th Annual Online Solar Law Symposium Aug. 19-21, Sept. Penn State University To Host 5th Annual Online Solar Law Symposium Aug. 19-21, Sept.

Conservation

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 9, 2024

EPA as part of our ongoing amicus efforts to support strong federal climate regulations. The case involves EPAs 2024 Vehicle Standards that set new air pollutant and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for model year 2027 through 2032 Light- and Medium-Duty Vehicles, which have been challenged by states and industry groups.

Clean Air Act

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 24, 2025

On January 13th, 2025 the Province of Nova Scotia and the Regional Municipality of Halifax announced that Nearly half of Halifax’s municipal electricity will soon come from a Queens County wind farm, a move the city says will cut its greenhouse gas emissions by a quarter. MT in 2020, or 13.5 per cent of all the emissions in the US. (

Government

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

emissions, and just under 15 percent of climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions from the states on-road vehicles. EPA 2024 Additionally, emissions of climate-warming greenhouse gases from trucks are on the rise, up nearly 80 percent in the past 3 decades compared to a less than 10 percent increase among light-duty passenger vehicles.

Nitrogen Oxides

Legal Planet

JUNE 25, 2025

EPA now says that before it can regulate those emissions, it would first have to make a formal finding that they “cause or significantly contribute” to climate change. In 2021, the Trump Administration argued that a finding of significance was required and went ahead to make one. The statute doesn’t say that. carbon emissions.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2025

billion in revenue, allow unchecked pollution for another decade, and halt momentum in the fast-growing methane mitigation industry, which saw a 42% increase in Pennsylvania-based firms from 2021 to 2024. Meanwhile, delay of the Methane Emissions Reduction Program’s Waste Emissions Charge would eliminate $7.2 9 Webinar On Growth Of A.I.

Clean Air Act

Law Columbia

MAY 1, 2025

In this single order, President Trump rescinded seventy-eight executive orders issued by President Biden, sweeping away at least ten that pertained to climate and the environment, justice and equity, health, and more. This action has been challenged in court.

Government

Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2025

Photos: Evan George I saw a handful of environmental protest signs, but the climate crisis was hardly front and center in these “No Kings” protests. For one thing, climate change is driving migration. Industries driving the climate crisis are making the Global South less livable.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2025

Shale gas extraction and use also contributes to climate change, which poses other health impacts for every resident of Pennsylvania, and indeed for people worldwide. Shapiros term.

Fossil Fuels

Scientific American

JUNE 12, 2025

“The EPA is proposing that the Clean Air Act requires it to make a finding that [greenhouse gas] emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants contribute significantly to dangerous air pollution, as a predicate to regulating [greenhouse gas] emissions from those plants,” states the draft rule. In 2021, the D.C.

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2025

Danger season is here, and US taxpayers are facing double jeopardy thanks to a reckless and inhumane Congressional budget bill that hands billions of dollars to the oil and gas industry as it worsens the impact of climate change by withdrawing support for renewable energies and government mitigation programs.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

AUGUST 5, 2025

A Ford plant that operated in Brazil for 20 years shuttered in 2021. If EPA succeeds in reversing the all-important Endangerment Finding, it would “eviscerate the biggest regulatory tool the federal government has” to keep climate change in check, my colleague Ann Carlson told Grist. They should be freaking out.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

The IRA, which Congress passed and President Biden signed into law in 2022, contains at least 119 distinct climate change-related provisions to be implemented by sixteen federal agencies. Although the President has no power to repeal the IRAthat is up to Congressthe executive branch plays a key role in its implementation.

Regulations

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2021

According to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report published Monday, Southeast Asia coastal zones are among the world’s most climate vulnerable regions. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — August 10, 2021. Graphic courtesy of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Climate Change

Yale E360

JANUARY 10, 2022

2021 was the fifth-hottest year on record and close to 1.2 degrees F) warmer than the preindustrial average, according to an analysis from the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service. degrees C (2.1

2021

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

Christian Thorsberg, Circle of Blue –– August 16, 2021. As famines historically are caused by conflict or political issues, and socioeconomic vulnerabilities, the famine in Madagascar–one of the lowest emitters of carbon and greenhouse gasses in the world–stands out as being heavily influenced by climate change.

Climate Change

Real Climate

OCTOBER 27, 2021

All countries in the world urgently need to adapt to climate change but are not yet in a good position to do so. It’s urgent because we are not even adapted to the present climate. Such reports provide a summary of the state of our knowledge, but are not sufficiently specific for climate change adaptation.

Climate Change