A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

The UN agency concluded global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are at the highest levels in human history and without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors limiting climate change to 1.5°C The scientists said that in the scenarios they assessed, in order to limit warming to the 1.5°C C will be beyond reach.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 31, 2023

-- Post-Gazette: PA Getting Millions In Federal Grants To Cut Methane Emissions, Cap Leaking Conventional Oil & Gas Wells -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Previous speakers and Stroud Award for Freshwater Excellence recipients have included luminaries such as Jane Goodall ; Olivia Newton-John and John Easterling ; leading climate scientist and author Michael E. Delaware River Watershed Forum Sept. 26-27 In Bethlehem, PA -- Save The Date!

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A Greener Life

APRIL 19, 2023

And yet another wrinkle — climate scientists agree that humans can’t simply offset our way out of the climate crisis. cattle-grazing land by 2025” but it doesn’t share what its current or planned emissions are. Still, other carbon offset projects have been found to be damaging to biodiversity and human rights.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 14, 2024

6 Climate Action Planning - Resources And Funding Opportunities Webinar; Guide To Tools & Funding [PaEN] -- Keystone Energy Efficiency Alliance Energy Policy Conference Sept. Plans Youghiogheny River Rafting Trip July 28 -- Tom Ridge Environmental Center In Erie Hosts Aug. 21; Annual Dinner Sept. 25 [PaEN] -- Registration Open!

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2024

-- Kleinman Center For Energy Policy: 2024 Starts With A Grim Climate Milestone, But Hydrogen Policy Hope - By John Quigley, Former DEP/DCNR Secretary -- PennLive Letter: Climate Change Is Costing Pennsylvanians Plenty, And Someone Has To Pay For It - By Sen. Schuylkill County -- PA Solar Center Jan.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 1, 2025

by Shuang-Ye Wu, University of Dayton A powerful storm system that stalled over states from Texas to Ohio for several days in early April 2025 wreaked havoc across the region, with deadly tornadoes, mudslides and flooding as rivers rose. More than a foot of rain fell in several areas.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To get an assessment of the progress thus far, as well as an idea if what has to happen next, I turned to two of my colleagues in the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Climate & Energy Program: Principal Climate Scientist Rachel Licker and Transmission Policy Manager Sam Gomberg.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2025

14 -15 [PaEN] -- TribLive: Climate Change Will Continue With Warmer, Wetter Conditions Predicted -- DEP Sets Feb. 20 Hearing On Interim Response To PFAS Well Water Contamination Near The Middle Spring Creek HSCA Site In Southampton Twp., 22 On Accessible Recreation Topics [PaEN] -- Apply Now!

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2025

Posted: June 1, 2025] PA Environment Digest Visit DEPs Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources. Visit the PA Environment Digest Calendar Of Events for more opportunities.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 21, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen On Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88, Pope Francis passed away. The peoples climate champion Pope Francis has won accolades across the world from all faiths since his election as the 266th Pope in March 2013. He led a compassionate campaign for social justice, with a particular focus on climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

. -- Two Months: Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Continues To Surround The Home Of A Senate Witness Who Opposes The Illegal Practice [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette Editorial: When A Current Conventional Oil & Gas Operator Buys Wells They Assume All The Liabilities, While Not Passing Costs Of Plugging To Taxpayers; State Could Pay Some (..)

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Millions of children worldwide are at risk from the devastating floods which have impacted almost every corner of the Earth this year, and which climate scientists say have intensified and are happening much more frequently due to climate change. Photo credit: UNICEF / UN0580114 / Ramasomanana. By Anders Lorenzen.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2025

A foundational question posed at the Columbia colloquium is how corporate law and its standards of fiduciary duty relate to what many climate scientists now call the climate emergency. [i]

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 6, 2022

13 Webinar: Conversation With Penn State Climate Scientist Dr. Michael Mann. 13 Virtual 4th Annual Three Rivers Urban Soils Symposium. 13 Virtual 4th Annual Three Rivers Urban Soils Symposium.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 2, 2025

Spain breaks all-time temperature records in unprecedented July heatwave Spain heat: 2023 vs 2025 In July 2023 , temperatures in Spain exceeded 40C, andfor the first timeland surface temperatures soared beyond 60C. That heatwave set a new benchmark for European extremes and offered a grim preview of the climate future.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 16, 2025

On the Radar Climate scientists forecast that the wettest days in the Mediterranean basin a region historically characterized by its short, heavy rainfall are expected to become even more severe and frequent amidst a rapidly changing climate, the New York Times reports.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 29, 2025

. -- PA Elected Officials, Consumer, Clean Energy Advocates Demand Electric Grid Operator PJM Act To Hold Down Electricity Costs [PaEN] -- WHYY: Electricity Bills In PA, NJ, DE To Rise Starting June 1; Advocates Say More Renewables Would Lower Future Costs -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Electric Bills In PA Are Going Up Next Month, Your Utility Cant (..)

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen John Kerry, the former US Secretary of State and Special Envoy on Climate Change, an army veteran and veteran of US politics now aged 80, took the stage in London today as the keynote speaker at the 2025 Soft Power Index.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

[Note: Conventional Oil & Gas Methane, PFOS MCL Regulations.] Nuclear Power] -- Pittsburgh Business Times: Mawson Infrastructure Group To Sell Georgia Bitcoin Mining Facility And Focus On Beaver County Bitcoin Facility -- Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Allowance Auction On Dec.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

It cannot be easy to be a federal scientist right now. I know – I was a climate scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) when Donald J. This article is republished from SciLight, an independent science policy publication on Substack. Download the toolkit (PDF). Trump won the 2016 election.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Opponents of climate action have long understood the power of the Endangerment Finding and tried unsuccessfully to dismantle it during the first Trump administration. Project 2025 also includes a call to Establish a system, with an appropriate deadline, to update the 2009 endangerment finding. This directive shouldnt fool anyone.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

In videos and Congressional testimony , Wright portrays himself as a truth teller, while falsely claiming that climate scientists and renewable energy advocates are deceptive. 2025 is already off to a sobering start, with early estimates on the California wildfires ranging as high as $150 billion in damages.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 12, 2025

San Fernando, one of the affected areas pictured on the 7th of January 2025. Days before the start of the fires on January 4th, climate scientist David Swain published an article that warned that a combination of ongoing drought conditions alongside intense wind conditions wildfires would be likely. Image credit: By P.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Opponents of climate action have long understood the power of the Endangerment Finding and tried unsuccessfully to dismantle it during the first Trump administration. Project 2025 also includes a call to Establish a system, with an appropriate deadline, to update the 2009 endangerment finding. This directive shouldnt fool anyone.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 7, 2025

As I noted in my second post , there was a lot of debate among environmentalists, renewable energy advocates, and climate scientists as to whether this deal was a good one from a climate policy perspective. This report underscores that the deal on the table in the fall was likely a net win from a climate perspective.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 8, 2025

Climate scientists, backed by robust research, say so. C found that surpassing 2 degrees C of warming would significantly increase the frequency and severity of climate impacts, including extreme weather events, biodiversity loss, and threats to human health and livelihoods. degrees Celsius) as something magical.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 21, 2025

UCS has been a leader in peer-reviewed scientific research linking climate impacts to emissions that trace directly to fossil fuel companies. Shortly after President Trumps inauguration, the SEC asked the court to pause the lawsuits, and in March 2025 the commission voted to withdraw its defense of the rule altogether.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 15, 2025

The news that started leaking last Friday is that the Trump administration wants to break up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and essentially end NOAAs climate work by abolishing its primary research office and forcing the agency to instead help boost U.S. Could something come out of this at COP30?

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Legal Planet

APRIL 30, 2025

Columbia Law’s Climate Backtracker has them in a handy spreadsheet. Trump has accomplished one-third of Project 2025’s goals and 57% of goals related to EPA according to the Project 2025 Tracker. Twenty of those orders are related to environmental policy, reports Heatmap News, which told the story in 5 charts.

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

BRUSSELS — The world can avoid the worst consequences of climate change, but emissions need to peak by 2025, the U.N.’s s climate science panel said in a major new report on Monday. “We The decisions we make now can secure a liveable future,” said Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Chair Hoesung Lee.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2025

As climate scientist Dr. Robert Kopp said in a recent New York Times interview : By effectively saying the social cost of carbon should be treated as zero, this policy arbitrarily and capriciously ignores the science and economics of climate change.

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ESA

JANUARY 10, 2022

More News: Climate scientists grapple with wildfire disaster in their backyard – Axios. Chesapeake Bay states are unlikely to reach EPA’s 2025 cleanup deadline at current pace, report finds – The Baltimore Sun. Register here. US judge blocks work at Nevada geothermal plant for 90 days – Associated Press.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

John Sarbanes (D-MD), reauthorizes the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office through 2025. More News: ‘A step to nowhere’: Russian scientist organizes protest of Ukraine war – ScienceInsider. Under bombing, Ukraine’s climate scientists withdraw from global meeting – Politico. 3540 ), from Rep. A bill ( H.R. 5973 ) from Rep.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

climate change and biodiversity conservation policies, including the 2050 net-zero emissions goal and the “30 by 30” conservation goal. Gonzalez is a forest ecologist who is adjunct faculty at the University of California, Berkeley and the leading climate scientist for the National Park Service.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2025

Republican Representative Byron Donalds and Democrat Representative Jared Moskowitz, both of Florida, introduced the bill on March 24, 2025. In January 2025 the Biden administration released a National Resilience Strategy which was one of the many pieces of climate change resilience-related initiatives the Trump administration revoked.

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