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Making Polluters Pay for Climate Consequences

Legal Planet

The dramatic increase in extreme weather events has been wreaking havoc on states across the country, from devastating fires, floods, and droughts to rising sea levels. The bill would enact a Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act of 2025 which would establish the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Program.

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DEP Releases 2024 Climate Change Action Plan Update; 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment Report

PA Environment Daily

Camera Bartolotta (R-Washington) [PJM Policies-Data Center Growth Taking Power Away From Public-Natural Gas Prices Are Real Problem - Get The Real Story Here ] [Posted: April 25, 2025] PA Environment Digest Rate Increase For Philadelphia Gas Works [PaEN] -- PUC To Investigate Proposed 11.4%

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Africa’s Advisory Opinion Request: Taking Climate Justice to the Continent’s Highest Court

Law Columbia

ITLOS released its opinion on May 21, 2024 , while the IACtHR is expected to issue its opinion in the second half of 2025, and the ICJ towards the end of 2025 or the beginning of 2026. These opinions will not be issued simultaneously.

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Is there any Climate Justice or is it Just-us? A focus on the Caribbean

HumanNature

SIDS face a range of risks, including extreme floods, storms, droughts, unpredictability of precipitation patterns and sea-level rise, ocean acidification and deoxygenation (World Health Organization, 2018; Douglas & Cooper, 2020, Thomas, 2020).

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We Need a Strong and Independent NOAA to Protect Our Lives and Homes from Climate Change 

Union of Concerned Scientists

But if Project 2025–the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for the incoming second Trump administration–is implemented, NOAA will be dismantled, downsized, or some parts of it put in private hands, compromising or outright eliminating the valuable services the approximately 11,000 employees who work there provide to the country.