Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Also elephants, giraffes, rhinos (of the non-political variety), Cape buffalo, baboons, uninvited monkeys at lunch, hippos, wildebeests, hyenas, warthogs and an unexpected (to me) penguin colony. Reduce energy use per square foot in state-owned buildings by 40% from 2002-2003 levels. Leopard: Thornybush Game Preserve (photo G.Whaley).

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Under the Paris Agreement , nations agreed to set a new climate finance target by 2025 – a New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG). The Solomon Islands, for example, are ravaged by cyclones every year and threatened by rising sea levels, which could erase their identity, history, and culture.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 22, 2025

Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada On 24th April 2025, Secretary of Jal Shakti Ministry, Debashree Mukherjee, formally informed her Pakistani counterpart, Syed Ali Murtaza, that the Government of India had sent several notices to the Pakistani Government seeking modifications of the Indus Water Treaty of 1960. Consider some of these changes.

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MAY 22, 2025

Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada On 24th April 2025, Secretary of Jal Shakti Ministry, Debashree Mukherjee, formally informed her Pakistani counterpart, Syed Ali Murtaza, that the Government of India had sent several notices to the Pakistani Government seeking modifications of the Indus Water Treaty of 1960. Consider some of these changes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2025

Fast forward to today I know Our political crises are a lot to hold. And as my colleague, Rachel Cleetus, details in her blog , it is at the same time incredibly reckless and carefully premeditated by those behind Project 2025. But he was from NASA , one of our nationsand the worldspremier science agencies, so I knew this was real.

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DECEMBER 10, 2024

To give a few examples, weve used NOAA sea level rise data to analyze and quantify the impacts of flooding on coastal real estate and critical infrastructure. NOAA collects global and localized sea level rise data from tide gauges and satellite altimetry which are analyzed and made available through its sea level rise portal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 3, 2025

Project 2025, the far-rights playbook for systemically reshaping the federal government, specifically calls out the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to be dismantled, downsized, and eliminated. It helps individuals, leaders, and businesses make decisions based on science, not politics, alternative facts, or speculation.

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MARCH 4, 2025

Wants Pennsylvanias Power, So Its Buying 2 Stronghold Waste Coal-fired Power Plants In Carbon, Venango Counties -- The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: US Steel Agrees To $1.5 Of Revenue Reports February Tax Collections $44 Million (1.6%) More Than Anticipated; Up $104.3

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

As a result of the melting, average sea level has risen by 18 millimeters, about 0.7 This environmental threat was exacerbated politically in 2023, when U.S. The 273 billion tonnes of freshwater that melt each year is the equivalent of 30 years of water consumption by the entire global population.

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MAY 15, 2025

Below are UCSs comments to the FEMA Review Council, in which we underscore that any reforms to FEMA must be guided by science, equity, and the experience of disaster survivors, and not by political ideology. In 2025 the Congressional Research Service suggested this gap is likely much larger.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 3, 2025

Project 2025, the Heritage Foundations playbook for systemically reshaping the federal government, specifically calls out the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to be dismantled, downsized, and eliminated. Through their mission of science, service and stewardship , the work of NOAA helps everyone in the US every day.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

For more on the legal and political twists and turns in the history of the Endangerment Finding, please check out this blogpost: Endangered Science: Why Global Warming Emissions Are Covered by the Clean Air Act. Project 2025 also includes a call to Establish a system, with an appropriate deadline, to update the 2009 endangerment finding.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The majority said it “reluctantly” concluded that “the plaintiffs’ case must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large” and “[t]hat the other branches may have abdicated their responsibility to remediate the problem does not confer on Article III courts, no matter how well-intentioned, the ability to step into their shoes.”

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DECEMBER 2, 2024

Congress also found that these processescould contribute to significant global warming, altering world climate patterns and increase global sea levels. Project 2025 calls for repealing the 1990 Act. For instance, naval bases are generally located at sea level, and thus structures are at risk from sea level rise.)

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Analysts say China could cause emissions to peak by 2025 , with some additional effort, and that this would be enough to keep the world on the right path. Xi announced last year that China would reach net zero emissions by 2060 , a major step forward, and peak emissions by 2030. They found a vast difference between the damage done by 1.5C

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Legal Planet

JUNE 28, 2024

Bash started wisely with a foundational statement, that “ 2023 was the hottest year in recorded history, and communities across the country are confronting the devastating effects of extreme heat, intensifying wildfires, stronger hurricanes, and rising sea levels.” But will you take any action as President to slow the climate crisis?”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

For more on the legal and political twists and turns in the history of the Endangerment Finding, please check out this blogpost: Endangered Science: Why Global Warming Emissions Are Covered by the Clean Air Act. Project 2025 also includes a call to Establish a system, with an appropriate deadline, to update the 2009 endangerment finding.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

Since then, EPA has consistently regulated GHG emissions from motor vehicles, although the scope of EPA’s GHG emissions regulations has been the subject of a political tug-of-war. These standards required each automobile manufacturer to reduce the average emissions from its vehicle fleet by approximately 5% per year between 2012 and 2025.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 21, 2025

1) People are feeling the impacts of climate change and footing the bill The impending arrival of Danger Season is a stark reminder that climate change impacts are already devastating communities worldwide, intensifying many kinds of extreme weather events, driving sea level rise, and harming human health.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The release of Project 2025 sent ripples through the climate and environmental community—and for good reason. Project 2025, however, threatens this foundation by undermining scientists and the data they produce, a continuation of actions taken during Trump’s first term. It is specifically not policy prescriptive in its work.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 14, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen In the wake of the 2025 Greenlandic elections, we are revisiting our piece on the Danish fictional drama Borgen: Power and Glory , published initially when the series first aired in 2022. The 2025 Greenlandic election results explained. The pro-business party is now given the first choice to form the next government.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 30, 2025

In a March 27, 2025 letter , the SEC announced that it would withdraw its defense of the climate risk disclosure rule, though it did not initiate the typical agency process for rescinding a rule. Citing insufficient time to finalize the procurement rule, the council withdrew the proposal on January 13, 2025. Chavez-DeRemer (5th Cir.).

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