Law Columbia

JUNE 22, 2022

On June 13, 2022, Chile published its Climate Change Framework Law (“the Climate Act”). The Climate Act includes a binding goal of net zero emissions by 2050 at the latest, following the recommendations of the IPCC. In 2019, Chile became President of the 25th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25).

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Acoel

AUGUST 17, 2021

I now revisit the topic in light of the data in the recently released report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that explains the profound significance of agricultural methane emissions (primarily ruminant gaseous emissions a/k/a cow farts) on global warming.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

On March 9, 2023, the Japanese Supreme Court refused to hear the first climate change litigation brought before it without specifying substantive reasons. Those rights are established through case law and frequently invoked in environmental pollution cases. Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 3, 2022

Climate researchers are learning that warming temperatures and heat waves resulting from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions could adversely affect air quality in the United States and increase deaths from air pollution exposure. This effect is referred to as the “climate penalty.” Read the full story from U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Much of this air pollution comes from diesel trucks rumbling along the state’s many highway corridors, in particular I-95 which connects many major cities along the East Coast. This all makes Maryland one of the deadliest states for diesel particulate pollution. This feasible and commonsense regulation would result in 46.45

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

For example, home deliveries in some areas may cut climate-warming emissions compared to driving in a personal vehicle to purchase items in person. Even when accounting for pollution from electricity generation, electric trucks can significantly reduce air pollution and get us on a better track to addressing climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

By: Deborah Klenotic, Deputy Communications Director Climate change is a major challenge facing Pennsylvania, and the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is leading many efforts to fight back and protect communities. Find more materials at DEP’s Climate Change webpage.

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Law Columbia

MAY 9, 2024

The Court’s decision was groundbreaking in that it established an obligation to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as a human rights duty, required countries to establish a carbon budget, and arguably established a new right under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) (see here , here , and here ).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is currently considering one of the most critical rules for air quality and climate change in many, many years. emissions, and just under 15 percent of climate-warming greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the state’s on-road vehicles.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Not only does burning coal contribute massively to rising greenhouse gas emissions, it also endangers people’s health. Air pollutants from coal plants are linked to chronic heart and respiratory disease, and a host of acute ailments. Years later, it has still made no progress – and Canadian ports continue to ship coal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But as a future healthcare provider, I want to use my voice outside the exam room to prevent future cases of disease induced by toxic environmental exposures—which we have the power to change right now. Vehicles emit 1.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It’s immediately clear how fully-electric battery electric vehicles (BEVs) can help reduce emissions; eliminating gasoline and tailpipes in favor of increasingly clean electricity helps limit both climate change and air pollution. Plug-in hybrids are a bit more complicated.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule has the potential to significantly reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as harmful air pollutants like fine particulates (PM2.5) A lower threshold would bring more reductions in air pollution sooner for the communities who need it most.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

If the effects of burning fossil fuels have been very well documented on both global (climate change) and local (air pollution and its 8 million deaths annually) scales, up until now healthcare professionals and organizations had not been represented at the United Nations’ annual climate conference.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2023

billion per year in net societal benefits (the monetized value of climate and public health benefits resulting from reduced greenhouse gas emissions, nitrogen oxides, and particulate matter; as well as net cost savings to light-duty vehicle owners from operating zero emission vehicles and savings to all electricity customers). “The

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The transition to electric vehicles (EVs) is necessary to decrease climate-changing emissions. By using recycled instead of newly mined materials, reduction of climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions is approximately 64%. The short answer is yes. But this is a complicated question, so let’s dig in further.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Climate Change Mitigation. The Governor approved a notable slate of climate legislation with a package that includes more stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets and measures designed to reduce the state’s reliance on fossil fuels. A Few Notable Vetoes.

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Inside Climate News

MAY 11, 2022

Air pollution cuts in North America and Europe helped to increase tropical Atlantic hurricane activity, and may do the same in the western Pacific as Asia cuts emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 29, 2023

Funding clean vehicles is critical for California’s climate and public health From unprecedented wildfires and extreme heat to historic drought and devastating flooding , the climate crisis is here, and it has hit California hard in recent years.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The … Continue reading Beyond passenger cars and pickups: 5 questions answered about electrifying trucks.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

The state’s Department of Ecology has expressed confidence that “air quality is going to improve , even without this program [as] new cars [become] cleaner,” and as the state “ continue[s] to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles — the largest source of carbon pollution in Washington.”

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MGKF Law

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Read More » Tags: Air , Climate Change , Commonwealth Court , Pennsylvania , Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection , Taxes

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Breezometer

JANUARY 26, 2022

While the movie might seem pessimistic to many, our hope is that climate tech innovation and rising awareness will assist us all in the creation of a positive, safe and healthy future. Climate Change is No Laughing Matter. But it’s up to all of us to act. By the 2040s, wildfire numbers could increase by 32% and burn area by 33%.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

Solar PV Project in Cuba (Photo credit: IRENA ) Today, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) jointly published a new report titled Building a Cleaner, More Resilient Energy System in Cuba: Opportunities and Challenges. The full report is available here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 25, 2022

Limiting climate change will require the rapid reduction in these emissions from the vehicles we drive. Electric vehicles (EVs) can eliminate tailpipe emissions altogether and so are an attractive option for reducing both global-warming and smog-forming air pollution. global warming) emissions.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The scoping process has been key to California’s success in cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The process requires the government to assess past progress, project future emissions, and come up with a strategy to meet its climate goals. b) The range of projected air pollution reductions that result from the measure. (c)

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Both are leading scholars in their fields, exceptional classroom educators, and leaders of public interest initiatives that are shaping climate change and environmental law and policy in California, the U.S., and China could drive global climate action. and jurisdictions around the world.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The impacts of climate change are upon us, a consequence of over a century of global warming emissions from human activity. An average global temperature change greater than 1.5 Replacing petroleum with renewable electricity as the primary source of transportation energy will leave us all much better off. But is this affordable?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 4, 2023

Trucks and buses on California’s roads and highways are responsible for the majority of lung-damaging fine particulate and ozone-forming nitrogen oxide emissions, and a sizable amount of climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions as well.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

It was the first case in which the Court was confronted with the issue of climate change. The Court then held that greenhouse gases are covered by the Clean Air Act as a type of air pollutant. EPA , the Obama Administration issued a series of regulations dealing with greenhouse gases.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 3, 2024

“When the outside temperature is hot and humid, just perspiration is not enough to cool down the body since there is no evaporation of sweat,” says Abhiyant Tiwari, lead climate resilience and health consultant at India’s Natural Resources Defense Council. This could mean roughly 78 such days per year. First published in The Third Pole.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 19, 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is currently developing a regulation to reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from trucks, known as the Phase 3 GHG standards, which would in theory result in increased adoption of electric trucks.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Fixing the cost of living crisis does not need to come at the expense of fixing climate change. Whether we experience an affordable and safe future, or one of spiralling costs and climate impacts, depends most on one thing: government action. Runaway climate change results in an increase in extreme weather events.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

We’re already experiencing the impact of climate change across the world; now an update from the IPCC suggests weather extremes could become the norm in the near future. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2022

The burning of transportation fuels, such as gasoline and diesel, is a substantial source of air pollution. ChargEVC-PA noted the Commission has already taken some steps to promote EV adoption.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2023

Although these programs differ in their details, they all attempt to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions cost-effectively by creating a market for permissions to emit—called “allowances”—subject to an overall cap on the amount of aggregate emissions allowed.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 25, 2022

In a new policy brief released today, my colleagues Cara Horowitz, Julia Stein, and I argue that air districts have authority to go even further under state and federal law by adopting zero-NOx appliance standards—and that air districts should design such standards with the goals of equity and affordability in mind.

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