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is a serious blow to the EPA’s ability to fight climatechange—and could have dangerous repercussions beyond this case. The timing of the decision feels especially harsh, as the nation is in the throes of the “ Danger Season ” for hazards such as heat waves, drought, wildfires and hurricanes, all worsened by climatechange.
Today, climatechange is the central, though by no means the only, concern in environmental law. I found only one relevant reference using the term “climatechange” before 1985. In one sentence of a 1975 article, John Barton referred to “climatechange” as a potentially severe long-term problem.
A highly potent greenhouse gas, methane makes a significant contribution to climatechange, but has historically received relatively little attention in climate mitigation discussions. That is now beginning to change. laws governing methane removal via atmospheric oxidation enhancement (AOE).
Whether climatechange impacts to Montana’s environment can be measured incrementally. Whether climate impacts and effects in Montana can be attributed to Montana’s fossil fuel activities. Intergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange. They are: Whether Plaintiffs’ injuries are mischaracterized or inaccurate.
The difference is due largely to the differences in the regional atmospheric response that occurs in concert with the SST warming. In particular, they don’t just respond to SST changes, but also how the atmospherechanges as the SSTs change. Li, "Past and Future Hurricane Intensity Change along the U.S.
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A recent post by Dan Farber at Legal Planet discussed the issue of when climate awareness began to enter American law. In "The Origins of Climate Awareness in the Legal Academy" , Farber writes: The earliest clear references to climatechange that turned up in my search. were in 1978 articles about nuclear energy.
But since it became clear that human actions are damaging the environment and changing the climate, it has become much more prominent nationally and internationally with most government departments in most countries having responsibilities to mitigate or prepare for climatechange scenario. Oscillations.
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Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for ClimateChange Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. and non-U.S. filed June 5, 2017; emergency motion for stay granted July 3, 2017).
Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) : A group of inert chemical used in many industrial and everyday processes such as our refrigerators that are not broken down at lower atmospheric levels and rise to the upper levels, destroying ozone.
DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4 Million In Abandoned Well Plugging Funding Against Shale Gas Drilling Companies-- XTO Energy, Inc., 5 To Consider Resolution To Preserve And Protect Water Supplies During Persistent Dry Conditions Gov.
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-- 89% of conventional oil and gas well owners failed to submit a 2023 annual well integrity report for each of the wells they own to assure they are not contaminating groundwater, surface water or venting gas into the atmosphere. These 4,359 owners own 34,455 wells-- 34% of the conventional wells required to file these reports.
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Uhlmann’s stance on the Clean Energy Standard would align with his EPA nominated role. Mr. Uhlmann responded that while he felt that we need to be seriously addressing climatechange, it is the role of Congress to decide how. The hearing proceeded with a jovial atmosphere and at times felt almost routine in nature.
“The United States is once again a global leader in confronting the climate crisis, and we must lead by example when it comes to tackling methane pollution – one of the biggest drivers of climatechange. can take in the short term to slow the rate of climatechange.
The developing science of climatology with its understanding of the need for chemistry made scientists concerned for the future on seeing masses amounts of carbon released into the atmosphere (8) , but also (as it was previously) regarding trees as a resource and the potential for depletion. Consider an energy policy degree.
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26 Hazard Mitigation Grant Funding Webinar , 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. -- LehighValley-Based Wildlands Conservancy Highlight December Activities, Programs -- Dickinson College To Host Atmospheric Scientist Katharine Hayhoe To Discuss Finding Hope In The Face Of ClimateChange During Public Talk Dec. . -- PUC To Host Nov.
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Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for ClimateChange Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 103. and non-U.S.
EPA as a decision depriving EPA of an important tool to address climatechange under the CleanAirAct. The decision is better viewed as steering EPA away from a flawed regulatory strategy and toward strategies that will be far more effective in addressing the existential threat of climate disruption.
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Of course, an honest assessment of the latest climate science will show that since 2009 the evidence has become even more compelling and dire. Climatechange, driven by rising heat-trapping emissions, is already causing significant harm to peoples health and well-being and to vital ecosystems.
The initial list of societal challenges includes climatechange and sustainability and inequitable access to education, opportunity or other services. The bill funds National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) research at $776 million, a 20 percent increase. The Coastal State Preparedness Act (H.R.
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The Fifth National Climate Assessment is equally clear: Human activities are changing the climate. As NASA explains , over most of the last 800,000 years, until humans started burning fossil fuels, atmospheric CO 2 concentrations basically never went below 180ppm and never went above 280ppm.
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By bypassing regulatory processes and silencing scientific expertise, the Trump administration is seeking to gut efforts to address the impacts and economic damage caused by climatechange, and the impacts of toxics exposures to the American people. All to protect the profits of the oil, gas and chemical industries at our expense.
Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, committed last month to dissolve the agencys scientific research office, reduce the agencys staff by 65 percent, and take 31 actions to kill regulations or programs affecting toxic air emissions and water discharges, climatechange, and waste management.
It’s a common misconception that Congress has never passed any climatechange 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.
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Global Climate Talks Commence in Glasgow. World leaders, diplomats and members of civic society from across the world convened in Glasgow, Scotland for the United Nations ClimateChange Conference of the Parties (COP26), Oct. NOAA also received $20 for climatechange education activities.
The emissions make a significant contribution to climatechange because methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas which, in the first 20 years after it is released, traps approximately 84 times more heat in the earth’s atmosphere than carbon dioxide (on a per ton basis). and our citizens.”.
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