Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

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.

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

GPa (about 23,000 times atmospheric pressure at sea level) and it has been theorized to exist in cold subduction zones within the Earth’s crust as well as on Saturn’s icy moon Titan. One of the most-studied high-pressure forms of ice is ice VII, also known as “hot ice”. The team describes its findings in Nature Physics.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

levels continue to increase faster than at any know. sea level rise. atmospheric CO2 levels. 100 million to fund a planning body to analyze interregional electricity transmission and transmission infrastructure for OSW projects. . Since my 2012 “Fiddling as the World Floods and Burns” warnings, . extend and.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2024

Natural gas currently powers approximately 74% of Florida’s total net electricity generation.) billion in property damage in Florida, becoming the costliest hurricane in state history according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). And in 2022, Hurricane Ian caused over 140 deaths and $109.5

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

Satellites, for example, are used in meteorology to track weather systems and to monitor atmospheric fronts to predict what the weather will do next. Known as ENSO, they are opposite effects of the same process and are defined as an oscillation (a variation in magnitude) between the temperature of the atmosphere and the ocean.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 5, 2022

And while we’ve begun to transition away from oil and gas for our cars and electricity, the oil and gas industry has responded by investing its vast financial resources in a new source of demand for their products: new production for plastic materials and packaging. By 2030, plastic production will contribute 1.3 redlining.)

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 25, 2022

It recorded the highest temperature, lowest precipitation, lowest river flows, and highest demand for electricity for the time of year. The Sichuan drought has highlighted extreme weather vulnerabilities in China’s electricity systems as well as its supply chains. That could cost China’s railways up to US$3.53

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It could be atmospheric, sulfur injections and that kind of stuff. PK: So not just the Belt and Road of power projects and transportation infrastructure, but even high voltage electricity transmission from solar farms and projects like this. I mean, places where they’re rising sea levels, you need a new infrastructure strategy.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

The Second Circuit rejected the claim that the renewable energy solicitations exceeded the limited authority granted to states with respect to wholesale sales of electricity under the Federal Power Act and the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act. The magistrate judge’s order also set the trial to begin on February 5, 2018.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

There is, in fact, substantial scientific evidence that there’s a strong link between global warming and heat waves and coastal flooding from sea-level rise,” I said. In fact, such standards have had a negligible effect on electricity prices and often save ratepayers money.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

would still result in a rising sea levels, the bleaching of coral reefs, and an increase in heatwaves, droughts, floods, fiercer storms and other forms of extreme weather, but these would be far less than the extremes associated with a rise of 2C. They found a vast difference between the damage done by 1.5C An increase of 1.5C

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Legal Planet

APRIL 26, 2023

The justices declined to take up numerous cases in which government entities have sued oil, gas and coal companies, seeking compensation for the climate change-related damage the jurisdictions they claim to have suffered, and which they attribute to the greenhouse gas emissions the companies’ products have released into the atmosphere.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court stated: “Plaintiffs’ claims for public nuisance, though pled as state-law claims, depend on a global complex of geophysical cause and effect involving all nations of the planet (and the oceans and atmosphere). It necessarily involves the relationships between the United States and all other nations. ExxonMobil Corp. BP p.l.c. ,

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

The County asserted that the defendants were “directly responsible for a substantial portion of the climate crisis-related impacts in Anne Arundel County,” including sea level rise, storm surge, and flooding, as well as more frequent, longer-lasting, and more severe extreme weather events.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

The federal district court for the Northern District of Texas dismissed for lack of standing a lawsuit against the EPA in which an individual pro se plaintiff asserted that EPA restrictions since 1990 on aerosols in the atmosphere had caused global warming. 2:19-cv-120 (N.D. Delta Stewardship Council Cases , Nos.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

National Audubon Society alleged that the rule “vastly expands potential sand mining projects in delicate coastal barriers” and further alleged that coastal barriers would become even more important due to climate change and were expected to mitigate $108 billion of sea level rise and flooding damages over the next 50 years.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

At least partly—if not largely—because the AGs and their political organization, the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), receive substantial financial support from fossil fuel companies, electric utilities, and their respective trade groups. Electric utilities, meanwhile, gave her $44,750.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Republicans said the final regulations will increase the cost of electricity for individuals and businesses, have a negative impact on jobs and will not significantly reduce carbon pollution. While electricity rates are already rising across the country, during the first 10 years that RGGI was in place, rates dropped nearly 6% in RGGI states.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The SCC is a metric that seeks to capture all of the costs that emitting a ton of carbon dioxide (or equivalent amounts of other greenhouse gases such as methane) imposes on society by contributing to climate change over the hundreds of years it remains in the atmosphere. The SCC then monetizes those impacts over time.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 31, 2021

A new governor could immediately appoint new agency directors (for up to a year without Senate approval) to redirect or slow the implementation of environmental protection policies and climate change initiatives, such as electric vehicle infrastructure and expansion of energy storage. State Adaptation Strategy.

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ESA

JUNE 28, 2021

Senators confirmed Richard Spinrad to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by a voice vote. He served as NOAA’s chief scientist from 2014 and 2016 and has also led both NOAA’s Office of Atmospheric Research and the National Ocean Service. Spinrad is a professor of oceanography at Oregon State University.

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