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State and Local Governments Across the Country are Sidelining Science. Here’s What’s Needed

Union of Concerned Scientists

The National Aeronautics and Atmospheric Administration offered to fly an airplane equipped with the world’s most sophisticated air samplers over Houston to monitor air pollution. It wasn’t too long after the storm was gone that people started to feel sick.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

What is Environmental Law? Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity. These can be natural events or, as is the case at present, the result of industrial age actions in increasing greenhouse gases and reducing carbon sinks. Too much of this material can cause flooding.

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Policy News: December 20, 2021

ESA

2773 ) is that the Senate bill funds the program through penalties paid for natural resources and environmental violations while the House bill does not specify a funding source. Concern Over President’s Choice to Head Federal Wildlife Agency – Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

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 demands to be governed by as universal a rule of apportioning responsibility as is available.” Perry , No.

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Policy News: July 27, 2021

ESA

This includes research about atmospheric composition, water and carbon cycles, computational modeling of climate systems, renewable energy technologies, materials sciences, and social, behavior and economic research on human responses to climate change. Huffman is a senior member of the House Natural Resources Committee.

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Special Policy News #7: The Transition

ESA

Carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere reach record high – The Guardian. Notice of Lodging of Proposed Consent Decree Under The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). Notice of Lodging of Proposed Consent Decree Under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act.

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The Trump Watch: What Does the New Administration Portend for the Environment?

Vermont Law

Trump, the fact that each month is warmer than the same month the previous year has nothing to do with the adverse consequences associated with spewing obscene amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. into the atmosphere each year, with no end in sight. manufacturing non-competitive.” This cloud, too, has a silver lining.

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