Nanotech

MAY 10, 2023

government agencies in tackling the challenge of plastic waste in the environment. government nanoplastics interagency interest group that coordinates activities on this subject across the federal agencies, who will provide highlights of agency programs and activities. The panel of speakers includes participants in the informal U.S.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

The “for one year” part is crucial: stratospheric aerosols stay in the atmosphere roughly a year, so one gram offsets the heating effect of one ton only for the first year after the ton is emitted. After that, the sulfur is gone but the CO 2 is still there and heating.) This may be on the cusp of changing, but it hasn’t yet.).

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 18, 2023

State of Montana , against their state government. Of note, there are state constitution based climate change lawsuits against state governments pending in early stages of pleading in Hawaii , Utah , and Virginia. What would the impact be when the conservative Montana legislative branch sides with the executive branch?

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 9, 2023

Today, the New York Times reported that a recent assessment shows that the world is on track to reach pre-1980 levels of upper atmosphere ozone by roughly 2040. Especially when it’s good news about effective international cooperation on environmental protection issues. . There was no punishment.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 30, 2022

Unceded Algonquin Anishinaabe Territories [Ottawa, ON] – A new report released today by Environmental Defence, Buyer Beware: Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Carbon Capture Fairy Tales in Canada , reveals Canada’s federal government provided at least $8.6 billion and the Government of Saksatechwan has provided $1.2

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2023

That adds up to something in the ballpark of fifty million tons of CO2 that California kept out of the atmosphere during that decade beyond what happened in the power sector nationally. Over the course of the decade, then, about a quarter of California’s reduction was over and beyond the national trend. Some Puzzles Remain.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 4, 2023

With little difficulty we can envision these leading to more human-oriented problems — hunger, disease, population displacement, and conflict — problems that could grow unmanageable from governance and international security perspectives.” Kissinger also viewed climate change as an economic threat.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Given its high potency and short atmospheric lifespan, lowering methane emissions could prevent up to 0.3°C Methane is responsible for 30 percent of current global warming and is 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 20 year period. C of warming by 2050. SB 1383 establishes California methane emissions reduction targets.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 23, 2022

Residents of Pir Koh staged several protests last week, demanding that the government declare a national emergency and fix the town’s ailing infrastructure. “We Such events are becoming more common as Earth’s atmosphere continues to warm. Over 2,000 people have been infected, and at least six died, including three young children.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

We live in a world that markets individual action as the singular solution to climate change, instead of corporate and governmental accountability, where multinational companies and the governments that endorse them are largely responsible for the excessive carbon in our atmosphere.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The atmosphere for climate litigation in our Supreme Court is decidedly chilly. In a pathbreaking opinion, the German Constitutional Court ordered the government to adopt much stricter emissions targets for 2030. Some of its peers in other countries have taken a much different approach. C as possible. The Netherlands.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 28, 2023

But those that stand out the most are the first-ever authorizations of the USDA Climate Hubs and the Long-term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) network, expansion of agroforestry initiatives, expansion of the USDA’s conservation programs, and grants to states and Tribal governments interested in implementing soil health management programs.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The agency and others in government and emergency response have dispatched supplies, mobile health clinics, and workers to the front lines who are attempting to reach families still cut off from services because of high waters or damaged roads. Satellite imagery suggested that perhaps a third of the country was inundated.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Climate scientists forecast with medium confidence that continued atmospheric warming will cause more erratic and powerful monsoons in South Asia. The government has plans to buy 200,000 tents for displaced families, officials say, and has dispersed $300 million in cash handouts. statement read earlier this week. .

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen The former Chief Scientist for the UK Government, Sir David King did not hold back the scientific reality of years of climate inaction when he addressed the audience at the Net Zero Festival in London, organised by Business Green, a clean energy publication.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

However, you might be surprised to discover that carbon dioxide makes up just 0.04% of the earth’s atmosphere. CCUS involves capturing carbon dioxide from fossil fuel power plants or directly from the air and either using it or sequestering it deep underground to prevent it from being released back into the atmosphere.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 21, 2023

The Navajo Nation claims that the federal government has failed in its legal duty to ensure sufficient water for the tribe. government must determine the Navajo Nation’s water needs and devise a plan to meet those needs. The states named in the lawsuit and the federal government have a different view.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 20, 2023

Part pep rally, part trade show, part performance review, the UN Water Conference is pitched by its co-hosts, the governments of the Netherlands and Tajikistan, as an opportunity for the world to recommit to ambitious goals of safely managed water and sanitation for all people and ecosystems.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

As climate change has become a more pervasive and urgent political issue, governments around the world have started to look to soil as a potential part of the solution. They present a serious sink for atmospheric carbon to be stored. It was a topic for farmers or agronomists, outside the sphere of influence for most people.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The Climate Overshoot Commission is a senior independent international body, consisting of twelve distinguished individuals from around the world, including former heads of government, national ministers, and leaders of major environment, development, and civil society organizations.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) atmospheric levels. He will also discuss the NETL’s Direct Air Capture Center on its Pittsburgh campus, a recent initiative by the federal government to support the development of carbon capture. The captured CO2 is then stored deep underground in geologic formations or used to make other products.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 31, 2023

An energetic, bustling atmosphere was partly the point. The absence of binding pledges from governments was not the only limitation. So far, 713 commitments have been filed by NGOs, governments, businesses, universities, and intergovernmental organizations like UNICEF. Good governance was correlated with more effective spending.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Image from Government of British Columbia. Climate change has also contributed to an increase in atmospheric drying power at night, which can further burden limited fire-fighting resources. Mountain pine beetle killed trees in British Columbia.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Few governments have clearly specified the contributions expected from carbon removal, or the absolute level of emissions cuts expected. Two recent articles – in Science and Nature – endorse the argument that governments should instead set explicit separate targets for emissions reduction and carbon removal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Representatives Scott Peters (D-California) and María Elvira Salazar (R-Florida), the NCARS bill would improve how the federal government prepares and responds to extreme weather and climate-related disasters. Over a decade, from 2007-2017 , the direct costs of extreme weather events to the federal government was $350 billion.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Scientists attribute the drought’s severity to climate change, deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, and the La Niña weather pattern, a cycle caused by natural oscillations in oceanic and atmospheric temperatures which tends to desiccate Argentina and southern Brazil every few years.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2024

Eisenhower named the entanglement of defense and private industry the military-industrial complex, warning that its outsized influence over the government was a threat to peace and democracy. In 1961, US President Dwight D. The conditions that so alarmed Eisenhower persist today.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Responsible for 12 percent of all US global warming emissions from human activities, methane traps significantly more heat per molecule than carbon dioxide, making it 86 times more harmful for the first 20 years after it is released into the atmosphere. VY: They do.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For 2022, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted a season with above normal activity on its August 4 updated forecast , calling for 14-20 named storms. As we said previously , “Fiona caught Puerto Rico’s government utterly unprepared, leaving the population unprotected.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The government is breaking their own rules The government introduced new rules to end fossil fuel subsidies this summer. While the idea of capturing carbon pollution before it reaches the atmosphere sounds good, in reality, it doesn’t actually work. The Government of Canada has a much better card it can play: regulations.

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 20, 2014

The Alaska Supreme Court suggested Alaskans might have a right to atmosphere, but declined to provide a remedy. Atmospheric public trust plaintiffs are running out of options. The Alaska Supreme Court denies relief, but signals that Alaskans may have a public trust right to preservation of the atmosphere. By Adam Patrick Murray.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 20, 2021

At present, the western reaches of the country are torn apart by an ongoing armed conflict between government forces and separatist groups. Cameroon—a mosaic of hundreds of ethnic groups, cobbled together into one nation during its colonial history—has long endured these regional frictions.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration responds to more than 150 oil and chemical spills in US waters each year. But earlier this year, a report by the Government Accountability Office warned that the federal Bureau… Read more →

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

” The launch of the project is announced at a time when there has been an increased focus with governments on how to tackle the short-lived greenhouse gas (GHG) source. The US is among the world’s biggest methane emitters and has proposed mandatory measures to eradicate the leaks from oil and gas operations.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

” Matt Patterson, an atmospheric physicist at the University of Oxford responded to the extraordinary news with this view: “It is a significant milestone to see the global mean temperature for a 12-month period exceed 1.5C above pre-industrial temperatures for the first time.” ” What’s in store for the next 12 months?

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

The motion asks the company to produce a report examining how Enbridge’s governance systems are functioning. The motion asks the company to produce a report examining how Enbridge’s governance systems are functioning. They have also advocated for this to the US government.

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