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New, Updated Carbon Majors Dataset Holds Promise for Researchers, Litigators

Union of Concerned Scientists

That 2013 headline resulted from the first effort to quantify emissions from the ‘carbon majors’ —fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers whose businesses have contributed an outsized amount of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere.

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ESA Policy News: May 4, 2023

ESA

Congress Bipartisan members of Congress introduce legislation to address harassment in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 2990 ) to address sexual harassment and assault in the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Courts Climate lawsuit filed by Hawai’i teens advances in state courts.

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Policy News: June 14, 2021

ESA

For the time being, no regulation is on the books, and extended delay might prompt legal action from environmentalists. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said it anticipates issuing a proposed rule in September updating its regulations for renewable energy generation.

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Speaking of Water: “How Do We Consider Mass Resettlement Of The World Population?” With Parag Khanna

Circle of Blue

It could be atmospheric, sulfur injections and that kind of stuff. Suddenly in this century, climate migrants have overtaken other categories of migrants and we don’t have a legal strategy for them, and we don’t have an overarching political or logistical approach to them. To decarbonize industries.

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In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded

Circle of Blue

While providing water quality regulators ample legal tools to stem the flow of “point source” pollutants from cities and industry, Congress limited tools to control “nonpoint” pollution running off the land. . Regulators have the authority to stem nonpoint pollution in two categories. . It’s not complete abdication.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

ESA

Legislators provide $200 million to NOAA for weather, coasts, oceans and climate research, $100 million for NOAA competitive climate research grants and provides $100 million to NOAA for development and dissemination of climate science information products and services. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The majority responded to this latter point by saying that “[t]he dissent’s view is akin to saying that incurring a debt has legal consequences, but forgiving one does not. at its theme park in Jackson Township in Ocean County. A debtor would beg to differ.”). State of New Jersey v North Beach 1003, LLC , Nos. A-3393-15T4 et al.

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