Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 25, 2024

The government must thoroughly investigate how this negligence was allowed to happen. From leaking toxic tailings to polluting gases, oil companies repeatedly keep communities and governments in the dark while they profit off destruction. The authors hypothesise that tailings could be an important source of the unreported emissions.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As noted at the end of last year, 2021 was significant for climate litigation, with several decisions worldwide providing a fresh look at stakeholder responsibility for climate change. A landmark decision recognizing the impacts of climate change on human rights. In September this year, the U.N.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

When I was growing up, climate change wouldn’t have qualified as a typical topic of conversation around the dinner table, let alone soil health or the ability of soils to store carbon. billion USD to support the USDA’s efforts to mitigate climate change via agricultural soils. Not so in the modern day, however.

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Ivy Protocol

MAY 18, 2023

The year 2023 stands as a testament to this synergy, with a plethora of companies innovating in the carbon removal terrain with a shared goal of fighting climate change. Meeting the recent pathways laid out by the IPCC will require total cumulative net carbon dioxide removals of 20–660 GtCO2 by 2100.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

That requires bringing global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions to net zero by 2050. DO: Pay your fair share of the costs of climate change. All four oil majors publicly claim to support the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping the global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Supreme Court interpreted the statute to place an absolute priority on preserving endangered species, regardless of the impact on the economy or other government goals. It was the first case in which the Court was confronted with the issue of climate change. This was a case under the Endangered Species Act.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Countries across Africa could lose 14% of their per capita GDP to climate change by 2050 and 34% by 2100, even if average global warming is held to 1.5°C, C, according to a report released this morning at this year’s UN climate conference, COP 27 , in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Photo credit: Anouk Delafortrie / Twitter.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

As the impacts of climate change are felt more acutely with each passing year, new research suggests that the future costs of emitting CO2 today may be much higher than previously calculated. What is the social cost of carbon? It’s designed to weigh the benefits of reducing warming against the costs of cutting emissions.

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Vermont Law

JULY 31, 2023

This model can represent a domestic or global scenario of climate damage, but many in the United States favor domestic views only. should account for global damages from climate change in its SCC modeling based on how their emissions exacerbate that global harm. The question is whether the U.S. If the U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 24, 2021

There are an increasing number of companies and countries that are pledging to reach Net Zero carbon emissions–or carbon neutrality–by 2050. That was the timeline laid down by the most prestigious body of climate scientists for limiting warming to 1.5 You…through government subsidies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Fossil fuels are the root cause of climate change, of long-standing environmental injustices, and are also frequently connected to geopolitical strife and violent conflicts. These data are alarming—underscoring how far off track the world continues to be in cutting the heat-trapping emissions fueling climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Humans everywhere are experiencing the impact of climate change. Yet, governments aren’t addressing the threat fast enough. Individual citizens and businesses ready to make a change need an avenue for actionable, measurable impact. RegenAll is currently pricing carbon offsets at $75 per metric ton of carbon dioxide.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 30, 2021

This is especially critical given all the noise coming from the oil and gas sector – and the institutions propping them up – suggesting that the only way to tackle climate change is by paying the very companies fueling the climate crisis to lower their emissions! The window for keeping global warming to 1.5

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

It is responsible for one third of Ontario’s greenhouse gas emissions , making it one the province’s worst climate change contributors. Fossil gas is mostly made up of a greenhouse gas called methane which is more potent than carbon dioxide and is responsible for about 30 per cent of the rise in global temperatures.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2024

Here are 94 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 2, 2022

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report released this week details how future climate impacts are going to affect our society, and many of us may be wondering what the future holds. You play a vital role in changing our future as an ocean advocate. Never miss an update. In the U.S.,

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

We’re in the midst of an escalating climate crisis, but the Ontario government is acting like the crisis isn’t happening. A new report explains how the provincial government can do just that, while also creating jobs and growing the economy. Reduced emissions! KEY RECOMMENDATIONS.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 5, 2024

Photo by Gary Cole on Unsplash Building codes have a major influence on how local governments respond to climate change. But the decision to include these sections in the latest draft of the IECC has generated sharp disagreement among trade associations, local governments, and energy efficiency advocates.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2023

As of June 20, 2023, the amount of CO2 [carbon dioxide] in the atmosphere has now risen to 421 parts per million, way past the level of 350 ppm considered safe. Busy with our own lives, we’ve simply given agency over to others, counting on the federal government, for example, to save the planet. And it’s still rising.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 16, 2017

These days the United States’ federal government is promoting coal and backtracking on climate ambition and the European Union is no longer cutting its greenhouse gases emissions. So, who is leading the fight against climate change ? China, India and South Korea are. .

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2022

These AOOG wells often emit methane, a greenhouse gas that is considered 25 to 84 times more potent, per ton, than carbon dioxide. The EPA conservatively estimates that annual methane emissions from known AOOG wells are equivalent to greenhouse gas emissions from 2.1 million vehicles per year.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2023

Attribution science , which is about understanding the role of climate change versus natural weather patterns and climate variability, can help us better understand the connections between extreme weather and climate change, provide new insight into what specific emissions are driving the worst impacts, and help shape climate solutions.

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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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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

The past two years have yielded unprecedented executive and regulatory engagement in the climate change discussion. to reducing their carbon emissions. which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. international climate change agreement. carbon dioxide.

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Science Blogs

AUGUST 29, 2017

The release of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels is, conceiveably, the most important environmental issue in the world today. — "Costs and benefits of carbon dioxide," Nature , May 3, 1979. Now is the time to say it as loudly as possible: Harvey is what climate change looks like.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

But another major culprit is climate change, which has intensified the heat and drought that have always been factors in western North America. That climate change obviously didn’t just happen on its own. percent of total emissions. Licker et al.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Information unearthed by Environmental Progress points to a gaping oversight in how the figures influencing government net zero policy and investments in solar worldwide are compiled and collated due to the difficulty of collecting accurate information out of China, especially for the purification processes used to create silicon wafers.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

There is so much bad news about climate change these days. Global temperature records are being shattered, climate impacts are worsening rapidly around the world, and the latest IPCC report makes clear that critical global climate goals are on the verge of slipping from our grasp. The reductions in PM2.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2022

Less shareholder support for climate proposals at BP, ConocoPhillips and other major oil and gas companies’ annual meetings earlier this month suggests that some investors may be falling for fossil fuel industry spin and deprioritizing climate action. Mandatory Climate Disclosure. That would be shortsighted and dangerous.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

The majority also seems utterly disinterested in the fact that a solid majority of people in this country want action on climate change and pollution. A CNN poll in December found that 73 percent of respondents in the United States say the federal government has some level of responsibility to curb climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

EPA does have authority to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the federal Clean Air Act and the Court’s ruling did not address that existing authority. Today’s ruling undercuts good-faith efforts to fight climate change and protect clean air but that does not mean we will stop fighting.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2023

As more advisory services, investment companies, and public companies have publicized their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals, the U.S. The proposal requires companies to report information related to “Scope 1” direct carbon emissions (think fuel use and greenhouse gases), “Scope 2” indirect carbon emissions (e.g.,

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Acoel

OCTOBER 18, 2022

However, that cooperation masks the failure of federal and state governments, and the private sector, to work together to tackle climate change, which likely exacerbated the intensity and destructiveness of that storm. Meanwhile, the Biden Administration has committed the US to net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

These new protections will include updates to power plant standards on carbon emissions , mercury pollution , and toxic coal ash pollution , just to name a few. For coal-fired power, the economic case has been bleak for a long time now, which has brought US coal-fired generation down to less than half of its 2010 level.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 3, 2023

Due to climate change and warming in recent years, the Dungeness crab fleet in California has been forced to change the timing of their fishery due to shifting distributions of resident humpback whales that were becoming entangled in crab fishing gear. These changes threaten crabs and their ability to grow and survive.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

California, Arizona, Nevada and the federal government reach agreement to reduce water consumption in the Colorado River basin. Previous versions of the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act funded conservation through royalties paid to the federal government for mineral extraction. Executive Branch. International. The bill includes $514.3

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