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. Other countries are dependent upon these fossil fuels, they don’t make themselves free of them. This is a fossil fuel war.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

In recent years, The Netherlands has become the leading site of climate change litigation. Now the same district court has gone further, again in favor of environmental groups but now against Royal Dutch Shell (“Shell”) , the world’s largest non-state-owned fossil fuel company. These lawsuits face three key barriers.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2022

Going back to 1978 and through this month, Congress has acknowledged climate change in a total of 87 enactments, as shown by a database just posted by Columbia’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. That approach would have required a shift from coal to energy sources that emit less carbon dioxide.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

volume mixing ratio), together with a number of trace gases, such as argon (0.93% volume mixing ratio), helium, radiatively active greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (0.035% volume mixing ratio), and ozone. Climate in a wider sense is the state, including a statistical description, of the climate system.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Recent science doesn’t support this optimism, as new studies show that the increased release of Black Carbon, one of the most potent climate change forcers—as well as soot, carbon dioxide, methane and ozone from more traffic in the Arctic—could lead to a 20% increase in the global heating that is causing warmer ocean temperatures.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Climate Change Mitigation. The Governor approved a notable slate of climate legislation with a package that includes more stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets and measures designed to reduce the state’s reliance on fossil fuels. Clean Energy.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 25, 2023

A figure from the recent OECD report Climate Tipping Points , showing how an AMOC shutdown after 2.5 °C C global warming would change temperature (left) and precipitation (right) around the world. In 2022, the G20 governments alone subsidised fossil fuel use with 1.4 They aren’t trying to end fossil fuels.

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Edouard Stenger

AUGUST 21, 2017

While it is undeniable that we are ramping up our actions against climate change, it is hard to deny that global warming is getting scarier every week. It is worth noting that if all ice melt in Antarctica, sea level would rise by 60 meters (around 200 feet).

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In the absence of federal leadership in the United States to combat climate change, a number of individuals and states have recently pursued new approaches to force action through litigation. The plaintiffs point to the government’s affirmative actions causing climate change as the root of these claims. New York v.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

We’re already experiencing the impact of climate change across the world; now an update from the IPCC suggests weather extremes could become the norm in the near future. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.

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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. We can decrease production of virgin plastic that comes from fossil fuels and pollutes our ocean as well.

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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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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. Ekwurzel was joined by Heede, then-UCS climate scientist Peter Frumhoff , and four other scientists.

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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. Most of us won't turn into climate refugees, of course. The limits of adaptation.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

In the first months of 2024, legislators in four states— Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , and Vermont —have pushed for legislation that would collectively require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 24, 2021

And, the recent report from the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is no exception. The IPCC tells us that this is the decade when we must take action on climate change to avoid the worst- case scenarios. In our fight against climate change, we need to make sure every dollar makes a difference.

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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. And even a slight rise in sea level makes the threat of a storm surge that more terrifying.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

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. Climate change : The process by which the climate changes due to “forcings”.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

For almost three decades, world governments have met nearly every year to forge a global response to the climate emergency. China is not the only country in the frame: major fossil fuel producers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and Australia have also refused to strengthen their commitments. An increase of 1.5C

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

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. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 126. and non-U.S. 17-1258 (D.C.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

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. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 107. and non-U.S.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

and an area that is highly sensitive to climate change. BLM estimates that the project will produce up to 576 million barrels of oil over its 30-year lifetime, resulting in indirect emissions totaling 239 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) equivalent.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

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. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 133. By Margaret Barry and Hillary Aidun.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

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. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 145. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Koati.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. In 2022, Texas, along with several other states and industry groups representing fuel manufacturers (together, Petitioners), challenged EPA’s new emissions standards in court. Bush had already “established a comprehensive global climate change policy.”

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

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. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 148. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

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. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 147. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

Attorneys general (AGs) in the five states most vulnerable to climate change, however, are doing the exact opposite: Instead of defending their constituents, they are defending the fossil fuel industry. He routinely partners with other GOP AGs to shield the industry from federal action on climate change.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) 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. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 103. and non-U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Do my colleagues who oppose RGGI have a plan, a new plan to address climate change, rising energy costs, the decline of coal fired power plants, and impact to their workers and communities? Let us remember, we're not here to debate the issue of climate change. I am not aware of one.

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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. 4:21-cv-00287-SPM (E.D. March 8, 2021).]]

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

24 Organizing Black Birders Week Webinar With Tykee James -- Keep PA Beautiful Local Affiliates Recycle 1.1 17; Loving The Land Thru Working Forests Conference Sept.

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Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

The Trump War on Science: Daring blindness, Denying climate change, Destroying the EPA and other daily disasters. But along with those macro-level issues, Trump and his cronies are still hammering away at climate change denial, environmental protection, research funding and public health issues. 2017.06.14.

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