MGKF Law

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The holding halts former Governor Tom Wolf’s efforts to make Pennsylvania the first major fossil-fuel producing state to implement a price on carbon emissions. Read More » Tags: Air , Climate Change , Commonwealth Court , Pennsylvania , Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection , Taxes

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

Despite Shell’s insistence that it’s a climate champion, it has chosen to stay aligned with CAPP, whose toxic, secretive influence has killed or undermined laws that were designed to protect public health, cut pollution, and curb carbon emissions – including during the COVID-19 crisis. . Increasing them a lot.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

26 (GC26) on children’s rights and the environment with a special focus on climate change. Still, the decision holds significant implications for safeguarding children’s rights within the climate change context and set a foundation for future climate-related cases centered on children.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency. Though the case caught fewer headlines, it, too, threatened Earth-shifting implications all its own by thrusting into question a critical EPA lever for addressing climate change. Simply by taking West Virginia v. EPA the Supreme Court signaled ominous things to come.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 7, 2021

If the government of Ontario hoped that abolishing the Environment Commissioner, and transferring the position’s responsibilities to the Auditor General would free it from accountability on climate change, wilderness conservation, pollution and species at risk protection, it must surely be disappointed. .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

One critical tool for forcing that reckoning comes from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Through the Clean Air Act , and as affirmed—and reaffirmed—through multiple legal sagas, EPA is statutorily obligated to address carbon pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants. So what follows from that obligation?

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ESA

JULY 1, 2022

The Ecological Society of America, representing 8,000 research ecologists and environmental scientists, is greatly concerned about the recent United States Supreme Court decision in West Virginia v. The Supreme Court decision severely hinders the efforts of the United States to reduce emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2023

On August 8, the Evangelical Environmental Network announced it has submitted 51,584 comments from individual pro-life Christians in support of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed standards on carbon pollution from fossil-fuel-fired power plants ( Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2023-0072-0001 ).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency et al. is a serious blow to the EPA’s ability to fight climate change—and could have dangerous repercussions beyond this case. The limited approach permitted by the court ruling will constrain the ability to drive the major cuts in emissions that are necessary to meet climate goals.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

At the evening seafood reception that year, in a corner near the fresh oysters, a board member of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association remarked to me, “Everyone blames everything on climate change, but they blame the Right Whale on lobstering.” His remark has remained with me ever since.

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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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Law and Environment

MARCH 14, 2023

In the same release, Rhode Island Acting State Energy Commissioner Christopher Kearns added: This will help our regional New England grid make the transition to clean energy, reduce our collective carbon emissions significantly, and deliver a major victory in our fight against climate change.”

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 13, 2022

“This collaboration with Constellation is an exciting next step toward meeting our environmental goals of reaching 100% renewable purchased electricity by 2025 and reducing carbon emissions and energy use 75% by 2035.” Environmental Protection Agency. Investing In Renewables Since 2014, PNC has invested nearly $2.3

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

With our energy plan and innovative projects like PA PULSE, my Administration will create energy jobs, take real action to address climate change pollution, ensure consumers pay less on their bills, and continue to ensure Pennsylvania maintains its energy independence for years to come.” “We

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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. Effectively, SCC indicates what price society should be willing to pay now to avoid the future damage of today’s carbon emissions.

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 18, 2016

Summary: Green-roof zoning laws may provide a solution to the Urban Heat Island Effect, which contributes to anthropogenic climate change through heat pollution originating from large cities. Green-roofs are an overlooked solution to the complex problem of heat pollution, which contributes to anthropogenic climate change.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

In China, government plans to peak and neutralise national carbon emissions, and for a wholesale green transition , have caused a boom in “green employment”. The bump may be linked to China’s commitment, made in September 2020, to reach carbon neutrality before 2060. in 2015 to 13.3% These countries were mostly European.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 23, 2021

2021 was a significant year for climate litigation, with several decisions worldwide providing a fresh look at stakeholder responsibility for climate change. In France, a landmark decision ordered the government to increase climate action in order to implement its international commitments. By Maria Antonia Tigre.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2023

After all, wasn’t a great deal of money recently invested through the [federal] Inflation Reduction Act [IRA]to combat climate change? Because fossil fuels are used both to produce blue hydrogen and to operate its carbon capture technology, its carbon emissions are quite high. Don’t be so sure.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act’s new hydrogen production tax credit , known as code 45V, is intended to incentivize a shift to low-carbon hydrogen production by offering producers a credit that increases in value as the carbon emissions associated with produced hydrogen declines.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

More than 20,000 Americans died prematurely in 2015 from tailpipe emissions, according to a 2019 study. Tailpipe pollution also is a major contributor to the climate crisis. Even so, cars and trucks are still making us sick—and killing us.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

(Figure 1) These properties are a double-edged sword: while they are the root of the problems that black carbon causes, they also make mitigating black carbon one of the most actionable ways to fight climate change. Initiatives targeting black carbon have already developed amazing and innovative solutions.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The president-elect, who is currently finishing his second term as a congressman, made environmental and climate change issues central to his campaign. The whole world values the reduction of carbon emissions and the protection of the environment.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 17, 2023

In December 2021, the Sabin Center launched the Peer Review Network of Global Climate Litigation (Network) , through which practitioners and scholars from the around the world act as “rapporteurs” for their jurisdictions, helping to update and maintain the Global Climate Change Litigation database (see also here and here ).

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E2 Law Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency. On June 30, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its long-awaited decision in West Virginia, et al. By a 6-3 opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Court ruled in favor of the four petitioners, holding that the U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

“The need for urgent action to address the climate crisis was front and centre in the 2021 Speech from the Throne. It is worrisome that no mention of a just transition strategy or legislation were made in the Throne Speech.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

Analysis by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the most recent RFS rulemaking finds that more than 90 percent of the costs of complying with the RFS, $7 to $8 billion a year, are associated with bio-based diesel fuels [i]. Bio-based diesel fuels are expensive. However, these apparent benefits result from faulty analysis.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 10, 2019

During his United Nations (“UN”) Speech, Brazil President Bolsonaro made clear his government’s commitment to environmental protection and sustainable development to benefit Brazil and the world. This foreign policy and trade agreement gives the EU some say in Brazil’s stance on climate change and management of the Amazon basin.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Brazil’s National Policy on Climate Change ( NPCC and subsequent regulation ) was adopted in 2009 based on Brazil’s international commitments with the UNFCCC. The NPCC establishes a binding commitment to reduce GHG emissions between 36.1% by 2020 against a 2010 baseline. o C global warming scenario. o C global warming scenario.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

New Shell documents could aid climate cases, attorneys say Follow the Money PaulaR Thu, 01/25/2024 - 16:59 Thursday, January 18, 2024 Read more Matthew Green, Merel de Buck & Birte Schohaus Latest Shell-files show that the company reflected on climate change caused by fossil products as early as the 1970s.

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E2 Law Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

26, 2023, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) solicited public input to inform two new Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) programs creating standards and labeling for construction materials that have “substantially lower levels of embodied greenhouse gas emissions.”

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Oil giant Total is being sued by cities and NGOs for not fighting climate change hard enough Francois de Beaupuy | Fortune | January 28, 2020 Oil giant Total SA is being sued by 14 local governments and a handful of non-governmental organizations in France for not doing enough to reduce its carbon emissions and fight global warming.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Oil giant Total is being sued by cities and NGOs for not fighting climate change hard enough Francois de Beaupuy | Fortune | January 28, 2020 Oil giant Total SA is being sued by 14 local governments and a handful of non-governmental organizations in France for not doing enough to reduce its carbon emissions and fight global warming.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Oil giant Total is being sued by cities and NGOs for not fighting climate change hard enough Francois de Beaupuy | Fortune | January 28, 2020 Oil giant Total SA is being sued by 14 local governments and a handful of non-governmental organizations in France for not doing enough to reduce its carbon emissions and fight global warming.

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Environmental Progress

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Last Sunday, hundreds of pro-nuclear people in 33 cities around the world stood up for nuclear energy as a crucial technology to achieve the goals of universal prosperity and environmental protection. Britain is already in a transition to low-carbon energy. Just 5% came from coal last year.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Oil giant Total is being sued by cities and NGOs for not fighting climate change hard enough Francois de Beaupuy | Fortune | January 28, 2020 Oil giant Total SA is being sued by 14 local governments and a handful of non-governmental organizations in France for not doing enough to reduce its carbon emissions and fight global warming.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Climate change: Extinction Rebellion end blockade at Shell's Aberdeen HQ The BBC | January 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters.

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