Legal Planet

JANUARY 13, 2022

EPA , which involves the scope of EPA’s authority to restrict carbon emissions from power plants. They emphasize that narrow interpretations of statutes prevent “government by bureaucracy supplanting government by the people.” This mandate was challenged by two groups of state governments. Let’s hope so, anyway.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 23, 2023

That raises a question: Why did the government take such a narrow stance rather than addressing the broader issues presented by the lawsuits? The case before the Supreme Court is one of a number of lawsuits brought in state court by state and local governments against fossil fuel producers, primarily oil companies.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The Golden State has adopted a slew of climate change laws over the past twenty years, and an even greater number of regulations. Required the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to set standards for greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) new vehicles. Required zero carbon emissions from power grid by 2045. 2018 SB100.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2024

This increases the importance of controlling the House, particularly if Trump is elected — because otherwise the Democrats will be completely shut out of the federal government. The Chevron decision gives agencies leeway in interpreting regulatory statutes, which expands the policymaking role of EPA and other government agencies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 10, 2024

As human emissions increase, the sink strength of these ecosystems has continued to expand due to CO 2 fertilization, but their capacity to absorb carbon is not unlimited. These same environmental changes can also increase carbon losses from land-based ecosystems.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2023

One set of issues relates to applying existing statutes to climate change. Consider this list of examples: Given that coal has larger carbon emissions than other sources of energy can EPA adopt a strategy of phasing out its use in the electric power sector? Can the government prevent development in those areas?

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

The Pittsburgh 2030 District , a project of the Green Building Alliance , has released its 2022 Progress Report , revealing District property partners have reduced carbon emissions by 44.8% This achievement moves the District within range of reaching its target goal of 50-65% reduction in carbon emissions before the 2030 deadline.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Following are some of my key takeaways (detailed in this and another forthcoming report) about the appropriate role of emissions trading in climate change policy and general thoughts on improving the effectiveness of carbon markets. – Emissions trading as part of a portfolio of climate policies.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Worse, it disparages people in the federal government who have devoted their lives to fighting climate change. And it may also feed into the dangerous message that there is no real difference between political parties in terms of climate change. It has no apparent chance of success. I’ll unpack that a little.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As governments in California and across the United States wrestle with how to address soaring housing costs, a significant flashpoint has been the issue of local control. Most land-use regulation in the United States is done by local governments: cities, counties, towns, villages.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

2023 is forecast to be an eventful year for climate litigation: legal actions aiming to hold polluters accountable for their role in climate change, ensure that international treaties and agreements are followed, and protect human rights that are being negatively impacted by climate change.

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Legal Planet

MAY 23, 2022

Australia has had a change of government. The Liberal Party — conservative in everything but name — lost control of the federal government to Labor. Australia was recently ranked last out of sixty countries in climate policy.The victorious Labor candidate told his supporters, “Together we can end the climate wars.

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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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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The federal government can reduce carbon emissions by 135 million tonnes with one neat trick. Transportation accounts for one quarter of Canada’s emissions – and we need action now to stop climate disaster. . They can’t be trusted with the future of our climate. . That’s equivalent to 57.5

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

UN report reveals national carbon-reduction pledges are inadequate to prevent catastrophic warming. Climate change slows global farm productivity. The mining company claims the spill was not toxic, while the Angolan government says it is still investigating the matter. Minnesota regulators fine Enbridge $3.3 21 PERCENT.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 14, 2022

That made an investor revolt last week over the giant mining company’s climate disclosures especially notable. It’s also notable that this took place in London, showing that investor worries about climate change are worldwide. Even before last week’s investor revolt, the company was under pressure to address climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Over the last 15 years, Penn State University has cut its carbon emissions by more than 35 percent, putting the University ahead of schedule to meet its goal of reducing greenhouse gas outputs to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. Penn State is a leader in creating comprehensive solutions to mitigate the dangers of climate change.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). climate policy. Emissions standards for new cars temporarily stalled under Trump but are nonetheless much tighter than they were before Obama. Perhaps most importantly, the federal government has invested billions of dollars in clean energy. Bush signs and U.S.

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New Scientist

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The UK government says a proposed new coal mine in Cumbria will have a "broadly neutral" effect on greenhouse gas emissions, but its climate change advisers disagree

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Legal Planet

JUNE 12, 2023

The social cost of carbon is important in many regulatory decisions made by the executive branch. It basically measures the benefit of cutting one ton of carbon emissions. Figuring out the cost of carbon based on an analysis of climate impacts is very tricky. That works out to about $60 per ton of carbon.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 8, 2024

State climate policy is a big deal. State governments began cutting emissions at a time when the federal government was essentially doing nothing about climate change. it’s not for nothing that 2023 has been called a banner year for state climate action. The package also includes six other laws.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 16, 2023

‘Climate reductionism’ makes everything about the climate and glosses over local context and the many interconnections of our complex world. When pursued dogmatically like that, climate action could become oppressive and unjust, with everything else pushed aside to bring down emissions.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

Last week, the Biden White House released proposed changes in the way the government does cost-benefit analysis. The proposal is very technical and low-key, but the upshot will be that efforts to reduce carbon emissions will get a leg up. Obviously, they won’t take our climate harms into account if we ignore theirs.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

With its unique design, the Paris Agreement does not prescribe specific actions by countries but encourages them to develop their own tailored approaches to combat climate change. It also encourages badly needed reforms inside and outside of government and will help create new political coalitions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Trading in disinformation In its climate lobbying report, ExxonMobil deemed 52 associations “aligned” for acknowledging the risks of climate change, publicly backing the Paris Agreement goal of limiting average global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius and taking steps to reduce carbon emissions.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Inspired by the book All We Can Save , a celebration of the feminist climate renaissance , we asked 15 local women who are thinking about and working on climate change to respond to the question: “If we are at a crossroads of peril and promise, where do you see possibility alive and growing?”

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As my colleague Katie Segal wrote earlier this week , our team at CLEE recently released a report detailing how San Francisco can fund its ambitious Climate Action Plan. Fees: Fees on activities related to greenhouse gas emissions (such as electric utilities, vehicle parking, and property development) can raise revenue for climate investment.

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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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Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2022

EPA , the Court’s most important climate change case in a generation. The issue in that case is what, if anything, EPA can do to regulate carbon emissions from power plants and factories. Yesterday, conservative states asked the Court to intervene in another climate change case.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In that time climate change has gone from being a fringe issue to a global priority. President of the summit is the physicist and politician Alok Sharma MP , who previously served as business secretary in the UK government. C above pre-industrial levels within the next two decades. Global goals. James McKenzie.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2022

In summarizing its report on the consequences of climate change, the scientific body described a society running out of time to prevent unbearable damage to the planet’s lands and waters — and to the people and creatures that depend on them. Climate change is a threat to human well-being and the health of the planet.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The hypocrisy of the world’s biggest banks on climate change keeps mounting. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that all scenarios to meet the Paris Agreement ’s targets for holding planetary temperatures under 1.5 It was another corporate spit in the face of science.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 24, 2023

If applied with integrity, these new rules for government spending will effectively shut the door on the creation of new handouts of public money to the companies most responsible for the climate disasters being experienced today – and free up billions for climate solutions.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 2, 2021

Judge Larisa Alwin ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45% by 2030 from 2019 levels. “The court orders Royal Dutch Shell, by means of its corporate policy, to reduce its CO2 emissions by 45% by 2030 with respect to the level of 2019 for the Shell group, and the suppliers and customers of the group.”

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The omnibus spending bill is by no means a “climate law.” Because it spans the entire government, though, it has many provisions relating to climate change. But the fact that they can pass as part of a bipartisan spending law is a sign of how climate change is slowly becoming normalized as a political consideration.

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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. . ENDANGERED SPECIES.

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