Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Across the country, these anxieties are gradually translating into political momentum. Recreational fishermen are a demographic that leans politically conservative, and the issue has begun changing minds about climate change. The good news is that, just as stress on river ecosystems accumulates, so too it can be lessened.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 15, 2023

If this is allowed to happen, it will make cities more congested, increase carbon emissions, and have the greatest impact on society’s most vulnerable. In a climate emergency, our political leaders must do the same. The federal government has saved public transit from disaster before, and it can do it again.”

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 10, 2019

There can be no political freedom without there also being economic freedom. These criticisms arose over a concern for conserving the Amazon’s carbon sequestration potential and its abundant biodiversity. to the global emissions count. developed themselves and consolidated their democracies. And vice-versa. contributing.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

If you’re an anti-regulatory conservative, you’d probably flip these designations. This gave EPA the power to impose limits on carbon emissions by vehicles and industry. UARG involved a regulation that required industry to cut carbon emissions for new facilities. The environmental side won most of these cases.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 1, 2022

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Over the years, these reports have analyzed the research to confirm that global warming is occurring, that humans are the cause and that we need to reduce carbon emissions to address it. appeared first on Ocean Conservancy. Never miss an update.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2023

8 [PaEN] -- Lancaster County Community Foundation Awards $64,837 In Community Conservation Grants -- Williamsport Sun: Experts In Parks, Green Infrastructure Hired In Williamsport -- National Assn. Of Health Pushing For Changes To Reduce Adverse Health Impacts [PaEN] -- Senate Environmental Committee Meets Dec.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 30, 2021

As political parties prepare their election platforms and publish their climate priorities, it can be difficult to determine which parties are releasing strong climate plans that put us on a pathway to zero emissions – and what policies are actually dangerous distractions from real solutions. We need to be doing both.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 15, 2023

Commission Office, 1601 Elmerton Ave., Harrisburg.

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Washington Nature

MARCH 18, 2024

The 2024 session of the Washington State Legislature has wrapped up, and at The Nature Conservancy in Washington we are celebrating new investments in the transition to a clean energy economy and a climate-resilient future for all Washingtonians. This election will ripple out to the broader climate justice movement too.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The US puts a dollar figure on the damage caused by carbon emissions, but new research finds it’s too low, meaning the benefits of reducing emissions are being underestimated. 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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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. It is within this context that Ocean Conservancy releases Zero-Carbon for Shipping: Sailing Carbon-free along North America’s West Coast. If nothing is done to clean up shipping, its carbon emissions are projected to jump by almost 130% by 2050.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 17, 2021

Stop expanding and subsidizing fossil fuels and nuclear energy, and reduce Canada’s carbon emissions by 60% by 2030 to do our fair share globally; Ensure a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels, with a plan that supports workers, communities, and marginalized groups in the just and fair transition to a sustainable economy.

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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. But analysis based on wider datasets is more conservative.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

While intended to offer a small amount of flexibility to building owners who might have trouble complying with Local Law 97’s emissions limits, with these rules they risk falling into the same traps that have ensnared other carbon pricing efforts. This echoes the experience of other carbon markets. Additionality.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

to reducing their carbon emissions. which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. the Paris Agreement) that will require periodic, rigorous accounting and management of total national emissions. social cost of carbon. to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Legal Planet

MAY 23, 2022

The Liberal Party — conservative in everything but name — lost control of the federal government to Labor. Climate change wasn’t a central issue in the campaign, but resistance to climate action no longer provided a political advantage. Polling showed broad public support for more aggressive cuts in carbon emissions.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Here’s an embarrassing confession: Though I had taught environmental law for 25 years at that point, I had never heard of section 111(d) until it was discussed as possible tool to limit carbon emissions. That’s fair game in politics, but we should expect better of judges. .”

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

What is Conservation? We define conservation as a broad approach to preserving what is already there and the due care and attention to protecting it for the future (1). Resource conservation is the active ways in which we seek to limit the use of resources to reduce the strain put on supply. Conservation, Ethics, Philosophy.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The issue has begun changing minds about climate change among recreational fishermen, a demographic that leans politically conservative. Across the country, these anxieties are gradually translating into political momentum. The root cause of the issue is global climate change. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Major Shareholders Click here for the latest data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 23, 2012

“By just about any measure, RGGI has been a success,” said Jared Snyder, Assistant Commissioner for Air Resources, Climate Change and Energy, New York Department of Environmental Conservation. Since its inception three years ago, greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector are down 30%.

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HumanNature

APRIL 12, 2021

iii They have also studied networks that fund climate change denialism as well as barriers and opportunities to socio-economic policies or cultural practices which may drive CO2 emissions. Carbon Metabolism: Global Capitalism, Climate Change, and the Biospheric Rift.” Theory and Society 34(4):391–428. iv e.g. see McCright, a.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2023

Here’s the bottom line: Because of decades of politically motivated inaction from policymakers, especially in richer countries, and the greed of fossil fuel companies bent on extracting every last bit of profit, scientific projections show that we are currently on a trajectory to exceed 1.5˚C

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

On the opposite side of the world, a Dutch court mandated a 40% cut over the next ten years in carbon emissions by Shell Oil, including the emissions resulting from the ultimate use of its oil and gas. The judge used the Paris Agreement as the benchmark for setting the company’s obligations.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

As part of an apprenticeship I participated in with the Colorado Water Conservation Board, I was asked to explore tools that enable estimates of the return on investment to the public from ecosystem services provided by different land-uses, with an emphasis on private working lands such as farms and ranches. A political view.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Acidification : Reducing the pH rating of a substance making it more acidic in nature, for example, increased carbon emissions lead to the oceans absorbing more of it, increasing acidification and damaging ecology such as coral bleaching. The idea was to conserve and to increase population numbers - a measure that has mixed success.

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Washington Nature

APRIL 24, 2021

” — David Mendoza, Advocacy and Engagement Director for The Nature Conservancy in Washington. “ A just transition requires a strong cap on carbon pollution and a price on carbon to accelerate strategic investments in reducing carbon emissions, cleaning up our air and water, and adapting our transportation systems.

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Environmental Science

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

A Brief History of the Use, Study, and Conservation, of Deserts. The birth of the science of eremology (the study of the desert biome) began in the mid-20 th century and with the dawning of the understanding of such environmental concepts as human geography, ecology, and, of course, conservation. In Antiquity.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Although the court said the plaintiffs had put forward compelling arguments against the solar arrays, the court noted that the Township had weighed the “need for energy independence and the reduction of carbon emissions as legitimate objectives of zoning.” filed June 15, 2017). Exxon Mobil Corp. Schneiderman , No. June 16, 2017).

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 17, 2022

In a Friday post, I sketched some thoughts about how the Supreme Court’s vaccine mandate rulings might impact EPA’s power to control carbon emissions. The Court ruled in both cases on the principle that an agency can take action of “vast economic and political significance” only it Congress has plainly authorized it to do so.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 13, 2022

Today, the Court’s conservative Justices split the difference in two cases involving vaccine mandates, striking down OSHA’s mandate but upholding a more limited mandate for healthcare workers. Today, however, I’m going to focus instead on the conservative split and what it might mean for environmental law.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Opponents of EPA Carbon Standards for New Coal-Fired Power Plants Filed Initial Briefs. Petitioners challenging EPA’s new source performance standards for carbon emissions from power plants filed their opening briefs in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. motion for leave to amend Oct. 17, 2016; motion to expedite Oct.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Theoretically, a gap might involve subject matter, stringency, coverage, legal character, enforcement, resources, institutions, or political will. It is vital that global political effort — a precious commodity – be channeled into the most environmentally beneficial outcomes. . Daniel Bodansky.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Million To Protect 1,519 Acres On 22 Farms From Future Development [PaEN] -- PA Parks & Forests Foundation Blog: Keith Russell - His Quest For Urban Conservation Through Bird Watching -- Altoona Mirror: Penn State Altoona Read-In Lauds Black Ecology, Environmental Writers -- Natural Areas Association: Feb.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 1, 2023

1: Sunak is standing against short-term thinking for political gain. Can we put the long-term interests of our country before the short-term political needs of the moment?” This is perhaps the most offensive of the false statements in Sunak’s speech, because short-term political need is exactly what motivates him here.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MAY 10, 2024

Building a More Equitable Food and Agriculture System Longstanding structural and institutional racism has excluded Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) from access to land, financial resources, information, political standing, and educational and professional trajectories, which limits their ability to shape the food system.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Pursue Your Constitutional Right To A Clean Environment In Pennsylvania House next voting day Dec. 11, 12, 13 -- Committee Schedule Senate next voting day Dec. 11, 12, 13 -- Committee Schedule -- Click Here for Senate Agency Budget Hearing Schedule.

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