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Green on Top: Zoning Against Climate Change with Green-Roof Legislation

Vermont Law

green-roofs can cut the urban global warming contributions in half and could reduce urban carbon emissions dramatically. in the largest metropolitan areas in the US also confirm the links between mortality, the UHIE, and climate change. According to meteorological simulations. Through green-roofs. ,

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Should New Gas Stoves Be Banned?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Like nitrogen dioxide, methane combines with other pollutants to form ground-level ozone—more commonly known as smog—and it is a significantly more potent global warming pollutant than carbon dioxide. A 2022 Sierra Club investigation , for example, found nearly 400 methane leaks in Washington, D.C., in just one day.

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These Attorneys General Are Defending the Fossil Fuel Industry, Not Their States

Union of Concerned Scientists

In 2015, when he took office as AG after stints in the Texas Legislature, he sued the Environmental Protection Agency for strengthening a standard for ground-level ozone, better known as smog. By railing against what he calls a “radical climate change movement” and suing the federal government to protect corporate polluters.