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Environmental Defence Hosts “Transit for Tomorrow” Summit

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It helps us reduce carbon emissions. This creates a vicious cycle that only serves to increase carbon emissions, hurt the most vulnerable in our society and discourage the transit-oriented development projects we need to solve the housing crisis. Public transit is at the nexus of solving Canada’s most pressing challenges.

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Field Notes from India: Climate Adaptation from the Ground Up

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They have neither employers to provide benefits nor political parties to represent their interests. Terms such as global warming and carbon emissions must be converted into everyday language. They largely work in their crowded homes (sometimes just 8x8), on small plots, or on the street.

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Utility Dive Guest Essay: We At PJM Need Realistic Solutions, Not Politics To Take On Energy Challenges

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Data Centers - By John Quigley, Senior Fellow, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy [PaEN] -- Utility Dive Guest Essay: We At PJM Need Realistic Solutions, Not Politics To Take On Energy Challenges - By Aftab Khan, PJM Executive Vice President Of Operations, Planning and Security [PaEN] -- Bitfarms Announces Partnership To Develop A.I.

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A Clean Transportation Plan that Ontario Needs: 7 Key Elements

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As part of Environmental Defences mission to inform voters about crucial environmental issues, weve put together a list of seven things that we believe all political parties should put in their election platforms to strengthen clean transportation options in Ontario. Ontarios provincial election is on February 27.

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Sunday PA Environment & Energy Articles/NewsClips - 6.29.25

PA Environment Daily

Blast Furnaces, Carbon Emissions -- TribLive Editorial: Public Participation Shouldn’t Just Happen When Convenient For Government -- WNEP: Girl Scouts Plant Trees To Restore Wildlife Habitat After Devastating Wildfire In Mountain Top, Luzerne County -- Tribune-Democrat: Hikers Hit Laurel Highlands For Keystone Trails Assn.’s

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How to Lie with Percentages

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emissions by something like 1%, which sounds trivial. carbon emissions are 4.8 One percent of that is 48 million tons, which is a lot of carbon. At the current estimate of the social cost of carbon, reducing U.S. emissions by 1% would prevent over $900 billion of harm over time. But total U.S. billion tons.

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Yes, Virginia, There ARE Federal Climate Laws.

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EPA that the Clean Air Act covers climate change, as well as upholding the ability of California to regulate carbon emissions from vehicles. Second, the IRA establishes a fee on methane emissions by the oil and gas industry, which is the closest this country has ever come to a carbon tax.

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