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12 Legal Tools to Push Climate Preparedness

Law Columbia

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions should be the highest priority, but that won’t be enough to prevent severe impacts, some of which are already occurring. This blog is based on a talk given to the Climate Change: Response and Resilience Leadership Forum at Columbia University on November 20, 2019, sponsored by RenaissanceRe.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

For example, the ongoing debate over the impact of certain pesticides in agriculture , greenhouse gas emissions are often a battle between the science and industry's attempts to muddy the science and government lobbying to roll back legislation (2). Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity.

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Courts Find Standing Key Barrier to Pre-Enforcement Review of Federal Actions

MGKF Law

of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit dismissed states’ challenges to President Biden’s social cost of greenhouse gases established pursuant to Executive Order No. Five days later, in The State of Louisiana, et al. Biden, Jr., 22-30087, 2023 WL 2780821 (5th Cir. April 5, 2023), the Honorable Jacques L.

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Protecting the Ocean Means Protecting Communities

Ocean Conservancy

billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions into our atmosphere—the equivalent of 300 coal-fired power plants—and these facilities are sited in predominantly low-income communities and communities of color. More plastic means more pollution—for the climate, coastal communities and our ocean. By 2030, plastic production will contribute 1.3

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Policy News: December 20, 2021

ESA

Youngkin says he will take Virginia out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to save ratepayers money – The Washington Post. House votes to ‘disapprove’ of entering Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, defying Gov. EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit. Wolf – The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Vietnamese blogger who filmed chemical spill protests released from prison

Corp Watch

James successfully sued to subject Formosa to an environmental review over the 800 tons of toxic air pollutants as well as the 13.6 million tons of greenhouse gases that the project is expected to emit annually. Organizations such as EarthJustice and Rise St. USA: Formosa Plastics Corp., Texas, and Formosa Plastics Corp.,

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Ask a Scientist: Fighting Big Ag Pollution with Maps and Math

Union of Concerned Scientists

The Cuyahoga fire, along with a major oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara that same year, galvanized national attention and led to the first Earth Day, a slew of new air and water protection laws, and the creation of new federal departments to administer them, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).