Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

That includes 5 million deaths linked to breathing in the emissions of fossil fuels. A CNN poll in December found that 73 percent of respondents in the United States say the federal government has some level of responsibility to curb climate change. Bush administration. Nixon was never an environmentalist at heart.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

Only portions of the legislation apply directly to units of local government, but taken as a whole it can be expected to help U.S. Still, how does a local government tap in? There are six broad ways local governments will need to navigate the IRA. . There are six broad ways local governments will need to navigate the IRA. .

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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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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The ESA does not require more, and NMFS did not act arbitrarily or capriciously in concluding that the effects of global climate change on sea ice would endanger the Beringia DPS in the foreseeable future.” The plan must specifically address how EPA will consider the effects of Clean Air Act regulation on the coal industry.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 5, 2022

On December 1, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), Representative Jared Huffman (D-CA-02), Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and Representative Alan Lowenthal (D-CA-47) introduced new legislation, the Protecting Communities from Plastic Act (S. The post Protecting the Ocean Means Protecting Communities appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

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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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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

USA: Stop the Formosa Plastics Plant Coalition Against Death Alley | 2021 As part of the fossil fuel industry’s push to increase North American plastic production by 35 percent by 2025(1), Formosa Plastics is planning to build a massive petrochemical industrial complex in St.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Outside of bird protection acts of the early 20 th century, protections for water, air and the atmosphere are a late 20 th -century development, created in the wake of Rachel Carson’s 1962 treatise on pesticides, Silent Spring. Trump is out of office, but he left behind a 6-3 conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Fourth Circuit Declined to Stay Remand Order in Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies; Companies Sought Stay from Supreme Court. Colorado Federal Court Remanded Local Governments’ Climate Case to State Court. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 126. FEATURED CASE. Rhode Island v.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The federal district court for the Northern District of California denied Oakland’s and San Francisco’s motions to remand their climate change public nuisance lawsuits against five major fossil fuel producers to state court. It demands to be governed by as universal a rule of apportioning responsibility as is available.”

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

New Jersey Federal Court Remanded Hoboken’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies to State Court. As a threshold matter, the court found that it would not be prudent to wait for federal courts of appeal to issue decisions in fossil fuel companies’ appeals of remand orders in other climate change cases.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

The Oregon Supreme Court agreed with a petitioner that the Attorney General should modify the text of a ballot title that, if adopted by voters, would amend an Oregon statute to require that greenhouse gas emissions from industry and fossil fuel sources be reduced by 100% below 1990 levels by 2050. Association of Irritated Residents v.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

In Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies, Supreme Court Held that Appellate Review of Remand Order Extends to All Grounds for Removal. The fossil fuel companies removed the case in March 2021, citing five grounds for removal, including the federal officer removal statute. In a 7-1 decision, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2024

Here are 88 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. Schiffman, Esq.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

The first petition was filed by West Virginia and 18 other states that had intervened to defend the repeal and replacement rule, known as the Affordable Clean Energy rule. League of Conservation Voters v. Maryland County Filed Climate Change Lawsuit Against Fossil Fuel Companies and Trade Group. Biden , No.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

The First Circuit found that it had appellate jurisdiction even though the stay order was not a final decision because the stay order rendered Conservation Law Foundation “effectively out of court” due to the length of the stay and its indefinite nature. Conservation Law Foundation v. Exxon Mobil Corp. , 20-1456 (1st Cir. Trump , No.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

Supreme Court denied fossil fuel companies’ petition for writ of certiorari seeking review of the Ninth Circuit’s decision reversing the district court’s 2018 denial of Oakland’s and San Francisco’s motions to remand their climate change nuisance cases to California state court. DECISIONS & SETTLEMENTS. On June 14, 2021, the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

Attorneys general (AGs) in the five states most vulnerable to climate change, however, are doing the exact opposite: Instead of defending their constituents, they are defending the fossil fuel industry. By railing against what he calls a “radical climate change movement” and suing the federal government to protect corporate polluters.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

Health First Pennsylvania is a dedicated bunch of health professionals, health advocates, parents, faith leaders, all dedicated to trying to make the use and extraction of fossil fuels, especially methane, in Pennsylvania, as safe as possible, and to limit the damage. Now, I come from an evangelical conservative faith perspective.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The case concerns an Obama administration rule, the Clean Power Plan, that regulated greenhouse gas emissions until it was blocked by a lower court and rendered unnecessary when the power sector achieved the intended emissions reductions without the rule taking effect. The Constitution balances power between three branches of government.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The plaintiffs alleged that Peabody (and a number of other fossil fuel companies) caused greenhouse gas emissions that resulted in sea level rise and damage to their property. Murray Energy Sought Supreme Court Review of Fourth Circuit’s Dismissal of Clean Air Act Jobs Study Case. Department of Interior , No.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Divided Ninth Circuit Said Juliana Plaintiffs Lacked Standing to Press Constitutional Climate Claims Against Federal Government. The Ninth Circuit found, however, that the plaintiffs had not established the redressability requirement for standing. Trump , No. 4:19-cv-00028 (D. Environmental Council of Sacramento v. County of Sacramento , No.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

On the domestic front, the head of EPA managed to maneuver the Administration into endorsing federal authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. He also packed the federal judiciary, including the Supreme Court, with conservative opponents of government regulation.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

billion to support Indigenous conservation of forests. Canada and other countries pledged to stop public financing of fossil fuel projects abroad by the end of 2023. Fish and Wildlife Service receives $180 million for developing and carrying out Endangered Species Act recovery plan and a combined $19.4

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Fish and Wildlife Service receives $180 million for developing and carrying out Endangered Species Act recovery plans and a combined $19.4 million for conserving pollinators, freshwater mussels, desert fish and Hawaiian Islands plants. For the first time, the pact calls for a “phase down” the use of coal and fossil fuel subsidies.

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ESA

APRIL 5, 2021

The plan includes $10 billion to establish a Civilian Climate Corps, which would put young Americans to work conserving public lands and waters and advancing environmental justice. Joe Manchin III (D-WV) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) raised objections to her nomination because of her opposition to fossil fuels. 1144 ) from by Rep.

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ESA

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Congress passes stopgap measure to fund the government through Feb. Appropriations: The House of Representatives and the Senate voted to pass a stop-gap funding measure to keep the government funded through Feb. 18, 2022, averting a government shutdown. EPA – Clean Air Act Advisory Committee Meeting (Dec.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

At a recent victory tour rally in West Allis, Wisconsin President-elect Trump succinctly stated his energy policy: “On energy we will cancel the restrictions on the destruction of American energy, including shale, natural gas and clean beautiful coal.”. [1]. into the atmosphere each year, with no end in sight.

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ESA

APRIL 19, 2021

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland signed orders on Friday creating a climate task force and rescinding Trump-era secretarial orders that had made fossil fuel production on federal land a priority. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Joe Manchin reportedly opposed Klein’s nomination because she was too hostile to fossil fuels.

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ESA

DECEMBER 5, 2022

OSTP Assistant Director for Biodiversity and Conservation Science Dr. Heather Tallis will join a webinar hosted by ESA to introduce its members to the assessment and provide information about how ESA members may contribute by submitting comments that will help inform the scope of the assessment. This bill, sponsored by Sen.

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ESA

OCTOBER 8, 2021

European countries agree to protects parts of the North Atlantic to conserve seabird species. Stone-Manning most recently was a senior advisor for conservation policy at the National Wildlife Federation and has been a top aide to former Montana Governor Steve Bullock (D) and Sen. California Governor vetoes tropical deforestation bill.

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ESA

APRIL 3, 2023

Courts Environmental groups sue the federal government for failing to protect corals. ESA has honored past award recipients for policy work that included: wildlife conservation green urban renewal initiatives stream, river, lake restoration ESA’s 2023 Annual Meeting will take place in Portland, Oregon. Conservation : Sens.

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ESA

AUGUST 16, 2021

However, the world could avoid the more extreme scenarios in the report if governments sharply reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. But a major question is whether Manchin, a backer of fossil fuels, will go along with an effort that could eventually lead to less coal production in West Virginia. Chair : Sen.

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ESA

JULY 1, 2022

At stake was the ability to reduce carbon emissions as written in the ‘Clean Power Plan’ regulation under the auspices of the Clean Air Act that gives the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) power to regulate “the best system of reducing emissions.” Scott Peters (D-CA) introduced the Save Our Sequoias Act ( H.R.

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ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

The Trump administration proposed steep cuts across the government in its president’s budget request, especially to scientific and environmental programs. Richard Blumenthal introduced the Extinction Prevention Act ( H.R. The full House passed the Coastal and Ocean Acidification Stressors and Threats (COAST) Research Act (H.R.

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