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How is Ocean Warming Impacting the Shipping Industry?

Ocean Conservancy

As deeply troubling reports continue to come in about ocean waters hitting historic hot temperatures, sectors like global shipping are trying to understand the consequences of a warmer ocean and what can be done to stop the heating. So, we’re seeing the ocean heat up, lose oxygen and get bigger.

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Decarbonizing California Transportation by 2045

Science & Climate

Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in California. Shifting toward low-carbon clean energy requires major investments in electricity and hydrogen. Particulate matter harms lungs and hearts, while nitrogen oxide compounds contribute to ozone pollution and other health impacts.

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Conservation: History and Future

Environmental Science

Energy Conservation. We live in an age of dwindling fossil fuels and inaction on renewable energy. Oceans and seas cover around 2/3 of our planet. It's a natural resource and an economic one; many problems blight our oceans today, not least of all overfishing and the dumping of waste. Consider an energy policy degree.

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Guest Essay: Our Addiction To Fossil Fuels Fuel War: ‘Only Truly Addicted People Chase After Their Next Hit With Singular Focus As The Consequences Of Their Addiction Pile Up Around Them’

PA Environment Daily

Hescox, Evangelical Environmental Network This guest essay first appeared in the York Daily Record on March 11, 2022 -- “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” (Matthew 5:9, NIV) While Putin’s war on Ukraine may rage an ocean away, skyrocketing gas prices have brought it to America’s doorstep.

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May 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Columbia Climate Law

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. Circuit vacated the 2015 rule to the extent that it prohibited continued use of HFCs by companies that previously switched to HFCs from an ozone-depleting substance. In Mexichem , the D.C.

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September 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Circuit found that FERC failed to address the significance of a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulation that the petitioners argued required use of the social cost of carbon or another methodology to assess the impacts of the projects’ greenhouse gas emissions. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , No. 20-1045 (D.C.

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Policy News: May 9, 2022

ESA

This goal directs 40 percent of the overall benefits of certain federal investments in environmental cleanup, climate mitigation and clean energy to disadvantaged communities. This conclusion matches the conclusion of another analysis of ozone air quality standards released in 2020 during the Trump administration. NOAA – U.S.

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