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DECEMBER 19, 2023

The climate crisis is a public health crisis, and it finally seems global leaders have recognized that fact. With the backdrop of the first-ever Health Day at the annual UN climate conference, air quality in Dubai soared, as PM2.5 I attended the climate conference as part of the UCLA Law delegation. should not exceed five µg/m3.

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APRIL 11, 2024

climate efforts. It also points to a conundrum for the Kennedy-Shanahan ticket: how to address concerns about the climate implications of another Trump Administration. Khanna’s point was simple: Shanahan cares about climate change, but the RFK candidacy might help elect Trump, who would have a devastating effect on climate policy.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

The topic of climate change got about 4 minutes of airtime during the first half of the first presidential primary debate held this week by Fox News. How will you as both President of the United States and leader of the Republican Party calm their fears that the Republican Party doesn’t care about climate change?

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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Conspiracy theories about climate change are widespread. They cover a wide range, but the theme is generally that the world is run by some elite that is secretly using climate change as an excuse to take over the world. Here’s a sample: Climate Lockdowns. About 4% of the U.S. public apparently believe this.)

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NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Please let me now if I’ve missed some centers. Let me know what I’ve missed, and I’ll be glad to make additions. Center for Climate, Energy, Environment & Economics (UNC). Focus on the intersection of climate change, energy policy, environmental policy and economic development.

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APRIL 4, 2024

I thought it would be helpful to provide some kind of objective measure of how much various candidates focus on energy and climate. and Jill Stein came in last in terms of focus on climate change. Kennedy’s environmental tab is fairly long, but says little about climate change. Also surprisingly, RFK Jr.

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APRIL 4, 2024

Fossil fuels are the main driver of climate change and the terrifying effects of it that we see happening across the world. That makes this dataset a powerful tool for understanding how each of these entity’s heat-trapping emissions have contributed to climate change. Check it out to learn more.

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MARCH 26, 2024

Traveling to the southern region of Colombia as a young child, Paula García remembers being taught by her elders about the deep interconnectedness between humans and the natural world. During visits, her family would echo the teachings of their ancestors, perspectives that García still carries with her today. Credit: Paula García/UCS.

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APRIL 7, 2024

If you think the author drew any obvious connection here to the climate crisis, you’d be wrong. If you think the author drew any obvious connection here to the climate crisis, you’d be wrong. Read out of context, that description fits climate change too, of course. The annual-average temperature was 1.48

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Image by Danielle Anz It’s been three months now since 16 young plaintiffs suing the state of Montana for climate harms piled into a Helena courtroom so small that the attorneys worried whether everyone would fit. Montana was monumental for many reasons: it was the first-ever constitutional climate trial in the U.S.;

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In 2023, the court issued two major decisions relating to climate change. In upholding the PUC, the court said that the commission was “charged with protecting the right to a life-sustaining climate system.” Sunoco , involved a suit against oil companies for their role in fostering climate change. It deserves more.

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MARCH 29, 2023

Just last week, we heard that with regard to climate change, “ humanity is on thin ice—and that ice is melting fast.” Yet policymakers still use the disinformation playbook to deceive and misinform the public about climate change, at the expense of our well-being and our future. No kidding, Senator. Source: Google maps.

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APRIL 22, 2024

Earth Day and the IRA go hand in hand Don’t get me wrong, I still plan on showing some love for the planet this Earth Day, but I’m also grateful that the US was able to pass the IRA in 2022 because it represents the single biggest investment in cutting heat-trapping emissions in history (here’s to you, Mother Earth).

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DECEMBER 10, 2023

On the day before the 28 th United Nations annual climate talks began, I walked into a room with over a hundred people representing almost two thousand civil society organizations. I sat next to a guy who immediately introduced himself to me—he was my age and it was his first COP, too.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

According to the activists, to draw public attention to the climate crisis. Tell me about it. I’ve been working in the climate trenches longer than Plummer has been on the planet. I’ve been working in the climate trenches longer than Plummer has been on the planet. Fortunately all the paintings were protected by glass.)

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NOVEMBER 5, 2022

As the world heads into COP27 , there is no room for bad information on climate change in our major newspapers. Allow me to share the latest on what’s happening in Greenland based on information from scientists whose major focus includes study of the ice sheet and the Arctic region. Surprising?

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APRIL 4, 2024

There has been comparatively less attention to the decision by climate scientist Dr. Susan Avery not to seek re-election to the ExxonMobil board of directors. Yet this shift in corporate leadership is significant, marking the end of a chapter in ExxonMobil’s long and ongoing history of climate deception and disinformation.

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

The fifth international conference on regional climate ( ICRC 2023 ), organised by World Climate Research Programme’s ( WCRP ) coordinated downscaling experiment ( CORDEX ), has just completed. It worked impressively well, and the CORDEX ICRC 2023 streaming is available from the WCRP CORDEX YouTube channel.

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

We don’t need Taylor Swift to “fall in love with a climate scientist,” we just wish she’d write a song about the climate crisis. When the breathless coverage of her relationship with Travis Kelce first boosted ratings for NFL football, some suggested Swift should use her star power for good by “dating a climate scientist.”

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MARCH 28, 2023

The ARA is comprehensive, science-based legislation that covers many topics related to environmental and climate concerns in agriculture, including conservation on both agricultural and pasture land, renewable energy, and food loss and waste. On top of these trends, the impacts of climate change are accelerating.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2023

A friend asked me if a discussion paper published on Statistics Norway’s website, ‘ To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions? ’, was purposely timed for the next climate summit ( COP28 ). I don’t know the answer to his question. But this discussion paper is problematic for sure.

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APRIL 6, 2023

The summary for policymakers of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sixth synthesis report was released on March 20th (available online as a PDF ). There is a recording of the IPCC Press Conference – Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report for those who are interested in watching an awkward release of the report.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Each year since 1995, the countries of the world have gathered to negotiate what to do about climate change. They do so under the auspices of the Framework Convention on Climate Change , the universally adopted climate change treaty that sets a goal of avoiding dangerous interference with the climate system.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Since this is Black History Month, I thought it would be appropriate to talk about some of the prominent contributions by Blacks to understanding and addressing climate change. He has pioneered computer modeling of climate change. Washington at a meeting of climate modelers in the 1990s. … He looked like me!’

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MARCH 21, 2024

These differences would strike me as decisive, but I would also emphasize three other important differences between the regulation and the Clean Power Plan: First , the Clean Power Plan was qualitatively different from previous EPA regulations, not just different in degree. The rule is not unprecedented.

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APRIL 1, 2024

Beyond this year’s measurements, it’s critical to consider what our snow levels mean for water management in a warming climate, and what needs to change so we can better prepare for the future. The scenery I saw before me is undergoing serious transformations, with critical implications for the whole state.

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JULY 19, 2021

Environmental health has always been of concern to me, as it is to many of us.

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APRIL 25, 2024

In the case of Justice40, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and the Climate Policy Office (CPO) each have co-equal roles, given their various policy mandates. This has resulted in significant delays across key decisionmakers, as pointed out by GAO.

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AUGUST 10, 2023

We are at the height of Danger Season , the time of year when extreme weather events driven by climate change are most prevalent across North America. The power sector is the second highest source of climate pollution in the U.S. thus, it is crucial that we address carbon emissions from power plants.

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AUGUST 7, 2023

But to hear climate lawsuits against other companies, the plaintiffs would need to show that the lawsuits have enough of a relationship to California to justify suing here. In their efforts to get the cases into federal court, the oil companies argued that federal law bars state lawsuits about climate change.

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DECEMBER 15, 2022

So it shocked me when the Indian Express reported that last week, Bombay’s air was even worse than Delhi’s. This isn’t about a freak weather pattern: it is about climate. Wind is famously difficult to model, but climate researchers have concluded that climate change is stopping wind and changing wind patterns.

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OCTOBER 12, 2023

My commute now mostly consists of the distance from my bedroom to the laptop in my home office (with a short detour to the kitchen for coffee) because I’m fortunate enough to have a job and employer that allows me to work from home. And while I miss seeing my colleagues in person, at times I also miss my commute! Parking is also cheaper.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

According to WBUR , some legislators around the country are so pleased with how well CERCLA works that they have proposed a “Climate Superfund Act,” replicating CERCLA in order to fund climate resiliency projects as well as projects to repair damages caused by climate change. first appeared on Law and the Environment.

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JANUARY 13, 2022

Whatever you want to say about climate change, you can’t say we’ve been blindsided. The US has had decades to take action against climate change, and we spent nearly half that time deliberately making things worse. Developed countries “should take the lead in combating climate change and the adverse effects thereof.”.

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MAY 30, 2023

I love unmuffling as I—and the world around me—shake off winter. Those numbers look better in spring not just because of stronger generation, but also because of changes to the “denominator”—the overall demand for electricity. I love flowers popping up, trees leafing out, birds singing their hearts out.

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JULY 20, 2023

Here in New Hampshire I have been listening for climate and energy solutions from GOP presidential hopefuls, but all I’ve heard are crickets. Candidates are crisscrossing New Hampshire amid climate-related and climate-boosted catastrophes. Among mid-Atlantic states, New Jersey is ground zero for climate change.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

“Excuse me, what did they say?” The urgency of implementing change now For decades, scientists have been warning about the upcoming dangers of climate change; however, all we have to do today is look around to see the current impacts. Further, to implement systematic change, we also need to get politicians onboard.

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