Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2022

Now the reports driven by these resolutions are beginning to roll in, and while they certainly provide some insight into the fossil fuel industry’s investment in political influence, a sleight of hand is preventing investors from seeing the companies’ full strategy. ExxonMobil Names Names.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2022

More important than their numbers, however, is that several of the affected countries and regions include some of the more politically fragile and/or embattled in the world (e.g., The world’s industrial agricultural systems are heavily dependent on fossil fuels — you can think of most industrial crops as embodied petroleum.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 17, 2024

In British Columbia, millions of residents and commercial customers were asked to conserve precious drinking water. The deadliest climate disaster in Canadian history was the heat dome (abnormally hot temperatures that lasted several days) that hit British Columbia in 2021, causing at least 600 deaths.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2022

In summarizing its report on the consequences of climate change, the scientific body described a society running out of time to prevent unbearable damage to the planet’s lands and waters — and to the people and creatures that depend on them. Climate change is a threat to human well-being and the health of the planet.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This week, Circle of Blue reports on how water fits into the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference. When diplomats and government ministers converge on Glasgow this fall, they hope to rekindle pivotal negotiations on global climate that were dampened during the pandemic. Ingrid Timboe is a co-chair of the water pavilion.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

I was joined by Ocean Conservancy colleagues working to advance ocean-climate action. In order to reduce emissions, we must phase out fossil fuels—oil, coal and gas—and move towards renewable energy and less plastic and petrochemical production since these products, so dangerous as ocean pollutants, are made from oil.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

-- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1 Of Environmental Professionals Now Accepting Applications For College Scholarship Program [PaEN] -- MCall: Can Dogs Be Used To Combat Spotted Lanternfly?

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2021

C temperature target, and one that more than 130 countries have adopted, albeit mostly as squishy political declarations, not yet legally binding or implemented. Statements of urgency for strong climate action are correct and important, but are so numerous that they increasingly seem to get lost in the noise.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 5, 2021

A big shift to renewables could leave stranded assets — existing fossil fuel plants that the utility will no longer get paid for using. That doesn’t seem to be politically feasible at the national level, at present. Another possibility would be to provide less favorable tax treatment for fossil fuel plants.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 30, 2021

As political parties prepare their election platforms and publish their climate priorities, it can be difficult to determine which parties are releasing strong climate plans that put us on a pathway to zero emissions – and what policies are actually dangerous distractions from real solutions. degrees is narrowing.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Of Health Pushing For Changes To Reduce Adverse Health Impacts [PaEN] -- Senate Environmental Committee Meets Dec. 8 [PaEN] -- Lancaster County Community Foundation Awards $64,837 In Community Conservation Grants -- Williamsport Sun: Experts In Parks, Green Infrastructure Hired In Williamsport -- National Assn.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Climate Change Mitigation. The Governor approved a notable slate of climate legislation with a package that includes more stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets and measures designed to reduce the state’s reliance on fossil fuels. Clean Energy.

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Edouard Stenger

JUNE 4, 2024

How can we boost energy efficiency and conservation and get energy sufficiency on the table ? Systemic changes are paramount if we are to collectively survive the 21st century and prevent a Mad Max future. This is some political, social and economic conundrum, and it has to be solved fast. What are these said levels ?

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Billion In Federal Funding Up For Grabs, PA Environmental Officials Collect Climate Action Plan Suggestions -- Herald-Star: Tenaska Outlines Carbon Capture, Storage Project In Shale Gas Formations In SW PA, Southern Ohio -- PA GreenGov Council, Penn State Sustainability Host 4-Part Sustainability Webinar Series Starting Jan.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2021

As John Dernbach wrote in a recent blog for ACOEL, on July 21, 2021 the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that this amendment required all state revenues from oil and gas leases to go to conserve and maintain public natural resources for the benefit of future generations. The court found that this would violate the political question doctrine.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

And it has supported new fossil fuel pipelines such as the Mountain Valley gas pipeline in West Virginia. Climate backlash In the UK, despite the weather, there are not only contradictory actions, but also a political backlash against climate action. It has granted new leases in both Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2023

Denies Rezoning For Former Red Lion Country Club For Housing Development -- KDKA: Mosquitoes Carrying West Nile Virus Detected In 3 More Pittsburgh Neighborhoods -- DCNR Accepting Applications For Wild Resource Conservation Grants Thru Sept. Potter County To Sept. Potter County To Sept.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Mann, climate change scientist, author and Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State, and Director of the Earth System Science Center, is the 2022 recipient of the Stroud Award for Freshwater Excellence. Speaking Truth and Science About Climate Change Michael E. Mann, Ph.D.,

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Acoel

DECEMBER 23, 2022

In November 2022 world leaders gathered in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt for the 27 th Conference of Parties ( COP27 ) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). These systems need political and financial backing. Some progress was made, including a deal to integrate agriculture into the work of the UNFCCC.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2022

Tropical deforestation is estimated to cause more climate warming emissions than the global transportation sector , and deforestation rates have increased despite the COVID-19 pandemic. These partnerships are critical for conserving important forested regions of our world.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 15, 2023

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Climate Deal: Calamity Cash, But No New Emissions Cuts -- NPR: Did The World Make Progress On Climate Change? Billion Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas Was Lost So Far] [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Equitrans Continues Effort To Kill Leaking Cambria County Natural Gas Storage Well [Leak Started Nov.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 25, 2022

The devastating war in Ukraine has understandably distracted media and political attention from climate change and related issues. But for those who did manage to absorb the findings of the latest publication from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the news was grim. . billion tonnes a year.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. Our website host has been made aware of these issues and is working to resolve them." 17 [PaEN] -- NRCS-PA: Pennsylvania State Technical Advisory Committee Meeting Jan. 19 & Feb. 19 & Feb.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

This will be the first climate change case heard before the Supreme Court. Through May 2022, all existing climate litigation cases in Japan concern the construction or operation of coal-fired power plants and refer to citizens’ attempts to stop the use of coal. Japan’s climate change context. Civil law cases.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 17, 2021

The demand statement focuses on upholding Indigenous rights and respecting Indigenous knowledge, bold and ambitious climate action (including phasing out fossil fuels and guaranteeing a just transition to a sustainable clean energy economy), protecting and restoring nature and establishing environmental rights in Canada.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2022

As the water in hydropower reservoirs drops, hydropower production is reduced, possibly increasing energy prices, or forcing some utilities to compensate for energy demands by using more fossil fuels for power generation. Those questions need to be answered for our climate change present and future. Green infrastructure.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee meeting. TODAY 8:30: House Tourism And Recreational Development Committee hearing with DCED and DCNR on tourism, outdoor recreation, initiatives by Office of Marketing, tourism and Film. Room 140 Main Capitol. Click Here to watch online. TODAY 9:00: Agenda Posted.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 28, 2023

NYCI, to be implemented by the Department of Environmental Conservation and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), is currently in its early design stages. NYCI’s immediate linkage with WCI could also be seen as politically desirable. Linkage could exempt NYCI from higher prices and political pushback.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Spend a few days at a water conference and you’ll hear a favored metaphor for the environmental changes that are unsettling the planet. If climate change is a shark, attendees will say, then water is the shark’s teeth. A climate shark is fearsome enough for water. Climate Change Brings Water Extremes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2023

Here’s the bottom line: Because of decades of politically motivated inaction from policymakers, especially in richer countries, and the greed of fossil fuel companies bent on extracting every last bit of profit, scientific projections show that we are currently on a trajectory to exceed 1.5˚C Even at about 1.1˚C

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. It is within this context that Ocean Conservancy releases Zero-Carbon for Shipping: Sailing Carbon-free along North America’s West Coast. Bustling maritime ports are at the heart of domestic and international shipping, but they also are often fossil-fueled pollution hotspots.

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Acoel

AUGUST 27, 2021

As John Dernbach wrote in a recent blog for ACOEL, on July 21, 2021 the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that this amendment required all state revenues from oil and gas leases to go to conserve and maintain public natural resources for the benefit of future generations. The court found that this would violate the political question doctrine.

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Acoel

AUGUST 16, 2022

In West Virginia v EPA , the Supreme Court faulted the EPA’s plan for shifting electric power generation away from fossil fuels as “asserting highly consequential power beyond what Congress could reasonably be understood to have granted.” The MQMA could do just that.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 10, 2022

With the realities of climate change becoming ever more visible, policymakers are seeking to enlist all sectors of the economy to be part of the solution. Federal and state officials are now looking at how agriculture can be transformed to help stabilize our climate. This book includes numerous recommendations for how to do so.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 30, 2023

After months of working to influence the whipsaw negotiations on a federal budget reconciliation bill that would unlock massive funds for climate action, even the most diehard among us were starting to lose hope that our partisan Congress would pull it together on climate. It was simply awesome. But it wasn’t perfect, nor unassailable.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Climate change: Extinction Rebellion end blockade at Shell's Aberdeen HQ The BBC | January 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters. Slick PR can’t disguise Shell's devastating oil pollution in Nigeria.

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