Global Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Michael Moore’s last movie, Planet of the Humans , questions the reliability, affordability and sustainability of renewable energy. The thought-provoking film also highlights the renewables’ dependence on fossil fuels. How green are renewables? What are the limitations of renewable technologies?

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 4, 2022

A new study examined what the ocean will look like in the future if we keep burning all the fossil fuels we can lay our hands on. And if we do, the future for the ocean is grim indeed. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. But the researchers also showed that there is still hope for the ocean.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

The onslaught has led to another round of media headlines and press releases from environmental and public health groups asking whether the nation is at a tipping point of urgency to fight climate change. A Vox headline on the orange skies from Canadian wildfires said, “Wildfire smoke reminded people about climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

Heightened flood risk The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said in a recent outlook that about 44 percent of the United States is at risk of floods this spring, equating to about 146 million people. Fuel transport – Spring floods can hinder the transportation of fuels like coal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

While there is enormous potential for UN climate negotiations to transform climate action, meaningful progress has been delayed in part by the fossil fuel industry’s deceptive tactics. Last year’s COP was notable as the first to explicitly mention “fossil fuels” in the final decision document.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The focus was clear: climate action, transitioning to cleaner energy, advancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and preparing for COP28 (the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference). We advocated for solutions to tackle climate change and biodiversity crises, all while promoting a healthy and resilient ocean.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Every year, 11 million metric tons of plastics enter our ocean. Nearly all of these plastics are made from fossil fuels including crude oil, natural gas liquids and coal. This spill is a pervasive threat to ocean life and coastal communities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 2, 2022

At the other end of the spectrum, a recent poll of “retail” investors—individuals with investments such as mutual funds or stocks—found that 70 percent support the SEC requiring corporate climate-risk disclosure. The good news is that this rule meets a lot of the criteria we set, although there are some areas that could be improved.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Last week I had the privilege of joining former Vice President Al Gore in conversation to talk about our ocean and climate change. I’ve never felt more inspired and energized to solve the climate crisis. Staring down climate change is hard, and “climate grief” is real for many of us.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 18, 2023

We at Ocean Conservancy are following these events closely and want our members and ocean lovers everywhere to have accurate information about whale threats. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. What are the known threats to whales?

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Among those contradictions is the need to wean society off fossil fuels versus the desire for short-term economic gain. Of note, the United Nations Framework on Climate Change was adopted at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 with the goal of preventing dangerous human influence in the Earth’s climate system.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 5, 2022

New Solid Carbon technology might be able to lock climate-warming carbon dioxide below ocean bedrock. A new process could lock carbon dioxide below the ocean floor, allowing valuable time to reduce the atmospheric greenhouse gases driving climate change. But Solid Carbon is no get-out-of-jail-free card.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 18, 2023

We at Ocean Conservancy are following these events closely and want our members and ocean lovers everywhere to have accurate information about whale threats. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. What are the known threats to whales?

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 2, 2022

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report released this week details how future climate impacts are going to affect our society, and many of us may be wondering what the future holds. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In every direction, climate change impacts are the destination. For 2022, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted a season with above normal activity on its August 4 updated forecast , calling for 14-20 named storms. To make matters worse, some of these alerts can (and did!) Hurricanes in 2022.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

We’re already experiencing the impact of climate change across the world; now an update from the IPCC suggests weather extremes could become the norm in the near future. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

Carbon Dioxide A naturally occurring gas, and also a byproduct of burning fossil fuels and biomass, as well as land-use changes and other industrial processes. Climate in a wider sense is the state, including a statistical description, of the climate system. a reduction in ocean pH). See, Weather.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In 2023, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), held the state’s first offshore wind auction, auctioning off five leases in Central and Northern California. [1] Lastly, the report recommends that state and federal agencies examine opportunities for greater tribal access to and stewardship of the ocean (see Vol.

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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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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 18, 2021

Last week, the IPCC released their latest climate report – and the findings were serious. The report is the most comprehensive to-date from the international panel of scientists who work on climate change – and shows just how crucial the next couple years are for climate action. But it is still there.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) for a proposed floating offshore wind research array. Before diving into roadmap details, several additional state-led efforts relating to offshore wind deserve mention. In 2021, the State of Maine submitted a research lease application to the U.S.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2023

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), provide policymakers, industry participants, and the public with tools to chart a pathway to prepare the offshore oil and gas industry for a Paris Agreement–compatible phase-out of fossil fuel extraction. must remain unextracted to keep within a 1.5 °C C carbon budget.”

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 10, 2024

He told viewers in a video that the state was rolling back important climate change legislation and language despite “record heat, record flooding, record rain, record insurance rates and the corals are dying all around the state.” He made a public plea for viewers to register their concern for climate change at the ballot box.

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Legal Planet

JULY 5, 2023

Wildfire in Canada , smoke in NYC , heat domes in Texas , massive heat in the Atlantic ocean are just some of this month’s news. We give lots of lip service describing climate change as an emergency or existential threat. But climate change is different. The leading edge of that disruption is already here.

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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. Climate Change Brings Water Extremes. Climate Change Brings Water Extremes.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 15, 2022

million tonnes of renewable methanol is produced annually and ammonia production relies heavily on fossil fuels. We anticipate that China will focus on improving energy efficiency of its fleet, but we do hope they consider measures to transition to low-carbon shipping fuels and zero-emission vessels,” Mao said.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 24, 2021

And, the recent report from the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is no exception. The IPCC tells us that this is the decade when we must take action on climate change to avoid the worst- case scenarios. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. degrees Celsius.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

To avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis, it’s crucial that we shift energy production away from the unsustainable fossil fuels that cause climate change and towards those that release little to no greenhouse gases (GHG), such as solar and wind power. Key Announcements.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 18, 2024

However, the government filled the council with financial experts, with not a single climate expert- meaning the council made some suggestions that do not align with the progress we need to make on climate change. However, there’s a risk that it will agree to label fossil fuel projects as sustainable.

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Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

As ecosystems and biodiversity fall to cities, agriculture, infrastructure, climate change and pollution, nature’s ability to provide food, oxygen, clean water and climate regulation plummets. Meanwhile, the climate emergency has not gone away. Ending fossil fuel subsidies and making renewable energy the future.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 25, 2023

, we can’t afford to continue extracting and then burning more fossil fuels. That rule requires at least 60 million acres of our ocean be made available for offshore oil and gas drilling before any offshore wind leases can be sold. That’s why Ocean Conservancy supports H.R.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Clean ocean energy solutions are critical to reducing emissions and averting the climate crisis. Climate change is the single greatest threat our ocean faces. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, fossil fuel production accounts for 35% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

STILL FIDDLING, AT 100 SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT, AS THE WORLD WARMS, FLOODS AND BURNS: OCEANS’ SURVIVAL NEED FASTER SITING AND TRANSMISSION OF OFFSHORE WIND FARM PROJECTS. nds to midnight. : “For over four decades the threat of climate change to “future generations” has been ruefully noted. rojects to reduce fossil fuel consumption.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 25, 2023

, we can’t afford to continue extracting and then burning more fossil fuels. That rule requires at least 60 million acres of our ocean be made available for offshore oil and gas drilling before any offshore wind leases can be sold. That’s why Ocean Conservancy supports H.R.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Second Circuit Rejected Challenges to Connecticut Renewable Energy Programs.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2024

(credit: PBI Actuarial Consultants) Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, in coordination with an equally myopic and partisan Florida Legislature, has approved new state legislation ( HB 1645 ) that eliminates the term “climate change” from numerous existing Florida statutes that former Republican Governor Charlie Crist signed into law in 2008.

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