Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2025

With each successive rulemaking, EPA acknowledged that the evidence of endangerment had grown stronger over time due to the increasing severity of climate change, new observational evidence of climate impacts, and advances in scientific understanding of how climate change affects public health and welfare.

2009

Legal Planet

APRIL 30, 2025

First, some background drawing from my previous posts: Solar geoengineering (SG) is a set of technological interventions in the climate system being discussed, which could provide quick, temporary, imperfect relief for severe near-term climate change impacts. OMG, climate change must be even worse than I thought.

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Through our Science Hub for Climate Litigation, we’re providing research and expertise to inform legal cases in the United States and around the world that seek to hold Chevron, ExxonMobil, and other powerful fossil fuel companies and their allied organizations accountable for fraud and for climate damages.

Fossil Fuels

Scientific American

JUNE 16, 2025

The 2024 report pointed to the role of climate change in exacerbating civil unrest, terrorism and armed conflict, indicating that rising temperatures are a growing threat to international security. Heat made the list in previous years, but this is the first time it has risen to the top.

2014

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

A former member of Congress from Long Island, New York, with scant regulatory experience, Zeldin promised to defer to the research of the scientists on whether climate change made oceans more acidic. Holding high-level positions in the Office of Air and Radiation are Abigale Tardif and Alex Dominguez.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2025

Shale gas extraction and use also contributes to climate change, which poses other health impacts for every resident of Pennsylvania, and indeed for people worldwide. Read more here ] These risks include explosions, air and water pollution, noise, mental health impacts, and climate-warming pollution released throughout the process.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 14, 2025

Zeldins unprecedented assault on the EPAs ability to deliver on its mission is entirely designed to prop up big polluters , including fossil fuel interests while the rest of us pay the price. Are you planning on taking EPAs Office of Air and Radiation back to the 1970s?

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2025

She’s President of AFGE Local 1236, one of the unions that represent workers in EPA Region 9 (California and 4 other Western states) and EPA’s National Center for Radiation Field Operations. “I It is not too soon to be explaining that storms like this are becoming more intense as a result of climate change.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Greene County [PaEN] -- DEP To Hold Dec. 17 Hearing On Chapter 105 Permit For Pocono Mountains Corporate Center North Warehouse In Monroe County [PaEN] -- DEP Sets Dec. Could Be Soon -- Alliance For The Chesapeake Bay: PA Riparian Forest Buffer Project Plants Its 1,000th Acre Of Forest Buffer!

Conservation

Legal Planet

APRIL 3, 2023

Climate change under other federal statutes. Climate change as substantial impact requiring discussion in environmental impact statement. Climate change as reason for threatened or endangered status under Endangered Species Act. SEC rules on disclosure of climate-related risks. Takings issues VII.

Law

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Solar activity provides no alternative explanation for today’s climate change Dagsvik and Moen claim that recent research indicates that variations in the sun’s magnetic field are of great importance for long-term fluctuations in solar activity. Our job is to be thorough and verify questionable results. It has taken time.

Sea Level

Legal Planet

APRIL 7, 2024

Read out of context, that description fits climate change too, of course. So why do so many ignore scientists’ predictions about climate change?!!” The eclipse is also a teachable moment for what is, and is not, causing climate change. But that doesn’t mean the sun is causing climate change.”

Climate Change

Circle of Blue

JANUARY 17, 2022

Against the backdrop of Chile’s Atacama Desert, the Salar de Atacama Mine radiates with a futuristic blue light—its cerulean pools glow like tessellated computer screens, a stark contrast to the muted landscape that surrounds them. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — January 17, 2022.

Renewable Energy

Global Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Yes, in some cases, fossil fuels are burned to generate the electricity used to charge electric cars, but this highlights two of electric vehicles’ many advantages. That’s why gas-powered cars need complex and expensive radiator systems with their associated belts, pipes, and heat exchangers. Taking a national average of 25.1

Electricity

A Greener Life

JUNE 3, 2022

If people everywhere stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow, stored heat would still continue to warm the atmosphere. Picture how a radiator heats a home. Water is heated by a boiler, and the hot water circulates through pipes and radiators in the house. The radiators warm up and heat the air in the room.

Carbon Dioxide

Environmental News Bits

APRIL 15, 2022

If people everywhere stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow, stored heat would still continue to warm the atmosphere. Picture how a radiator heats a home. Water is heated by a boiler, and the hot water circulates through pipes and radiators in … Continue reading How fast can we stop Earth from warming?

Radiation

A Greener Life

MAY 20, 2022

The Altiplano plateau in western Bolivia has some of the world’s highest and most consistent levels of solar radiation, creating a high potential for solar photovoltaic power in the region, but structural challenges may prevent scaling. Photo credit: Anyisa / Alamy. By Santiago Espinoza. Advantageous and encouraging.

Solar Power

Physics World

APRIL 26, 2022

“The problem of the commercial utilization, for the production of power, of the energy of solar radiation, the wind and other intermittent natural sources is a double one,” he wrote. As we attempt to lessen the impact of climate change, Fessenden’s comments remain just as pertinent today – if not more so.

Fossil Fuels

Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Recent science doesn’t support this optimism, as new studies show that the increased release of Black Carbon, one of the most potent climate change forcers—as well as soot, carbon dioxide, methane and ozone from more traffic in the Arctic—could lead to a 20% increase in the global heating that is causing warmer ocean temperatures.

Ocean

PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2024

. -- Better Path Coalition : On Demand: Brown Bag Briefing By Justi Nobel On His New Book Petroleum 238: Big Oil’s Dangerous Secret And the Grassroots Fight To Stop It NewsClips This Week: -- The Allegheny Front: New Book Takes On Radiation Dangers In Oil & Gas Industry -- ABC27: Environmental Advocacy Groups Rally At Capitol For Action On Gas, (..)

Radiation

Physics World

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Among the main reasons to choose a career in renewables, Davies cites the growth that the sector is experiencing due to the increased focus on climate change and demand for clean energy. Hari Chohan , nuclear radiation analyst, UK Atomic Energy Authority. (Courtesy: Lightsource BP). Courtesy: UKAEA). “I

Radiation

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.

Climate Change

HumanNature

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Guest Post by Philip Cafaro , Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Colorado State University Scientists and climate ethicists argue that more attention needs to be given to population growth’s role in the climate crisis. Figure SPM.3 3 from IPCC, Fifth Assessment Report, Mitigation Report, Summary for Policymakers (2014).

Climate Change

Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Notably, in the same proposal, the Commission has also included screening criteria for gaseous fossil fuels. The Regulation sets a time limit on the inclusion of nuclear energy but not on fossil fuels and grants the Commission special powers to rule on nuclear taxonomy compliance.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In this, my third post on the recently released report of the Climate Overshoot Commission , I’ll discuss their treatment of the most challenging and controversial part of their mandate, Solar Geoengineering or Solar Radiation Modification (SRM).

Government

Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

While the main focus has been on operational activities in Antarctica, global warming caused by fossil-fuel burning by these (and other) countries has left Antarctica on the brink of irreversible change. In the Arctic this has led to regional warming four times faster than the global average.

Ocean

Vermont Law

JANUARY 18, 2016

Summary: Green-roof zoning laws may provide a solution to the Urban Heat Island Effect, which contributes to anthropogenic climate change through heat pollution originating from large cities. Green-roofs are an overlooked solution to the complex problem of heat pollution, which contributes to anthropogenic climate change.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2024

Billion Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas In Cambria County DEP Issued Air Quality Permit For Leachate Evaporation System At Westmoreland Landfill With Special Radiation Monitoring Due To The Disposal Of Shale Gas Drilling Waste DEP Sets Feb. 22 DEP Awards $39.6 16; Snowmobile/ATV Grants Feb. 22 DEP Awards $39.6 16; Snowmobile/ATV Grants Feb.

Natural Gas

Acoel

JANUARY 18, 2022

When the history of the global shift toward a clean energy economy and a sustainable future gets written decades from now, it may well be that the COP26 Climate Change Conference will be seen as a watershed moment. Posted on January 18, 2022 by Daniel C.

2030

PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

[PaEN] -- Bill Reported Out Of Senate Committee Would Allow Pipelines Like Mariner East To Apply For Waivers Of Any PUC Regulation, Law Or Policy [PaEN] -- Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Says It’s A ‘Terrific Lie’ To Say It Is Responsible For Abandoning Thousands Of Wells; Industry To Change Definition So They Can Avoid Responsibility [PaEN] -- (..)

2024

Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

All those fossil fuels thus have to be imported, and this has an impact on both prices and carbon footprint. . Regarding solar photovoltaic, as per the Global Solar Atlas, solar radiation in Puerto Rico is slightly superior to New York or Houston, TX, with 1,486 kWp per year. Natural gas covers a third and coal one sixth.)

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

It results in this dangerous radioactive wastewater that the fossil fuel industry cannot recycle or dispose of in a benign manner. Using the wastewater for dust control and deicing of roads is another disposal method that introduces radiation and other dangerous elements into our environment. Fracking needs to stop!”

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 2, 2024

Laughlin Introduces Bill On Local Solar Programs Supported By Utilities -- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Ad Crable: Feds Offer $90 Million For Vast Solar Energy Array On PA Mine Land In Clearfield County -- Williamsport Sun: Families United Network ‘Flips The Switch’ To Solar Energy Panels At Their Muncy Campus -- Post-Gazette Editorial: Yes, Solar Energy (..)

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

By Council To Modernize Governance -- The Allegheny Front: New Book Takes On Radiation Dangers In Oil & Gas Industry [PaEN] -- ABC27: Environmental Advocacy Groups Rally At Capitol For Action On Gas, Oil Industry -- Sen.

Conservation

Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Climate change : The process by which the climate changes due to “forcings”. Fossil fuel : Any mineralized formerly organic material extracted from the ground and used in energy production: coal, natural gas, oil. Radiation : The transmission of energy through space.

Government

PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

[PaEN] -- PennLive: PA Senate Republicans Pass Bill Allowing Large-Scale Energy Projects To Bypass State Agencies -- Bill Reported Out Of Senate Committee Would Allow Pipelines Like Mariner East To Apply For Waivers Of Any PUC Regulation, Law Or Policy [PaEN] -- PA Capital-Star: PA Senate Committee Advances Bill To Allow Utility Companies To Request (..)

Conservation

Environmental Science

AUGUST 7, 2018

Changes from the early 19 th century that led to the Industrial Revolution were based, in part, on the advanced in engineering that was fueled by advances in physics. It's fundamental to the Earth sciences such as meteorology and is vital in our understanding of this generation's most pressing problem - climate change.

Technology