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Dickinson College To Host International Climate Symposium Oct. 24-26

PA Environment Daily

Internationally known climate scientists, ecologists, agronomists, economists, policymakers and other experts on climate change risks and responses will gather at Dickinson College in Cumberland County for a three-day symposium featuring authors of the newest reports from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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The US Supreme Court intervenes to delay action on the climate crisis

A Greener Life

The Conservative majority of judges in the US Supreme Court on Thursday last week intervened to weaken President Biden ’s plans to reduce emissions. This action will slow down the efforts of the US, historically the largest emitter of CO2, to tackle the climate crisis. Steam rises from a US coal powerplant. By Anders Lorenzen.

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Smoke in Our Eyes: National Park Grandeur Degraded by Global Warming

Union of Concerned Scientists

It makes them ripe for disproportional impacts from climate change, relative to the nation in general. degree Fahrenheit limits set by the Paris Agreement to avoid catastrophic climate impacts—more than double the 22 percent of the US as a whole that would exceed that temperature.

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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The court was not persuaded by the plaintiffs’ contention that the FWS had concluded that conservation projects would outpace climate change effects on the trout or by the argument that the FWS erred by abandoning a finding in its 2008 determination that climate change constituted a “severe” threat to the trout that exacerbates other threats.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

California Federal Court Ordered Publication of Obama-Era Energy Conservation Standards in Federal Register. Department of Energy to publish energy conservation standards adopted in December 2016 that had never taken effect because DOE failed to publish them in the Federal Register. Conservation Law Foundation v. judgment Feb.

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May 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Columbia Climate Law

California Department of Conservation, Division of Oil, Gas, & Geothermal Resources , No. States, Nonprofit Groups Challenged Department of Energy Procedures for Appliance Energy Conservation Standards. filed May 1, 2020); Conservation Law Foundation v. s decision not to participate in the Paris Agreement.

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August 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The First Circuit found that it had appellate jurisdiction even though the stay order was not a final decision because the stay order rendered Conservation Law Foundation “effectively out of court” due to the length of the stay and its indefinite nature. Conservation Law Foundation v. Exxon Mobil Corp. , 20-1456 (1st Cir.

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