Environmental Progress

JUNE 29, 2020

The world’s most influential green journalist, Bill McKibben, called climate change the “greatest challenge humans have ever faced” and said it would “wipe out civilizations.” Mainstream journalists reported, repeatedly, that the Amazon was “the lungs of the world,” and that deforestation was like a nuclear bomb going off.

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Climate Change Fossil Fuels Deforestation Carbon Emissions 145

Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Plaintiffs aim to hold the federal government accountable for worsening the dangers of climate change through increased reliance on fossil fuels and for breach of its fiduciary obligation to protect the atmosphere and oceans under the public trust doctrine. It has also inspired landmark decisions in climate protection on a global scale.

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Climate Change Fossil Fuels 2019 Greenhouse 40

Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court stated that the issue arose “because a necessary and critical element of the hydrological damage caused by defendants’ alleged conduct is the rising sea level along the Pacific coast and in the San Francisco Bay, both of which are navigable waters of the United States.” California Department of Food & Agriculture , No.

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2018 Clean Air Act Climate Change Endangered Species Act 40

ESA

OCTOBER 8, 2021

California Governor vetoes tropical deforestation bill. Environmental justice communities already face a disproportionate amount of pollution emanating from political disenfranchisement and racist policies like redlining. Bipartisan energy bill could reshape power production, climate change in North Carolina – WUNC.

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2021 Climate Change Conservation Ocean 98