Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 18, 2023

In this instance, 16 young people from across Montana, who were between 2 and 18 years old when the case was filed in 2020, brought their constitutional climate lawsuit, Held v. State of Montana , against their state government. What would the impact be when the conservative Montana legislative branch sides with the executive branch?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Fossil fuels are the root cause of climate change, of long-standing environmental injustices, and are also frequently connected to geopolitical strife and violent conflicts. Other countries are dependent upon these fossil fuels, they don’t make themselves free of them. This is a fossil fuel war.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2022

Here in the United States, there are dozens of cases being brought against fossil fuel companies and others claiming recompense for climate damages and prosecuting the companies for actively deceiving their shareholders and the public to block climate action.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To get an assessment of the progress thus far, as well as an idea if what has to happen next, I turned to two of my colleagues in the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Climate & Energy Program: Principal Climate Scientist Rachel Licker and Transmission Policy Manager Sam Gomberg.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

In the 103-page decision , the court relies heavily on the facts laid out by these climate scientists who testified under oath and faced cross-examination. The state failed to show that the MEPA limitation serves a compelling government interest,” the decision reads. They’ll have to be pushed. Who will do the pushing?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

The US House Oversight and Reform Committee kicked off its investigation of the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long climate change disinformation campaign last fall by inviting top executives from BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell to testify about their role and subpoenaing their companies for internal documents. Rick Scott.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 6, 2023

These examples are some of the most severe climate impacts the world experienced in 2023, though endless examples could be cited of how the whole planet was ravaged by extreme weather events in 2023. Scientists, climate advocates, governments around the world as well as ordinary citizens will be concerned having seen what just 1.4

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

The very first American trial of a youth climate lawsuit was hardly blockbuster Court TV, but we learned a lot from the proceedings. As I outlined here , Montana state law prohibits the consideration of greenhouse gas emissions or climate impacts–– inside and outside the state’s borders––when reviewing projects and approving permits.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen The former Chief Scientist for the UK Government, Sir David King did not hold back the scientific reality of years of climate inaction when he addressed the audience at the Net Zero Festival in London, organised by Business Green, a clean energy publication.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2022

In the 1960s climate change was not really a significant concern, not even amongst environmentalists – this was despite the fact that the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius in 1896 was the first to claim that emissions from fossil fuels might eventually result in enhanced global warming.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 24, 2021

That was the timeline laid down by the most prestigious body of climate scientists for limiting warming to 1.5 What the IEA found was that the world should not invest in or approve new fossil fuel projects. And that fossil fuel production should shrink by 75 per cent by 2050 in order to limit warming to 1.5

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

In the United Kingdom, government leaders are hoping to solve two problems with one effort. The UK government has allocated 4 million pounds for a test run of the concept. According to Reuters, in late July scientists noted the third-largest loss of ice in Greenland in a single day. Transcript. I’m Eileen Wray-McCann.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Fossil fuel and chemical polluters, business lobbyists and conservative private land interests have fought these laws and the EPA since their inception and they made fresh headway during the Trump administration, which undertook a widespread effort to gut environmental protections and slashed staffing of the EPA back to levels of the 1980s.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

And it’s been one month since the Montana First District Court determined that the state of Montana had indeed violated Montana youth’s right to a “clean and healthful environment” by collaborating with the fossil fuel industry. Montana was monumental for many reasons: it was the first-ever constitutional climate trial in the U.S.;

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A Greener Life

JULY 6, 2022

The highest court in the US voted by 6-3 to limit any US government’s authority to reduce CO2 emissions. Already President Biden had come under criticism for not being ambitious enough and for not moving away from fossil fuels fast enough. The US President had previously asked the EPA to set emission rules for power plants.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

The UN agency concluded global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are at the highest levels in human history and without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors limiting climate change to 1.5°C However, governments need to provide clear signals in order to direct capital where it is most needed. C will be beyond reach.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Less than a month after the UK handed over the presidency of COP26 to the Egyptian hosts of COP27 , the country had not only proudly claimed how quickly they had reduced their reliance on coal but also actively pushed other countries to move away from the most polluting fossil fuel, announced they granted permission to build a new coal mine. .

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Tied To LNG Shipments and international markets setting our natural gas prices?] -- Williamsport Sun Guest Essay: How PA’s Government Can Prevent Deadly Blackouts - By Commonwealth Foundation -- DEP Sets Feb. 13 Hearing On Hazardous Sites Cleanup Plan For Newberry Twp. 30, 2022 -- AAA Gasoline Prices: PA- $3.40 National- $3.11 National- $3.11

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 2, 2022

This week’s report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s leading climate scientists, paints a terrifying picture of the future if Canada and the world don’t tackle fossil fuels with urgency. This cap must therefore be strict enough that the industry can no longer expand.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

The world—and more specifically national governments, especially the richest nations and corporate interests—should concede that it is not feasible for us to make it on foot, but we still have lots of options to make it. limit: in preventing even worse outcomes of climate change and securing a liveable and sustainable future for all.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2022

Climate scientists at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) have dubbed the six-month stretch from May through October the “ Danger Season.” Not only has much of what climate scientists have been warning about come to pass, many of the extreme weather events the planet is now experiencing are worse than they expected. “To

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

The European Commission proposes replacing natural gas from any source in key sectors of its energy economy, dramatically expanding energy efficiency, renewables “instead of funding the fossil fuel industry elsewhere.” They want energy jobs in the EU. Let's dash into renewable energy at lightning speed.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Wealthy nations have not even delivered a $100bn annual fund to help developing nations with climate mitigation and adaptation, which had been promised for 2020 onwards. While most climate scientists are not directly involved in high-level negotiations, their work is essential to the process. Courtesy: Michelle Bell. “We

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Climate Envoy Kerry: No Rolling Back Clean Energy Transition PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Inquirer: 100 Days: A Look At Shapiro’s ‘Common Ground’ Approach To Governing One Of The Nation’s Most Politically Divided States -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Pennsylvania’s House Takeover - A Tale Of Two Speakers - By Fmr Rep.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

By Prof Martin Siegert, University of Exeter (Cornwall) Image: Shutterstock.com 42 governments around the world have agreed to protect Antarctica’s environment. Prof Martin Siegert is an award-winning Antarctic glaciologist and climate scientist.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Fossil fuel’s advantage is density, its storage of energy. Human beings have been burning things for tens of thousands of years, and we’ve organized our economies on burning fossil fuels. Generating electricity by burning fossil fuels is a wasteful process. In the short term, they are probably correct.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 5, 2021

They said the government was not doing enough to help them, while 16 planes and 51 helicopters tackled the blazes across a swathe of southwest Turkey. Climate scientists have long predicted that the Mediterranean will be hit hard by rising temperatures and changes in rainfall, driven by human emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2022

Global market forces, not our abundance of domestic fossil fuels, set the price of oil and gasoline in the United States." Corman, Candidate For Governor, Talks Oil & Gas During Warren County Campaign Stops - “I believe the energy economy is the way… to rebuild our population.”

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A Greener Life

MAY 12, 2023

When heatwaves disrupt our children’s education, it is time to demand climate action. I am writing this as a climate scientist and a mother of two young children. Our children have inherited a much warmer world than the one we were born in due to human-caused climate change, and their future depends on the actions we take today.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 11, 2023

A new report by Environmental Defence – Past Due: Tallying the costs of oil and gas clean up in Canada – finds that oil and gas companies’ profits could pay for the full cost of cleaning up the damage they have caused to the environment, but must be forced by governments to do so. How much profit will oil and gas companies generate?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

LNG Exporters Emerge As Big Winners Of Europe Natural Gas Crisis; Price For LNG 10 Times Its Value A Year Ago -- The Guardian: ‘This Is A Fossil Fuel War’: Ukraine’s Top Climate Scientist Speaks Out -- PA Natural Gas Politicians Want To ‘Unleash’ PA’s Gas Industry - What We Need First Is For Industry To Take Up The Slack; Oil & Gas 2.0;

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Future generations will look back on this as a game-changing moment in the fight for a safe climate,’ stated climate scientist and President/CEO of EEN, Rev. We call on national governments across the world to match the United States’ ambition in cutting climate-warming methane.’ Dr. Jessica Moerman. “As

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The common denominators that have hampered Puerto Rico’s capacity to face these issues are the colonial status as a US territory, and the associated lack of self-determination, self-governance, and sovereignty. I recently had a chance to talk with the founder of PRÁ, Edil Sepúlveda Carlo.

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

It was a familiarly stark report card on the world’s progress on cutting emissions from the IPCC, which has been monitoring climate change since 1988. Despite the panel’s regular reports about the consequences of burning fossil fuels, between 1990 and 2019 global emissions rose 54 percent and they are still rising.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Don Ritter -- Post-Gazette: Canadian Nuclear Fuel Firm Buying Into Westinghouse Electric Co. Cartwright Introduces Bill To Improve Readiness For Extreme Weather -- PennDOT, DEP, PPL, Partners Hosting 8 In-Person Stakeholder Sessions On State Plan For National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Starting Oct. What’s Your Community Doing?

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Humans everywhere are experiencing the impact of climate change. Yet, governments aren’t addressing the threat fast enough. Through the Lancaster County Community Climate Fund , RegenAll is launching an innovative pathway for Lancaster County to achieve carbon neutrality and slow the impacts of climate change on communities.

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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. The case, however, may not even get to trial. attorneys.

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