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 The report Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of climate change looked at a variety of pathways for increased climate actions.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

If you’re not a climate scientist—and maybe even if you are—reading news headlines this month has been confounding and a little scary. “In Climate Threshold ,” was the version at Forbes. In First, Earth’s Temperature Breached Key Threshold Over a 12 Month Period ” is how the Wall Street Journal put it. or even 0.2

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Law Columbia

APRIL 4, 2024

The rationale for this focus on the Ambition Gap is clear – despite the proliferation of net-zero pledges over recent years, governments’ efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions remain “ woefully insufficient to meet the temperature goal of the Paris Agreement ”. C temperature target within reach.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 18, 2023

These young Montanans assert that, by supporting a fossil fuel driven energy system that causes and contributes to the climate crisis, Montana is violating their explicit constitutional rights to a “clean and healthful environment”; to seek safety, health, and happiness; and to individual dignity and equal protection of the law.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter 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. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. and non-U.S. Here are the additions to the U.S.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

MARCH 16, 2022

I went from a chemical engineering background to getting a law degree to drive real world transformation that links civil and human rights with the environment. I initially practiced law at a firm in New York City. We cannot solve these problems with a myopic view of what climate and environment looks like.

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JANZEN AG

APRIL 19, 2022

McDonald’s Accelerating Climate Action to Reach Net Zero Emissions by 2050 ). PepsiCo Doubles Down on Climate Goal and Pledges Net-Zero Emissions by 2040 ). Walmart has pledged to remove a gigaton of greenhouse gas emissions from its value chain by 2030, the equivalent of removing 200 million cars from the roads every year.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The emissions from the burning of coal such as steel and power plants are the single biggest contributor to climate change. Climate scientists say that weaning countries off coal is vital to achieving global climate targets which are already weak and will need to be strengthened in coming years if we are to stay below the 1.5

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Each month, Arnold & Porter 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. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 126. and non-U.S. Jewell , No. 16-CV-1932 (D.

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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. But, said the judge, “this is a securities fraud case, not a climate change case.”.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Of Ecosystem Science & Management: Guide To Seed Selection For Planting Resilient Forests -- Scranton Times: Lackawanna State Park Teaches Watershed Environmental Connections -- WNEP: Snyder County Midwest School District Saving More Money Than Expected From Solar Energy For A Year+ -- WNEP: Tunkhannock School District In Wyoming County Moving (..)

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

Each month, Arnold & Porter 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. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 107. applied federal common law.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 15, 2021

. -- PA Master Naturalist To Offer Spring Training Courses In Allegheny, Northern Chester, Washington Counties [PaEN] -- EPA Accepting Nominations For Presidential Innovation Award For Environmental Educators [PaEN] -- Nominations For President’s K-12 Environmental Youth Award Now Being Accepted By EPA [PaEN] -- WHYY: The PFAS Exposure Study For Bucks, (..)

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter 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. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 133. By Margaret Barry and Hillary Aidun.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2024

-- Kleinman Center For Energy Policy: 2024 Starts With A Grim Climate Milestone, But Hydrogen Policy Hope - By John Quigley, Former DEP/DCNR Secretary -- PennLive Letter: Climate Change Is Costing Pennsylvanians Plenty, And Someone Has To Pay For It - By Sen. Schuylkill County -- PA Solar Center Jan.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter 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. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 148. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

The project is controversial due to its contribution to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and its location on the North Slope of Alaska, which happens to be the largest undisturbed track of public land in the U.S. and an area that is highly sensitive to climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

[Nuclear Power] -- Pittsburgh Business Times: Mawson Infrastructure Group To Sell Georgia Bitcoin Mining Facility And Focus On Beaver County Bitcoin Facility -- Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Allowance Auction On Dec. Supreme Court Reverses PA Mail-In Voting Law Decision -- MCall: U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

He's a professor of energy policy and economics and the director of energy law and policy. One, greenhouse gas emissions will be significantly reduced, as will other forms of pollution that harm Pennsylvanians' health and drive up healthcare costs and absenteeism. Let us remember, we're not here to debate the issue of climate change.

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

This latest report looks at mitigation — or what the world can do to stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. It’s the third chapter in the IPCC’s mammoth sixth assessment report, part of a series of studies that summarize the state of climate science and the planet released roughly every seven years. The IPCC said 1.5

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The SCC is a metric that seeks to capture all of the costs that emitting a ton of carbon dioxide (or equivalent amounts of other greenhouse gases such as methane) imposes on society by contributing to climate change over the hundreds of years it remains in the atmosphere. 4:21-cv-00287-SPM (E.D. March 8, 2021).]] 2019); Birckhead v.

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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

AUGUST 7, 2022

“These investments will reduce inflation, lower household and business energy bills (Figure 1), reduce the federal deficit by nearly $2 trillion over two decades (Figure 2), all while achieving an estimated 35-42% reduction in greenhouse gasses by 2030 (Figure 3). Many are eager to do so but lack the financial or technical resources.

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Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

A few general resources: Sidelining Science Since Day One: How the Trump administration has harmed public health and safety in its first six months by The Union of Concerned Scientists I Heart Climate Scientists. . pulling out of the Paris climate deal may make China great again. And now the full list: . 2017.06.01.

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