Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2025

The social cost of carbon is a widely accepted economic metric that puts a dollar value on the damage caused per ton of heat-trapping emissions, allowing federal agencies to set policies and regulations that take those costs into account.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

APRIL 15, 2025

The news that started leaking last Friday is that the Trump administration wants to break up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and essentially end NOAAs climate work by abolishing its primary research office and forcing the agency to instead help boost U.S.

Law

New Scientist

JULY 31, 2025

The Trump administration is attempting to argue that greenhouses gases don’t endanger people to reverse regulations limiting these harmful emissions – climate scientists are pushing back

Climate Scientist

Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 1, 2025

Here are some tips Can solar and geothermal energy help a church and its neighbors wean off fossil fuels? 514) Local government (440) Public lands (60) National parks & forests (51) State government (191) U.S. 514) Local government (440) Public lands (60) National parks & forests (51) State government (191) U.S.

Recycling

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 19, 2024

Accelerating risks from climate change are colliding with shortcomings in insurance markets—such as a lack of transparent information and affordability provisions—to create a perfect storm for people and communities on the front lines of floods, droughts, and wildfires. It also needs to address structural weaknesses in its insurance programs.’

Climate Change

Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2022

The topic the Symposium’s student organizers have selected for this year–“Water Law and Drought”–couldn’t be more timely or important: According to hydrologists and climate scientists, California is currently in the midst of the most severe and protracted drought in 1500 years.

Law

Enviromental Defense

MARCH 6, 2024

Canada cannot meet its climate targets while its banks are pushing the government to greenwash climate-related and financial-related policy. Our banks are promoting themselves as climate champions while lobbying against regulations that would accelerate climate action. Canadians are being misled.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act is directing $20B toward climate-resilient agriculture Reducing heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions through policies that drive renewable energy and clean transportation has well known benefits. And guess what has happened since then?

Conservation

Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. That the state official who oversees the permitting and regulation of all major energy projects in Montana could be ignorant of the UN body that has been issuing increasingly urgent assessments about global warming and climate data for 30 years is unbelievable and distressing.

Fossil Fuels

Frontiers

MAY 18, 2022

Snow plays an important role in regulating climate because it reflects the Sun’s energy back out into space and helps keep the planet cool. “Snowpack provides water resources over many regions, including the western US, and parts of Europe, Africa, and Asia. How much will snowfalls decline?

Climate Scientist

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

This editorial first appeared in the Scranton Times on March 10, 2023 -- As regulators investigate and lawmakers lament the Feb. The better news is that methane does not last as long as carbon dioxide, so climate scientists have targeted reduced methane emissions as a primary means to produce short-term reductions in warming.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 3, 2024

Shapiro Has Done An About-Face On Fracking By Aligning Himself With CNX After Charging Them With Environmental Crimes - By Karen Elias, Climate Reality Project , Better Path Coalition -- Pittsburgh Business Times: Diversified Energy Sells Unknown Number Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wells In PA, WV, OH -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Peoples Natural (..)

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

He was appointed as a mediator by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to work with the environmental community and industry to establish better regulations for water quality monitoring in areas impacted by coal ash. Michael Mann - Climate Champion Award PennFuture honored Dr. Michael E.

Climate Change

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. Despite all of the progress on climate policy in recent years, emissions have continued to rise.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2023

5: Virtual Keynote & Panel Discussion, 5 Regional Workshop Locations [PaEN] -- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Climate Activists Call On PA Lawmakers To End Fossil Fuel Use At ‘PA Climate Convergence’ -- Inside Climate News - Jon Hurdle: At ‘Climate Convergence’ In PA, Environmental Activists Urge Gov.

Fossil Fuels

Environmental Progress

JUNE 29, 2020

I even stood by as people in the White House and many in the news media tried to destroy the reputation and career of an outstanding scientist, good man, and friend of mine, Roger Pielke, Jr., a lifelong progressive Democrat and environmentalist who testified in favor of carbon regulations. Why did they do that?

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 24, 2021

26 With Ely Farm Visit In Bucks County [PaEN] -- SunburyDI Guest Essay: Methane Emissions From Low Producing Wells Must Be Regulated - Responsible Drilling Alliance -- Washington Examiner Guest Essay: Strengthen U.S. . -- Inquirer - Andrew Maykuth: Aqua PA Seeks 17.9%

Climate Scientist

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Leading Climate Scientist And Author [PaEN] -- Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Recognizes Adrian Naveda As 2022 James A. 15 On Final Radiation Safety, NPDES Compliance Schedule Regulations; Brodhead Creek Rulemaking Petition [PaEN] -- DEP Citizens Advisory Council, Environmental Justice Advisory Board Hold Joint Meeting Nov. Mann, Ph.D.,

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2022

Climate READi will enable global energy companies, climate scientists, regulators and other stakeholders to proactively analyze and apply climate data, allowing for the planning, design and operation of resilient energy systems of the future.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

15 On Final Radiation Safety, NPDES Compliance Schedule Regulations; Brodhead Creek Rulemaking Petition DEP Citizens Advisory Council, Environmental Justice Advisory Board Hold Joint Meeting Nov. Million In Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding For Abandoned Mine Reclamation Federal Office Of Surface Mining Awards PA $26.63

2022

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Elsewhere, there are other significant commitments to fulfil: to put an end to Chile’s “ sacrifice zones ”, areas of the country impaired by chronic socio-environmental and economic problems; to create a state company to regulate the extraction and use of lithium, and to promote a new model of sustainable development.

Government

PA Environment Daily

JULY 14, 2024

14 Hearing [If Requested] On Title V Air Quality Permit For Gas-fired Hummel Station Power Plant In Snyder County [PaEN] -- DEP To Hold Aug.

Nuclear Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Citi lobbies against meaningful climate-related public policies Citi is a member and funder of the US Chamber of Commerce, which continues to oppose climate-related legislation and regulation in its lobbying efforts.

Fossil Fuels

Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 18, 2023

How the first week of the Montana trial has gone might be best characterized by an exchange during the cross examination of climate scientist Steven Running, a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for his work as an IPCC author, when attorneys for the State requested that Judge Kathy Seeley dismiss references to the IPCC reports as “hearsay.”

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

JULY 11, 2023

degrees, the upper limit described by climate scientists to avoid irreversible climate catastrophe. Governments will need to regulate emissions from the sector to force companies to invest their own cashflows to achieve production emissions reductions.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The plan must specifically address how EPA will consider the effects of Clean Air Act regulation on the coal industry. The groups said FERC’s review was at odds with EPA and Council on Environmental Quality guidance, caselaw, and the NEPA regulations. The court ordered EPA to file a plan and schedule for compliance within 14 days.

2016

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Tillerson, meanwhile, dismissed the Paris climate agreement goal of keeping global temperature increase to well below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels (and striving to limit it to 1.5 Climate scientists, that’s who. degrees C) as “something magical.” is not good enough?”

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2023

And this growing body of evidence is highly relevant to climate accountability lawsuits against fossil fuel polluters, proposals to mandate and standardize corporate climate disclosure , and shareholder resolutions up for votes at major oil and gas companies’ annual meetings this spring.

Fossil Fuels

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.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Climate scientists at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) have dubbed the six-month stretch from May through October “ Danger Season ” because of the confluence of extreme weather—record heat, raging wildfires, severe storms, and flooding—that is putting people at risk around the world.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

Most recently, as many cities broke pollution records and New York City momentarily recorded the worst air quality in the world from the plumes of smoke flowing down from Canadian wildfires, climate and pollution deniers blew their own smoke at the public on right-wing media. Climate scientists are not sitting on their 99.9

2023

Greenbuilding Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

But, Michael Mann is a well known climate scientist whose research in studying the “paleoclimate,” or ancient climate, has featured prominently in the politically charged debate about climate change. A live webinar “ With the Maryland BEPS regulations on “HOLD” what is a Building Owner to do? ”

Climate Scientist

Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2023

The three statements differ in many details, but are consistent in a set of core messages: They all stress the primary and essential role of deep emissions cuts and adaptation in climate response, while also recognizing the likelihood that these may, even with greatly increased efforts, be insufficient to limit climate risks.

Government

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2023

Steel Clairton Coke (Coal) Works] -- Post-Gazette: FirstEnergy Seeking Ratepayer Surcharge To Keep Two Coal-Fired Power Plants Open In West Virginia -- PennLive - Letter: We’re At An Energy Crossroads - By Karen Feridun, Better Path Coalition -- PennLive Guest Essay: How Nuclear Power Saved Christmas And The PJM Electric Grid - By Rep.

Natural Gas

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Proposed release regulations would weaken the strength of the Fisheries Act, which is designed to protect bodies of water such as the Athabasca River, and industry has not guaranteed that their technology would create safe-clean water. There are other solutions.

Government

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

We have also outlined price regulation, state aid and tax measures to protect European households and businesses against the impact of the exceptionally high prices.” Market dynamics, not overzealous regulations, have imprisoned the industry. That hasn’t stopped lobbyists from pretending otherwise.”

Natural Gas

Breezometer

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Along with his firm, James holds governments accountable for pollution inaction and regularly advocates for more stringent regulations. Dr. Gabriela Adler - Climate Scientist. A leading climate scientist, Dr. Adler works on the cutting-edge of environmental intelligence technology.

Air Pollution