Real Climate
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
In an unchanging climate, the random fluctuations would lead to warming in some parts of the world and cooling in others. In a world with just random local fluctuations but no climate change, about half the weather stations would show a (more or less significant) warming, the other half a cooling. It’s not hard to understand.
Law Columbia
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Roofs covered with reflective paints, for example, reflect more of the solar radiation hitting them and capture less heat as a result. Further, in addition to directly reducing absorbed heat, cool roofs can reduce demand for air conditioning. In almost every jurisdiction state law limits the scope of local authority.
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Greenbuilding Law
JUNE 5, 2022
With proposed federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions by the Securities and Exchange Commission requiring GHG disclosure and new state statutes, including a new Maryland law that requires not only disclosure, but also a mandated reduction in GHG emissions, a greater appreciation of the subject of GHG appears in order.
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 26, 2022
Yet in spite of the 2018 explosion of a brand new Revolution Pipeline in Beaver County, we’ve done little to change our laws or protect people. The cooling down process, however, took a month and the radioactive plant would take years to decontaminate. We lost cooling in the reactor, but it’s okay now. Read more here.
PA Environment Daily
JULY 11, 2023
“During the permitting process, the permittee misrepresented a lot of things in the application, specifically ongoing water pollution, the fact that this would include oil and gas waste, and it would be a radiation source,” said Johnson “That's just the tip of the iceberg on the permitting issues we've seen in this one case.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 11, 2022
Continued fossil fuel energy dependence takes more money out of historically marginalized communities’ pockets, as the costs of heating, cooling, and gasoline are a larger portion of their household budgets (for low-income households, the national average energy burden for electricity and gas alone is 8.1 percent, compared to an average of 2.3
Environmental Progress
JANUARY 20, 2022
For existing nuclear nations, appropriate plans for waste management already exist because they are required by relevant EU law and international guidance. Depending what is meant by “detailed”, it is unknown and therefore subject to political interpretation what needs to be included in the plan. This makes the condition impractical.
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