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California Supreme Court Finds County Ordinance Limiting Oil & Gas Development Preempted by State Law

Legal Planet

However, it’s a disappointment to the initiative’s proponents and to a larger group of environmental advocates who seek to promote California’s quick transition from reliance on heavily-polluting and climate-damaging fossil fuels to renewable energy resources. Measure Z never took effect.

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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

His staff has described him as having extensive knowledge of environmental policy and unwavering enthusiasm for Pennsylvania. Throughout his career, Minott and the Clean Air Council earned a reputation for holding government agencies and fossil fuel companies accountable. from Villanova University School of Law.

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This Climate Debate is a lot of Hot Air

Legal Planet

We’ve been hearing a lot lately about geoengineering – the various scientific theories and governance ideas that could eventually lead to technological interventions to help cool the planet. Is there social science data that suggests simply studying geoengineering would deter societies from pursuing urgently needed emissions reductions?

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Stroud Water Research Center Honors Dr. Michael E. Mann, Climate Scientist & Author, With 2022 Stroud Award For Freshwater Excellence

PA Environment Daily

His most recent work, The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet , examines the thirty-year campaign launched by fossil fuel companies to delay action on climate change and offers a battle plan for how to save the planet. He is also director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center. Currently, Michael E.

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The Santa Barbara Oil Spill

Environment, Law, and History

To answer this question, Sabol Spezio analyzes how the oil spill influenced the CWA and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), as well as the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Part 1 describes environmental science and policy before 1969.

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Should there be a ‘non-use’ agreement on solar geoengineering?

Legal Planet

Don’t fund technology development. Don’t issue patents for technologies. Don’t deploy the technologies. I have highlighted various ways in which idealized modelling and technological speculation tends to facilitate predatory delay and procrastination. Don’t permit outdoor experiments.

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Women Voices on Climate Change, Part 2

Academy of Natural Sciences

After reading All We Can Save with the Academy Book Circle group and learning of all the ways women are stepping up to lead their communities, organizations and policy toward a more livable, just and better future, it’s hard not to see possibility everywhere I look.