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Climate Policy in the World’s Fourth Largest Country

Legal Planet

Over three-fourths of Indonesia electricity comes from fossil fuels: 60% from coal and 16% from gas. Indonesia has the third largest rainforest after Brazil and Congo. Jakarta is consistently near the top end of the world’s cities with the worst air pollution.

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Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 6.10.22

PA Environment Daily

Bill Shuster -- Perdue Foundation Supports New Educational Duck Pond At Hope Springs Farm For People With Developmental Disabilities In Hershey -- Warren Times: Time Explorers Theme Of Warren Conservation District Student Summer Camp -- Warren Times: Second Grade Classroom Turned Into Rainforest -- PA Outdoor Writers Assn. EIA: Expects U.S.

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Banking Against Science: Financial Institutions Continue to Fund Climate Destruction

Union of Concerned Scientists

degrees centigrade “involve rapid and deep and in most cases immediate GHG (greenhouse gas) emission reductions in all sectors.” That clearly includes natural gas—which oil and gas companies continue to tout as a “bridge” fuel from coal to renewable energy.

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Tuesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 3.8.22

PA Environment Daily

Metcalfe: Wolf Pathetically Weak On Rejecting Russia, Traitorous Sellout Against Expanding Domestic Energy Production -- PennLive Guest Essay: State, National Leaders Need To Get Out Of The Way Of Our Home-Grown Natural Gas Industry To Marginalize Putin’s Global Influence - Rep.

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On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare

Environmental Progress

I became an environmentalist at 16 when I threw a fundraiser for Rainforest Action Network. In the final three chapters of Apocalypse Never I expose the financial, political, and ideological motivations. In my early 20s I lived in the semi-Amazon doing research with small farmers fighting land invasions.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The majority said it “reluctantly” concluded that “the plaintiffs’ case must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large” and “[t]hat the other branches may have abdicated their responsibility to remediate the problem does not confer on Article III courts, no matter how well-intentioned, the ability to step into their shoes.”

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