Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 3, 2023

Scaling up renewable energy is essential to addressing the climate crisis. The price tag to clean up that mess is at least $120 billion – and mounting. The climate crisis is already harming communities and killing people across Alberta and the rest of Canada. Stopping now makes no sense. But Alberta cannot be let off the hook.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

APRIL 15, 2024

Farm safety net subsidies reward an industrial farming model that contributes to climate change, soil erosion, and farmland consolidation in agriculture. Despite its enormous price tag , increasing PLC reference prices to reflect recent peaks in the commodity market could primarily benefit as few as 6,000 farmers or 0.3

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MGKF Law

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Read More » Tags: Climate Change , Natural Gas , Preemption After evaluating the parties’ arguments, the court concluded that the ordinance is preempted by the EPCA based on the text, structure, and context of that statute.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 19, 2023

But what of the climate crisis? Today, members of the climate movement are using these tactics to drive climate progress. Almost universally, the climate movement’s bolder activism is being met with society’s resistance and reprimand but members are persisting out of a sense of urgency and desperation. In the U.S.,

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MGKF Law

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Read More » Tags: Air , Climate Change , Commonwealth Court , Pennsylvania , Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection , Taxes The holding halts former Governor Tom Wolf’s efforts to make Pennsylvania the first major fossil-fuel producing state to implement a price on carbon emissions.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Over time, as the climate warms, the costs of rebuilding from the impacts of climate change will soar. A new estimate puts the cost of adapting and repairing coastal infrastructure damaged by climate change in the United States at hundreds of billions annually. By Michael Allen.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

From climate change to global pandemics, the world is facing major environmental and health-related challenges that are driving life science research institutions to pool their data and digital resources in search of solutions. Read the full story from CORDIS.

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MGKF Law

JUNE 30, 2022

Read More » Tags: Clean Air Act , Climate Change , Decisions of Note , Electric , Emissions , Energy , EPA , Greenhouse Gas , Legislation , Refinery , Rulemaking , Supreme Court , West Virginia. ” Id. citing Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA , 573 U.

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Acoel

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

billion price tag originally put on the MATS rule lived on, even after it was clear that that number was way off. When EPA promulgates new rules that appear to carry big price tags, smart people get to work and figure out more cost-effective ways to comply. Unfortunately, the $9.6 People forget that markets work.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 13, 2022

When I think about summer, I think of the carefree days I spent playing kickball, kick-the-can, and tag with the kids in my neighborhood. Make big national investments for climate action and resilience. I think about people who are unhoused and unsheltered, and how challenging it is to stay cool and hydrated.

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MGKF Law

AUGUST 2, 2023

Read More » Tags: Air , Citizen Suit , Clean Air Act , Climate Change , Greenhouse Gas , HAPs , Hazardous Air Pollutants , Legislation , Pennsylvania , Rulemaking , Third Circuit

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 4, 2024

In part one of this series we introduced you to the huge role that the Canadian financial sector plays in exacerbating the climate crisis. Climate change could have some very significant negative impacts on the Canadian economy, and therefore your money. In this blog, we’ll discuss how climate change poses a risk to finance.

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MGKF Law

MAY 27, 2021

On May 17, 2021, the Supreme Court vacated an appellate court decision which had remanded to state court an action seeking to hold petroleum companies liable for the effects of climate change, finding that the appellate court impermissibly restricted the scope of its review of a district court’s order.

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Washington Nature

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As climate challenges unfold, clam gardens remain a testament to the resilience of Indigenous people and nature. He channels his passion as an ocean scientist into creating opportunities for students, including those from Indigenous communities, to pursue careers addressing critical climate challenges.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 4, 2022

The emergency actions foreshadow difficult negotiations that will take place in the coming years as a river that irrigates 5 million acres and supplies 40 million people with a portion of their drinking water is decimated by a drying climate. Glennon asked about a nearly $2 billion annual price tag. “I Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2024

Plants are tagged and photographed as plant inventories are completed, and invasive plants are removed when feasible. With guidance from Betsy and support from Pinchot staff, the Master Watershed Stewards schedule vernal pool visits throughout the seasons. They identify and tend to native plant species specifically planted for this project.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 11, 2024

This is huge both in times of drought and in times of increased precipitation, both are which are becoming increasingly common in our area and across the US as the climate crisis unfolds. However, implementing these systems comes with the sizeable price tag and there aren’t many farmers who can simply absorb that cost.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Natural gas”, also known as methane gas or fracked fossil gas, is a potent greenhouse gas that pollutes the environment and causes climate change when it is burned and when it escapes into the atmosphere during extraction, production, and transportation. For a long time, fossil gas was the cheapest way to heat homes.

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MGKF Law

APRIL 29, 2021

Earlier this month, the Second Circuit affirmed the District Court for the Southern District of New York’s ruling that state common law claims against oil companies for costs resulting from climate change were either preempted by the Clean Air Act, or, in the case of foreign emissions, represented a non-justiciable political question.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

Or, perhaps more realistically, what if hydrogen policy evolves to artificially prop up the market for hydrogen, even where decision-makers could better serve the climate and the environment by promoting other strategies? In the abstract, the use-cases for hydrogen are broad. Photo from user Facewizard, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Millions of residents rely on wells that draw on groundwater, according to Inside Climate News. 288 GALLONS. Advocacy groups have long-opposed the project for fears that the new reservoir would displace nearby villages and destroy stretches of protected forest.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 19, 2022

Climate change, invasive species, harmful chemicals, coastal wetland degradation, extensive loss of forest cover in the Lake Erie watershed… The list of key issues threatening the lake goes on and on. Be sure to tag us and use #WeAreLakeErie on August 31st to join in the virtual wave of support for this precious lake. Check it out!

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 13, 2021

2021 Virtual Watershed Congress In Southeast PA [PaEN] -- DEP: Issues Air Pollution Warning For Friday, August 13 In Southeastern PA Counties -- DEP: Notice Of Sept. 2021 Virtual Watershed Congress In Southeast PA [PaEN] -- DEP: Issues Air Pollution Warning For Friday, August 13 In Southeastern PA Counties -- DEP: Notice Of Sept.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 15, 2021

12 Workshop On Adapting Stormwater Management Practices In A Changing Climate [PaEN] -- Registration Open! 18 Making Riparian Buffers Work In Your Community Program [PaEN] -- PA Sustainable Agriculture: Listening Session - Siting & Design For Farm-Based Solar Energy Facilities Aug.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

This family-friendly program is designed to educate and engage participants in resource protection and included activities for children, a presentation about native bees, information on climate change and its impact on the region, garden tours, monarch butterfly tagging, plein air artists, and the opportunity to work on a small mural.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2023

Kate Moran Honored For Ocean Science And Planet Sustainability Leadership By Canada [PaEN] -- Wilkes-Barre Times: Luzerne County Native Kate Moran Honored For Ocean Science And Planet Sustainability Leadership By Canada -- Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership Now Accepting Nominations For Mira Lloyd Dock Partnership Diversity Award [PaEN] -- Warren (..)

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Physics World

APRIL 26, 2022

As we attempt to lessen the impact of climate change, Fessenden’s comments remain just as pertinent today – if not more so. “The energy of the sources must first be charged so as to be suitable in form, it must next be stored so as to be available in time.”.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Saville says he can’t provide cost estimates at this time, but numbers provided by the Dutch Ministry for Infrastructure and Water Management in 2021 calculated a production price tag ranging from €1,500 to €6,800 per tonne, which translates to US$1,800 to $8,200. This will ensure we can increase production and build the infrastructure.”.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 16, 2021

12 Workshop On Adapting Stormwater Management Practices In A Changing Climate Register Now! 12 Workshop On Adapting Stormwater Management Practices In A Changing Climate Register Now! Degrees Celsius Of Warming DEP Forming New PA Energy Storage Consortium; Stakeholder Meeting Sept. 23 Registration Open!

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Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

TNC’s The Climate Resilient Forests and Communities team has outlined many interesting and important research questions related to co-benefits of restoration activities, climate change impacts, and forest health. This was my first time doing a wildlife study from camera collecting, photo tagging, all the way through to data analysis.

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Frontiers

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We found that tagged sharks spent most of their time adjacent to the MPA, in an area of heavy commercial shark fishing. I’m looking forward to seeing more research on the efficacy of MPAs as nature-based solutions to climate change, especially in the high seas and deep ocean.

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Science Blogs

AUGUST 29, 2017

Now is the time to say it as loudly as possible: Harvey is what climate change looks like. More specifically, Harvey is what climate change looks like in a world that has decided, over and over, that it doesn’t want to take climate change seriously. Most of us won't turn into climate refugees, of course. will be "Leave."

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 16, 2019

The escalating costs of damages from extreme weather events, many exacerbated by climate change, makes poignant a question with a serious price tag: who will be on the hook to pay for climate damages? Recent hurricanes have inundated energy and industrial infrastructure with the realities of a changing climate.

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Frontiers

MAY 1, 2023

From health emergencies to climate change, we see and feel them now. And that data includes persistent identifiers (PIDs) such as that of ORCID for author identification, a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for the article itself, and tags to the relevant grant funding or research institution. We face global, existential threats.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Threats include development, climate change, pollution, invasive species, mosquito control, and lack of knowledge about them. The enclosures are repaired when necessary, and plants are tagged and photographed as plant inventories are completed. They are valuable ecosystems that need protected. Invasive plants are removed when feasible.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2023

100,000 Grant To Treat Acid Mine Drainage In Westmoreland County [PaEN] -- Stroud Water Research Center, Partners Host 7-Part, Online Expanding Meaningful Environmental & Watershed Literacy With Geospatial Tools Workshops Starting Sept.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2023

With an estimated price tag of about $10 million, the project is being assembled by the U.S. If the project secures enough funding, as much as 283,000 cubic yards of legacy sediment stranded on streamside terraces would be dug up at 10 sites.

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