Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The latest data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) and the EU’s Copernicus climate service show that the 2024 January-August period is the hottest ever by far, putting this year well on track to be the warmest ever on record. For the next round of NDCs, the U.S. Article 2.1(c)

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 13, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen Whether or not to include the language stating ‘fossil fuels must be phased out’ rather than ‘phased down’ became the key contentious issue at this year’s UN climate talks. A draft text released Friday, with just under a week for the summit to conclude included the key fossil fuel language as an option.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2023

In 2009, leaking natural gas lines at the Pivik School forced the school to close temporarily and activities were canceled. “The well is located on elementary school grounds behind the the school next to sports a field. A leak was detected on the well head and immediately fixed by operator personnel on site.” Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

These higher costs are being driven by a major overreliance on natural gas, which has sharply spiked in price and is currently the dominant fuel source in the US for both home heating and electricity generation. These claims just add to the deluge of greenwashing and disinformation from the fossil fuel industry.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Demonstrators took to the streets at the 2009 global climate convention in Copenhagen. That report, in the technical language of probabilities and scenarios, underscored the urgency of the moment and the need not only to reduce the release of heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere and limit global warming to 1.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

Energy choices are key to climate resilience—but there’s resistance within state government Science tells us the extent and degree of future flooding depends on how fast we can reduce heat trapping emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. It cannot be a plan that reflects the opinions and interests of the powerful.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 23, 2021

On April 1, 2021, a unanimous Second Circuit panel dismissed a lawsuit filed by New York City against a handful of fossil fuel companies seeking damages for climate change harms under state public nuisance and trespass law. The opinion and other case materials are available here.) Alternatively, the U.S.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The plaintiffs alleged that Peabody (and a number of other fossil fuel companies) caused greenhouse gas emissions that resulted in sea level rise and damage to their property. The anti-backsliding study was due in June 2009, 18 months after EISA’s enactment. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , No.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Among the many attacks in President Trumps Day 1 Executive Order on unleashing American (fossil) energy , is a directive to EPA administrator Zeldin to reevaluate the agencys bedrock 2009 scientific determination of the harms caused by heat-trapping emissions and submit recommendations within 30 days (i.e. this week).

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Cop stands for conference of the parties under the UNFCCC, and the annual meetings have swung between fractious and soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama and the occasional triumph ( the Paris agreement in 2015 ) and disaster (Copenhagen in 2009). Fossil fuel use must also end. What about net-zero?

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

The project will also contribute to “ carbon lock-in ” – the process by which expanding oil and gas infrastructure causes continued dependence on fossil fuels. Environmental organizations and an indigenous group filed two lawsuits challenging BLM’s decision to move forward with the Willow project. See Karuk Tribe of California v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Among the many attacks in President Trumps Day 1 Executive Order on unleashing American (fossil) energy , is a directive to EPA administrator Zeldin to reevaluate the agencys bedrock 2009 scientific determination of the harms caused by heat-trapping emissions and submit recommendations within 30 days (i.e. this week).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Outside of bird protection acts of the early 20 th century, protections for water, air and the atmosphere are a late 20 th -century development, created in the wake of Rachel Carson’s 1962 treatise on pesticides, Silent Spring. There is now a 99.9 After the Massachusetts v.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

The federal district court for the Northern District of Texas dismissed for lack of standing a lawsuit against the EPA in which an individual pro se plaintiff asserted that EPA restrictions since 1990 on aerosols in the atmosphere had caused global warming. The fossil fuel companies asked the court to grant only a 30-day extension.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Maryland County Filed Climate Change Lawsuit Against Fossil Fuel Companies and Trade Group. Annapolis, a city in the county, previously filed a separate lawsuit against fossil fuel companies.) Exxon Mobil Corp. , 451071/2021 (N.Y. BP p.l.c. , C-02-CV-21-000565 (Md. Chevron USA Inc. , 21-15318 (9th Cir. Sunoco LP , No.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Also last week, the news broke that Zeldin is urging the White House to strike down the 2009 EPA finding that global warming gases endanger public health and the environment. The obvious goal is to plunder more public land and water for private profit for the fossil fuel and mining industries.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Also last week, the news broke that Zeldin is urging the White House to strike down the 2009 EPA finding that global warming gases endanger public health and the environment. The obvious goal is to plunder more public land and water for private profit for the fossil fuel and mining industries.

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ESA

APRIL 3, 2023

676 ), which requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to collaborate with state and local governments and Indian Tribes on vulnerability assessments related to ocean acidification. USGRP aims to include advances in climate and social science since 2009 and adds a focus on informed climate decisions.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 31, 2024

A basic constitutional right to abortion hardly guarantees access given the litany of blockades Republican state lawmakers have put in place since 2009, when Arizona’s Democratic Gov. But this progress has been overtaken by accelerating warming.

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