Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2025

Some reporters like Arcelia Martin at Inside Climate News drew the climate connection by the second graph, writing that climate scientists said the torrential downpours on July 4 exemplify the devastating outcomes of weather intensified by a warming atmosphere.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 7, 2025

Not only is there danger, there’s accountability for it In 2023, UCS released research showing that nearly 40% of the total area burned between 1986 and 2020 in the western United States and southwestern Canada can be attributed to the emissions traced to the world’s 88 largest fossil fuel producers and cement manufacturers.

Ground-Level Ozone

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Alito famously said that carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning, a key contributor to global warming, is not a pollutant. million jobs in 2022, according to a report last year by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That is despite studies tying carbon dioxide to skyrocketing rates of childhood asthma.

Carbon Dioxide

Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Last week world leaders gathered in New York for the UN Climate Ambition Summit where countries shared concrete action they’ve taken to phase out fossil fuels. There, the conversation was grounded in science, with leaders such as California’s Governor Newsom saying “The climate crisis is a fossil fuel crisis.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

Since then, the Conservative government has made a series of U-turns on its own net zero policies, attacked Labour’s green spending plans, and doubled down on its support for new fossil fuel projects, approving more than 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences. This comes as DeSmog and Democracy for Sale reveal that £6.8 percent (£1.8

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

However, unlike the energy sector, where renewable energy sources, reduced consumption and increased energy efficiency offer clear alternatives to today’s heavy reliance on fossil fuels, decarbonizing the industrial sector presents a more complex challenge.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2024

Holdings in Dunbar Township, Fayette County and found one to be abandoned and not plugged and the other venting gas to the atmosphere. in Stonycreek Township Somerset County and found the operator still has not submitted mechanical integrity, production and waste generation reports dating back to 2009. National- $3.58

2024

HumanNature

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Moccia said the Student Sustainability Center was founded in 2009 by Diana Wall, the Inaugural Director of the School of Global Environmental Sustainability. The Divestment Campaign is another student-started sustainability project on campus that is challenging CSU to divest from fossil fuels, according to their website.

Waste

A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

By 2009, a study by Chinese scientists found that cadmium was going into China’s topsoil at around 0.004mg/kg per year. In China, cadmium in soil mainly comes from atmospheric deposition of the metal after it has been emitted from coal-burning, metallurgical facilities and animal-source fertilisers.

Atmosphere

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)

Fossil Fuels

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.

Fossil Fuels

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.

Natural Gas

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.

Fossil Fuels

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

Paris Agreement

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.

Climate Change

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.

Air Pollution

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.

2017

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?

Paris Agreement

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.

Climate Change

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).

Fossil Fuels

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.

Climate Change

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.

2023

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.

Carbon Dioxide

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.

2020

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.

2021

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 14, 2025

But as a new report drawing on a wealth of documentary evidence shows, one institution is conducting business as usual: The fossil fuel industry. Pay to Play According to OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan nonprofit that tracks money in politics, the fossil fuel industry spent more than $150 million to lobby the federal government in 2024.

Fossil Fuels

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.

2024