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What’s Been Killing U.S. Coal?

Legal Planet

Coal began to really plunge in 2012, three years before Obama’s Clean Power Plan was issued. Politically, what has happened to coal jobs may be more salient. Employment in the East (basically Appalachia) fell before 2000, ticked up until 2012, and then resumed falling. But this could only have a contributing factor.

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Greenland Dispatch #1: the Courage to Face Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

In just four years of global warming, 2012-2016, more than one trillion tons of Greenlandic ice were lost: enough ice melt to fill a pool the size of the state of New York to a depth of twenty-three feet. The biggest barriers to progress are political and psychological.

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What International Climate Justice Means for Sri Lanka

Union of Concerned Scientists

As I embraced my family, I felt a palpable fatigue from the pressures of the pandemic, political unrest, and geopolitical turmoil bubbling beneath the surface. Climate change in Sri Lanka is driving a hunger crisis, an economic crisis, and a political crisis.

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Swiss Women Lead the Way in Historic Climate Justice Victory

Union of Concerned Scientists

Born between 1999 and 2012, these youths argued that the adverse effects of climate change, such as heatwaves and wildfires , pose a threat to their right to life. Portuguese youth must first seek justice nationally In a separate case, six Portuguese youth brought attention to the urgency of addressing climate change through legal avenues.

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Livestock Operations Are Responsible for Over Half of California’s Methane Emissions—Why Won’t CARB Regulate Them?

Legal Planet

What has not been abundant is the political will to enact these reforms, and CARB’s reluctance to initiate a rulemaking reflects this trend. It won’t be easy to find a regulatory pathway that properly abates methane emissions, improves community health outcomes, and is politically palatable. To CARB, installing digesters is a win-win.

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Profs. William Boyd and Alex Wang Join Prof. Ted Parson in Emmett Institute Faculty Leadership

Legal Planet

Wang is a leading expert on environmental governance and the law and politics of China. Parson, Dan and Rae Emmett Professor of Environmental Law, has served in the Emmett Institute’s faculty leadership since he joined UCLA Law in 2012.

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What is the Department of Transportation’s Greenhouse Gas Performance Measure, and Why Does it Matter?

Union of Concerned Scientists

The rule follows an existing framework of performance management started in 2012 that already tracks outcomes for safety, infrastructure conditions, and reliability. A single project can take years or decades to go from an idea to implementation and can go through political twists and turns along the way. But change is coming.