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SCOTUS Rules in Favor of Sewage: You Can’t Make This Sh** Up

Union of Concerned Scientists

This is why the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s historic investments provided a long overdue federal commitment to improving and protecting water quality (and why current threats to it and the agencies like EPA administering funds are so misguided). Upgrading infrastructure is expensive!

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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

Presumably Dagsvik and Moen are used to this kind of model, but they seem to be inexperienced with the models used for weather and climate, which on the other hand are based on the laws of physics. The global sea level acts like the mercury in a thermometer because warmer water expands.

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Unseen and Unprotected: The Ongoing Struggle of Climate Refugees in the United States

Vermont Law

asylum law, and the broader international community’s responsibilities. History of Asylum Law in the United States U.S. asylum law has evolved since the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol. asylum law regarding climate refugees. The recent case of Cruz Galicia v.

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Building a More Resilient, Just City

Academy of Natural Sciences

As extreme storms become more ubiquitous, Philadelphia is among numerous cities grappling with flooding issues against the backdrop of aging infrastructure, rising sea levels and more extreme precipitation events. chance of happening in any given year, respectively. Flooding on the Schuylkill River from Hurricane Irene, 2011.

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New Report Shows Fishery Management Floundering

Ocean Conservancy

While having only 8% of stocks experiencing overfishing remains near an all-time low, this percentage has largely stayed the same for a decade, even though the law requires an immediate end to overfishing. One of those stocks, gag grouper in the Gulf of Mexico, is overfished once again after being rebuilt in 2014. What does this mean?

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Change Policy in Rhode Island: A Personal Perspective

Vermont Law

Summary: Allen Smith, a rising 3L at Vermont Law School, spent the summer in Rhode Island working on climate change policy in both the Statehouse and the Department of Environmental Management. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. The Resilient RI Act. ”. Change Policy in Rhode Island: A Personal Perspective. appeared first on.

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Working Group II releases contribution to the Fifth IPCC Assessment Report

Vermont Law

At the end of March 2014, Working Group II (WGII) unleashed upon the global community their contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). Sea level is rising and islands are disappearing. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. Kristin Campbell. metric tons of CO.