Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

Now the same district court has gone further, again in favor of environmental groups but now against Royal Dutch Shell (“Shell”) , the world’s largest non-state-owned fossil fuel company. In fact, Shell has the most ambitious emissions abatement plan of all fossil fuel companies , for whatever that is worth.)

Carbon Dioxide

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

We have examined the effect of the geographical distribution of measurements in a study that was cited by New Scientist in 2019 , and we found that the uneven distribution of thermometer measurements can give a misleading impression that the perceived warming rate has been slower than the actual global warming.

Sea Level

A Greener Life

APRIL 16, 2023

This ranks as the joint-second warmest winter on record on the European continent, only exceeded by the winter of 2019-2020. Scientists say that the rising global temperatures are linked to the continued burning of fossil fuels. degrees C above the 1991-2020 average for the Boreal winter season.

Sea Level

Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

According to the report , average net annual human-caused GHG emissions were at their highest levels in human history between 2010 and 2019, with urban areas responsible for an increasing proportion of the emissions. The rate of emissions growth year on year slowed between 2010-2019 in comparison to the previous decade.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

In the first months of 2024, legislators in four states— Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , and Vermont —have pushed for legislation that would collectively require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Rising sea temperatures are impairing the health of marine environments around the islands, by coral bleaching and ocean acidification. In May 2019, a group of eight Torres Strait Islanders and six of their children submitted a complaint against the Australian government to the UNHRC. Right to private, family, and home life.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Lest one thinks this disconnect is a failure of the global climate architecture, the failure lies much closer to home—in the domestic politics in the US and many other countries that continue to favor the interests of the rich and powerful , and fossil fuel companies, at the expense of the health and safety of everyone else and the planet.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

MARCH 7, 2024

According to a 2019 report by the Motion Picture Association, there were 1.4 C above pre-industrial levels and is likely to reach 1.5°C of the scripts included any climate-related terms, such as “global warming,” “sea level rise,” “solar panels,” etc. They can influence our emotions, opinions, values, and actions.

Fossil Fuels

HumanNature

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The increasing greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere are warming the global temperature, shifting precipitation patterns, raising global sea levels, melting glaciers, and more [5]. As society evolves, extreme weather also changes. Heat waves are the most straightforward example.

Climate Change

Acoel

OCTOBER 18, 2022

And even a slight rise in sea level makes the threat of a storm surge that more terrifying. As a result of the “shale revolution,” the US has become a net total energy exporter since 2019, making natural gas more plentiful and cheaper and the US more energy independent. Although that rule never went into effect, the U.S.

Climate Change

Environmental Progress

AUGUST 8, 2020

In 2019, after my article for Forbes upon which the Amazon chapter in Apocalypse Never is based, Nepstad complained to Mongabay , an activist web site, and again to Kasprak, that I didn’t write about the risk of deforestation leading to “savanification,” which is the transformation of rainforest into a savanna. The IPCC agrees.

Rainforest

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2022

A 2019 study found that nearly all of 108 formerly redlined urban areas across the country are on average hotter than nearby wealthier neighborhoods by 4.6 For example, Phoenix is taking heat mitigation seriously by establishing one of the first heat mitigation and response offices at the municipal level. degrees F to as much as 12.6

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Democrats said the General Assembly has been holding hearings on the RGGI regulations since the concept was first proposed in October of 2019 and Senate Republicans have yet to offer a plan for reducing carbon pollution or a proposal for helping workers and communities caught in the market-driven transition to clean energy. Read more here.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Casey, Colleagues: Introduce Bill To Empower Fossil Fuel Workers To Train, Find Jobs In Changing Energy Industry [PaEN] -- Patch.com: Chester County Commissioners Adopt New Climate Action Plan -- ReadingE: Muhlenberg Twp. Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

Attorneys general (AGs) in the five states most vulnerable to climate change, however, are doing the exact opposite: Instead of defending their constituents, they are defending the fossil fuel industry. Here’s a roundup of what these AGs have been doing to make a bad situation worse.

Fossil Fuels

Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Plaintiffs aim to hold the federal government accountable for worsening the dangers of climate change through increased reliance on fossil fuels and for breach of its fiduciary obligation to protect the atmosphere and oceans under the public trust doctrine. The case, however, may not even get to trial. attorneys. brought suit.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Fourth Circuit Declined to Stay Remand Order in Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies; Companies Sought Stay from Supreme Court. Pursuant to a consent order, the remand order will not be entered until October 10, 2019. 5, 2019), No. American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers v. FEATURED CASE.

2019

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. A day after the court’s decision, BLM published a proposed rule to temporarily suspend or delay certain requirements until January 17, 2019.

2017

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Federal Court Denied Motions to Dismiss Challenges to 2019 Presidential Permit for Keystone XL. The federal district court for the District of Montana denied motions to dismiss and for a preliminary injunction in litigation challenging a presidential permit issued in 2019 for a cross-border segment of the Keystone XL pipeline.

2020

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 5, 2023

This could melt all glaciers from Glacier National Park, raise sea level enough to inundate half of Everglades National Park, dissolve coral reefs in Virgin Islands National Park through ocean acidification, and damage many other natural and cultural resources.”

Climate Change

A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

China is not the only country in the frame: major fossil fuel producers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and Australia have also refused to strengthen their commitments. Fossil fuel use must also end. Since the industrial revolution, the modern world has run on fossil fuels. An increase of 1.5C

Paris Agreement

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

ExxonMobil spent at least $39 million on some 70 of these organizations from 1998 through 2020, more than any funder besides Charles Koch and his brother David, co-owner of Koch Industries until his death in 2019. Maybe if we took the subsidy off and it was challenged and had to perform, people would take it to a new level.”

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Roughly one-third of RMP facilities are in areas at risk of wildfire, storm surge, flooding, and sea level rise, and presumably so too is much of the transportation infrastructure between these facilities. These requirements must also extend to transportation of hazardous substances. We must demand better.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JULY 19, 2022

I wrote several blog posts about the idea of a climate emergency in 2019. In 2019, I was worried that using this precedent to fight climate change will require some real soul-searching. 43 USC 1341) If climate change is a national emergency caused by fossil fuels, then suspension seems like a logical response.

Climate Change

Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

In 2019, the court dismissed almost all of the companies’ claims, except for a single defamation claim and a related claim under California’s Unfair Competition Law arising from allegations related to a single set of statements. The fossil fuel companies asked the court to grant only a 30-day extension.

2020

Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

Circuit Said EPA Endangered Species Determinations for 2019 Renewable Fuel Rule Were Arbitrary and Capricious. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2019 rule setting renewable fuel volumes in the Clean Air Act’s Renewable Fuel Standard Program. Mayorkas , No. 20-55777 (9th Cir. July 19, 2021). July 16, 2021).

2021

Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

Supreme Court denied fossil fuel companies’ petition for writ of certiorari seeking review of the Ninth Circuit’s decision reversing the district court’s 2018 denial of Oakland’s and San Francisco’s motions to remand their climate change nuisance cases to California state court. DECISIONS & SETTLEMENTS. On June 14, 2021, the U.S.

2021

Legal Planet

MAY 24, 2021

Requirements for insurers to disclose their climate-related risks and fossil fuel investments (and a first-of-its-kind climate scenario analysis of insurer portfolios).

Fossil Fuels

Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

How much will global temperatures and sea levels rise, when will that occur, and exactly what effects they will have all are uncertain. 2019); Birckhead v. 2019); Sierra Club v. 17-1271, 2019 WL 847199 (D.C. CV 17-80-BLG-SPW-TJC, 2019 WL 2404860, at *9 (D. The SCC then monetizes those impacts over time.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

BLM prepared the supplemental EA in response to the court’s decision in March 2019 that identified shortcomings in BLM’s original climate change analysis for the leases. 37-2019-00053964-CU-TT-CTL (Cal. 37-2019-00053679-CU-TT-CTL (Cal. Maryland County Filed Climate Change Lawsuit Against Fossil Fuel Companies and Trade Group.

2021

Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

C could include: Sea-level rise would be 0.1m Not only that, in 2019, a federal court ruled that the president does not have the authority to rescind these protections. This Executive Order also includes numerous other provisions to promote fossil fuel development while ending government actions aimed to mitigate climate change.

Ocean