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Sen. Bartolotta, Sen. Yaw Announce Bill To Withhold Gas Drilling Impact Fees To Municipalities That Set More Protective Standards On Natural Gas Development Than State Law, And While There Is a Legal Challenge To Local Restrictions

PA Environment Daily

Yaw announced the introduction of legislation prohibiting the distribution of Act 13 impact fees to any county “that is actively suing over fossil fuel use.” Read more here. Although not yet introduced, Sen. Read more here. Read more here. 16 [PaEN] -- EPA Files $4.2

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COP30: Twelve environmental facts about Brazil in 2025

A Greener Life

2020 for example, the Amazon saw its highest deforestation rate in over a decade. While the expansion of wind and solar power is seen as essential to reducing reliance on fossil fuels, large-scale projects have sometimes sparked local opposition due to their environmental impact. million hectares destroyed between 2001 and 2020.

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US 2024 Election Analysis: As Donald Trump is to become the next US president, the US government will yet again depart from climate action

A Greener Life

The US only exited the Paris Agreement days after Joe Biden won the 2020 US Presidential Election and swiftly joined it again once Biden was inaugurated in January 2021. Like he did in his first presidential term, he will exit the Paris Agreement, but this time around he will be able to execute it much faster.

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Opinion: We need radical action on climate finance at COP29

A Greener Life

Trump’s second victory is very likely to increase fossil fuel production, and he has also pledged to “rescind all unspent funds under the Inflation Reduction Act ’’. The act aims to create green jobs, reduce fossil fuel consumption and switch to clean energy. Disagreements are rife, and progress is slow.

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What Is FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund? What You Should Know, Why Costs Keep Rising and What We Can Do About It

Union of Concerned Scientists

It’s perhaps not surprising then that Congress has provided the majority of DRF funding through the often last minute, politically fraught supplemental appropriations.

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Is There Really a Fiduciary Duty to Destroy the Climate?

Law Columbia

corporations and institutional investors owe a fiduciary duty to maximize profits through economic activities that continue to produce, sell, and use fossil fuels (i.e. 33] However, this view directly contributes to the climate crisis because the use of fossil fuels is ubiquitous in the economy. 5] Lucian A.

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How Some Conservative Governments Embrace Renewables

Enviromental Defense

Lets look at Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who shares many political views with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith (at least until the current spat over using oil as leverage with President Trumps threatened tariffs). That was then and this is now, and today Ontario faces a growing political challenge – affordability. MT in 2020, or 13.5