Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 19, 2024

Accelerating risks from climate change are colliding with shortcomings in insurance markets—such as a lack of transparent information and affordability provisions—to create a perfect storm for people and communities on the front lines of floods, droughts, and wildfires. It also needs to address structural weaknesses in its insurance programs.’

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

In the 103-page decision , the court relies heavily on the facts laid out by these climate scientists who testified under oath and faced cross-examination. ” Prioritizing fossil fuels over renewable energy in 2023 for insubstantial reasons does not pass strict scrutiny. They’ll have to be pushed.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 7, 2024

Multiple relentless heat waves occurred in 2023 , with much of the globe experiencing 20 more “heatwave days” than in the previous three decades. Communities from Texas to Ohio that are benefiting from this scientifically informed tourism boom are the same places where some people like to question and mock climate scientists.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 29, 2024

As the climate continues to change and average global temperatures rise, heat domes, heat waves, and extreme temperatures days will become more frequent. Even after years of working on climate change and warning about its impacts, the first time you or a loved one is directly touched by a climate change induced extreme weather is shaking.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

On December 31, 2023, he retired from the Clean Air Council after serving as the organization's executive director and chief counsel for over 35 years. Throughout his career, Minott and the Clean Air Council earned a reputation for holding government agencies and fossil fuel companies accountable.

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A Greener Life

JULY 5, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen Data from the US National Centre for Environmental Protection has concluded, that Monday the 3rd of July 2023 was the hottest day ever recorded globally. ” Climate scientists explain that climate change in conjunction with the weather pattern of El Nino is to blame. .” Measuring 17.01

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 10, 2023

2022 was dominated by extreme weather events, and if the start of 2023 is anything to go by, this trend is set to continue. As 2022 turned into 2023, record-high temperatures swept across the European continent, prompting activists to call for faster action on climate change. Photo credit: Reuters / Kirsten Donovan.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Climate Envoy Kerry: No Rolling Back Clean Energy Transition PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Inquirer: 100 Days: A Look At Shapiro’s ‘Common Ground’ Approach To Governing One Of The Nation’s Most Politically Divided States -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Pennsylvania’s House Takeover - A Tale Of Two Speakers - By Fmr Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2023

2, 3, 4 [Unless Sooner Recalled] -- Committee Schedule House next voting day September 26, 27; October 2, 3, 4, 16 [Unless Sooner Recalled] -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events TODAY, THURSDAY: Penn State's 2023 Ag Progress Days. “Pursue Your Happiness In Pennsylvania” Senate next voting day September 18, 19, 20; Oct.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

While the main focus has been on operational activities in Antarctica, global warming caused by fossil-fuel burning by these (and other) countries has left Antarctica on the brink of irreversible change. July 2023 is measured as the hottest month ever recorded, preceded by the hottest June on record.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Posted: April 16, 2023] PA Environment Digest Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- -- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1 Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources.

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A Greener Life

MAY 12, 2023

A woman pours water over her head to cool off during soaring temperatures in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 11 April 2023. With our children already paying a terrible price for climate change, we must act to protect their future, urges an IPCC scientist. I am writing this as a climate scientist and a mother of two young children.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 18, 2023

In this instance, 16 young people from across Montana, who were between 2 and 18 years old when the case was filed in 2020, brought their constitutional climate lawsuit, Held v. Globally, the cumulative number of climate change related cases has more than doubled since 2015, bringing the total number of cases to over 2,000.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

It was about most plans for climate security in the New York City area being unrealized. A harsh new normal Whether we wake up or not, a harsh climate is the new normal. Not-a-scientist Milloy further pontificated , “This doesn’t kill anybody. This has got nothing to do with climate.This is not because of fossil fuels.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 31, 2024

Fossil-fueled power plants are often located closer to population centers, presenting a significant health risk to residents in those areas—areas that are often lower-income or minority neighborhoods. disasters (CPI-adjusted) from 1980–2023. These are some of the many ways the climate system releases and redistributes energy.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In its provisional State of the Global Climate report, they confirmed, that not only is 2023 on track to be the warmest year on record by a large margin, but they also expect we will reach 1.4 Even though there’s a month left of 2023, VMO feels confident enough to make the call that will leave us only 0.1

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 2, 2022

This week’s report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s leading climate scientists, paints a terrifying picture of the future if Canada and the world don’t tackle fossil fuels with urgency. This cap must therefore be strict enough that the industry can no longer expand.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Reaction The York County-based Evangelical Environmental Network released this statement on the new methane reduction rule-- “Today, December 2, 2023, the U.S. Future generations will look back on this as a game-changing moment in the fight for a safe climate,’ stated climate scientist and President/CEO of EEN, Rev.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 6, 2024

The Canadian Bankers’ Association (CBA) explicitly advocated against climate-related financial policy in their testimony on the Climate-Aligned Finance Act. InfluenceMap’s report highlights the banks’ anti-climate lobbying activities contravene the conditions of their membership in the NZBA.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 17, 2024

According to his research, homeowners in the US saw their annual insurance premiums increase by an average of 33% or $500 between 2020 and 2023. Further, his work analyzing premium increases at the county level shows a stark correlation with places that are more exposed to climate risks.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

California Sues Fossil Fuel Polluters California’s climate accountability lawsuit is groundbreaking in several ways: California is the first major fossil fuel-producing state to file a climate accountability lawsuit. California Gov.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 11, 2023

The world is moving toward a clean energy future, which means the fossil fuel industry won’t be around forever. degrees, the upper limit described by climate scientists to avoid irreversible climate catastrophe. What are the current and future costs of cleaning-up the damages left behind by fossil fuel companies?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 10, 2024

It was a sorry exclamation point on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s assessment that 2023 was the Earth’s warmest year on record. Texas A&M climate scientists Andrew Dessler and Jangho Lee told the AP that last year’s real national annual heat death toll may be more like 11,000–and that it could get much worse.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 31, 2023

8 Climate Pollution Reduction Grants Workshop, In-Person & Virtual -- Post-Gazette - Mary Ann Thomas: Want To Be A Citizen Scientist? .; Posted: December 31, 2023] PA Environment Digest Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Guest Post by Mary Witlacil , 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. With announcements from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) growing bleaker by the year, climate change activism has become increasingly bold and desperate. [1] They are both acts of pessimistic hope.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 13, 2023

18 PA Renewable Energy Policy Webinar - Time To Take Action [PaEN] -- Penn State Master Gardeners Of Cumberland County 2023 Pollinator Festival Aug. Posted: August 13, 2023] PA Environment Digest [PaEN] -- Citizens Voice: Susquehanna Nuclear Power Plant To Test Emergency Sirens Thursday, Aug. 17 -- PA Solar Center Hosts Aug.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2024

Schuylkill County -- Kleinman Center For Energy Policy: 2024 Starts With A Grim Climate Milestone, But Hydrogen Policy Hope - By John Quigley, Former DEP/DCNR Secretary -- PennLive Letter: Climate Change Is Costing Pennsylvanians Plenty, And Someone Has To Pay For It - By Sen. 22 -- Penn State EarthTalk: Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 30, 2023

1 Pittsburgh Requires Recycling To Be In Blue Bins, Not Blue Plastic Bags -- TribLive: Pittsburgh Set To Record 2nd Least Snowy Year Since 1880 -- Dec. 30, 2022 -- AAA Gasoline Prices: PA- $3.40 National- $3.11 30, 2022 -- AAA Gasoline Prices: PA- $3.40 National- $3.11 30, 2022 -- AAA Gasoline Prices: PA- $3.40 National- $3.11

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2023

4 Riparian Buffer Planting In Lancaster County -- PA Interfaith Power & Light 10th Annual Conference- No Faith In Fossil Fuels - Nov. Posted: October 8, 2023] PA Environment Digest Kaufer To Host Community Electronics Waste Recycling Event Oct. Visit the PA Environment Digest Calendar Of Events for more opportunities.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2024

-- Kleinman Center For Energy Policy: 2024 Starts With A Grim Climate Milestone, But Hydrogen Policy Hope - By John Quigley, Former DEP/DCNR Secretary -- PennLive Letter: Climate Change Is Costing Pennsylvanians Plenty, And Someone Has To Pay For It - By Sen. Schuylkill County -- PA Solar Center Jan.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 28, 2024

At this year’s annual general meetings, major investor-owned fossil fuel corporations are facing fewer climate-related shareholder proposals than at any time since the adoption of the Paris climate agreement in 2015. But that doesn’t mean they’re under less pressure over their role in driving the climate crisis.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

President-elect Trump has nominated Liberty Energy CEO Chris Wright to be US Energy Secretary, confirming the fossil fuel industrys outsized and undue influence in shaping and implementing the Trump Administrations agenda. The human-caused, fossil fuel-driven, Climate Crisis is here. Here are the facts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Its no surprise that this anti-science, pro-fossil fuel administration wants to go after the Endangerment Finding. Of course, an honest assessment of the latest climate science will show that since 2009 the evidence has become even more compelling and dire. What is the Endangerment Finding?

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Shapiro, State Lawmakers To Do More To Curb Emissions -- PA Interfaith Power & Light 10th Annual Conference- No Faith In Fossil Fuels - Nov. 14 Climate Awakening Forum - Crafting A Sustainable Future , 9:30 a.m.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Its no surprise that this anti-science, pro-fossil fuel administration wants to go after the Endangerment Finding. Of course, an honest assessment of the latest climate science will show that since 2009 the evidence has become even more compelling and dire. What is the Endangerment Finding?

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2023

5: Virtual Keynote & Panel Discussion, 5 Regional Workshop Locations [PaEN] -- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Climate Activists Call On PA Lawmakers To End Fossil Fuel Use At ‘PA Climate Convergence’ -- Inside Climate News - Jon Hurdle: At ‘Climate Convergence’ In PA, Environmental Activists Urge Gov.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

COP28: Al Gore in strong criticism of hosts UAE Overall, he was full of praise for countries in the Arab region by explaining that while many countries have economies based around fossil fuels, they understand the need to change and, as a result, are investing heavily in the energy transition.

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