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Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 8, 2025
Electric vehicle (EV) sales are increasing , and these vehicles are important to reduce fossil fuel use and air pollution. 5 years of stakeholder discussions The progress of SB 615 bill over the legislative session will determine if a comprehensive EV battery recycling policy will finally be made law in California.
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 12, 2024
Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) announced plans to introduce legislation to prohibit municipalities from receiving Act 13 drilling impact fees if they set more protective standards on the development of natural gas than required in state or federal law and while a challenge to local restrictions is being litigated. Read more here. Read more here.
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Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Human-driven sources of methane, including fossil fuels, agriculture, and waste, account for about 60% of emissions. While technologies exist to reduce emissions from fossil fuel sources cheaply and efficiently, agricultural emissions and natural emissions are often diffuse. Methane has contributed 0.5°C C of the 1.1°C
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 18, 2024
The jobs did not come, and while the price of gas didn’t go up, air and water pollution sure did. That means they are going to politicians with their hand out to receive more of your tax dollars with nothing to show for it except receipts from past failures like leaking pipelines, harmful air pollution, and dangerous explosions.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 4, 2025
that was the gist of the Dean’s email that restricted communications from Tulane University’s Environmental Law Clinic , where I worked as a research scientist. I also knew that I was a pawn in Tulane’s larger, surreptitious attack on the Environmental Law Clinic. “Here’s your gag order, have a good weekend!”
Law Columbia
MAY 30, 2025
Last Thursday, May 22, the New York State Court of Appeals the States highest court issued a decision upholding New York Citys Local Law 97 of 2019. Local Law 97 is one of the countrys most ambitious municipal climate policies, requiring the Citys largest buildings to comply with increasingly stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limits.
Law Columbia
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Background Japan has heavily relied on the use of fossil fuels for its power generation. According to the Japanese Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, the countrys fossil fuel dependency was 83.2% This blog post provides an overview of those cases and the broader landscape of climate litigation in Japan.
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