Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

For example, issues of statehood and loss of territory due to sea level rise would arguably fall outside the Tribunal’s competence and could be addressed in the ICJ advisory request on climate change. In the South China Sea Arbitration , the Tribunal explained the content of the obligation imposed by Article 192 UNCLOS.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 27, 2023

Carbon pollution from fossil fuel use and land development have heated the atmosphere and ocean, leading to sea level rise, stronger storms, fisheries’ moving poleward, and widespread loss of sea ice and glaciers. The post How Does Carbon Pollution Impact Our Ocean appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

Other successes include better soil health management practices as a result of federal spending and restoration of native perennial cover as in programs like the Audubon Great Plains Conservation Forage Program. Sea level rise is also important in the region, causing saltwater intrusion and salinization.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 2, 2022

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. As the CEO of Ocean Conservancy, I naturally look to our ocean. We can protect coastal habitats, like mangroves and sea grasses, which can serve as critical tools to guard communities from intensifying storms while also safely storing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 24, 2023

Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. We know human influence has caused this warming in the atmosphere, ocean and land. mangroves, salt marshes and sea grasses) store significant amounts of carbon. How is climate change impacting our ocean?

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 20, 2021

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. These are among the findings of a report that Ocean Conservancy in partnership with the Center for Open Data Enterprise released today. © Daniel Sebastian Padilla Ochoa/Ocean Conservancy. The post An Ocean of Data appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 5, 2022

billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions into our atmosphere—the equivalent of 300 coal-fired power plants—and these facilities are sited in predominantly low-income communities and communities of color. The post Protecting the Ocean Means Protecting Communities appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It could be atmospheric, sulfur injections and that kind of stuff. And supply chain of that, because you obviously have a lot of waste that’s generated that you don’t want to be dumping back into the sea. I mean, places where they’re rising sea levels, you need a new infrastructure strategy.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s also causing marine heatwaves, storms, sea ice loss and sea level rise. Northern shrimp, found in the northeast, are highly vulnerable to climate change, according to a climate vulnerability assessment done by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

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Washington Nature

MAY 26, 2023

Her work focuses on applied conservation problems — how science informs approaches to solving real-world issues — and has led her to research wide-ranging topics, from whales in the Salish Sea to tropical bee communities on coffee farms. From your point of view, what is the link between conservation and climate change?

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) : A group of inert chemical used in many industrial and everyday processes such as our refrigerators that are not broken down at lower atmospheric levels and rise to the upper levels, destroying ozone.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 22, 2022

Conservation easements can facilitate a transition of cropland to salt marsh, providing numerous ecosystem services and up to 90% of the market value for farms. Despite promising adaptation strategies, sea level rise is projected to drown tens of thousands of acres of farmland within the century. salt marsh area by 2100.

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Law Columbia

MAY 29, 2024

This applies to any source of pollution, whether land-based, vessel-based, and atmospheric. The open-ended nature of the obligation means that it can be invoked to combat any form of degradation of the marine environment, including climate change impacts, such as ocean warming and sea level rise, and ocean acidification.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2024

The legislation, which takes effect on July 1st, is not just symbolic: it also prohibits construction of offshore wind turbines in Florida’s offshore waters and repeals state grant programs that encourage energy conservation and the deployment of renewable energy sources in the Sunshine State. Petersburg, etc.–are

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

We need to better understand these changes, and to adapt biodiversity conservation strategies to take them into consideration. But protected areas are themselves under threat from rapid climate change, and conservation planners are urgently working to understand and ameliorate the risks. Photo: UNESCO/David G.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

In 2011 I invited Reagan-era economist Art Laffer to speak to a hall filled exclusively with New Hampshire Republicans, both leaders and rank and file conservatives. As a climate scientist recently said on CNN, “Until we stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere we have no idea what the future looks like.”

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

A magistrate judge in the federal district court for the District of Oregon granted motions by three trade groups to withdraw from the lawsuit seeking to hold the United States liable for its actions and inaction leading to the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. filed June 15, 2017).

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

To meet these goals, the state is facilitating burgeoning carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) (CCS) technologies that capture carbon from point sources to store, as well as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which removes carbon from the atmosphere. Lawmakers have accordingly sought ways to conserve water, particularly in urban areas.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 26, 2024

They are the processes that allow our food to grow, clean the air we breathe, and attempt to keep atmospheric temperatures in check. Now that you have this background, dig a little deeper into what practices local farmers are using and support those that emphasize more sustainable approaches that conserve soil health (i.e., Guerra, C.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 20, 2023

Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. How are the folks at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) helping with all this extreme weather? Coastal flooding : Sea levels are rising as the ocean heats up and polar ice melts.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The consequences of climate change aren’t reserved for the oceans and atmosphere: Diseases have secured a larger presence in recent years thanks to global warming. A Conservative Crystal Ball. Although the literature review excluded future projections, McKenzie views the latest results as a conservative estimate. “In

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Edouard Stenger

OCTOBER 29, 2018

It would halve the number of humans that will be exposed to water scarcity; prevent runaway sea level rise that could put many of the world’s islands under water and render uninhabitable the large delta and low-coastal regions that are home to two-thirds of the world’s population. PSEG, a large utility in New Jersey will spend $2.8

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

in 2012: “In an increasingly carbon- constrained world, our existing environmental laws and regulatory process no longer achieve their underlying goals of long-term ecosystem conservation. levels continue to increase faster than at any know. sea level rise. atmospheric CO2 levels. But today, it’s .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is one of the foremost federal science agencies whose foundational work has wide implications and immense value for peoples daily lives and for our economy. It also monitors ocean conditions crucial for maritime traffic and fisheries and helps with marine conservation efforts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

Earlier in his political career, Bettencourt served as Republican House Majority Leader, and as the public face of the conservative agenda in the state’s House of Representatives. The costs of increased risks from natural hazards—wildfires, floods and sea level rise— are driving insurers away.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 3, 2025

Project 2025, the far-rights playbook for systemically reshaping the federal government, specifically calls out the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to be dismantled, downsized, and eliminated.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

Mississippi: Lynn Fitch The sea level off the coast of Mississippi—the fifth hottest state—is rising more rapidly than in most other coastal areas, largely because the land is sinking. Between 1990 and 2016, the sea level off its 2,876-mile coast rose 6 inches , at least partly because the land is sinking.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 3, 2025

Project 2025, the Heritage Foundations playbook for systemically reshaping the federal government, specifically calls out the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to be dismantled, downsized, and eliminated.

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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. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , No. Department of Interior , No. 2:16 -cv-00285 (D. Center for Biological Diversity v. filed Oct.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The court was not persuaded by the plaintiffs’ contention that the FWS had concluded that conservation projects would outpace climate change effects on the trout or by the argument that the FWS erred by abandoning a finding in its 2008 determination that climate change constituted a “severe” threat to the trout that exacerbates other threats.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

Scientists, conservation groups, and legal experts have argued that the 2008 policy was and continues to be “both scientifically and legally incorrect” because there are scientific techniques and data that can be used to evaluate the effect of project-level emissions on threatened and endangered species.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 31, 2021

A number of California’s key climate and environmental goals have been established via executive order, including the state’s targets for carbon neutrality by 2035 (set by Governor Brown and accelerated by Governor Newsom), transitioning to electric vehicles by 2035, and conserving 30 percent of state lands and waters by 2030.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Congress also found that these processescould contribute to significant global warming, altering world climate patterns and increase global sea levels. Conservatives made a dramatic effort to remove this language, which went down to defeat when other Republicans crossed the aisle to oppose the amendment.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court stated: “Plaintiffs’ claims for public nuisance, though pled as state-law claims, depend on a global complex of geophysical cause and effect involving all nations of the planet (and the oceans and atmosphere). California Federal Court Ordered Publication of Obama-Era Energy Conservation Standards in Federal Register.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

The federal district court for the Northern District of Texas dismissed for lack of standing a lawsuit against the EPA in which an individual pro se plaintiff asserted that EPA restrictions since 1990 on aerosols in the atmosphere had caused global warming. filed May 1, 2020); Conservation Law Foundation v. F078460 (Cal. California v.

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ESA

JULY 18, 2022

Next week, the House is expected to consider another six spending bills, including a bill funding the National Science Foundation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. in atmospheric and oceanic science from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has a Ph.D. International. West Virginia v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

With Donald Trump now our President-elect and Lee Zeldin poised to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, I finally took the time to dive into this conservative playbook for the next U.S. Further, the plan targets the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), dismissing it as a source of “climate alarmism” and calling for cuts.

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