A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2023

The AMOC plays a crucial role in regulating global climate patterns and has a significant impact on weather conditions and sea levels along the Atlantic coastlines. The AMOC also plays a vital role in regulating the global climate by controlling the distribution of heat and carbon dioxide.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 2, 2022

Do you live in a coastal community at risk from sea level rise? Just 100 companies are responsible for 70% of global emissions. It is important that we hold corporations accountable through government rules and regulations and by using our purchasing power as consumers, board members or employees. 3) What can I do?

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 3, 2016

However, if laws and regulations are promulgated that limit the amount of carbon that can be burned, these companies will have to abandon reserves and may not recuperate their investments. People like Al Gore and David Blood are labeling this the “Carbon Asset Bubble”. [.

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Environment Next

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

that EPA could regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. auto sector carbon emissions) was to address the less-direct causal chain between atmospheric greenhouse gases and sea level rise in Massachusetts. Supreme Court in holding, in the landmark decision Massachusetts v.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

According to the US EPA, environmental justice is “ the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people, regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies ”.

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

It describes fluctuations between the sea level atmospheric pressure from the areas known as the Azores High and the Icelandic Low although these are not set in stone (8). Cutting down tree canopies without replacing it passively increases climate change by the simple fact that trees and other vegetation are carbon sinks (15).

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Circuit concluded that EPA had acted arbitrarily and capriciously in determining that the four elements of the regulations that had been stayed met these requirements. Environmental Groups Challenged Delay in Enforcement of Landfill Methane Regulations. 16-1-01001-5 (Wash. verdict June 7, 2017; sentencing June 23, 2017).

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2023

In March 2022, the SEC proposed amendments to Regulations S-X that would both enhance and standardize public companies’ climate-related disclosures (“Climate-Related Disclosures”). purchased energy and electricity), and for some companies to report on information related to “Scope 3” carbon emissions (i.e., Background.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

It is difficult to implement a region-wide program to reduce carbon emissions from transportation fuels when only one state in the region is prepared to do so. . We’re not avoiding the cost associated with carbon in fuels by failing to implement TCI. It’s called an externality. That’s not a good long-term tradeoff.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

We have an underfunded and under-resourced DEP that has had to make significant staffing cuts, whilst the fracking industry the DEP is tasked to regulate has flourished with the aid of technology. Krajewski said. “We This has become a growing problem that demands concrete actions and I believe House Bill 1467 is a step in that direction.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2024

As the largest historical contributor to global heat-trapping emissions, and a relatively rich country, the U.S. it is the relatively rich who are most responsible for carbon emissions and have benefitted the most from the fossil fuel-dependent economy. Addressing these issues domestically, too, in a fair way is critical.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Republicans said the final regulations will increase the cost of electricity for individuals and businesses, have a negative impact on jobs and will not significantly reduce carbon pollution. The DEP estimates that by joining RGGI in 2022, Pennsylvania would have been able to cut carbon emissions by at least 25.5%

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 18, 2025

The Carbon Majors database includes emissions traced to investor-owned companies like ExxonMobil, BP, and Peabody; state-owned entities like SaudiAramco and Gazprom; and a handful of nation-states with dedicated fossil fuel and cement production, presently or historically, like China, Former Soviet Union.

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Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

She achieved success in carbon emission reduction, water resources, and water quality management. Moreover, she fought for climate change adaptation, supporting projects addressing sea level rise and adopting a state regulation to reduce carbon pollution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

Perhaps the most consequential of all Paxton’s actions, however, is a lawsuit he and AGs from 19 other states, including Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina, filed in 2021 challenging the EPA’s authority to curb power plant carbon emissions. At the same time, routine flooding is already a major problem.

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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. Challenge to Settlement in Utility Rate-Setting Case in New Mexico Cited Failure to Quantify Coal Plant’s Carbon Emission Risks.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 5, 2023

Without major reductions in the carbon emissions fueling global warming, the impacts on the parks would be endless. Even under a scenario of drastic emissions reductions, Gonzalez’s 2018 study found that more than half of national park area would exceed the 3.6-degree The act authorized Congress to spend up to $6.65

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Circuit Declined to Speed Up or Slow Down Challenges to Withdrawal of California Waiver and Preemption of State Authority to Regulate Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Washington Supreme Court Invalidated Regulation of Indirect Greenhouse Gas Emissions. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. Association of Washington Business v.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

True, Congress hasn’t passed the comprehensive emission limits that many of us would like to see. But it has passed laws regulating two powerful greenhouse gases, and some other climate laws stretching back over the past five decades. The fee is designed in a way that reinforces EPA regulations of methane emission.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Most of these pieces were about the company’s support for a seemingly independent network of anti-regulation, “free-market” nonprofits that spread falsehoods about the reality and seriousness of climate change. See no evil I wrote more columns about ExxonMobil and its top executives than any other major source of climate lies.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

The plaintiffs alleged among other things that the defendants the two projects’ cumulative impacts on carbon emissions. A climate change-related argument rejected by the trial court—that sea level rise projections in the Plan were too high and not based on best available science—did not appear to have been before the appellate court.

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ESA

JULY 18, 2022

Court strikes down Trump administration Endangered Species Act regulations. Describes How It Will Regulate Power Plants After Supreme Court Setback – The New York Times. Endangered Species Act: A federal court struck down Endangered Species Act regulations finalized during the Trump administration. International.

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ESA

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The Biden administration proposed Wednesday reviving portions of a regulation underpinning federal environmental reviews, reversing Trump administration changes that limited consideration of climate impacts in agency project evaluations. White House floats revising Trump-era NEPA rule to consider all climate impacts.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit’s January opinion vacating EPA’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants. Circuit erred by “untethering” Section 111(d) standards from the existing source being regulated. Supreme Court seeking review of the D.C.

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Legal Planet

JULY 19, 2022

That would still allow some important actions that would help reduce carbon emissions. According to the Brennan Center, this Act “confers broad authority to regulate financial and other commercial transactions involving designated entities, including the power to impose sanctions on individuals and countries.” 50 USC 1701-1707).That

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The SCC is a metric that seeks to capture all of the costs that emitting a ton of carbon dioxide (or equivalent amounts of other greenhouse gases such as methane) imposes on society by contributing to climate change over the hundreds of years it remains in the atmosphere. The SCC then monetizes those impacts over time.

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