A Greener Life

JANUARY 12, 2025

Days before the start of the fires on January 4th, climate scientist David Swain published an article that warned that a combination of ongoing drought conditions alongside intense wind conditions wildfires would be likely. While several mismanagement factors could be blamed for Californias drought, climate change is the main culprit.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 8, 2025

And weve already seen a resurgence of outright climate science denial. Chris Wright, Trumps nominee for Energy Secretary , has denied the well-established connection between climate change and extreme weather events. Major fossil fuel corporations lit the fuse decades ago Climate change denial is no accident.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 10, 2025

For almost 2 decades, along with like-minded citizens, we have organized, petitioned, sued, testified, commented, and protested in an effort to get our state government to take a more measured approach to shale gas development coupled with decisive action on climate change. And this brings us to the matter at hand.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

As a result of fossil fuel-driven climate change, it’s on track to be the warmest year in recorded history. In Brazil, the world’s largest grassland caught fire; a rapid attribution study found the fire to be 40% more intense due to climate change. 2024 will be a year to remember. Figure 2.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen John Kerry, the former US Secretary of State and Special Envoy on Climate Change, an army veteran and veteran of US politics now aged 80, took the stage in London today as the keynote speaker at the 2025 Soft Power Index. David Haigh in conversation with John Kerry. Photo credit: Brand Finance.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 21, 2025

Congress must resist such effortswhether through the upcoming budget process or as stand-alone legislationand protect the ability of states, municipalities, and others harmed by fossil fuel-driven climate change to hold polluters accountable through litigation and legislation.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2025

While sparse on details, this new order prompts a major change in federal policy. billion dollars from the federal government. In January 2025 the Biden administration released a National Resilience Strategy which was one of the many pieces of climate change resilience-related initiatives the Trump administration revoked.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 3, 2025

Climate change is our reality these days as we navigate hotter days, more severe storms, wildfires, and other previously-rare weather extremes. We are adapting to climate change. But our infrastructure isnt. Wait, what!?

Climate Change

Legal Planet

APRIL 30, 2025

has created myriad issues for environmental journalists, including the silencing of sources people inside and outside of government who typically help the flow of trustworthy information reach audiences. Many scientists and researchers with grant funding at stake have clammed up. Climate change will lead to municipal bankruptcies.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

APRIL 15, 2025

The news that started leaking last Friday is that the Trump administration wants to break up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and essentially end NOAAs climate work by abolishing its primary research office and forcing the agency to instead help boost U.S.

Law

Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2025

And those very same people when they’re scared for their own lives they will indeed run to a scientist (a doctor) and hope for help, and it wont be there to the same extent it was before. And the universities are the mechanism by which the federal government funds medical research, its not NIH itself that does most of it.

Government

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The danger of stereotyping resides when someone in a position of power, such as a government agent, business person, consultant, academic researcher, or nonprofit administrator, expects a Native person not skilled in environmental areas to offer information.

Climate Change

Scientific American

JULY 9, 2025

But the state has done little to address the risk — and the federal government under President Donald Trump is unlikely to help Texas cover the cost. The lack of meaningful progress highlights the challenge of preparing for natural disasters such as floods and wildfires that are being made worse by climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 11, 2025

Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a sweeping effort to do away with the endangerment finding , a proposal that not only disregards science but also has huge consequences for stemming the climate crisis. Sharply cutting those emissions is crucial to limiting dangerous climate change.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2025

It is not too soon to be explaining that storms like this are becoming more intense as a result of climate change. ” Elizabeth Kolbert at the New Yorker reflects on Whitehouse’s decade of wake-up calls regarding government inaction to address the climate crisis.

Climate Change

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. Many of these disasters bear the fingerprints of climate change.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2022

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released its sixth assessment of climate change, comprised of three separate reports presenting the latest science on climate change, related impacts, adaptation, vulnerability , and mitigation at a time when more and more people are pressing for climate action.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Climate litigation is rapidly expanding. As cases multiply, they increasingly depend on rigorous, interdisciplinary research to provide the evidence needed to hold governments, corporations, and other actors accountable for their role in the climate crisis, and to inform meaningful climate action.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The danger of stereotyping resides when someone in a position of power, such as a government agent, business person, consultant, academic researcher, or nonprofit administrator, expects a Native person not skilled in environmental areas to offer information.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Below is a look at what tools are currently being used to facilitate justice for climate change on an international scale and where those mechanisms are falling short in ensuring transitional justice and a clean future. Unfortunately, when it comes to climate change, the truth is often obscured.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

In the United Kingdom, government leaders are hoping to solve two problems with one effort. The UK government has allocated 4 million pounds for a test run of the concept. According to Reuters, in late July scientists noted the third-largest loss of ice in Greenland in a single day. Transcript. I’m Eileen Wray-McCann.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

A state court judge in the ‘Last Best Place’ just gave the youth climate movement a shot in the arm with the first decision of its kind that directly connects specific state actions to global climate change and then to injuries suffered by young people. courts have not yet engaged in this kind of fact-finding on climate change.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

APRIL 4, 2024

Youth4ClimateAction in Republic of Korea We are in a critical decade for action on climate change. National governments are the most important systemic actors in the governance of climate action, primarily because they are the only actors with the ability to adopt economy-wide decarbonization measures.

Government

PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

PennFuture celebrated 25 years of fighting climate change and industrial pollution by holding anniversary celebrations in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to honor seven Pennsylvanians for their contributions to restoring and protecting the environment. Michael Mann - Climate Champion Award PennFuture honored Dr. Michael E.

Climate Change

Inside Climate News

MAY 26, 2023

The famed researcher publicly released a preliminary version of a paper-in-progress with grim predictions of short- and long-term warming, but not all climate scientists agree with its conclusions.

Climate Scientist

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 5, 2024

This post was co-authored by UCS Principal Climate Scientist Kristina Dahl. The IPCC is a collaborative panel consisting of 195 member governments. Representatives of these member governments convene in Plenary Sessions, like the one we just attended. Who is making decisions at IPCC meetings?

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act is directing $20B toward climate-resilient agriculture Reducing heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions through policies that drive renewable energy and clean transportation has well known benefits. This investment is badly needed, as extreme weather fueled by climate change demonstrated during summer 2023.

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

Scientific evidence is clear that climate change is affecting winter storms, making extreme events happen more frequently. Like most older millennials, climate change has shaped my time on planet Earth. In other words, does experiencing extreme events change how people feel about the need for more adaptive water projects?

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 30, 2024

There is a real need and opportunity to invest in people, and communities—and scientists, government agencies, community leaders, mutual aid groups, and more folks must work together on solutions. Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe asserts that talking about climate change is the most important thing we can do.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

Whether climate change impacts to Montana’s environment can be measured incrementally. Whether climate impacts and effects in Montana can be attributed to Montana’s fossil fuel activities. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They are: Whether Plaintiffs’ injuries are mischaracterized or inaccurate.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

President-elect Gabriel Boric’s new government must address issues of decarbonisation, water crisis and lithium nationalisation, all while rewriting the country’s constitution. In our government, it will be a priority to avoid this destruction and to have development that is compatible with the environment.”. By Francisco Parra Galaz

Government

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The state contended that their actions are not responsible for global climate change. It reminded me of the unsurprising, but still disappointing finger pointing between high carbon emitting-countries while negotiating climate responsibilities and greenhouse gas emission caps at COP27. I felt giddy when I read her words.

Climate Change

Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Krystal Babcock, a resident of Merritt, British Columbia, was unable to leave her home when t he government ordered residents to evacuate on Monday, staying back to care for her elderly parents who could not leave. There are three main factors why, climate scientist Simon Donnor explained to the Globe and Mail.

Atmosphere

Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 18, 2023

A first ever trial on constitutional protections from climate change is underway in Montana. and the third branch of government, the courts, are the new frontier for driving global warming policy for the nation. State of Montana , against their state government. Supreme decisions?),

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

MARCH 6, 2024

In addition, the Business Council of Canada (BCC), an industry group to which the banks belong, has pushed the federal government to label fossil fuels as green under the federal government’s proposed sustainable finance taxonomy (a classification system for green investments). Canadians are being misled.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

This new research found that ExxonMobil’s climate projections from its internally developed models accurately projected the temperature rise that has happened since then and that its calculations were in line with independent research produced at the time by academic and government scientists.

Fossil Fuels

Physics World

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Global solutions: What physicists can do to tackle the climate crisis. “A But the challenges of climate change shouldn’t be “other people’s problems”; they concern all of us. Thankfully, plenty of physicists are already doing their bit to tackle the climate crisis, as we report in the October issue of Physics World magazine.

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