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Native American Stereotyping Contributes to Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

Misusing TEK affects climate science As scientists realized that Western science was failing to comprehensively address climate change, they began seeking out TEK as a method of combatting its effects. Some oral documentation of discussions of initial change goes back as far as the 1950s.

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LA Fires and the Climate Connection

Legal Planet

The evidence shows that hydroclimate whiplash has already increased due to global warming, and further warming will bring about even larger increases, says Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with UCLA and UC Agriculture and Natural Resources who led the study. Not necessarily.

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Making Polluters Pay for Climate Consequences

Legal Planet

This Climate Superfund Fund would be created in the State Treasury. This fund would be utilized to cover adaptation, mitigation, and recovery response for the states damages caused by climate change. Disadvantaged communities are hit first and worst by extreme weather events and climate-related disasters.

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Climate Change Grips Trout Streams Across the Nation:

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Climate Change Grips Trout Streams Across the Nation: How Anglers Are Responding Across the country, anglers have watched as droughts, floods, and high temperatures batter the rivers they depend on. The issue has begun changing minds about climate change among recreational fishermen, a demographic that leans politically conservative.

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1990: The Year the Courts Discovered Climate Change

Legal Planet

In an earlier post, I tried to figure out when the legal academy first discovered climate changes. Those first climate change cases shed light on how new issues get litigated and how courts respond to new science. The Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC) specifically raised the issue of climate change.

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New Report Shows the Need for a Food and Farm Bill That Fights Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

In early 2023, I had the opportunity to serve as the reviewer of Chapter 11 (Agriculture, Food Systems, and Rural Communities) of the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA 5 ). The NCA is a quadrennial report, mandated by Congress, that details the present and future impacts of climate change in the United States.

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The Top-Ten Lower Court Decisions on Environmental Law

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Natural Resources Defense Council v. This opinion overturned weak fuel efficiency standards adopted by the Bush Administration because the government had not considered the effects of its action on climate change in its environmental impact statement. Atomic Energy Commission (1971). Morton (1972). EPA (2012 ).

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