Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Climate change is putting mounting pressure on New England states: drought conditions interrupted by intense precipitation events, invasive pests killing ash and hemlock, sunny day flooding in coastal towns, increased public health burdens due to high heat days. States demonstrate trends, some progress…and outright inaction.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2023

For a state that prides itself on innovative leadership when it comes to so many other areas of environmental and natural resource policy, California’s water rights law is sorely in need of modernization. Compared to most other states, California has a fragmented and inefficient water rights system.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

At the UN climate conference last week, Colombian officials said they would declare 30 percent of the country as protected land by next year. Climate change is threatening freshwater systems in Colombia, where cloud forests provide 70 percent of the country’s drinking water. Google claims the water-use data is a trade secret.

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee meeting.

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Politics Natural Resources Conservation 2019 84

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

DEP’s Climate Change Advisory Committee is scheduled to meet on February 21 to discuss a proposed scope of work for the 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment and state Climate Action Plan as required by Act 70 of 2008. For more information and available handouts, visit DEP’s Climate Change Advisory Committee webpage.

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Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2024

Proposition 4 would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10 billion pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a variety of projects combating climate change, increasing resiliency, and supporting climate solutions. Some of the notable investments include: $3.8 billion to combat sea level rise.

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Sea Level Climate Change 2024 Renewable Energy 237

Circle of Blue

JANUARY 22, 2025

The tribe also is challenging state permits issued by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources for Enbridge to construct a 41-mile bypass across protected forest and wetlands. The energy sector and pipeline politics of the 21 st century are much different than they were decades ago.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2023

It has persisted for more than a century, despite known inequities and increasing inadequacies in the face of climate change. It persists because powerful actors benefit from the current system and its haphazard enforcement, and they vehemently resist any proposed changes. They can be convincing.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Will there be enough water for Michigan’s thriving farm sector, and for every other use of a natural resource growing scarcer across much of the rest of the nation? Will there be enough water for the state’s thriving farm sector, and for every other use of a natural resource growing scarcer across much of the rest of the nation?

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2009 Natural Resources 2020 2010 348

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The expansion of industrial-scale farming in the basin, plus rainstorms made worse by climate change, have caused the blooms to surge in recent years. Climate change promises to raise all of these costs. Climate change events, and its related impact on nutrient runoff, are not fair in their impacts.

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2014 2022 Climate Change Politics 359

Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 23, 2024

Have you ever wondered why progress on climate change is so slow despite widespread public support for climate action? How often does the fossil fuel industry try to influence the government’s climate policy decisions? Their emissions are polluting our planet, and their corporate influence is polluting politics.

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Fossil Fuels 2023 Climate Change Natural Resources 144

Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 12, 2024

The federal ministries most frequently targeted by lobbyists were Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), and Finance Canada (FIN). ECCC staff participated in 253 meetings, including 12 with Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guiltbeault present.

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Fossil Fuels Natural Resources Climate Change Government 145

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2024

How could we realistically achieve permitting reform that will advance climate and environmental goals? Answering that question requires recognizing the political realities of a sharply divided Congress and country. Any significant change to permitting reform requires a deal that is acceptable to both sides. Download as PDF

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Inside Climate News

MARCH 25, 2025

Modeling by the Natural Resources Defense Council found that at least 60 percent of individual wetlands are left unprotected after the Supreme Court ruling.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

At the evening seafood reception that year, in a corner near the fresh oysters, a board member of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association remarked to me, “Everyone blames everything on climate change, but they blame the Right Whale on lobstering.” His remark has remained with me ever since. Fortunately, Maine is up to the challenge.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 30, 2023

CAPP has targeted a number of Ministers this year, from key environmental and climate policy maker Johnathan Wilkinson, Minister of Natural Resources, to Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan and Randy Boissonnault in his former role as Associate Minister of Finance. – 7 meetings each Suncor, Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.

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Fossil Fuels Natural Resources Government Politics 130

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee meeting.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 16, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. Room G-50 Irvis Building.

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2008 Politics Natural Resources Climate Change 106

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

But the oil and gas lobby doesn’t care about the facts or the climate, it cares about what’s in the best interest of its private corporations and their shareholders – keeping the oil and industry profits flowing. This is nothing new: these companies have been actively blocking climate policy for decades.

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Fossil Fuels 2003 Climate Change 2004 121

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 13, 2025

NOTICE: PA Environment Digest Will NOT Publish On Any Platform April 16 to 21 The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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Environment, Law, and History

OCTOBER 6, 2020

April's issue of Studies in American Political Development has an article in this vein by David Brian Robertson, "Leader to Laggard: How Founding Institutions Have Shaped American Environmental Policy". American colonies ensured broad private rights to use land and natural resources for profit. The abstract: The U.S.

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Law Climate Change Government Natural Resources 98

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 1, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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Natural Gas Politics Natural Resources 2024 106

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. 26 Climate Change & Penn's Woods; Oct.

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Natural Resources Natural Gas Politics Conservation 110

Enviromental Defense

MARCH 23, 2023

Joe Oliver was an investment banker who became the Federal Minister of Natural Resources and then Minister of Finance under Stephen Harper. Oliver made it clear on many occasions that he does not believe in human-induced climate change and that he doesn’t think climate change is responsible for extreme weather.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2021

As John Dernbach wrote in a recent blog for ACOEL, on July 21, 2021 the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that this amendment required all state revenues from oil and gas leases to go to conserve and maintain public natural resources for the benefit of future generations. Not so in the United States.

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Fossil Fuels Greenhouse Climate Change 2013 126

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 19, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

Natural Gas 108

Natural Gas Natural Resources Climate Change Politics 108

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

You read this title and say to yourself, “There is no war in climate change!” Often the discussions on climate change center around the environmental effects. Experts do not attribute climate change as a direct cause of war, but it is a catalyst for conflict. that arose from climate change.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2017

We know that burning fossil fuels is the main cause of anthropogenic climate change, and that climate change is the source of adverse impacts on communities and even regional and national economies. Instead, it has been to stem and confuse the flow of information about climate change to the public and political leaders.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

22 Webinar On New Guidebook For Municipalities On Large-Scale Solar Development [PaEN] -- MCall: Lehigh Valley Success Presents Climate Change Challenges We Will Meet Head-On - By Lehigh Valley Planning Commission -- Nov. Of Environmental Professionals Host Dec. Of Environmental Professionals Host Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2025

The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee meeting.

Natural Gas 54

Natural Gas Natural Resources 2025 Climate Change 54

PA Environment Daily

JULY 29, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

Natural Gas 110

Natural Gas Politics Conservation Natural Resources 110

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

On September 12, former DEP Secretary Patrick McDonnell was appointed President & CEO of PennFuture , a statewide advocacy organization dedicated to protecting public health, restoring and protecting natural resources, and moving Pennsylvania toward a clean energy future.

Climate Change 100

Climate Change Environmental Protection Politics Renewable Energy 100

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 14, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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Politics Natural Gas 2018 Conservation 101

HumanNature

MARCH 15, 2024

With increasing temperatures, global warming and climate change are only become more concerning and immediate. As a result,transitioning away from carbon-intensive sources of energy is critical to address the climate crisis (Hernandez and Newell 2022). In Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies (pp.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 8, 2023

However, climate change has sucked the air out of the room leaving almost no meaningful opportunity for businesses to talk about potable water quantity and quality or humanity’s other environmental impacts, leaving businesses at risk of being single minded to the point of being subject to jeopardy. So the planet is going to be fine.”

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 28, 2023

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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Conservation 2023 Natural Gas Natural Resources 109