Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Climate scientists at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) have dubbed the six-month stretch from May through October “ Danger Season ” because of the confluence of extreme weather—record heat, raging wildfires, severe storms, and flooding—that is putting people at risk around the world. Danger Season amps up pesticide risks.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2024

The 2024 State of the Air report I work every day on topics related to air in my role as a Senior Climate Scientist at UCS, through my volunteer grassroots work, and because I want to be a well-informed resident in the San Joaquin Valley. Failure is not an option because I live here; I cannot just disconnect. This is personal.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2022

Mann, Climate Scientist & Author, With 2022 Stroud Award For Freshwater Excellence [PaEN] -- Sustainable Communities Network SW PA: PA Solar Center G.E.T. Related Articles This Week: -- Stroud Water Research Center Honors Dr. Michael E. Solar Program; Community Energy Webinars; Sustainable PA Websit e [PaEN] -- U.S.

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A Greener Life

JULY 5, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen Data from the US National Centre for Environmental Protection has concluded, that Monday the 3rd of July 2023 was the hottest day ever recorded globally. ” Climate scientists explain that climate change in conjunction with the weather pattern of El Nino is to blame. Measuring 17.01

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2022

Reducing VOC/Methane Emissions From Unconventional Oil & Gas Facilities [PaEN] -- TribLive Guest Essay: EPA Must Address Natural Gas Leaks That Are Harming Our Children - By Kim Anderson, Evangelical Environmental Network [PaEN] -- FracTracker Alliance: New Film Tells Story Of Grant Twp.,

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 30, 2023

A climate scientist is appointed to a White House intelligence advisory board. Environmental Protection Agency is taking action to prevent groundwater contamination from coal waste. The Rundown The White House publishes a strategy for incorporating natural assets into economic accounts.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Reaction The York County-based Evangelical Environmental Network released this statement on the new methane reduction rule-- “Today, December 2, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its final standard to curb wasteful methane emissions and other harmful air pollutants from the oil and gas sector. “On

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

It needs to be an informed decision with equal input from climate scientists and economists. In fact, the legislature has acted in concert with the private sector over the last decade to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while at the same time producing more energy. Pennsylvania must get this decision on RGGI right.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 16, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency issued a warning that two types of PFAS in sewage sludge fertilizer commonly used by growers and supported by the EPA may be a human health risk. Reservoirs in southern Spain were depleted by heat and drought in 2024. Photo Brett Walton/Circle of Blue YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN The U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 10, 2024

Texas A&M climate scientists Andrew Dessler and Jangho Lee told the AP that last year’s real national annual heat death toll may be more like 11,000–and that it could get much worse. And even that number of US deaths may be a vast understatement given that heat illnesses are often not mentioned on death certificates.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 13, 2021

The White House has announced that Allison Crimmins will lead a major government report on climate change after the Trump-era pick for the job was removed earlier this year. Crimmins, a climate scientist who spent almost a decade working at the Environmental Protection Agency, is now the director… Read more →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

It cannot be easy to be a federal scientist right now. I know – I was a climate scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) when Donald J. This article is republished from SciLight, an independent science policy publication on Substack. Download the toolkit (PDF). Trump won the 2016 election.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 28, 2024

” Why, then, did Shell’s Gretchen Watkins call the final watered down Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations “ frustrating and disappointing ” in 2020? It also marks the end of the Board tenure of climate scientist Dr. Susan Avery.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule repealing the Clean Power Plan and finalizing the final Affordable Clean Energy rule in its place. Court Dismissed Counterclaims in Climate Scientist’s Defamation Lawsuit. Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection , No. West Virginia v. 15-1363 et al.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency et al. The court further mandated that, under the Clean Air Act, the EPA must set protective standards for global warming pollutants if the agency found them to be harmful to human health and welfare. Its not a genuine effort to engage with scientific facts and listen to climate scientists.

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A Greener Life

JULY 6, 2022

In this case, it removed the ability of the government agency the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to regulate emissions from power plants, making it one of the only countries in the world where the government can’t intervene to set emission standards.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency et al. The court further mandated that, under the Clean Air Act, the EPA must set protective standards for global warming pollutants if the agency found them to be harmful to human health and welfare. Its not a genuine effort to engage with scientific facts and listen to climate scientists.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Outside of bird protection acts of the early 20 th century, protections for water, air and the atmosphere are a late 20 th -century development, created in the wake of Rachel Carson’s 1962 treatise on pesticides, Silent Spring. Trump is out of office, but he left behind a 6-3 conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

Arizona Court Ordered Production of Climate Scientists’ Emails Under Arizona’s Public Records Law. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit in the federal district court for the District of Columbia to compel the U.S. 34-2015-80002005 (Cal. judgment Feb.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2018 rule in which EPA decided to expand the D.C. Individuals, companies, and organizations filed 18 amicus briefs in support of the Public Health and Environmental Petitioners, State and Municipal Petitioners, Clean Energy Associations, and Power Company Petitioners.

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Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

But along with those macro-level issues, Trump and his cronies are still hammering away at climate change denial, environmental protection, research funding and public health issues. pulling out of the Paris climate deal may make China great again. Groups see climate science review as chance to undercut regulation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

They included Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt and White House Legislative Affairs Director Marc Short. Climate scientists, he added, “have these models that show it, but the models don’t work….”. million and Chevron’s $39.47

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

billion to spend through fiscal year (FY) 2026 on weather, ocean and climate research and forecasting while the Environmental Protection Agency receives $264 million for climate change research and development. NOAA also receives $765 climate adaptation and resilience. He will assess the latest research for U.S.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue a decision on Exxon’s application to renew the NPDES permit, which had expired in 2014. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2019 rule setting renewable fuel volumes in the Clean Air Act’s Renewable Fuel Standard Program. Circuit largely rejected challenges to the U.S.

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ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency. This includes $936 million for a new Accelerating Environmental and Economic Justice initiative. Climate Change Forces Brutal Choices at National Parks – The New York Times. Top Climate Scientist Blasts Government Lab After Denier Invited to Speak – Gizmodo. What to Save?

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