A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

The UN agency concluded global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are at the highest levels in human history and without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors limiting climate change to 1.5°C The report Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of climate change looked at a variety of pathways for increased climate actions.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Throughout his career, Minott and the Clean Air Council earned a reputation for holding government agencies and fossil fuel companies accountable. Michael Mann - Climate Champion Award PennFuture honored Dr. Michael E. He has publicly called for investments in clean energy, green technologies, and environmental research.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 5, 2021

Climate scientists have long predicted that the Mediterranean will be hit hard by rising temperatures and changes in rainfall, driven by human emissions. Future wildfire risk is projected to increase in southern Europe , according to the last report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Climate Envoy Kerry: No Rolling Back Clean Energy Transition PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Inquirer: 100 Days: A Look At Shapiro’s ‘Common Ground’ Approach To Governing One Of The Nation’s Most Politically Divided States -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Pennsylvania’s House Takeover - A Tale Of Two Speakers - By Fmr Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Everyone can understand that renewable energy sources-- sunlight, wind, the heat of the earth, and water in various forms of motion-- have an initial advantage over sources that must be continually extracted, processed, transported, and burned. Fossil fuel’s advantage is density, its storage of energy.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- -- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1 Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Less than a month after the UK handed over the presidency of COP26 to the Egyptian hosts of COP27 , the country had not only proudly claimed how quickly they had reduced their reliance on coal but also actively pushed other countries to move away from the most polluting fossil fuel, announced they granted permission to build a new coal mine. .

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A Greener Life

MAY 12, 2023

With our children already paying a terrible price for climate change, we must act to protect their future, urges an IPCC scientist. When heatwaves disrupt our children’s education, it is time to demand climate action. I am writing this as a climate scientist and a mother of two young children.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

Disinformation dulls urgency Climate change denial and skepticism is a key feature of the deep political divide in this nation, fueled by long-running and coordinated campaigns of disinformation , often funded by fossil fuel interests. Not-a-scientist Milloy further pontificated , “This doesn’t kill anybody.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Healey issued the CID in connection with an investigation into unfair or deceptive acts or practices in trade or commerce with respect to fossil fuel products and securities. Arizona Board of Regents Filed Notice of Appeal in Climate Scientist Public Records Case. Fish & Wildlife Service , No. 4:16 -cv-06040 (N.D.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 31, 2024

A group of climate and energy experts and enthusiasts enters a theater to watch Twisters , hoping for a renewable energy twist. In the words of Kristy Dahl, UCS climate scientist : “The reality is that there have always been tornadoes. There have always been hurricanes. There have always been wildfires.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 15, 2024

The world’s nations, particularly the top burners of fossil fuels such as the United States, have yet to unify to prevent uncontrolled global warming. Such communities are often already overburdened with pollution associated with fossil fuel burning and proximity to polluting industries.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

And the rigorous teaching of climate science does not inculcate anyone with anything except a greater understanding of the physical world and how humans are altering it. I’d bet a climate scientist would have been glad to make the short trip to talk to Senator Cirino. can be suspicious of climate action.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 15, 2024

A taxonomy is supposed to clear up greenwashing, but including fossil fuels like ‘natural’ gas under a sustainable finance taxonomy would muddy the waters rather than clarify them. To advance a climate aligned financial system, fossil fuels like ‘natural’ gas should not be included under a Canadian sustainable finance label.”

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

The European Commission proposes replacing natural gas from any source in key sectors of its energy economy, dramatically expanding energy efficiency, renewables “instead of funding the fossil fuel industry elsewhere.” They want energy jobs in the EU. Let's dash into renewable energy at lightning speed.

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

It turns out, for example, that climate-change researchers fly more frequently than scientists in other fields. Change 65 102184 ), climate scientists jet off two to three times a year on average, whereas other researchers get on planes just twice during that time. But other scientists also fly a lot.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 18, 2021

continue to rely on an outdated fossil fuel energy source, and prolong the opportunity to become world leaders in renewable energy sources. Amplify voices of local activists and climate scientists. Frame climate the human health issue that it is, and speak of the climate crisis in present tense.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

California Sues Fossil Fuel Polluters California’s climate accountability lawsuit is groundbreaking in several ways: California is the first major fossil fuel-producing state to file a climate accountability lawsuit. California Gov.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Edil is both a climate scientist and environmental attorney working to advance decolonization for Puerto Rico and achieve environmental justice for Puerto Ricans. So it really is no surprise that Puerto Rico is among the three countries that were most impacted by climate change between 1999 and 2018, according to Germanwatch.

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

As it became clear that the growth in the global birth rate had peaked, Malthusian thinkers started to look to climate change as a replacement apocalypse for overpopulation and resource scarcity. I show how Malthusians have used climate change to shift from claiming fossil fuels were scarce to claiming that the environment was scarce.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2024

Schuylkill County -- Kleinman Center For Energy Policy: 2024 Starts With A Grim Climate Milestone, But Hydrogen Policy Hope - By John Quigley, Former DEP/DCNR Secretary -- PennLive Letter: Climate Change Is Costing Pennsylvanians Plenty, And Someone Has To Pay For It - By Sen. 22 -- Penn State EarthTalk: Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2023

4 Riparian Buffer Planting In Lancaster County -- PA Interfaith Power & Light 10th Annual Conference- No Faith In Fossil Fuels - Nov. Kaufer To Host Community Electronics Waste Recycling Event Oct. 26 In Luzerne County -- Schuylkill Action Network Holds 20th SANniversary Celebration Nov.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 31, 2023

.; Olympus Energy Expects To Begin Construction In June 2025 -- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: PA Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fee Revenue For 2023 Estimated To Be Among Lowest On Record -- PennLive Guest Essay: We Can’t Let Pennsylvania Become The Next Petrochemical Cancer Alley - By Joseph Minott, Clean Air Council -- Delaware RiverKeeper Network (..)

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 13, 2023

16 Webinar: Why Should We Care About, Advocate For A Climate-Friendly Federal Farm Bill? 18 PA Renewable Energy Policy Webinar - Time To Take Action [PaEN] -- Penn State Master Gardeners Of Cumberland County 2023 Pollinator Festival Aug. 15] -- PA Interfaith Power & Light, Jewish Earth Alliance Aug. Potter County To Sept.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 126. Fourth Circuit Declined to Stay Remand Order in Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies; Companies Sought Stay from Supreme Court. Court Dismissed Counterclaims in Climate Scientist’s Defamation Lawsuit. FEATURED CASE.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The federal district court for the Northern District of California denied Oakland’s and San Francisco’s motions to remand their climate change public nuisance lawsuits against five major fossil fuel producers to state court. Arizona Court Ordered Production of Climate Scientists’ Emails Under Arizona’s Public Records Law.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2024

-- Kleinman Center For Energy Policy: 2024 Starts With A Grim Climate Milestone, But Hydrogen Policy Hope - By John Quigley, Former DEP/DCNR Secretary -- PennLive Letter: Climate Change Is Costing Pennsylvanians Plenty, And Someone Has To Pay For It - By Sen. Schuylkill County -- PA Solar Center Jan.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

The Oregon Supreme Court agreed with a petitioner that the Attorney General should modify the text of a ballot title that, if adopted by voters, would amend an Oregon statute to require that greenhouse gas emissions from industry and fossil fuel sources be reduced by 100% below 1990 levels by 2050.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Fossil fuel and chemical polluters, business lobbyists and conservative private land interests have fought these laws and the EPA since their inception and they made fresh headway during the Trump administration, which undertook a widespread effort to gut environmental protections and slashed staffing of the EPA back to levels of the 1980s.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2022

The European Commission last week put out a plan that proposes replacing natural gas from any source in key sectors of their economy, dramatically expanding energy efficiency and home-grown renewable energy to get away from this dependency and volatile markets. Read more here.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Fossil fuels and conflicts These events just illustrate how big a role fossil fuels play in conflicts and aiding them. This is of course not to suggest that wars and conflicts would go away with a clean energy system, but it would eliminate some of the weaponry elements that could deployed.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To get an assessment of the progress thus far, as well as an idea if what has to happen next, I turned to two of my colleagues in the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Climate & Energy Program: Principal Climate Scientist Rachel Licker and Transmission Policy Manager Sam Gomberg. It’s a big deal.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

They said, depending on how the proceeds of the final regulations are invested, it will not have a negative impact on jobs, but will be a job creator and energy efficiency and renewable energy initiatives will reduce energy costs. It needs to be an informed decision with equal input from climate scientists and economists.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2022

Senate passed compromised legislation that would make the largest federal investment-- $375 billion-- in climate change fighting strategies, including investments in renewable energy production, tax rebates for consumers for energy efficiency and electric vehicles and more. On August 7, the U.S.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

Energy Policy Advocates v. Court Said Climate Scientist Provided Sufficient Evidence of Actual Malice for Blog Authors but Not for Publisher. In the Tenth Circuit, both fossil fuel companies and local government entities filed supplemental briefs on July 16. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore , No. BP p.l.c. ,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

The US House Oversight and Reform Committee kicked off its investigation of the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long climate change disinformation campaign last fall by inviting top executives from BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell to testify about their role and subpoenaing their companies for internal documents.

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