Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We don’t need Taylor Swift to “fall in love with a climate scientist,” we just wish she’d write a song about the climate crisis. When the breathless coverage of her relationship with Travis Kelce first boosted ratings for NFL football, some suggested Swift should use her star power for good by “dating a climate scientist.”

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

In the 103-page decision , the court relies heavily on the facts laid out by these climate scientists who testified under oath and faced cross-examination. That’s not unique to Montana , even though this case focused on state laws. The decision builds off of the plaintiffs’ own proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law.

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Real Climate

JULY 25, 2021

The good news is that there are some initiatives on climate change adaptation which involve climate scientists such as the Infrastructure and Climate Network ( ICNet Global ). Such professional debates should include climate scientists, the adaptation community, and prac titioners.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

.; it represents a new and growing movement to assert and enforce future generations’ right to a habitable planet; and it allowed me to observe firsthand — and assist on — cutting-edge climate litigation. As a young person and a UCLA Law student, the importance of the Held trial is not lost on me. Download as PDF

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

As I outlined here , Montana state law prohibits the consideration of greenhouse gas emissions or climate impacts–– inside and outside the state’s borders––when reviewing projects and approving permits. This now-infamous climate prohibition has been called a “limitation” on the Montana Environmental Policy Act, or MEPA.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The subsequent rise of attribution science has been able to prove the direct correlation between climate change and specific disasters like drought, wildfires, and extreme heat. Climate scientists at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) even have linked disasters to individual companies , some of which are state-owned like Saudi Aramco.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Presumably Dagsvik and Moen are used to this kind of model, but they seem to be inexperienced with the models used for weather and climate, which on the other hand are based on the laws of physics. The note can also be interpreted as an insult because it suggests that we climate scientists do not know our subject.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2023

Trials I recently returned to the Union of Concerned Scientists as the Wester States Regional Director. Previously, I was a Senior Climate Scientist, and as such I was part of an effort to address unregulated groundwater mining in California through the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (or SGMA). The final verdict?

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Joseph Otis Minott - Lifetime Achievement Award PennFuture honored Joseph Otis Minott, an environmental law leader, with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his decades-long career fighting for the environment and public health in Pennsylvania. from Villanova University School of Law.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

However, in an effort to offer some positives, the IPCC , which represents the world’s best climate scientists, said we have seen evidence of accelerating action against climate change. They pointed to the fact that since 2010 the cost of solar, wind and battery technology has decreased by up to 85%.

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JANZEN AG

APRIL 19, 2022

Midwestern farms are learning they are sitting on an untapped resource to meet climate change goals, namely, millions of acres of farmland that have always been farmed to maximize production. Most people still refer to lessors and lessees as “landlords” and “tenants,” borrowing language from feudal England.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The Sabin Center co-hosted a consultation on the rights of children and climate change to inform GC26 with Terre des Hommes and Child Rights Connect in February 2022. Climate change litigation was a central subject of the consultation, significantly influencing the content and structure of the General Comment.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 4, 2024

In the Netherlands and Belgium, the courts found that the relevant government(s) had a duty of care under national law and the European Convention of Human Rights to ensure that emissions reduction targets were sufficient for each country to do ‘its part’ to hold global warming below dangerous levels, in line with best available science.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

And the users don’t know exactly how to choose between the whole available dataset or a selection of a small number of climate model results. Climate scientists are still thinking about how to extract useful information, which can be interpreted as useful messages that decision-makers can act upon.

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Environmental Law Prof Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Our climate scientists are facing unprecedented levels of stress and depression. Our children are scared and anxious. The future appears a dark and scary place. Sometimes, it seems like the only sensible engaged response is to pour all energy and.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In the first few months, he will have to implement a new law on climate change, reform the law governing water use and tackle a mega-drought so severe that it has even cast doubt on the country’s commitment to close its coal-fired power plants.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 14, 2025

In February 1980, API hosted a meeting for industry leaders with Stanford climate scientist John Laurmann, who offered a technical discussion of global warming. all the coastal cities [emphasis added]. We also insist that major fossil fuel corporations stop obstructing science-informed public policy and its implementation.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Leading Climate Scientist And Author [PaEN] -- Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Recognizes Adrian Naveda As 2022 James A. Mann, Ph.D., 15 On Final Radiation Safety, NPDES Compliance Schedule Regulations; Brodhead Creek Rulemaking Petition [PaEN] -- DEP Citizens Advisory Council, Environmental Justice Advisory Board Hold Joint Meeting Nov.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The emissions from the burning of coal such as steel and power plants are the single biggest contributor to climate change. Climate scientists say that weaning countries off coal is vital to achieving global climate targets which are already weak and will need to be strengthened in coming years if we are to stay below the 1.5

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Acoel

AUGUST 25, 2021

Due to climate change, that drought has been getting progressively worse: warmer winters lead to less precipitation, and hotter summers cause drier conditions, creating a vicious, downward cycle of heat and drought. Climate scientists warn that longer and more intense Western droughts are not an aberration—they’re the “new normal.”.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 19, 2019

These air strikes occurred as a result of terrorist attack on a security convoy in the Pulwama district, which killed 40 Indian law enforcement officials on February 14. Ahmad is an Associate Professor of Law at Barry University School of Law. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. appeared first on. appeared first on.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Wolf Signs Massive, 20-Year Taxpayer Subsidies Into Law For Natural Gas, Hydrogen And Petrochemical Industries With No Public Accountability Or Environmental Safeguards York Dispatch Editorial: Energy Companies Are Reporting Record Profits, PA Lawmakers Don’t Need To Give Them More Tax Breaks Gov. 15 DEP Hosts Dec. 15 DEP Hosts Dec.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 18, 2023

These young Montanans assert that, by supporting a fossil fuel driven energy system that causes and contributes to the climate crisis, Montana is violating their explicit constitutional rights to a “clean and healthful environment”; to seek safety, health, and happiness; and to individual dignity and equal protection of the law.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2022

Mann, Climate Scientist & Author, With 2022 Stroud Award For Freshwater Excellence Pennsylvania Eligible To Apply For Its 2nd $244.9 Steele, Executive Director Evangelical Environmental Network Urges Communities To Educate Themselves On Dangers Of Ethylene Oxide Emissions; 2 PA Communities Affected; Aug.

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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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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Of Ecosystem Science & Management: Guide To Seed Selection For Planting Resilient Forests -- Scranton Times: Lackawanna State Park Teaches Watershed Environmental Connections -- WNEP: Snyder County Midwest School District Saving More Money Than Expected From Solar Energy For A Year+ -- WNEP: Tunkhannock School District In Wyoming County Moving (..)

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Kaufer To Host Community Electronics Waste Recycling Event Oct. 17 And Aquatic Invasive Species Nov. 14 [PaEN] -- Penn State Dept.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In the long term, though, this very well-designed law puts us on a path to much cheaper, stable-priced energy that will put a huge, continual brake on inflation. Mann, Climate Scientist & Author, At The Water's Edge Gala On Nov. In the short term, they are probably correct.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. and non-U.S. Here are the additions to the U.S.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

MARCH 16, 2022

I went from a chemical engineering background to getting a law degree to drive real world transformation that links civil and human rights with the environment. I initially practiced law at a firm in New York City. We cannot solve these problems with a myopic view of what climate and environment looks like.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Million In Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding For Abandoned Mine Reclamation [PaEN] -- Federal Office Of Surface Mining Awards PA $26.63 Thank you for your leadership! -- Pennsylvania Awarded $244.9 Million For Mine Reclamation Projects Related To Economic Development [PaEN] -- WESA: PA To Receive $26.6 Mann, Ph.D.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Tillerson, meanwhile, dismissed the Paris climate agreement goal of keeping global temperature increase to well below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels (and striving to limit it to 1.5 Climate scientists, that’s who. degrees C) as “something magical.” is not good enough?”

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

the Foraker Act , the Jones-Shafroth Act , the Jones Act , the Federal Relations Act , the PROMESA law) and judicial decisions (e.g., Edil is both a climate scientist and environmental attorney working to advance decolonization for Puerto Rico and achieve environmental justice for Puerto Ricans. SCOTUS’ Puerto Rico v.

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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. How can we protect our farmworkers?

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

That confirms that extreme rainfall is increasing – as predicted by elementary physics as well as climate models. The authors have clearly swallowed a great mouthful of the toxic brew found on climate denial websites. But even first-term physics is completely ignored in the Statistics Norway paper.

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Greenbuilding Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

But, Michael Mann is a well known climate scientist whose research in studying the “paleoclimate,” or ancient climate, has featured prominently in the politically charged debate about climate change. This is not the way modern science should be done by scientists. Unfortunately, this decade plus long case (.

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