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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. But e xtreme weather is already the context.

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The State of the Air in 2024? Not Great

Union of Concerned Scientists

That means it includes the extreme wildfires exacerbated by the fossil fuel industry that burned more than 4% of California in 2021 and 2022. come from burning fossil fuels and pesticide use, and ultrafine particles (PM0.1) Source: California Natural Resources Agency. These particles are categorized by size.

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Whales and Lobstermen Have a Common Enemy

Union of Concerned Scientists

GOM communities, not fossil fuel interests, should determine policies that affect GOM people. ExxonMobil internal science, spanning from 1977 to 2003, featured graphs showing how temperatures would rise as a result of the heat-trapping emissions produced from burning the fossil fuels the company extracted, refined, marketed, and sold.

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Natural Resources Defense Council: The Cost Of Slow-Walking Clean Energy Can Be Seen In Latest PJM Electricity Prices

PA Environment Daily

Following is a reaction from Tom Rutigliano , senior advocate with the Sustainable FERC Project at the Natural Resources Defense Council -- “The bill is suddenly due for an overreliance on fossil fuels and inadequate planning for a more affordable, diverse power grid in PJM. billion to about $14.7

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How the Supreme Court’s Chevron Decision Benefits Big Oil and Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Fossil fuel companies and their attorneys will have the incentives and funding to file such briefs aggressively. Understanding the Chevron Doctrine The Chevron doctrine, established in the 1984 Supreme Court case Chevron U.S.A., This deference allowed agencies (e.g.,

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Why You Should Read CA’s ExxonMobil Plastic Lawsuit

Legal Planet

The complaint estimates total costs to California from plastic waste to amount to many billions of dollars in natural resource damage, loss of recreation, public health harms, and other costs.

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We Can Work Together to Halt Misinformation

Ocean Conservancy

Offshore wind is a vital component of reducing our reliance on fossil fuels in order to clean up our air, land and ocean from pollution. Over the past year, anti-offshore wind groups, many of which are funded by fossil fuel interests , have been spreading misinformation about offshore wind.

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