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Whales and Lobstermen Have a Common Enemy

Union of Concerned Scientists

A simple statement that masks just how complicated the issues are: mixing politics, economics, livelihoods, fisheries and endangered species in the ocean body that is the Gulf of Maine. GOM communities, not fossil fuel interests, should determine policies that affect GOM people. They should be held accountable for their actions.”

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A Montana Victory for the Youth Climate Movement

Legal Planet

” Prioritizing fossil fuels over renewable energy in 2023 for insubstantial reasons does not pass strict scrutiny. The current barriers to implementing renewable energy systems are not technical or economic, but social and political,” the decision says.  Is it a ‘game-changer’? that justified the harm. “The

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The USDA Has a Plan to Fix Our Nutrition Crisis—But Will It Work?

Union of Concerned Scientists

On the contrary, it relies on the routine exploitation of food and farm workers , heavy use of fossil fuels and chemicals that pollute the environment , and the degradation of soil and other natural resources that are critical to future production of healthy food.

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Can Fossil Fuel Companies Be Held Liable for Climate Change?

Law Columbia

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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Environmental Rights in State Constitutions

Law Columbia

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. Now we have an important new decision from Montana.

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Germany´s National Hydrogen Strategy Released

Energy and Climate Law

This step is quite controversial due to the impossibility to ensure that the hydrogen there is really produced from renewables and not from fossil fuels. But also because hydrogen has been praised as an `energy security weapon´ to strive towards energy independence in a country that is poor in natural resources.

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PJM’s Preliminary Review Of Christmas Storm Electric Generation Failures Shows Natural Gas Units Failed To Provide Power At Over Triple The Rate Of Other Generation

PA Environment Daily

Reaction Tom Rutigliano , Natural Resources Defense Council, said in a blog post published on January 9-- "As that day and the next wore on [December 23, 24], power plant after power plant failed. Some couldn’t get fuel, some just stopped working, and still others failed to start when called on. "By