Legal Planet

JUNE 21, 2023

In the run-up to the Copenhagen climate negotiations in 2009, President Mohamed Nasheed held a cabinet meeting in scuba gear 20 feet underwater to show what awaited the low-lying island nation of the Maldives if serious action were not taken to reduce greenhouse gases. I have been in the capital, Male, this week helping lead a U.S.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Total loss of the Greenland ice sheet, for example, would raise sea levels globally by more than 20 feet. This reviews 21 different approaches for protecting sea ice including both localised and large scale geoengineering techniques. This vision of a space of exception from politics as usual is a legacy of the cold-war era.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2024

Few companies did so, however, posing great risk to investors and the economy: A 2015 Union of Concerned Scientists report on the threat to oil refineries from rising sea levels found that investors and taxpayers will likely bear the costs of future disasters if companies fail to disclose and manage these risks.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

In an opinion by Justice Stevens, the Court held that the threat of sea level rise gave a state government standing to bring the suit. The Court then held that greenhouse gases are covered by the Clean Air Act as a type of air pollutant. EPA , the Obama Administration issued a series of regulations dealing with greenhouse gases.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Doing research on environmental issues or responses is usually an easy call for policy-makers and gets wide political support, even if there’s disagreement what to do about the issue. SG would cool the Earth, temporarily and imperfectly offsetting some of the climate effects of elevated greenhouse gases, by reflecting a bit (around 0.5%

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The Governor approved a notable slate of climate legislation with a package that includes more stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets and measures designed to reduce the state’s reliance on fossil fuels. Climate Change Mitigation. A Few Notable Vetoes.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

C, we stand to lose ocean and coastal ecosystems we depend on to sea level rise, warming temperatures, ocean acidification and other climate impacts. We must reduce greenhouse gas emissions now, as Dr. Sarah Cooley , Ocean Conservancy’s director of climate science, emphasized when addressing a COP27 session. Green Shipping.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

It is time the United States, as historically the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, investigates ways it can support those displaced by environmental destruction caused by climate change. In 2014, a family from Tuvalu sought refugee status in New Zealand because rising sea levels threatened their home. Factual Background A.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Basically, I go back to my freshman year geopolitics class from college and the professor who really got us thinking about political geography, but the layers of geography. Political geography of borders and so on, in a complex interplay. Then there’s politics, civil wars, conflicts and so forth.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 7, 2022

Accelerated action through deep cuts in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is needed to avoid the mounting loss of life, biodiversity and infrastructure. Adequate funding, technology transfer, political commitment and partnership would lead to more effective climate change adaptation and emissions reductions. A path for adaptation.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

It captures the changes in mortality rates that are going to happen… the changes in crop yields… the changes in sea level rise, and the damages that will cost…”. How fast will sea levels and temperatures rise? What is the cost of living with, versus adapting to, sea level rise?

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A Greener Life

MARCH 7, 2024

The consequences of the climate crisis are already visible and devastating, such as rising temperatures, melting ice caps, sea level rise, extreme weather events, droughts, floods, wildfires, biodiversity loss, food insecurity, water scarcity, displacement, conflict, disease, and death.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Those impacts—sometimes irksome, sometimes devastating—are increasingly obvious, and the causal mechanisms that connect them to the emission of greenhouse gases increasingly well understood. 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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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It puts the wildlife and communities that depend on the ocean at risk through impacts like ocean acidification, sea level rise and temperature changes. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, fossil fuel production accounts for 35% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Even before adoption of the 1992 Framework Convention, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) had proposed an “International Insurance Pool” to pay vulnerable countries based on observed sea level rise. The first explicit use of the term L&D was in the 2007 Bali Action Plan , in a section on enhanced action for adaptation.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Other States/National/International -- PG/NYT: Republicans, Toomey Stall Critical Vote On Federal Reserve Nominees Over Climate Issues -- AP: U.S.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Monica Montgomery is the Political Director for the non-profit, non-partisan advocacy organization Council for a Livable World. It also really connected my own interest in US politics, and national security, with a more specific focus towards an issue like nuclear arms control non-proliferation.”. Author: Lucy Thompson.

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

Much of the discussion of climatology in public discourse concerns anthropogenic climate change - the contribution of human activity to such events as carbon particles, greenhouse gases, and their effects such as the Greenhouse Effect and coral bleaching. This leads to the greenhouse effect. Greenhouse Gases.

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Frontiers

MARCH 24, 2023

His premise was that famines, specifically those of the late 1800s, are not the result of ecological disasters as they are often painted to be, but rather are manufactured crises driven by colonial politics. At the state level, there is adoption of climate-related policies across the United States.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

These state-level “Climate Superfund” bills are modeled on the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), commonly known as Superfund, which imposes liability on multiple parties, including the generators of waste, for the cleanup of contaminated sites.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 15, 2016

Nevertheless, it is not easy, as a matter of law, to join up the dots between those emitting excessive greenhouse gases and those suffering the consequences – the law is not designed to that end, and difficult questions of causation and standing arise.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

For example, the ongoing debate over the impact of certain pesticides in agriculture , greenhouse gas emissions are often a battle between the science and industry's attempts to muddy the science and government lobbying to roll back legislation (2). Typically used in conjunction with “greenhouse gas” but some emissions are not GHGs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

As a climate scientist recently said on CNN, “Until we stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere we have no idea what the future looks like.” So I’ve begun to meet presidential candidates… … and ask climate questions that relate to their own political history, past statements, and actions.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

The California Supreme Court declined to review an intermediate appellate court’s decision upholding the statewide greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program. Exxon said dismissal would “set a precedent with nationwide consequences” by “granting state officials license to harass perceived political opponents unimpeded by review in federal courts.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 2, 2022

The rule also bases its emissions disclosure standards on the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol, which classifies emissions in three categories. Burning fossil fuels for energy accounts for about 75 percent of total US greenhouse gas emissions, and Scope 3 emissions account for 80 to 90 percent of the sector’s total emissions.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2023

The proposal requires companies to report information related to “Scope 1” direct carbon emissions (think fuel use and greenhouse gases), “Scope 2” indirect carbon emissions (e.g., purchased energy and electricity), and for some companies to report on information related to “Scope 3” carbon emissions (i.e.,

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Arnold Porter

JULY 16, 2021

uncertain costs and losses resulting from damage to property or assets, such as a mortgage portfolio, caused by weather events, sea-level rise, increasing temperatures, etc.) Her key takeaways were (1) “[t]here is no general requirement under the securities laws to reveal all material information. and (b) transition risks (i.e.,

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Also elephants, giraffes, rhinos (of the non-political variety), Cape buffalo, baboons, uninvited monkeys at lunch, hippos, wildebeests, hyenas, warthogs and an unexpected (to me) penguin colony. Reduce energy use per square foot in state-owned buildings by 40% from 2002-2003 levels. (For Leopards, lions, and zebra – oh my!

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The Solomon Islands, for example, are ravaged by cyclones every year and threatened by rising sea levels, which could erase their identity, history, and culture. It is the largest military spender and historically the largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Negotiations over the NCQG have been going on for months.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

Earlier in his political career, Bettencourt served as Republican House Majority Leader, and as the public face of the conservative agenda in the state’s House of Representatives. The costs of increased risks from natural hazards—wildfires, floods and sea level rise— are driving insurers away.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Circuit Court of Appeals granted motions seeking to dismiss as moot the proceedings challenging the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, which established emission guidelines for greenhouse gases from existing power plants. The court dismissed the proceedings 11 days after the effective date of the U.S.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Under the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), every country on Earth is treaty-bound to “avoid dangerous climate change”, and find ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions globally in an equitable way. above pre-industrial levels, and greenhouse gas emissions are still on an upward trend.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The plaintiffs alleged that Peabody (and a number of other fossil fuel companies) caused greenhouse gas emissions that resulted in sea level rise and damage to their property. Circuit Stayed Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Truck Trailers. Republican National Committee , No. 3:17 -cv-00123 (W.D.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

In essence, the government argues these are political questions only Congress and the Executive branch can address. The NYAG alleged that Exxon used the proxy cost in reports to shareholders but used the much lower greenhouse gas cost when making business decisions. Public Nuisance Cases. over a dozen.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

establishing that heat-trapping emissions (or greenhouse gas emissions) are air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. The 2007 case was brought by petitioners (which included several state attorney generals and NGOs, including the Union of Concerned Scientists) in the context of greenhouse gas emissions from new motor vehicles.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The majority said it “reluctantly” concluded that “the plaintiffs’ case must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large” and “[t]hat the other branches may have abdicated their responsibility to remediate the problem does not confer on Article III courts, no matter how well-intentioned, the ability to step into their shoes.”

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

But it has passed laws regulating two powerful greenhouse gases, and some other climate laws stretching back over the past five decades. Only laws that specifically cover climate or greenhouse gases are included. For instance, naval bases are generally located at sea level, and thus structures are at risk from sea level rise.)

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