A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The Danish renewable energy giant Orsted has announced that the world’s largest offshore wind farm, Hornsea 2, is now fully operational off the Yorkshire coast in the UK. The wind farm project, which has a generating capacity of 1.3 The wind farm project, which has a generating capacity of 1.3 Photo credit: Orsted.

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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. Offshore Wind. The biggest win for this two-week event was the recommitment to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. If we warm beyond 1.5°C,

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Edouard Stenger

OCTOBER 29, 2018

It would halve the number of humans that will be exposed to water scarcity; prevent runaway sea level rise that could put many of the world’s islands under water and render uninhabitable the large delta and low-coastal regions that are home to two-thirds of the world’s population. PSEG, a large utility in New Jersey will spend $2.8

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 18, 2023

Second, we urged BOEM to analyze the extent to which the impacts of climate change, absent the project at issue, pose a population-level threat to marine mammals.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 24, 2021

UN Secretary-General António Guterres stated that we’re in a “ code red for humanity ” and called for an end to fossil fuel production and exploration, along with a massive transition to renewable energy, to mitigate climate change. Offshore wind power is a key ocean-based climate solution that we need to invest in.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

A federal bankruptcy court in Missouri enjoined San Mateo and Marin Counties and the City of Imperial Beach (the plaintiffs) from pursuing their climate change lawsuits against Peabody Energy Corporation (Peabody).

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

As Minister Mitchell noted, “with eighty percent of [The Bahama’s] land within five feet or three meters of the sea, the sea level rise [caused by climate change] threatens our very existence.”. That this is true in a country like The Bahama’s, which has so much to lose from climate change, is both disappointing and concerning.

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