DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

At a Columbia University symposium, physicist Edward Teller warns oil executives about rising levels of carbon dioxide and the likelihood of global warming and sea level rise by the end of the century. He concluded that limiting CO2 to a “relatively safe level for the environment” would require immediate action.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

The host, Marco Krapels, a clean energy investor, introduced him to Mark Ruffalo and Josh Fox, whose 2010 documentary film, GASLAND , exposed the dire human health and environmental risks for communities living on the frontlines of America’s fracking boom. Congress between 2015 and 2019. In December, Jacobson attended the U.N.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

This phenomenon — groundwater rise — could also have dire effects on people’s health, exposing them to new or unearthed pollutants. In the San Francisco Bay Area, rising groundwater threatens to spread contamination that can evaporate and rise into the air inside homes, schools, and workplaces.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Taking immediate action to slash emissions towards net zero by 2050 could make a monumental difference to the level, frequency, and breadth of growing climate impacts, the scientists emphasise. C we are still facing half a metre of sea level rise. C, we can avoid a long term three metres of sea level rise.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Health CLIMATE IMPACTS Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza, 2020 A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide. Climate impacts 2.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

My ears perked up when Bren Haase, the current executive director of the CPRA, profusely thanked Eric Beightel, the head of the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council established in 2015. T-shirts with sponsors’ names worn by guests at a Katrina 10-year anniversary event in New Orleans’s Ninth Ward on August 29, 2015.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 12, 2020

The fossil fuel industry is driving feedback loops that include both melting permafrost and sea level rise. One of the most tragic recent oil spills took place in Mauritius which is one of the island countries that are at risk from sea level rise due to climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Tice dedicated much of his speech to what he called “the new cult of net zero” – one of three so-called “cults” he attacked, including immigration and the National Health Service. As reported by DeSmog, Farage’s coastal Clacton constituency is at risk of flooding and sea level rises as a result of climate change.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

The Environmental Protection Agency's National Air Toxics Assessment, which uses emissions estimates to model health risks, estimates that the risk of developing cancer in Reserve is 50 times the national average, and that the five census tracts with the highest risk are all in the area. The Exide plant was shut down in 2015 by the U.S.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 4, 2022

The case brought by West Virginia demanded the EPA should not have the authority to devise emissions caps based on the generation shifting approach the Agency took in the Clean Power Plan in 2015 – in essence limiting emissions across whole states.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In 2015, he tweeted that he was “v pleased” that the government was making it virtually impossible for wind farms to be built, calling the technology “intermittent, expensive and constantly backed up by gas turbines”. In 2015, she said fracking was “good for UK economy, self sufficient energy needs & environment”. So should we.”.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

The Environmental Protection Agency’s National Air Toxics Assessment, which uses emissions estimates to model health risks, estimates that the risk of developing cancer in Reserve is 50 times the national average, and that the five census tracts with the highest risk are all in the area. The Exide plant was shut down in 2015 by the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2023

We have seen sea-level rise threaten some islands in the Mediterranean like Djerba and Kerkennah in Tunisia. Ain Saleh is the site of the anti-fracking uprising of 2014-2015. It really [affects] peoples’ bodies, their health, their environment, their air. And then Tunisia and Morocco have phosphate mining.

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