Grist

MARCH 8, 2024

In January, Delaware’s Superior Court denied oil companies’ motion to dismiss the state’s case against them while granting a few concessions, including that out-of-state emissions were the territory of the Clean Air Act, beyond the limits of state law. Emissions that originated in Delaware, however, were fair game.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

“Litigation has a key role to play in light of this lack of ambition from states and other stakeholders,” said Maria Antonia Tigre, director of global climate litigation at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University. While not a silver bullet solution, she told DeSmog, litigation is certainly “part of the answer.”

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

With the growth of e-commerce and demand for faster shipping (which means burning more fuel), maritime emissions increased nearly 5% between 2020 and 2021. The drop in sulfur oxide emissions, which ironically have a cooling effect in the atmosphere by reflecting light, has also played a role in record high ocean temps this year.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

In other cases where fewer practical lower cost alternatives exist, the demand for a commodity is “inelastic.” Emitting carbon pollution causes local air pollution and health costs plus the economic damages from storms, crop-loss, forest fires, rising sea-levels, ocean acidification, spread of disease and other issues.

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Policy Carbon-neutral Carbon Pollution 72

Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

These include climate change, biosphere integrity (functional and generic), land-system change, freshwater use, biogeochemical flows (nitrogen and phosphorus), ocean acidification, atmospheric aerosol pollution, stratospheric ozone depletion, and the release of novel chemicals. Length: 1 hour 24 minutes. 7: I Am Greta.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Chugach Regional Resources Commission, an organization made up of seven Indigenous governments in south-central Alaska, is leading several projects aimed at helping coastal communities adapt to the changing ocean. Climate pressures like ocean acidification have made it harder for the mollusks to build and maintain shells.

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