Tag: Peter Kalmus

Big Oil, clean energy, Climate Action, Law

Held v Montana: A Landmark Climate Change Legal Battle

Washington (CAR) Analysis | July 13, 2023 by Climate Journalist Noreen Wise; All Image Credits: AdobeStock. Updated August 14, 2023.

Held v Montana was the first constitutional climate case to go to trial in the United States. The landmark legal battle, a Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief, was filed by Rikki Held, et al. — sixteen environmental activists aged 5 to 22 — in March 2020, the same month that the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. The defendants in the case are the State of Montana, its Governor, and various State agencies. 

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Albedo, Biodiversity, Climate Action, Climate Change, Climate Disasters, climate justice

What Is Your Community’s Climate Action Plan?

Washington (CAR) Analysis | June 27, 2022 by Climate Journalist Noreen Wise; Image Credit: AdobeStock

The following is the requested feedback to Fairfax County’s draft Resilient Fairfax Climate Adaptation and Resilience Plan, put forth for public comment from May 16, 2022 through June 15, 2022.

With so many lives at stake, as well as the survivability of the human species, it’s vitally important for every single one of us to voice our positions, and our objections when something seems amiss with our local community/county’s climate action plans, including its timeline. Everything we do and don’t do in 2022-2024 will be hyper-analyzed in the future. The IPCC, the UN, many global leaders and thousands of scientists have repeatedly warned about the urgency to act immediately. Yet so few local governments are following through.

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carbon, Climate Action, Climate Change, Nature

Wait, what? Algae Carbon Capture?! | The Rush to Stay Below 1.5ºC

Washington (CAR) Analysis | May 17, 2022 by Climate Journalist Noreen Wise; Image Credit: AdobeStock

In a recent interview with Preet Bharara on his weekly podcast Stay Tuned, Dr. Pete Kalmus, a climate scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, emphasized that every tenth of a degree matters in our fight to stay below 1.5ºC.

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