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The Federal Judicial Center removed its climate science guidance for judges after Republican attorneys general and House lawmakers argued it was biased.
The agency relied on legal arguments to erase the basis for climate rules, ditching provisions that tried to poke holes in the scientific consensus on
In repealing the 2009 Finding, the Trump administration wants environmental regulation to be based solely on costs to businesses, effectively valuing human health at $0 in their scientific models.
After Republican criticism, a group that offers professional resources to judges withdrew a climate science chapter from its Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence.
The Trump administration has made it more difficult to curb planet-warming pollution by dumping a scientific finding that's the legal basis for regulating greenhouse gases from power plants, vehicles and other sources.
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EPA reverses longstanding climate change finding, stripping its own ability to regulate emissions
The Environmental Protection Agency is rescinding the legal finding about climate change that it has long relied on to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
The climate fiction movie The Day After Tomorrow, released in 2004, popularized the devastating effects of sudden climate change on Earth. The plot dramatizes the consequences of a shut-down in an ocean current,
Expertise can come from generations of farmers building up understanding of local weather patterns or Indigenous knowledge about forests and rivers.
In the next 25 years, Massachusetts needs to spend between $90 billion and $130 billion to adapt to threats from climate change. So why isn't Governor Healey talking about it?
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Rethinking climate change: Natural variability, solar forcing, model uncertainties, and policy implications
Current global climate models (GCMs) support with high confidence the view that rising greenhouse gases and other anthropogenic forcings account for nearly all observed global surface warming—slightly above 1 °C—since the pre-industrial period (1850–1900).
President Donald Trump just took his biggest swing yet at demolishing U.S. climate policy. The courts will decide whether it sticks. Standing alongside Administrator Lee Zeldin, Trump announced the repeal of the agency’s 2009 scientific declaration that greenhouse gases harm human health and welfare.