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SummaryCompaniesLaw FirmsSo far 99 anti-ESG bills filed in 2023 vs 39 in 2022Goals include protecting fossil fuel investments, firearmsBusinesses, pension investors pushing backUtah's Republican Treasurer says ESG part of "Satan's plan"April 22 (Reuters) - U.S. political battles over corporate sustainability are turning hotter this spring as aggressive Republican statehouse efforts…

The drop in precipitation has led to the steady erosion of Lake Prespa's shores, which in some places measures up to three kilometres -- according to park rangers who keep a close eye on the lake. For millennia, Lake Prespa was pristine. But under pressure from climate change, unchecked pumping…

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Veteran climate expert Dr Richard Lindzen made a name for himself before the term “climate scientist” had even been invented. In an interview with the pioneering atmospheric physicist and former emeritus professor of meteorology at MIT, he recounted how, between 1989 and 1996, funding for climate science in the US…

Near the end of 2022, representatives from nearly every nation on Earth gathered in Montreal to negotiate a 30-year blueprint on how to save the world’s biodiversity. The meeting, called COP15, had been delayed for several years because of the COVID pandemic, but the delegates reached an agreement that promises…

By Matthew Zweibruck, CEM Sustainability in the built environment is an expansive industry and currently enjoying its time in the spotlight due to increased pressures from communities and government bodies to combat climate change. This growing focus on green buildings need not be limited to new construction or other large…

Environment​Amid climate change and a biodiversity crisis, gardeners are bringing native plants back to their yards. BySarah Gibbens Published April 21, 2023 • 6 min read The suburban yard of Drake White’s San Antonio home doesn’t have what most yards have—grass. Instead, there are violet pillars of bluebonnets, pillowy white…

Europeans, particularly in the south of the continent, are being subjected to more heat stress during the summer months as climate change causes longer periods of extreme weather, a study published Thursday shows. The European Commission’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said comparisons of data going back over decades showed record heat last year resulted…

BRUSSELS, April 20 (Reuters) - The world could breach a new average temperature record in 2023 or 2024, fuelled by climate change and the anticipated return of the El Nino weather phenomenon, climate scientists say. Climate models suggest that after three years of the La Nina weather pattern in the…

The economic cost of greenhouse gas emissions is nearly five times higher than previously thought, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said Wednesday. The minister told attendees at a climate change conference in Ottawa that the government used updated scientific knowledge and economic models to revise the way it evaluates how much…