Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 13, 2022

In 2010, GM committed to a 20% reduction in carbon intensity by 2020. It achieved that goal in 2017. And in January 2021, it said it would source 100% renewable energy to power GM facilities in the U.S. by 2030 and globally by 2035.

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Law and Environment

APRIL 11, 2022

Nonetheless, here are some of what seemed to me to be important takeaways: Firstly, and most importantly, we’re not doing a very good job at mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. I suspect that, if one asked the average American whether GHG emissions increased or decreased from 2010 to 2019, they would say that emissions decreased.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Net-zero greenhouse gas emission does not have any geophysical significance. Wherever the authors had made a reference to net-zero CO2 emissions, the Saudis (and sometimes China) tried to amend it to say net-zero greenhouse gases instead. coming as part of the upgrade to Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) for the COP26 meeting.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

And near the end of Bush’s term, the Supreme Court ruled that EPA had the power to regulate greenhouse gases under a 1970 air pollution law. But it died in the Senate, and any hope of reviving it ended when House Democrats were routed in the 2010 elections. And indeed, a major climate bill did pass the House.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 12, 2022

Each year since 1995, with the exception of 2020, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ) has hosted a Conference of Parties (COP), where members of the UNFCCC negotiate issues relating to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other matters relating to climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions 1990–2019. Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions include carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes, net carbon dioxide from land use, land use change and forestry, methane, nitrous oxide, and fluorinated gases.

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Inhabitant

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The world will face catastrophic weather events unless governments take steps to cut greenhouse gas emissions. This is according to a new report released by the United Nation last Friday.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 5, 2023

By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue – April 5, 2023 For decades, leading US farm leaders likened efforts to rein in harmful climate change as attacks on agriculture itself, aligning with oil and gas industry groups to block policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. greenhouse gases.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

its district, appellate , and supreme courts decided in favor of Urgenda, an upstart environmental organization, ordering the government to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Everyone produces greenhouse gases.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

Understanding Climate Change & Greenhouse Gas Emissions. The greenhouse effect is a popular name for the earth’s warming effect which occurs naturally when gasses in the atmosphere trap heat from the sun and prevent it from escaping back into space. Greenhouse Gas Emissions are Increasing. F) of warming in the 21st century.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

The 2021 New Hampshire Climate Assessment states unequivocally: “Without significant reduction in atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHG), extreme precipitation events are projected to increase a minimum of 20%, leading to an increase in freshwater flooding regionally.”

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Securities and Exchange Commission proposed ESG Rules to Enhance and Standardize Climate-Related Disclosures that will among other matters require companies for the first time to disclose greenhouse gas emission data, we continue to work with companies in complying with the SEC’s existing disclosure requirements as they apply to climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2021

The company has made substantial progress in reducing emissions from generation and other areas of its operations and is on track to achieve a 70 percent reduction from 2010 levels in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by 2035 and an 80 percent reduction by 2040.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2024

The SEC released guidance in 2010 directing public companies to disclose risks resulting from climate-related regulation, legislation, and weather, among other sources. The rule was created in response to investor complaints that companies weren’t adequately disclosing information about climate-related financial risk.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Rather than simply requesting the company disclose information related to production of greenhouse gas emissions, the court weighed the impacts of climate change as part of its balancing test to determine whether the project was in the public interest. Section 4.15(1) Four Key Takeaways. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The standard is based on a percent of total electricity sales, and in addition to certain eligibility requirements, requires that generators have commenced commercial operation after 2010. The regulations were amended in 2020 to include a program for existing generation units, CES-E, which has several distinct requirements.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2022

Unless people adapt to rapid environmental change and greenhouse gas emissions are slowed, the risks to biodiversity, water security, food production, infrastructure stability, and health are much higher toward the end of the century. Warming temperatures are causing rapid shifts between wet and dry, flood and drought.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The emissions intensity of Canadian oil and gas increased by 3% from 2010 to 2020, according to the Canadian Energy Centre , the Alberta Government-funded “Energy War Room.” The Canadian Energy Centre reports that production of oil and gas increased 41% over the same period (2010-2020).

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Just days before the conference she was featured in an article where she attempted to shift blame away from the fossil fuel industry by saying that oil companies can only decarbonize as fast as the rest of the economy – a comment that completely ignores the fact that the oil and gas industry is Canada’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Fracking company XTO Energies, acquired by ExxonMobil in 2010, helped fund the site’s launch in 2009, along with oil supermajors Chevron, BP, and Shell.

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Arnold Porter

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In 2010, the SEC published interpretive guidance (2010 Guidance) for public companies regarding disclosure requirements relating to climate change matters.[[N:Securities What the 2010 Guidance did not do was create specific reporting requirements related to climate change or other ESG-related matters. Current SEC framework.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Adaptation, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and accounting for climate damages will be prominent topics at the UN climate convention in November. It’s also an essential consideration as countries plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the goals of the Paris agreement. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

We must reduce greenhouse gas emissions now, as Dr. Sarah Cooley , Ocean Conservancy’s director of climate science, emphasized when addressing a COP27 session. International shipping emissions, responsible for roughly 3% of the world’s greenhouse gases, can be eliminated by moving toward zero-carbon shipping. If we warm beyond 1.5°C,

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The World Bank estimates that Africa was home to 40 percent of natural gas discoveries between 2010 and 2020, including one off Senegal’s coast near Saint Louis and another smaller deposit closer to the capital, Dakar. Read the full story in the Washington Post.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Today the federal government is even going another step further in proposing to calculate the “social cost of greenhouse gases” carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. Contrast those theoretical dollar estimates with the dollars actually paid in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the first mandatory cap and trade program in the U.S.,

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

A new wave of cases differs from traditional environmental lawsuits by highlighting the connections between preserving the Amazon and the climate, the grave risk of greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation, and the critical role of the forest as a major global carbon sink. The timing of these climate disputes is not accidental.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The promise from many nations is to reach net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 (or earlier) and interim targets are essential. But the United Nations has just said that the latest commitments of the 192 parties of the 2015 Paris agreement will equate to a 16% rise in global greenhouse-gas emissions in 2030 compared to 2010.

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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

electric generation capacity, compared to just 4% in 2010. While in use, solar panels safely generate electricity without creating greenhouse gas emissions. Some believe this end of life government subsidy to the solar industry is key to continuing the greater solar market uptick and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2023

California did this despite substantial growth over the decade from 2010 to 2020, adding about 2.4 That reduction amounts to roughly 45 million tons of CO2, equivalent to taking ten million cars off the road. million people and expanding real GDP by well over a third. For comparison purposes: That’s twice as big a reduction as the U.S.

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Greenbuilding Law

MARCH 10, 2024

Last Wednesday by a 3 to 2 vote the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted long awaited rules to enhance and standardize climate related disclosures, including for the first time requiring greenhouse gas emission disclosures by public companies and in public offerings. 36% of annual Commission filings include climate disclosures).

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Environmental and Urban Economics

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

My microeconomics research, as sketched out in my 2010 Climatopolis book and my 2021 Adapting to Climate Change books, argues that capitalism accelerates our ability to adapt as market price signals encourage substitution and innovation. In my 2010 Climatopolis book, I asked; “If Milton Friedman ran the U.S Read our 2022 NBER paper.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

The UN agency concluded global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are at the highest levels in human history and without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors limiting climate change to 1.5°C They pointed to the fact that since 2010 the cost of solar, wind and battery technology has decreased by up to 85%.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

By Stepehen Wiegand In October 2009, EPA promulgated the Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Rule. Additionally, two public hearings are currently scheduled on the proposed rules – April 19, 2010 in Arlington, Va. and April 20, 2010 in Washington, D.C.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

greenhouse gas emissions, more than the electric power sector. EPA is an effort by conservative states and fuel suppliers to block EPA regulations of greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. Transportation is now the source of 28% of U.S. That back-and-forth mostly tracked the briefing.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Transportation A Cap-and-Invest Approach . In recent years, states in New England and the mid-Atlantic region have made significant progress in reducing climate change-inducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity generation sector. [1].

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Acoel

JANUARY 5, 2022

Each year since 1995, with the exception of 2020, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ) has hosted a Conference of Parties (COP), where members of the UNFCCC negotiate issues relating to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other matters relating to climate change.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 4, 2023

The Montreal Protocol, which banned most uses of ozone-destroying chemicals known as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and called for their global phase-out by 2010, has been a great success story: Earth’s ozone layer is projected to recover by the 2060s. Read the full story in Nature.

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