The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Revenue Ruling 2021-13 addresses the application of section 45Q to carbon dioxide captured with carbon capture equipment installed at a methanol plant that had existing carbon dioxide separation equipment.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Responsible for 12 percent of all US global warming emissions from human activities, methane traps significantly more heat per molecule than carbon dioxide, making it 86 times more harmful for the first 20 years after it is released into the atmosphere. Its primary component is methane.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Peabody, a coal company, filed for bankruptcy in April 2016 and emerged from bankruptcy under a plan that became effective on April 3, 2017. 19, 2017); In re Constitution Pipeline Co. , Reorganized Peabody Energy Corp. County of San Mateo (In re Peabody Energy Corp.) , No. 16-42529 (Bankr. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. Sierra Club v.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The conversion of energy-poor feedstocks like water and carbon dioxide into energy-rich fuels involves multi- electron, multi-proton transformations. Want to take part in this webinar? Join the audience. She joined UNC in 2012.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

In 2017, Hurricane Harvey —one of the worst—drenched Houston with more than 4 feet of rain, killed at least 88 people, and caused $125 billion in damage. Since 2017, Moody has received nearly $339,000 from oil and gas companies and electric utilities as well as $300,000 from RAGA, according to Transparency USA data.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

Since its founding in 2017, the US Climate Alliance —a coalition of states committed to meeting the goals of the Paris climate accord—has grown to 24 states and one US territory. Just as important, cleaning up the power grid also lowers carbon dioxide emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 16, 2021

million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2018. million metric tons of carbon dioxide emission equivalents in 2018, According to the same inventory, natural gas production, transmission and distribution result in 9.74 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2018. million metric tons.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

T he bill was introduced at the request of Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation which was unhappy with an April 17, 2017 settlement with DEP over an appeal of a stormwater pollution prevention permit for its West Point, Montgomery County plant (Environmental Hearing Board Docket No. 2015-011-L ).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Each credit one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent pollution below the standard. I’ve written recently about why a Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard , which addresses the bio-based diesel credits. Source California Air Resources Board.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Despite the United States having spewed a quarter of all the world’s cumulative global warming gases, Johnson blathered at a 2017 town hall: “What about Africa? The United States currently emits at least three times more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than all 54 nations in Africa combined.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 8, 2022

Greenhouse gases—such as carbon dioxide and methane—have a heat-trapping impact on climate. (12) 15) Although Methane’s presence in the atmosphere is less than Carbon dioxide, during a 100-year timeframe, according to the EPA, Methane holds twenty-five times the heat in the atmosphere than Carbon dioxide. (16)

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

of the world’s total carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion, many airlines are considering carbon-capture-and-storage technologies and electric-powered planes. In 2017, British Airlines partnered with U.S.-based It is made by combining hydrogen and carbon dioxide.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

She was a board member of the pro-oil Fraser Institute from 2017-2020. And this year Shell abandoned it’s much lauded plans to cut global oil production , in a walk-back of climate action in favour of trying to boost short-term shareholder profits.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

To do this, the city government identified a mitigation potential of 133,346 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year by 2026-27 while addressing local climate risks through initiatives around solid waste, buildings, transport, water supply, street lighting, wastewater and drainage, urban biodiversity and air quality.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

While “natural” gas is mostly composed of methane, a greenhouse gas that’s 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide during its first 20 years in the atmosphere, Ebel and his industry counterparts have succeeded in minimizing the perception of its climate impact.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

That would of course include fossil gas, which consists of 85 to 90 percent methane, a significantly more potent heat-trapping gas than carbon dioxide. He listed five examples, from 1982 to 2017, when the agency took up the topic, but each time it refrained from issuing a gas stove regulation.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 21, 2023

The Committee also reported out a bill directing the state to apply for primary authority to regulate Class VI carbon dioxide underground injection wells from the U.S. Comitta said the legislation is a start at establishing parameters for how carbon capture can be employed, but it is incomplete. “I EPA [they already did].

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

The EPA is proposing a new standard for fossil fuel-fired power plants to avoid 617 million metric tons of carbon dioxide through 2042. The ZEV regulation is not sustainable,” John Bozzella, CEO of industry trade group Global Automakers, told USA Today in 2017.  How’d that work out?

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Because of recycling, nearly 10 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions are avoided every year, or the equivalent of removing 2.15 Economic Benefits According to a 2017 Recycling Economic Impact study, the recycling marketplace contributed $22.6 million (or 25 percent of) vehicles from Pennsylvania roads annually.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Ted’s world-leading research project on the governance of geoengineering examines law and policy issues presented by solar geoengineering and carbon dioxide removal.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 10, 2023

According to NOAA measurements, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide rose rapidly. “It’s The environmental groups filed the petition in 2017. California is on flood alert, while Lake Powell is projected to receive 177 percent of average runoff through July. The EPA will respond to the petition by August 15, 2023.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Chair Glick has further recognized that, “[u]nlike many of the challenges that our society faces, we know with certainty what causes climate change: It is the result of [greenhouse gas] emissions, including carbon dioxide and methane, which can be released in large quantities through the production and consumption of natural gas.”

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2024

Of State Webpage -- DEP Awards $2.9

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), signed into law on November 15, 2021, amended Section 40307 of the Outer Continental Shelfs Act (OCSLA) to provide authority to the U.S.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

laws governing the cross-border transport of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) for sequestration, and how such transportation fits into broader climate and environmental protection regimes, including the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, carbon markets and emissions trading. Her work explores international and domestic (U.S.)

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

In 2017, AB 398 authorized the extension of the Program through 2030, instituted certain design changes, and set a new GHG reduction goal of 40 percent by 2030. The market-based compliance mechanism deigned by CARB went into effect in 2012 in the form of the California Cap-and-Trade Program.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The WMO’s GHG bulletin’s headline takeaways are stark: Atmospheric concentrations of three major heat-trapping gases, carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), methane (CH 4 ) and nitrous oxide (N 2 O) hit all-time highs in 2021 (see table below). The World Meteorological Organization Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. According to the IEA, “From USD 1.3

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

The talks ended with no serious agreements and carbon dioxide levels soaring to new records. Even in the highly-resourced United States, particulate pollution triggers 16,000 preterm births a year, according to a 2017 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

What they showed are the distinct fingerprints of two kinds of forcing; increasing solar activity which warms all parts of the atmosphere, and carbon dioxide increases which warm the surface and troposphere, but cool the stratosphere and above. 163-165, 2017. 241-259, 1967. CO;2">[link] 2.0.CO;2. 25-29, 1970. Manabe, and R.J.

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HumanNature

APRIL 14, 2022

In general, increased carbon dioxide from human activities will lead to higher temperatures. Higher temperatures also lead to higher evaporation of water from the soil and plants, as well as, lower amounts of snowfall and higher snow melt. References Dai, Aiguo & National Center for Atmospheric Research Staff (Eds). Campus, 1–54.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Anaerobic digestion is a biological process happening naturally that breaks down organic matter in an airless environment, resulting in the generation of methane and carbon dioxide (among other things, see below). Carbon dioxide makes up to one third of biogas and could potentially be another revenue stream for operators.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 12, 2022

MMBtu, as inventory withdrawals slightly outpaced the five-year (2017–2021) average. “We energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions increased by more than 6% in 2021 as economic activity increased and contributed to rising energy use. “We Natural Gas Prices “In March, the Henry Hub natural gas spot price averaged $4.90

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Obama’s “Clean Power Plan” was repealed in 2017 by Trump’s EPA. “The Affordable Clean Energy rule and the impact of emissions rebound on carbon dioxide and criteria air pollutant emissions.” 2 ° C above pre-industrial levels by cutting greenhouse gas emissions. ” Environmental Research Letters 14: 7-9.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 20, 2021

million tons in 2017 to 241.12 percent decrease in the amount of carbon dioxide sequestered in 2018 compared to 2017 from the forest and land use sectors-- 4.55 The Inventory was updated to include 2018 numbers which show greenhouse gas emissions increased for the second consecutive year in Pennsylvania from 236.21

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 4, 2021

Cartwright Announces $848,440 Grant For Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority For Stormwater Improvements WilliamsportS: Lycoming County Water & Sewer Authority OKs Growing Greener Grant To Retrofit Stormwater Basin Bay Journal: Chesapeake Bay Program Mulls Fixes For Lagging Chesapeake Cleanup Efforts LancasterOnline: Water Street Park In Lancaster (..)

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Law Columbia

MAY 9, 2023

On Tuesday, May 9, the Sabin Center and the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment launched Transferred Emissions are Still Emissions: Why Fossil Fuel Asset Sales Need Enhanced Transparency and Carbon Accounting.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

California’s 2020 fire season, along with many other climate change induced severe weather events; is a wake up call and a reminder that these events will only worsen if we don’t cap carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. [12] This will force not only wildlife species to flee from their habitats, but humans too. National Forest Foundation.

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