Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Steep reductions in emissions of methane—which traps 81 times as much heat as carbon dioxide in the first 20 years in the atmosphere—are among the most important steps for slowing climate change in the short term. By Phil McKenna The U.S. Combined, the new rules would reduce methane emissions from the U.S.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

While the financial world is still waiting for key climate-related rules from several financial regulators, including the Security Exchange Commission (SEC), there has been some forward progress in recent weeks. The Act’s regulations were last updated in 2005. Robust regulation is the best alternative.

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 13, 2022

Biden suggest that the “major questions” doctrine may begin to play a large role in the future of environmental law and regulations. Biden brings it to the forefront of discussion regarding how executive actions and similar sweeping environmental regulations are likely to be judged in the future.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

The “for one year” part is crucial: stratospheric aerosols stay in the atmosphere roughly a year, so one gram offsets the heating effect of one ton only for the first year after the ton is emitted. And in all likelihood, they are not breaking any current law or regulation. Could this activity change the climate?

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 11, 2021

More than five and a half years ago, Governor Tom Wolf promised regulations to reduce methane emissions from existing oil and gas industry operations. It’s time to finalize these regulations. Regulations which require state-of-the-art equipment and frequent leak inspections will reduce this leakage. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Note: In December, 2022, DEP finalized regulations reducing volatile organic compounds and methane from existing conventional and unconventional oil and gas facilities. The conventional regulations were challenged in Commonwealth Court by conventional oil and gas operators. Read more here. “The

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering amendments to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation, but indicated they have no plans to address the problems caused by counter-productive subsidies for manure biomethane. California’s transportation fuel policy is knee deep in cow poop, and it’s not a good look.

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Capaccio

APRIL 19, 2022

The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) recently updated the Administrative Rule Env-A 1400: Regulated Toxic Air Pollutants (RTAPs). The rule sets ambient air limits (AALs) on listed RTAPs that are emitted into the atmosphere. The most recent changes were adopted on February 3, 2022. link] . .

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Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

This blog post discusses these plans by (i) looking at the underlying challenges, (ii) reviewing the scope of the strategy, (iii) analyzing the current regulations, and (iv) assessing the proposed measures to spur the development of carbon management infrastructure within the EU.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 29, 2024

million tons of methane into our atmosphere each year. Methane, a potent greenhouse gas that is roughly 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide, fuels extreme weather across the country by trapping heat in the atmosphere. natural gas pipelines leak as much as 2.7 That’s roughly the same impact as 50 million passenger cars!

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Industry opposition to regulating plastics is out of step with science and public opinion. OTTAWA | Unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – Environmental groups are jumping into the legal fray to support the federal government as it fends off an industry-led lawsuit challenging its efforts to regulate plastic pollution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

But in January, during arguments in two cases involving herring fishermen in Rhode Island and New Jersey who objected to federal requirements to pay for at-sea monitors to prevent overfishing, the conservative justices seemed sympathetic to the notion that such deference results in too many burdensome regulations.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This shift is good news because tackling methane is crucial to the fight against climate change due to its significantly higher global warming potential than CO2, the disposal of relatively cheap methods of controlling emissions, and its short atmospheric lifespan. This year, several jurisdictions announced new methane regulations.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law ’s latest paper, Permitting CO 2 Pipelines: Assessing the Landscape of Federal and State Regulations , assesses the legal framework for developing CO 2 pipelines to support DAC Hub projects.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 14, 2022

A thirsty atmosphere evaporates or sublimates its share. With increasing temperatures, “we’re seeing places that do have drought, the intensification is more rapid,” says Roger Pulwarty, a senior scientist in the physical sciences laboratory at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 3) Cutbacks Are Inevitable.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Several new regulations controlling methane emissions have been adopted recently, including two new rules for the US oil and gas sector announced last week. Atmospheric concentrations. That small concentration of methane in the atmosphere makes an outsized contribution to global heating. Climate impact. W/m 2 from elevated CO 2.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 30, 2023

The threat of flooding and erosion is increasing throughout the United States as a warming atmosphere makes precipitation events more extreme and contributes to sea level rise. Include more specific references to coastal regulations (e.g. In fact, the U.S.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 12, 2023

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR), or the range of technologies and processes for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and oceans, promises to be a major part of US and global climate strategy in the coming decades. Conclusion: The Future of MRV Regulation.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Given its high potency and short atmospheric lifespan, lowering methane emissions could prevent up to 0.3°C Subnational jurisdictions are particularly suited to reducing methane emissions, as they serve as the primary regulators of emissions from agriculture, energy, and landfills in many cases. C of warming by 2050.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Indiana regulates the underground storage of carbon dioxide. Navigator responds that it has complied with state regulations, which require the company to notify landowners in the pipeline’s path and consider citizen safety when routing the project. The company is seeking powers of eminent domain from state regulators.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

At a hurriedly called meeting November 14, the Republicans on the House Environmental Resources and Energy voted to send a letter to the Independent Regulatory Review Commission disapproving of the final regulation limiting VOC/methane emissions from conventional oil and gas facilities. Click Here for a copy of the letter. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2024

Equitrans provided emission estimates that indicated approximately 1.037 billion cubic feet of natural gas was released into the atmosphere, violating Pennsylvania’s Air Pollution Control Act. The impact of methane is over 25 times greater than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

22 degrees by 2050 because of both the reduced emissions and the dissipation of methane in the atmosphere, potentially allowing the world a bit more time to reduce and sequester other greenhouse gases. A worldwide methane emission reduction of 30 percent by 2030 could reduce global warming by.22

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In the long run, warming will be determined by how much carbon we pump into the atmosphere before we stop. If we can shave down the curve even a little, we reduce the ultimate tonnage of carbon lingering in the atmosphere. The answer is unequivocally “yes.”. In terms of emissions cuts, the basic rule is simple: Every ton counts.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 9, 2023

Today, the New York Times reported that a recent assessment shows that the world is on track to reach pre-1980 levels of upper atmosphere ozone by roughly 2040. Especially when it’s good news about effective international cooperation on environmental protection issues. .

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 23, 2024

The Earth has a natural self-regulation system for balancing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere: the long-term carbon cycle. Read the full story from Northwestern University.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

This editorial first appeared in the Scranton Times on March 10, 2023 -- As regulators investigate and lawmakers lament the Feb. Methane is a powerful contributor to atmospheric warming. In addition to harming the atmosphere, the massive leak also caused short-term health problems for nearby residents. “It

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Physics World

APRIL 11, 2022

Some high-energy neutrinos detected in the Antarctic ice and thought to have come from outside the solar system may have been produced in Earth’s atmosphere. They are distinct from the generally lower-energy neutrinos produced when cosmic rays interact with nuclei in the atmosphere to generate particle showers.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In September 2018, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to loosen methane regulations over the oil and gas industry that would have otherwise harnessed $30 million dollars of wasted energy. Over time, natural gas transmission pipelines degrade and eventually leak, releasing methane into the atmosphere. appeared first on.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 11, 2023

And a multilateral regime to regulate research and experimentation. This demands a strategic combination of legal regulations, technological innovations and cultural transmission of new behavioural norms. To ensure this, it suggests three measures. A ban on commercial deployment of solar geoengineering.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Tom Wolf signed the 2019 executive order that required DEP to develop regulations to reduce carbon pollution from power plants consistent with RGGI, auction clearing prices ­– the amount energy producers pay to buy “credits” to offset their emissions – were $3.24 And zero carbon emissions will be removed from the atmosphere.

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Law Columbia

MAY 24, 2024

The first, known as greenhouse gas (GHG) removal , seeks to mitigate climate change by pulling GHGs – most commonly carbon dioxide – out of the atmosphere and durably storing them. The Planktos proposal never went ahead, but it did prompt the international community to consider whether and how ocean fertilization should be regulated.

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Frontiers

JULY 15, 2022

His research is focused on several topics of the atmospheric physics, the numerical simulation of coastal fronts, and severe meteorological events. Without any regulation the pandemic would have likely generated much more mortality.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 15, 2023

From April 8 to 14, DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database shows oil and gas inspectors filed 614 inspection entries that resulted in reporting 56 violations of environmental regulations-- 18 violations by the conventional oil and gas industry and 38 violations by the unconventional shale natural gas industry.

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Acoel

MARCH 9, 2023

A few decades ago, the concept of atmospheric water management, geo-engineering, or weather modification might well have been characterized as a form of sheer alchemy, magic, or sorcery. Cloud seeding (atmospheric water management) an example of planned modification, airborne sediment (contaminated or otherwise) an example of inadvertent.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 26, 2022

We as the consumer have the burden of paying for a lack of regulation, mandates, and policies on water contamination.”. Extreme rain events are becoming heavier and more frequent across the Midwest as Earth’s atmosphere warms. Wisconsin ’s attorney general sues 18 chemical manufacturers over PFAS contamination. In the News.

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Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

On Friday, November 22, the Sabin Center submitted comments opposing an Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) proposal to rescind regulations limiting methane emissions from new oil and natural gas facilities (the “Methane New Source Performance Standards” or “Methane NSPS”). By Romany Webb. That is not always the case, however.

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