Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

It was the first case in which the Court was confronted with the issue of climate change. This gave EPA the power to impose limits on carbon emissions by vehicles and industry. Lucas appeared at the time to be the start of a sweeping constitutional attack on environmental and land use regulations. Michigan v.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2021

My point is this: No matter how many battles we end up losing in the fight to stop carbon emissions, we can never afford to give up. It’s not hard to see why some people despair about the climate. In terms of emissions cuts, the basic rule is simple: Every ton counts. That’s about ten years of emissions at current rates.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As noted at the end of last year, 2021 was significant for climate litigation, with several decisions worldwide providing a fresh look at stakeholder responsibility for climate change. A landmark decision recognizing the impacts of climate change on human rights. In September this year, the U.N.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act’s new hydrogen production tax credit , known as code 45V, is intended to incentivize a shift to low-carbon hydrogen production by offering producers a credit that increases in value as the carbon emissions associated with produced hydrogen declines.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 18, 2022

I want to talk about some options for using the tax system to change that. One option, a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, gets the most attention but seems politically impossible. The closest we’ve ever come to a carbon tax is a limited fee on methane emissions under the new IRA law.

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2023

The AMOC plays a crucial role in regulating global climate patterns and has a significant impact on weather conditions and sea levels along the Atlantic coastlines. The AMOC also plays a vital role in regulating the global climate by controlling the distribution of heat and carbon dioxide.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

As the impacts of climate change are felt more acutely with each passing year, new research suggests that the future costs of emitting CO2 today may be much higher than previously calculated. What is the social cost of carbon? It’s designed to weigh the benefits of reducing warming against the costs of cutting emissions.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 27, 2023

derasa ) shell from a 1955 Palau expedition courtesy of the ANS Malacology archives collection Marine organisms with shells made of calcium carbonate, like giant clams and corals, encounter formidable obstacles in the face of increasing acidity in the ocean. Giant clam ( T. Giant clam ( T.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2022

The carbon credit market continues to evolve as oil and gas companies face increasingly stringent regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Operators may now have the potential to sell carbon credits in exchange for the P&A of inactive, shut-in, or temporarily abandoned wells. million vehicles per year.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 2, 2022

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report released this week details how future climate impacts are going to affect our society, and many of us may be wondering what the future holds. We need bold plans and execution at all levels of government to combat climate change. In the U.S.,

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2024

Partners Receive $1 Million NFWF Grant For Water Quality, Climate Change Benefits Dairy Farms In PA, MD, VA -- DEP Chesapeake Bay Update: Conowingo Plan Reports Progress, Grant Opportunities, Updates From Counties, More! Signs Off On Solar Energy Facility -- USDA Funds 31 Local Projects Totaling $5.69

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2023

Oil/Natural Gas Production Other States/National/International -- WITF/NPR: The U.S.

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 11, 2021

In December 2018, after having successfully reduced greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector by 53.3%, a majority of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) jurisdictions announced plans to design a program to address carbon emissions from the combustion of transportation fuels. Core Principles and Mechanism.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 10, 2022

Wolf Now Has To Decide To Hold Oil & Gas Drillers Accountable, Or Create A $5.1 Wolf Now Has To Decide To Hold Oil & Gas Drillers Accountable, Or Create A $5.1

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 4, 2021

A climate crisis is happening before our eyes. It is caused by human activity and carbon emissions. According to Pennsylvania’s recently released 2021 Climate Impacts Assessment, average annual temperatures in the commonwealth will rise by 5.9°F Climate change is here. The science is clear.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

The past two years have yielded unprecedented executive and regulatory engagement in the climate change discussion. to reducing their carbon emissions. which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. international climate change agreement. social cost of carbon.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 29, 2020

For years, legislators, policymakers, and business – Dominion Energy – have been avoiding the writing on the wall that climate change is having a substantial impact on Virginians, whether it be the fate of our historic sites in Williamsburg, the crop yield in the Shenandoah Valley, or an even more miserable pollen season in.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

EPA does have authority to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the federal Clean Air Act and the Court’s ruling did not address that existing authority. Today’s ruling undercuts good-faith efforts to fight climate change and protect clean air but that does not mean we will stop fighting.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

The majority also seems utterly disinterested in the fact that a solid majority of people in this country want action on climate change and pollution. A CNN poll in December found that 73 percent of respondents in the United States say the federal government has some level of responsibility to curb climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2022

Less shareholder support for climate proposals at BP, ConocoPhillips and other major oil and gas companies’ annual meetings earlier this month suggests that some investors may be falling for fossil fuel industry spin and deprioritizing climate action. Mandatory Climate Disclosure. That would be shortsighted and dangerous.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed a set of new rules intended to create a consistent, comparable, and reliable source of information regarding climate change impacts and sustainability efforts to inform and protect investors while facilitating further innovation in this evolving area. Background.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

It also directs the Department of Defense to ensure that its core processes fully consider and make adjustments to account for climate change and ensure the climate resilience of DoD assets. More News: Europe Met a Climate Target. But Is It Burning Less Carbon? – The bill includes $514.3 million for PFAS clean-up.

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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Embodied carbon is particularly important because it contributes more climate changing emissions during construction than 30 years of operational carbon from a typical newly constructed LEED certified office building! It is also important that more than one third of concrete manufacturers are small businesses.

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Acoel

AUGUST 2, 2022

Besides their beauty, peatlands have moved to the forefront of environmental discussions on climate change. Today, these terrestrial wetland ecosystems serve as a powerful tool for carbon sequestration. It was not a designated State Park then, but fortunately, unlike many peat areas, it is now protected for future generations.

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

But since it became clear that human actions are damaging the environment and changing the climate, it has become much more prominent nationally and internationally with most government departments in most countries having responsibilities to mitigate or prepare for climate change scenario. The Human Impacts on Climate.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Climate Change on the Docket. At issue in this case is whether and how the EPA can set standards for carbon emissions at power plants. The coal industry and conservative states want the high court to limit EPA’s powers solely to the regulation of individual power plants. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.

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Legal Planet

MAY 13, 2024

In his four years in office, Donald Trump rolled back essentially every existing federal policy to limit climate change. It includes only completed actions, not proposed regulations. That order created the new presidentially appointed Special Presidential Envoy for Climate and announced several high-level climate summits.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Over the last 15 years, Penn State University has cut its carbon emissions by more than 35 percent, putting the University ahead of schedule to meet its goal of reducing greenhouse gas outputs to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. Penn State is a leader in creating comprehensive solutions to mitigate the dangers of climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2022

Tom Wolf vetoed and disapproved Senate Concurrent Regulatory Review Resolution 1, which would have disabled the Commonwealth’s opportunity to enter the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and effectively achieve climate goals and reduce carbon emissions.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Here in New York, for example, we already have three forms of more or less direct carbon pricing. The most direct of these is imposed on certain fossil fuel power plants by requiring them to purchase carbon dioxide emissions allowances as part of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 11, 2022

This electricity must include “24/7 carbon pollution-free electricity” that matches “actual electricity consumption on an hourly basis” and is “produced within the same regional grid where the energy is consumed.”

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 29, 2021

which in turn is leading the world, in emission reductions over the past ten years. Pennsylvania has led a reduction of CO2 [carbon dioxide] emissions in the United States by 758 million metric tons – more than any country in the world, and nearly matching the entire CO2 reductions for all of Europe. Dr. Wayne M.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

still does not limit carbon emissions from existing power plants, which generate 25 percent of our greenhouse gases. Today’s the day for the long-awaited release of Environmental Protection Agency regulations to tackle planet-warming pollution by the nation’s power plants. In the year 2023, the U.S.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 31, 2022

Minnesota moves to regulate pipelines transporting liquid carbon dioxide. In the wake of a deadly storm, Ontario leaders talk climate policy on the campaign trail. Minnesota Moves to Regulate Liquid Carbon Dioxide Pipelines. Laura Gersony, Fresh Editor. This Week’s Watersheds. Other News.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 149. With respect to climate change, the D.C.

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