Environmental News Bits

APRIL 3, 2024

They absorb the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere without using expensive technology. The suggestion that you can plant trees to offset your carbon emissions is widespread. King, University of Sheffield Tackling climate change by planting trees has an intuitive appeal.

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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. Wolf’s existing authority under Pennsylvania law to enter the Commonwealth into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative," according to PennFuture. Read more here.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

With empirical data and more and better modeling, it has become clear that, to first approximation, the eventual anthropogenic warming from carbon dioxide is tied to the cumulative emissions. This figure is from the AR6 SPM: The relationship between cumulative carbon emissions and temperature (SPM AR6).

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

When it comes to climate action, it can be difficult to understand what makes a strong climate plan that puts us on a pathway to zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – and what new policies and tools are actually dangerous distractions from real solutions. They call this Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS).

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2021

"As we pursue our goals, we're investing in the research and development of clean energy solutions that will enable us to achieve net-zero carbon emissions, and we're committed to ensuring a balanced, responsible and just transition to economy-wide decarbonization."

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2023

thus, it is crucial that we address carbon emissions from power plants. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently published a proposed rule which would limit carbon pollution from fossil fuel burning power plants, a move which is critically important, statutorily required, and long overdue.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2024

The case involved EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act. Since Obama, EPA has used this authority to regulation carbon emissions from vehicles and power plants. Massachusetts v. EPA, 549 U.S. 497 (2007) (Justice Stevens ). Michigan v. EPA, 576 U.S. West Virginia v.

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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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Circle of Blue

MAY 31, 2022

Minnesota moves to regulate pipelines transporting liquid carbon dioxide. Minnesota Moves to Regulate Liquid Carbon Dioxide Pipelines. Minnesota utility regulators decided that pipelines carrying pressurized carbon dioxide are considered hazardous, and therefore require state approval, according to MPR News.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 6, 2022

Sharif Street (D-Philadelphia) introduced Senate Bill 979 which amends the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard Act to establish a new Clean Energy Standard and encourage investment in carbon capture technology to achieve net-zero carbon emissions from power plants. Running parallel to the AEPS will be a Clean Energy Standard.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2024

These measures led to a reduction of 78,650 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, which is equal to the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from 15,878 gas-powered passenger vehicles driven for one year or 182,909,597 miles. From the EPA GHG Equivalence Calculator as of Dec.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

This is partly because hydrogen production is energy inefficient and––when derived from fossil fuels––still a significant source of carbon emissions. Green hydrogen––produced with renewable electricity and water­­––is often described as a tool for decarbonizing the challenging last 10% of greenhouse gas emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2022

Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming), Majority Chair of the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, is circulating a co-sponsor memo asking his colleagues to sponsor the Pennsylvania Geologic Storage of Carbon Dioxide Act. billion metric tons of carbon dioxide underground.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 30, 2022

There is no single widely accepted definition of the social cost of carbon, but most would accept that it is the present value of the future damages from one additional unit of carbon emissions in a particular year. That is a far cry from the federal government’s interim estimates of $51 per ton.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants under the Clean Air Act. On June 30, the U.S. Supreme Court released its decision on West Virginia V. EPA, a crucial case concerning the authority of the U.S. The group is the youth wing of the York County-based Evangelical Environmental Network.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Mechanisms of climate mitigation via soil carbon sequestration At the root of the excitement around soils is their ability to hold on to carbon, potentially drawing it out of the atmosphere and locking it away.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2023

The proposal requires companies to report information related to “Scope 1” direct carbon emissions (think fuel use and greenhouse gases), “Scope 2” indirect carbon emissions (e.g., purchased energy and electricity), and for some companies to report on information related to “Scope 3” carbon emissions (i.e.,

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Court then held that greenhouse gases are covered by the Clean Air Act as a type of air pollutant. This gave EPA the power to impose limits on carbon emissions by vehicles and industry. EPA , the Obama Administration issued a series of regulations dealing with greenhouse gases. Illinois Central Railroad v.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In 2021, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) set a target for the aviation industry to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. 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.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Through the Lancaster County Community Climate Fund , RegenAll is launching an innovative pathway for Lancaster County to achieve carbon neutrality and slow the impacts of climate change on communities. Individuals, businesses, and municipalities can offset their carbon emissions by contributing to the CCF.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 2, 2022

A year ago, GFANZ said all its members “must align” their portfolios to the UN’s Race to Zero “stringent criteria” aimed at halving global emissions by 2030 and bringing net carbon emissions to zero by 2050. Scientists say such targets would help keep the average global temperature increase under 1.5

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Ivy Protocol

MAY 18, 2023

The year 2023 stands as a testament to this synergy, with a plethora of companies innovating in the carbon removal terrain with a shared goal of fighting climate change. Meeting the recent pathways laid out by the IPCC will require total cumulative net carbon dioxide removals of 20–660 GtCO2 by 2100. Mulligan, J., Ellison, G.,

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 30, 2021

Even if it were possible, simply eliminating carbon emissions from fossil fuel production would not address the myriad impacts of fossil fuel production faced primarily by Indigenous and front-line communities. Carbon capture and release: a license to pollute . Carbon capture and release: a license to pollute .

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 24, 2021

There are an increasing number of companies and countries that are pledging to reach Net Zero carbon emissions–or carbon neutrality–by 2050. To assess how serious net zero pledges are from corporations, there are three fundamental questions one should ask: Are they including all greenhouse gas emissions?

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Gas is a polluting fossil fuel which emits greenhouse gasses when it is produced and used. It is responsible for one third of Ontario’s greenhouse gas emissions , making it one the province’s worst climate change contributors.

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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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PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2023

As of June 20, 2023, the amount of CO2 [carbon dioxide] in the atmosphere has now risen to 421 parts per million, way past the level of 350 ppm considered safe. Because fossil fuels are used both to produce blue hydrogen and to operate its carbon capture technology, its carbon emissions are quite high.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In July 2022, the High Court of England and Wales in R (Friends of the Earth Ltd and Others) v Secretary of State for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy found that the UK Government’s plans to cut carbon emissions were inadequate and breached national law. Nordrhein-Westfalen (NRW) ). In Smith v.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 16, 2021

In theory this could seed clouds that reflect sunlight back into space – counteracting the greenhouse effect. Kolbert runs through the smorgasbord of negative-emissions technologies designed to sequester carbon dioxide. The tomatoes were “perfect, in that greenhouse tomato-y way,” reports Kolbert.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2021

By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal Pennsylvania is ideally suited to help the nation fight global warming by becoming a leader in the effort to capture and store emissions of carbon dioxide, state officials say. In the battle to slow global warming, carbon dioxide is the chief target. Studies by the U.S.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The US puts a dollar figure on the damage caused by carbon emissions, but new research finds it’s too low, meaning the benefits of reducing emissions are being underestimated. What is the social cost of carbon? SCC is a dollar estimate of the long-term damage caused by emitting a tonne of carbon dioxide in a given year.

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Vermont Law

JULY 31, 2023

The social cost of carbon is an economic tool used to determine how much the cost is, in dollars, of emitting another ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. As carbon dioxide builds up in the atmosphere, it also traps heat surrounding the planet. The damage this heat creates is SCC. If the U.S.

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Acoel

APRIL 8, 2022

The bipartisan infrastructure law funds clean energy demonstration projects to improve energy storage, advanced nuclear technology, carbon capture from fuel burning as well as direct carbon capture from the atmosphere. None of these provisions sets a price on carbon or requires energy users to increase the use of renewable energy.

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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. while reducing harmful greenhouse gases.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 1, 2022

Supreme Court Decision Did Not Affect EPA’s Ability To Regulate Carbon Dioxide As A Pollutant, Has No Impact On DEP's RGGI Power Plant Carbon Pollution Reduction Program [PaEN] -- Evangelical Environmental Network: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Of U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

million for sewer and water infrastructure and stormwater mitigation, including riparian planting for carbon dioxide reduction, stream buffering and streambank restoration. -- $62.5 At least $12.5 million is to be used for methane abatement projects from plugging abandoned gas wells. -- $62.5

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

It calls on “rich, polluting countries,” including historic polluters as well “more recent carbon contributors” like the Middle Eastern Gulf states, India, and China, to “drastically cut their carbon emissions to prevent runaway climate change” and avert “exponentially higher levels of climate impacts affecting more people more quickly.”.

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