Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

On the cusp of these two regulatory programs, pushing broad sectors of the economy to the next frontier in innovation, SEC Climate Risk Rule is Transformative at a Cost and Maryland Resets its Trajectory with Greenhouse Gas Reduction Law , a quick 800 word refresher about GHG emissions makes an ideal blog post.

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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

MARCH 29, 2023

According to the nonpartisan National Association of Attorneys General, a state attorney general’s job is to represent the public interest—not private, special interests—by, among other things, “enforcing federal and state environmental laws.” Meanwhile, the state has suffered 79 tropical or subtropical cyclones since 2000.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 31, 2021

While the state’s core climate and environmental policies – such as the AB 32 / SB 32 emission reduction mandate, the SB 100 renewables portfolio standard, and the California Environmental Quality Act – are enshrined in state law and not subject to executive changes, a number of personnel, regulatory, legislative, and funding decisions may be.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Last year, the United States suffered an unprecedented number of climate change-related billion-dollar disasters, including record heat waves, drought, wildfires and floods, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The 28 extreme weather events collectively caused nearly $93 billion in damage.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Further, while gas emits less carbon dioxide than coal, its main component is methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas that is released into the atmosphere when gas is burned—a fact that ConocoPhillips conveniently left out on its website. Federal agencies are currently in the process of implementing the various IRA provisions.

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Acoel

JULY 5, 2022

The Court did not impair EPA’s ability to use or even require a greenhouse gas cap-and-trade regulatory approach under other sections of the Clean Air Act or even under section 111(d), provided the degree of emissions reductions required relies on goals or budgets authorized under the Act or other law.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Act’s regulations were last updated in 2005. In 2022 alone, a report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) estimated the cost of climate change impacts at more than $165 billion dollars. Robust regulation is the best alternative.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Forests present one of the most cost-effective and scalable opportunities available today to sequester carbon because they naturally pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store it in their wood, leaves, and roots. As mentioned above, the carbon market, where forest landowners receive payments for sequestering carbon, is growing.

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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. These proposals have garnered extensive support from the business community.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Colourful corona This image shows a part of the solar corona observed over an active region using the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on 12 July 2017. Viewed in this way, the problem was “solved” by the Scandinavian physicists Boris Gudiksen and Åke Nordlund in 2005, who used just 3.375 million cells.

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ESA

AUGUST 29, 2022

President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, a landmark climate and tax law, which includes $369 billion in energy and climate spending. Joe Manchin (D-WV), the bill will reduce carbon emissions by 40% from 2005 levels by 2030. More News: Democrats Designed the Climate Law to Be a Game Changer. climate law – WBUR.

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ESA

OCTOBER 25, 2021

could cut emissions 80 percent below 2005 levels by 2050. would meet Biden’s commitment to cut emissions 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. Congress and the president did not approve appropriations bills that fund the federal government into law before the federal government FY 2022 began Oct.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate at gmail dot com.

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ESA

MAY 6, 2021

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently announced the expansion of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, nearly tripling the size of the sanctuary. This law provides loan forgiveness for developing countries that meet specific benchmarks and agree to contribute to tropical forest and coral reef conservation.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 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. The defendants argued that the Second Circuit’s decision confirmed that the plaintiff’s claims necessarily arise under federal law. and non-U.S. 21-8001 (D.C.

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