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Guest Essay: COP26 Shines A Light On The End Of Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

degree C of warming by 2100 as opposed to the Paris Agreement aspiration of 1.5 This allows the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter China and third largest India to continue chain-smoking coal to power their industrial machines. COP26 commitments have put our planetary fever on a path toward at least 2.4

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Late 2018 — Bits and Pieces

Smith Enviorment

Executive Order 80 supports the 2015 Paris Agreement and sets several goals for the state to meet by 2025: Reduce state greenhouse gas emissions by 40% from 2005 levels. Governor Roy Cooper issued an executive order on climate change and clean energy. The order creates a new N.C.

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Carbon Storage in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill

Law Columbia

This week’s IPCC report is another stark reminder of the need to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions to avoid climate disaster. To the extent those sectors continue emitting carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, those gases will need to be captured prior to release into the atmosphere. By Romany M. While the U.S.

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Ontario Election 2022 Issue Guide: How Each of the Political Parties Would Tackle Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

As with many environmental issues, when it comes to climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, this is no ordinary election. . As the province with the second highest greenhouse gas emissions in Canada, not doing enough to reduce these emissions is bad for the future of not just Ontario, but the whole country. .

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May 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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s challenge to the constitutionality of the linkage between California’s greenhouse gas emissions cap-and-trade program and Quebec trading program. Ninth Circuit Said Biden Action Mooted Case Challenging Trump Revocation of Withdrawal of Oceans Lands from Oil and Gas Leasing. United States v. California , No. 20-16789 (9th Cir.

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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The plaintiffs alleged that Peabody (and a number of other fossil fuel companies) caused greenhouse gas emissions that resulted in sea level rise and damage to their property. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) authorization of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from three facilities in Louisiana, Maryland, and Texas.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Circuit Declined to Speed Up or Slow Down Challenges to Withdrawal of California Waiver and Preemption of State Authority to Regulate Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Washington Supreme Court Invalidated Regulation of Indirect Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Trump , No. 4:19-cv-00028 (D. Environmental Council of Sacramento v.

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