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Reducing Your Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Greenbuilding Law

Additionally, indirect emissions from electricity use by homes and businesses increased from 1990 to 2007 but have decreased since then to approximately 10% below 1990 levels in 2020. Greenhouse gas emissions from on-site direct emissions in homes and businesses have increased by 2% since 1990.

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The Dirty Truth of Michigan v. EPA

Vermont Law

It is the first “anti-environmental” decision in the CAA realm since their 2007. However many of these benefits, termed co-benefits, were not directly attributable to reductions in the toxics actually being regulated, they come from reduction of other pollutants due to the installation of control technology. Supreme Court in .

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A new cosmic dawn: peering across the universe with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope

Physics World

Pegged for launch in 2007 at a cost of $1bn, in 2002 it was renamed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) after the former NASA administrator. That is because before it can push the envelope of what science and space technology can achieve, it had to first overcome a dangerous deep-space unpacking: its 6.5 Courtesy: NASA/Chris Gunn).

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Sabin Center Files Amicus Brief in Support of New GHG Vehicle Emissions Standards

Law Columbia

Following the 2007 landmark Supreme Court case Massachusetts v. 497 (2007), the Supreme Court reversed EPA’s denial. The ozone precursors and particulate matter that vehicles emit, in addition to GHGs, can contribute to a wide range of health problems, including childhood asthma, respiratory impairment, and cardiovascular disease.

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Testimony of Michael D. Shellenberger Founder and President, Environmental Progress For the House Oversight Committee August 5, 2020

Environmental Progress

As a result of cleaner-burning coal, the transition to natural gas, cleaner vehicles, and other technological changes, developed nations have seen major improvements in air quality. Short-term and focused subsidies and mandates may help accelerate technological innovation. Renewables have the same impact everywhere in the world.

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Environmental Health Project: PA’s Natural Gas Boom - What Went Wrong? Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health?

PA Environment Daily

Horizontal drilling with high intensity hydraulic fracturing was a new technology and a new method for [natural] gas extraction in many ways, but at the same time, it wasn't altogether new. And there at Geisinger, I am the founding director of the Environmental Health Institute, which we founded in 2007.

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Policy News: June 14, 2021

ESA

This bill creates a new technology directorate at the National Science Foundation and increases NSF’s overall authorized funding level to $29 billion by fiscal year (FY) 2026. The agenda notes DOE is preparing a major rulemaking to reduce the use of fossil fuels in federal buildings — an implementation of a 2007 law.

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