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Climate Change and the Hard-Headed Realist

Legal Planet

Kissinger spoke at length about climate change in a 2009 speech. It will require us to fundamentally alter the profile of our energy use and derive growth from fuels and technologies that emit less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and to adapt to the climatic changes that our actions are too late to prevent.”

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Why Energy Bills Will Be Even Higher This Winter

Union of Concerned Scientists

The US Energy Information Administration is forecasting the wholesale price of gas to reach its highest level since the winter of 2009-2010 in inflation-adjusted terms. However, make no mistake: Technological advancement did not create the production boom by itself.

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The European Commission’s industrial carbon management strategy: ambitious and risky plans to achieve net-zero

Law Columbia

While the above measures will also play a role in reducing industrial emissions, there remain several processes, particularly in cement, steel and chemical production, for which low-carbon substitutes are not yet readily available. Specific technological solutions are therefore needed to reduce these process emissions.

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Explainer: China launches first national soil survey in 40 years

A Greener Life

By 2009, a study by Chinese scientists found that cadmium was going into China’s topsoil at around 0.004mg/kg per year. In China, cadmium in soil mainly comes from atmospheric deposition of the metal after it has been emitted from coal-burning, metallurgical facilities and animal-source fertilisers. each year.

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Sen. Yaw To Introduce Bill Promoting Carbon Capture, Utilization And Sequestration

PA Environment Daily

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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What is COP26 and why does it matter? The complete guide

A Greener Life

Cop stands for conference of the parties under the UNFCCC, and the annual meetings have swung between fractious and soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama and the occasional triumph ( the Paris agreement in 2015 ) and disaster (Copenhagen in 2009). Temperatures around the world are already at about 1.1 – 1.2C What about net-zero?

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EPA Releases Updated, Elevated Estimates for the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases

Clean Energy Law

By Joshua Bledsoe , Kevin Homrighausen , and John Detrich On December 2, 2023, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a final report that substantially increases estimates of the social cost of greenhouse gases (GHG), including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide (collectively, SC-GHG).