ESA

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

An Urgent Call The Ecological Society of America (ESA) calls on world leaders attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), to pledge immediate action to reduce carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and other greenhouse gas emissions to limit rising global temperatures initially to 2.0⁰

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

2009 – 2010 TC Energy Corporation: 2002 – 2008 Villain Career Profile Climate Villain Susannah Pierce works hard to raise global temperatures on behalf of the oil and gas industry, with two decades of experience marketing, developing, and lobbying the government for further expansion of fossil fuels. 2010 – 2013 Shell Oil Company Inc.:

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide are great absorbers of heat radiation coming from the Earth’s surface. Increased levels of greenhouse gases from human industry and agriculture are the root cause of the erosion occurring within the Pacific Islands. should be. [4] Atkinson, S., & Gorong, B. 4] Houghton, J.,

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2022

The California LCFS Program was adopted in 2009 as one of the key measures to reduce GHG emissions in California under AB 32. The program’s original target was to reduce the carbon intensity (CI) of transportation fuel used in California by 2020 at least 10% from a 2010 baseline.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

Background DEP and Reinvestment Fund launched the Green Energy Loan Fund in 2009 with $12 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. With 15 projects completed so far, the fund has supported carbon dioxide emissions reduction of 110,000 tons over the life of these projects, equal to taking 22,000 cars off the road for a year.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Burning coal in these two regions account for a little under two gigatonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year, with 1.29 Burning coal emits twice as much carbon dioxide as natural gas and up to 50 times more than solar and wind in their entire lifecycles (manufacturing and recycling included). A moral imperative.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

By Stepehen Wiegand In October 2009, EPA promulgated the Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Rule. The proposed rules would require the reporting of fugitive and vented methane and carbon dioxide emissions, including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide combustion emissions from flares.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2010

By Stephen Wiegand On December 15, 2009, EPA published in the Federal Register its final endangerment findings with respect to greenhouse gases. 15, 2009) [[link] This rulemaking is a response to Massachusetts v. These gases include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydroflourocarbons, perflourocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride.

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 7, 2010

However, pollutants such as carbon dioxide, for which EPA regulations only require monitoring and reporting, are not subject to PSD permitting. In October 2009, new EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced that EPA would reconsider and accept public comment on the Johnson memorandum.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

According to the Oversight Committee, ExxonMobil has spent $68 million to advertise its algae biofuel research, nearly a quarter of what the company reportedly spent since 2009 on the research itself (which is a tiny fraction of what ExxonMobil still spends on developing oil and gas).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 18, 2023

But since 2009, the cost of land-based wind has dropped by more than two-thirds as inflationary pressures eased, the technology advanced, and the US-based supply chain matured. Land-based wind similarly experienced temporary cost increases during the 2008 economic recession.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

It would require standardized reporting of GHG emissions (primarily carbon dioxide and methane) by firms doing business in California with total annual revenues more than $1 billion. [19] Lazarus, “Super Wicked Problems and Climate Change: Restraining the Present to Liberate the Future,” 94 Cornell Law Review 1153 (2009). [36]

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 12, 2021

In 2009 the King of Bhutan proclaimed his Himalayan country was ‘carbon negative’ because all of its power was hydroelectric or solar buttressed with large forested areas. carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, all emissions?). It is one thing when a political leaders in a government make an ESG claim.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Pakistan’s production of natural gas peaked in 2009, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), but gas has continued to increase as a percentage of total energy supply steadily since then. Over a 20-year period, methane can be 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide,” she said. Increasing demand, decreasing supply.

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Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

At a time where scientists are trying to figure out how to suck the excess carbon out of our atmosphere, Mother Nature has known how to do it for millions of years. Trees are very efficient at absorbing carbon dioxide. It is estimated that one acre of forest absorbs six tons of carbon dioxide and puts out four tons of oxygen.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 23, 2022

It is one thing when government leaders make an ESG claim: In 2009 the King of Bhutan proclaimed his Himalayan country was ‘carbon negative’ because all of its power was hydroelectric or solar buttressed with large forested areas. all emissions or only greenhouse gases or just carbon dioxide or?).

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

By 2009, a study by Chinese scientists found that cadmium was going into China’s topsoil at around 0.004mg/kg per year. billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent every year – 40% from protecting existing carbon, and the remaining 60% from rebuilding depleted stores. This represents 25% of the potential of all natural climate solutions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

EPA , the landmark 2007 decision that said the EPA has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide emitted from new motor vehicles. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. Carbon dioxide is not harmful to ordinary things, to human beings, or to animals, or to plants. All of us are exhaling carbon dioxide right now.

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Environment Blog

MARCH 25, 2020

It was created in 2009 by the anonymous programmer, Satoshi Nakamoto, and was designed to make it easier to transfer wealth from one party to another regardless of their geographical location. megatons of carbon dioxide during the same period. Is Bitcoin bad for the environment and is this a good reason to avoid using it?

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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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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

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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Smith Enviorment

JULY 12, 2022

Supreme Court issued a decision striking down an Obama era rule regulating carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from existing power plants. In 2009, EPA made a finding that six greenhouse gasses endanger public health and welfare because of their contribution to climate change. EPA decision or EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding.

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Columbia Climate Law

APRIL 1, 2020

Briefly, by way of background, the GHGRP was established in 2009 after Congress authorized funding for EPA to develop rules requiring mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions in the FY2008 Consolidated Appropriations Act.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2022

So when this industry and its drilling took off in the late otss, you know, 2009, 2010, we were sort of in the right place at the right time. Finally, this industry has fugitive emissions of methane and the burning of gas releases carbon dioxide. And over the last 15 years, I've spent regular time in Danville.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 25, 2024

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).

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Cresforum

APRIL 22, 2021

What a 50% reduction looks like The GHGs implicated in climate change are primarily carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and fluorinated gases, like hydroflourocarbons. greenhouse gases. In 2005, President Biden’s baseline year, U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions stood at roughly 6.0 gigatons (Gt). Last year, U.S.

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Cresforum

APRIL 22, 2021

The GHGs implicated in climate change are primarily carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and fluorinated gases, like hydroflourocarbons. carbon dioxide pollution fell by a sharp 11 percent, largely due to the societal and economic disruptions caused by efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

In 2009, the Obama administration established estimates of the social cost of carbon (“SCC Estimate”) that all agencies were required to use in their regulatory cost/benefit analysis. Under the Obama administration, the SCC Estimate was about $51 per ton of carbon dioxide emissions, adjusted for inflation.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Several factors¾including the effects of the economic recession, shifts in energy markets from coal to natural gas and renewable energy sources, and carbon pollution mitigation and clean energy programs like renewable portfolio standards¾have been identified as principal drivers of these reductions. [2]. emissions from the power sector. [3].

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ESA

MARCH 20, 2023

metric tons of carbon dioxide a year for up to 30 years. White House: The United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is requesting input to create an updated version of the 2009 “Climate Literacy: Essential Principles of Climate Science” report. million acres of the Arctic Ocean from oil and gas exploration.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

BLM estimates that the project will produce up to 576 million barrels of oil over its 30-year lifetime, resulting in indirect emissions totaling 239 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) equivalent. See Karuk Tribe of California v. USFS (9th Cir. 2012) ; Cal. USDA, (9th Cir.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. In response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Massachusetts , EPA issued its “ Endangerment Finding ” in 2009, which concluded that “six greenhouse gases … taken in combination endanger both the public health and the public welfare of current and future generations.”

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

The California Court of Appeal reversed a trial court’s determination that the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009 required the Delta Stewardship Council to adopt performance measure targets as legally enforceable regulations in the long-term management plan for the Delta to achieve certain objectives of the Act.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 23, 2021

EPA applies to greenhouse gases emitted from motor vehicles, and under which EPA issued an endangerment finding for greenhouse gases in 2009. This language is nearly identical to that of Clean Air Act Section 202(a), which the Supreme Court held in Massachusetts v. Alternatively, the U.S.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Lawsuit Sought to Compel Response to Petition for Reconsideration of 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding. 15,2 2009). They also opposed a motion by conservation groups to intervene in the case. Louisiana v. Biden , No. 2:21-cv-00778 (W.D. 66,496 (Dec.

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

32] Part of the reason the planet is greening stems from greater carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and greater planetary warming. [33] 33] Scientists find that plants grow faster as a result of higher carbon dioxide concentrations. 66] Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals (New York: Little Brown, 2009), 95–96. [67]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

The rule, which also applies to new gas plants, would avoid as much as 617 million metric tons of carbon dioxide through 2042, the EPA calculated , the equivalent of the annual emissions of 137 million passenger vehicles—about half of the cars in the country. Those currently operating fossil fuel plants generate 25 percent of U.S.

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