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Legal Planet
JUNE 4, 2021
What’s most remarkable is that the decision calls for a 45% reduction of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions–of not only its own but also those of its customers–within less than a decade. In the face of disappointing legislation and regulation, activists have increasingly turned to courts in the last fifteen years.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 4, 2024
The data These data represent the cumulative carbon dioxide and methane emissions from the largest industrial carbon producers. UCS’ recent co-authored submission drew heavily on these data to illustrate that addressing the climate crisis requires that states regulate corporations.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 29, 2023
Perhaps the most consequential of all Paxton’s actions, however, is a lawsuit he and AGs from 19 other states, including Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina, filed in 2021 challenging the EPA’s authority to curb power plant carbon emissions. Landry’s deep ties to the oil and gas industry predate his time as Louisiana’s AG.
A Greener Life
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
SCC is a dollar estimate of the long-term damage caused by emitting a tonne of carbon dioxide in a given year. Michael Greenstone, a University of Chicago economist, first calculated it in 2010. Effectively, SCC indicates what price society should be willing to pay now to avoid the future damage of today’s carbon emissions.
Law Columbia
OCTOBER 25, 2017
First, new research has traced to just 90 fossil fuel firms the following percentages of anthropogenic carbon dioxide and methane emissions, global mean surface temperature (GMST), and global sea level rise (GSL): From 1880 to 2010: GHGs: 57% GMST: 42–50% GSL: 26–32%. From 1980 to 2010: GHGs: 43% GMST: 29–35% GSL: 11–14%.
Law Columbia
MARCH 13, 2023
EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Following the 2007 landmark Supreme Court case Massachusetts v.
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. Less sea ice also means that bears must swim longer distances, which poses a drowning risk to young cubs. 3 ; Laidre et al.
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