A Greener Life

JULY 6, 2025

These clean energy technologies are pivotal to Brazil’s goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and meeting its international climate commitments. Indigenous lands, though legally protected, continue to face threats from illegal activities, including a 495% increase in illegal mining from 2010 to 2020.

2025

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2025

Fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards have together saved 2 trillion gallons of gasoline since 1975 and reduced global warming gases by 14 billion tons.

Ozone

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2025

However, since 2010 its fleet fuel economy in the U.S. The wanton non-compliance surely shows a company that doesnt care a fig about the rules meant to protect the public from its products. Toyota was once historically seen as an environmental leader thanks to its promotion of the Prius hybrid. mpg, compared to 22.6

Clean Air Act

Vermont Law

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Then there is the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), both created by splitting the Minerals Management Agency in the wake of the 2010 BP oil spill. Additionally, the Biden administration has invested $240 million into aquaculture.

Ocean

Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

In addition, if profits can be maximized by deforestation or releasing methane or other greenhouse gases as well, then profits must again take precedence. 310 (2010). This means that the leaders of U.S. More on the Maximization Model of fiduciary duty in a moment. Urganda Foundation v. 20] See Geczy, Jeffers, Musto, and Tucker, op.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The EPA requires new trucks to emit fewer greenhouse gases and health-harming pollutants than existing models. Warehouse construction has accelerated since 2010, and new ones tend to be larger mega-warehouses with more loading docks and parking spaces.

Electricity

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The case involves EPAs 2024 Vehicle Standards that set new air pollutant and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for model year 2027 through 2032 Light- and Medium-Duty Vehicles, which have been challenged by states and industry groups. Since 2010, EPA has been regulating GHG emissions and other air pollutants from new motor vehicles.

Clean Air Act

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JULY 16, 2025

Currently, sequestration is enforced through three laws: the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, the Budget Control Act of 2011, and the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (PAYGO). In particular, PAYGO prevents “new revenue and mandatory spending legislation enacted during a session of Congress from increasing the net deficit”.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 9, 2025

Since 2010, Amazon has invested more than $26 billion in Pennsylvania, including infrastructure and compensation to employees, and these latest facilities join a growing Amazon operations footprint across the Commonwealth that now includes 23 fulfillment and sortation centers and 20 last-mile delivery stations.

Carbon Emissions

Real Climate

JULY 10, 2022

Step 1: There is a natural greenhouse effect. Thus there must be a large amount of IR absorbed by the atmosphere (around 158 W/m 2 ) – a number that would be zero in the absence of any greenhouse substances. Step 2: Trace gases contribute to the natural greenhouse effect. The Earth’s Energy Budget (NASA).

Radiation

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Net-zero greenhouse gas emission does not have any geophysical significance. Wherever the authors had made a reference to net-zero CO2 emissions, the Saudis (and sometimes China) tried to amend it to say net-zero greenhouse gases instead. coming as part of the upgrade to Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) for the COP26 meeting.

Carbon Dioxide

Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 13, 2022

In 2010, GM committed to a 20% reduction in carbon intensity by 2020. It achieved that goal in 2017. And in January 2021, it said it would source 100% renewable energy to power GM facilities in the U.S. by 2030 and globally by 2035.

2010

Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

its district, appellate , and supreme courts decided in favor of Urgenda, an upstart environmental organization, ordering the government to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Everyone produces greenhouse gases.

Carbon Dioxide

CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

3) affirmed a judgment setting aside an addendum to a 2010 program EIR (PEIR) and accompanying approvals for a 275,000-square foot office complex on a 4.95-acre and (2) did substantial evidence show the project’s GHG emissions are within the scope of the 2010 PEIR? IBC Business Owners for Sensible Development v.

2010

Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

from Rogelj et al (2018) – note how the red dot marked 2010 moves to the purple dot marked 2010, once historical modelling uncertainties are corrected for. This is best illustrated by this technical figure from SR1.5. Source: Figure 2.3 Between SR1.5 In: Greg Flato, Jan Fuglestvedt, Rachid Mrabet, & Roberto Schaeffer (eds.).

2018

Law and Environment

APRIL 11, 2022

Nonetheless, here are some of what seemed to me to be important takeaways: Firstly, and most importantly, we’re not doing a very good job at mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. I suspect that, if one asked the average American whether GHG emissions increased or decreased from 2010 to 2019, they would say that emissions decreased.

2010

Law and Environment

JANUARY 12, 2022

Each year since 1995, with the exception of 2020, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ) has hosted a Conference of Parties (COP), where members of the UNFCCC negotiate issues relating to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other matters relating to climate change.

Paris Agreement

Inhabitant

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The world will face catastrophic weather events unless governments take steps to cut greenhouse gas emissions. This is according to a new report released by the United Nation last Friday.

2010

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Fracking company XTO Energies, acquired by ExxonMobil in 2010, helped fund the site’s launch in 2009, along with oil supermajors Chevron, BP, and Shell.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2024

The SEC released guidance in 2010 directing public companies to disclose risks resulting from climate-related regulation, legislation, and weather, among other sources. The rule was created in response to investor complaints that companies weren’t adequately disclosing information about climate-related financial risk.

Regulations

Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

A new wave of cases differs from traditional environmental lawsuits by highlighting the connections between preserving the Amazon and the climate, the grave risk of greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation, and the critical role of the forest as a major global carbon sink. The timing of these climate disputes is not accidental.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2023

California did this despite substantial growth over the decade from 2010 to 2020, adding about 2.4 That reduction amounts to roughly 45 million tons of CO2, equivalent to taking ten million cars off the road. million people and expanding real GDP by well over a third. For comparison purposes: That’s twice as big a reduction as the U.S.

2009

Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

Understanding Climate Change & Greenhouse Gas Emissions. The greenhouse effect is a popular name for the earth’s warming effect which occurs naturally when gasses in the atmosphere trap heat from the sun and prevent it from escaping back into space. Greenhouse Gas Emissions are Increasing. F) of warming in the 21st century.

Climate Change

Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

We must reduce greenhouse gas emissions now, as Dr. Sarah Cooley , Ocean Conservancy’s director of climate science, emphasized when addressing a COP27 session. International shipping emissions, responsible for roughly 3% of the world’s greenhouse gases, can be eliminated by moving toward zero-carbon shipping. If we warm beyond 1.5°C,

Ocean

The Energy Law

MARCH 31, 2010

By Stepehen Wiegand In October 2009, EPA promulgated the Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Rule. Additionally, two public hearings are currently scheduled on the proposed rules – April 19, 2010 in Arlington, Va. and April 20, 2010 in Washington, D.C.

Greenhouse

Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The promise from many nations is to reach net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 (or earlier) and interim targets are essential. But the United Nations has just said that the latest commitments of the 192 parties of the 2015 Paris agreement will equate to a 16% rise in global greenhouse-gas emissions in 2030 compared to 2010.

Paris Agreement

Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The standard is based on a percent of total electricity sales, and in addition to certain eligibility requirements, requires that generators have commenced commercial operation after 2010. The regulations were amended in 2020 to include a program for existing generation units, CES-E, which has several distinct requirements.

Clean Energy

Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Just days before the conference she was featured in an article where she attempted to shift blame away from the fossil fuel industry by saying that oil companies can only decarbonize as fast as the rest of the economy – a comment that completely ignores the fact that the oil and gas industry is Canada’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

Fossil Fuels

Arnold Porter

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In 2010, the SEC published interpretive guidance (2010 Guidance) for public companies regarding disclosure requirements relating to climate change matters.[[N:Securities What the 2010 Guidance did not do was create specific reporting requirements related to climate change or other ESG-related matters. Current SEC framework.

2022

The Energy Law

APRIL 7, 2010

By Stephen Wiegand EPA recently announced its position regarding the timing of the regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act’s Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) Program. On March 29, 2010, EPA announced its final decision regarding the reconsideration. In Massachusetts v. EPA, 549 U.S.

2011

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Rather than simply requesting the company disclose information related to production of greenhouse gas emissions, the court weighed the impacts of climate change as part of its balancing test to determine whether the project was in the public interest. Section 4.15(1) Four Key Takeaways. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

Greenhouse

Real Climate

JULY 24, 2023

The AMOC has repeatedly shown major instabilities in recent Earth history , for example during the Last Ice Age, prompting concerns about its stability under future global warming, see e.g. Broecker 1987 who warned about “unpleasant surprises in the greenhouse”. 2010; Hawkins et al. For more on this see my Review Paper in Nature.

Ocean

Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

million square kilometers below the 1981-2010 average. One way to do that is to tell the Coast Guard to lead the way on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from ship traffic at the International Maritime Organization and to better prepare for climate-related changes here at home. In fact, it’s nearly 1.5 But you can help turn the tide.

2021

Law Columbia

JULY 22, 2025

As recognized in the Agreement, to stay within these limits, global greenhouse gas emissions must be rapidly reduced, “so as to achieve a balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases in the second half of this century”—a situation commonly described as “net zero.”

Paris Agreement

The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Moreno On November 8, 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its final Subpart W rule to cover petroleum and natural gas facilities under the agency’s Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reporting Program. The original Subpart W rule for petroleum and natural gas facilities was proposed in March 2010. By Carlos J.

Greenhouse

A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

The UN agency concluded global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are at the highest levels in human history and without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors limiting climate change to 1.5°C They pointed to the fact that since 2010 the cost of solar, wind and battery technology has decreased by up to 85%.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2021

The company has made substantial progress in reducing emissions from generation and other areas of its operations and is on track to achieve a 70 percent reduction from 2010 levels in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by 2035 and an 80 percent reduction by 2040.

Carbon Emissions