CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MTCO 2 e) per service population for development projects because the record lacked substantial evidence that the threshold, which relied on statewide service population and GHG inventory data, was appropriate to apply to San Diego County development projects.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

To meet these goals, the state is facilitating burgeoning carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) (CCS) technologies that capture carbon from point sources to store, as well as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which removes carbon from the atmosphere. Land Use and Building Decarbonization.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

Except in this case, it appears she helped tie the department’s hands: According to the Daily Montanan , Nowakowski herself drafted the original 2011 MEPA limitation for a state senator.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Manabe’s early focus was on radiative-convective equilibrium, and his seminal 1967 paper (with his longtime collaborator Richard Wetherald, who passed in 2011 ). Manabe, "The Dependence of Atmospheric Temperature on the Concentration of Carbon Dioxide", Global Effects of Environmental Pollution , pp. 241-259, 1967.

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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

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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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Figure 1: Size reference for atmospheric particles (US EPA 2016) and a general structure of freshly created black carbon. Direct Environmental Effects Did you know that black carbon is the second most important warming agent in our atmosphere behind carbon dioxide (CO 2 )? Nature 409 (6821): 695–97.

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

By Jillian Marullo House Bill 788, signed into law on June 14, 2013, authorizes the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (“TCEQ”) to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases (“GHG”) “[t]o the extent that greenhouse gas emissions require authorization under federal law.”

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

According to his findings, the carbon intensity of solar panels manufactured in China and installed in European countries like Italy was off by an order of magnitude. The scale of the IPCC’s undercount shocks once applied to the EU’s “clean” energy plans.

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HumanNature

MARCH 8, 2022

Carbon naturally moves through the environment. If we follow a single carbon molecule, we could expect it to start in the air as carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is food for plants and they take it into their bodies through a process called photosynthesis. Let me explain. 4 Huang, Y.,

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Because methane has 28 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide and a shorter atmospheric life of only 12 years, immediate action to reduce methane emissions —including from agriculture—is critical to slow our warming climate, especially in light of expanding global populations and food demand. 2018 , Petersen et al.,

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

An estimated 10 percent of emissions of methane — a gas with 34 times more planet-warming potential than carbon dioxide — come from active or abandoned coal mines. Entrance to a coal mine in Kentucky, 2011. Many old mines were retired without modern-day flooding techniques. Photo © Appalachian Voices.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2022

megatonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year. Other estimates put Bitcoin’s annualized carbon footprint at 72.05 megatonnes of carbon dioxide, comparable with that of Greece, with a single Bitcoin transaction generating 805.77 Researchers have recently estimated that Bitcoin mining is responsible for 65.4

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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] The vote on it was 24-9. 26] About 8,000 facilities are required to report. [27]

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

CBD said that even if rehearing were not granted, the court should modify its “overbroad” conclusion that EPA’s Guidance for Determining Best Available Control Technology for Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Bioenergy Production (Bioenergy BACT Guidance) was rational. Sentencing was scheduled for February 3, 2017. Ruffatto , No.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) estimates that it will produce 576 million barrels of oil over its 30-year lifetime, resulting in more than 239 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO 2 )-equivalent. 2011) ; Regehr et al. See, e.g., IPCC AR6 WGI Ch.3 3 ; Laidre et al. 2018) ; Tartu et al. 2018) ; Aars et al.

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Physics World

JANUARY 7, 2022

The project’s budget spiralled so much that in 2011 the US House of Representatives moved to cancel it entirely, only for the troubled project to receive an eleventh-hour reprieve after scientists, the public and the media rallied to save it. But the telescope’s exoplanet studies will go deeper, too.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

APRIL 27, 2021

Ed Glaeser and I explore the carbon footprint implications of this dynamic in this paper; Glaeser, Edward L. The greenness of cities: Carbon dioxide emissions and urban development ," Journal of Urban Economics , Elsevier, vol. Kahn, 2003. " 93(2), pages 227-232, May. Kahn, Matthew E., 19(4), pages 269-279, December.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 24, 2023

This rule also builds on other national and international actions advanced by Congress and the Biden-Harris Administration to reduce methane emissions—a greenhouse gas with more than 25 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide. Photo: 2011 natural gas explosion in Allentown killed 5 people.)

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Australia passes first climate legislation since 2011. Gabon Record Carbon Credit Sale a ‘Litmus Test’ Before COP27 – Bloomberg. Australia’s first climate law since 2011 seals green comeback – The Straits Times. ‘I Domestic Climate Czar Gina McCarthy to leave the White House this week, Biden hires new climate advisors.

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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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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. 2011) ; Regehr et al. See, e.g., IPCC AR6 WGI Ch.3 3 ; Laidre et al. 2018) ; Tartu et al. 2018) ; Aars et al.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

The appellate court found that the County was “well aware of the threat posed by climate change” when it certified EIRs in 2011 and that post-2011 data were “consistent with the range of projections considered in 2011.” Friends of the Santa Clara River v. County of Los Angeles , No. B296547 (Cal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

The talks ended with no serious agreements and carbon dioxide levels soaring to new records. All throughout the Obama administration, Republicans cut funding for the EPA, forcing staffing to drop from 17,359 in fiscal year 2011 to 14,779 in fiscal year 2016.

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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. This is due to both rising agricultural productivity and environmental conservation. [32]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

EPA lawsuit—Landry joined 18 other AGs, including Paxton and AGs from Mississippi and South Carolina, on a letter to two Senate committees urging them to vote against tighter restrictions on methane emissions, which are considerably worse for the climate than carbon dioxide. No surprise, Fitch is an oil and gas industry favorite.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

He created the Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission in 2011. Finally, this industry has fugitive emissions of methane and the burning of gas releases carbon dioxide. Corbett, most simply created the appearance of taking a look at all the issues surrounding shale gas operations, including health.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

Circuit’s January 2021 decision vacating the Trump administration’s Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) Rule for carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal-fired power plants. On June 23, 2021, two additional petitions for writ of certiorari were filed seeking Supreme Court review of the D.C.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

In March 2011, pursuant to the 2002 Act, the Minister had set a target of 50% reduction from 1990 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions levels by 2050. Both sets of intervenors also said the court should limit any abeyance period to 120 days.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

Climate: The Environmental Protection Agency does not list a timetable to act on a new carbon dioxide rule for existing power plants. The Obama administration determined that listing the walrus as a threatened species was warranted in 2011 and that the species’ population had declined due to sea ice losses.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Kaufer Introduces Bipartisan Bill Authorizing Community Solar Projects; $2 Billion In Private Investment Waiting For This To Pass -- The Hershey Company Releases 2020 Sustainability Report -- Eco-Friendly Process To Convert Carbon Dioxide Back Into Fuel Offers Way To Close The Carbon Loop -- Ben Franklin BIG Idea Contest: Tech Innovators, Small Manufacturers (..)

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ESA

MARCH 6, 2023

The National Science Board and National Science Foundation has not reviewed the merit review criteria since 2011, although the NSB’s Vision 2030 report recommended strengthening the broader impacts criteria. The commission will share its findings by the NSB’s May 2024 meeting.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Carbon dioxide (CO. is the inescapable byproduct of carbon energy use. 29, 2011), [link]. [30]. Furthermore, the CEI notes in its. Pro-Growth Agenda for the 114th Congress. Climate change mitigation policies pose serious risks to U.S. prosperity, competitiveness, and living standards. Pandy, supra. 9, 2016), [link]. [32].

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