A Greener Life

DECEMBER 28, 2022

By 2030 the Tokyo Metropolitan Government has set targets that aim to halve greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions compared to 2000 levels. But the country switched off most of its nuclear generators following the 2011 Fukushima disaster. Therefore its coal consumption increased, making that target much harder to achieve.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

In 2011 I invited Reagan-era economist Art Laffer to speak to a hall filled exclusively with New Hampshire Republicans, both leaders and rank and file conservatives. As a climate scientist recently said on CNN, “Until we stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere we have no idea what the future looks like.”

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

As I outlined here , Montana state law prohibits the consideration of greenhouse gas emissions or climate impacts–– inside and outside the state’s borders––when reviewing projects and approving permits. If Montana stopped emitting greenhouse gases, would that prevent the injury to plaintiffs from climate change? “We

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The government had abruptly stopped subsidies, dramatically increasing the price for consumers. The government resigned on 5 January, and the situation continues to develop. The government resigned on 5 January, and the situation continues to develop. Social unrest related to fossil fuels is not a new phenomenon in Kazakhstan.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

Backgrounds After the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, all nuclear power plants in Japan were temporarily shutdown due to safety concerns. Sendai Power Station , the first climate change case in Japan, withdrew a claim based on greenhouse gas emissions and focused on air pollution arguments. Kobe Steel Ltd., Kobelco Power Kobe No.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Wolf on April 21, 2021 (Earth Day) they would reject all future nominees to the PUC until he withdraws his executive order joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to reduce carbon pollution from power plants. The PUC has nothing to do with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Program. “We Read more here. Coleman Jr.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The Governor approved a notable slate of climate legislation with a package that includes more stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets and measures designed to reduce the state’s reliance on fossil fuels. SB 6 and AB 2011 enable residential development in zones where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use.

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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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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Other Key Sources Business and Human Rights Resource Centre's profile on ExxonMobil - UK-based Business and Human Rights Resource Centre is an NGO that employs researchers on five continents who work with activists, companies and governments alike to advance human rights in business by eradicating abuse.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Transportation A Cap-and-Invest Approach . In recent years, states in New England and the mid-Atlantic region have made significant progress in reducing climate change-inducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity generation sector. [1].

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 8, 2023

Many see this cutting edge enactment as crucial to making possible the State’s ESG goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in buildings. A decade later, in 2011, Maryland was the first state to authorize the use of the IgCC for private and public construction. The backstory is important.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

A second bill would require annual reporting of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by a covered firm’s operations. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has adopted a Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule [25] requiring facilities that emit more than 25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent to report their direct GHG emissions. [26]

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Capaccio

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The baseline levels were established by averaging the production and consumption from the start of 2011 to the end of 2013, plus fifteen percent of 1989 HCFC and 0.42 CO2 equivalent (CO2e) is a way to standardize emissions from various greenhouse gases based on their global warming potential (GWP). percent of 1989 CFC levels.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Koch’s Web of Influence by John Farrell (Center for Public Integrity, April 2011). The Koch Brothers: What You Need to Know About the Financiers of the Radical Right (Center for American Progress Action Fund, April 2011).

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

So why is Ontario planning to ramp up the lone fossil fuel in the mix, when so many other governments are racing to do the opposite to cut carbon emissions? Ontario Electricity Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions Historical and Forecast. A polluting gas-fired electricity plant was moved to this area by the Ontario government in 2012.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

The price of solar panels and wind turbines has declined 75 percent and 25 percent, respectively, since 2011. [5] 8] The hardening required of nuclear plants first in response to 9/11 and then in response to the loss of Fukushima Daiichi in 2011 has further ensured their contribution to reliability, resiliency, and affordability. [9]

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Other Key Sources Business and Human Rights Resource Centre's profile on ExxonMobil - UK-based Business and Human Rights Resource Centre is an NGO that employs researchers on five continents who work with activists, companies and governments alike to advance human rights in business by eradicating abuse.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In recent history, we have witnessed LUC exacerbating climate change due to disturbed soils, development of greenhouse gas (GHG) producing land uses, and more 4. Progress in Planning 75 , 53–107 (2011). Colorado Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Roadmap. IPCC guidelines for national greenhouse gas inventories 4 , 1–59 (2006).

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Just as with climate change, local, state, provincial, and national governments in Canada and the United States have collaborated with science agencies, universities, and non-profit groups to develop effective responses, especially for Lake Erie. The fossil fuel sector and its industrial allies block curbs to greenhouse gas emissions.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 22, 2021

Over the last decade, courts, legislatures and various bodies of government in countries around the world have sought and won ecosystem protection through nature rights. The court ordered the government to develop and implement action plans to address deforestation. What countries have declared rights of nature?

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the raising of livestock and growth of crops for human consumption represent 14% of global GHG emissions. 2016 , Benchaar and Greathead, 2011 , Gutierrez et al., (This post was authored by Eric Peshkin, a JD candidate at NYU School of Law and CLEE summer research assistant).

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In 2015, the NGO Klimaatzaak and thousands of concerned citizens as co-plaintiffs initiated a judicial procedure against four Belgian governments—the federal government and the regional governments of Wallonia, Brussels, and Flanders—before the Tribunal of First Instance of Brussels. Facts, procedure, judgment.

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ESA

MARCH 6, 2023

This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for ecologists to provide input to the US government on how nature, biodiversity and ecosystems will be measured to provide the information needed to manage ecosystems and biodiversity within the United States. Greenhouse Gas Monitoring & Information System.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

Envirothon Team Get Hands-On Science Lessons In Canoes -- National Energy Technology Laboratory: Winners In Western PA, West Virginia Science Bowl Competed In National Science Bowl -- PA Solar Center Honors 5 Western PA Organizations Who Have Gone Solar [PaEN] -- Williamsport Sun: Eagle On The Mend Through Ashkar Students’ Efforts -- Reading Eagle: (..)

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

On November 16, 2011, at 6:12 p.m., The result is nitrates are causing health and ecological trauma in farming regions across the country and around the world as farmers and governments intensify their efforts to produce more food from each acre of land. Purging nitrate from groundwater will not be a quick fix. It was a career shift.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 19, 2022

The commission in April approved a 25-year state contract offering billions of dollars to Hydro-Quebec, a corporation tied to the Quebec government, for delivering renewable energy. A governance committee composed of representatives from CHPE, state agencies and environmental and community groups will direct the fund.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Subsequently, Japanese greenhouse gas emissions and electricity costs for industrial and residential consumers have skyrocketed. The country had planned a massive expansion of its nuclear power program in a bid to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, with its. earthquake occurred off the Japanese coast on March 11, 2011.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Divided Ninth Circuit Said Juliana Plaintiffs Lacked Standing to Press Constitutional Climate Claims Against Federal Government. Circuit Declined to Speed Up or Slow Down Challenges to Withdrawal of California Waiver and Preemption of State Authority to Regulate Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Trump , No. 4:19-cv-00028 (D.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Information unearthed by Environmental Progress points to a gaping oversight in how the figures influencing government net zero policy and investments in solar worldwide are compiled and collated due to the difficulty of collecting accurate information out of China, especially for the purification processes used to create silicon wafers.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

The project is controversial due to its contribution to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and its location on the North Slope of Alaska, which happens to be the largest undisturbed track of public land in the U.S. 2011) ; Regehr et al. and an area that is highly sensitive to climate change. See, e.g., IPCC AR6 WGI Ch.3 3 ; Laidre et al.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

In three other cases brought by local and state governments against fossil fuel companies, the Supreme Court granted petitions for writ of certiorari seeking review of decisions affirming remand orders. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS Supreme Court Sent Other Climate Cases Back to Lower Appellate Courts for Review of Other Grounds for Removal.

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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

On September 13, 2011, I began the endeavor of writing Miller Starr Regalia’s CEQA Developments blog. 4th 439, clarified the rules governing CEQA’s “environmental baseline,” the analytical construct intended to represent the existing physical conditions in the project’s vicinity against which a project’s environmental impacts are measured.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Not only are vehicles the number one emitter of greenhouse gas emissions, but car accidents are also the leading cause of death for those aged 1-54 in the country. Now, some indigenous tribes are working cooperatively with local governments to bring back controlled burns—but this is not enough.

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Vegetarianism is not important for protecting the environment or reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Irrigation water used per bushel of corn has declined by nearly half since 1980, while greenhouse gases declined 31 percent. [19] Government’s Fourth National Climate Assessment supports IPCC’s findings. and around the world.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Steingraber noted similar conclusions were reached in 2014 when New York State banned fracking, saying “At the time, and again, this is nine years ago in 2014, there were 400 studies and investigations in the peer-reviewed scientific literature in government reports and by journalists that showed evidence for harm. They are also born smaller.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. In particular, the court found that conclusion that greenhouse gas emissions constituted a significant impact was not clearly erroneous. Circuit’s partial vacatur in Mexichem Fluor, Inc. State , No.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

The third-party complaint asserted that while the plaintiffs’ claims were meritless, Statoil, “as well as potentially the many other sovereign governments that use and promote fossil fuels,” must be joined as third-party defendants. Chevron filed similar notices of withdrawal in other cases brought by California localities. June 28, 2021).

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