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Livestock Operations Are Responsible for Over Half of California’s Methane Emissions—Why Won’t CARB Regulate Them?

Legal Planet

To identify which fuels should be promoted, CARB calculates the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels. In these “carbon intensity” calculations, CARB is not allowed to count reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that are already required by law. Agricultural operations are almost uniquely unregulated.

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Something Stinks: California Must End Manure Biomethane Accounting Gimmicks in its Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Union of Concerned Scientists

Under the LCFS each fuel pathway gets a unique carbon intensity (CI) based on a lifecycle analysis of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production and use of the fuel. The CI of an electric vehicle charged with solar power is zero, and most of the biofuels fall somewhere in the middle [i].

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Tackling Agricultural Methane: Monitoring and Policy Strategies

Legal Planet

In a previous blog post , I briefly reviewed some of the innovative strategies to reduce methane emissions from agricultural livestock and rice operations, which have the potential to combat a significant source of global greenhouse gas emissions. Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification.

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Why Ontario needs to stop burning polluting gas for electricity

Enviromental Defense

The rest of our power comes from a mix of nuclear power, renewables like hydro, wind and solar power, and biofuel. 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. Source: IESO [link].

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New Greenwashing Case is Troubling to Future of ESG

Greenbuilding Law

The claim is not that any of that is not true, but rather that sustainable and ESG advertising claims appeal to consumers who will fly KLM and other airlines when the only current means of airlines to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is to fly less.

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The Real Cost of Food

Acoel

For example, between 2007 and 2012, 7.8 Less than a quarter of cropland is devoted to food directly eaten by humans, with the rest going to mostly to animal feed and biofuel feedstock, and it takes many pounds of grains to produce a pound of beef. The two primary greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture are methane and nitrous oxide.

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Testimony by Michael Shellenberger before the House Agriculture Committee on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”

Environmental Progress

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] Technological change and agricultural modernization will significantly outweigh climate change in the U.S.