Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Parson, Dan and Rae Emmett Professor of Environmental Law, has served in the Emmett Institute’s faculty leadership since he joined UCLA Law in 2012. Ted’s world-leading research project on the governance of geoengineering examines law and policy issues presented by solar geoengineering and carbon dioxide removal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Each credit one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent pollution below the standard. I’ve written recently about why a Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard , which addresses the bio-based diesel credits. Source California Air Resources Board.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

The market-based compliance mechanism deigned by CARB went into effect in 2012 in the form of the California Cap-and-Trade Program. AB 32 authorized CARB to adopt a market-based compliance mechanism with “declining annual aggregate emission limits for sources or categories of sources that emit greenhouse gas emissions” through 2020.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 24, 2024

Pore pressure diffusion generated by carbon dioxide injected underground at a carbon storage site in the Illinois Basin is the likely cause of hundreds of microearthquakes that took place at the site between 2011 and 2012, according to a new analysis. Read the full story from the Seismological Society of America.

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HumanNature

APRIL 14, 2022

Alarmingly, a drought in 2012 cost the agricultural industry $30 billion (Rippey 2015). In general, increased carbon dioxide from human activities will lead to higher temperatures. drought of 2012. To put this into a historical context, the last 22 years have been the driest period since the year 800 (Williams et al.

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Law Columbia

MAY 31, 2024

One of these was the abovementioned Guideline established in 2012. Specifically, they claimed that the cumulative environmental impact of the emissions should be examined in the EIA: The estimated annual amount of carbon dioxide was to be 7.26 million tons, equivalent to about 1/5000th of the world’s emissions.

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The Energy Law

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. Additionally, two public hearings are currently scheduled on the proposed rules – April 19, 2010 in Arlington, Va.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 1, 2022

Yet the technologies needed to do this, collectively known as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), remains nascent, underfunded and largely unregulated. Despite this knowledge, there has been little done since to develop carbon dioxide removal at scale. But ocean-based interventions have also been contentious.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2023

Room 140 Main Capitol. Click Here to watch online. Read more here. TODAY 9:00: House Consumer Protection, Technology & Utilities Committee holds a hearing on House Bill 791 (Isaacson-D-Philadelphia) establishing measures to prevent the theft of vehicle catalytic converters ( sponsor summary ).

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Since 2012, 14 South Asian cities have adopted or are collaborating on an Urban Low Emissions Development Strategy (Urban-LEDS). Many cities are therefore putting together plans that combine reducing emissions with adapting to a changing climate. by 2026-27 from a 2018-19 baseline.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Replacing these massive carbon sink forests with machinery which continuously pumps vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the Earth’s atmosphere is increasing the rate of global warming. Martha Jr et al (2012) Land-saving approaches and beef production growth in Brazil, Vol. 2 pp 105-110. (2) 2) Geraldo B.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

On hunting grounds, those same trees improve water quality by reducing polluted runoff, sequestering carbon dioxide, and providing food and habitat for wildlife. The streamside buffer was planted in 2012, and today, sycamores six inches in diameter and oak trees 12 to 15 feet tall help to shield Brown's side of Elk Creek. "I

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 13, 2023

. - PA Tract 8546H -- Failed To Contain Wastes Or Regulated Substances In Tanks Or Other Storage Structures -- Failed to Prevent Potential Pollution of the Waters of Commonwealth -- Operated A Residual Waste Processing Or Disposal Facility Without A Permit Susquehanna County -- SWN Prod Co., LLC - Franklin Twp.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 16, 2022

GenOn Holdings, the plant’s owner, was also a source of financial support for Springdale in the form of donations to churches, parks, emergency management services, and projects like GenOn field, a baseball diamond built in 2012 for which the company donated more than $17,000. million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent into the atmosphere.

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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. Many old mines were retired without modern-day flooding techniques. One mine in White County, Illinois that just closed is one of the country’s top 5 methane emitters.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

6 was enacted, the plants have emitted more than 29 million tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide, 28,000 tons of nitrogen oxides (NOx), and 16,000 tons of sulfur dioxide (SOx). Indeed, the OVEC coal plants have been selling electricity for less than it costs to generate for a decade, operating at a loss since 2012.

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Physics World

MARCH 14, 2022

So far, astronomers have discovered one confirmed exoplanet (and two strong candidates) orbiting Proxima, but a 2012 “discovery” of a planet orbiting Centauri B was later disproven. Within our Solar System, for example, the carbon-to-oxygen (C/O) ratio is 0.5, meaning that there are twice as many oxygen atoms for every atom of carbon.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2023

For an update on the bill’s status, I turned to Ricardo Salvador , director of the UCS Food and Environment Program since 2012. Farmers, meanwhile, overuse and mismanage nitrogen-based fertilizers on their field crops, adding to the sector’s nitrous oxide emissions which is nearly 300x more potent heat trapping gas than carbon dioxide.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The conversion of energy-poor feedstocks like water and carbon dioxide into energy-rich fuels involves multi- electron, multi-proton transformations. From 2011–2012, Prof. She joined UNC in 2012. Want to take part in this webinar? Join the audience.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 13, 2024

The 2023 strategy is more ambitious than the earlier one it replaces and covers full life cycle (also known as well-to-wake or WtW) emissions of all greenhouse gases (GHG), not just those from burning fuel onboard and not just carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). times more potent than CO 2 over the near term.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 18, 2021

But it presciently noted the climatic impact of rising carbon-dioxide emissions, too. After von Neumann’s death, his second wife, computer scientist Klára Dán , who remarried for the fourth time before taking her own life in 1963, penned an unfinished memoir.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2023

. -- House Environmental Committee To Hold Oct. 2 Brown Bag Briefing On Fracking And PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' In Pennsylvania [PaEN] -- The Center Square Guest Essay: Five Years Later, Evidence Of Fracking’s Safety Is Stronger Than Ever - By Heartland Institute & Arthur B. . -- House Environmental Committee To Hold Oct.

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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. 2012 , Bayat et al.,

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Methane is a climate super-pollutant that is 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. Given its potency and short life, experts believe that reducing methane emissions is the highest-yield action that governments and businesses can take to curb near-term warming.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Fossil fuel combustion produces carbon dioxide (CO2), the most abundant global warming pollutant, but also produces local pollutants such as fine particulate matter (PM2.5), nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs).

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Acoel

JANUARY 16, 2024

This land used to be vast wetlands, native grass-covered prairie, or forest — natural systems adept at storing carbon, producing abundant wildlife, and filtering polluted water but over time has been converted for agricultural use. For example, between 2007 and 2012, 7.8 The millions of cows in the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

DEP’s Air Quality regulations require unconventional shale gas, conventional, pipeline, storage and other oil and gas facilities to report the amount of air pollution they are emitting from their facilities since 2012 and do so regularly under Title V and other Air Quality permits issued by the Department of Environmental Protection.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

Supreme Court Decision Did Not Affect EPA’s Ability To Regulate Carbon Dioxide As A Pollutant, Has No Impact On DEP's RGGI Power Plant Carbon Pollution Reduction Program [PaEN] -- Evangelical Environmental Network: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Of U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

So starting in Act 13, passed in 2012, which I know lots of people are familiar with, that was really an act of deference to the oil and gas industry. Finally, this industry has fugitive emissions of methane and the burning of gas releases carbon dioxide. Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

DEP was notified Wise passed away on May 16, 2012. Ronald Wise - Violations: 4 Abandoned Conventional Wells March 12, 2025 notices of violation sent to the owner of record for the Vanderzer 2, 3, 5 and Ron Wise 1 conventional wells in Summit Township, Butler County were returned in the mail. DEP inspection report example.

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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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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 )? Health Effects of Black Carbon.”

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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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HumanNature

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, with a global warming potential of approximately 28 times greater than carbon dioxide over a 100-year time horizon (IPCC, 2021). Deforestation not only threatens biodiversity and disrupts ecosystems but can also increase carbon losses and reduce the capacity for carbon sequestration (Macedo et al.,

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Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2025

Circuit in a 2012 decision, Citizens for Responsible Regulation [CARE] v. In making the Endangerment Finding, EPA put six types of substances, most notably carbon dioxide and methane, into a single category of “well-mixed greenhouse gases.” The Endangerment Finding was challenged in court and upheld by the D.C.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2025

And of course, burning gasoline produces carbon dioxide, leading to further damage from climate change such as excessive heat and increased severe wildfires. In 2012, CARB set rules that require about 6 percent of model year 2025 vehicles to be battery-electric or fuel cell vehicles.

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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.

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