Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2025

EPA Supreme Court ruling which held that greenhouse gas emissions are unambiguously air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. Importantly, courts have repeatedly upheld both, including in a resounding 2012 decision from the U.S. These findings followed from the landmark 2007 Mass v. Court of AppealsD.C.

Clean Air Act

Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2025

On March 12, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced plans to reconsider EPAs 2009 endangerment finding for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, along with all regulations and actions that rely on the finding. EPA (2012). The Supreme Court explicitly held in Massachusetts v.

2009

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 27, 2025

Million In CY 2024 Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Fees To Communities, Statewide Programs; $15 Million Less Than Last Year [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension Hosts Aug. Million In Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fees; $25.1 Million In Sen.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2025

In late 2009, EPA made a formal finding often called the Endangerment Finding that greenhouse gases may endanger human health and welfare. The Bush Administration argued that greenhouse gases dont meet that requirement. The only question , the Court said, was the scientific evidence about the harmfulness of greenhouse gases.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 28, 2025

Million In Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fees; $25.1 Million In Sen.

Natural Gas

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. Our Continuing Struggle with the Idea That For-Profit Corporations Seek Profit, 47 Wake Forest Law Review 135, 155 (2012). 516 (2012); SpeechNow.org v. federal system. [7]

Law

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 27, 2025

Million In CY 2024 Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Fees To Communities, Statewide Programs; $15 Million Less Than Last Year [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension Hosts Aug. Million In Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fees; $25.1 Million In Sen.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Pennsylvania last updated its setback distances in 2012. Flaring, which is shown here, as well as venting, can be a significant source of both nitrogen oxides and greenhouse gas emissions such as methane. This is known as a setback distance and is commonly regulated at the state level. Water Quality Next is water quality.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 28, 2025

Million In Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fees; $25.1 Million In Sen.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 27, 2025

Million In CY 2024 Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Fees To Communities, Statewide Programs; $15 Million Less Than Last Year [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension Hosts Aug. Million In Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fees; $25.1 Million In Sen.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2025

Shapiros term. Read more here ] -- Prioritizing DEP: During budget hearings in 2024, DEP estimated that the staff of its Oil and Gas Program, which oversees permitting and regulating the industry, was operating at about 75% capacity due to staffing shortfalls.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 5, 2025

The 2009 endangerment finding on climate emissions is the underlying basis for EPA’s regulatory responsibility for taking actions to address greenhouse gas pollution. Source: EPA ) This latest attack on vehicle standards specifically covers EPA’s greenhouse gas standards for cars and commercial medium and heavy-duty trucks.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 27, 2025

Million In CY 2024 Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Fees To Communities, Statewide Programs; $15 Million Less Than Last Year [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension Hosts Aug. Million In Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fees; $25.1 Million In Sen.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Last week, the Federal Highway Administration finalized an important regulation–the greenhouse gas performance measure. Currently, only 24 states and the District of Columbia have laws requiring them to set targets and track their greenhouse gas emissions from transportation. But change is coming.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Extremes : Back in 2012, the literature assessed by AR5 connecting changes in extremes to climate change was scant. As one example, the rate of warming over the past 15 years (1998–2012; 0.05 [–0.05 to 0.15] °C per decade), which begins with a strong El Niño, is smaller than the rate calculated since 1951 (1951–2012; 0.12 [0.08

Sea Level

Frontiers

JULY 11, 2021

New research published by the open access publisher Frontiers inventories greenhouse gas emissions of 167 globally distributed cities. The study shows that just 25 mega-cities produce 52% of the greenhouse gas emissions from the studied cities. For 30 cities, there was a clear emission decrease between 2012 and 2016.

Greenhouse

Real Climate

APRIL 6, 2023

Nevertheless, the summary for policymakers states the need for “rapid and deep and, in most cases, immediate greenhouse gas emissions reductions in all sectors this decade” if we want global warming to keep below 1.5°C Humans work hard to add greenhouse gases such as CO 2 into the atmosphere. 775-779, 2012. Solomon, and A.S.

Climate Change

Real Climate

MAY 21, 2023

2012) described the issues as ‘mysterious’, but efforts to better correct the record for non-climatic effects soon bore fruit, and the ‘mystery’ became history ( Maycock et al., That means the greenhouse substances are basically just CO2 and ozone, and they absorb in quite different parts of the spectrum.

Cooling

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

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.

Regulations

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The scoping process has been key to California’s success in cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The State of New York most recently adopted the scoping process as part of an aggressive new scheme to cut greenhouse gas emissions. b) The range of projected air pollution reductions that result from the measure. (c)

Greenhouse

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Unconventional, conventional, pipeline, storage and other oil and gas facilities have been self-reporting air emissions from their facilities since 2012 and do so regularly under Title V and other Air Quality permits issued by the Department of Environmental Protection. Methane emissions were reported as 165,793.87 tons - Ammonia -- 45.89

Air Pollution

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 11, 2023

We estimated the potential of these buffer areas to contribute to reductions in water use, pesticide use, toxic nitrate leaching, and greenhouse gas emissions. Cropland repurposing that led to the reduction of fertilizer use and nitrate leaching would result in a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (mostly nitrous oxide) equivalent to 2.2

2012

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Yet the Cambodian government revived the project in 2007, and in 2012 the dam became a joint venture between Cambodia’s Royal Group and China’s state-owned Huaneng Group, which remains the majority stakeholder. The analysis showed, however, that overall evaluations of environmental losses from hydropower dams have increased since 2012.

2012

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

Enviromental Defense

JULY 15, 2024

In 2012, the previous government gutted Canada’s federal environmental assessment rules. In the end, the IAA did not fully restore the protections lost in the 2012 rollbacks. Alarmingly, the government removed greenhouse gas emissions as effects under the federal government’s jurisdiction.

Government

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. Alex has also led trainings in environmental law for judges in both the U.S. Like Professors Boyd and Wang, Ted Parson shares a commitment to education, research, and public service.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2024

They did though make some needed planning reforms, such as the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) in 2012, which initiated a wave of performance-based planning through tracking and reporting progress on measures related to safety, infrastructure conditions, congestion, project delivery, and environmental sustainability.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

and other major greenhouse gas emitters? Ahead of COP18 in 2012, U.K. Developing nations may be unwilling to sign onto an agreement in which the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters fail to take clear responsibility for loss and damage, or one that purports to limit remedies for climate harms.

Paris Agreement

The Energy Law

MARCH 31, 2010

By Stepehen Wiegand In October 2009, EPA promulgated the Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Rule. Under the proposed rules, the newly covered sources are required to begin collecting emissions data on January 1, 2011 and are required to submit the first annual reports to EPA on March 31, 2012.

Greenhouse

Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated at least once every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

2030

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”. For more on this see my Review Paper in Nature. Here a quote from Liu et al.

Ocean

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For years CAPP has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to boost advertising on Facebook , including ads that explicitly urged people to oppose limits on greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and gas industry.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

JULY 5, 2024

But they aren’t the only powerful players who shoulder responsibility for keeping us hooked on fossil fuels, the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. There’s a direct line of culpability between fossil fuel corporations and climate change – it’s why so many oil and gas CEOs have topped our list of Climate Villains.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The current bond amount for unconventional wells is $10,000 adopted in 2012, with a blanket bonding system that greatly lowers the actual per-well amount, which also does not come close to full-cost bonding. The petition asks for unconventional well bonds to be increased to $83,000 per well.

2012

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2023

-- DEP Notice Of Additional Public Hearings On Interim Final Environmental Justice Permit Review Policy -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Appalachian Hydrogen Hub Companies And Projects Finally Revealed : ‘The Cloak Has Been Removed’ [ ARCH2 Presentation ] [ ARCH2 website ] -- PA Capital-Star Guest Essay: RGGI Is About Climate Change, But Also About Environmental (..)

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

JUNE 12, 2023

California has set ambitious climate goals, which include reducing state greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 40 percent by 2030 and reducing GHGs 85 percent (and achieving statewide carbon neutrality) by 2045.

2009

The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

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. Under the final rule, facilities are required to begin collecting emissions data on January 1, 2011, and the first annual report is due by March 31, 2012.

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