A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The consequences of climate change aren’t reserved for the oceans and atmosphere: Diseases have secured a larger presence in recent years thanks to global warming. In Scandinavia in 2014, an outbreak of cholera, a warm-water disease, shocked observers. We need to aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 12, 2021

A relentless interval of hot, dry weather, made worse by heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, has turned this section of the state into a cauldron of flame, dust, and smoke. It finds more evidence that severe weather events are linked to carbon in the atmosphere and are becoming more extreme.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

While “natural” gas is mostly composed of methane, a greenhouse gas that’s 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide during its first 20 years in the atmosphere, Ebel and his industry counterparts have succeeded in minimizing the perception of its climate impact.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Ideally, the best way to save these islands is to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. Increased levels of greenhouse gases from human industry and agriculture are the root cause of the erosion occurring within the Pacific Islands. should be. [4] Low-lying areas of tropical Pacific islands’ accessed 28 February 2021, [link]. [2]

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

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. Current AMMP projects are anticipated to reduce GHG emissions by about 1.1

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

4] As our climate is warming due to rising emissions of greenhouse gases into our atmosphere, extreme weather events and intense variations in temperature are becoming more frequent. [5]. 12] Major Greenhouse Reductions needed by 2050:IPCC. 6] Noah Berger, EPA. Energy Research and Social Science.70 Climate Central. Abramson M.,

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HumanNature

MARCH 24, 2022

When forests burn, that carbon is released into the atmosphere and contributes to greenhouse gases (mostly as carbon dioxide). Environmental Science and Technology 2014 , 48 (16), 8936–8943. This may result in previously forested areas shifting into other types of ecosystems, such as grasslands. link] (5) Bladon, K.

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Real Climate

MARCH 5, 2023

I had reason to be reviewing the history of MSU satellite retrievals for atmospheric temperatures recently. McNider and Christy, Feb 19th 2014, Wall Street Journal Most of the op-ed is a rather tired rehash of faux outrage based on a comment made by John Kerry (the then Secretary of State) and we can skip right past that. Wentz, and M.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 31, 2022

We need to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases to head off the most severe impacts of climate change, but we also need to take additional steps to help fisheries adapt. Below we share how five fish that we love to eat are affected by a changing climate. Pacific cod also support economically important fisheries.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 20, 2014

At the end of March 2014, Working Group II (WGII) unleashed upon the global community their contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). The scientific information presented in WGI highlights regions that may be affected by certain atmospheric phenomena. Kristin Campbell.

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HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

Student in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University Most people remember the water cycle they learned in school: water evaporates from lakes, rivers, and the ocean, air carrying this moisture rises, cools, condenses, and forms clouds, and these clouds precipitate water back down to the surface.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Candidate in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and Trainee in the CSU InTERFEWS Program What if agriculture – a sector responsible for more than a fifth of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 1 – was actually capable of storing more CO 2 than it emits? Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change. References 1 IPCC.

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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. While burning methane to generate energy releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the overall climate impact is reduced and the gas could potentially replace fossil fuel sources.)

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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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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

The radiative forcing bar chart has gone full circle: Almost every IPCC report has a version of the radiative bar chart showing the contributions over the historical period of all the different forcings (greenhouse gases, aerosols, solar, etc.). Russell, "Climate Impact of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide", Science , vol.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 9, 2022

Melaka, Malaysia: The Melaka Green City Action Plan, developed in partnership with the Asian Development Bank in 2014, highlights the goal of becoming a zero-waste state and reducing waste-related greenhouse gas emissions.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

We have little time left to create a practical path to achieving an 80% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2050.” atmospheric CO2 levels. of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 80% by 2050, as have many Atlantic states for future OSW . But today, it’s . Since my 2012 “Fiddling as the World Floods and Burns” warnings, . cean acidity.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

million km2 and its result were published in a report in 2014. In China, cadmium in soil mainly comes from atmospheric deposition of the metal after it has been emitted from coal-burning, metallurgical facilities and animal-source fertilisers. Research has estimated that the soil could keep from the atmosphere the equivalent of 23.8

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

The California Supreme Court declined to review an intermediate appellate court’s decision upholding the statewide greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program. They alleged that the standards could reduce annual greenhouse gas emissions by more than 26 million metric tons and save $24 billion over 30 years.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Circuit Court of Appeals granted motions seeking to dismiss as moot the proceedings challenging the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, which established emission guidelines for greenhouse gases from existing power plants. The court dismissed the proceedings 11 days after the effective date of the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Oil and natural gas operations are the nation’s largest industrial source of methane, a climate “super pollutant” that is many times more potent than carbon dioxide and is responsible for approximately one third of the warming from greenhouse gases occurring today.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 25, 2024

By Joshua Bledsoe , Kevin Homrighausen , and John Detrich On December 2, 2023, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a final report that substantially increases estimates of the social cost of greenhouse gases (GHG), including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide (collectively, SC-GHG). 2014), [link]. [14]

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2021

SG would cool the Earth, temporarily and imperfectly offsetting some of the climate effects of elevated greenhouse gases, by reflecting a bit (around 0.5% The way to do this that now looks most promising would be to spray a fine mist of reflective aerosols in the upper atmosphere. to 1%) of incoming sunlight.

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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

MARCH 6, 2018

The court stated: “Plaintiffs’ claims for public nuisance, though pled as state-law claims, depend on a global complex of geophysical cause and effect involving all nations of the planet (and the oceans and atmosphere). It necessarily involves the relationships between the United States and all other nations. North Coast Rivers Alliance v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

The 2021 New Hampshire Climate Assessment states unequivocally: “Without significant reduction in atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHG), extreme precipitation events are projected to increase a minimum of 20%, leading to an increase in freshwater flooding regionally.”

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

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue a decision on Exxon’s application to renew the NPDES permit, which had expired in 2014. The district court had granted Exxon’s motion to stay the case under the doctrine of primary jurisdiction to allow the U.S. Oatly Group AB , No. 1:21-cv-06485 (S.D.N.Y., filed July 30, 2021); Jochims v.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The plaintiffs alleged that Peabody (and a number of other fossil fuel companies) caused greenhouse gas emissions that resulted in sea level rise and damage to their property. Circuit Stayed Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Truck Trailers.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

HFCs are coolant gases which are used in heating, refrigeration, air condition and refrigeration and emit potent greenhouse gases. The bill also requires land management agencies to create a comprehensive strategy to guide the agencies’ efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to keep the public informed of the progress.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receives $1.24 The White House urges agencies to prioritize climate adaption and resilience, nature-based climate solutions and improving monitoring of greenhouse gases and access to climate data. NSF also receives $3.43

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ESA

MAY 6, 2021

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently announced the expansion of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, nearly tripling the size of the sanctuary. will halve its greenhouse gas emissions from 2005 levels. is rejoining the Paris Climate Accord and announced to world leaders that by 2030 the U.S.

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