HumanNature

DECEMBER 16, 2021

During the past 30 years of extensive political debate around global climate change, participants have largely ignored the role that curbing population growth could play in dealing with it. 3 from IPCC, Fifth Assessment Report, Mitigation Report, Summary for Policymakers (2014). Figure SPM.3

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Testimony before the House Agriculture Committee for a Hearing on “Climate Change and the U.S. Technological change and agricultural modernization will significantly outweigh climate change in the U.S. Technological change and agricultural modernization will significantly outweigh climate change in the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

The Future of Carbon Capture,” will be led by Dr. Dave Luebke, technical director of the Direct Air Capture Center at the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh. The Center was established in 2023 to jumpstart DAC technologies and accelerate the commercialization of DAC technologies beyond the conceptual stage.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2022

On October 4, Pittsburgh-based UPMC announced they intend to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50% within the next eight years across its footprint. The reductions are one component of the recently signed Health Care Sector Climate Pledge , an initiative led by the White House and the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

After the EPA proposed the Clean Power Plan in 2014, for example, fossil fuel interests and their backers tried to argue that the proposal’s 2030 emission-reduction targets were completely unrealistic, and that the country would see astronomically high costs and blackouts due to the rule.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 27, 2023

One is Alex Pourbaix is the CEO of Cenovus, one of the biggest oil sands producers, who is regularly in the media talking about energy and climate change politics. Fossil fuels are the main cause of the climate crisis, and the biggest threats to a stable climate is the continued production and consumption of them.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The counterargument to that is that steel is a critical component of many renewable energy technologies such as wind turbines. There are, however, several trial projects around the world that are trialling new technology that produces steel without burning fossil fuels. Strong pushback. degrees C target.

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HumanNature

APRIL 28, 2022

Many argue that this is one of the most intrusive things we can do to combat climate change. We interact with nature everyday – all the materials used to build our homes and technology were once found in trees, rocks, and rivers, and our backyards are full of plants and animals. 2012; Ste-Marie et al.,

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Frontiers

JANUARY 18, 2023

Yet climate change and human environmental impacts threaten our long-term food security. This variation on the iconic US advertising slogan from the beef industry may sound funny, but it’s no joke that the current agriculture system is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions and environmental pollution.

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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. This appears to be the only national level agricultural methane target currently in law.

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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% Concerns of this type have arisen in many areas of research and technology, notably going back to the first Asilomar conference on recombinant DNA experiments in 1973.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

By Rejimon Kuttappan Along with a major expansion of renewable energy, India is also pushing for big increases in its coal production, casting doubt on its climate commitments. On the same day at COP28, the Indian government submitted its third “National Communication” to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

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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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Physics World

OCTOBER 19, 2021

I fight,” answered Magwood, who at the time directed the Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology at the US Department of Energy (DOE). “I He considered aerospace as a possible career, then computer technology. Magwood then became director of the office, making him the senior nuclear technology official in the US government.

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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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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.” nds to midnight. : “For over four decades the threat of climate change to “future generations” has been ruefully noted. Yet—climate change impacts are outpacing development of p. But today, it’s .

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 22, 2021

As you may remember, we weren’t overjoyed at the results last session , which settled on a profoundly underwhelming short term measure to address the sector’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in addition to a diluted “ban” on heavy fuel oil (HFO) use in the Arctic that will only take effect in 2029. C warming scenario.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Arati Prabhakar confirmed to be the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. HFCs are coolant gases which are used in heating, refrigeration, air condition and refrigeration and emit potent greenhouse gases. Clash over climate change funding emerging in farm bill debate – States Newsroom.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

We knew that global greenhouse gases emission from energy had been peaking for the past three years – largely thanks to China – but now, here is another series of nails in the coffins of coal and oil. Additionally, energy efficiency technologies such as LED light bulbs are a major drive towards lower emissions.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

billion to spend through fiscal year (FY) 2026 on weather, ocean and climate research and forecasting while the Environmental Protection Agency receives $264 million for climate change research and development. NOAA also receives $765 climate adaptation and resilience. He will assess the latest research for U.S.

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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). Climate Change Presents Increased Potential for Very Large Fires in the Contiguous United States. Environmental Science and Technology 2014 , 48 (16), 8936–8943. Forest Wildfire Activity.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 20, 2014

Working Group II’s addition follows the updated scientific analysis of Working Group I and provides information of the impacts of climate change, vulnerability to climate change, and adaptation suggestions. Regardless, it can serve as a useful tool for climate change policy negotiations. _. Kristin Campbell.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Worse than that, it might end up misdirecting the world’s clean energy efforts into dirtier than appreciated energy technologies because of the country’s ongoing dependence on coal-fired energy. The disruption happened in under a decade, with China’s global share of PV production surging from 14 percent in 2006 to 60 percent by 2013.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 10, 2022

The vast majority of New York City apartment buildings have heating systems like this one, and replacing them with electric heat pumps is key to the city reaching its climate targets , the most urgent being a 40 percent overall reduction of emissions by 2030. . And a lot of the technology is very approachable.”

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 12, 2021

1:00 to 2:30 p.m. -- WESA: With No Climate Action In Congress, CMU Prof Says Fed ‘Green’ Interest Rate Could Help, But Some Warn Of Risks -- TribLive/AP: Northwest U.S. 12 - Advancing Your Organization’s Carbon-Reduction Goals Webinar. 12 - Advancing Your Organization’s Carbon-Reduction Goals Webinar.

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ESA

MAY 6, 2021

Climate change is reshaping our lands and our oceans and our coasts. We cannot confront climate change without doing a far better job to protect our forests, our oceans, our wetlands and our grasslands,” Gina McCarthy, the White House national climate adviser, said during the call.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

million km2 and its result were published in a report in 2014. This represents 25% of the potential of all natural climate solutions. Soil can both be a source of greenhouse gas emissions, by releasing carbon dioxide and methane, or it can fix organic carbon. The first covered around 6.3 of the sampling sites. of polluted sites.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

24 Organizing Black Birders Week Webinar With Tykee James -- Keep PA Beautiful Local Affiliates Recycle 1.1 17; Loving The Land Thru Working Forests Conference Sept.

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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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