Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2025

Since 2014 CASAC has consistently recommended that the ozone primary standard be lowered from the current standard of 70 parts per billion (ppb) to 60 ppb, but the 2024 EPA rule did not make the standard stricter. Christopher Frey, Chair, Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, to Gina McCarthy, Administrator, EPA, June 26, 2014

Ozone

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 24, 2025

On January 13th, 2025 the Province of Nova Scotia and the Regional Municipality of Halifax announced that Nearly half of Halifax’s municipal electricity will soon come from a Queens County wind farm, a move the city says will cut its greenhouse gas emissions by a quarter. MT in 2020, or 13.5 per cent of all the emissions in the US. (

Government

PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2025

So just thinking back over the course of this past decade, widespread gas failures were the primary cause of near blackouts in PJM, in both 2014 and 2022 with Winter Storm Elliott. “Even though individual gas-fired plants can be reliable, they have a disturbing tendency to fail in large numbers at the same time, particularly in the winter. "So

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Flaring, demonstrated in the photo on the right, is the uncontrolled burning of excess or unwanted petroleum pools such as, excuse me, flaring can be a significant source of air pollution such as nitrogen oxides and greenhouse gas emissions. It is also an additional source of noise and light pollution.

Natural Gas

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MARCH 21, 2025

Figure 4: Specialty Crops Are Left Uncovered * Note: Specialty crop operations include those classified by their North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) number as: vegetable and melon farms (NAICS 1112); fruit and tree nut farms (1113); or greenhouse, nursery, and floriculture production (NAICS 1114).

2017

Real Climate

MARCH 5, 2023

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. The version of the MSU2R product at the beginning of 2014 was version 5.5, But it gets worse. K/dec 95% CI, natch).

2014

Real Climate

MAY 21, 2023

That means the greenhouse substances are basically just CO2 and ozone, and they absorb in quite different parts of the spectrum. CMIP6 model spread and mean compared to the NOAA-STAR observations for three SSU channels (using the historical simulations continued by SSP5-85 after 2014). 13,180-13,205, 2014. Thompson et al.

Cooling

Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

The cause of our changing climate is the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations that we have released into the air. Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) is the most important greenhouse gas that we have added to the atmosphere, however, some of it has been absorbed by land and oceans.

Atmosphere

Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

Source: Data from IPCC (2014), Rogelj et al (2018), and IPCC (2021). Source: Data from IPCC (2014), Rogelj et al (2018), and IPCC (2021). IPCC (2014) Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report. When adjusting for the emissions since AR5 and SR1.5, AR6 remaining carbon budget for limiting warming to 1.5C Leitzell, E.

2018

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

A friend asked me if a discussion paper published on Statistics Norway’s website, ‘ To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions? ’, was purposely timed for the next climate summit ( COP28 ). All this can be explained by physical processes and an enhanced greenhouse effect.

Sea Level

Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

It is not as though people have not tried – we discussed this here in 2014, where we made a plea for better graphs of the global temperature. All of which adds to the uncertainty. Now, 10 years later, we finally have something. The first factor increases the apparent sensitivity, and the second decreases it.

Sea Level

Legal Planet

MARCH 10, 2022

term, even for the very low greenhouse gas emissions scenario.” The report points out that under all of the illustrative scenarios it considered, “there is at least a greater than 50% likelihood that global warming will reach or exceed 1.5° C in the near?term, That’s not a cure-all, however, even if we can do it. The pace of change.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

That was repealed in 2014, and the ensuing period saw little progress. In 2022, the Labor coalition passed a law mandating that Australia cut greenhouse gas emissions 43% below 2005 levels by 2030 and reach net-zero by 2050. On a per capita basis, Australia’s carbon emissions are even higher than the United States.

2030

Real Climate

AUGUST 13, 2021

The IPCC has introduced a new high-end risk scenario, stating that a global rise “approaching 2 m by 2100 and 5 m by 2150 under a very high greenhouse gas emissions scenario cannot be ruled out due to deep uncertainty in ice sheet processes.”. The IPCC gives more consideration to the large long-term sea-level rise beyond the year 2100.

Sea Level

Legal Planet

AUGUST 16, 2021

Faulconer has taken credit for the passage of the city’s 2015 Climate Action Plan, which requires the city to cut its greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2035. In 2014, he said he was skeptical of climate science. Unusually for a Republican, the former San Diego mayor endorses significant climate action. Sam Gallucci.

Climate Change

Real Climate

APRIL 4, 2024

These simulations used historical GHG concentrations and aerosol emissions to 2014, and a mid-range scenario (SSP2-4.5) These projections are the basis of our updated comparisons of CMIP6 models to observations , and specifically this graph: CMIP6 simulations and the GISTEMP observations. The screening uses the likely range of 1.8

Climate Change

Environmental News Bits

JULY 29, 2022

Study provides data on gains and losses attributable to individual countries, including the finding that a group from the world’s leading national emitters of GHGs have caused $6 trillion in global economic losses through warming caused by their emissions from 1990 to 2014.

Greenhouse

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.). 1, SPM, AR5.

Sea Level

Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The proliferation of electronic devices has contributed to the accelerated surge of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in e-waste, according to a new study in Circular Economy. E-waste GHG emissions rose 53 percent between 2014 and 2020.

2014

Legal Planet

MAY 7, 2024

In 2014, CAISO expanded the territory of its real-time market , through which utilities can buy small amounts of electricity to correct real-time fluctuations in customer demand and electricity dispatched by generators.

Electricity

Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

On their own, our greenhouse gas emissions would have caused a much higher warming, were it not for the masking effect of aerosol pollution. warmer than pre-industrial times (here defined as 1850-1900). Obviously, this goes most of the way to 1.5? of warming and human influence is pretty much the sole contributor to this observed warming.

Paris Agreement

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Construction began in 2014. While hydrological change and sediment loads were the most common environmental subjects studied, fewer researchers analyzed dam development effects on fish diversity, non-fish aquatic species, river connectivity, and greenhouse gases.

2012

Environmental News Bits

JULY 14, 2022

The United States and China, the world’s two leading greenhouse gas emitters, are each responsible for more than $1.8 trillion of global income losses from 1990 to 2014, according to a new study that links the emissions in individual countries to the economic impacts of climate change … Continue reading U.S.

2014

Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

The Carbon Capture Facility at the Boundary Dam Power Plant in Saskatchewan went into service in 2014. The engineers behind the Pathways Alliance must recognize that CCS will never be a cost-effective way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Since then, it has captured less than half of the carbon dioxide it is supposed to.

Fossil Fuels

CEQA Developments

JUNE 27, 2023

As relevant here, the City certified a Final EIR in 2014 (2014 EIR) for a General Plan Update (GPU) with a 2035 development horizon. The Findings addressed each of the environmental issues studied in the 2014 EIR and compared the effects of the Project to those of the adopted GPU.

2014

The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

By Jillian Marullo House Bill 788, signed into law on June 14, 2013, authorizes the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (“TCEQ”) to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases (“GHG”) “[t]o the extent that greenhouse gas emissions require authorization under federal law.”

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. billion.

2030

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

Renewable Energy

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

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Our data covered 2014-2020 in San Diego County. Some of these suits have produced settlements requiring steps to both reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improved wildfire protection for residents – and some lawsuits are ongoing , in some cases having at least temporarily stopped projects from proceeding. Implications.

Government

Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Since 2007, only 2009, 2013 and 2014 had more ice at the end of the melt season. One way to do that is to tell the Coast Guard to lead the way on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from ship traffic at the International Maritime Organization and to better prepare for climate-related changes here at home. But you can help turn the tide.

2021

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

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In 2014 they created their ‘astroturf’ group, Canada’s Energy Citizens, to challenge and mimic the growing success of grassroots climate activists. CAPP paid for Facebook ads posted by Canada’s Energy Citizens that have 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

The Energy Law

AUGUST 29, 2022

In addition to wetlands impacts, the groups allege that the LNG terminal and an associated pipeline would have a “staggering” impact on the climate in the form of greenhouse gas emissions. 4, 2014), Docket No. 19, 2014), Docket No. million tonnes/year of LNG that would be available for export, and the creation of 7,000 jobs. .

Natural Gas

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. UPMC will lead by example to develop approaches to health care that rapidly reduce our contributions to greenhouse gas emissions,” said Boninger. “We

2030

Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

In Kobe city, the construction of two new coal-fired power plants was planned, and the operator started the environmental impact assessment despite the opposition by the Kobe residents in 2014. Civil Case : Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v. Kobe Civil Case) In September 2018, a group of 40 citizens sued Kobe Steel Ltd.,

Climate Change