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Energy news as COP23 is taking place in Germany

Edouard Stenger

Meanwhile, many forget that the flip side of local air pollution is global climate change. We have seen it many times over, pollution from our air, water and soil is killing nine million people every year. In 2016, the world added 138.5 Solving one will solve the other. trillion USD per year (12.6 Conclusion.

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Climate leadership is now in Asia

Edouard Stenger

China’s coal consumption declined over three consecutive years (2013 to 2016), and a continued slow decline is expected. Now, not only coal is spewing insane amounts of carbon dioxide – one kilogram per kilo-watt/hour on average – it is also now more expensive than wind, solar, and soon battery storage.

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Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant

HumanNature

(Figure 1) These properties are a double-edged sword: while they are the root of the problems that black carbon causes, they also make mitigating black carbon one of the most actionable ways to fight climate change. Figure 1: Size reference for atmospheric particles (US EPA 2016) and a general structure of freshly created black carbon.

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Using the Free Market to Affect Change: An Argument for Environmental Taxes

Vermont Law

to reducing their carbon emissions. which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. Two steps forward, one step back: In February 2016, the Supreme Court issued a. the Paris Agreement) that will require periodic, rigorous accounting and management of total national emissions.

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21 Projects Honored With The 2023 Governor's Award For Environmental Excellence

PA Environment Daily

Since 2016, hundreds of students have participated in events highlighting the history of coal mining in the region and the effects of coal mining both on the surface landscape and in the form of acid mine discharges impacting local streams.

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Four cheap solutions to climate change

Edouard Stenger

Local air pollution (and global climate change) ; 4. At a time where scientists are trying to figure out how to suck the excess carbon out of our atmosphere, Mother Nature has known how to do it for millions of years. Trees are very efficient at absorbing carbon dioxide. watt in 2016 (Source: Energy Sage ).

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Commonwealth Court Issues Preliminary Injunction Pausing PA’s RGGI Carbon Pollution Reduction Program Covering Power Plants

PA Environment Daily

Section 5(a)(1) of the APCA specifically empowers EQB to “[a]dopt rules and regulations, for the prevention, control, reduction and abatement of air pollution. which shall be applicable to all air contamination sources,” including the establishment of “maximum allowable emission rates of air contaminants from such sources.”