Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Oil and gas major ConocoPhillips’ website says gas is “one of the safest and cleanest fuels available” and that when it is burned, it “produces mostly carbon dioxide and water vapor—the same substances emitted when humans exhale.” Likewise, pipeline giant Williams Companies now refers to its gas projects as “clean energy” projects.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

of the world’s total carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion, many airlines are considering carbon-capture-and-storage technologies and electric-powered planes. It is made by combining hydrogen and carbon dioxide. With the sector contributing 2.8%

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A Greener Life

MAY 9, 2022

Lance/2016/Flickr , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Thanks to a combination of atmospheric science studies based on sophisticated climate modelling and geoscience studies based on paleoclimate data derived from fossil coral records , researchers generally agree that human-caused climate change will soon increase El Niño frequency and intensity.

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Edouard Stenger

MARCH 20, 2017

According to the respected International Energy Agency’s new report, global greenhouse gases emissions from energy remained flat in 2016 while the global economy grew by 3.1 The biggest drop came from the United States, where carbon dioxide emissions fell 3%, or 160 million tonnes, while the economy grew by 1.6%.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In 2016, the world added 138.5 The IEA estimates that $231 billion were invested globally in efficiency solutions in 2016, a nine percent increase over the previous year. The intense wildfires that have been seen in Southern Europe and the Western part of North America are emitting a lot of carbon dioxide.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 15, 2022

When Ted Flint passed away in 2016, his wife Debby began to explore options to preserve the unique site and its natural resources. Ted and Debby Flint purchased the property in 1986 and continued its stewardship. In 1991, much of the complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

When fuels are burned to create energy in a process called combustion, black carbon along with carbon monoxide and other compounds are created because there is not enough oxygen in the atmosphere for the reaction to go to completion. But there’s a bright side to our black carbon problems: it doesn’t live very long.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2024

In addition, environmental justice advocates and frontline communities routinely point to the danger of concentrated carbon dioxide , embedded siting inequities , and the use of CCS to distract from the real work of phasing out fossil fuels.) Who needs units anyway? Exxon’s figure shows relative changes in cost (as measured in…?)

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Earthava

JUNE 1, 2021

Environmental and atmospheric conditions are perfectly balanced in these locations, leaving trees with only one thing left to compete for – light. However, more greenhouse gases escaping into the atmosphere could enable Redwoods to grow quicker. Increasing its concentration in the atmosphere could result in better growth.

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Global Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

This is because the new trees will not have the time to grow and capture the carbon dioxide emitted during biomass combustion, thus preventing the process from being carbon neutral. On top of that, most of Europe’s wood supply comes from the US and Canada, which implies an additional carbon footprint due to transportation. “So,

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Because methane has 28 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide and a shorter atmospheric life of only 12 years, immediate action to reduce methane emissions —including from agriculture—is critical to slow our warming climate, especially in light of expanding global populations and food demand. 2016 , LaHue et al.,

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

not plants, animals, or bacteria), get their energy by breaking down organic molecules via a different chemical pathway than we air-breathers use to get our energy, which does not require oxygen and ends in methane instead of carbon dioxide and water. Atmospheric concentrations. Climate impact. W/m 2 from elevated CO 2.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Now however, the updates to the historical warming , the use of four datasets instead of one, and of course, the series of record breaking years subsequently (2014, 2015, 2016/2020), the issue of variability in decadal trends is no longer so salient. Russell, "Climate Impact of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide", Science , vol.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Studies show it may be possible through the adoption of improved farming practices which take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store it in the soil. 12 The dollar values of carbon incentives are as diverse as the agencies that offer them. Total carbon and nitrogen in the soils of the world. Osborne, B.,

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

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. A farmer in Changsha, Hunan takes part in a 2016 “soil restoration project” to treat arable land contaminated with heavy metals. each year.

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Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

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 ). per watt in 2008 to $3.36/watt — .

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide in the short term — 86 times more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere when measured over a 20-year period. In 2016, Stanford University researcher Mary Kang studied 88 abandoned wells in the state and found that 90% were leaking methane.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) estimates that it will produce 576 million barrels of oil over its 30-year lifetime, resulting in more than 239 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO 2 )-equivalent. Specifically, Notz & Stroeve (2016) found that each metric ton of CO 2 results in a sustained loss of 3 ± 0.3

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 31, 2017

On November 10, 2016, Judge Ann Aiken, a federal district judge in Oregon, issued a remarkable environmental law decision in which she found that a climate system “capable of sustaining human life” is a fundamental constitutional right. [1] 1] Juliana v.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 8, 2022

NewsClips: -- Post-Gazette - Laura Legere: State Judge Halts PA Power Plant Carbon Dioxide Rule -- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Pennsylvania’s RGGI Climate Rule Paused Until Trial This Fall [Posted: July 8, 2022] PA Environment Digest throughout the Commonwealth.

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Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The emissions make a significant contribution to climate change because methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas which, in the first 20 years after it is released, traps approximately 84 times more heat in the earth’s atmosphere than carbon dioxide (on a per ton basis).

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 23, 2022

Starting with methane was likely more politically feasible than carbon dioxide for several reasons. For one thing, methane is emitted in smaller quantities than carbon dioxide, accounting for just 11 percent of total national greenhouse gas emissions (compared to 79 percent for carbon dioxide).

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

States and Cities Challenged Rule Preempting State Regulation of Vehicle Carbon Dioxide Emissions. The rule also finalized text in NHTSA regulations explicitly preempting state regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration , No. Bernhardt , No. filed 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). 2016), [link]. [6]

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 5, 2022

Steele, Executive Director Blue hydrogen is produced through an energy-intensive process that mixes methane gas with water to create carbon dioxide and hydrogen. The hydrogen becomes an available fuel while the carbon dioxide emissions are captured and stored underground. None of them is commercially viable.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 8, 2022

Indeed, the EPA, under the Obama administration, in 2016, completed Quad Oa, also known as the "New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for [volatile organic compounds] VOC[s] and methane emissions from the oil and gas sector," which is a substantial source of methane emissions. (7) Turner, Jr. times or 152 percent in production areas. (24)

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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). Foster , 34-2016-CR-00187 (N.D. billion over a 30-year period. NEW CASES, MOTIONS, AND NOTICES.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 25, 2024

10, 2024) In addition to wasting public resources, inefficient flaring, venting, and leaks from BLM-managed leases releases enormous amounts of carbon dioxide and un-combusted methane into the atmosphere. 25378, 25380 (Apr. Given these limitations, the revisions strengthen the final rule against legal challenges.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

BLM estimates that the project will produce up to 576 million barrels of oil over its 30-year lifetime, resulting in indirect emissions totaling 239 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) equivalent. 2016) ; Derocher et al. square meters of September sea-ice. See, e.g., IPCC AR6 WGI Ch.3 3 ; Laidre et al.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that traps about 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide, on average, over the first 20 years after it reaches the atmosphere and is responsible for approximately one third of the warming from greenhouse gases occurring today. can take in the short term to slow the rate of climate change.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

The Washington Supreme Court ruled that a climate activist should be permitted to present a necessity defense to charges of criminal trespass and unlawful obstruction of a train in connection with a 2016 protest on railroad tracks used by trains carrying coal and oil products. The cases were filed in 2016 , 2020 , and 2021.

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

30] Roughly 40 percent of the planet has seen “greening”—more forest and other biomass growth—between 1981 and 2016. 32] Part of the reason the planet is greening stems from greater carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and greater planetary warming. [33] 16] Vaclav Smil, Power Density (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2016), 168.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Abandoned gas wells have become a massive financial and environmental problem in Pennsylvania and have received more recent scrutiny because methane emissions are 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide for their potential contribution to global warming over a 20-year period. DEP’s records show about 31,000 known abandoned wells.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit in 2016 signaled that the legal framework for the Clean Power Plan “hinges on important issues of federal that EPA then—and the court below now—got so wrong this Court was likely to grant review.” Circuit majority opinion’s interpretation was foreclosed by the statute and violated separation of powers.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Peabody, a coal company, filed for bankruptcy in April 2016 and emerged from bankruptcy under a plan that became effective on April 3, 2017. 34-2016-CR-00187 (N.D. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a motion by a truck trailer manufacturers trade group to stay the final rule adopted by the U.S. Foster , No. decision Sept.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

Nevertheless, Jeff Landry—Louisiana’s AG since January 2016—seems more interested in defending the fossil fuel industry than his constituents. Between 1990 and 2016, the sea level off its 2,876-mile coast rose 6 inches , at least partly because the land is sinking.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The United States currently emits at least three times more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than all 54 nations in Africa combined. For the record, of all the continents, Africa produces the least global warming gases—some four percent of the global total. In the 1980s, such disasters cost the nation an average of $21.4

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