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. In April, Air Canada committed to investing $50 million in SAFs and other carbon-reducing technologies.

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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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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? Why do Exxon’s greenwashed graphs matter?

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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

The thought-provoking film also highlights the renewables’ dependence on fossil fuels. Following Moore’s movie broadcasting, various climate experts signed a letter where they claim scientific and technological advancements made renewable energy alternatives more viable and cheaper to run than fossil fuels.

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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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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. ppm, but that level is about 2.6 Climate impact.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Climate change and pressure to throw a lifeline to communities that long survived on fossil fuel extraction provided a strong tailwind for bipartisan support. 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.

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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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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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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Fourth Circuit Declined to Stay Remand Order in Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies; Companies Sought Stay from Supreme Court. States and Cities Challenged Rule Preempting State Regulation of Vehicle Carbon Dioxide Emissions. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 126.

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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

APRIL 25, 2024

Image by Maxim Tolchinskiy (Unsplash) In November of 2022, when the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) proposed new rules to control venting, flaring, and leaks from oil and gas leases on federal land (the “Fossil Fuel Waste Rule”), they noted that these leasing rules would have an enormous ancillary climate benefit.

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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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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The federal district court for the Northern District of California denied Oakland’s and San Francisco’s motions to remand their climate change public nuisance lawsuits against five major fossil fuel producers to state court. Foster , 34-2016-CR-00187 (N.D. billion over a 30-year period. NEW CASES, MOTIONS, AND NOTICES.

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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

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.” Maryland County Filed Climate Change Lawsuit Against Fossil Fuel Companies and Trade Group. Exxon Mobil Corp. , BP p.l.c. ,

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

Attorneys general (AGs) in the five states most vulnerable to climate change, however, are doing the exact opposite: Instead of defending their constituents, they are defending the fossil fuel industry. Moody also jumped in head-first to protect the fossil fuel industry.

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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. Peabody, a coal company, filed for bankruptcy in April 2016 and emerged from bankruptcy under a plan that became effective on April 3, 2017. Foster , No.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

percent of peer-reviewed scientific papers agree that climate change is driven by human burning of fossil fuels, Johnson clings to the lie that there “are facts on both sides.” The United States currently emits at least three times more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than all 54 nations in Africa combined.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

As CEO of Exxon Mobil, the world’s largest publicly-traded oil business, Tillerson’s 2016 compensation was $24.3 The Trump Watch confidently predicts that Big Oil and Gas are about to receive an unimaginable return on their investments with the Fossil Fuel Dream Team. into the atmosphere each year, with no end in sight.

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ESA

APRIL 19, 2021

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland signed orders on Friday creating a climate task force and rescinding Trump-era secretarial orders that had made fossil fuel production on federal land a priority. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Joe Manchin reportedly opposed Klein’s nomination because she was too hostile to fossil fuels.

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ESA

JULY 1, 2022

At stake was the ability to reduce carbon emissions as written in the ‘Clean Power Plan’ regulation under the auspices of the Clean Air Act that gives the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) power to regulate “the best system of reducing emissions.” In addition, we encourage states to implement clean energy strategies that reduce emissions.

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