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.). Russell, "Climate Impact of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide", Science , vol.

Sea Level

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 11, 2023

We estimated the potential of these buffer areas to contribute to reductions in water use, pesticide use, toxic nitrate leaching, and greenhouse gas emissions. Cropland repurposing that led to the reduction of fertilizer use and nitrate leaching would result in a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (mostly nitrous oxide) equivalent to 2.2

2012

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Each credit one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent pollution below the standard. I’ve written recently about why a Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard , which addresses the bio-based diesel credits. Source California Air Resources Board.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. The court cited Healey’s participation in the AGs United for Clean Power Press Conference in March 2016 and her attendance at a pre-press conference closed-door meeting with a climate change activist and a lawyer with a “well-known global warming litigation practice.” 451962/2016 (N.Y.

2016

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

increase in carbon dioxide pollution from the Commonwealth’s power plants between 2020 and 2021. Pennsylvania’s power generation sector is one of the nation’s largest — and thus, also, one of the biggest emitters of climate-changing greenhouse gases. Environmental Protection Agency show a startling 9.6%

Greenhouse

A Greener Life

MAY 9, 2022

Lance/2016/Flickr , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. This [finding] is another layer on a growing pile of work that is pointing quite conclusively to ongoing changes to ENSO related to greenhouse gases,” said Kim Cobb , a climate scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology who was not involved in the new research. Photo credit: ©EU/ECHO/J.

Climate Change

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%

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 20, 2021

DEP’s Climate Change Advisory Committee is scheduled to meet August 24 to review the latest Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory for Pennsylvania and hear an overview of DEP’s Energy Office Clean Energy Program Plan. The Inventory had shown a steady decrease from 2005 through 2016 from 289.62 million tons in 2017 to 241.12 million tons.

Greenhouse

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%.

Carbon Dioxide

Edouard Stenger

MAY 16, 2017

These days the United States’ federal government is promoting coal and backtracking on climate ambition and the European Union is no longer cutting its greenhouse gases emissions. China’s coal consumption declined over three consecutive years (2013 to 2016), and a continued slow decline is expected.

Paris Agreement

Law Columbia

AUGUST 3, 2018

The SAFE Vehicle Rule proposes changes to EPA’s greenhouse gas emissions standards and DOT’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for light duty vehicles in model years (MY) 2021 through 2025. The rule will substantially increase vehicle greenhouse gas emissions. transportation sector in 2016 (based on EPA data ).

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

JULY 19, 2022

In June 2016, the Governor signed Senate Bill 279 (Hutchinson-R-Venango) that killed a comprehensive update of conventional oil and gas drilling environmental protection regulations started under the Rendell Administration, proposed under the Corbett Administration and finalized under the Wolf Administration. “Oil billion in cleanup costs.

Law

Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2022

As the paper discusses in more detail, proof-of-work cryptocurrency mining requires significant energy consumption and thus produces large quantities of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. megatonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year. Other estimates put Bitcoin’s annualized carbon footprint at 72.05

Carbon Dioxide

Earthava

JUNE 1, 2021

However, more greenhouse gases escaping into the atmosphere could enable Redwoods to grow quicker. Carbon dioxide, a common pollutant from burning fossil fuels such as gas and oil, is used by plants during photosynthesis. Increasing its concentration in the atmosphere could result in better growth. meters (330.7

Atmosphere

PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

Utilizing manure nutrients efficiently means that risk of loss of nitrogen, phosphorus, sediment, and greenhouse gas is minimized. Generation from solar farms of this size and type are expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 47,390 metric tons of CO2 annually.

2023

PA Environment Daily

JULY 7, 2022

They are the 10th largest contributor to methane emissions – a greenhouse gas that’s up to 86 times more potent in its warming potential than carbon dioxide. “Oil and gas wells are a big problem – both for our environment and for our taxpayers. They carry a tremendous liability for taxpayers. Read more here.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

JULY 7, 2022

They are the 10th largest contributor to methane emissions – a greenhouse gas that’s up to 86 times more potent in its warming potential than carbon dioxide. “Oil and gas wells are a big problem – both for our environment and for our taxpayers. They carry a tremendous liability for taxpayers. Read more here.

Waste

Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 12, 2021

carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, all emissions?). And while very low carbon emissions is possible, at some dollar cost, the absence of all quantity is not so easily if ever achieved (. And that concern is real without delving into the science of whether net zero is actually possible?

Carbon Emissions

Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Two steps forward, one step back: In February 2016, the Supreme Court issued a. Equally exciting, in August 2016, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld agencies’ ability under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to include the. social cost of carbon. social cost of carbon. to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Paris Agreement

Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

According to his findings, the carbon intensity of solar panels manufactured in China and installed in European countries like Italy was off by an order of magnitude. It wasn’t until 2016, long after much PV production had already moved east, that the transition appeared on data collectors’ radars.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

In addition to the consumer impacts, methane is 86 times more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period, so any leakage from these operations would also be particularly dangerous for our climate. The next logical question is why is there such an excess of flared gas?

Nuclear Power

Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 23, 2022

all emissions or only greenhouse gases or just carbon dioxide or?). And while very low carbon emissions are possible, at some dollar cost, the absence of all quantity is not so easy if ever achieved (. And that concern is real without delving into the science of whether net zero is even possible.

Carbon Emissions

A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

A farmer in Changsha, Hunan takes part in a 2016 “soil restoration project” to treat arable land contaminated with heavy metals. A technician at Yonker Environmental Protection Company in Hunan takes soil samples collected during the 2016 project to be analysed. Photo credit: Li Ga / Alamy. Photo credit: Li Ga / Alamy.

Atmosphere

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

In addition to the consumer impacts, methane is 86 times more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period, so any leakage from these operations would also be particularly dangerous for our climate. The next logical question is why is there such an excess of flared gas?

Climate Change

Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Embedded in the new statute are more than $140 billion in direct payments and tax incentives for renewable fuels and cleaner electrical generation to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent below 2005 levels by the end of the decade. In 2016, the U.S. By Keith Schneider Circle of Blue February 8, 2023 President Biden, U.S.

Law

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

And dormant Commerce Clause challenges have similarly failed in federal court challenges to a host of California measures designed to curb greenhouse gas emissions: CARB’s low carbon fuel standard; greenhouse gas tailpipe emissions from cars and light trucks sold in California; CARB’s cap-and-trade emissions program; etc.

Law

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Methane is essential to control, since stabilizing climate requires reducing all anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions to net-zero. There are two issues: do you measure and compare by volume or by mass, and if you measure by mass do you count the mass of the whole molecule or just the carbon part of it? microns).

Atmosphere

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. Methane is the second-most abundant greenhouse gas, and the process of oil and gas extraction is its largest source.

Natural Gas

Law Columbia

MAY 10, 2023

The Willow Project is expected to produce as much as 180,000 barrels of oil per day at its peak and result in around 130 million metric tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent over its lifetime. It is also counter to his administration’s goal of halving economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and reaching net zero emissions by 2050.

Fossil Fuels

HumanNature

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Candidate in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and Trainee in the CSU InTERFEWS Program What if agriculture – a sector responsible for more than a fifth of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 1 – was actually capable of storing more CO 2 than it emits? 3 Rangelands NRM Western Australia (2016). link] 4 Abdalla, M., Osborne, B.,

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal A governor-ordered inquiry into how well conventional oil and gas drillers in Pennsylvania are obeying environmental laws has found a “culture of noncompliance”, with drillers routinely abandoning wells without plugging them as required to prevent the release of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

Carbon Dioxide

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Methane is a climate super-pollutant that is 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. State program leaders point out that the DDRDP and AMMP programs have provided some of the most cost-effective GHG emissions reductions of the entire Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund portfolio.

2030

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

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the raising of livestock and growth of crops for human consumption represent 14% of global GHG emissions. While burning methane to generate energy releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the overall climate impact is reduced and the gas could potentially replace fossil fuel sources.)

Carbon Dioxide

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.

Renewable Energy

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.” Methane is also a fast-acting greenhouse gas in terms of its impact on the climate.

Fossil Fuels

Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Vegetarianism is not important for protecting the environment or reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Irrigation water used per bushel of corn has declined by nearly half since 1980, while greenhouse gases declined 31 percent. [19] 33] Scientists find that plants grow faster as a result of higher carbon dioxide concentrations.

Climate Change