A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

According to the UNs 2024 Emission Gap Report , 107 countries, covering approximately 82% of global greenhouse gas emissions, had adopted net-zero pledges as of June last year. Chinas three major stock exchanges then issued guidance on sustainability reporting for designated firms including a requirement to disclose greenhouse gas emissions.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Pennsylvania shale gas producers have already said they have a duty to supply China-- our economic and military competitor-- with natural gas to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Read more here.]

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2025

Scientific data on wildfires, protecting forests from insects and diseases, the impact of climate change on agriculture, flood risks, ocean plastic pollution and the industries that emit the most greenhouse gases are just a few examples of data that can be accessed on SUSANHub.com and that would otherwise be at risk of being lost.

2025

Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

In addition, if profits can be maximized by deforestation or releasing methane or other greenhouse gases as well, then profits must again take precedence. This means that the leaders of U.S. More on the Maximization Model of fiduciary duty in a moment. states allow for a more moderate and permissive interpretation of fiduciary duties.

Law

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 28, 2025

Owner also failed to submit production, waste generation and well integrity reports since 2016. . - Violations: Abandoned Conventional Well (26 Months) June 10, 2025 inspection of the Valley Green 5 conventional well in Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County found the well abandoned and not plugged. Original violations issued April 24, 2023.

2025

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Flaring, which is shown here, as well as venting, can be a significant source of both nitrogen oxides and greenhouse gas emissions such as methane. For example, in 2016, the US EPA concluded that fracking had impacted drinking surface and groundwater resources throughout the country. Water Quality Next is water quality.

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

New Scientist

JULY 25, 2025

These conditions were driven mainly by rising concentrations of greenhouse gases , as well as the emergence of the El Niño pattern in the Pacific ocean, which is generally associated with a weaker sink. This was even less than the struggling sink removed during the 2015-2016 El Niño, making it the weakest land carbon sink in over a decade.

Atmosphere

Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

For example, in November 2016, the Obama administrations Bureau of Land Management (BLM) promulgated a regulation to reduce waste of natural gas from venting, flaring, and leaks during oil and natural gas production activities on public and Tribal lands. Courts have generally granted these requests.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2025

Chesapeake Appalachia LLC [9 Years, 8 Months] July 23, 2025 inspection of the Warren 2H shale gas well in Windham Township, Wyoming County as part of ongoing well monitoring for defective casing/cementing. Original violations issued November 17. Monitoring continued. Violations continued. DEP inspection report.

2025

Real Climate

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Another clue is William Kininmonth’s ‘rethink’ on the greenhouse effect for The Global Warming Policy Foundation. When looking at the effect of changes in greenhouse gases, one must look at how their forcing corresponds to the energy balance at the top of the atmosphere. 679-688, 2016. 679-688, 2016. References.

Greenhouse

Real Climate

JULY 10, 2022

Step 1: There is a natural greenhouse effect. Thus there must be a large amount of IR absorbed by the atmosphere (around 158 W/m 2 ) – a number that would be zero in the absence of any greenhouse substances. Step 2: Trace gases contribute to the natural greenhouse effect. The Earth’s Energy Budget (NASA).

Radiation

Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

So this is an attempt to put all of that in context and provide a hopefully comprehensive guide to how, when, and why to properly compare the two greenhouse gases. You might recall that GWP is defined as the ratio on per-kg basis of the temperature impact of other greenhouse gases compared to CO 2 over a specific time period.

Carbon Dioxide

Frontiers

JULY 11, 2021

New research published by the open access publisher Frontiers inventories greenhouse gas emissions of 167 globally distributed cities. The study shows that just 25 mega-cities produce 52% of the greenhouse gas emissions from the studied cities. For 30 cities, there was a clear emission decrease between 2012 and 2016.

Greenhouse

Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

I think in hindsight that my concerns from 2013 to some extent were supported by the fact that the IPCC organised an Expert Meeting on Communication, Oslo, Norway, 9–10 February 2016. The cause of our changing climate is the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations that we have released into the air.

Atmosphere

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 ). See for instance Benestad (2016). I don’t know the answer to his question.

Sea Level

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

To identify which fuels should be promoted, CARB calculates the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels. In these “carbon intensity” calculations, CARB is not allowed to count reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that are already required by law. Agricultural operations are almost uniquely unregulated.

Regulations

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

He hosts the group’s podcast, “the Highwire,” and he produced the 2016 pseudo-documentary “Vaxxed.” In one podcast segment titled “The Real Cause of Climate Change, ” he says he’s been trying to convince friends and family that natural “solar cycles” are behind global warming, not greenhouse gas emissions from humans.

Climate Scientist

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 26, 2022

Transportation has been the biggest contributor to climate change in the US since 2016, and its emissions are only projected to increase in the future without significant changes. Transportation is now the largest source of US greenhouse gas emissions. Are we there yet? Bleviss, 2020 ).

Greenhouse

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

22 degrees by 2050 because of both the reduced emissions and the dissipation of methane in the atmosphere, potentially allowing the world a bit more time to reduce and sequester other greenhouse gases. A worldwide methane emission reduction of 30 percent by 2030 could reduce global warming by.22

2030

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. Cross-Chapter Box 3.1} AR6 Cross-Section Box TS.1.

Sea Level

Enviromental Defense

MARCH 5, 2024

Our latest report outlines that public transit service levels are now on average, 7 per cent lower than they were in 2016, the year that the federal government began its transit infrastructure funding program. Racialized Canadians account for just over one-quarter (26.5 per cent) of all employed workers, but make up 56.3 million fewer people.

Greenhouse

Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

From 2007 to 2016, control of the Australian House and Senate were generally in the hands of different parties, and the two parties almost never agreed on climate issues. 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.

2030

Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2023

In 2016 Monterey County voters passed Measure Z, a citizen initiative intended to bar the drilling of new oil and gas wells in the county and ban the use of fracking technology for existing wells in Monterey County. Later this month the justices will hear arguments in Chevron U.S.A.

Law

Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

But this also raises other questions: 1) Can we expect the season to continue to lengthen as global warming from increasing concentration of globally well mixed greenhouse gas (GWM-GHG) continues to warm the Atlantic SSTs? 2016 ), a reduction of Saharan dust concentration since the 1970s ( Evan et al. 242-246, 2016. Zhang et al.

2020

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

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

Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2021

United States case, plaintiffs sought an order directing the federal government to slash the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. The district court in Oregon in 2016 seemed to favor such a right, but a divided Ninth Circuit concluded in 2020 that the plaintiffs lacked standing. Most recently, in the famous Juliana v.

Fossil Fuels

Law and Environment

AUGUST 15, 2022

Little did I know how prescient I was, because later on Friday, Judge Brian Morris – the same judge who invalidated the RMPs – went farther and reinstated the moratorium on leasing of public lands for coal mining that had been implemented by then-Secretary Jewell in 2016. . Once more, Judge Morris found DOI’s NEPA analysis inadequate.

Fossil Fuels

Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Greenhouse gas emissions declined 1.9% in the United States last year, the largest non-pandemic influenced fall since 2016, despite a projected 2.4% Read the full story at ESG Dive. economic growth for the country in 2023, according to a preliminary estimate Rhodium Group released Wednesday.

Greenhouse

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

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. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Pennsylvania’s power plants are now releasing more CO2 than they have since 2016.

Greenhouse

A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

They found that the past seven years were the world’s warmest by a clear margin, with 2016 and 2020 the warmest on record. Globally, the levels of CO2 and methane which are the main greenhouse gases continued to climb, and both hit record highs in 2021. C above 1850-1900 levels. Levels of CO2 in the atmosphere reached 414.3

Atmosphere

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Penn State has been working to lower its greenhouse gas emissions for more than two decades, with a 50% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions for the entire University recently achieved. at 4:00 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 18, in 112 Walker Building on the University Park campus. The talk will also be available via Zoom.

Greenhouse

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

Environmental and Urban Economics

MAY 19, 2022

Given that global greenhouse gas emissions are likely to continue to rise as the world’s population and per-capita income grows faster than the decarbonization of the world economy (declining GHG emissions per dollar of GNP), the climate change challenge will grow more severe over time. WFH helped us to adapt to the risk of disease contagion.

Climate Change

Law of the Lands

JANUARY 16, 2019

On November 8, 2018, the Board issued its Reasons for Decision in a case involving allegations of disturbances due to odour, flies, dust, light, noise and vibration arising from the operation of a biodigester at a large greenhouse operation.

Greenhouse

Law Columbia

JUNE 21, 2024

Glen Oaks – a 2022 lawsuit brought by a group of cooperative apartment owners – sought to invalidate Local Law 97 of 2019 , New York City’s building performance standard aimed at reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the City’s largest buildings. 3d 69 (1st Dep’t 2016) (referencing the N.Y. City of New York v. LLC, 35 N.Y.S.3d

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