Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Required the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to set standards for greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) new vehicles. 2016 SB 32. California established first renewable portfolio standard (20% from renewables by 2010). AB 1493 (Pavley Act). 2006 AB 32. 2009 CARB established Low Carbon Fuel Standard for vehicles. 2015 SB350.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 ).

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2022

Temperatures on this day in July 2016 exceeded 110 degrees Fahrenheit. Unless people adapt to rapid environmental change and greenhouse gas emissions are slowed, the risks to biodiversity, water security, food production, infrastructure stability, and health are much higher toward the end of the century. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue.

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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.

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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.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

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.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Global-average temperature (meaning surface temperature averaged over every place on the Earth’s surface) varies over periods of days, months, and years, in addition to the long-term trend being driven by increasing greenhouse gases. C hotter than the second-hottest year to date, 2016. or even 0.2 limit – and an astonishing 0.17

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

“Natural gas”, also known as methane gas or fracked fossil gas, is a potent greenhouse gas that pollutes the environment and causes climate change when it is burned and when it escapes into the atmosphere during extraction, production, and transportation. Enbridge should be made to stop deliberately misleading the public.”

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Ikea said last week it had reduced its total climate footprint by 22% compared to a 2016 baseline, and by 12% compared to the previous year. Read the full story at ESG Dive.

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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.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 25, 2024

Canada promised to cut its greenhouse gas emissions after the 2016 Paris Agreement. It was part of the global agreement where 195 countries all agreed to reduce their emissions, and Canada has set this promise into law. While other G7 countries are slashing emissions, Canada lags far behind.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This well was listed as abandoned by DEP in an inspection report on April 21, 2016 - report not available.] [The This well was listed as abandoned by DEP in an inspection report on April 21, 2016 - report not available.] DEP inspected the well on April 21, 2016, but results are unknown, but well is listed as abandoned.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

A team of ocean and public health researchers recounted the Scandinavian outbreak in the journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases in July 2016, and that is just one of the published works that fed the latest research. We need to aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”. On the flip side, warming diminished some diseases. “A

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Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2024

percent of the MY 2016 fleet and were actually only 2 percent. Fourth, unlike the Clean Power Plan, this regulation is not just about greenhouse gases and climate change. But even if EPA had never had jurisdiction over greenhouse gases, it would still find EVs a promising way to clean up the air.

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Washington Nature

JULY 3, 2023

The Nature Conservancy in Washington’s involvement in the climate advocacy space has progressively increased since 2016, as climate change has posed an increasing threat to nature and people around the world. Our journey began with 2016’s Initiative 732 and expanded with 2018’s Initiative 1631.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 6, 2023

Briefly, in 2016 a local environmental group, Project Monterey County, sponsored a voter initiative–titled “Measure Z”–that qualified for the local ballot and was enacted by Monterey County voters by a 56% margin.

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Washington Nature

JUNE 8, 2021

These strategies aim to conserve, restore, and improve land management in order to increase carbon storage and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. After peaking in the 2007-2008 legislative session, the number of climate bills proposed and passed fell greatly between 2009 and 2016, corresponding to the recent recession period.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 13, 2023

Weekly Natural Gas Rig Count Falls By Most Since 2016 [17 Rigs], Baker Hughes [Gas Prices Plunged 49% So Far In 2023] -- Bloomberg: Natural Gas Drilling Collapses In U.S.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Total greenhouse gas emissions could reach 1.028 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent throughout the preparation and post-Beijing Games in 2016-2022, and about a third less than the 1.6 million tonnes emitted for South Korea’s Pyeongchang Games in 2018.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Between 2005 and 2017 Ontario phased-out coal plants, reducing greenhouse gas pollution from our electricity system by 93 per cent. And between 2009 and 2016, Ontario built over 2000 MW of solar power and about 3000 MW of wind power. Ontario has a successful track record when it comes to building renewable power.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 23, 2022

Tom Wolf announced Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Patrick McDonnell will leave his position on July 2 after serving in the position from May 20, 2016 and a total of 25 years of service with the Commonwealth. Prior to becoming secretary in 2016, Patrick served as the department’s director of policy. On May 23, Gov.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

At least 3,641 lives were lost to the crisis between 2016 and 2018, according to Amnesty International , with over half of the fatalities recorded in 2018 alone. And, in 2016, the government awarded contracts through the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) to two companies, paying them ?544 Photo by Murtala Abdullahi.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Northern Access 2016 Project. Environmentalists fear that this approach to permitting LNG pipelines fails to adequately prevent or mitigate potentially significant greenhouse gas emissions associated with LNG production and use, with dire climate change implications. to FERC’s order approving the Northern Access 2016 Project.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Further, while gas emits less carbon dioxide than coal, its main component is methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas that is released into the atmosphere when gas is burned—a fact that ConocoPhillips conveniently left out on its website. Methane is also a fast-acting greenhouse gas in terms of its impact on the climate.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Prior to becoming secretary in 2016, Patrick served as the Department’s director of policy. Patrick McDonnell Patrick McDonnell’s career with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection spanned several decades, beginning in 1998. He also ran the State Energy Office, coordinating renewable energy and energy efficiency issues.

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