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.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated at least once every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2024

1, 2017, and October 2023, at least 1,080 oil and gas wells were abandoned and possibly as many as 741 more. Improperly plugged wells have been tied to fatal explosions.” The Shapiro administration recently announced it plugged 137 wells in 2023, but DEP data indicates that between Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

By Karen Ellas, Climate Reality Project, Susquehanna Valley PA Chapter This guest essay first appeared in the Lock Haven Express September 13, 2021 -- The technology known as Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is currently being discussed in Congress as part of President Biden’s infrastructure bill.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Transportation A Cap-and-Invest Approach . In recent years, states in New England and the mid-Atlantic region have made significant progress in reducing climate change-inducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity generation sector. [1].

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Under Governor Wolf, we’ve accelerated and expanded work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to equip Pennsylvania’s communities, businesses, and individual residents to address climate change impacts occurring now and projected for the near future. Pennsylvania’s greenhouse gas emissions are tracked yearly.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

In the coming weeks, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) will reveal its plan for revising the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations and guidance for analyzing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. See Certification of New Interstate Natural Gas Facilities , 163 FERC ¶ 61,042 (2018) (2018 NOI).]]

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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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.

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Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

On Friday, November 22, the Sabin Center submitted comments opposing an Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) proposal to rescind regulations limiting methane emissions from new oil and natural gas facilities (the “Methane New Source Performance Standards” or “Methane NSPS”). That view is, however, refuted by EPA’s own documents.

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Looking at the current polls compared to the results of the elections of 2017, VVD, PvdA, CU, PvdA, FvD and JA21 increase their amount of seats, while D66, GL, SP, 50+ and Denk fear their amount of seats declines. Carbon Dioxide could be stored offshore in depleted gas fields in the North Sea.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The SCC is a metric that seeks to capture all of the costs that emitting a ton of carbon dioxide (or equivalent amounts of other greenhouse gases such as methane) imposes on society by contributing to climate change over the hundreds of years it remains in the atmosphere. Biden , Civ. 4:21-cv-00287-SPM (E.D. March 8, 2021).]]

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Law Columbia

APRIL 20, 2021

These include the permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline, an order to fast track approvals for oil and gas pipelines, and an order promoting offshore drilling. In his January 20 executive order, President Biden reconvened the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases, which his predecessor had disbanded.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 21, 2023

Carbon-intensity, social inequality, vested interests, energy insecurity, and climate vulnerability are all present, in acute form. The country is the largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitter on the African continent , ranked in the top 15 globally, with higher per capita emissions than many developed countries.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The attorney general said that PwC also served from at least 2008 to 2013 as global advisor and report writer for the Carbon Disclosure Project, a non-profit organization that functions as a global disclosure system for environmental information, including greenhouse gas emissions, from companies including Exxon. Ruffatto , No.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Anaerobic digestion is a biological process happening naturally that breaks down organic matter in an airless environment, resulting in the generation of methane and carbon dioxide (among other things, see below). gigatons of CO2-equivalent per year, representing 8% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. Citing Shortcomings in NEPA Analysis of Cumulative Climate and Groundwater Impacts, Montana Federal Court Vacated Oil and Gas Leases. Circuit’s partial vacatur in Mexichem Fluor, Inc. State , No.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Mensch Introduces Bill To Encourage Development Of Clean Vehicle Infrastructure- Electric, Natural Gas, Hydrogen -- 35 Senate, House Democrats Urge Gov. Wolf To Investigate Health Impacts Associated With Natural Gas Fracking -- EPA Honors Energy-Efficient Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The Pakistani prime minister is visiting Moscow as Russia looks for new clients to build infrastructure, and Pakistan seeks a steady supply of natural gas. The long-term consequences, though, have almost everything to do with the future of natural gas. Russia is the world’s second-biggest producer of natural gas.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

FERC’s authority to approve interstate pipelines stems from the NGA which was passed in 1938–a time when gas was a limited resource to be conservatively rationed. Many of the challenges centered on FERC’s assessment of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with pipeline development. This has prompted criticism from the courts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

I got involved after the city filed reports and maps to support its claim that it was fulfilling the requirements of a historic 2017 settlement to find and replace Flint’s lead pipes. It is mainly methane, which is 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in trapping heat for the first 20 years after it is released.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

California Federal Court Barred BLM from Enforcing Delay of Oil and Natural Gas Waste Prevention Rule; States, Trade Groups Asked Wyoming Court to Expedite Review of Rule and Suspend Deadlines. DOE estimated that the standards would reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 99 million metric tons and save consumers and businesses $8.4

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Law Columbia

APRIL 25, 2024

These statutes take different forms, but generally allow BLM to lease Federal lands for oil and gas development, and require BLM to act as trustee for the benefit of Native American mineral rights. As part of this leasing program, BLM collects royalties based on the volume and value of oil and gas produced on federal land.

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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.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

s challenge to the constitutionality of the linkage between California’s greenhouse gas emissions cap-and-trade program and Quebec trading program. Ninth Circuit Said Biden Action Mooted Case Challenging Trump Revocation of Withdrawal of Oceans Lands from Oil and Gas Leasing. United States v. California , No. 20-16789 (9th Cir.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

The federal district court for the Western District of Louisiana issued a nationwide preliminary injunction barring the Biden administration from implementing a “Pause” on new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or in offshore waters. Circuit Vacated Approval for Natural Gas Pipeline in St. 20-472 (U.S. Louis area.

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