Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

The fashion industry is also responsible for up to 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions—more than the aviation and shipping industries combined. The problem becomes even worse when you consider that most clothes make a quick trip to the landfill, where they’ll emit greenhouse gases such as methane.

Upcycling

Circle of Blue

JUNE 24, 2025

The new direction is driven by a self-preservation instinct – “a policy revolt,” Matthews said – among the countries who formerly sat the bench as the world’s biggest carbon polluters debated the boundaries of greenhouse gas emission limits. And they said, ‘You haven’t been making good progress on slowing climate change down.

Climate Change

Vermont Law

APRIL 9, 2025

Unsurprisingly, according to a 2018 study, wildlife populations are more stable during peacetime and decline during war. of global greenhouse gas emissionsdouble the amount coming from aviation and shipping. The physical disruption to natural environments impacts local habitats and their inhabitants both human and non-human.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

But it has passed laws regulating two powerful greenhouse gases, and some other climate laws stretching back over the past five decades. Only laws that specifically cover climate or greenhouse gases are included. 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Fast forward to 2017, when the Republican-controlled U.S.

Law

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

These settlements are the latest in EPA’s urgent efforts to limit the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change and hold corporate polluters accountable for jeopardizing public health.” The EPA identified the alleged violations through field investigations conducted in 2018 and 2019.

Clean Air Act

HumanNature

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Plant factories versus greenhouses: Comparison of resource use efficiency. 2018/02/01;160. Food in the Anthropocene: the EATLancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems. The Lancet. 2019/02/02;393(10170). Graamans L, Baeza E, Dobbelsteen Avd, Tsafaras I, Stanghellini C. Agricultural Systems.

Fossil Fuels

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. The new analysis will replace the economic and environmental analyses used by the DOE for application decisions, which were published in 2018 and 2019, respectively.

Natural Gas

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Subsequently, two administrative cases were filed, one in Kobe in 2018 ( Citizens Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v. filed in 2024 and 2018, respectively. In 2022, the amount of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions nationwide was over one billion tons , making Japan the 5 th largest GHG emitter in the world.

2025

HumanNature

JANUARY 30, 2025

One of the most well-known ways we have impacted our atmosphere is through the emission of greenhouse gases, which have adversely affected our climate. 52 56105618 (2018). [8] 359 760764 (2018). However, we have negatively impacted our atmosphere in several different ways. Environmental Science & Technology vol.

Ozone

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 27, 2025

Section 401 Certification The DEP notice on the Section 401 Water Quality Certification said the Section 401 Certification published on May 31, 2018 on this project [WQ03-001 (Existing)] remains in effect and provided a summary of the certification for the project. (

Natural Gas

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. Williams, Directors Liability and Climate Risk: Canada-Country Paper, Commissioned Reports, Studies and Public Policy, Osgoode Hall Law School (2018), [link]. [3] 5] Lucian A.

Law

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Most recently, the 2018 Farm Bill expanded EQIP, steadily increasing its annual budget from $1.75 However, environmentalists often criticize EQIP for awarding funding to practices that do not reduce greenhouse gas emissions, sequester carbon, or build climate resilience. billion in FY2019 to over $2 billion in FY2023.

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

establishing that heat-trapping emissions (or greenhouse gas emissions) are air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. The 2007 case was brought by petitioners (which included several state attorney generals and NGOs, including the Union of Concerned Scientists) in the context of greenhouse gas emissions from new motor vehicles.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

To recap: The unanimous opinion found that nations of the world have a legal obligation to limit their emissions of greenhouse gases or else pay reparations for the harms of climate change. Mackintosh has closely followed the case which was first filed in 2018 by Vanuatu, an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 28, 2025

The spills were discovered by DEP on July 18, 2018 and the agency has tried to get the site cleaned up since then [ Read more here ]. Miller Environmental has been retained to do the cleanup and is waiting for more favorable weather conditions to start remediation.

2025

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2025

One such example is Montecito, California in 2018 when extreme rain on the burn scar of 2017’s Thomas Fire led to multiple debris flows, burying homes and washing out roads. Most importantly, we must reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, the main driver of climate change, and limit greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate Change

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

PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2025

Thomas Mehaffie (R-Dauphin) , a member of the Committee, noted in 2018 a baseload power plant was shut down in his district [Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant]-- Dont make the same mistake. I sounded this alarm in 2018. A huge greenhouse gas producing state. We Are Going To Run Out Of Power, If We Dont Move Forward Rep.

Electricity

Acoel

JANUARY 17, 2025

The Climate Superfund Act seeks to establish a vaguely analogous Superfund program to transfer the costs of addressing climate change from taxpayers and individuals onto the companies that have contributed most significantly to the buildup of climate change-driving greenhouse gases.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2025

And you can see those costs are up considerably from the last three years and even historically looking back to the 2017, 2018 capacity auction. “So Cicero made the comments on electric service insecurity during a media briefing on the impacts of the latest PJM electricity capacity auction. That is up 9.5% from last year at $14.7

Electricity

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 29, 2024

In fact, [t]odays largest carbon capture projects only remove a few seconds worth of our yearly greenhouse gas emissions. One function of the IRA tax credit scheme is to allow taxpayers, typically industry, to sell back captured carbon dioxide using equipment that was in place before the enactment of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018.

Carbon Dioxide

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MARCH 21, 2025

Figure 4: Specialty Crops Are Left Uncovered * Note: Specialty crop operations include those classified by their North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) number as: vegetable and melon farms (NAICS 1112); fruit and tree nut farms (1113); or greenhouse, nursery, and floriculture production (NAICS 1114).

2017

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JULY 16, 2025

For the majority of farm bill programs, it is fundamentally important that Congress pass an extension of the 2018 Farm Bill by September 30, 2025 or December 31, 2025 at the very latest, in order to prevent those programs’ lapsing. Stay tuned to NSAC’s blog for more on this soon.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2025

The impoundment was last used on May 12, 2018 and should have been restored 9 months after that date. Dewatering started on July 8, but was halted by DEP on July 18 after the dewatering plan was not accepted by DEP and initial sampling of the impoundment water and during dewatering was not completed. [ Read more here.] DEP inspection report.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 27, 2025

. - Pipeline Project: DEP issued a Chapter 102 permit for a project impacting Rupp Run and Cowanshannock Creek located in Kittanning and Manor Townships, Armstrong County. ( Allegheny County and Robinson Twp., Washington County. ( Allegheny County. ( Washington. ( PA Bulletin, page 4455 ).

Natural Gas

Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

The cause of our changing climate is the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations that we have released into the air. Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) is the most important greenhouse gas that we have added to the atmosphere, however, some of it has been absorbed by land and oceans. mm increase every year.

Atmosphere

Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

In the 2018 IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C in 2018, but they represent a significant update since AR5 in 2013. Source: Data from IPCC (2014), Rogelj et al (2018), and IPCC (2021). Source: Data from IPCC (2014), Rogelj et al (2018), and IPCC (2021). 2018) A new scenario resource for integrated 1.5 °C

2018

Real Climate

MAY 21, 2023

That means the greenhouse substances are basically just CO2 and ozone, and they absorb in quite different parts of the spectrum. 9919-9933, 2018. Thompson et al. We are using the NOAA-STAR version 3.0 of these products (Zou et al., 2023 ) and also in the “Climate Drivers” animation. Rozanov, A. Visioni, Y. Yamashita, and G.

Cooling

Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

In 2018, the IPCC Special Report on 1.5C On their own, our greenhouse gas emissions would have caused a much higher warming, were it not for the masking effect of aerosol pollution. 2 is even referred to as a single temperature goal (Rajamani and Werksman, 2018) by other Articles (Art. 20160458, 2018. Chapter 2, Table 2.SM.12,

Paris Agreement

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

As famines historically are caused by conflict or political issues, and socioeconomic vulnerabilities, the famine in Madagascar–one of the lowest emitters of carbon and greenhouse gasses in the world–stands out as being heavily influenced by climate change. The last public records, from 2018, show the purse at $20 billion short.

Climate Change

Real Climate

AUGUST 13, 2021

The IPCC has introduced a new high-end risk scenario, stating that a global rise “approaching 2 m by 2100 and 5 m by 2150 under a very high greenhouse gas emissions scenario cannot be ruled out due to deep uncertainty in ice sheet processes.”. During the most recent period analyzed, 2006-2018, it’s been rising at a rate of 3.7

Sea Level

Environmental Leader

JUNE 24, 2022

The post Nestlé Has Cut Greenhouse Gases by 4 Million Tons Since 2018. Nestlé is well along the path to ensuring that 800 sites in 187 countries are totally green by 2025. Additionally, it is switching its global fleet of vehicles from those that run on fossil fuels to those that are sustainable.

2018

Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

There was a workshop in 2018 (that I attended) to discuss how one might go about doing something better – updating the data, improving quality control, and using models to better connect local or regional signals to the global means. and, like many of us, had found the then-current literature somewhat unsatisfactory.

Sea Level

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 5, 2023

California has experienced a significant increase in the extent of forest fires in recent decades, with a fivefold increase in annual burned area from 1972 to 2018. Nearly all the increase in summer forest-fire area from 1972 to 2018 was due to increased VPD.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

its district, appellate , and supreme courts decided in favor of Urgenda, an upstart environmental organization, ordering the government to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Everyone produces greenhouse gases.

Carbon Dioxide

Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

Little wonder that scholars in 2018 described Australian climate policy has a “festival of misadventure. 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. As in the U.S., there has been strong polarization on the climate issue.

2030

Legal Planet

AUGUST 16, 2021

Cox, a businessman, ran against Newsom in 2018. Faulconer has taken credit for the passage of the city’s 2015 Climate Action Plan, which requires the city to cut its greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2035. It’s hard to know who, out of the scores of candidates, might ultimately emerge from the pack of challengers. Sam Gallucci.

Climate Change