Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2023

They can also look at known carbon emission sources and model the world with and without those added emissions. One study found that human-caused climate change made the 2019 European heatwave as much as 100 times more likely to occur. Climate source attribution studies can inform strategies to reduce carbon emissions.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Much of the cradle-to-grave carbon intensity data that governments depend on to guide in photovoltaic arrays are instead based on modeling assumptions that are likely to have grossly under-estimated — if not made-up — solar’s carbon emissions because they cannot get insights from Chinese manufacturers.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2022

My first in-person attendance at a shareholders’ meeting since 2019 promises some drama, with #DefundClimateChaos organizing a rally outside and conflicting climate resolutions before shareholders. Shell (Tuesday, May 24, at 10 a.m. I’ll be in London on Tuesday for Shell’s annual meeting. Shell is appealing the ruling. Looming Liability.

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

As the world grapples with the consequences of climate change, many scientists have begun to face up to the realities of their carbon emissions. A 2019 study ( Environ. This was almost three tonnes per scientist, or the average weekly emissions of the city of Edinburgh ( Nature 583 356 ). 10.1038/s41893-021-00823-2 ).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

These new protections will include updates to power plant standards on carbon emissions , mercury pollution , and toxic coal ash pollution , just to name a few. But in reality the proposed emission targets were achieved 11 years early in 2019—without the plan ever even taking effect.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Just weeks ago, Saudi Arabia pledged to reach ‘net zero carbon emissions within its borders’ by 2060, but that calculation will not include oil exports (. carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, all emissions?). But it is another thing for a business to make ESG claims about net zero or otherwise that mislead customers.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 23, 2022

And some months ago, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia pledged to reach ‘net zero carbon emissions within its borders’ by 2060, but that calculation will not include oil exports (. all emissions or only greenhouse gases or just carbon dioxide or?). and such may be more philosophy than physics).

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

But Is It Burning Less Carbon? – The Millions of Tons of Carbon Emissions That Don’t Officially Exist: How a blind spot in the Kyoto Protocol helped create the biomass industry – The New Yorker. Ocean CDR is a set of strategies to sequester carbon dioxide in ocean waters. More News: Europe Met a Climate Target.

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Edouard Stenger

OCTOBER 11, 2021

7 to 13 percent might not look like much, but within a region, a country, a continent, this adds up to dozens of coal-fired and gas-fired plants adding carbon dioxide to our atmosphere for no reason. It’s worth it in terms of money saved and it’s more than worth it in terms of carbon emissions prevented.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Regrettably, in the absence of a threat that is immediate and palpable, like a hurricane, the concept in practice has often been an oxymoron, with states litigating to undermine or reject national programs to reduce carbon emissions. Meanwhile, the Biden Administration has committed the US to net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

At issue in this case is whether and how the EPA can set standards for carbon emissions at power plants. EPA , the landmark 2007 decision that said the EPA has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide emitted from new motor vehicles. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. Climate Change on the Docket.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 28, 2024

million to upgrade and decarbonize operations at 10 facilities, reducing annual emissions by more than 300,000 tons of carbon dioxide. The manufacturing of construction materials is a significant source of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Kraft Heinz will get up to $170.9 ExxonMobil won a $331.9

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2022

Tom Wolf vetoed and disapproved Senate Concurrent Regulatory Review Resolution 1, which would have disabled the Commonwealth’s opportunity to enter the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and effectively achieve climate goals and reduce carbon emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

House Passage Of Build Back Better Budget Puts Us Closer To A Bright Inheritance For Our Children [PaEN] -- ReImagine Appalachia: Updated Build Back Better Framework Sets Stage For Job-Creating Investment in Healthier, More Prosperous Future for Appalachia -- U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2022

Public Health -- Berkeley Lab: Halfway to Zero: Progress towards a Carbon-Free Power Sector ( April 2021 ) “Switching from coal to natural gas for power generation played a big role in lowering carbon emissions. Natural gas generation grew rapidly, driven by the shale gas revolution and low fuel prices.”

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

still does not limit carbon emissions from existing power plants, which generate 25 percent of our greenhouse gases. The EPA is proposing a new standard for fossil fuel-fired power plants to avoid 617 million metric tons of carbon dioxide through 2042. In the year 2023, the U.S.

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ESA

AUGUST 29, 2022

Joe Manchin (D-WV), the bill will reduce carbon emissions by 40% from 2005 levels by 2030. How Governments Can Boost Natural Capital Thinking for Better Decision-Making (April 12, 2019). White House CEQ – Carbon Dioxide Capture, Utilization and Sequestration (CCUS) Federal Lands and Outer Continental Shelf Permitting Task Force.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

In 2019, the court dismissed almost all of the companies’ claims, except for a single defamation claim and a related claim under California’s Unfair Competition Law arising from allegations related to a single set of statements. Luxembourg Pension Fund Will Report on Carbon Footprint Following Action by Greenpeace.

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

In 2019 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change warned that warming of 1.5 32] Part of the reason the planet is greening stems from greater carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and greater planetary warming. [33] 33] Scientists find that plants grow faster as a result of higher carbon dioxide concentrations.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit’s January opinion vacating EPA’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants. 37-2019-00053964-CU-TT-CTL (Cal. 37-2019-00053679-CU-TT-CTL (Cal. Supreme Court seeking review of the D.C. Morena United v. filed Apr.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

The Supreme Court sharply limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to slash carbon pollution from power plants. The justices told EPA that it can set carbon emissions standards based only on interventions at individual power plants.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Five years ago, the World Bank said it would end investments in oil and gas extraction by 2019. World Bank President David Malpass , appointed in 2019 by climate-denying President Trump, damaged that organization’s credibility even further this fall by refusing, in a public forum, to acknowledge that human activities cause climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2021

By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal Pennsylvania is ideally suited to help the nation fight global warming by becoming a leader in the effort to capture and store emissions of carbon dioxide, state officials say. In the battle to slow global warming, carbon dioxide is the chief target. from 1990–2019.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

Perhaps the most consequential of all Paxton’s actions, however, is a lawsuit he and AGs from 19 other states, including Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina, filed in 2021 challenging the EPA’s authority to curb power plant carbon emissions. After she took office in January 2019, that pledge went out the window.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Republicans said the final regulations will increase the cost of electricity for individuals and businesses, have a negative impact on jobs and will not significantly reduce carbon pollution. RGGI was a bad idea in 2019, and in 2022, it is potentially a tragic idea. Read more here. Here are the opening remarks-- Sen. Read more here. **The

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

A day after the court’s decision, BLM published a proposed rule to temporarily suspend or delay certain requirements until January 17, 2019. Challenge to Settlement in Utility Rate-Setting Case in New Mexico Cited Failure to Quantify Coal Plant’s Carbon Emission Risks. California v. Bureau of Land Management , Nos.

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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. 2019); Birckhead v. 2019); Sierra Club v.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Check Out C-SAW -- Trout Unlimited, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers New R.I.S.E Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 6, 2021

Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), and included in the Senate EPW Committee’s legislation to reauthorize surface transportation programs earlier this year, and in July of 2019. Reduction of Truck Emissions at Ports. The bill includes $150 million to reduce carbon emissions at ports. Eligibility. The bill authorizes $7.5

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

Climate: The Environmental Protection Agency does not list a timetable to act on a new carbon dioxide rule for existing power plants. In 2019, the Trump administration rolled back standards put in place under the Obama administration following the 2010 BP oil catastrophe that killed 11 people and spewed oil for five months.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

in domestic or international efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Instead Mr. Ebell seems perfectly suited to eviscerate the efforts of the Obama Administration to reduce carbon emissions as part of the international cooperation to spare the globe from looming catastrophe. Carbon dioxide (CO.

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ESA

AUGUST 16, 2021

However, the world could avoid the more extreme scenarios in the report if governments sharply reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. Top Priorities : Conservation; drought and forest management to reduce carbon emissions and prevent wildfires. Agriculture. Allocation : $135 billion. Chair : Sen.

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