PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

The [federal Bipartisan Infrastructure and Inflation Reduction Acts] provide billions of dollars in investment aimed at expanding low-and no-carbon technologies, accelerating a just energy transition, and building equity into climate adaptation efforts. from 2019 to 2020 and 44.4% from 2019 to 2020 and 44.4%

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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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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Enacted in 2019, the CLCPA codified several robust climate mandates for the State which must be achieved in an accelerated time frame. 6,000 MW of solar by 2025, 9,000 MW of offshore wind by 2035, and 3,000 MW of energy storage by 2030. 6,000 MW of solar by 2025, 9,000 MW of offshore wind by 2035, and 3,000 MW of energy storage by 2030.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 12, 2025

One hearing was held by the House Consumer Protection, Technology and Utilities Committee [ watch video here ] and a joint hearing was held by the Senate Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure and Environmental Resources and Energy Committees [ watch video and read testimony here ]. Read more here. Read more here. House Committee Rep.

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Earthava

JULY 27, 2021

In fact, the International Energy Agency reported that around 3 million new electric cars were registered in 2020, which is a 41% increase from 2019. That’s not surprising as more people are looking for eco-friendly transport solutions, such as electric scooters, bicycles, and electric bicycles, to reduce their carbon footprint.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

By Leigh Hartman When Son Nguyen lived in the US, he saw rapidly advancing electric vehicle technology and heard stories from back in Vietnam about air pollution. So after returning home, he launched Dat Bike in 2019. Zul Kifli / AFP / Getty Images. Above, a VinFast vehicle charges in Quang Ninh, Vietnam, in 2021. million people.

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Physics World

JANUARY 7, 2022

Those critical challenges will require inventive and practical solutions, which is why automotive manufacturer Toyota has teamed up with The Electrochemical Society (ECS) to award a series of research fellowships focused on the development of green-energy technologies that reduce both pollution and carbon emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

She also provided a brief summary of new federal and state regulations requiring methane emissions assessments and reductions by the natural gas industry. Project Canary is a climate technology company, and we effectively build enterprise-wide emission data platforms, so that operators in the energy space can understand what's going on.

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

between 2016 and 2019, and total energy consumption also rose far more than permitted by the 13th FYP targets. Yang Fuqiang thinks it is unreasonable to make energy-producing provinces such as Inner Mongolia solely responsible for cutting carbon emissions. If it benefits, it has to help cut carbon.

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A Greener Life

JULY 23, 2021

In 2019, Kawasaki Heavy Industries launched the Suiso Frontier, the world’s first ship designed to carry liquefied hydrogen. There is talk that a global “hydrogen economy” can emerge to save the climate from carbon emissions. The country has the world’s largest network of hydrogen filling stations.

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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?). For years, in our sustainability law practice, we have assisted businesses manage carbon asset risk.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In its Nationally Determined Contributions ( NDCs ), updated in 2022, India has made three major promises: a 45% reduction in its carbon emissions intensity (CO2 emissions per unit of electricity) based on 2005 levels, by 2030; 50% of installed electricity coming from non-fossil-fuel sources by 2030; and national carbon neutrality by 2070.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Worse than that, it might end up misdirecting the world’s clean energy efforts into dirtier than appreciated energy technologies because of the country’s ongoing dependence on coal-fired energy. Basic reasoning suggests the manufacturing shift must have added to solar’s carbon intensity. But where is the data from?

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

regulated carbon markets most specifically), it seems to me that we need to be approaching the question of tropical deforestation in the same broad manner as we do for investments in the clean energy and transportation sectors (some of which , by the way, are eligible for offsets in the voluntary market).

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2022

primary energy use and associated greenhouse gas emissions. A zero-carbon building is a highly energy efficient building such that its energy needs can be supplied with renewable (carbon-free) technologies. In 2021, the Pittsburgh 2030 District also reduced water consumption by 37.1%

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A Greener Life

MAY 23, 2024

There is therefore an urgent need for technological and pricing mechanisms that encourage owners to avoid charging at peak times. The French energy company EDF exhibited this bidirectional charging terminal for electric vehicles in 2019. By the end of 2023, China had over 20.41 Photo credit: Michel Stoupak / Alamy.

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Cresforum

MARCH 10, 2022

The two technologies accounted for a record 14 percent of total U.S. Liquid natural gas (LNG) exports jumped an astonishing 64 percent last year, providing much needed energy security to our allies in Europe and helping Asia meet growing demand while lowering global carbon emissions at the same time. percent below 2019 levels.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

In his recent testimony to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, the coauthor of Princeton University’s Net-Zero America study noted that just because an energy technology is not reliable does not mean that it has no role in a reliable system. [8] percent of the grid’s power. link] [19] Michael Greenstone et al.,

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The IPCC’s 5 th Assessment Report noted that, “Globally, economic and population growth continue to be the most important drivers of increases in CO 2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion”. Greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, and disruptive climate change has come on more quickly than expected.

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HumanNature

APRIL 12, 2021

For example, biophysical scientists and engineers get in touch when looking for social scientists to help them understand barriers and opportunities to the adoption of a particular sustainability practice or technology. Industry, community groups, advocates, and policymakers often have similar interests. Geoforum 103(March):47–55.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

19] France spends just over half as much per kilowatt-hour for electricity that produces one-tenth of the carbon emissions of German electricity. [20] 21] In 2019, German electricity prices were 45 percent higher than the European average. [22] gigawatts of highly-reliable, low-cost, and low-carbon power. [49] trillion.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2021

In the battle to slow global warming, carbon dioxide is the chief target. from 1990–2019. Strategies for capturing carbon from fossil fuel power plants, to prevent it from entering the atmosphere, have long lingered on the sidelines. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory. Studies by the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

More than 20,000 Americans died prematurely in 2015 from tailpipe emissions, according to a 2019 study. Writ large, transportation is responsible for 29 percent of US carbon emissions—more than any other sector—and car and truck emissions today represent 81 percent of the US transportation sector’s global warming pollution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

UCS modeled the impacts of reduced emissions on public health As part of our research in the new Accelerating Clean Energy Ambition report , UCS undertook analyses to study the impacts of reducing carbon emissions on public health. Combined with our total health benefits, we see huge savings when we reduce emissions.

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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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A Greener Life

JULY 20, 2022

And at the same time, the facts of our failure as a society to deal with the problem have been demonstrated by the ever-growing carbon emissions. And even with ever-increasing and sophisticated green technology, we are not making a big enough dent in bringing emissions down. The future generation.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

It is essential that local people be involved from the get-go not only to resolve land tenure issues (Brancalion & Holl, 2020) but also to “elect among several options of tree species and tree-growing technologies” (Warner, 1994). Sadly, one can only mourn the reported demise of millions of seedlings (and the millions of dollars lost!)

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Frontiers

MARCH 20, 2023

In the first in-person Frontiers Forum event since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019, Frontiers has announced an exceptional line up of speakers, renowned researchers, and influencers. Frontiers is offsetting event-related carbon emissions. Any organic leftovers will go to a biogas station initiative of the venue.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 12, 2023

Excessive food waste and dying soils are having a profoundly negative global impact, notably in creating extreme atmospheric carbon levels. of Pitt’s greenhouse gas emissions inventory.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 11, 2021

Another quote from JC; "But reducing carbon is thus, logically, just one item on the list of answers to "What can we do to raise GDP in 2100?," Asked that way, you can see that "lower carbon emissions" is about #100 on the list, even admitting the 5-10% of GDP thumb-on-the-scale estimates.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The previous summit, held in Madrid in 2019, ended in frustration with little progress on issues such as carbon financing or sharing climate burdens between nations. Overall, cement accounts for 3% of the world’s carbon emissions. We’ve already hit 1.2?°C Wood you believe?

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

Rather, they resulted in low-wage service sector jobs, greater dependence on imported Chinese technologies, and higher energy costs. By 2019, German household electricity prices were 45 percent higher than the European average. Among some nations, including Britain, France, and Germany, even carbon emissions peaked in the mid-1970s.

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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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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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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

I further argue that, if we continue to develop in these ways, deaths from natural disasters will continue to decline, food surpluses will continue to rise, and global carbon emissions will likely peak and decline soon, preventing temperatures from rising more than three degrees centigrade over pre-industrial levels.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The technologies in question are suspected as a possible cause of fatal crashes, and capable of causing “a serious risk of accident and injury.” United States: Tesla employee’s firing and Elon Musk tweet on union were illegal, labor board rules. USA: Tesla Ignoring Environmental Reporting, Says Data Tracker.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The technologies in question are suspected as a possible cause of fatal crashes, and capable of causing “a serious risk of accident and injury.” United States: Tesla employee’s firing and Elon Musk tweet on union were illegal, labor board rules. USA: Tesla Ignoring Environmental Reporting, Says Data Tracker.

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