Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The 49ers called it “ a meaningful part of our commitment to more sustainable practices” and praised United for its SAF program, which both companies said can reduce greenhouse gas emissions “by up to 85% on a lifecycle basis.” Indeed, NRG Energy operates several oil, coal, and fossil gas facilities from Delaware to California ( map here ).

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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 ). I don’t know the answer to his question. But this discussion paper is problematic for sure.

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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.”. The IPCC gives more consideration to the large long-term sea-level rise beyond the year 2100.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

With most energy investments still in fossil fuels, significant reform is needed to modernise the sector and meet Kazakhstan’s pledge to become net-zero by 2060. Social unrest related to fossil fuels is not a new phenomenon in Kazakhstan. Chinese investments fuel Kazakhstan’s energy economy. By Kate Watters.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Japan ) and a second in Yokosuka in 2019 ( Yokosuka Climate Case ). In the 2019 case, the judgments focused on the procedural aspect of the replacement of the coal-fired power plant and discussion of the climate issues was limited. Background Japan has heavily relied on the use of fossil fuels for its power generation.

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Law Columbia

MAY 30, 2025

Last Thursday, May 22, the New York State Court of Appeals the States highest court issued a decision upholding New York Citys Local Law 97 of 2019. Local Law 97 is one of the countrys most ambitious municipal climate policies, requiring the Citys largest buildings to comply with increasingly stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limits.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2024

These corporations and politicians don’t want to see a transformational transportation system we need, one that prioritizes people before highways, health before harm, access before asphalt, climate before corporations, freedom over fossil fuels. How did we get here? Why aren’t there more ways to get around my community?

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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 plaintiffs had asked the court to issue a “remedial plan” that would require Montana to take many steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel production in the state.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Canada’s oil and gas industry, responsible for the largest chunk of Canada’s polluting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, continues to drive climate change while trying to weaken or stop the actions we need to address the climate crisis. Canada needs to have a real conversation about a fair and equitable phaseout of fossil fuels.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Following a recent Auditor General report that Ontario is failing in its progress on tackling climate change, Minister Piccini made some dubious claims about Ontario’s work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. He said: “I can look Ontarians in the eye and say Ontario is a leader in greenhouse gas reductions in this federation.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The 2021 climate audit by the Auditor General is the follow-up to one produced in 2019, which provided 22 recommendations for the province to improve its climate outcomes. Ontario is failing to reduce the province’s greenhouse gas emissions. Especially Ontario, which is the second most polluting province in Canada.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 30, 2023

But despite this, it did not shift the dominance of fossil fuels. The President of the Energy Institute, a UK-based body, Juliet Davenport said : “Despite further strong growth in wind and solar in the power sector, overall global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions increased again. Photo credit: Reuters / Louisa Off.

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Law Columbia

JULY 31, 2023

BLM can restrict the scope of the Willow Project in order to mitigate adverse effects on surface resources, including adverse effects attributable to the project’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Our brief also emphasizes the importance of the federal government adopting a rational approach to its assessment of new fossil fuel infrastructure.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 15, 2022

My caption was “NEPA Is Still Going to Pose an Obstacle to Leasing Public Lands for Fossil Fuel Extraction.” When Secretary Zinke terminated the moratorium in 2017, litigation ensued and, in 2019, the Court ruled that the Zinke Order was subject to NEPA. Once more, Judge Morris found DOI’s NEPA analysis inadequate.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

Planning law has proven to be a useful tool for climate activists seeking to block or challenge new fossil fuel developments. However, it has also been used to frustrate efforts to accelerate the renewable energy transition by delaying the construction of new renewable energy infrastructure (see here ).

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 15, 2024

Years of advocacy for better project review rules resulted in the passage of the IAA in 2019. Alarmingly, the government removed greenhouse gas emissions as effects under the federal government’s jurisdiction. This left communities with a flawed decision-making process that put the environment and the public at risk.

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 11, 2021

In December 2018, after having successfully reduced greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector by 53.3%, a majority of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) jurisdictions announced plans to design a program to address carbon emissions from the combustion of transportation fuels. (See Background.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

Understanding Climate Change & Greenhouse Gas Emissions. The greenhouse effect is a popular name for the earth’s warming effect which occurs naturally when gasses in the atmosphere trap heat from the sun and prevent it from escaping back into space. Greenhouse Gas Emissions are Increasing. F) of warming in the 21st century.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 23, 2024

However, it is a much-awaited step in the right direction as the federal government moves to cap greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from the highest polluting industry in Canada. As proposed, the oil and gas industry must reduce its emissions by 35-38 per cent from 2019 levels by 2030. The framework is by no means perfect.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2021

How much worse things get, how soon, will depend on human actions, and on luck: how fast world greenhouse-gas emissions are cut ; how fast other pollutants that are now masking greenhouse heating are cut; and how favorably or unfavorably remaining scientific uncertainties – about climate sensitivity, speed of change, and impacts – turn out.

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Manning Law

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Although criticized for half measures and loopholes, blamed in part on the influence of petrostates, the agreement reached at the conference should be welcomed as a significant step in the move away from fossil fuels. C within reach. But it notes Parties are off track when it comes to meeting their Paris Agreement goals.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 2, 2023

Fossil fuels currently account for around 60% of electricity generation , a share that it aims to reduce to 35% by 2030 through the expansion of renewables, including hydropower, and in particular wind and solar. The transition away from fossil fuels has, however, been an elusive goal for Argentina to date.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 23, 2023

This is a good opportunity for the government of Ontario to select a more appropriate person to lead the agency, ideally one that supports the much needed transition away from fossil fuels.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 25, 2022

Changing the way we produce and consume food could reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 10.3 This has given a much-needed boost to the drive to wean the world off fossil fuels and transition to renewable energy. billion tonnes a year. Photo credit: FAO / Victor Sokolowicz. By Patty Fong. billion tonnes a year.

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Cresforum

OCTOBER 28, 2021

government in reducing greenhouse gas emissions around the world is to make strategic investments in research and development (R&D), such as those included in the Energy Act of 2020 , which serves as a strong foundation to an all-of-the-above approach: renewables, nuclear, fuel and energy efficiency, hydrogen, electrification (i.e.,

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Now the Prime Minister needs to chart the pathway to reduce the industry’s emissions – which account for 26% of Canada’s domestic emissions and increased by nearly 20 per cent from 2005 to 2019 – all of this while most other sectors have reduced theirs. A critical part of any roadmap is getting the destination right.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

On February 8, 2019, the Land & Environment Court of New South Wales upheld the government’s denial of an application by Gloucester Resources Limited to construct an open cut coal mine in New South Wales (NSW). Photo of scenic Gloucester Valley by Groundswell Gloucester. By Dena Adler. Section 4.15(1) Four Key Takeaways. In the U.S.,

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Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

In 2022, the United Nations released a special report focusing on the role of nonstate actors, including law firms, in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The ABA House of Delegates, the ABA’s policy making body, adopted resolutions urging action on climate change in 2008 and 2019. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 27, 2024

Fully half of Montgomery County's population lives in communities committed to a fossil-fuel-free future. Lower Providence Township was recently the 19th municipality in the county to adopt those or similar goals.

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Introduction On 11 December 2019, the new European Commission presided by Ursula Von der Leyen presented the European Green Deal. By Dr. Romain Mauger 1. The aim for the EU is to become climate-neutral by 2050 and this will require massive investments. refineries) or on highly carbon-intensive industries (such as cement plants or smelters).

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

A 2019 study ( Environ. When the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union took place in California in 2019 the 28,000 delegates emitted around 80,000 tonnes of CO 2 equivalent (tCO 2 e) travelling there and back home afterward. They estimated that in 2019, the average astronomer in the Netherlands emitted 4.7

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

In the first months of 2024, legislators in four states— Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , and Vermont —have pushed for legislation that would collectively require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The 2016 AQMP analyzes existing and potential regulatory control options and seeks to achieve multiple goals in partnership with other entities promoting reductions in greenhouse gases (GHGs) and toxic risk, as well as efficiencies in energy use, transportation, and goods movement. 20, 2019). [6] Proposed Warehouse ISR.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 7, 2021

March for Climate Justice in Kolkata, India, in September 2019. Bangladesh and Pakistan have promised significant reductions in their carbon emissions, but both countries continue to invest in and rely on fossil fuel infrastructure, particularly coal and gas. Photo credit: Pacific Press Media Production Corp. By Lou Del Bello.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2022

.] -- Talking Away DEP’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Authority: Senate Bill 119 (Pittman-R- Indiana) taking away DEP’s statutory authority to adopt regulations to reduce carbon pollution from any source, including power plants consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 4, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen The emissions from methane , a powerful greenhouse gas (GHG) with 80 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide (CO2) rose in 2023 despite several pledges and initiatives to reduce emissions. Graph credit: IEA.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

below the baseline, a slight decrease from the 2021 reduction of 37.1% (accountable due to workers returning to the office), but still greater than the pre-pandemic 2019 reduction of 19.8%. million and reduced water consumption by 32.8% The Pittsburgh 2030 District comprises property partners representing more than 550 buildings occupying 87.1

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