A Greener Life

APRIL 19, 2024

Unveiling the Olympic kit that they would wear on the podium and at press conferences will have the amount of carbon dioxide emitted during production stamped on them, in a nod to the green goals put forth by the host city. kg of carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e) were emitted in its production while bottoms show 5.5

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 27, 2022

Booking a rental car online recently, I was asked to check a box to plant a tree to offset my car’s anticipated carbon dioxide emissions. by Jason McLachlan, University of Notre Dame “Plant a tree” seems to be the go-to answer to climate change concerns these days.

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New Scientist

MARCH 31, 2022

After a sharp fall in 2020, the UK’s emissions of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases increased by 4.7 per cent in 2021, the biggest annual rise since records started in 1990

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

, but it inevitably brings forth a mish-mash of half-remembered, inappropriate or out-of-date comparisons between the impacts of carbon dioxide and methane. In 2020, CO 2 was at ~410 parts per million, while CH 4 was around 1870 parts per <it>billion</it> (or 1.87 Historical comparisons. Stocks and flows.

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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

About 80 per cent of the carbon dioxide released by Australia’s huge wildfires of 2019-2020 was captured by ocean algal blooms that grew due to the iron-rich ash

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 23, 2022

Coal-fired power plants release carbon dioxide, mercury, and other emissions that can harm human health. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently reported that emissions from power plants have increased from 2020 to 2021, reflecting growth in coal-fired power generation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

At the country-level, the United States is the largest historic contributor to the climate crisis, having contributed about one quarter of all carbon dioxide emissions (the main driver of global warming) between 1750-2020.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Carbon Capture Facility at the Boundary Dam Power Plant in Saskatchewan went into service in 2014. Since then, it has captured less than half of the carbon dioxide it is supposed to. The International Energy Agency had predicted that by 202 0 CCS projects would be capable of capturing 300 million tonnes of carbon dioxide.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Carbon capture : a license to pollute Oil and gas companies like to paint a picture of a future where we can still have oil and gas production, but where power plants and oil refineries can capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks and bury them deep in the ground. They call this Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS).

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Methane is responsible for 30 percent of current global warming and is 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 20 year period. It is the main component of “natural gas” and is produced predominantly by the agriculture, energy (oil & gas and coal), and waste sectors. C of warming by 2050.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2022

The amount of solar energy at K-12 schools in Pennsylvania doubled since 2020, according to a new statewide report on schools' adoption of solar published by Generation180 , a clean energy nonprofit. Despite the pandemic, the solar capacity on K-12 schools rose from 14.5 MW to nearly 29 MW in a two-year period.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

From 2020 to 2040, solar generation in these states jumps nearly ninefold and wind generation more than sevenfold. Just as important, cleaning up the power grid also lowers carbon dioxide emissions. Under current policies and plans, carbon dioxide emissions would decline by only 12 percent. percent in 2040.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 29, 2020

Under Governor Northam’s direction, Virginia’s Energy Policy shifted quite dramatically from when he first took office in January 2018 to what we have at the end of the 2020 Legislative Session. Today the energy sector accounts for 30% of the carbon dioxide emissions in. By Antonia Douglas. Executive Order 43. recent flip.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

One strategy is to counterbalance carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that contribute to climate change by drawing an equal amount of carbon out of the atmosphere, such as through planting trees. By Department of Conservation & Natural Resources Efforts to slow or stop global warming involve many strategies working together.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The bankruptcies were set in motion even before 2020. A 2020 study found that Native American households’ median energy burden was 45 percent higher than non-Hispanic White households, while Black households’ median energy burden was 43 percent higher and Hispanic households’ burden was 20 percent higher.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

What’s most remarkable is that the decision calls for a 45% reduction of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions–of not only its own but also those of its customers–within less than a decade. gigatons CO 2 equivalent in 2020, about that of Japan. That final “Scope 3” source is by far the greatest: 1.4

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

EPA tells us succinctly, Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through human activities. In 2020, carbon dioxide accounted for about 79% of all U.S. In 2020, methane accounted for about 11% of all U.S. In 2020, nitrous oxide accounted for about 7% of all U.S. emission trends.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

6 was enacted, the plants have emitted more than 29 million tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide, 28,000 tons of nitrogen oxides (NOx), and 16,000 tons of sulfur dioxide (SOx). That amount, however, is less than what Ohio households have already paid in coal subsidies since January 2020. Ohio regulators need to act.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Their study examined the carbon dioxide and methane emissions from these companies’ products, as well as from the extraction and production processes of the largest gas, oil and coal producers and cement manufacturers. Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014.

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 8, 2022

Assembly Bill 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, 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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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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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Carbon Capture and Storage Oil and gas companies like to paint a picture of a future where we can still have oil and gas production, but where oil wells, power plants and oil refineries can capture carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, from smokestacks and bury them deep in the ground. Sounds good, but does it work?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2022

From 2020 to 2040, solar generation in these states grows nearly ninefold and wind generation more than sevenfold. Just as important, cleaning up the power grid can also decrease carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions. We found that, in our “100% RES” scenario, coal generation essentially disappears by 2040 in USCA states.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The pledge is a voluntary agreement to reduce global methane emissions by 30 percent below 2020 levels by 2030; however, methane levels keep going up and we are woefully off track for meeting this goal. Compared to carbon dioxide (CO2), methane doesn’t linger for long in the atmosphere after being emitted.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

EPA is the primary authority for Class VI well permits, which are essential for the underground storage of carbon dioxide (CO2). 1] North Dakota was the first state to obtain primacy for Class VI wells in April 2018, with Wyoming following in October 2020, and Louisiana now joining as the third state. Regan to Governors (Dec.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

These plants, which were originally slated to close in 2020, include the Ormond Beach Generating Station located in the predominantly Latinx, low-income community of Oxnard. Even as some parts of the country transition away from fossil fuel infrastructure, the retirement of gas plants has become another driver of inequity.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 16, 2021

million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2018. million metric tons of carbon dioxide emission equivalents in 2018, According to the same inventory, natural gas production, transmission and distribution result in 9.74 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2018. million metric tons.

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Legal Planet

JULY 13, 2021

Brand in 2020, via Cmichel67 at Wikimedia. In my research on solar geoengineering, carbon dioxide removal , and gene drives , I began to wonder whether these proposed technologies are–as many claim–fundamental breaks from past activities or merely additional points along a continuum, albeit somewhat further out.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

of the world’s total carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion, many airlines are considering carbon-capture-and-storage technologies and electric-powered planes. Since 2020, Neste has picked up used cooking oil from 252 of the fast-food restaurants and refines it into fuel. With the sector contributing 2.8%

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2021

million square feet, released its 2020 progress report detailing efforts by partners who have committed to a 50 percent reduction in energy use in their buildings by the year 2030. In 2020, the Erie 2030 District reduced energy usage to 13 percent below the baseline, a slight increase from 14.8 percent in 2019. percent in 2019.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This summer was the hottest on record and the season was rife with dire signs that the atmosphere’s dangerous levels of carbon dioxide are wreaking havoc on the environment and communities. As a young person and a UCLA Law student, the importance of the Held trial is not lost on me.

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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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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

A sign surrounded by flames warning the public about COVID-19 near Lake Berryessa in Napa, California on the 18th of August 2020. [1] August and September of 2020 will be forever etched into the memories of Californians as devastating wildfires burnt out of control and destroyed more than 4.2 2] 2020 Incident Archive, 2020 Fire Season.(2021).CAL

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Researchers surveyed data from 5,522 individual herbarium specimens collected from 1901 to 2020, representing 40 species from Asia, Europe, and North America, to analyze the phenological mismatch—or discrepancies in timing—between the leaf-out periods for understory ephemerals and deciduous canopy trees.

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Real Climate

JULY 10, 2022

Constrained pdfs for ECS from Sherwood et al (2020). but before any of the ‘slow’ feedbacks have kicked in (ice sheets, vegetation, carbon cycle etc.). This was recently done by Sherwood et al (2020) , and they come up with, you guessed it, 3ºC (and also a tighter uncertainty bound of 2.3 ºC/(W/m 2 ). Etminan, G.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Construction on the plant started in May 2020 and its design is based on advanced modular technology in the form of innovative stackable container-size collector units. Globally the world emitted an estimated 34 billion tonnes of CO2 in 2020 so 4,000 tonnes is a tiny fraction of that.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In 2020, the lab released its first public Environment Report that detailed the status of CERN’s environmental footprint. It found that greenhouse-gas emissions emitted by the lab in 2018 was 223 800 tonnes of carbon-dioxide equivalent. The CERN particle-physics lab near Geneva, for example, uses 1.3

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