Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Chlorpyrifos is an organophosphate pesticide that the US government banned for use on food crops after we published our study, though it is still used in other parts of the world. The people of Flint demanded that their government recognize their human right to clean and safe drinking water, and they won.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

EPA , Justice Alito badgered Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar to explain how the government was not overreaching by claiming “the authority to set industrial policy and energy policy and balance such things as jobs, economic impact, the potentially catastrophic effects of climate change, as well as costs.”. There is now a 99.9

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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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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

This is the reason over 400 of Canada’s leading energy experts warned the government against providing subsidies for CCS. Yet the Government of Canada is falling for it. The Carbon Capture Facility at the Boundary Dam Power Plant in Saskatchewan went into service in 2014. Carbon leaks can be dangerous and even deadly.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

Since that 2014 study, which laid the foundation of what is called climate source attribution science , UCS scientists have collaborated with Heede on two other studies that pinpointed the major carbon producers’ culpability for specific climate change-related trends. percent of total emissions. Licker et al. And the third is “gas exchange.”

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Let’s look at three tools that are being sold as climate saviours, when their real objective is to prolong the life of the polluting fossil fuels which are driving climate change: carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS), hydrogen and offsets. They call this Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

That would of course include fossil gas, which consists of 85 to 90 percent methane, a significantly more potent heat-trapping gas than carbon dioxide. Hiding Behind Front Groups Some local governments across the country have responded to the climate crisis by changing their building codes to ban gas hookups in new homes and buildings.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2020

Since the initiation of climate change litigation several years ago, various state governments and interest groups have filed lawsuits against fossil fuel companies and governing authorities. On January 10, 2020, the New York Attorney General’s Office stated that it will not appeal the trial court’s decision.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 23, 2022

It represents the first time the federal government has levied a fee on the emission of any greenhouse gas. Starting with methane was likely more politically feasible than carbon dioxide for several reasons. Controlling methane emissions should, at least in theory, also be somewhat easier than reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 8, 2022

3) Here in the United States, the federal government, through the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), is responsible for managing gas and oil exploration and extraction on Native American and national lands. (4) 6) Natural gas flaring and venting is a significant problem and the very problem that the federal government should address.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

By railing against what he calls a “radical climate change movement” and suing the federal government to protect corporate polluters. Hurricanes or no hurricanes, Mississippi AG Lynn Fitch, who took office in January 2020, takes a dim view of federal action on climate change. How has Paxton responded?

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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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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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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 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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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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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

With the federal government and state of Maryland each having announced within days of each other, the mandated disclosure of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, we have received, maybe not surprising, many calls in the last two weeks inquiring “what are GHGs?” In 2020, carbon dioxide accounted for about 79% of all U.S.

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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. 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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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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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Take action by telling the government to hold the oil and gas sector accountable for its pollution by urgently implementing a cap on emissions. Pierce proudly boasts about “driving government policy at federal and state levels” for the benefit of oil and gas companies. Is that you? million gas cars.

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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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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 8, 2023

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- American Farmland Trust Seeking PA Corn, Soybean Farmers To Join Soil Health Practices Study, $1,000 Stipend Offered For Qualified Farmers [PaEN] -- PASA Sustainable Agriculture 2024 Sustainable Agriculture Conference Feb. 6 Business Meeting -- Delaware RiverKeeper Dec. of Revenue: 2024 Oil Franchise Decreases From 61.1

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Law and Environment

MAY 11, 2023

This priority urges Congress to update provisions of the Energy Act of 2020 to provide goals for 2030 and 2035, facilitate renewable energy development zones, and site necessary transmission to attach new generation to the grid. Deploy Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Infrastructure. Address Gaps in the Permitting Workforce.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

It stops the government from factoring in the social cost of greenhouse gases in budgets and environmental reviews. The United States currently emits at least three times more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than all 54 nations in Africa combined.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

For almost three decades, world governments have met nearly every year to forge a global response to the climate emergency. Those five years were up on 31 December 2020, but the pandemic prevented many countries coming forward. There are also question marks over the commitment of the new Japanese government. What is COP26?

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

May 1, 2020). 3, 2020; request for publication granted May 4, 2020). The dissenting judge would have found that the 2018 rule was an interpretive rule because it “did no more than articulate the EPA’s view of what was required by Mexichem in the ‘near term’ and pending further rulemaking.” Natural Resources Defense Council v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 3, 2024

Former EPA Administrator Carol Browner denounced the Sackett decision as “a major blow to the landmark Clean Water Act and the federal government’s ability to protect our people from pollution and its negative health side effects.” The Sackett decision was a tremendous loss for everyone who depends on clean water—that is, for all of us.

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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 3, 2021

Because methane has 28 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide and a shorter atmospheric life of only 12 years, immediate action to reduce methane emissions —including from agriculture—is critical to slow our warming climate, especially in light of expanding global populations and food demand. 2020 , Linquist et al.,

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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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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

Back in 2018, California legislators were considering a bill that would have created an independent governance structure for California’s grid operator , the California Independent System Operator (CAISO). Western utilities may be more interested in sticking with California and joining EDAM if CAISO has an independent governance structure.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

However, methane reduction efforts have not received the same financial support as CO 2 actions; in 2019 and 2020, only 2% of climate finance was devoted to methane mitigation. Subnational governments of Brazil, Bolivia, South Korea, Germany, Spain, Canada, Nigeria, and the United States are among the signatories of the coalition.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Monitoring Hazmat Incident Involving A Rail Car Leaking Carbon Dioxide Saturday In Clinton County -- Altoona Mirror Editorial: Railroad Industry Making Strides To Better Safety -- TribLive Guest Essay: $200 Million In Public Money To Upgrade PA Rail Line To Increase Passenger Service A Great Deal For….

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Physics World

JULY 5, 2022

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), between March 2020 and November 2021, the UN shipped 87,000 tonnes of personal protective equipment (PPE), like masks and gowns, to countries around the world. Incineration is widely used to dispose of plastic waste.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Internal Shell “Net Zero Emissions” (NZE) messaging guidance from January 2020 includes the following points: Be explicit in defining NZE as a goal for society. Yet the internal documents show how carefully the company had to prep its spokespeople not to say explicitly what a casual listener might mistakenly believe.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 25, 2024

In doing so, it highlights the skeptical approach some courts have taken to climate action by non-environmental agencies, and the tension between this skepticism and President Biden’s all-of-government approach to addressing the climate crisis. 25378, 25380 (Apr. The Biden Administration’s U.S. DOI , 493 F. 3d 1046 (D. Bernhardt , 472 F.

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