Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 7, 2022

As governments enact mandatory greenhouse gas emission laws and as businesses voluntarily make “net zero” pledges, we are increasingly working with organizations, first to understand and calculate their GHG emissions, then to implement strategies for efficacious yet frictionless reductions. Organic waste sent to landfills emits CH4.

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Real Climate

JULY 10, 2022

Step 1: There is a natural greenhouse effect. Thus there must be a large amount of IR absorbed by the atmosphere (around 158 W/m 2 ) – a number that would be zero in the absence of any greenhouse substances. Step 2: Trace gases contribute to the natural greenhouse effect. The Earth’s Energy Budget (NASA).

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

When it comes to climate action, it can be difficult to understand what makes a strong climate plan that puts us on a pathway to zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – and what new policies and tools are actually dangerous distractions from real solutions. They call this Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS).

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 16, 2021

In addition, the Company announced its long-term efforts to achieve net zero direct operating greenhouse gas emissions by 2040 or sooner if feasible. In addition, the Company announced its long-term efforts to achieve net zero direct operating greenhouse gas emissions by 2040 or sooner if feasible. million metric tons.

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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. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Everyone produces greenhouse gases.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

greenhouse gas emissions in the year 2020. It loves to absorb infrared radiation, the same kind that heats our planet, and it can absorb this radiation 235 times more efficiently than its friend, carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). Scientists have become more aware of the impacts of agriculture on Earth’s changing climate.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

increase in carbon dioxide pollution from the Commonwealth’s power plants between 2020 and 2021. Pennsylvania’s power generation sector is one of the nation’s largest — and thus, also, one of the biggest emitters of climate-changing greenhouse gases. Environmental Protection Agency show a startling 9.6%

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 1, 2023

And one of their favourite tactics is to push technology that they claim can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions – especially carbon capture and storage and hydrogen. This is what is meant by carbon capture and storage (CCS). Carbon Capture is not a new idea – it has been around for more than 50 years.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 4, 2023

By coincidence rather than design, two different approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the electric power sector have been under discussion by North Carolina agencies since 2021. A later post will cover the North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC) Carbon Reduction Plan. January 4, 2023.

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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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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. There’s a better way forward.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

What they showed are the distinct fingerprints of two kinds of forcing; increasing solar activity which warms all parts of the atmosphere, and carbon dioxide increases which warm the surface and troposphere, but cool the stratosphere and above. As you will recall, Hansen had declared in 1988 that “the greenhouse effect is here!”,

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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

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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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. greenhouse gas emissions. Today the energy sector accounts for 30% of the carbon dioxide emissions in. DEQ’s carbon regulations.

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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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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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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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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This development comes at a time when facilities across the country are looking to address their greenhouse gas emissions through CCS projects but have been facing permitting delays from EPA. EPA is the primary authority for Class VI well permits, which are essential for the underground storage of carbon dioxide (CO2).

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Just days before the conference she was featured in an article where she attempted to shift blame away from the fossil fuel industry by saying that oil companies can only decarbonize as fast as the rest of the economy – a comment that completely ignores the fact that the oil and gas industry is Canada’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

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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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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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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Let’s look at the three technological strategies which would lead to decarbonization of the transportation sector and the phaseout of petroleum by midcentury: 1) electrification, 2) strengthening greenhouse gas emission standards and fuel economy standards, and 3) clean liquid fuels.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Under Governor Wolf, we’ve accelerated and expanded work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to equip Pennsylvania’s communities, businesses, and individual residents to address climate change impacts occurring now and projected for the near future. Pennsylvania’s greenhouse gas emissions are tracked yearly.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Gavin Newsom’s 2020 executive order , which set a goal for the state’s heavy-duty vehicles to transition to zero-emissions vehicles by 2045, although the rule alone will not meet this goal. There are more than 1.8 pollution from vehicles. The rule was prompted in part by Gov. The rule would also reduce NOx and PM2.5

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Acoel

AUGUST 17, 2021

As I noted in my 2020 blog post, my father was a veterinarian, and as a kid I had the “opportunity” to visit large dairy and beef cattle farms and pig farms, as well as slaughterhouses, and thus I got to know the commercial agriculture industry pretty well.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

King calls for immediate testing and deployment of often-controversial carbon removal techniques to begin drawing down atmospheric greenhouse gases by tens of billions of tonnes per year.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 30, 2021

Carbon capture and release: a license to pollute . Oil and gas companies like to paint 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. Check out this blog for a backgrounder on hydrogen.).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The World Meteorological Organization Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. The WMO’s GHG bulletin’s headline takeaways are stark: Atmospheric concentrations of three major heat-trapping gases, carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), methane (CH 4 ) and nitrous oxide (N 2 O) hit all-time highs in 2021 (see table below).

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

One is strengthening commitments to reduce heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions in order to keep the planet from dangerously overheating. On the other hand, advocates for the transmission line say it is a vital springboard to a low-carbon future. Leaders meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, have three main issues on the agenda. Senate race.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 16, 2022

Originally, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated 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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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Each credit one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent pollution below the standard. I’ve written recently about why a Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard , which addresses the bio-based diesel credits. Source California Air Resources Board.

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), 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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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

China, and United Arab Emirates hosted the Summit on Methane and non-CO 2 Greenhouse Gases that called on the parties of the Paris Agreement to include methane and other GHGs in their nationally determined contributions (NDC). Notwithstanding, COP’s outcomes are still important.

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HumanNature

MARCH 24, 2022

1,2 In 2020 alone, 46 million acres burned in Australia, and over 10 million acres burned in the United States. Forests are incredibly good at storing carbon, in both soils and plants. When forests burn, that carbon is released into the atmosphere and contributes to greenhouse gases (mostly as carbon dioxide).

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 4, 2021

She said to address these challenges, she is inviting her Senate colleagues to co-sponsor legislation to invest the proceeds from the proposed Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) program. For more information on RGGI, visit DEP’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative webpage. percent to the Energy Communities Trust Fund; -- 12.5

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