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.

Greenhouse

Capaccio

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) were developed and introduced in the late 1980s to serve as replacements for ozone-depleting substances (ODS) primarily used in the air conditioning, refrigeration, aerosols, fire suppression, and foam blowing industries.

Ozone

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The authors of the study based their results on industry-disclosed Hazardous Air Pollutants data submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as part of natural gas infrastructure applications between 2017-2020. This includes new regulations in Pennsylvania. Read more here.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions 1990–2019. Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions include carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes, net carbon dioxide from land use, land use change and forestry, methane, nitrous oxide, and fluorinated gases. trillion or 6.8%

Fossil Fuels

Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 13, 2024

If we are to avert climate catastrophe, the shipping sector must immediately begin to eliminate the 1 billion-plus metric tons of greenhouse gases it emits every year. When the IMO’s regulation to cut SO x emissions went into effect in 2020, LNG became a growing alternative fuel choice for marine transportation.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

States and local air quality regulators have the legal authority to set particulate matter (PM), ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions standards and adopt regulations for these pollutants when they are already in attainment of the national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQS ) set by the U.S.

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule has the potential to significantly reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as harmful air pollutants like fine particulates (PM2.5) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) from the numerous commercial and government fleets of MHD vehicles in the state.

Electricity

Breezometer

OCTOBER 31, 2021

In the presence of heat and sunlight, chemical emissions from cars and factories react to form ozone (learn more here )., As average temperatures rise, ozone levels accelerate. Ozone is particularly dangerous to children since their lungs are still developing and they often spend more time outdoors than adults. Pregnant Women.

Air Pollution

Breezometer

JANUARY 26, 2022

Air Pollution - Under a high greenhouse gas scenario, premature mortality attributed to climate change in 2030 could reach 3,340 for ozone-related deaths and 55,600 for PM 2.5. Pollen - North American pollen seasons increased by an estimated 20 days and pollen concentrations became 21% stronger over the two decades prior to 2020.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JULY 20, 2021

Mack Trucks, a part of Volvo Group North America, began taking orders in 2020 for its Mack LR Electric refuse truck , manufactured at its Lehigh Valley Operations plant in Macungie, Penn. Transportation is also the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. Click Here for a copy of the letter.

Ground-Level Ozone

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Shapiro’s Work Group Concludes A Cap-And-Invest Carbon Pollution Regulation Program Would Be Optimal Approach To Reducing Greenhouse Emissions From Power Plants; Scale Up Solar Energy [PaEN] -- Inside Climate News - Kiley Bense: Gov. 18 -- PA Forestry Assn. 1-7; PA Climate Convergence Oct. 5 At 4:00 p.m. -- Philadelphia Solar Energy Assn.,

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that traps about 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide, on average, over the first 20 years after it reaches the atmosphere and is responsible for approximately one third of the warming from greenhouse gases occurring today. can take in the short term to slow the rate of climate change.

Natural Gas

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Circuit found that FERC failed to address the significance of a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulation that the petitioners argued required use of the social cost of carbon or another methodology to assess the impacts of the projects’ greenhouse gas emissions. Vecinos para el Bienestar de la Comunidad Costera v. 20-1045 (D.C.

2021

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

You got involved in a “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) case against the Trump administration EPA in 2020 that predated the Supreme Court ruling. SW: In 2020, the Trump administration narrowed the scope of the Clean Water Act by stripping protections from streams and wetlands.

Clean Water Act

Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. In 2020, the Trump Administration promulgated a new rule for model years 2021 through 2026 that reduced the required emissions reduction to only 1.5% Since Massachusetts v.

Clean Air Act

Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. Circuit vacated the 2015 rule to the extent that it prohibited continued use of HFCs by companies that previously switched to HFCs from an ozone-depleting substance. May 1, 2020).

2020

ESA

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

1002 ) preventing any position in the federal competitive service, created after September 30, 2020, from being reclassified outside of merit system principles without the express consent of Congress. EPA : The draft annual greenhouse gas emissions inventory finds that U.S. emissions increased 5.5% Arctic: A new report from the U.S.

2023

ESA

MAY 9, 2022

EPA : A draft policy assessment for the reconsideration of current Ozone air quality standards finds that there is insufficient scientific evidence that there would be a public health benefit to stricter ozone regulations. The percentage of American adults with great confidence in scientists increased between 2016 and 2020.

2022

ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

CEQ is also planning to revive guidance on how to factor greenhouse gas emissions and climate change into NEPA reviews, after Obama-era guidance was yanked by the Trump administration. Odds and ends: EPA says it will reconsider a 2020 Trump regulation known as the Major MACT to Area, or MM2A, rule. 21, 2020 ).

2021

ESA

MAY 17, 2021

This bill requires publicly listed companies to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and how climate change will impact their businesses to the Securities and Exchange Commission. EPA – 2021 Annual Joint Meeting of the Ozone Transport Commission and the Mid-Atlantic Northeast Visibility Union (June 15).

2021

Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The SCC is a metric that seeks to capture all of the costs that emitting a ton of carbon dioxide (or equivalent amounts of other greenhouse gases such as methane) imposes on society by contributing to climate change over the hundreds of years it remains in the atmosphere. 4:21-cv-00287-SPM (E.D. March 8, 2021).]] 2019); Birckhead v.

Climate Change

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

“It’s [the albedo is] kept the same” [False – for instance here is a paper (Loeb et al, 2020) comparing the changes in albedo in models to the CERES observations]. It is still the case that variations in cloud feedbacks are the dominant source of variability of climate sensitivity in models (Zelinka et al, 2020).

Radiation