Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2024

The air quality for this report was calculated using data reviewed by EPA from 2020, 2021, and 2022. That means it includes the extreme wildfires exacerbated by the fossil fuel industry that burned more than 4% of California in 2021 and 2022. Ozone plays a dual role in our atmosphere. Source: California Natural Resources Agency.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 16, 2022

On August 16, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County Conservation District released a study linking contamination in Pittsburgh’s urban soils to historical air pollution emissions and atmospheric inversions. Releases Air Quality Annual Review Covering 2021 [PaEN] [Posted: August 16, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

By Department of Conservation & Natural Resources Efforts to slow or stop global warming involve many strategies working together. 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.

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 2, 2021

Last week, the Louisiana Governor’s Office hosted Louisiana Wind Week 2021 to assess Louisiana’s future in offshore wind energy development. Included on the panel were representatives from both Federal and State agencies, including BOEM, the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, and the Louisiana Department of Economic Development.

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 2, 2021

Last week, the Louisiana Governor’s Office hosted Louisiana Wind Week 2021 to assess Louisiana’s future in offshore wind energy development. Included on the panel were representatives from both Federal and State agencies, including BOEM, the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, and the Louisiana Department of Economic Development.

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The Energy Law Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act (the “Act”), which was passed into law on November 15, 2021, included key amendments to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (“OCSLA”) that pave the way for carbon sequestration in offshore federal waters.

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Washington Nature

JANUARY 18, 2023

In November 2021, a series of back to back atmospheric rivers slammed into the region with record rainfall, inundating floodplain communities and catastrophically crumbling infrastructure. 360 Video [Click and drag to move around]: Take a ride through the estuary at Port Susan Bay Preserve while researchers travel to count fish.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2021

Increases in storm intensities, rainfall, and record heat events have impacted Pennsylvania over the past decades, with this rising trend expected to continue according to climate reports from the departments of Environmental Protection and Conservation and Natural Resources. Read more here. “It

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HumanNature

MARCH 30, 2021

Guest Post By Shelby McClelland , 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Methane is 28 times more powerful than CO 2 at trapping warming in our atmosphere over one-hundred years, and nitrous oxide is even more potent – 265 times more powerful than CO 2. CH 4 , N 2 O), and removal of CO 2 from the atmosphere.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

2773 ) is that the Senate bill funds the program through penalties paid for natural resources and environmental violations while the House bill does not specify a funding source. The October-December 2020 period was the warmest Arctic autumn on record dating back to 1900 and 2021 was the Arctic’s seventh warmest year on record.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

“The township would like to thank Mary Sproat for easing her property so the children being educated at Bancroft Elementary can have beautiful scenery, fresh air, and a pleasant atmosphere as they work to develop their minds,” said David Unger, New Garden Township supervisor. Posted: November 1, 2021] PA Environment Digest

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 25, 2021

The 442nd session of the Maryland legislature adjourned on April 12, 2021. Senate Bill 716 / House Bill 391 prohibit, with very limited exception, a person from knowingly and intentionally releasing, or causing to be released, a balloon into the atmosphere or organizing or participating in a “mass balloon release,” as defined.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

Extreme events in the Northwest will include storms resulting from atmospheric rivers over the Pacific Ocean. Rising pest pressure, wildfire smoke, and drought are also concerns–already in 2020 and 2021 wheat and barley declined in yield as a result of droughts. Summer streamflows will be lower, and glaciers will continue to recede.

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The Task Force released a first draft of the report in the spring of 2021. Governor Edwards’ Climate Initiatives Task Force, charged with making recommendations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions originating in Louisiana, recently took another step towards that goal.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The PA Wilds Center for Entrepreneurship is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2021 Champions of the PA Wilds Awards. It’s all about atmosphere, an exciting experience that leaves with you and draws you back the next year. 20 [Posted: October 7, 2021] PA Environment Digest

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 14, 2023

Farmers who wish to implement EQIP conservation practices on their land work with local Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) staff to determine which practice or practices make the most sense. Different regions of the country pose different resource concerns, such as water quality and wildlife habitat. Endnotes: 1.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

On June 9, 2021, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed House Bill 1284 (“HB 1284”), which was introduced along with its Senate companion, SB 450, during the state’s 87th legislative session. This technology is utilized in order to reduce CO 2 emissions to the atmosphere and mitigate climate change.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

On June 9, 2021, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed House Bill 1284 (“HB 1284”), which was introduced along with its Senate companion, SB 450, during the state’s 87th legislative session. This technology is utilized in order to reduce CO 2 emissions to the atmosphere and mitigate climate change.

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

On July 1, 2021, the Internal Revenue Service published Revenue Ruling 2021-13 , which provides guidance on three important issues related to the income tax credit for carbon oxide sequestration found in section 45Q of the Internal Revenue Code.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

On June 9, 2021, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed House Bill 1284 (“HB 1284”), which was introduced along with its Senate companion, SB 450, during the state’s 87th legislative session. This technology is utilized in order to reduce CO 2 emissions to the atmosphere and mitigate climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Woods, who previously worked at the EPA and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), holds a doctorate degree in environmental health engineering and a master’s degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University. In 2021, a US district court vacated the Trump rule, but the fight against clean water continued.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 8, 2022

“Second, the Rulemaking record, namely DEP’s 2020 modeling, estimated that only 6% of the proceeds from the CO2 allowances auctions would be for “programmatic costs related to administration and oversight of the CO2 Budget Trading Program (5% for [DEP] and 1% for RGGI, Inc.).” throughout the Commonwealth.

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 18, 2022

She set the gold standard for our state, our country and our ocean by leading the effort to fight for robust funding for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). In July 2021, the House of Representatives passed a budget that included historic funding levels for NOAA. © Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro/ Twitter.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

billion metric tons of carbon dioxide – nearly as much as all the carbon dioxide emitted by the power sector in 2021. It also represents wise stewardship of our precious natural resources and good fiscal management. The rule would achieve a nearly 80 percent reduction below the future methane emissions expected without the rule.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2024

That’s why waste storage tanks have to be vented and why many have tank lids that are open all the time to let the fumes vent to the atmosphere. The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources bans road dumping oil and gas wastewater for any purpose on its over 6,500 miles of state forest roads. more than in 2021 and 569.9%

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

July 15, 2021). July 1, 2021). The plaintiffs—identified as environmentalists, environmental groups, natural resource conservation groups, and cattle ranchers—alleged, among other things, that the immigration actions resulted in increased greenhouse gas emissions. Whitewater Draw Natural Resource Conservation District v.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

EPA’s response to the petitions is due June 3, 2021. 29, 2021); North American Coal Corp. On April 15, 2021, federal defendants, defendant-intervenors, and environmental groups filed a stipulation for dismissal of appeals of a district court’s November 2020 decision finding that the U.S. West Virginia v. 20-1530 (U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 30, 2023

These resources should benefit priorities like education and infrastructure, not be released into the atmosphere to undermine our climate and health.” This new reporting further confirms that hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of natural gas is being lost each year,” said Taxpayers for Common Sense Vice President Autumn Hanna.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

A career specialist in soils and forestry health, most of it with the Natural Resource Conservation Service, a unit of the U.S. Farm associations assert that because the price of phosphorus fertilizer rose from $480 a ton in December 2020 to about $826 a ton in November 2021, crop farmers are using less. .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

The 2021 New Hampshire Climate Assessment states unequivocally: “Without significant reduction in atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHG), extreme precipitation events are projected to increase a minimum of 20%, leading to an increase in freshwater flooding regionally.”

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The SCC Estimate assigned a dollar value on estimated global damages caused by every additional ton of greenhouse gas emitted into the atmosphere by using economic models that capture the impacts of climate change, including rising sea levels, changes to agricultural productivity, water shortages, property damages from increased flood risk, etc.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2023

The debate over benefits and drawbacks won’t end soon, especially as a new state bill aims to lift a moratorium on additional leases in forests managed by the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. billion as of 2021, much of it used to fill budget gaps. The leases have earned the state $1.3 27 Released 1.1

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The bill repeals section 20001 of the 2017 Tax Act, which required the Bureau of Land Management to offer oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and cancels the leases sold in January 2021. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5 By Annie Snider, PoliticoPro, 11/18/2021.

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ESA

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Senate Appropriations Committee Releases Remaining Spending Bills for FY 2021. by Jean Chemnick, E&E News, 10/21/2021. Senate Appropriations Committee Releases Remaining Spending Bills for FY 2021. The Senate released spending bills for the Departments of Agriculture and Energy in August 2021. Bill includes $9.49

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2024

Before joining the UCS staff in 2021, Peterson was a policy analyst at the Project on Government Oversight, Taxpayers for Common Sense, and the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Seven years ago, ExxonMobil added Susan Avery, a physicist and atmospheric scientist, to its board. The upshot?

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2021

Concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere have risen approximately 47 percent since 1750, mostly from the burning of fossil fuels for energy. Strategies for capturing carbon from fossil fuel power plants, to prevent it from entering the atmosphere, have long lingered on the sidelines. from 1990–2019.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

The final bill includes just eight additional amendments, each of which added language to the bill but did not modify any of the initial provisions of the bill introduced by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in mid-May 2021. by Annie Snider, Alex Gullien, Kelsey Tamborrino and Anthony Adragna, PoliticoPro, 6/11/2021.

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