Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2023

This year has brought new evidence of what major fossil fuel companies knew and when about the role their products play in climate change, as well as what they did in spite of what they knew. I is for Intensity Targets Reducing global warming emissions intensity alone is not sufficient to slow the pace of climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

For researchers, this updated dataset provides an incredible opportunity to conduct litigation relevant research and explore questions of accountability—for the impacts of climate change, for the historical costs of inaction, and for industry’s decades of disinformation and delay.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Take Action for Climate-Ready Fisheries. The ocean has buffered our planet from the impacts of climate change, absorbing much of the carbon dioxide we’ve emitted and a substantial amount of the heat from our warming atmosphere. We know these changes are happening, and we know they will get worse. Barange, T.

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A Greener Life

JULY 15, 2022

Climate change threatens not just the amount of food that Indian farmers can grow, but also its nutritional quality. This thing, this climate change which everyone talks about, is very real. Close cooperation between agricultural research centres and farmers is also necessary to adapt to the changing climate.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

By: Deborah Klenotic, Deputy Communications Director Climate change is a major challenge facing Pennsylvania, and the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is leading many efforts to fight back and protect communities. Find more materials at DEP’s Climate Change webpage.

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Scientific American

DECEMBER 28, 2021

billion metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com. Blazes from California to Siberia spewed more than 1.7

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Steep reductions in emissions of methane—which traps 81 times as much heat as carbon dioxide in the first 20 years in the atmosphere—are among the most important steps for slowing climate change in the short term. By Phil McKenna The U.S. Combined, the new rules would reduce methane emissions from the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 1, 2022

The August newsletter from the Pike County Conservation District includes articles on riparian buffers and climate change and forests as part of the District's Forestry month education initiative. While these shifts can have a major impact on the planet’s forests, the forests can also have a major impact on climate change.

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JANZEN AG

DECEMBER 17, 2021

I like to take some time to look back at what happened and reflect about how things have changed as we all made another trip around the sun. As far as 2021 goes, the year was all about how farms are rising to challenge presented by climate change. Understanding Carbon Credits. Using Ag Data in the Courtroom.

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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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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 directed the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to support the development of four regional “direct air capture hubs” (DAC Hubs)—networks that connect direct air capture projects with sequestration facilities and commercial users of captured carbon dioxide (CO 2 ).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 26, 2022

N ovel Approaches to Climate Litigation. As the impacts of climate change expand, so do the types of climate litigation claims. Plastics are closely tied to climate change: About 4 to 8 percent of annual global oil consumption is associated with plastics. The Importance of Climate Litigation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

GW record from 2021. In 2021 alone, the plants slated for retirement emitted more than 28,000 tonnes of nitrogen oxides (NO x ), 32,000 tonnes of sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), and 51 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), according to EIA data. pollution, which are particles with diameters of 2.5 micrometers or less.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

US ratepayers very likely will pay even more for electricity and heating this winter compared to the already-expensive winter of 2021-2022. Between 2015 and 2021, 274 North American oil and gas producers filed for bankruptcy with a debt load of $177 billion. The bankruptcies were set in motion even before 2020.

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A Greener Life

MAY 23, 2022

Their annual ‘State of the Global Climate’ report indicated that the accelerating pace of climate change was to blame for acidification and that the melting of ice sheets contributed to pushing sea level rises to new heights in 2021. ” How the oceans absorb carbon and store the heat.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Four important global reports released in the last two days set up a deeply sobering context for the upcoming annual international climate talks in Egypt, also called COP27. Source: UN Climate Change 2022 NDC Synthesis Report. Source: UN Climate Change 2022 NDC Synthesis Report. The UNEP Emissions Gap Report.

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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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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As noted at the end of last year, 2021 was significant for climate litigation, with several decisions worldwide providing a fresh look at stakeholder responsibility for climate change. A landmark decision recognizing the impacts of climate change on human rights. By Maria Antonia Tigre.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

To help avoid the worst possible consequences of climate change, however, the alliance states need to reach that 100-percent objective much more quickly. Just as important, cleaning up the power grid also lowers carbon dioxide emissions. Below is an abridged version of our conversation.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Back in 2021, the federal government committed to ending the export of thermal coal before 2030. When burnt, that amount of coal would produce 40 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, or the equivalent of 8.7 In 2021, the federal government introduced a policy to end mining for thermal coal. million cars.

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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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Clean Energy Law

JULY 8, 2021

CEQ report calls for widespread CCUS deployment to achieve climate goals. The report also identifies the wide variety of ways by which the captured carbon dioxide can be converted into a product of commercial value, also known as carbon utilization. By Joshua T. Bledsoe , Nikki Buffa , and Nolan Fargo. Next Steps.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 13, 2022

By Hilary Mercer , Shell Polymers/Pennsylvania Chemicals Project & Kevin Walker, President/CEO Duquesne Light This guest essay first appeared on TribLive.com May 11, 2022 -- Climate change demands that the world, including our region, transition its energy profile to a low-carbon one.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Data reported by the World Bank show that prices for two key fertilizers spiked dramatically between April 2021 and April 2022: diammonium phosphate prices went up 75 percent and potash prices rose a staggering 178 percent. The price of urea also surpassed its previous recorded spike in 2008 by approximately 18 percent.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

They discovered that injecting high-pressure carbon dioxide into aging oil wells could extract more oil that otherwise they would have had to leave behind. In fact, most of the (small amount of) carbon dioxide being captured is used for EOR, i.e. MORE oil production. This is called enhanced oil recovery (EOR).

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 8, 2022

The Draft Scoping Plan begins by highlighting many of the growing climate change impacts that Californians are already experiencing. In 2021, the drought’s impacts on California’s agricultural sector resulted in fallowing nearly 400,000 acres of fields, crop revenue losses of US$962 million, and total economic impacts over US$1.7

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Responsible for 12 percent of all US global warming emissions from human activities, methane traps significantly more heat per molecule than carbon dioxide, making it 86 times more harmful for the first 20 years after it is released into the atmosphere. Its primary component is methane.

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Vermont Law

JULY 31, 2023

This model can represent a domestic or global scenario of climate damage, but many in the United States favor domestic views only. should account for global damages from climate change in its SCC modeling based on how their emissions exacerbate that global harm. The question is whether the U.S. The short answer is yes, the U.S.

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HumanNature

APRIL 14, 2022

Guest Post by Leena Vilonen , 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. A scientific study measured the severity of drought across the western US from 2000 to 2022 and found that in 2021 almost 80% of the western part of the US experienced exceptional or extreme drought (Williams et al. Climate change 2014.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 4, 2024

Youth4ClimateAction in Republic of Korea We are in a critical decade for action on climate change. National governments are the most important systemic actors in the governance of climate action, primarily because they are the only actors with the ability to adopt economy-wide decarbonization measures.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Fossil fuels are the root cause of climate change, of long-standing environmental injustices, and are also frequently connected to geopolitical strife and violent conflicts. These data are alarming—underscoring how far off track the world continues to be in cutting the heat-trapping emissions fueling climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Both Winter Storm Elliott in 2022 and Winter Storm Uri in 2021 caused major failures on the nation’s power grid on a historic scale, triggering power outages for millions of people during some of the most dangerous weather conditions of the year. Winter Storm Uri in February 2021 caused gas production to significantly decrease.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

That requires bringing global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions to net zero by 2050. To meet that goal, the International Energy Agency’s Net Zero Roadmap released in 2021 says no new oil and gas supply projects can come online. DO: Pay your fair share of the costs of climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Although the nuclear bailout was repealed and refunded in 2021, some of the law’s other egregious provisions requiring ratepayers across the state to subsidize money-losing coal plants and gutting renewable energy and energy efficiency standards are still in place today. Even if you don’t live in Ohio, you may have heard about H.B.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 7, 2022

Street Introduces Bill To Set A New Clean Energy Standard And Support Carbon Capture To Eliminate All Carbon Dioxide Emissions From Power Plants By 2050 [Posted: January 7, 2021] PA Environment Digest Click Here to receive regular updates from PEC. Related Article: -- Sen.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

from Chapter 4 of the Fifth National Climate Assessment The Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) was released on November 14, 2023. As those paying attention to agriculture know, climate impacts have become increasingly apparent since the last assessment was published in 2018.

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