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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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

There is still much we can do to bend that emissions curve sharply within this decade—but only if world leaders, especially leaders of richer countries and major emitting nations, take responsibility to act together quickly and fossil fuel companies are held accountable for their decades of obstruction and deception.

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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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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

Ebel, the CEO of Enbridge, to our list of infamous Climate Villains – powerful people with fossil fuel interests holding Canada back from effective climate action. The executives behind the fossil fuel industry often avoid public scrutiny, which is why we’re shining the spotlight on their activities.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Last week world leaders gathered in New York for the UN Climate Ambition Summit where countries shared concrete action they’ve taken to phase out fossil fuels. There, the conversation was grounded in science, with leaders such as California’s Governor Newsom saying “The climate crisis is a fossil fuel crisis.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 3, 2021

By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — August 4, 2021. Like all other industries, the clock is ticking for the sector to cut its carbon pollution, given President Joe Biden’s goal to halve the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050. Decades of energy policy decisions have left the U.S. How It Works.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 30, 2021

In this blog, we’ll take a look at the technologies 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, offsets and ‘blue’ hydrogen. Carbon capture and release: a license to pollute .

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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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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

When it comes to the airline industry, sustainable aviation fuel may be its ticket to a low-carbon future. In 2021, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) set a target for the aviation industry to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Airlines bought every drop of SAF available in 2021,” Tjoeng says. “So

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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. Under the draft N.C.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 27, 2023

The other was Kendall Dilling, CEO of the Pathways Alliance, a new group made up of oil sands producers like Cenovus, with the intention to push carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) to perpetuate fossil fuel production. The fossil fuel sector directly accounts for less than 1 per cent of all jobs in Canada.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Fossil fuel power plant owners are facing increased accountability for their air and water pollution, including from a new round of environmental and public health protections that are being rolled out by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). We’ve heard these lazily disingenuous narratives before.

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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

MAY 11, 2023

We estimated the potential of these buffer areas to contribute to reductions in water use, pesticide use, toxic nitrate leaching, and greenhouse gas emissions. Cropland repurposing that led to the reduction of fertilizer use and nitrate leaching would result in a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (mostly nitrous oxide) equivalent to 2.2

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

For the past decades, China’s economic growth has been fueling an explosion of greenhouse gases emissions. This is why Carbon Brief stated that “China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are set to fall in 2024 and could be facing structural decline , due to record growth in the installation of new low-carbon energy sources.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 13, 2022

Driven by emissions from power generation and industrial activity — activity that generates jobs and economic opportunity for southwestern Pennsylvania — our greenhouse gas emissions, on a per capita basis, are about 50% higher than elsewhere in the state or country. At the same time, we are making progress in reducing our carbon footprint.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

In the first months of 2024, legislators in four states— Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , and Vermont —have pushed for legislation that would collectively require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

In fact, according to market intelligence firm Bernreuter Research, in 2021 China produced more than 80 percent of global solar-grade polysilicon, a critical input into solar arrays. By way of example, he cited an influential paper from 2021 on the sustainability of PV systems by life-cycle analysts Enrica Leccisi and Vsili Fthenakis.

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 11, 2021

On March 1, 2021, the TCI released draft Model Rules for public review. See Latham’s blog post TCI Proposes to Reduce Carbon Emissions From Transportation in the Northeast.) fossil-based gasoline and diesel). Affected Fuel” is defined as “the fossil fuel components of motor gasoline and on-road diesel fuel.”

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 22, 2023

A 2021 North Carolina law requires the N.C. Utilities Commission (NCUC) to “take all reasonable steps” to achieve a 70% reduction in carbon dioxide ( CO 2 ) emissions from electric generating units (EGUs) by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality for the utility generation system by 2050. January 22, 2023.

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Cresforum

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Clean hydrogen production relies either on electricity, which may be generated through renewable or fossil fuel resources; or directly on fossil fuels, via steam methane reformation (SMR) or coal gasification accompanied by carbon capture, or via methane pyrolysis. produced 11.4 is limited to pilot projects.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the raising of livestock and growth of crops for human consumption represent 14% of global GHG emissions. While burning methane to generate energy releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the overall climate impact is reduced and the gas could potentially replace fossil fuel sources.)

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

Waste Coal In July of 2021 a company by the name of Stronghold Digital Mining (Stronghold) filed an S-1 report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosing plans to purchase three waste coal fired power plants and install 57,000 Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) dedicated to mining bitcoin.

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

A 2021 study found that 7000 virtual delegates at three large scientific meetings, held online in 2020, had the same carbon footprint as a single in-person attendee to the same events in 2019 ( Nat. 4 843 , measured in tonnes (t) of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) equivalent (e) per year per person or ‘full-time equivalent’ (FTE).

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

Waste Coal In July of 2021 a company by the name of Stronghold Digital Mining (Stronghold) filed an S-1 report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosing plans to purchase three waste coal fired power plants and install 57,000 Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) dedicated to mining bitcoin.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Climate change and pressure to throw a lifeline to communities that long survived on fossil fuel extraction provided a strong tailwind for bipartisan support. Methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide in the short term — 86 times more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere when measured over a 20-year period.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

As Russia seeks new clients for its construction technology and fossil fuels, and with Pakistan desperate for a secure and cheap supply of natural gas, the visit could lay the foundations for Russia to build a pipeline to transport natural gas from Karachi to Lahore. Graphic credit: The Third Pole. “We

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 18, 2023

The law provides $140 billion in tax incentives, direct loans, and grants to replace fossil fuels with cleaner renewable energy that lowers emissions of carbon dioxide. Gevo asserts its “farm-to-flight” project will release 80 percent less carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than ethanol produced by a conventional plant.

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Legal Planet

MAY 13, 2024

By one count , Biden has overturned more than two dozen of Trump actions affecting the fossil fuel industry. International January 20, 2021. officially became a party to the agreement again on February 19, 2021. January 27, 2021. April 22, 2021. Cross-Sector Actions January 20, 2021. April 4, 2024.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Oil and natural gas operations are the nation’s largest industrial source of methane, a climate “super pollutant” that is many times more potent than carbon dioxide and is responsible for approximately one third of the warming from greenhouse gases occurring today. Methane pollution, however, is a global problem.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In 2021, a US district court vacated the Trump rule, but the fight against clean water continued. Your program recently published a fact sheet on fertilizer, which most people do not know is manufactured using fossil gas—what the industry euphemistically calls “natural” gas because it sounds like a good thing when it is decidedly not.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2023

For more information contact Cathy Lodge at: clodge@environmentalintegrity.org. ] “My Administration is making real progress towards tackling a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions here in Pennsylvania, and creating thousands of good-paying, union jobs in the process,” said Gov. Read more here. Josh Shapiro. “We Read more here.

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Law Columbia

MAY 10, 2023

The Willow Project is expected to produce as much as 180,000 barrels of oil per day at its peak and result in around 130 million metric tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent over its lifetime. It is also counter to his administration’s goal of halving economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and reaching net zero emissions by 2050.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

15 years later, one could say that if success may have been achieved, it’s hard to be triumphant, given how fast our carbon emissions are still rising : However, official pledges to slash greenhouse gases emissions are increasing, and thus, there is hope the world could collectively achieve limiting the temperature rise.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 20, 2021

DEP’s Climate Change Advisory Committee is scheduled to meet August 24 to review the latest Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory for Pennsylvania and hear an overview of DEP’s Energy Office Clean Energy Program Plan. percent decrease in the amount of carbon dioxide sequestered in 2018 compared to 2017 from the forest and land use sectors-- 4.55

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 14, 2024

23 Online Program Rethinking Our Connection To Fossil Fuels - A Discussion [PaEN] -- Warren Times: Eagle Watch At Allegheny Reservoir To Be Held Feb. PA Recycling Markets Center’s PA ReMaDE Conference Jan. 18-19 [PaEN] -- Foundation For Sustainable Forests Woods & Water Film Series Jan. 19 & Feb. 3 -- Penn State Extension: Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

And it reveals how American families and businesses bear the brunt of wild price fluctuations in fossil fuels and deserve more stable, cleaner sources of energy. Fuel costs don’t change for wind- and solar-powered electricity over time because the wind and sun are free, and clean energy produced in the U.S. According to the U.S.

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