Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Wang, Holly Buck, Rudra Kapila, Ugbaad Kosar, Rachel Licker, Deepika Nagabhushan, Ester Rekhelman, Vanessa Suarez (2021). “Environmental and climate justice and technological carbon removal.” Maya Batres, Frances M. ” The Electricity Journal 34(7), 107002.

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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.

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Clean Energy Law

JULY 8, 2021

On June 30, 2021, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued a report to Congress that outlines a framework for how the US can accelerate carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS) technologies and projects in a way that is efficient, orderly, and responsible. By Joshua T. Identifying CCUS Needs.

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans requesting that the Court “hold unlawful, vacate, and set aside” the final rule which approved Louisiana’s 2021 application for primacy. One concern the groups have is that the carbon dioxide may leak into the environment, including underground sources of drinking water.

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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

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. However, make no mistake: Technological advancement did not create the production boom by itself. The bankruptcies were set in motion even before 2020.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 1, 2023

Heat pumps, a simple but effective technology, use electricity to remove heat from inside your home to cool it in the summer and pull heat in from outside to heat your home in the winter. Gas is made mostly of methane – a climate-damaging fossil fuel that is over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

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

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 24, 2022

But while the scoping plan talks a lot about the low carbon technologies we need, it also should be clearer about the implications for the technologies we are leaving behind, so everyone can plan for what comes next. What is a petroleum phaseout plan and why does California need one?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2023

In 2021, an ExxonMobil lobbyist described API as a “ whipping boy ” that takes the heat for bad policy positions while allowing the oil and gas giant to appear reasonable. But these technologies are no substitute for sharp cuts in fossil fuels if we keep the goals of the Paris climate agreement within reach.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

Just as important, cleaning up the power grid also lowers carbon dioxide emissions. Reducing fossil fuel use under the 100-percent RES policy cuts alliance state power plant carbon dioxide emissions by 58 percent below 2020 levels by 2040. Our 100-percent RES scenario triggers a significant decline in fossil fuel use.

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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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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

increase in carbon dioxide pollution from the Commonwealth’s power plants between 2020 and 2021. Meanwhile, as the coal industry itself continues its precipitous decline, Pennsylvania’s three biggest emitters in 2020-2021 were conventional coal-fired facilities. Environmental Protection Agency show a startling 9.6%

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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. degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

The data These data represent the cumulative carbon dioxide and methane emissions from the largest industrial carbon producers. Multnomah County vs Big Oil where the largest county in Oregon, home to Portland, sued ExxonMobil and others for damages and adaptation costs following 2021’s unprecedented and deadly heatwave.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The subsidy will lead to more oil and gas production Though carbon capture is being sold by oil and gas companies as their solution to their increasing emissions, that’s not why they started using the technology in the first place. In the 1970s, oil companies were trying to figure out how to pump out the last third of oil from a well.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It found that greenhouse-gas emissions emitted by the lab in 2018 was 223 800 tonnes of carbon-dioxide equivalent. Sette adds that the labs are “eager” to learn from each other and will now further develop best practices and develop new sustainable technologies.

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Acoel

JANUARY 4, 2022

As Ernest Moniz, former Secretary of the U.S. The path forward for the expansion of CCUS will require significant efforts on a variety of fronts, including financing, pipeline infrastructure, environmental protection, and environmental justice.

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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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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 16, 2021

million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2018. million metric tons of carbon dioxide emission equivalents in 2018, According to the same inventory, natural gas production, transmission and distribution result in 9.74 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2018. million metric tons.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 16, 2022

Subsequently, Senate Bill 32 strengthened the state’s GHG emissions reductions target to at least 40% below 1990 levels by 2030 and former Governor Jerry Brown’s Executive Order B-55-18 established a second statewide goal to achieve carbon neutrality as soon as possible, and no later than 2045.

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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. There are many, many concerns with carbon capture technology.

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2022

The program’s original target was to reduce the carbon intensity (CI) of transportation fuel used in California by 2020 at least 10% from a 2010 baseline. 3] The Draft Scoping Plan addresses three ways in which transportation emissions may be reduced: (1) new technology; (2) innovative fuels; and (3) a decrease in vehicle miles traveled.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

The AB 398 changes to Cap-and-Trade Program started to phase-in on January 1, 2021. Covered Entities : The Program regulates manufacturers, electricity importers, suppliers of natural gas, gasoline and other fuels, and CO2 suppliers that emit more than 25,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MTCO2e) annually.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 27, 2023

Pourbaix, Dilling and the Pathways Alliance are trying to sell us a false story that oil and gas production can continue, and even grow, as long as the emissions from production are “captured” by unproven technologies like CCUS. Myth: The oil and gas industry has ready-to-deploy technology to get us to net-zero. megatonnes, around 0.1

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), signed into law on November 15, 2021, amended Section 40307 of the Outer Continental Shelfs Act (OCSLA) to provide authority to the U.S. In addition to BOEM and BSEE, several other administrative agencies are conducting work related to offshore carbon capture.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 1, 2022

Yet the technologies needed to do this, collectively known as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), remains nascent, underfunded and largely unregulated. Despite this knowledge, there has been little done since to develop carbon dioxide removal at scale. Some of the techniques are further advanced than others.

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Vermont Law

JULY 31, 2023

Candidate, 2024, Pace University Elisabeth Haub School of Law July 31, 2023 The social cost of carbon (SCC) has been the basis for policies such as tax credits for carbon capture technology and zero-emissions credits. As carbon dioxide builds up in the atmosphere, it also traps heat surrounding the planet.

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Physics World

JULY 5, 2022

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), between March 2020 and November 2021, the UN shipped 87,000 tonnes of personal protective equipment (PPE), like masks and gowns, to countries around the world. It might also help us dispose of other types of medical waste such as masks and protective clothing.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Von Neumann accepted that there was no “complete recipe” for avoiding human extinction by technological means. But it presciently noted the climatic impact of rising carbon-dioxide emissions, too. Yet he accepted that there was no “complete recipe” for avoiding human extinction by technological means. “We

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HumanNature

MARCH 24, 2022

Guest Post by Holly Roth , 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. 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). link] (5) Bladon, K.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2021

The Erie District avoided over 8,000 metric tons of CO2e [carbon dioxide equivalent] emissions in 2020, an amount equal to the emissions of over 740 homes. Posted: August 10, 2021] PA Environment Digest In 2020, the Erie 2030 District reduced energy usage to 13 percent below the baseline, a slight increase from 14.8

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2021

The company has made substantial progress in reducing emissions from generation and other areas of its operations and is on track to achieve a 70 percent reduction from 2010 levels in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by 2035 and an 80 percent reduction by 2040. Posted: August 30, 2021] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Find more temperature and rainfall data at: 2021 Pennsylvania Climate Impacts Assessment. Learn about these and other current and projected climate change impacts at: 2021 Pennsylvania Climate Impacts Assessment. Pennsylvania is acting to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2023

By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal In the summer of 2021, a twin-engine special research aircraft took off from State College, PA. Read more here ] The mission was to pinpoint sources of high levels of methane gas, or “super emitters,” for the nonprofit group Carbon Mapper and its funding partner, U.S. The gas industry does, too.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Instead of projecting energy trends forward based on specified assumptions about resources, technology, and economic and policy conditions, this one takes the target of global net-zero in 2050 as a constraint, then joins the dots back to the present. Not this time. Compared to IEA’s regular reports, this study reversed the logic.

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