PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Energy Information Administration released its November Short Term Energy Outlook which forecasts continued high energy costs going into 2022, but finds decreases into 2022. The cost of natural gas is forecast to drop in 2022 as will its share of electric generation. gigawatts in 2022 -- Renewable Capacity - Solar: 10.5

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 14, 2023

Source: NOAA Levels of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and nitrous oxide, the three greenhouse gases emitted by human activity that are the most significant contributors to climate change, continued their historically high rates of growth in the atmosphere during 2022, according to NOAA scientists.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

Using data for litigation-relevant research Since fall of 2022, I have been the Hitz Fellow for Litigation Relevant Research here at the Union of Concerned Scientists. This is because cumulative emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are key for understanding global temperature rise.

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Real Climate

JULY 10, 2022

Shine, "Radiative forcing of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide: A significant revision of the methane radiative forcing", Geophysical Research Letters , vol. The post The CO 2 problem in six easy steps (2022 Update) first appeared on RealClimate. Etminan, G. Myhre, E.J. Highwood, and K.P.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

2022 was no different, with courts further delineating the procedural dimensions of climate cases and expanding on the responsibilities of stakeholders for climate mitigation and adaption. In June 2022, the Prague Municipal Court ruled in Klimatická žaloba ČR v. See a detailed analysis of the decision here.).

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 23, 2023

The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law posted its Summer/Fall 2022 Semi-Annual Report, which includes a su mmary of the Center’s key activities between June and December 2022. Amy Turner has taken on a leading role in advising local governments on the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). It is available for download here.

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New Scientist

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

This year will see a smaller jump in carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels compared with 2021, driven partly by the continuing recovery of aviation following covid-19 travel restrictions

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Department of Energy (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) 2022 Compendium of CarbonCapture Technology is now available. The compendium is compiled biannually to provide a technical summary of carbon dioxide capture technology research and development sponsored by NETL’s Point Source Capture and Carbon Dioxide Removal programs.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

To meet these goals, the state is facilitating burgeoning carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) (CCS) technologies that capture carbon from point sources to store, as well as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which removes carbon from the atmosphere. Climate Change Mitigation. Ecological Conservation.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 5, 2022

Human activity adds more than 50 gigatons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere each year. New Solid Carbon technology might be able to lock climate-warming carbon dioxide below ocean bedrock. Large-scale solutions are urgently needed. Photo credit: Francisco Anzola, Flickr CC BY 2.0. By Dr Kate Moran.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The post Frontiers ebook releases: November 2022 first appeared on Science & research news | Frontiers. See all ebooks.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and cement have increased by 1.0% in 2022, new estimates suggest, hitting a new record high of 36.6bn tonnes of CO2 (GtCO2). The estimates come from the 2022 Global Carbon Budget report by the Global Carbon Project.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

On November 14, the PA Environmental Council and Environmental Defense Fund expressed concerns about Senate Bill 1361 (Yaw-R-Lycoming) that would direct DEP to apply to EPA for primacy in regulating Class VI injection wells related to carbon dioxide storage using only EPA injection well standards within 90 days of passing the bill.

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Frontiers

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Edited by Giacomo Cavallaro; Dick Tibboel; Aparna Hoskote; Matteo Di Nardo PDF Interfacing Humans and Machines for Rehabilitation and Assistive Devices Edited by Carlos A Cifuentes; Jan Veneman; Eduardo Rocon; Carlos Rodriguez-Guerrero PDF Governing Carbon Dioxide Removal Edited by Rob Bellamy; Oliver Geden; Mathias Fridahl; Emily Cox; James Palmer (..)

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2024

for air quality, waste, and oil and gas violations related to the uncontrolled gas release from Equitrans’ Rager Mountain natural gas storage field and George L Reade 1 storage well in November 2022. The well was brought under control on November 19, and a cement plug was installed on November 20, 2022. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In fact, a recent study examined parts of this heat wave—from late November up until December 11, 2022—and found that climate change made the event 60 times more likely. And that’s not even including humidity—used to calculate the “feels like” temperature—which I can promise you has been brutal, making it too hot to do much outside at times.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2023

It’s déjà vu all over again in 2023, with BP rolling back its climate pledges after record-breaking 2022 profits since Russia’s unjust war on Ukraine. The House Oversight Committee investigation came to the same conclusion as the 2022 study: Accusations of greenwashing appear well-founded.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2023

According to The Global Carbon Project , approximately 36.6 billion global carbon dioxide emissions in 2022 came from fossil fuel use. Fossil fuels are the problem It’s pretty simple: the burning of fossil fuels is the main driver of climate change. billion tons of the 40.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 17, 2023

Yet, in 2022, almost 40% of electricity in the US was generated by power plants fueled by natural gas. As of 2022, there were approximately 2,000 gas power plants with a combined capacity of 500 gigawatts on the grid. Between 2000 and 2022, gas capacity has grown more than four-fold with a big uptick coming online in the early 2000s.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 6, 2022

The Clean Energy Standard is defined as an overarching standard for total reductions in carbon emissions encompassing all energy sources within the AEPS tier system,” said Sen. Starting in 2022, the Clean Energy Standard will lay out a number of carbon reduction goals and the dates in which they should be accomplished.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 7, 2022

Accounting for water use and risk ought to have the same urgency with which we address carbon. By Jay Famiglietti, Jose Ignacio Galindo, Palash Sanyal, and Li Xu – April 7, 2022. Cargo ships on the Rhine River, in Germany. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue. Provocative?

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

The Pathways Alliance wants to use more than $16 billion of Canadian taxpayer’s dollars to build a massive CCS project to remove 3MT of carbon from their collective tar sands operations. The tar sands currently (2022) emit 87 MT of carbon each year, so a $16 billion investment of taxpayer money would net a reduction of 3.4

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2022

On September 21, 2022, the New York Times published an essay by Gabriel Popkin titled “Are There Better Places to Put Large Solar Farms Than These Forests?” However, on the narrow but important issue of carbon dioxide emissions, an acre of solar panels appears to offset more emissions each year than an acre planted with trees can sequester.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2022

They date from September 1978–when Congress passed an “act to establish a comprehensive and coordinated national climate policy and program”–to the Inflation Reduction Act of August 2022. That approach would have required a shift from coal to energy sources that emit less carbon dioxide.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Feb 15, 2022, noon-1 pm CSTRegister here. Please join the Environmental Policy & Culture Program at Northwestern University and the Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy for this webinar on direct air capture facility development in the United States.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 28, 2022

Enhanced Recovery: Use of carbon dioxide for enhanced hydrocarbon recovery requires the creation of a unit by the Commissioner of Conservation for the purpose of secondary or tertiary recovery under La. Rather, it is the approval to use a specific reservoir for injection and storage of carbon dioxide. 30:1101-1111).

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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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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2023

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 ). Why Do We Need CO 2 Pipelines?

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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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Ivy Protocol

MAY 18, 2023

The year 2023 stands as a testament to this synergy, with a plethora of companies innovating in the carbon removal terrain with a shared goal of fighting climate change. Meeting the recent pathways laid out by the IPCC will require total cumulative net carbon dioxide removals of 20–660 GtCO2 by 2100.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

According to Government of Canada data, in 2022 Canada exported over 18 million tonnes of Canadian and American thermal coal. When burnt, that amount of coal would produce 40 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, or the equivalent of 8.7 million cars.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming), Majority Chair of the Committee, announced his intention to introduce legislation to promote carbon capture, utilization and sequestration. The legislation would create a legal and regulatory framework for carbon dioxide capture and sequestration (CCS) projects in the state. Read more here.

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Law Columbia

JULY 3, 2023

On June 7, 2023, the Swiss Fairness Commission ( Commission Suisse pour la Loyauté ), a non-judicial body competent to receive complaints alleging violations of fairness in commercial communication, found that the International Association Football Federation (FIFA) engaged in misleading and unfair advertising of the 2022 Qatar World Cup.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 10, 2022

billion … Continue reading Ongoing energy crisis fuels strong 2022 for climate tech companies. Climate tech startups had a strong start to the year and could draw sustained interest as the ongoing energy crisis spurs investment in green technologies including liquefied natural gas, nuclear energy, and solar, wind and hydrogen power.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Core samples are used to advance government, academic, and private-sector research into the use of Pennsylvania’s subsurface geology, including efforts to address climate change by capturing and storing carbon dioxide underground – known as carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS). “As Photo: Dr. Gale C.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Figure 2: Carbon dioxide levels and global temperature over the past 2022 years. Carbon dioxide data from air bubbles enclosed in Antarctic ice. They don’t seem to understand that the signal-to-noise ratio matters, which is worse the fewer data one uses (they used a meagre 74 stations).

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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. According to a May 2022 report , utility companies cut power to US households more than 3.6 Likewise, pipeline giant Williams Companies now refers to its gas projects as “clean energy” projects.

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