Circle of Blue

JULY 26, 2022

July 26, 2022. July 27, 2022: Upcoming Public Meeting Webinar for the Niagara River/ Lake Erie Watershed Management Plan – register. July 28, 2022: Webinar: Using Bacteria to Remove Microcystin from Drinking Water — register. October 11-13, 2022: Great Lakes Commission Annual Meeting – register. Upcoming Events.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

October 4, 2022. If carbon emissions continue to rise until the middle of the century, this figure climbs to $2.2 October 11-13, 2022: Great Lakes Commission Annual Meeting – register. October 18, 2022: EPA’s Debra Shore at the Great Lakes Conference — register. Laura Gersony, Fresh Editor. billion annually.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2022

By Penn State News Last spring, at the request of President Eric Barron, a team of more than 20 faculty members, staff members and students began to formulate a plan to address climate change, one of the most complex and urgent issues of our time, by significantly lowering the University’s greenhouse gas emissions on all its campuses.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Global carbon dioxide emissions from all human activities remain at record highs in 2022, and fossil fuel emissions have risen above pre-pandemic levels, according to a new analysis by an international body of scientists.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 3, 2023

Although city buildings comprise a small percentage of overall carbon emissions in Boston, the new executive order aligns with larger efforts to decarbonize both publicly and privately owned buildings throughout Boston. While municipal emissions make up only 2.3%

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New Scientist

AUGUST 5, 2022

The US senate just passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which includes the largest climate spending package in US history. How big of an effect will it have?

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Required zero carbon emissions from power grid by 2045. 2022 AB 1279. Required net zero emissions by 2045 and an 85% reduction in carbon emissions (not counting offsets). Requires reducing GHG to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 and to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. 2018 SB100. 2023 SB 253.

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New Scientist

MAY 18, 2022

Australia’s targets for cutting carbon emissions are among the weakest in developed nations, but a new government could accelerate the transition to renewable energy

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 6, 2021

A multistate cap-and-invest program to reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector is dead after several participating states pulled out. See TCI Proposes to Reduce Carbon Emissions From Transportation in the Northeast and TCI Releases Framework for Draft Policy to Reduce GHG Emissions From Transportation.)

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Carbon emissions from land use change (mostly logging) are comparable to Brazil’s, though Brazil gets a lot more publicity. Economic growth has hovered around a healthy 5% annually, meaning that GDP doubles about every 15 years and that carbon emissions will also surge without vigorous climate action.

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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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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2021

When fully implemented, the Clean Power Plan was intended to cut carbon emissions 30% below the 2005 level by 2030. Compliance was set to begin in 2022, ramping up toward 2030 emission reduction goals. Even without the Clean Power Plan, carbon emissions from power generators fell about 15% from the 2015 level.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

Chicago just released its Draft 2022 Climate Action Plan (CAP), an update of the city’s 2008 CAP to reduce citywide emissions 25 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels. Chicago’s new CAP aims to remedy those problems and chart an equitable path to cut the city’s carbon emissions by at least 60 percent by 2040. Take Action.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2022

million square feet, released its 2021 Progress Report detailing efforts by partners who have committed to a dramatic reduction in energy use and carbon emissions in their buildings by the year 2030. The District also announced a new focus on carbon emissions. Posted: August 31, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The International Energy Agency has released its 2022 Coal analysis and forecast. By the time 2022 is over, world-wide coal consumption will have exceeded 8 billons tonnes for the first time. In other words, 2022 was a record year for coal. And our carbon debt is growing bigger every day. It is sobering.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

Through the Clean Air Act , and as affirmed—and reaffirmed—through multiple legal sagas, EPA is statutorily obligated to address carbon pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants. The Supreme Court clipped the agency’s wings in its 2022 West Virginia v. EPA ruling, EPA can still establish rigorous carbon emissions standards.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2022

By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – March 1, 2022. There is still time to reduce carbon emissions — though scaling up a low-carbon economy requires marshalling political will, public support, technical expertise, and financing. A woman reaches for a hose from a water tanker in Rajasthan, India.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 16, 2022

At EPRI’s Electrification 2022 conference in Charlotte, North Carolina last month, the leaders of heavy-hitter utilities unanimously embraced cutting carbon emissions and electrifying transportation. Read the full story at Canary Media. That is, on its face, a huge win for climate activists and clean-energy advocates.

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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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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

On November 29, PennFuture, Clean Air Council , Sierra Club , and Environmental Defense Fund filed an appeal of the Commonwealth Court’s November 1, 2023 ruling that blocked Pennsylvania’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a multistate carbon emissions reduction program.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 19, 2023

million electric vehicles , with sales in 2022 accounting for 29% of all auto sales in China. Newsom also stops in Hong Kong, the first city in Asia to require businesses to disclose their carbon emissions — similar to SB 253 that he signed this month covering businesses in California.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2024

The tax credit, passed as part of 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act, provides a generous incentive for the production of clean hydrogen. In late December, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released proposed regulations for the Section 45V Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 5, 2024

By providing public transit operating funding, encouraging housing density near public transit, setting zero-emission bus procurement requirements and providing incentives for cities to speed up public transit service with dedicated bus lanes, Canada can cut polluting carbon emissions by 65 million tonnes from 2024 to 2035.

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Inhabitant

DECEMBER 12, 2022

To offset climate change and catch up on urgent carbon emissions reduction goals, some brands in the beauty industry are going even further than being sustainable or carbon neutral. They are trying to be carbon negative, some even doubling the amount they offset emissions beyond net zero.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In its Nationally Determined Contributions ( NDCs ), updated in 2022, India has made three major promises: a 45% reduction in its carbon emissions intensity (CO2 emissions per unit of electricity) based on 2005 levels, by 2030; 50% of installed electricity coming from non-fossil-fuel sources by 2030; and national carbon neutrality by 2070.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

On a per capita basis, Australia’s carbon emissions are even higher than the United States. In 2022, the Labor coalition passed a law mandating that Australia cut greenhouse gas emissions 43% below 2005 levels by 2030 and reach net-zero by 2050. A decade ago, Australia had a climate tax.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2022

Northern Irish Assembly has passed a bill to set a net-zero for energy-related carbon emissions by 2050. The government also released an “Energy Strategy Action Plan in 2022. The plan aims for a 56% reduction of energy-related emissions by 2030, and a 100% reduction of energy-related emissions by 2050.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Through the Lancaster County Community Climate Fund , RegenAll is launching an innovative pathway for Lancaster County to achieve carbon neutrality and slow the impacts of climate change on communities. Individuals, businesses, and municipalities can offset their carbon emissions by contributing to the CCF.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Combined with electrification of bus fleets, the report finds that with these measures, Canada can reduce carbon emissions by sixty-five million tonnes by 2035, if investments begin now. Sixty-five million tonnes over the period 2024-2035 is equivalent to the annual carbon emissions produced by 20 million cars.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The Inflation Reduction Act, President Joe Biden’s signature piece of legislation passed into law in 2022, allocated $19.5 2022); Open access at [link] As previous SOGES fellows have pointed out , rarely if ever do silver bullets exist in agriculture. Figure from Deines et al.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

They just released their 2022 “Annual Energy Outlook” (AEO), which is a big deal: it tells us where electricity is headed over the next 30 years. CO 2 emissions remain mostly level through 2050—nowhere close to meeting US climate goals. Carbon emissions remain high.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 26, 2022

On January 26, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn highlighted the agency‘s 2022 priorities at the first Conservation and Natural Resources Advisory Council meeting of the year. 2022 Priorities Highlights from the department’s 2022 priorities include: -- Demonstrating the critical need for $1.4

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

From a countrywide perspective, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) released a study in August 2022 identifying multiple pathways to a net-zero power grid by 2035. Those scenarios showed that the IRA would accelerate solar and wind deployment and reduce carbon emissions to 80 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.

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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. But a March 2022 analysis from the investor consortium Climate Action 100+ determined that no major oil company was on track to meet the Paris goals.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

So, California’s plan to reach net zero carbon emissions by the year 2045 calls for the capture of significant amounts of carbon dioxide. Since carbon dioxide is not always captured at the same site where it is utilized or sequestered, CCUS will require the transportation of large quantities of carbon dioxide across the state.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Electric vehicles are “the most direct and efficient solution to improving the air quality in Vietnam , and in other countries in Southeast Asia,” Nguyen told Vietnam Investment Review in 2022. The US Agency for International Development works with Vietnamese electric vehicle manufacturers, such as VinFast, to reduce emissions.

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