Circle of Blue

APRIL 8, 2025

Still, Suzie Stranik, the chair of the Seldovia Arts Council, recalls shutting down her greenhouse early and flushing her toilets sparingly. Atmospheric warming, however, will almost certainly affect the waters quality. It was quite a time here in our community, she says. Looming above town, the reservoir dwindled.

2019

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Delayed action on emissions cuts may require even more (and more expensive) CDR – the 2024 United Nations Emissions Gap Report released this week found that 2023 greenhouse gas emissions set a new record, and current emissions reduction pledges for 2030 are insufficient to meet temperature goals.

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2025

Greenhouse gas (GHG) footprinting has been the industry’s main yardstick to date. Stepping out of the footprint The appeal of footprinting is clear: our collective climate fate depends on how much GHG emissions make their way into the atmosphere, and every ton matters.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

MARCH 18, 2025

2024 was the hottest year on record , and the planets 10 warmest years since 1850 have occurred in the past decade. Achieving global climate goals will require rapid and dramatic greenhouse gas emissions reductions, along with the removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

JULY 15, 2025

The IACtHR also drew upon three of its earlier rulings in contentious cases involving the right to a healthy environment, all issued in 2024. Regarding the appropriate target, the IACtHR highlighted the international consensus in the Paris Agreement on a temperature increase of no more than 1.5 °C

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 6, 2025

billion pounds of air pollution during its operation and 80 malfunction and 43 violation episodes at the Beaver County facility between January 2020 and July 2024. Between January 2022 to November 2024, Shell Polymers Monaca has emitted an estimated 393.5 million pounds).

Air Pollution

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2025

are formed indirectly in the atmosphere from other toxic pollutants also emitted from tailpipes. However, the new report shows that compared to the 2024 report there are 25 million more people living in areas with dangerous air quality. In February 2024 the EPA finally made a long overdue update to the annual PM 2.5

Ozone

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

As NASA explains , over most of the last 800,000 years, until humans started burning fossil fuels, atmospheric CO 2 concentrations basically never went below 180ppm and never went above 280ppm. In the last sixty years, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has grown 100 times faster than it did at the close of the last ice age.

Fossil Fuels

HumanNature

JANUARY 30, 2025

Guest Post by Tucker Melles , 2024-2025 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State University Earths atmosphere is one of our greatest shared resources and provides many ingredients required for life. 8 e146e155 (2024). [4] Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics vol.

Ozone

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

This blog post was authored by 2024 Sabin Center Summer Intern, Arpana Giritharan, with input and supervision from Johanna Lovecchio, Director of Program Design for Climate Action and Adjunct Professor at Columbia Climate School, and Romany Webb, Deputy Director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.

Carbon Dioxide

Physics World

JUNE 3, 2025

The team, led by atmospheric scientist Ning Zeng of the University of Maryland in the US, found that the wood had only lost 5% of its carbon compared with a freshly cut Eastern red cedar log. When plants decompose or are burnt, they release the carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) they had absorbed from the atmosphere. DOI:10.17605/OSF.IO/F85QJ)

Waste

Circle of Blue

JULY 9, 2025

These trends converged in Paris in 2015 when 195 countries signed a legally binding international treaty on climate change to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and attempt to keep global temperatures from rising to more dangerous levels. In the United States, coal production actually did peak in 2008 at 1.2 India followed. billion metric tons.

Clean Energy

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

This Article provides an overview of where the 2024 Farm Bill got stuck in the weeds regarding conservation spending. Finally, the Article will end by giving an update on the impacts of the 2024 elections and the forecast for a new Farm Bill. which practices sequester more carbon and which reduce more greenhouse gas emissions.

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

establishing that heat-trapping emissions (or greenhouse gas emissions) are air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. The 2007 case was brought by petitioners (which included several state attorney generals and NGOs, including the Union of Concerned Scientists) in the context of greenhouse gas emissions from new motor vehicles.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JANUARY 16, 2025

Like many people, I think he should have quit the 2024 presidential race much earlier, but that mistake should distract our attention from his major achievement in office. billion to cut emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere for centuries, warming the earth every single day.

Carbon Dioxide

A Greener Life

JULY 13, 2025

Extreme weather ran amok in 2024, report The researchers working on the ClimaMeter study explained that the tragic and fatal floods in Texas were characterised by cooler-than-usual air masses combined with an exceptional concentration of precipitation over the Guadalupe River basin.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

This is after Zeldin told senators in written answers for his confirmation that he planned to learn from EPA career staff about the current state of the science on greenhouse gas emissions and follow all legal requirements. Instead, Zeldin has scientists in a state of bewilderment. That was obviously lost on him.

Climate Change

New Scientist

JULY 25, 2025

This is the second year in a row in which the land carbon sink has nearly vanished due to climate-related stressors, and would explain why 2024 saw a record jump in the concentration of CO₂ in the atmosphere. Forests, grasslands and other ecosystems on land take up CO₂ from the atmosphere as they grow.

Atmosphere

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 14, 2025

According to a 2024 post-election poll sponsored by Environmental Protection Network, 88% of all voters, and 81% of Trump voters want Congress to increase EPA funding or at least keep funding steady. He would also eliminate reporting programs for greenhouse gases. expedited permitting of polluting projects).

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 11, 2025

This scientific finding, which followed a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that heat-trapping emissions are pollutants covered under the Clean Air Act, firmly established EPA’s authority and responsibility to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, power plants, oil and gas operations, and other sources of these pollutants.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

AUGUST 5, 2025

The number of vehicles imported to Brazil from China tripled between 2023 and 2024, NYT’s Sengupta reports. If the plans are carried out, one of the missions would be permanently terminated, because the satellite would burn up in the atmosphere.” Latin America is the next frontier for Chinese EVs, after Europe and Asia.

Fossil Fuels

New Scientist

JULY 7, 2025

We made the atmospheric flow tube, which provided 2 or 3 seconds of reaction time and gave three orders of magnitude increase in sensitivity.” BaySpec and PNNL researchers tested the portable device at a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facility in Nogales, Arizona, in October 2024.

Carbon Dioxide

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This is according to data from the European Union’s climate change monitoring satellite Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) which was released on Thursday (8th of February 2024). 2023 was already the warmest year ever recorded, based on data since records began, dating back to 1850. above pre-industrial temperatures for the first time.”

2024

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Gasoline use per person has also fallen, from 445 gallons per year per person in 2005, to under 350 gallons per year per person in 2024. However the long term drop in per person gasoline use is likely due to fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards that have made gasoline vehicles more efficient over the prior decades.

Carbon Dioxide

A Greener Life

AUGUST 5, 2022

Human activity adds more than 50 gigatons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere each year. What if scientists could turn back the clock on greenhouse-gas emissions – just a little? What if scientists could turn back the clock on greenhouse-gas emissions – just a little? Large-scale solutions are urgently needed. By Dr Kate Moran.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 26, 2024

Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through burning fossil fuels and traps heat in the atmosphere. NewsClip: -- The Daily Item Guest Essay: Carbon Capture - The Great Illusion - Karen Feridun, Better Path Coalition [Posted: August 26, 2024] PA Environment Digest

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Under the LCFS each fuel pathway gets a unique carbon intensity (CI) based on a lifecycle analysis of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production and use of the fuel. The California Legislature gave regulators authority to start regulating dairy pollution in 2024, and they should start developing these regulations.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MAY 29, 2024

million tons of methane into our atmosphere each year. Methane, a potent greenhouse gas that is roughly 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide, fuels extreme weather across the country by trapping heat in the atmosphere. natural gas pipelines leak as much as 2.7 That’s roughly the same impact as 50 million passenger cars!

Air Pollution

HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Guest Post by Sam Leuthold , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University Over the course of the last two decades, there has been a shift in the general popularity of agricultural soils. So why the hype around agricultural soils?

Atmosphere

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Orphan wells can leak methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere and pollute groundwater. DEP Issued 763 Violations For New Well Abandonments So Far In 2024] DEP is aggressively going after operators who are walking away from wells and stepping in with emergency plugging contracts where needed to protect public health. [So

Natural Gas

Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 22, 2024

Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology (2024). Breakthrough innovations in carbon dioxide mineralization for a sustainable future.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) atmospheric levels. CO2 is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through human activities by burning fossil fuels and contributes to global warming by trapping heat in the atmosphere. The captured CO2 is then stored deep underground in geologic formations or used to make other products.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 24, 2023

Three new guides are now available from WeConservePA addressing carbon issues in conservation easements-- -- Addressing Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration in Conservation Easements : The reality of climate change brought on by increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere presents challenges to conservation practitioners.

Conservation

Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

This spring, Environmental Defence Canada submitted a motion to Enbridge shareholders for their 2024 Annual General Meeting on May 8th. This spring, Environmental Defence Canada submitted a motion to Enbridge shareholders for their 2024 Annual General Meeting on May 8th. Can you help us fight back against the climate villains?

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2024

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) issued an advisory opinion on April 21, 2024 in response to a request submitted by the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law (COSIS). 157 as used in para. 52, 54, 60 and 68).

Law

Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2024

On May 21, 2024, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) delivered a long-awaited Advisory Opinion on climate change and international law. This marks the first time that an international tribunal has issued an advisory opinion on State obligations regarding climate change mitigation.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

APRIL 19, 2023

In the face of research that meat and milk are high in greenhouse gas emissions , companies are angling for new ways to reach eco-conscious consumers. Products that bear the label “carbon neutral” are supposed to be produced with no added emissions to the atmosphere. percent per bottle by 2024. Photo credit: Sentient Media.

Deforestation