A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

King calls for immediate testing and deployment of often-controversial carbon removal techniques to begin drawing down atmospheric greenhouse gases by tens of billions of tonnes per year.

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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. Photo credit: Sentient Media. What does carbon neutral mean?

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 5, 2023

The recent boost for CDR is linked to an emerging trend in climate policy which understands CDR as supplemental to urgent action on decarbonization and overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions (rather than a replacement for those activities). Yet, key issues around definitions, guidance, and climate governance remain.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 21, 2024

Set the Stage for Robust Carbon Capture and Storage Management Carbon capture and storage (CCS) could play a meaningful role in decarbonization of Pennsylvania’s industry and electric generation, and even help reduce existing atmospheric carbon dioxide through direct air capture.

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Vermont Law

JULY 31, 2023

The social cost of carbon is an economic tool used to determine how much the cost is, in dollars, of emitting another ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. As carbon dioxide builds up in the atmosphere, it also traps heat surrounding the planet. The damage this heat creates is SCC. In total, the “War on Terror” released 1.2

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

It will take almost four years to complete, with preparatory works and trials already underway and its conclusion scheduled for the second half of 2025. In China, cadmium in soil mainly comes from atmospheric deposition of the metal after it has been emitted from coal-burning, metallurgical facilities and animal-source fertilisers.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 18, 2023

Gevo asserts its “farm-to-flight” project will release 80 percent less carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than ethanol produced by a conventional plant. When the plant begins production, scheduled for 2025, it qualifies for a $1.75 greenhouse gas emissions. million square-foot refinery to turn corn into low-carbon jet fuel.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The latest data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) and the EU’s Copernicus climate service show that the 2024 January-August period is the hottest ever by far, putting this year well on track to be the warmest ever on record. see Articles 4.2 of the Paris Agreement ). Article 2.1(c)

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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. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics vol. Science Advances vol.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 30, 2021

Global Water Intel reports that the investment fund hopes to build 17 such plants by 2025, at a cost of roughly $2.5 It’s a technique to assess how greenhouse gases in the atmosphere influence extreme weather. The extra water would be welcome. The researcher’s numbers are based on what is called attribution science.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

However, environmentalists often criticize EQIP for awarding funding to practices that do not reduce greenhouse gas emissions, sequester carbon, or build climate resilience. It defines climate-smart practices as those reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sequestering carbon, and building climate resilience.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

Posted: March 16, 2025] PA Environment Digest Acre Wildfire Near Popular Trail At Codorus -- TribLive: Under Pressure: Water Flow Issues Can Cripple Firefighters Who Rely On Patchwork Of Unregulated Hydrants -- PA Dept. Shapiro Touts Capping Of 300th Conventional Oil & Gas Well At North Franklin Twp.,

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 17, 2024

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued its 2024 algae forecast for the lake – and it isn’t good news. Canada and Ontario have committed to reducing the amount of phosphorus entering the lake by 40 per cent by 2025. On June 27, t he U.S. What needs to be done to save Lake Erie?

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 2, 2024

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) annual Lake Erie harmful algal bloom (HAB) forecast shows not enough is being done to save the lake. These governments committed to reducing nutrient pollution entering the western basin of Lake Erie by 40 per cent by 2025 – that’s next year.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 12, 2023

DEP’s inspection report for both wells noted “This recently drilled conventional well is currently venting to the atmosphere.” Of course today, we know natural gas (methane) is a potent climate-changing greenhouse gas and uncontrolled venting of new conventional wells releases this gas into the atmosphere.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The watershed states only have until 2025 under the Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint to adopt and implement pollution-cutting measures that will restore the health of the Bay and its waterways. The Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint calls for the Bay states to plant 190,500 acres of buffers by 2025. Investing in trees also creates jobs.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 15, 2024

PFAS is present in the air, rain, species, atmosphere and water across the Great Lakes basin , which provides drinking water for 60 million people. They are used in plastic products and found in recycled plastic content and are a significant and well-documented source of environmental contamination and greenhouse gas emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Note: Emerging Contaminants Presentation.] -- Dickinson College To Host Atmospheric Scientist Katharine Hayhoe To Discuss Finding Hope In The Face Of Climate Change During Public Talk Dec. DEP Water Resources Advisory Committee meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. Contact: Bob Haines at robhaines@pa.gov.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2025

Over 156 million people in the US are exposed to unhealthy levels of air pollutants, according to the recently published 2025 State-of-the Air report from the American Lung Association (ALA). are formed indirectly in the atmosphere from other toxic pollutants also emitted from tailpipes. concentration occurred within defined ranges.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2025

It almost goes without saying that despite the recently prevailing political winds in the United States and elsewhere, climate science is unequivocal in its findings that human-caused atmospheric damage is increasingly severe and many related physical risks to humanity and other life on Earth are rapidly intensifying.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

9] Not only are these leaks spewing methane, benzene, other VOC’s, and toxins that threaten our children’s right to an abundant life, methane is greenhouse gas 86 times more potent than CO2 in the first twenty years – making fugitive and leaking methane as an imperative for any hope in keeping temperature below 1.5o by 2050 or sooner.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Countries are expected to unveil updates to their NDCs by early 2025 and are urged to recognize the significance of BCEs in these updates. NDCs do not fully outline how BCEs will be scaled up through funding. Several countries mention the prospect of investing in coastal resilience, but do not go beyond this.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

A second bill would require annual reporting of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by a covered firm’s operations. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has adopted a Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule [25] requiring facilities that emit more than 25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent to report their direct GHG emissions. [26]

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

The extended permit gives Delaware River Partners, an affiliate of New Fortress Energy, until June 2025 to build a dock on the Delaware River in Gibbstown, Gloucester County. She adds that she fears more applications for the transport of LNG will be filed – there is another proposal for an export terminal in Chester [Delaware County]. “The

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 15, 2024

For more on other harmful aspects of Project 2025, see this blog. The Heritage Foundation’s blueprint—Project 2025—to dramatically alter the US Environmental Protection Agency should concern you. Project 2025 takes aim at all those protections. Project 2025 takes aim at grants, as well. It does me.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

We have little time left to create a practical path to achieving an 80% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2050.” atmospheric CO2 levels. of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 80% by 2050, as have many Atlantic states for future OSW . But today, it’s . Since my 2012 “Fiddling as the World Floods and Burns” warnings, . cean acidity.

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ESA

AUGUST 29, 2022

All agencies will fully implement updated policies, including ending the optional 12-month embargo, no later than December 31, 2025. OSTP expects all agencies to have updated public access policies fully implemented by the end of 2025. This includes $50 million for climate research grants.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

California enacted its LCFS to combat greenhouse gases (GHGs) being released into the atmosphere. CAFO waste releases 168 gases into the atmosphere, which negatively impacts the overall environment and especially environmental justice communities living near CAFOs.

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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.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Over time, natural gas transmission pipelines degrade and eventually leak, releasing methane into the atmosphere. Methane is a greenhouse gas with a global warming potential (GWP) over 28 times that of CO. CO2 has a GWP of 1).

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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.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 23, 2022

It is certainly true that the IRA uses “carrots” – principally in the form of tax credits – to incentivize actions that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. billion for “grants, rebates, contracts, loans” and “other activities” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and natural gas sector.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Under the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), every country on Earth is treaty-bound to “avoid dangerous climate change”, and find ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions globally in an equitable way. above pre-industrial levels, and greenhouse gas emissions are still on an upward trend.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

But it has passed laws regulating two powerful greenhouse gases, and some other climate laws stretching back over the past five decades. Only laws that specifically cover climate or greenhouse gases are included. Project 2025 calls for repealing the 1990 Act. These statutes will be difficult for Trump to repeal.

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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.

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Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The emissions make a significant contribution to climate change because methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas which, in the first 20 years after it is released, traps approximately 84 times more heat in the earth’s atmosphere than carbon dioxide (on a per ton basis).

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ESA

MARCH 14, 2022

Maryland State Senate Committee advances a bill to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receives $5.88 Mission: Iconic Reefs 2022–2025 Priorities provides guidance on these highest priority actions. . Supreme Court hears Clean Power Plan case. International.

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