Law and Environment

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Instead, the IEA is predicting a plateau at around 8 billion tonnes lasting through 2025. Still, cost-effectiveness considerations should tell us not to focus solely on reducing our own emissions. And our carbon debt is growing bigger every day. And the IEA report isn’t predicting those any time soon.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Researchers show for the first time that this is already possible with data from existing satellites and instruments like NASA’s OCO-2 and OCO-3 (attached to the International Space Station), both designed to measure emissions at much larger spatial scales.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

Minnesotans are facing concurrent crises of climate change, high energy prices and inflation, and the inequitable public health impacts of fossil fuel air pollution. Minnesota’s current goal is to reduce statewide carbon emissions 30 percent by 2025 compared to 2005 levels and 80 percent by 2050.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Countries across Africa could lose 14% of their per capita GDP to climate change by 2050 and 34% by 2100, even if average global warming is held to 1.5°C, C, according to a report released this morning at this year’s UN climate conference, COP 27 , in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Photo credit: Anouk Delafortrie / Twitter.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

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. Residential, commercial and industrial buildings account for nearly 70 percent of Chicago’s carbon footprint. Building Retrofits.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 20, 2022

While avoiding the worst of climate change requires a rapid increase in the pace of decarbonization across the transport sector, the TDA spotlighted two important areas: a call to action on active mobility and a deep dive into accelerating deployment of clean trucks. .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

The main reasons CARB gives for rejecting Alternative 1 are the climate and air quality benefits CARB attributes to the higher use of renewable diesel. According to official analysis from CARB and EPA, soybean oil-based diesel has lower lifecycle carbon emissions than fossil diesel, but this finding is quite uncertain.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 13, 2022

This collaboration with Constellation is an exciting next step toward meeting our environmental goals of reaching 100% renewable purchased electricity by 2025 and reducing carbon emissions and energy use 75% by 2035.” Investing In Renewables Since 2014, PNC has invested nearly $2.3 With an estimated capacity of 1.3

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 9, 2022

Therefore, the urgent need to mitigate and adapt to climate risks is also a huge opportunity for the private sector to avoid losses. The best way to reduce the negative financial effects of climate change, or climate-related financial risks, is to reduce the impacts of climate change by investing in a net-zero carbon emission economy.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Following are some of my key takeaways (detailed in this and another forthcoming report) about the appropriate role of emissions trading in climate change policy and general thoughts on improving the effectiveness of carbon markets. – Emissions trading as part of a portfolio of climate policies.

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Vermont Law

JULY 31, 2023

This model can represent a domestic or global scenario of climate damage, but many in the United States favor domestic views only. should account for global damages from climate change in its SCC modeling based on how their emissions exacerbate that global harm. The question is whether the U.S. If the U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

conference would be worse, for multilateralism and for global action on climate change. Glasgow was about ratcheting up ambition and closing the gap between what has been committed to and what is needed to avoid catastrophic climate change. . Because the collapse of a U.N. Some baby steps, some backward steps.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 4, 2021

As the nation’s largest producer of emissions-free energy, Exelon Corporation has a long history of leadership on climate change, having met – and exceeded -- three previous emissions reduction goals spanning both our generation company and utilities division dating back to 2005.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Candidate in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University As we head into the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), issues surrounding the impact of climate change in the Caribbean are high on the agenda. So why is the Caribbean Community making such a big fuss?

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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

In China, government plans to peak and neutralise national carbon emissions, and for a wholesale green transition , have caused a boom in “green employment”. The sector is expected to employ 1 million people by 2025. The bump may be linked to China’s commitment, made in September 2020, to reach carbon neutrality before 2060.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 10, 2023

Jobs in the oil sands and oil production in Canada are set to decrease by at least 93 per cent between 2025 and 2050, regardless of what climate policies are in place. A cap on carbon emissions will also lead companies to invest in projects – such as low-cost efforts to stop methane leakage – which can generate jobs.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 26, 2023

The global stampede to adopt net-zero climate goals continues unabated. As a goal net-zero is achieved when any residual carbon emissions are counter-balanced fully by dedicated carbon removal. Recent policy debate has highlighted the need for strong quality and accountability standards for carbon removals.

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The CLCPA also established renewable procurement mandates: 70% renewable energy by 2030, 9,000 MW of offshore wind by 2035, 3,000 MW of energy storage by 2030, and 6,000 MW of solar by 2025. An important requirement of the CLCPA is the statutory commitment to invest in communities that have been disproportionately impacted by climate change.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

(Figure 1) These properties are a double-edged sword: while they are the root of the problems that black carbon causes, they also make mitigating black carbon one of the most actionable ways to fight climate change. Initiatives targeting black carbon have already developed amazing and innovative solutions.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Expected to be one of the largest industrial transitions in history, the clean energy transition will affect sectors from electric power to heavy industry and transportation, and is necessary to address global climate change, according to the report.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

The environmental impacts of coal power – from local air and water pollution to carbon emissions – have made the project controversial. “We

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Brazil’s National Policy on Climate Change ( NPCC and subsequent regulation ) was adopted in 2009 based on Brazil’s international commitments with the UNFCCC. The NPCC establishes a binding commitment to reduce GHG emissions between 36.1% by 2020 against a 2010 baseline. o C global warming scenario. o C global warming scenario.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 22, 2021

The easiest is to slow the vessel down, reducing both fuel consumption and carbon emissions. Plenty of other tweaks are on offer, including the installation of wind shipping technology that can cut emissions by 20% or more. On the average ship, there are many ways to improve this. C warming scenario.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

During last November’s COP26 climate change conference, the president of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado, signed an agreement that will see US$20 million flow towards the conservation of the country’s forests, funds earmarked to increase protection and help avoid deforestation. Conditions vary between these agreements.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2022

California’s air pollution regulator, the Air Resources Board, is poised to adopt one of the most important steps that the state has ever taken to reduce exposure to air pollution and limit climate changing emissions. California is already experiencing climate change with extreme drought and destructive wildfires.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 24, 2023

Roughly half of production emissions come from carbon-intensive input materials and metals, and the other half is due to the coal-burning electricity mix of manufacturing countries like China, Korea and Japan where most batteries are made. Most of the carbon emissions from cars come from fuelling them up with gas and driving them.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 10, 2022

That could turn the goal of getting to net zero emissions by 2050 from merely very difficult to virtually impossible. Because cutting carbon emissions also reduces emissions of deadly particulates, delay could also cost thousands of lives. On the one hand, it assumes no new legislation until 2030.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

3 Southwest PA Energy Efficiency Roundtable Webinar PA Parks & Forests Foundation Fall Newsletter Features Native Peoples, Paths, Places In State Parks & Forests WeConservePA: Seeking Proposals To Host 2025 PA Greenways & Trails Summit Hawk Mountain Sanctuary: Meet Eagles Up Close Nov. 7-8, Webinars Nov.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2024

Allegheny County; Private Gas Well, Propane Found And Secured -- Post-Gazette: 2 Killed In An ‘Absolutely Extreme’ Home Explosion In Crescent Twp., Schuylkill County -- Altoona Mirror: Rep.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

still does not limit carbon emissions from existing power plants, which generate 25 percent of our greenhouse gases. Joe Manchin about holding up EPA nominations claiming “overreach” ) But this is not just about the political calculus of a president trying to make good on a climate pledge. In the year 2023, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

On November 19, 2019, Senate and House Republicans announced legislation to take away DEP’s authority to adopt any greenhouse gas reduction program like RGGI or the Regional Transportation Climate Initiative addressing carbon emission reductions from vehicle fuels. Read more here. Read more here. Carolyn Comitta (D-Chester).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2024

PJM expects to clear another 26 GW of capacity in 2024 and 46 GW of new generation in 2025. Yaw- “Furthermore, while most states are cutting CO2 simply by slashing generation and importing energy from other states, including from Pennsylvania, we increased electric generation and reduced overall CO2 emissions from 2018-23. "In

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 8, 2024

State climate policy is a big deal. State governments began cutting emissions at a time when the federal government was essentially doing nothing about climate change. it’s not for nothing that 2023 has been called a banner year for state climate action. The package also includes six other laws. in concrete.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

As background, I am an invited expert reviewer of the next assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment.” My name is Michael Shellenberger, and I am Founder and President of Environmental Progress, an independent and nonprofit research organization.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Indeed, a peer-reviewed study published in September linked nearly half of all global carbon emissions from the biggest energy companies to just 10 financial institutions, led by Vanguard and BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager. Below is an abridged version of our exchange. And that percentage will undoubtedly increase.

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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. Joe Manchin (D-WV), the bill will reduce carbon emissions by 40% from 2005 levels by 2030.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2024

Million Agriculture Innovation Program -- Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper Blog: Our Streams In Winter - A Look Into The Challenges And Resilience Of Our Waterways Through The Season -- Bay Journal - Karl Blankenship: Will Climate Change Add More Nutrient Pollution To Chesapeake Bay?

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