Legal Planet

JANUARY 8, 2024

Colorado The state’s Air Quality Control Commission approved guidelines for the measurement and verification of oil and gas methane emissions, becoming the latest state to set stricter standards for tracking the potent greenhouse gas. Who knew cheese was such a pollution problem?) The package also includes six other laws. in concrete.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

For convenience, I lumped coal and oil together as “very high carbon” sources (VHC) in the table. Carbon Goal. 67% cut from 2005 by 2025. Zero coal by 2035, 24 GW solar/wind by 2030, net zero emissions by 2050, including upstream and downstream emissions. Other Carbon Free: 4%. Fossil Fuel Use. Duke Power.

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 19, 2023

UK ETS Currently the UK’s main measure to mitigate carbon leakage risk is the system of free allocation under the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS). The UK ETS puts a price on greenhouse gases emitted by domestic producers, through a “cap-and-trade” system, in which total carbon emissions and allowances under the scheme are capped.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2024

Shapiro’s offer to work on legislation to make the electric grid more reliable, diversify Pennsylvania’s energy generation, lower energy costs for ratepayers and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. PJM expects to clear another 26 GW of capacity in 2024 and 46 GW of new generation in 2025. Doing nothing is not an option,” said Gov.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Under the Paris Agreement, countries will need to track greenhouse gas emissions at the level of individual ‘super emitters’, such as power plants, in close-to-real time. In late 2025 or 2026, the EU plans to launch its ‘CO2M’ (Copernicus Anthropogenic CO2 Monitoring Mission) pair of satellites, whose job will be to help with this.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 18, 2023

Virtually every phase of Net-Zero 1 production, and a good portion of its revenue, benefits from tax incentives, grants, and direct payments for low-carbon renewable energy, and the nearly $20 billion that Congress approved since 2021 for permanently disposing carbon dioxide. greenhouse gas emissions. That’s not all. “I

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 7, 2022

“The recycling and refuse industry has long embraced natural gas to mitigate the impact of greenhouse gas emissions,” said Chad Lindholm, senior vice president, Clean Energy. For more information, visit the Clean Energy Fuels Corp website. Over Last Year [PaEN] [Posted: December 7, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 8, 2017

of total United States greenhouse gas emissions, with passenger cars and light-duty trucks being the largest source. of the Clean Air Act requires the Environmental Protection Agency to address this through emissions standards for air pollution from cars and trucks. Transportation accounts for. 27 percent. Section 202.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

It calls on “rich, polluting countries,” including historic polluters as well “more recent carbon contributors” like the Middle Eastern Gulf states, India, and China, to “drastically cut their carbon emissions to prevent runaway climate change” and avert “exponentially higher levels of climate impacts affecting more people more quickly.”.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 26, 2023

As a goal net-zero is achieved when any residual carbon emissions are counter-balanced fully by dedicated carbon removal. But total emissions of greenhouse gases are around 50Gt of CO 2 ‘equivalents’. Yet if that is to balance residuals in a net zero world, emissions must be cut by 90-95%.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 10, 2023

Did you know that oil and gas emissions are the largest and fastest growing source of carbon pollution in Canada? Emissions from the oil and gas industry in Canada now account for nearly 30 per cent of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions. It will also provide certainty that businesses can count on.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Carbon markets are at a crossroads. As of 2021, 30 emissions trading systems were in force globally, covering 16 – 17 % of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. California has perhaps the most comprehensive protocols on offsets in the world, but this has not quieted concerns.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

On September 1, the Independent Regulatory Review Commission is considering whether to approve the final Environmental Quality Board regulation reducing carbon pollution from power plants consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. How did we get here? Read more here. On July 30, Senate Minority Leader Jay Costa, Jr. (D-Allegheny)

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Vermont Law

JULY 31, 2023

Economists and policymakers use SCC to analyze the costs and benefits to environmental policies since carbon emissions are not reflected in market prices. trillion each year by 2025 and $30 trillion each year by 2075 if the status quo remains unchanged. Estimates of economic damages from climate change are approximately $1.7

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Ministers from poor, vulnerable countries call on those from rich, industrialized countries to do more: reduce their high levels of greenhouse gas emissions and assist people in the Global south to better cope with the climate disasters that keep mounting. And it’s not a small amount.

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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. 7-8, Webinars Nov.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 15, 2021

On October 14, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University-- together with collaborators at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boise State University-- released a research study on how Southwestern Pennsylvania can thrive during the transition to a future with net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Enacted in 2019, the CLCPA transformed the state’s earlier clean energy standard efforts from administrative fiat to law and sets more aggressive goals to reduce statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions economy-wide to 60% from a 1990 baseline by 2030, and 15% from a 1990 baseline by 2050.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 22, 2021

As you may remember, we weren’t overjoyed at the results last session , which settled on a profoundly underwhelming short term measure to address the sector’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in addition to a diluted “ban” on heavy fuel oil (HFO) use in the Arctic that will only take effect in 2029. C warming scenario.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2024

Shapiro On Republican Reaction To His Energy Plan: They’ve Done Nothing And Power ‘Plants Have Closed On Their Watch;’ They’re ‘Used To Doing Nothing;’ ‘Doing Nothing Is Not Acceptable’ [PaEN] -- Senate Republicans Reject Gov.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

19] France spends just over half as much per kilowatt-hour for electricity that produces one-tenth of the carbon emissions of German electricity. [20] could reduce carbon emissions 42 percent and generate 70 percent of its electricity from carbon-free sources by 2030. trillion. [25]

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 24, 2023

Question: Some people claim EVs are worse for the environment than gasoline cars Answer: Battery-Electric vehicles (BEVs) have on average two thirds lower lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions than gasoline cars today, and this will improve as electricity grids get cleaner by cutting out fossil fuels.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The petitioner in this case requests that the NPCC be updated according to the best available science and the IPCC’s sixth assessment report ( Climate Change 2021 ) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by the Brazilian government consistent with a 1.5 o C global warming scenario. Background: Regression in Brazil’s NDC.

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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

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Check Out C-SAW -- Trout Unlimited, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers New R.I.S.E 17 [PaEN] -- ScrantonT: Lackawanna River Heritage Trail Receives Great Greenway/Trail Designation -- SunburyDI: Friends Group Formed For R.B. Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

CEQ is also planning to revive guidance on how to factor greenhouse gas emissions and climate change into NEPA reviews, after Obama-era guidance was yanked by the Trump administration. 3540 ), which reauthorizes NOAA’s Chesapeake Bay Office through 2025. 1816 & H.R.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Circuit Declined to Speed Up or Slow Down Challenges to Withdrawal of California Waiver and Preemption of State Authority to Regulate Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Washington Supreme Court Invalidated Regulation of Indirect Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Trump , No. 4:19-cv-00028 (D. Environmental Council of Sacramento v.

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