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Innovators in 2023 Carbon Removal Landscape

Ivy Protocol

The year 2023 stands as a testament to this synergy, with a plethora of companies innovating in the carbon removal terrain with a shared goal of fighting climate change. Meeting the recent pathways laid out by the IPCC will require total cumulative net carbon dioxide removals of 20–660 GtCO2 by 2100. McKinsey & Company.

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Did Biden have to approve the Willow oil project?

Legal Planet

And BLM may suspend operations and production “in the interest of conservation of natural resources” or to mitigate “reasonably foreseeable and significantly adverse effects on surface resources” under that statute. That would release some 280 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, according to a federal analysis.

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Offshore Oil and Gas and the Biden Administration

Ocean Conservancy

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. According to an assessment by the Center for American Progress , the Gulf of Mexico lease sale could eventually result in the emission of more than 700 million metric tons of carbon dioxide. This past November offered up some particularly dizzying contrasts.

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Wednesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 11.16.22

PA Environment Daily

. -- Williamsport Sun Editorial: White House Must Not Double Down On Anti-Drilling Agenda -- PA Environmental Council, Environmental Defense Fund Express Concerns About Legislation Requiring DEP To Apply For Injection Well Primary For Carbon Dioxide Storage [PaEN] -- DCNR Discusses Carbon Capture, Utilization, Storage Efforts, Announces $6 Million (..)

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Reading the Tea Leaves: Biden’s and California’s Vehicle Regs at the D.C. Circuit

Legal Planet

EPA is an effort by conservative states and fuel suppliers to block EPA regulations of greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. To get a better sense of where the court may be heading, I spoke with Sean Donahue , an environmental lawyer who argued one of the cases and was there for the other two oral arguments.