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Promoting Coal, Trump Looks Backward

Circle of Blue

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

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Statement in Response to New Hydrogen Handouts From the Federal Government

Enviromental Defense

Hydrogen is being presented as a key climate change solution because when it is burned, it doesn’t create any greenhouse gas emissions. But that hides hydrogen’s dirty secret – when it leaks into the atmosphere it actually does contribute to global heating. billion by 2028 and $17.7 And it leaks a lot. billion by 2035.

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Emergency? Part 4

Legal Planet

Methane has a comparatively short life in the atmosphere (about 12 years, as opposed to 100 years or more for CO2) and high potency (84 times stronger than CO2, averaged over 20 years). The reason is simple: methane represents the best short-term opportunity to limit the impacts of anthropogenic warming.

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5 reasons why Enbridge’s proposed Line 5 pipeline tunnel is a dangerous false solution

Enviromental Defense

Climate breakdown and greenhouse gas emissions. . Recent scientific analysis shows that the tunnel project and pipeline could contribute an additional 27 million metric tons of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere annually, and generate $41 billion in climate damages between 2027 and 2070.

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ESA Policy News: March 20, 2023

ESA

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration The request includes $231 million for NOAA’s climate research programs, a $7 million increase above FY 2023 levels. Council on Environmental Quality – National Environmental Policy Act Guidance on Consideration of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Change. lands and waters by 2030.

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ESA Policy News: March 6, 2023

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1213 ) reversing a provision of the Fiscal Year 2023 omnibus spending bill preventing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from drafting new protections for the North Atlantic right whale. Greenhouse Gas Monitoring & Information System. Greenhouse Gas Monitoring & Information System.

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Policy News: May 6, 2021

ESA

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently announced the expansion of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, nearly tripling the size of the sanctuary. will halve its greenhouse gas emissions from 2005 levels. is rejoining the Paris Climate Accord and announced to world leaders that by 2030 the U.S.