Circle of Blue

AUGUST 3, 2021

utilities have been slower to adopt the energy- and emissions-saving technologies than those in other parts of the world. Despite the economic advantages of these technologies and their potential environmental benefits, U.S. Despite the economic advantages of these technologies and their potential environmental benefits, U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2023

Chevron’s board of directors said that “reducing Chevron’s absolute Scope 3 greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions is not in stockholders’ interests, nor should it be Chevron’s responsibility.” This method allows companies to get credit for using carbon offsets as well as technologies such as carbon capture and storage.

Carbon Emissions 344

Carbon Emissions Fossil Fuels Greenhouse Sea Level 344

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

Because while this decision does still recognize EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, it simultaneously sharply curtails the agency’s ability to do so. EPA did not revoke EPA’s underlying authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Unfortunately, those ominous signs were right on the mark.

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Fossil Fuels Clean Air Act Clean Energy Greenhouse 279

Law and Environment

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The plan describes in great detail the pathways to achieving the Climate Act’s ambitious requirements, and frames for the clean energy market the technologies and strategies that will be more (or less, in some cases) promising in New York State for decades to come.

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Greenhouse Clean Energy Biofuels 2030 130

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But while greenhouse gas emissions may be reduced, a delivery fulfilled by a diesel-burning truck may lead to increases in emissions of smog-forming nitrogen oxides and lung-damaging particulate matter. While the latter part of this conclusion is obvious, the former part isn’t as much.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This technology can be confusing and complex, so I have included a terms section for the italicized words at the end of this piece. Hydrometallurgical recycling is the best available technology because it has high mineral recovery rates and results in low environmental impacts.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 2, 2023

billion of hydropower investments by 2030. Fossil fuels currently account for around 60% of electricity generation , a share that it aims to reduce to 35% by 2030 through the expansion of renewables, including hydropower, and in particular wind and solar. The Agua del Toro dam in Mendoza, Argentina. Are its goals realistic?

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Renewable Energy 2030 Fossil Fuels Electricity 95

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 20, 2025

As we electrify everything, from our cars to our home heating systems, we need electricity to come from sources that dont emit greenhouse gases. Companies that use gas, on the other hand, will have to respect the annual limit by investing in technologies to reduce emissions – or reduce how long they run their plant.

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Electricity Regulations Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels 109

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

Over the past year, precisely as our ability to identify the specific magnitude of action required to hit 2030 climate targets of 50-52 percent below 2005 levels has resolved into ever clearer view, the range of viable pathways for meeting those targets has consistently and considerably narrowed. It’s the only forward course.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 12, 2022

Each year since 1995, with the exception of 2020, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ) has hosted a Conference of Parties (COP), where members of the UNFCCC negotiate issues relating to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other matters relating to climate change. The Pact committed to maintain the 1.5°C

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

By Jeff Mulhollem, Penn State News Amid the frequent bad news about climate change, some potentially good news has emerged: Existing technologies, diligently applied, could enable the world to meet the target set for reducing agricultural methane emissions by 2030. degrees Fahrenheit.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 19, 2024

By Jiang Mengnan Chinas oil demand is projected to peak at approximately 770 million tonnes in 2025, according to a forecast by the China National Petroleum Corporations Economic and Technological Research Institute (ETRI), reports Caixin. By 2035, demand for refined fuel is expected to decrease by between 25-40% from 2023 levels.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

This publication aligns with the implementation of the EU’s Climate Law, which enshrines the EU’s commitment to become climate-neutral by 2050, alongside the 2030 target to reduce net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 55%, relative to 1990. The Commission recommends a 90% net GHG reduction by 2040, as compared to 1990 levels.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

The [federal Bipartisan Infrastructure and Inflation Reduction Acts] provide billions of dollars in investment aimed at expanding low-and no-carbon technologies, accelerating a just energy transition, and building equity into climate adaptation efforts. from 2019 to 2020 and 44.4% from 2005 to 2020. Read more here.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated at least once every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 19, 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is currently developing a regulation to reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from trucks, known as the Phase 3 GHG standards, which would in theory result in increased adoption of electric trucks. In the U.S. If you throw transit buses into the mix, the number jumps to over 200.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

Understanding Climate Change & Greenhouse Gas Emissions. The greenhouse effect is a popular name for the earth’s warming effect which occurs naturally when gasses in the atmosphere trap heat from the sun and prevent it from escaping back into space. Greenhouse Gas Emissions are Increasing. F) of warming in the 21st century.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Canada’s oil and gas industry, responsible for the largest chunk of Canada’s polluting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, continues to drive climate change while trying to weaken or stop the actions we need to address the climate crisis. We already have the technology and the resources needed to reduce oil and gas pollution.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 18, 2023

With the growing urgency to address climate change, governments and companies are developing “net-zero” strategies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This decade is decisive – there needs to be strong interim targets (2026 and 2030) to ensure that we have a chance to get a handle on our emissions and create a climate-safe world.

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Fossil Fuels Climate Change 2026 Renewable Energy 124

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The oil and gas industry, Canada’s largest and fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions, has repeatedly shown its unwillingness to voluntarily reduce its own emissions. We cannot afford any more delays. Without a strong cap on oil and gas emissions, Canada will miss its climate targets.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 7, 2022

As governments enact mandatory greenhouse gas emission laws and as businesses voluntarily make “net zero” pledges, we are increasingly working with organizations, first to understand and calculate their GHG emissions, then to implement strategies for efficacious yet frictionless reductions. from Scope 1 sources only?)

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 26, 2022

With respect to SAF, the government plans to scale up SAF production to at least 3 billion gallons per year by 2030. If enacted, the Build Back Better bill would include several provisions concerning SAF as part of its Alternative Fuel and Low Emission Aviation Technology Program. Build Back Better.

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2030 Biofuels Government Carbon Emissions 130

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 22, 2024

It’s also worth noting that while the IRA will make a massive difference in our fight against climate change, it alone won’t be enough to help us meet the US’s Paris Climate Agreement commitment of reducing its economy-wide emissions by 50% to 52% by 2030.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2024

T he California Air Resources Board reports that in 2021, heavy-duty trucking was responsible for over 30 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions, making up roughly 10% of the state’s total emissions. Zero-emission electric versions of these vehicles are already on the road and becoming more widely available.

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Electricity Climate Change Fossil Fuels 2009 147

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

companies include greenhouse gas emissions data called for by the March 2024 SEC rule, and they describe company ambitions to reduce those emissions. According to the Sabin Center / CCSI report, many companies already publish climate-related information in sustainability reports published on their websites. Why is that important?

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

As with many environmental issues, when it comes to climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, this is no ordinary election. . As the province with the second highest greenhouse gas emissions in Canada, not doing enough to reduce these emissions is bad for the future of not just Ontario, but the whole country. .

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 19, 2023

The province is still failing to do its fair share to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and continues to rely on unproven and speculative technology to reduce the province’s emissions, instead of what is proven and available now. It’s also missing key elements, such as a 2030 emissions target.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2021

President Biden’s goal is to cut the country’s greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, and to reach net zero emissions by 2050. During this period of greenhouse gas reductions, the energy needs of the wastewater sector are projected to climb, due to population growth and tightening water-quality standards. About half of U.S.

Renewable Energy 130

Renewable Energy Carbon Dioxide Natural Gas Electricity 130

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In a previous blog post , I briefly reviewed some of the innovative strategies to reduce methane emissions from agricultural livestock and rice operations, which have the potential to combat a significant source of global greenhouse gas emissions. This appears to be the only national level agricultural methane target currently in law.

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Physics World

JUNE 10, 2021

Global leaders must take “urgent” action to halve emissions of greenhouse gases and reverse the loss of nature by 2030. The long-term potential of humanity depends on our ability today to value our common future,” it notes. Ultimately, this means valuing the resilience of societies and the resilience of Earth’s biosphere.”.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2022

On October 4, Pittsburgh-based UPMC announced they intend to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50% within the next eight years across its footprint. UPMC will lead by example to develop approaches to health care that rapidly reduce our contributions to greenhouse gas emissions,” said Boninger. “We

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Generating and storing clean energy is a lifeline for the planet’s future; burning coal, oil, and gas fossil fuels causes 75% of greenhouse gas emissions. LFP batteries may overtake NMC in energy storage applications by 2030 because they are more affordable, can have longer lifespans, and are less dependent on critical metals.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

According to the UNs 2024 Emission Gap Report , 107 countries, covering approximately 82% of global greenhouse gas emissions, had adopted net-zero pledges as of June last year. Meanwhile, more than 9,000 companies have committed to actions to cut global emissions by 2030.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 11, 2025

In contrast, several States questioned the applicability of human rights law or contended that they do not have obligations under human rights law to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and ensure the protection of the climate system. degree Celsius threshold.

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Climate Change Paris Agreement 2024 Greenhouse 64

PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2022

With the release of its 2021 Progress Report , the Pittsburgh 2030 District , an initiative of the Green Building Alliance and the largest 2030 District in North America, announced it will move its primary focus from energy reduction to carbon reduction goals in response to urgent developments in climate science. million.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

The UN agency concluded global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are at the highest levels in human history and without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors limiting climate change to 1.5°C They pointed to the fact that since 2010 the cost of solar, wind and battery technology has decreased by up to 85%.

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Fossil Fuels Climate Change 2030 Renewable Energy 98

Physics World

MAY 30, 2021

We’ve all heard about the promise of quantum technologies to transform business and industry, whether it be for more secure communications networks or vastly more powerful computation. We have built more than 10 units and we really believe that quantum technology offers a very interesting competitive advantage for gravity measurements.”.

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