Circle of Blue

APRIL 18, 2023

The law provides $140 billion in tax incentives, direct loans, and grants to replace fossil fuels with cleaner renewable energy that lowers emissions of carbon dioxide. Gevo asserts its “farm-to-flight” project will release 80 percent less carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than ethanol produced by a conventional plant.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

But those laws primarily focused on the industrial sector, leaving agriculture largely alone. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has been ringing the alarm bell about agricultural pollution for years. That was—and still is—a major oversight. Big Ag is a major polluter. EN: First, welcome to UCS.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

As those paying attention to agriculture know, climate impacts have become increasingly apparent since the last assessment was published in 2018. The NCA5 covers a lot of ground, but this summary focuses on aspects most relevant to agriculture.

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Brag

JANUARY 24, 2023

With atmospheric carbon dioxide levels on the rise, “innovative research that finds ways to transform CO 2 in the atmosphere into something positive is more important than ever.” BETO notes that the long-term challenge of the research will be scaling up scientific findings into commercial applications.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Guest Post by Sam Leuthold , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University Over the course of the last two decades, there has been a shift in the general popularity of agricultural soils. Why the investment? What’s the catch?

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Alongside a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels, substantial deployment of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) techniques might avert – or at least limit – overshoot of 1.5°C. At COP 28 this week the US and several partners launched a ‘Carbon Management Challenge’ with an aim to collectively store 1.2 But some optimism remains.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

Since that 2014 study, which laid the foundation of what is called climate source attribution science , UCS scientists have collaborated with Heede on two other studies that pinpointed the major carbon producers’ culpability for specific climate change-related trends. percent of total emissions. Licker et al.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2023

This research determines the relative contributions of different emission sources, including the oil and gas, agricultural, industrial, and transportation sectors, to the overall increase in heat-trapping gas concentrations in the atmosphere.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 9, 2023

Methane’s Warming Potential : Methane, a colorless, odorless, and highly flammable gas that occurs abundantly in nature and from a variety of anthropogenic activities, has a considerably higher global warming potential than carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide emissions, on the other hand, arise almost exclusively from burning fossil fuels.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 3, 2022

If people everywhere stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow, stored heat would still continue to warm the atmosphere. Historically, the first climate models represented only the atmosphere and were greatly simplified. Today’s models can more explicitly represent the behaviour of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 17, 2024

Crushed rock can remove about 3–4 metric tons of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) per hectare per year and improve crop yields, results of a pioneering study have shown. Read the full story from the University of Sheffield.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 28, 2022

The agriculture industry accounts for 10% of total U.S. Some farmers, like Bishop, are turning to an inexpensive solution to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere: cover crops. Read the full story from St. greenhouse gas emissions, a big driver of climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Last year I wrote how current efforts were insufficient and still ignored the largest anthropogenic methane source— agriculture — and unfortunately, this remains true today. Compared to carbon dioxide (CO2), methane doesn’t linger for long in the atmosphere after being emitted. degrees Celsius alive.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

It is the main component of “natural gas” and is produced predominantly by the agriculture, energy (oil & gas and coal), and waste sectors. Methane is responsible for 30 percent of current global warming and is 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 20 year period. C of warming by 2050.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 3, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), stripping federal protections from countless wetlands and leaving these critical ecosystems exposed to devastating pollution and other damage from agriculture and other industries. The Sackett decision was a tremendous loss for everyone who depends on clean water—that is, for all of us. 1251(a) ).

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 17, 2021

Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, responsible for fully 25 percent of warming. It is also known as natural gas – a product with economic value, estimated to be $30 billion — that we are squandering in massive quantities into the atmosphere. Some Methane Facts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act is directing $20B toward climate-resilient agriculture Reducing heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions through policies that drive renewable energy and clean transportation has well known benefits. It is agriculture’s responsibility to be part of that action.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

Atmosphere The gaseous envelope surrounding the Earth. The dry atmosphere consists almost entirely of nitrogen (78.1% volume mixing ratio), together with a number of trace gases, such as argon (0.93% volume mixing ratio), helium, radiatively active greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (0.035% volume mixing ratio), and ozone.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2022

Penn State's College of Agriculture will host another in its series of College Connections webinars April 20 on Follow The Carbon: Re-Envisioning The Bioeconomy from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. Every year forests and agricultural crops remove tens of millions of tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 6, 2021

Farmers have, for years, known about their theoretical ability to offset carbon emissions by managing their land in a way that captures carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and stores it in the soil — a set of practices sometimes referred to as regenerative agriculture.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Although methane doesn’t linger very long in the atmosphere, increasing methane levels are particularly bad news because it packs a big punch. It is 80 times stronger than carbon dioxide (CO2) at trapping heat on short timescales. But its short lifetime in the atmosphere is also a reason for hope.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering amendments to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation, but indicated they have no plans to address the problems caused by counter-productive subsidies for manure biomethane. Accounting gimmicks disguise a poorly run offset scheme as a magic carbon negative climate solution.

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HumanNature

MARCH 30, 2021

My love for food and agriculture is undoubtedly a result of my upbringing on a small ranch in northern California. I participated in both 4-H and the Future Farmers of America (FFA), which I credit with developing my drive, passion, and interest as a scientist in the food and agriculture sector. Credit: S.C. McClelland.

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Ivy Protocol

AUGUST 23, 2023

UNDO ’s focus on enhanced rock weathering developed from the realization that conventional strategies, like mass tree planting, could not alone counter the massive amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Even ubiquitous tree planting would leave us with an excess of carbon dioxide.’ It is also common.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 14, 2022

MSU researchers find an integrated approach to land management practices can reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere far more than earlier estimates. Read the full story from Michigan State University.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 4, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen The emissions from methane , a powerful greenhouse gas (GHG) with 80 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide (CO2) rose in 2023 despite several pledges and initiatives to reduce emissions. Methane is emitted in oil and gas production, agriculture and landfills. Graph credit: IEA.

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Real Climate

JULY 10, 2022

The fact that there is a natural greenhouse effect (that the atmosphere restricts the passage of infra-red (IR) radiation from the Earth’s surface to space) is easily deducible from; i) the mean temperature of the surface (around 15ºC) and, ii) knowing that the planet is normally close to radiative equilibrium. in IPCC TAR).

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 21, 2024

In this consideration of Danone’s motion to dismiss the complaint, some are troubled that the court began with this “factual background” saying that in its order, it is taken as true for the purposes of this motion, “Human activities have increased the concentration of carbon dioxide, or CO2, in the atmosphere, driving climate change.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 23, 2022

Starting with methane was likely more politically feasible than carbon dioxide for several reasons. For one thing, methane is emitted in smaller quantities than carbon dioxide, accounting for just 11 percent of total national greenhouse gas emissions (compared to 79 percent for carbon dioxide).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2023

Click Here to watch live. -- March 22: House Budget Hearing - Agriculture 1:00 p.m. Watch live. -- March 28: Senate Budget Hearing - Agriculture 1:00 p.m. The proposed Department of Agriculture budget includes $2.5 for DCNR and 2.11% for Agriculture. . -- March 22: Senate Budget Hearing - DEP 9:30 a.m. DEP 1:00 p.m.

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Washington Nature

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This is a direct result of excessive greenhouse gas emissions, including carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4), and the exploitation of natural resources for capitalistic gain. This can happen naturally, as growing trees and plants turn CO2 into biomass—this is the foundational premise of Natural Climate Solutions.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The world faces an increasing amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and a shortage of carbon in the soil. Read the full story from Texas A&M AgriLife Communications. However, bioenergy sorghum can provide meaningful relief from both problems, according to a new study. Read more →

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Ivy Protocol

MAY 18, 2023

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. Mulligan, J., Ellison, G.,

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

Another clue indicating a shortcoming is if you look at the atmospheric CO 2 -concentrations over time to see how much impact the IPCC reports have had on the real policy-makers in the world (Figure below). The cause of our changing climate is the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations that we have released into the air.

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Testimony before the House Agriculture Committee for a Hearing on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors” Written statement provided by Michael D. Technological change and agricultural modernization will significantly outweigh climate change in the U.S. land used for agriculture. [15]

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This shift is good news because tackling methane is crucial to the fight against climate change due to its significantly higher global warming potential than CO2, the disposal of relatively cheap methods of controlling emissions, and its short atmospheric lifespan. The agriculture and waste sectors share the remaining 60% of emissions.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Before I make such a controversial claim, let’s get some facts straight… There is far too much carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are already causing severe climate change, and the worst is yet to come.

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