A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In 2021, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) set a target for the aviation industry to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. of the world’s total carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion, many airlines are considering carbon-capture-and-storage technologies and electric-powered planes.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2022

These AOOG wells often emit methane, a greenhouse gas that is considered 25 to 84 times more potent, per ton, than carbon dioxide. The EPA conservatively estimates that annual methane emissions from known AOOG wells are equivalent to greenhouse gas emissions from 2.1 Carbon Credit Values.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 30, 2021

Even if it were possible, simply eliminating carbon emissions from fossil fuel production would not address the myriad impacts of fossil fuel production faced primarily by Indigenous and front-line communities. Carbon capture and release: a license to pollute . Carbon capture and release: a license to pollute .

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2023

As of June 20, 2023, the amount of CO2 [carbon dioxide] in the atmosphere has now risen to 421 parts per million, way past the level of 350 ppm considered safe. Busy with our own lives, we’ve simply given agency over to others, counting on the federal government, for example, to save the planet. And it’s still rising.

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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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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 2, 2022

We can protect coastal habitats, like mangroves and sea grasses, which can serve as critical tools to guard communities from intensifying storms while also safely storing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. When thinking about what you can do, it might be helpful to ask three questions: 1) What should the government be doing?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2023

They can also look at known carbon emission sources and model the world with and without those added emissions. As extreme weather events have become more frequent and severe, climate event attribution science underscores the need to dramatically reduce carbon emissions and help communities adapt to the climate change impacts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

percent of total emissions. 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. Licker et al. CP: Great question.

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Science Blogs

AUGUST 29, 2017

The release of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels is, conceiveably, the most important environmental issue in the world today. — "Costs and benefits of carbon dioxide," Nature , May 3, 1979. The limits of adaptation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

A CNN poll in December found that 73 percent of respondents in the United States say the federal government has some level of responsibility to curb climate change. In a Pew poll last summer, two-thirds of respondents said the federal government is not doing enough to protect air and water quality. The current court is silent on that.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

California, Arizona, Nevada and the federal government reach agreement to reduce water consumption in the Colorado River basin. Previous versions of the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act funded conservation through royalties paid to the federal government for mineral extraction. Executive Branch. International. Executive Branch.

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Physics World

APRIL 22, 2021

Preliminary estimates from satellite data indicate that global atmospheric carbon dioxide level increased by 0.6%, a slightly lower rate of increase than in recent years. Shortly ahead of the summit, the UK government announced that it would set in law a target to cut carbon emissions by 78% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels.

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

But since it became clear that human actions are damaging the environment and changing the climate, it has become much more prominent nationally and internationally with most government departments in most countries having responsibilities to mitigate or prepare for climate change scenario. Even how they use equipment differs.

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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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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

GDP is tracked and targeted by government and central bank policy makers with the intent to increase its value over consecutive periods. As simple as it may sound, consumers could have promoted the welfare of the atmosphere through their collective demand that air quality be preserved.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Outside of bird protection acts of the early 20 th century, protections for water, air and the atmosphere are a late 20 th -century development, created in the wake of Rachel Carson’s 1962 treatise on pesticides, Silent Spring. At issue in this case is whether and how the EPA can set standards for carbon emissions at power plants.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

As the fourth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the United States, Pennsylvania has a responsibility to lead when it comes to implementing climate solutions and reducing carbon emissions. Mann is distinguished professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State. Love trout fishing?

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ESA

AUGUST 29, 2022

Over the long term, OSTP will continue to coordinate with federal agencies to ensure that government public access policies adapt to new technologies and emerging needs.”. Joe Manchin (D-WV), the bill will reduce carbon emissions by 40% from 2005 levels by 2030. More information: OSTP Free Access Memo : [link].

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit’s January opinion vacating EPA’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants’ environmental assessment understated traffic levels as well as carbon emissions. BP p.l.c. ,

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

The federal district court for the Northern District of Texas dismissed for lack of standing a lawsuit against the EPA in which an individual pro se plaintiff asserted that EPA restrictions since 1990 on aerosols in the atmosphere had caused global warming. All of the briefs are available on the case page.

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

32] Part of the reason the planet is greening stems from greater carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and greater planetary warming. [33] 33] Scientists find that plants grow faster as a result of higher carbon dioxide concentrations. 63] This difference in emissions comes down to diet and lifespan.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The court said its August 2017 decision rejecting challenges under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Natural Gas Act to DOE’s authorization of LNG exports at another Texas facility largely governed the resolution of the instant cases. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , No. 1:17 -cv-02031 (D.D.C.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

By railing against what he calls a “radical climate change movement” and suing the federal government to protect corporate polluters. EPA decision , upheld the EPA’s authority to regulate such emissions under the Clean Air Act but significantly constrained its ability to do so. How has Paxton responded?

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The SCC is a metric that seeks to capture all of the costs that emitting a ton of carbon dioxide (or equivalent amounts of other greenhouse gases such as methane) imposes on society by contributing to climate change over the hundreds of years it remains in the atmosphere. What Are the Key Variables Affecting the SCC Amount?

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ESA

OCTOBER 25, 2021

White House Office of Science and Technology seeks input about how the federal government can advance equity in science and technology. Carbon emissions ‘will drop just 40% by 2050 with countries’ current pledges’ – The Guardian. Putin Says Russia Will Target Carbon Neutrality by 2060 – Bloomberg Green. ESA and COP26.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

Climate: The Environmental Protection Agency does not list a timetable to act on a new carbon dioxide rule for existing power plants. 20 executive order that called for a review of energy and environment-related rules across the federal government. Several factors lend the rulemaking to a longer timeframe, including the D.C.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Trump, the fact that each month is warmer than the same month the previous year has nothing to do with the adverse consequences associated with spewing obscene amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. into the atmosphere each year, with no end in sight. in domestic or international efforts to reduce carbon emissions.

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ESA

JULY 1, 2022

At stake was the ability to reduce carbon emissions as written in the ‘Clean Power Plan’ regulation under the auspices of the Clean Air Act that gives the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) power to regulate “the best system of reducing emissions.” The full House is expected to consider appropriations bills in July.

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ESA

AUGUST 16, 2021

However, the world could avoid the more extreme scenarios in the report if governments sharply reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. The federal government currently owns more than 600,000 vehicles, not counting tens of thousands of Postal Service vehicles. Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.

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