Law Columbia

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change underscores the need for carbon dioxide removal (CDR) to complement emissions reductions in meeting global climate targets. Ocean-based CDR strategies, which aim to increase the oceans natural carbon sink capacity, are gaining attention.

Ocean

Circle of Blue

JULY 9, 2025

The Paris Climate Agreement seemed well-positioned to join the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (halting atomic explosions above ground that contaminated the atmosphere) and the 1987 Montreal Protocol (ending use of chemicals that damaged the ozone layer) as one of the three most significant environmental treaties ever negotiated.

Clean Energy

Circle of Blue

APRIL 21, 2025

The agencies and institutions that sustained Americas program of environmental protection are being pulled into the government-wide purge of people and policies viewed as a threat to Trumps authoritarian impulses, and what his aides call the woke and weaponized bureaucracy. Humpback whales returned to the North Atlantic.

Earth Day

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 1, 2025

Since the start of the Trump administration, these Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy programs have come under repeated attack, including multiple attempts by the administration to freeze, and subsequently rescind or cancel, projects without any evidence that recipients have violated project terms.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 9, 2025

Shapiro recently highlighted his administration's accomplishments in his first two years in office, including on environmental protection, accountability, climate change, clean energy, public lands and recreation issues. Move At Speed Of Business -- Secured $16.9

Clean Energy

National Law Center

JULY 24, 2025

Additionally, much of the money appropriated for conservation programs under the IRA was specifically set aside to fund conservation practices that are aimed at improving soil carbon, reducing nitrogen losses, and sequestering carbon dioxide. A more detailed break down of conservation funding under the IRA is available here.

2013

PA Environment Daily

JULY 10, 2025

The Department of Environmental Protection is in the middle of holding eight hearings on a state plan to implement an EPA federal rule 40 CFR Part 60, Subparts OOOOb and OOOOc Reducing Emissions Of Methane and Other Pollution from conventional oil and gas and shale gas operations. Read more here.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Lee Zeldin was full of pablum in his January Senate confirmation hearing to run the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). There are surely many more attempts to come that will turn back the clock on environmental protection. Combined, these states add up to 40% of the automobile market in the United States.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The discussion around cumulative impacts is critical at this moment in time and history because it provides an overall framework for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to offer better public health protection. Besides the harm to communities from chemical exposures, manufacturing synthetic fertilizers is energy-intensive.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 11, 2025

Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a sweeping effort to do away with the endangerment finding , a proposal that not only disregards science but also has huge consequences for stemming the climate crisis. billion metric tons of carbon dioxide through 2047.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2025

Illustration with Canva AI While many of us prepared to celebrate Independence Day last week, a group of employees from the Environmental Protection Agency were bravely speaking out about what they see as their boss “recklessly undermining the EPA mission” of protecting human health and the environment.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

MAY 1, 2025

The second Trump Administrations first 100 days dealing with carbon management and negative emissions can be summed up in one word incoherence. However, other steps taken have meaningfully undermined federal government policy and expertise on carbon removal. For example, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act provided for $3.5

Carbon Dioxide

Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Indiana regulates the underground storage of carbon dioxide. In central Illinois , residents are reluctant to make way for an underground carbon dioxide pipeline. Residents of central Illinois are organizing against a proposed carbon dioxide pipeline, Energy News Network reports. CO2 STORAGE: Indiana Gov.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Lead author Adam Gold , a watershed researcher for the Environmental Defense Fund, said the wild uncertainty is because the court arbitrarily created a new standard for federal protection divorced from the science of how wetlands support larger streams, rivers, lakes and the ocean.

Carbon Dioxide

Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

Now the same district court has gone further, again in favor of environmental groups but now against Royal Dutch Shell (“Shell”) , the world’s largest non-state-owned fossil fuel company. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. In the US, for instance, Massachusetts v.

Carbon Dioxide

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.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

The Treasury Department, in collaboration with the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency, is responsible for protecting against such outcomes by developing guidance for tax credit implementation to ensure qualifying “clean” hydrogen is truly clean.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Sabin Center published a new report today recommending actions that federal agencies could take to ensure safe and responsible permitting and regulation of ocean carbon dioxide removal (CDR) research in U.S. A variety of ocean-based CDR approaches—i.e., Those activities could raise a host of legal issues. and the U.S.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Compared to carbon dioxide (CO2), methane doesn’t linger for long in the atmosphere after being emitted. Methane gas has devastating effects on the climate system and its extraction and combustion generate numerous harms to human health. But during the decade it does linger, its heat-trapping potential is 80x stronger than CO2.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 5, 2022

Steele, Executive Director Blue hydrogen is produced through an energy-intensive process that mixes methane gas with water to create carbon dioxide and hydrogen. The hydrogen becomes an available fuel while the carbon dioxide emissions are captured and stored underground. None of them is commercially viable.

Environmental Protection

Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Steep reductions in emissions of methane—which traps 81 times as much heat as carbon dioxide in the first 20 years in the atmosphere—are among the most important steps for slowing climate change in the short term. By Phil McKenna The U.S.

Regulations

Law and Environment

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

On September 21, 2023, the Biden administration outlined plans to expand federal agencies’ consideration of the social cost of carbon—a metric for the economic cost of each additional ton of carbon dioxide emitted to the atmosphere. The directive is, nonetheless, significant.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

One strategy is to counterbalance carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that contribute to climate change by drawing an equal amount of carbon out of the atmosphere, such as through planting trees. Reports from these studies and partnerships are found on the DCNR website.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We know that over 135 years, 88 fossil fuel producers contributed approximately: 61% of the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide 52% of the rise in global average temperature 34% of global sea level rise 55% of the increase in ocean acidification Fisheries, including lobsters, are responding to the warming by moving elsewhere.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2024

On April 9, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it has assessed significant civil penalties totaling $1,114,000 from Equitrans, L.P. The impact of methane is over 25 times greater than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency’s GreenChill Program recognized 12 food retail companies and one manufacturer of advanced refrigeration systems for their exceptional achievements to reduce the use of ozone-depleting substances and/or climate-damaging refrigerants. For more information, visit EPA's GreenChill Program webpage.

Ozone

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2021

Fred Krupp, President of the Environmental Defense Fund, issued this statement in response to the report-- “The latest report from top international scientists – which warns that we will likely exceed 1.5 This report also provides a road map for slowing the rate of warming and protecting our communities from even more instability.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Methane has 80 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide (CO2). A new rule by the government body, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), would allow the public to report large methane leaks to federal regulators if they have access to methane detection technology.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2022

Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming), Majority Chair of the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, is circulating a co-sponsor memo asking his colleagues to sponsor the Pennsylvania Geologic Storage of Carbon Dioxide Act. billion metric tons of carbon dioxide underground.

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

JUNE 4, 2024

The Earth’s surface is about 70 percent ocean; the ocean absorbs 95 percent of our excess heat and over 25 percent of our excess carbon dioxide, contributes half of Earth’s oxygen production, and provides other services that sustain life as we know it. 29, citing the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, article 31).

Climate Change

The Energy Law

JUNE 21, 2021

Class VI Injection Wells, which we have discussed previously , are used to inject carbon dioxide (“CO 2 “) into deep rock formations, also known as geologic sequestration. This technology is utilized in order to reduce CO 2 emissions to the atmosphere and mitigate climate change.

Carbon Dioxide

The Energy Law

JUNE 21, 2021

Class VI Injection Wells, which we have discussed previously , are used to inject carbon dioxide (“CO 2 “) into deep rock formations, also known as geologic sequestration. This technology is utilized in order to reduce CO 2 emissions to the atmosphere and mitigate climate change.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 2, 2024

On October 2, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it will begin accepting applications on October 9 for grants to plug orphan conventional oil and gas wells abandoned by their owners. Orphan wells can leak methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere and pollute groundwater.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2022

On January 21, the Department of Environmental Protection announced funding for more than $2.7 Vehicles alone release 21 percent of carbon dioxide emissions in the state, a known greenhouse gas and direct contributor to climate change. It also supports the installation of fueling stations for these vehicles.

Nitrogen Oxides

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

“By taking action to right its wrongs, CNX Resources has a chance to prove itself and change its ways moving forward in its collaboration with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. Medical studies show toxic emissions from these sites are particularly harmful for children, pregnant women, and their unborn children.

Natural Gas

Law Columbia

MAY 30, 2025

As global efforts to tackle climate change intensify, attention is turning to carbon dioxide removal (CDR)strategies that draw carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it for long periods. Sargassum absorbs carbon dioxide through photosynthesis and, under certain conditions, sinks naturally to the ocean floor.

Regulations

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. Because fossil fuels are used both to produce blue hydrogen and to operate its carbon capture technology, its carbon emissions are quite high.

Fossil Fuels