Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Burning waste pollutes the air and warms the climate. This subsidy—the largest granted to any company on the list at nearly $3 million—tips the scales in favour of expanded waste burning at a time when we need to focus on generating less waste and fewer emissions.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

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. Biomass and municipal waste. Then with municipal solid waste, you’re solving a waste problem and turning it into energy.”.

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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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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Methane is a really powerful greenhouse gas: it’s 86 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. When companies dig for and and transport fossil gas, methane leaks into the atmosphere (often referred to as fugitive methane). It’s also good for companies: leaked methane means wasted methane.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Some in the industry see the warming as an opportunity, as passages through the Arctic open for longer periods, even going so far as to claim there will be lower overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the shorter voyages. Anticipating the rate of sea level rise is particularly challenging due to uncertainties in the climate system.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It found that greenhouse-gas emissions emitted by the lab in 2018 was 223 800 tonnes of carbon-dioxide equivalent. In 2020, the lab released its first public Environment Report that detailed the status of CERN’s environmental footprint. Eager to learn.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Each credit one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent pollution below the standard. I’ve written recently about why a Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard , which addresses the bio-based diesel credits. Source California Air Resources Board.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The Governor approved a notable slate of climate legislation with a package that includes more stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets and measures designed to reduce the state’s reliance on fossil fuels. Climate Change Mitigation. Ecological Conservation.

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Acoel

JANUARY 16, 2024

While our industrial food system is producing food that appears inexpensive and abundant (indeed, food is comparatively so inexpensive to most Americans, that the country wastes over 35% of it), it’s also one of the largest sources of water, air, and climate pollution in the country. Nitrous oxide is even more damaging to our atmosphere.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 16, 2021

In theory this could seed clouds that reflect sunlight back into space – counteracting the greenhouse effect. Tales of toads and fish serve as an appetizer for the closing part of the book, when we finally get our teeth into engineering the atmosphere. The tomatoes were “perfect, in that greenhouse tomato-y way,” reports Kolbert.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

Climate change is often discussed in terms of global temperature increase, sea level rise, and hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,” said Secretary McDonnell. Video and photos of the event will be available later today at PAcast.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 18, 2024

118 & 542), and the often inadequate action taken to reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions on the other. Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) accounts for two-thirds of all GHGs emitted. By contrast, the ECtHR’s existing environmental case law refers to situations in which harm (toxic waste, pollution, etc.)

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 2, 2022

Climate change is a problem which has a known solution: We must dramatically reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and prepare now for intense climate impacts. It is up to all of us to hear this siren and demand a drastic reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Never miss an update. Sorry, but we failed to add you to the list.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 28, 2016

Food waste is a potent source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. By encouraging food donation and streamlining food-recovery policies the federal government can build a national framework to combat the massive accumulation of food waste and begin to change people’s food-waste habits. By Bonnie Smith.

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Law Columbia

MAY 24, 2024

The first, known as greenhouse gas (GHG) removal , seeks to mitigate climate change by pulling GHGs – most commonly carbon dioxide – out of the atmosphere and durably storing them. based company—Planktos— announced plans to undertake a project aimed at removing and storing carbon dioxide.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 31, 2015

He pleaded for swift global action through a critique of consumerism and wasteful development. Francis has outlined a three-pronged climate change fix: remove greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, restore ecosystems, and help the people who are most vulnerable to climate change with resources to adapt to our changing climate.

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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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

On the other hand, the chapter’s assessment of alternative plant proteins is more measured, noting their potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but also identifying the clear downsides in terms of increased needs for infrastructure and energy. The Southeast is one of the regions most affected by heatwaves.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

For example, the ongoing debate over the impact of certain pesticides in agriculture , greenhouse gas emissions are often a battle between the science and industry's attempts to muddy the science and government lobbying to roll back legislation (2). Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 10, 2021

This week’s IPCC report is another stark reminder of the need to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions to avoid climate disaster. To the extent those sectors continue emitting carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, those gases will need to be captured prior to release into the atmosphere. By Romany M.

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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. Now What?

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Methane is essential to control, since stabilizing climate requires reducing all anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions to net-zero. Atmospheric concentrations. That small concentration of methane in the atmosphere makes an outsized contribution to global heating. And more methane initiatives are surely on the way.

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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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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

Organisms in the soil drive the planet’s metabolism, breaking down waste, as well as helping to provide food, energy, clean air and water. In China, cadmium in soil mainly comes from atmospheric deposition of the metal after it has been emitted from coal-burning, metallurgical facilities and animal-source fertilisers.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Though it does likely include transportation expense, it does not include the carbon footprint or the waste cost related to the landfilling or alternative disposal of the garment. 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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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Oil and natural gas operations are the nation’s largest industrial source of methane, a climate “super pollutant” that is many times more potent than carbon dioxide and is responsible for approximately one third of the warming from greenhouse gases occurring today. Click Here for EPA announcement.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Regardless, only 30 percent of the nation’s biggest livestock farms, known as concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), have waste discharge permits. It is mainly methane, which is 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in trapping heat for the first 20 years after it is released.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Under the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), every country on Earth is treaty-bound to “avoid dangerous climate change”, and find ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions globally in an equitable way. above pre-industrial levels, and greenhouse gas emissions are still on an upward trend.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

Dr. Moerman said, “It’s time to defend our children’s health and future by reducing methane leaks, stop wasting taxpayer money by cleaning up the fossil fuels legacy, and supply real bonding and royalty reform.” billion in wasted energy. And this wasted methane does not disappear harmlessly into the wind. by 2050 or sooner.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 23, 2022

It is certainly true that the IRA uses “carrots” – principally in the form of tax credits – to incentivize actions that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. billion for “grants, rebates, contracts, loans” and “other activities” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and natural gas sector.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2023

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide for the first twenty years that it remains in the atmosphere. “For the future of Pennsylvania’s climate and the health of those living closest to oil and gas wells, the EPA must adopt the strongest rules possible as quickly as possible.”

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Law Columbia

APRIL 25, 2024

Image by Maxim Tolchinskiy (Unsplash) In November of 2022, when the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) proposed new rules to control venting, flaring, and leaks from oil and gas leases on federal land (the “Fossil Fuel Waste Rule”), they noted that these leasing rules would have an enormous ancillary climate benefit.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

innovation and manufacturing of critical new technologies, all while delivering significant economic benefits through increased recovery of wasted gas. That’s nearly the same as all greenhouse gases emitted from coal-fired electricity generation in the U.S. Sharp cuts in methane emissions are among the most critical actions the U.S.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court stated: “Plaintiffs’ claims for public nuisance, though pled as state-law claims, depend on a global complex of geophysical cause and effect involving all nations of the planet (and the oceans and atmosphere). It necessarily involves the relationships between the United States and all other nations. Public Citizen, Inc. Trump , No.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

s challenge to the constitutionality of the linkage between California’s greenhouse gas emissions cap-and-trade program and Quebec trading program. The court rejected other arguments related to noise impacts, waste storage and disposal, land alterations, wetlands, and procedure. United States v. California , No. 20-16789 (9th Cir.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal A governor-ordered inquiry into how well conventional oil and gas drillers in Pennsylvania are obeying environmental laws has found a “culture of noncompliance”, with drillers routinely abandoning wells without plugging them as required to prevent the release of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2021

By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal Pennsylvania is ideally suited to help the nation fight global warming by becoming a leader in the effort to capture and store emissions of carbon dioxide, state officials say. In the battle to slow global warming, carbon dioxide is the chief target. Studies by the U.S. from 1990–2019.

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