Legal Planet

JANUARY 13, 2022

Because of that emissions growth, we now have to make greater cuts, and we need to do them faster because of all the additional carbon that the US spewed into the atmosphere in the meantime. Bush’s presidency about 25% higher than they were when the Convention was signed under his father.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

But the effect of greenhouse gases is not even investigated in the paper – which suggests the title is politically motivated. Is it sheer incompetence or is it politically motivated? Figure 2: Carbon dioxide levels and global temperature over the past 2022 years. Ed Hawkins, National Centre for Atmospheric Science.

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Inside Climate News

JANUARY 16, 2023

By Bob Berwyn, Katie Surma Forests managed by Indigenous peoples and other local communities in the Amazon region draw vast amounts of planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere while the rest of the rainforest has become a net source of the greenhouse gas, a new report has found.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In the long run, warming will be determined by how much carbon we pump into the atmosphere before we stop. According to the IPCC, every trillion tons of carbon dioxide translates into another half degree of warming. In terms of emissions cuts, the basic rule is simple: Every ton counts.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 31, 2022

Minnesota moves to regulate pipelines transporting liquid carbon dioxide. Minnesota Moves to Regulate Liquid Carbon Dioxide Pipelines. Minnesota utility regulators decided that pipelines carrying pressurized carbon dioxide are considered hazardous, and therefore require state approval, according to MPR News.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Their study examined the carbon dioxide and methane emissions from these companies’ products, as well as from the extraction and production processes of the largest gas, oil and coal producers and cement manufacturers. Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

As climate change has become a more pervasive and urgent political issue, governments around the world have started to look to soil as a potential part of the solution. They present a serious sink for atmospheric carbon to be stored. It was a topic for farmers or agronomists, outside the sphere of influence for most people.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The United States currently emits at least three times more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than all 54 nations in Africa combined. For the record, of all the continents, Africa produces the least global warming gases—some four percent of the global total. In the 1980s, such disasters cost the nation an average of $21.4

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

(The “for one year” part is crucial: stratospheric aerosols stay in the atmosphere roughly a year, so one gram offsets the heating effect of one ton only for the first year after the ton is emitted. After that, the sulfur is gone but the CO 2 is still there and heating.)

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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.

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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

AUGUST 17, 2023

Over the year, those plants emitted 661 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, more than 13% of the US’s energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. Gas plants release heat trapping emissions that go into the atmosphere and contribute to the climate crisis, and this affects us all.

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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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Environment, Law, and History

JANUARY 12, 2022

In particular, he said, “reliance upon coal, on the other hand, could aggravate the ‘greenhouse effect,’ whereby excess carbon dioxide (which accompanies coal burning) traps heat inside the earth’s atmosphere, thus possibly melting the icecaps and raising the level of the oceans.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

That 2013 headline resulted from the first effort to quantify emissions from the ‘carbon majors’ —fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers whose businesses have contributed an outsized amount of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere.

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Vermont Law

JULY 31, 2023

The social cost of carbon is an economic tool used to determine how much the cost is, in dollars, of emitting another ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. As carbon dioxide builds up in the atmosphere, it also traps heat surrounding the planet. The damage this heat creates is SCC. If the U.S.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

But make no mistake, the larger issue is the regulation for the first time of GHGs (including carbon) which will literally change the structure of the global economy, our political order, market capitalism and even our biological selves.”. Simply put, gases that trap heat in the atmosphere (. emission trends.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2021

Management approved her shift in emphasis, hoping that she would prove that aerosols in the atmosphere (including those from auto exhaust) would completely offset the greenhouse gas effect. She met a visiting physicist from Princeton on her very first week on the job. He talked her into studying climate change. The scientist, James F.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

At least partly—if not largely—because the AGs and their political organization, the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), receive substantial financial support from fossil fuel companies, electric utilities, and their respective trade groups. Landry’s deep ties to the oil and gas industry predate his time as Louisiana’s AG.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A simple statement that masks just how complicated the issues are: mixing politics, economics, livelihoods, fisheries and endangered species in the ocean body that is the Gulf of Maine. The common enemy explained—and it’s NOT Offshore Wind The common enemy is the oil and gas industry because of their role in climate impacts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The WMO’s GHG bulletin’s headline takeaways are stark: Atmospheric concentrations of three major heat-trapping gases, carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), methane (CH 4 ) and nitrous oxide (N 2 O) hit all-time highs in 2021 (see table below). Source: UNEP 2022 Emissions Gap Report.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 13, 2023

A more recent study found that the intense multi-day rainfall was associated with two atmospheric rivers drawing moisture from the Arabian Sea. percent of cumulative global carbon dioxide emissions and yet is bearing this terrible toll from climate change caused primarily by emissions from richer nations and fossil fuel companies.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 18, 2024

Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) accounts for two-thirds of all GHGs emitted. Each tonne of CO 2 emitted into the atmosphere anywhere on Earth at any given time thus had, has and will have an almost identical effect on the average global temperature. Due to the high heat capacity of the Earth system, an average of 10.2

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

In the 1960s, scientists were warning that the burning of fossil fuels was releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which could have catastrophic consequences for the planet. But climate litigation is an important step in holding the fossil fuel industry accountable for its role in the crisis and determining who should pay.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

There are even indications that near-term cuts might be easier to achieve for methane than for CO 2 , for a mix of technical, economic, and political reasons. Atmospheric concentrations. That small concentration of methane in the atmosphere makes an outsized contribution to global heating. Climate impact.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 3, 2024

Wetlands even help fight climate change by acting as “ carbon sinks ,” absorbing climate-altering carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 30, 2021

As political parties prepare their election platforms and publish their climate priorities, it can be difficult to determine which parties are releasing strong climate plans that put us on a pathway to zero emissions – and what policies are actually dangerous distractions from real solutions.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

While “natural” gas is mostly composed of methane, a greenhouse gas that’s 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide during its first 20 years in the atmosphere, Ebel and his industry counterparts have succeeded in minimizing the perception of its climate impact.

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 13, 2022

The major questions doctrine works to ensure that agencies do not impose new obligations of vast economic and political significance upon parties and States absent some express delegation of such authority by Congress.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

My research evolved over time, but initially focused on trying to understand how ice sheet collapse—specifically Antarctic ice sheet collapse—could impact climate change around the world through changes in the oceans, sea ice and atmosphere. To explore climate justice, I drew on the three-fold framework of justice theory.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Carbon dioxide output plunged during the COVID-19 lockdowns last year, but that was temporary and they have surged again since as economies have recovered. Temperatures around the world are already at about 1.1 – 1.2C above pre-industrial levels, and greenhouse gas emissions are still on an upward trend. What about net-zero?

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

What we heard in plaintiffs’ case was not justiciable controversy, but rather a weeklong hearing of political grievances that properly belongs to the legislature, not a court of law,” said Assistant Attorney General Michael Russell. The admission says a lot about political will. I’m kidding, but only slightly.)

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

It also churns out around 1 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide—equal to Germany’s emissions—and other toxic pollutants into the atmosphere every year. If nothing is done to clean up shipping, its carbon emissions are projected to jump by almost 130% by 2050.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The emissions don’t lie: Shell’s flagship LNG project will add 14 million tonnes of greenhouse gas pollution to the atmosphere every year, which is the equivalent of adding over 3 million gas-powered cars. million gas cars. 654 million of the $1 billion costs of Shell’s Quest facility stemmed from Canadian government subsidies.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Replacing these massive carbon sink forests with machinery which continuously pumps vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the Earth’s atmosphere is increasing the rate of global warming. It is also important to realise that politics and governments have a lot of control on the land they govern.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 4, 2022

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

To meet these goals, the state is facilitating burgeoning carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) (CCS) technologies that capture carbon from point sources to store, as well as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which removes carbon from the atmosphere. Ecological Conservation.

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