Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

The majority 6–3 decision sharply curtails the EPA’s authority to set standards based on a broad range of flexible options to cut carbon emissions from the power sector—options such as replacing polluting fossil fuels with cheap and widely available wind and solar power coupled with battery storage. carbon emissions today.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2022

In the case of carbon removal associated with industrial systems, the process prevents increased emissions of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Carbon removal will be central to decarbonization efforts in the next several decades.

Carbon Dioxide

Earthava

JULY 27, 2021

Electric cars are slowly dominating roads across the globe. In fact, the International Energy Agency reported that around 3 million new electric cars were registered in 2020, which is a 41% increase from 2019. However, electric cars will be a huge game-changer as they will reduce carbon emissions on roads significantly.

Electricity

Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Why it matters: The recent Inflation Reduction Act expands the tax credit for capturing carbon dioxide that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere. The measure is likely to spur the development of more carbon dioxide pipelines, and with it, a new chapter of faceoffs between landowners and developers. billion annually.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act’s new hydrogen production tax credit , known as code 45V, is intended to incentivize a shift to low-carbon hydrogen production by offering producers a credit that increases in value as the carbon emissions associated with produced hydrogen declines.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

JULY 26, 2022

An independent analysis found that while electrical problems at wastewater pumping systems exacerbated the sewer backups, most of the devastation was due to heavy rainfall, not government failure. Extreme rain events are becoming heavier and more frequent across the Midwest as Earth’s atmosphere warms. In the News. Other News.

2022

Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

The decision to ditch coal was the biggest single action of its time to cut carbon emissions in North America. But what you probably haven’t heard is that our grid is getting dirtier again, with fossil fuels increasing in our electricity supply from burning natural gas. Ontario Energy Output by Fuel Type: 2020 .

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

reduction in carbon emissions in 2023, or 507,000 metric tons of CO2e emissions avoided. This achievement moves the District closer to its target goal of 50-65% reduction in carbon emissions by the 2030 deadline, with the District continuing to pursue zero carbon emissions by 2040.

2030

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 10, 2023

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Fossil Fuels

Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

As the world grapples with the consequences of climate change, many scientists have begun to face up to the realities of their carbon emissions. In particular, the Dutch national supercomputing facility SURF does not produce any carbon emissions because it uses 100% renewable power produced by wind or solar in the Netherlands.

2019

Edouard Stenger

OCTOBER 11, 2021

7 to 13 percent might not look like much, but within a region, a country, a continent, this adds up to dozens of coal-fired and gas-fired plants adding carbon dioxide to our atmosphere for no reason. We are talking about gigawatt-hours if not terawatt-hours of electricity and heat being generated for empty rooms, offices and homes.

Renewable Energy

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. In April, Air Canada committed to investing $50 million in SAFs and other carbon-reducing technologies. With the sector contributing 2.8%

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

It was also mentioned recently by Senator Casey, who proposed that natural gas — fitted with CCS technologies — be used, along with renewables, to increase clean electricity. CCS would seem to be an easy fix for our carbon woes. The best solution, these studies conclude, is to use renewables like wind or solar to produce electricity.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 22, 2024

CCUS will allow vital Pennsylvania industries to remove carbon dioxide from the impact on the planet and either recycle the carbon or store it underground to reduce its impact on the atmosphere. This legislation is a proactive step to secure Pennsylvania’s future as a hub for carbon capture and sequestration,” said Sen.

Law

Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

This is a game-changing move as peaker plants and even baseload ones will become more and more irrelevant, decreasing carbon emissions. Electric vehicles (EVs) are booming but won’t be enough to solve the many problems our cities and communities are plagued with. Let us hope this upward trend continues. Transportation.

Carbon Dioxide

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.

Carbon Dioxide

A Greener Life

JANUARY 13, 2023

Britain is working towards the long-term goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. This small handful of countries is part of an elite club, the Alliance of Carbon-Negative Countries. If we were to imagine a set of scales, on side A we have all the carbon emitted by energy, industry, transport, etc.

Paris Agreement

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

For the first time in decades, the number of people without access to electricity increased in 2022. The task force’s report is clear – making clean, affordable, reliable Appalachian natural gas available on a global scale will increase energy security, decrease global emissions and promote family-sustaining jobs across the Commonwealth. "As

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2022

Steel’s enormous Clairton Coke Works pumps more noxious particles into the atmosphere than Cheswick. One analysis estimated the public health and environmental costs of these emissions added up to $100 million to $300 million annually. Compare that to the $9 million in payroll the plant contributed to the community. EIA Expects U.S.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

JULY 8, 2022

On July 8, Commonwealth Court granted a preliminary injunction to opponents of Pennsylvania’s RGGI Carbon Pollution Reduction Program covering power plants pausing the program. which shall be applicable to all air contamination sources,” including the establishment of “maximum allowable emission rates of air contaminants from such sources.”

Carbon Emissions

Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

Satellites, for example, are used in meteorology to track weather systems and to monitor atmospheric fronts to predict what the weather will do next. Known as ENSO, they are opposite effects of the same process and are defined as an oscillation (a variation in magnitude) between the temperature of the atmosphere and the ocean.

Atmosphere

Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Acidification : Reducing the pH rating of a substance making it more acidic in nature, for example, increased carbon emissions lead to the oceans absorbing more of it, increasing acidification and damaging ecology such as coral bleaching. Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity.

Government

Circle of Blue

APRIL 18, 2023

million square-foot refinery to turn corn into low-carbon jet fuel. Gevo asserts its “farm-to-flight” project will release 80 percent less carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than ethanol produced by a conventional plant. The plant will capture and sequester carbon emissions and be powered with renewable energy.

Carbon Dioxide

Circle of Blue

MAY 31, 2022

Utilities warn of blackouts and rising electricity rates across the Great Lakes region this summer. Carbon dioxide creates a corrosive acid if it comes into contact with water and if released into the atmosphere, it is a planet-warming greenhouse gas. The storm took 10 lives and plunged thousands into electrical blackouts.

Electricity

Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

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. Given its tiny size – it is very hard to keep hydrogen from leaking into the atmosphere.

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

The Second Circuit rejected the claim that the renewable energy solicitations exceeded the limited authority granted to states with respect to wholesale sales of electricity under the Federal Power Act and the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act. The magistrate judge’s order also set the trial to begin on February 5, 2018.

2017

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2021

Concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere have risen approximately 47 percent since 1750, mostly from the burning of fossil fuels for energy. Strategies for capturing carbon from fossil fuel power plants, to prevent it from entering the atmosphere, have long lingered on the sidelines. from 1990–2019.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 18, 2024

While these sources could potentially play a role in decarbonizing certain sectors, such as heavy industry, researchers and analysts have repeatedly found highly efficient electric heat pumps—which are already thriving in Maine—to be a cleaner , healthier, more cost-effective solution for decarbonizing space and water heating in buildings.

Fossil Fuels

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 . Hydrogen: Natural Gas Industry’s Hail Mary Pass.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 12, 2023

. -- Ecotone Renewables’ Anaerobic Digestion Technology: Ecotone Renewables’ Anaerobic Digestion Technology looks to divert carbon emissions by converting local food waste into nutrient-dense, ready-to-use fertilizer. of Pitt’s greenhouse gas emissions inventory.

Cooling

Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

I further argue that, if we continue to develop in these ways, deaths from natural disasters will continue to decline, food surpluses will continue to rise, and global carbon emissions will likely peak and decline soon, preventing temperatures from rising more than three degrees centigrade over pre-industrial levels.

Fossil Fuels

Edouard Stenger

OCTOBER 29, 2018

To limit climate change to runaway levels, the report mentions a deadline and a target: in the next 12 years we need to essentially halve global emissions. If renewables are booming and energy efficiency is gaining some traction, greenhouse gases emissions are still growing and the atmospheric concentration of carbon is still rising.

Deforestation

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

This de facto carbon tax will translate into electricity bills spiking by double digits, ballooning fuel costs and price increases on just about everything we use daily,” Sen. And zero carbon emissions will be removed from the atmosphere. Thousands of jobs will disappear.

Regulations

Circle of Blue

MAY 24, 2021

Reuters reports that because of low water levels, hydropower stations are generating less electricity. The island suffered two power outages last week, caused in part by reduced output from hydropower dams, a malfunction at a fossil fuel plant, and high electricity demand from Taiwan’s manufacturing sector.

2021

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Republicans said the final regulations will increase the cost of electricity for individuals and businesses, have a negative impact on jobs and will not significantly reduce carbon pollution. And in those states RGGI energy efficiency investments of $2.8 billion have produced nearly $13.5 for every dollar invested.

Natural Gas

Acoel

APRIL 8, 2022

The bipartisan infrastructure law funds clean energy demonstration projects to improve energy storage, advanced nuclear technology, carbon capture from fuel burning as well as direct carbon capture from the atmosphere.

Climate Change

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.

Climate Change