Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

In my retelling of the show, I quickly pointed out that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had by then concluded that “most” of the increase in average global temperatures since 1950 was “very likely” due to the increase in human-made carbon emissions. ExxonMobil is still funding those folks, big time.”

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

However, you might be surprised to discover that carbon dioxide makes up just 0.04% of the earth’s atmosphere. At higher concentrations, carbon dioxide can be deadly. Because carbon dioxide is denser than air, it sinks, displacing oxygen and causing humans and animals to asphyxiate.

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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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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2022

Burning fossil fuels, cutting down forests, raising livestock, making cement, and using synthetic fertilizers are among the actions that have increased the amount of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere to the point that the planet’s basic functions are coming undone. Some People Are More Vulnerable Than Others. There Is Still Time to Act.

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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.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 20, 2023

Part pep rally, part trade show, part performance review, the UN Water Conference is pitched by its co-hosts, the governments of the Netherlands and Tajikistan, as an opportunity for the world to recommit to ambitious goals of safely managed water and sanitation for all people and ecosystems.

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Legal Planet

MAY 25, 2023

A default would mean that the government wouldn’t have the funding to pay all its debts immediately. The grantees or government contractors would still get their money. government debt. And the government’s response to the recession could also matter. The “very little” answer refers to the direct effect.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Let’s look at three tools that are being sold as climate saviours, when their real objective is to prolong the life of the polluting fossil fuels which are driving climate change: carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS), hydrogen and offsets. They call this Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS).

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Circle of Blue

JULY 26, 2022

Under state law, the city can be held responsible if failures by government officials caused at least half of the damages. 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. In the News.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 4, 2023

The federal government recently released its proposed Sustainable Jobs Act , following up on its promise to pass just transition legislation. This means that the government has finally recognized its role in helping workers and communities impacted by the energy transition.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 10, 2022

Further delay means having to cut emission much more rapidly to make up for lost time. That could turn the goal of getting to net zero emissions by 2050 from merely very difficult to virtually impossible. Because cutting carbon emissions also reduces emissions of deadly particulates, delay could also cost thousands of lives.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 24, 2021

To maintain residential supplies, the government is drilling wells and installing desalination plants. Dams are promoted as a low-carbon source of electricity: one that traps more carbon than it releases into the atmosphere. The study found that dams actually release twice as much carbon as they store.

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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.

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Ivy Protocol

MAY 18, 2023

The year 2023 stands as a testament to this synergy, with a plethora of companies innovating in the carbon removal terrain with a shared goal of fighting climate change. Meeting the recent pathways laid out by the IPCC will require total cumulative net carbon dioxide removals of 20–660 GtCO2 by 2100. Mulligan, J., Ellison, G.,

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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. This will be the cleanest ethanol plant in the world with the lowest carbon footprint,” he said.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

As a climate scientist recently said on CNN, “Until we stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere we have no idea what the future looks like.” We should expect to hear more, as climate impacts are only going to get worse. Hutchinson was surprised to learn of Huckabee’s position and promised to get back to me.

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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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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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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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Acoel

MAY 11, 2022

Their water-logged condition slows decomposition of the dead plant material they contain, thereby sequestering the carbon that would otherwise be released to the atmosphere. That carbon is released when peatlands are drained and when permafrost peatlands thaw, such releases continuing as those peatlands dry out.

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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. That means carbon emissions from electricity in Ontario will be rising back up again after years of decline. Ontario Electricity Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions Historical and Forecast.

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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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Physics World

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Lo first became interested in this area while studying physics and astronomy at Durham University , UK, where her final-year project looked at how to calibrate telescopes to correct for atmospheric effects on the radiation they detect. To pursue this further, Lo did a PhD in atmosphere, oceans and climate at the University of Reading , UK.

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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. We look forward to working with governments around the world to raise the level of global ambition to meet the climate challenge,” read a White House statement.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 30, 2021

These rare storms are expected to become more frequent with climate change as a warmer atmosphere can hold (and during storms release!) For every one degree Celsius that the temperature increases, the atmosphere can hold 7% more water, a thermodynamic law of physics called atmospheric holding capacity. more moisture.

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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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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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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

“The use of SAF is expected to contribute around 65% of the reduction in emissions needed by aviation to reach net-zero in 2050,” says Albert Tjoeng, head of corporate communications for the IATA, which defines a SAF as a non-fossil fuel that has the potential to generate lower carbon emissions than conventional kerosene in its life cycle.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2022

The American Carbon Registry (ACR) released a new methodology , which is under peer review and will be finalized by the end of the year, that provides a regulatory framework for oil and gas companies to receive carbon credits, which can be sold in cap-and-trade markets, for the P&A of AOOG wells. Carbon Credit Values.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 3, 2022

The announcement by FIFA , the world’s governing football body, that the 2022 World Cup held in Qatar will be the greenest ever should be taken with a pinch of salt experts have said. The Al Thumama Stadium. By Anders Lorenzen.

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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 . However, carbon offsets don’t actually decrease emissions.

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Vermont Law

MAY 3, 2019

While demonstrators protested other policies, Macron’s carbon tax policies initially caused the yellow vest riots. [1]. These protests have forced the French government to deploy as many as 80,000 police officers at one time to quell the protests. [2]. This would, in effect, make carbon fuels even cheaper than before the carbon tax. [9].

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Our response to climate change is a balancing act: we work to reduce carbon emissions on the one hand and to enhance nature’s ability to absorb carbon on the other. African governments know it too, and they are working on reining in illegal logging. So what are we talking about?

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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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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The IFO’s impartial analysis has been regarded as among the most trustworthy perspectives in state government for more than a decade,” Sen. And zero carbon emissions will be removed from the atmosphere. Thousands of jobs will disappear. Click Here for the Senators’ letter to the IFO.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The federal government declared a first-ever Tier 1 shortage, which meant mandatory water cuts for Arizona and Nevada. government took a major step toward revitalizing the nation’s water systems when President Biden signed the $1.2 Water Sector Carbon Emissions, But Its Potential Remains Underdeveloped 0 Comments / August 3, 2021 U.S.

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 3, 2016

If there is one thing the fossil fuel industry, the government, and climate change activists might agree on it is this: in the end it all comes down to money. By Max Krieger. If there is one thing the fossil fuel industry, the government, and climate change activists might agree on it is this: in the end it all comes down to money.

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