Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

As NASA explains , over most of the last 800,000 years, until humans started burning fossil fuels, atmospheric CO 2 concentrations basically never went below 180ppm and never went above 280ppm. In the last sixty years, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has grown 100 times faster than it did at the close of the last ice age.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

JULY 9, 2025

From that year forward, the agency predicted, the use of the dirtiest fuel to generate electricity would steadily decline, carrying with it planet-healing reductions in climate-changing air emissions and water-polluting discharges. electricity markets. At the time, the IEA forecast appeared sound. Coal production dropped. Much cleaner.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

JANUARY 16, 2025

The first of the three was the Bipartisan Infrastructure act, which included over $100 billion for mass transit and rail, along with $65 billion to expand the capacity of the nations electrical transmission system. billion to cut emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. It also provides $1.5 Justices last a few decades.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 3, 2025

It seems obvious that the services we depend on like electricity should be able to withstand extreme weather, since thats what we have more of now and will have more of in the future. government and science-based groups such as the Electric Power Research Institute ( EPRI ) and UCS. We are adapting to climate change.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

APRIL 30, 2025

China will set out new goals for emission cuts by 2035 covering the entire scope of the economy, including all greenhouse gases, not just CO2 ahead of the COP30 summit, Xi said this week. Ethiopias Transport and Logistics Ministries have announced that automobiles cannot enter Ethiopia, unless they are electric.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

APRIL 15, 2025

The news that started leaking last Friday is that the Trump administration wants to break up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and essentially end NOAAs climate work by abolishing its primary research office and forcing the agency to instead help boost U.S. Trump wants to Make Weather a Mystery Again.

Law

PA Environment Daily

JULY 10, 2025

Methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas -- 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in the first 20 years after it is released into the atmosphere. Reducing methane escaping from oil and gas infrastructure is also necessary for slowing climate change. A strong majority of Pennsylvanians support action on climate.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

Shapiro Touts Plan To Expand Energy Markets In PA While York County Seeks Balance -- The Center Square: Watch: Former DEP Leader Stumps For Shapiro Energy Plan -- TribLive Guest Essay: You Deserve Affordable Electricity [Not Gov. Shapiro Touts Capping Of 300th Conventional Oil & Gas Well At North Franklin Twp.,

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2025

Here’s what else is making news… Trump Rollbacks EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin last Wednesday proposed to repeal all “greenhouse gas” emissions standards for power plants under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act. company landed an all-electric aircraft carrying passengers at New York’s John F. A first: Earlier this month, a U.S.

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

AUGUST 5, 2025

Come to think of it, I saw another “first” on the streets of São Paulo: an electric police car. An electric cop car in São Paulo. If the plans are carried out, one of the missions would be permanently terminated, because the satellite would burn up in the atmosphere.” But there may be a silver lining of sorts.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) included a major—forthcoming—refresh for one of the biggest policy drivers of the nation’s clean energy transition to date: tax credits subsidizing the deployment of clean electricity resources. the GHGs emitted into the atmosphere by a facility in the production of electricity—is not greater than zero.

Electricity

Real Climate

APRIL 6, 2023

Nevertheless, the summary for policymakers states the need for “rapid and deep and, in most cases, immediate greenhouse gas emissions reductions in all sectors this decade” if we want global warming to keep below 1.5°C Humans work hard to add greenhouse gases such as CO 2 into the atmosphere.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

More efficient (and cleaner) gasoline cars are part of the reason why gasoline use is down, but the increasing number of electric vehicles being sold in the state will likely drive gasoline use down even further. But a growing share of the reductions is likely due to the increasing sales of electric vehicles (EVs).

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

Heightened flood risk The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said in a recent outlook that about 44 percent of the United States is at risk of floods this spring, equating to about 146 million people. Most US fossil fuel generating capacity from sources like methane gas and coal utilizes steam to generate electricity.

Fossil Fuels

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. They could have easily built huge factories to make lithium batteries to facilitate the transition to electric cars.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Electric power related emissions went down about 40% from 2009 to 2019. That adds up to something in the ballpark of fifty million tons of CO2 that California kept out of the atmosphere during that decade beyond what happened in the power sector nationally. Some of the U.S. The verdict on this issue seems very clear.

2009

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2021

The world is gathering soon in Glasgow to debate how to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions over the coming decades. First, after carbon dioxide emissions cease, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels begin to decrease, as they are absorbed by natural processes and sinks in the oceans and on land.

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

JULY 31, 2024

Nova Scotia still relies on dirty coal for half of its electricity. Hydrogen is being presented as a key climate change solution because when it is burned, it doesn’t create any greenhouse gas emissions. But that hides hydrogen’s dirty secret – when it leaks into the atmosphere it actually does contribute to global heating.

Government

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The World Meteorological Organization Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. 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.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A quick glance at the latest data from CARB shows there are three large and growing sources of credits: bio-based diesel, biomethane and electricity. Bio-based diesel, biomethane and electricity are the largest and fastest growing sources of LCFS credits in recent years. Unfortunately, this is far from the truth.

Fossil Fuels

Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

With the federal government and state of Maryland each having announced within days of each other, the mandated disclosure of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, we have received, maybe not surprising, many calls in the last two weeks inquiring “what are GHGs?” Simply put, gases that trap heat in the atmosphere (.

Greenhouse

Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 7, 2024

In the process of fracking, a lot of methane gas escapes into the atmosphere. The backgrounder points out that when the fugitive methane emissions are accounted for, burning gas to generate electricity is just as bad as coal or potentially even worse from a climate perspective. It’s much worse than most Ontarians typically think.”

Natural Gas

Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The promise from many nations is to reach net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 (or earlier) and interim targets are essential. But the United Nations has just said that the latest commitments of the 192 parties of the 2015 Paris agreement will equate to a 16% rise in global greenhouse-gas emissions in 2030 compared to 2010.

Paris Agreement

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.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

MAY 29, 2024

million tons of methane into our atmosphere each year. Methane, a potent greenhouse gas that is roughly 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide, fuels extreme weather across the country by trapping heat in the atmosphere. natural gas pipelines leak as much as 2.7 That’s roughly the same impact as 50 million passenger cars!

Air Pollution

Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

On a yearly basis, that’s more than the global emissions from the largest greenhouse gas-emitting sector, electricity and heat production. The growing field of marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR ) is exploring ways that we can augment the ocean’s ability to absorb and store the most prolific greenhouse gas warming our atmosphere.

Ocean

Physics World

OCTOBER 12, 2021

This refers to the balance between the amount of greenhouse gases produced and the amount removed from the atmosphere – with net zero meaning that there are no net greenhouse emissions from the entire energy system. Indeed, nuclear allows the opportunity to decarbonize all energy, not just electricity.

Nuclear Power

Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

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. That means carbon emissions from electricity in Ontario will be rising back up again after years of decline. Ontario Energy Output by Fuel Type: 2020 . Source: IESO [link].

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

To date, most stakeholder engagement has focused on the lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting framework required to accurately report the carbon intensity of electrolytically produced hydrogen, or hydrogen generated by using electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2023

Fossil gas, which is used for heating, electricity, and industrial processes, is responsible for one third of Ontario’s greenhouse gas emissions and is harmful to human health. The province’s gas ramp-up is projected to increase electricity-sector emissions by over 400 per cent by 2030 and by almost 800 per cent by 2040.

Electricity

Physics World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

terawatt hours of electricity annually, which is enough to power 300 000 UK homes for a year. It found that greenhouse-gas emissions emitted by the lab in 2018 was 223 800 tonnes of carbon-dioxide equivalent. The CERN particle-physics lab near Geneva, for example, uses 1.3 Eager to learn.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2022

million in Alternative Fuel Incentive Grants (AFIGs) to 18 cleaner fuel transportation projects statewide that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollutants. The program supports electric, ethanol, biodiesel, compressed natural gas (CNG), propane gas, and other cleaner fuel vehicles.

Nitrogen Oxides

Law Columbia

MARCH 8, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of the Interior (DOI), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—to implement the IRA. This section appropriates $27 billion to EPA for the GGRF, including $7 billion for low-income and disadvantaged communities.

Renewable Energy

Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Enbridge’s marketing materials claim heating with gas is cheapest, though electric heat pumps would save a typical homeowner over $10,000 by comparison. Enbridge’s dishonest marketing is duping people into signing up for its gas service, falsely claiming it’s cheaper than heating with electricity which is just not true.”

Cooling

Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

Together with colleagues, he has analysed Australian astronomers’ total greenhouse-gas emissions over 2018–2019 from “regular activities” such as travelling, using supercomputers and working at large observatories. Just ask Adam Stevens , an astrophysicist at the University of Western Australia. Source of the problem. Taken from Nat.

2019

Legal Planet

JANUARY 26, 2023

Unburned methane––a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide––may escape at all stages of the blue hydrogen life cycle, including upstream extraction and transportation, during stream reformation, and throughout the carbon capture process. The distinction here is important.

Carbon Dioxide

Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Burning waste—especially plastic waste—generates toxic and climate-warming gases that fill our air, our lungs and our atmosphere, warming the climate and making people sick. The world is trying to get away from burning fossil fuels for energy because it’s a major source of air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

Fossil Fuels