Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

It finds more evidence that severe weather events are linked to carbon in the atmosphere and that those weather events are becoming more extreme. The report stated unequivocally, for the first time, that climate change is occurring due to “human influence,” namely the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen On the eve of the COP28 UN climate summit, The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a United Nations (UN) body, has warned that the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases (GHG) is forecast to continue the trend that resulted in record-high CO2 measurements last year. Photo credit: iStock.

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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. Fuel transport – Spring floods can hinder the transportation of fuels like coal.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

A friend asked me if a discussion paper published on Statistics Norway’s website, ‘ To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions? ’, was purposely timed for the next climate summit ( COP28 ). I don’t know the answer to his question. But this discussion paper is problematic for sure.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 31, 2022

by Klaus Lackner, Arizona State University Two centuries of burning fossil fuels has put more carbon dioxide, a powerful greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere than nature can remove. There is so much CO2 in the atmosphere now that most scenarios… Read more →

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

, its district, appellate , and supreme courts decided in favor of Urgenda, an upstart environmental organization, ordering the government to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Everyone produces greenhouse gases.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Scientists have unequivocally confirmed that human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, are driving unprecedented changes to the Earth’s climate, raising fundamental questions about our responsibility to safeguard the environment for future generations.

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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. In the early 1960s, he wrote again about fossil fuels as causes of global warming. He talked her into studying climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Under the LCFS each fuel pathway gets a unique carbon intensity (CI) based on a lifecycle analysis of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production and use of the fuel. This approach holds fuel producers accountable for reducing fossil fuel use and other global warming pollution in their supply chains.

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 23, 2025

The increased CO 2 , which creates warmer temperatures in the atmosphere, is absorbed by the ocean. Currently, plastics drive at least 3-4% of global greenhouse gas emissions and are the fastest-growing demand for fossil fuels. Warmer ocean waters impact marine ecosystems, including coral reefs and fisheries.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

The bench trial took place last month in the state capitol, Helena, where 16 youth plaintiffs ages 5 to 22 made the case that Montana’s unwavering promotion of fossil fuels violates the state constitution’s guarantee to a “clean and healthful environment.” Whether Montana’s GHG emissions can be measured incrementally.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

There is still much we can do to bend that emissions curve sharply within this decade—but only if world leaders, especially leaders of richer countries and major emitting nations, take responsibility to act together quickly and fossil fuel companies are held accountable for their decades of obstruction and deception.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 10, 2021

As in previous reports, this one also uses “Representative Concentration Pathways” (RCPs) that show how the world will respond to different trajectories for emissions of greenhouse gases. SSP5, a world of fossil-fuel based economic growth, in which global population peaks and then declines later in this century. C of warming.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

In the absence of a global political consensus on phasing out coal and other industrial activities with high greenhouse gas emissions, the private sector has an increasingly important role in climate change mitigation. Removing carbon from the atmosphere will take a global effort towards significant innovation and rapid implementation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

This includes loopholes related to biomethane, whereby heavily polluting fossil fuel-fired hydrogen production facilities—the very facilities the tax credit is trying to incentivize a shift away from—can cloak themselves as “clean” and reap full tax credit rewards, without having done anything but pushed around paper.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

We need big investments in the energy transition from polluting fossil fuels to clean renewable energy. Did you know that economists have a tool for calculating the cost to society of continued reliance on fossil fuels? But the cost of not taking those actions is far greater.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

Most prominently, because the approach is changing from rewarding specific technologies to rewarding anything that meets the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions threshold of “clean”—hence the “tech-neutral” label—exactly how the government goes about determining whether or not something is actually eligible will be enormously important.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

And it’s been one month since the Montana First District Court determined that the state of Montana had indeed violated Montana youth’s right to a “clean and healthful environment” by collaborating with the fossil fuel industry. But the historic decision is still reverberating around the country, and I am still reflecting on it.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 3, 2022

If people everywhere stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow, stored heat would still continue to warm the atmosphere. Historically, the first climate models represented only the atmosphere and were greatly simplified. Today’s models can more explicitly represent the behaviour of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Switching from fossil fuels like gasoline to increasingly clean electricity sources is vital for hitting climate and air pollution goals. However the long term drop in per person gasoline use is likely due to fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards that have made gasoline vehicles more efficient over the prior decades.

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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. Bad news The EPA has told staff to stop enforcing violations against fossil fuel companies, CNN reports citing multiple sources.

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Inside Climate News

AUGUST 24, 2022

Together, these samples could help answer one of the most important questions facing the planet: why is there so much methane in the atmosphere? Inside each is a sample of air, taken from one of a chain of 50 monitoring stations that spans the globe.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 2, 2025

link] Abstract Nearly all scientists not associated with the fossil fuel industry agree that the greenhouse gas anomaly in the Earths atmosphere was caused by the human burning of fossil fuels, trapping heat, warming the … Continue reading The Politics of Climate Denial Soeder, Energy Futures (pp.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Last week world leaders gathered in New York for the UN Climate Ambition Summit where countries shared concrete action they’ve taken to phase out fossil fuels. There, the conversation was grounded in science, with leaders such as California’s Governor Newsom saying “The climate crisis is a fossil fuel crisis.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 14, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen In recent years, a series of large and small fossil fuel companies have publicly signalled net-zero commitments while continuing business-as-usual investments in fossil fuels. Around 75 out of 112 of the largest fossil fuel companies have committed themselves to reach net-zero.

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Legal Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Methane has a comparatively short life in the atmosphere (about 12 years, as opposed to 100 years or more for CO2) and high potency (84 times stronger than CO2, averaged over 20 years). There are many possible emergency actions. Thus, reducing methane emissions today can quickly and dramatically impact the trajectory of the climate crisis.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 18, 2025

The burning of fossil fuels and other human activities are continuing to cause rapid temperature rise. Achieving global climate goals will require rapid and dramatic greenhouse gas emissions reductions, along with the removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Any day now, Minister Freeland is expected to introduce a giant new fossil fuel subsidy called the carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) investment tax credit. The government is breaking their own rules The government introduced new rules to end fossil fuel subsidies this summer. Let me tell you why.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

To give the Commission credit where due — and it is due in many places — on one point closely related to these projections, they were uncommonly and admirably frank: Noting the risks and the stark tradeoffs posed by aerosol pollution in the lower atmosphere. Current and coming advances in carbon-free technology will help, of course.

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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 (.

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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.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 5, 2022

Human activity adds more than 50 gigatons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere each year. What if scientists could turn back the clock on greenhouse-gas emissions – just a little? What if scientists could turn back the clock on greenhouse-gas emissions – just a little? Large-scale solutions are urgently needed. By Dr Kate Moran.

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Law Columbia

MAY 9, 2023

On Tuesday, May 9, the Sabin Center and the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment launched Transferred Emissions are Still Emissions: Why Fossil Fuel Asset Sales Need Enhanced Transparency and Carbon Accounting. Fossil fuel asset sales do not just shift greenhouse gas emissions, but may increase them.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 26, 2022

LNG emits about as much greenhouse gas (GHG) as coal. Methane from the production of fossil gas may make LNG about as bad a greenhouse gas emitter as coal. But a key study industry cites only looked at emissions from burning the two fuels, not at the whole process, including the extraction, refining, and shipping.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The UN body the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) explained that the economic downturn brought on by nationwide lockdowns only caused a temporary downturn in emissions and was not enough to reverse the rising levels of greenhouse gasses (GHG) in the atmosphere. Not going in the right direction.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 26, 2024

Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through burning fossil fuels and traps heat in the atmosphere. A panel representing the ARCH2 Hydrogen Hub project in the tri-state area will give a presentation of its associated CCS plans.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 26, 2023

The fossil fuel industry has been a major player in generating interest in hydrogen, particularly for technology that produces hydrogen from fossil fuels. Electrolysis is currently the only means of creating hydrogen without emitting greenhouse gases, but it’s inefficient. The distinction here is important.

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