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. Transportation generates 47 percent of nitrogen oxide emissions in Pennsylvania, contributing to the formation of ground-level ozone.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

SW: Fertilizer companies encourage the industrial agriculture sector to overapply its product, and when all of that synthetic nitrogen-based fertilizer is sprayed on soil, nitrous oxide is emitted into the atmosphere. But nitrous oxide is even more insidiously efficient at disrupting the climate.

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

This latest report looks at mitigation — or what the world can do to stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. or 2 degrees without a radical reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and electrifying many of the things that currently run on fossil fuels. Capturing carbon is a must. The IPCC said 1.5

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The SCC is a metric that seeks to capture all of the costs that emitting a ton of carbon dioxide (or equivalent amounts of other greenhouse gases such as methane) imposes on society by contributing to climate change over the hundreds of years it remains in the atmosphere. What Are the Key Variables Affecting the SCC Amount?

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