National Law Center

JULY 24, 2025

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Endangered Species Act

Legal Planet

APRIL 23, 2025

One such survey involved 130,000 people in 125 countries, which account for 96% of the worlds carbon emissions, and was published in the journal Nature Climate Change. The project is a global initiative of Covering Climate Now intended to spur collaboration globally. The arguments in Diamond Alternative Energy v.

Earth Day

Environmental News Bits

JULY 28, 2025

A new book traces the environmental collapse of a crucial ecosystem and how its return could fight climate change. Posted in Books , Natural resources Post navigation Previous Previous post: Could this city be the model for how to tackle the housing crisis and climate change? Trump’s first 100 days Trump 2.0

Recycling

Law Columbia

JANUARY 21, 2025

The general thrust of these is to encourage the rapid development of fossil fuel resources and all associated infrastructure, and remove any regulatory obstacles; to reverse federal actions on climate change, energy efficiency, and environmental justice; and to prevent wind farms from being built on federal lands and waters.

Endangered Species Act

National Law Center

AUGUST 5, 2025

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National Law Center

AUGUST 1, 2025

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 4, 2025

Finally, OBBB abandons targeted support for practices that help farmers deal with the impacts of climate change and increasingly severe weather. These practices generate multiple benefits, ensuring an excellent return on investment, and therefore should be prioritized.

Conservation

National Law Center

JULY 31, 2025

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Legal Planet

APRIL 3, 2023

Vehicle biofuels requirements. Climate change under other federal statutes. Climate change as substantial impact requiring discussion in environmental impact statement. Climate change as reason for threatened or endangered status under Endangered Species Act. State climate and energy policy A.

Law

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2023

When asked about climate change in a townhall, he responded, “Why don’t we agree we should leave this place in as good a condition as we found it,” Emmer said. Given that he represents Midwest farmers among others, Emmer is a big support of biofuels like corn ethanol.

Biofuels

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Growing trees to store carbon or harvesting plants to convert into biofuel is a commitment of land, water, and fertilizer, which can pollute rivers and aquifers. Biofuel crops, whether they are switchgrass or sugarcane, could be grown in wetter areas. “In Carbon-capture facilities could be sited in areas without water stress.

Carbon Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

The CI is determined through a lifecycle analysis of the global warming pollution associated with the production and use of gasoline, diesel, biofuels, electricity, or other alternative fuels. California may seem like an unlikely driver of deforestation from soybean and palm oil biofuels.

Biofuels

Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 6, 2022

An extensive report from the Stockholm International Water Institute describes how freshwater systems and their management have been neglected by global climate change agreements. Other climate solutions also come with water risks. The fertilizers that nourish these biofuel harvests can severely pollute rivers and aquifers.

2022

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The impacts of climate change are upon us, a consequence of over a century of global warming emissions from human activity. An average global temperature change greater than 1.5 Replacing petroleum with renewable electricity as the primary source of transportation energy will leave us all much better off. But is this affordable?

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

For the transportation modes that are hardest to electrify, such as aviation and shipping, turning to l ess carbon-intense fuels such as biofuels and hydrogen produced primarily through electrolysis. Technologies like biofuels and hydrogen, while necessary, come with potential drawbacks. million homes.

Clean Energy

Inhabitant

JANUARY 23, 2023

The EPA has announced its intention to mandate more biofuel use as part of the U.S. reaching its climate change mitigation goals. In late December, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed to increase the amount of ethanol and other biofuels that must be blended into the U.S. fuel supplies over the next three years.

Biofuels

Scientific American

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Virgin Atlantic flew the first large commercial jet to traverse the Atlantic with 100 percent sustainable aviation fuel

Biofuels

Successful Green

APRIL 5, 2021

In a new study, environmental scientists at the University of Basel offer suggestions for how it can be extracted and used as an energy source in the form... The post Carbon-neutral biofuel from lakes appeared first on successful GREEN.

Biofuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

DO: Pay your fair share of the costs of climate change. cities, counties, and states over climate damages and deception; and 39 cases brought by seven coastal parishes and the State of Louisiana seeking damages for coastal erosion around oil fields. Chevron alone is facing a $9.5

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2023

decrease was due to other states enacting their own climate policy, so the U.S. figure is not necessarily the right benchmark for where California would be if it and other states hadn’t tackled climate change. Some of the U.S. California Has Done Especially Well at Reducing Power Sector emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

They’re also hoping to circumnavigate efforts to hold them accountable for their contribution to climate change. degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and limiting the worst effects of climate change. Here are some obstacles ahead on the road to corporate accountability based on the signs we see. billion last week.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

MARCH 3, 2022

Biofuels are a possibility, although in the long run they are more needed for planes and ships. One solution discussed by the Brookings report would be chargers with much higher charging rates. Those would allow quick charging but would also place extremely heavy demands on the power grid, especially in rural areas.

Biofuels

Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

by Candelaria Bergero, University of California, Irvine and Steve Davis, University of California, Irvine Several major airlines have pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by midcentury to fight climate change. The … Continue reading The future of flight in a net-zero-carbon world: 9 scenarios, lots of sustainable biofuel

Biofuels

Environmental News Bits

JULY 6, 2021

Seaweed can play a huge role in fighting climate change by absorbing carbon emissions, regenerating marine ecosystems, creating biofuel and renewable plastics as well as generating marine protein. Read the full story in Time.

Biofuels

Scientific American

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The biofuel, made from used cooking oil, could help the aviation industry cut climate-threatening carbon emissions. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

Biofuels

Law and Environment

APRIL 20, 2023

We need a comprehensive approach to tackling climate change, one that targets all sectors of the economy. Biofuels producers could also use clean hydrogen as a feedstock to make lower-carbon liquid fuels, such as sustainable aviation fuel. We’ll need other solutions to fill in the gaps.

Renewable Energy

Inside Climate News

AUGUST 25, 2023

On the western half of the state, oil and gas wells dot the Bakken shale, and farmers swap small grains, such as wheat, barley and oats, traditionally grown in the region, for corn and soybeans used as biofuel feedstocks.

Biofuels

Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Other research and development opportunities identified include innovation in energy storage, alternative biofuels, electric vehicle batteries, and advanced wind and solar power. The post Biden Announces New Initiative on “Game-Changing” Technologies for Achieving Net-Zero Emissions first appeared on Law and the Environment.

Technology

JANZEN AG

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

It is, after all, a biofuel made from plants. Developers are racing to build these new energy projects, offering farmers lucrative deals in order to capture emerging markets for clean energy and carbon credits. Why wouldn’t ethanol also have a seat this table?

Biofuels

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The new biogas subsidization frenzy brings to mind past failures attempting to jumpstart a market for crop-based biofuels.

Regulations

Cresforum

OCTOBER 25, 2023

biofuels, and fossil fuels. energy security “Let’s not take our eye off the ball that we have already entered a period of very dangerous climate change, and we need to help move the entire globe toward low- or zero-carbon fuels and zero-carbon electricity,” said Karl Hausker of the World Resources Institute.

Clean Energy

Frontiers

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Fernanda Echeverría-King; Derya Buyuktanir Karacan; Olusola Oluwayemisi Ololade; Nimita Pandey; Tebogo Mabotha; Huda Omer Basaleem; Rana Dajani; Olubukola Oluranti Babalola; Jae Sung Kwak PDF Nature-Based Solutions for Natural Hazards and Climate Change Edited by Borja Gonzalez Reguero; Michael W.

2023

Law Columbia

MARCH 8, 2023

The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Environmental Defense Fund have just launched IRAtracker.org. Source: iratracker.org The IRA is this country’s largest climate investment to date. The expanded renewable energy investment tax credit, for example, now supports investments in energy storage and microgrids.

Renewable Energy

Frontiers

JANUARY 18, 2023

Yet climate change and human environmental impacts threaten our long-term food security. While long studied as a source of biofuel thanks to their high lipid or fat content, algae are also attracting interest from researchers because of their potential to be a more efficient food source.

Biotechnology

Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This facility would turn waste into feedstock to generate electricity or biofuel for use within the airport. Waste-to-energy resource circularity – CAAS will work with stakeholders to determine if Changi Airport can accommodate an on-site waste-to-energy facility.

Solar Power

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Internationally, New Zealand passed the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Act of 2019 which targets a 24-47% reduction in biogenic methane emissions by 2050, and a 10% reduction by 2030. This appears to be the only national level agricultural methane target currently in law. Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification.

Renewable Energy

Law and Environment

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The Council further agreed to soften its recommendation that the state enact clean fuel standard legislation, and instead decided to recommend in the draft plan the use of biofuels and electric vehicles.

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