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?

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

They focus on nature-based solutions like reforestation and on burning biofuels with carbon capture. Those strategies are heavily emphasized in national climate plans. The researchers hale from Australian, England, France, Germany, and the U.S. — a truly international team.

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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?

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2023

This year has brought new evidence of what major fossil fuel companies knew and when about the role their products play in climate change, as well as what they did in spite of what they knew. But these technologies are no substitute for sharp cuts in fossil fuels if we keep the goals of the Paris climate agreement within reach.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Events of the past year — torrential floods, exhausting droughts, deadly heat waves — sharpened focus that society must adapt to these climate changes. Some have taken to calling the UN’s 26th climate convention the “adaptation convention.”. Water advocates view the attention to adaptation as an opportunity.

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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.

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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.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This week, Circle of Blue reports on how water fits into the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference. When diplomats and government ministers converge on Glasgow this fall, they hope to rekindle pivotal negotiations on global climate that were dampened during the pandemic. Ingrid Timboe is a co-chair of the water pavilion.

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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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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.

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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

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Brag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The RFS “Set” proposal requests public input on required volumes of biofuel for the next one to three years and on a series of modifications intended to strengthen and expand the program. EPA states that this proposal includes steady growth of biofuels for use in the nation’s fuel supply for 2023 , 2024 , and 2025.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Brag

JANUARY 24, 2023

BETO states that methanol has “rich potential for uses that contribute to lower greenhouse gas emissions and help in the fight against climate change.” According to BETO, the goal is to identify catalysts that can make beneficial products, such as sustainable aviation fuel, efficiently and selectively.

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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.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This blog post describes the purpose and scope of the National Climate Assessment and the key takeaways and focus areas of the Sabin Center’s comments. Scope and Purpose of the National Climate Assessment The Global Climate Change Research Act of 1990 established the U.S. 175568 (Exhibit D). 1] See Nos.

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Shapiro’s agenda to create a bold, comprehensive climate and energy plan that will grow Pennsylvania’s economy, protect and create jobs, and address climate change. It also helps lower the level of carbon dioxide, helping to address climate change. It builds on Gov.

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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.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 20, 2023

That option refers to a Clean Air Act provision governing the RFS, which allows qualifying transportation biofuels to generate Renewable Identification Numbers (“RINs”), which function as tradeable credits that certain “obligated” fossil fuel entities must purchase to meet annual program requirements.

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Congress could better target these programs to address climate change. Congress could realign crop insurance with climate and water-friendly requirements to support producers to increase environmental mitigation while still enjoying a government safety net.

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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.

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Acoel

JANUARY 16, 2024

Less than a quarter of cropland is devoted to food directly eaten by humans, with the rest going to mostly to animal feed and biofuel feedstock, and it takes many pounds of grains to produce a pound of beef. The good news is that this sector is ripe for change. The post The Real Cost of Food appeared first on ACOEL.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2022

Well-intended discussions about the ability to rapidly convert land currently devoted to conservation or biofuel purposes toward food production have been dampened by the limited viability of such schemes. It can be difficult, therefore, to quickly shift production plans at the scale of the globe’s industrial commodity agricultural systems.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 26, 2022

million to aid in evaluating the safety of new fuels, and over $61 million for projects to advance biofuels and support reduced cost of SAF pathways. Funding opportunities to support research and production of SAF projects including $3 billion in loan guarantees available for commercial-scale SAF projects, grant awards totaling more than $3.6

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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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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

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

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

One such effort involves the use of so-called ‘sustainable aviation fuel’ (SAF), a mixture of biofuels and petroleum-derived jet fuel. The biofuel element of SAFs is commonly made from crops and are thought to have a lower life-cycle carbon footprint than conventional jet fuel because the crops absorb CO2 when they’re grown.

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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.

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Renewable Energy Regulations 2030 2014 147

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

A few years later, it introduced the Half the Oil Plan , which spelled out how to slash oil use through greater fuel efficiency and new, innovative technologies, such as electric vehicles and biofuels. Soon thereafter, it began extolling the virtues of battery electric vehicles , which it continues to do today.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Low-emitting ferries can include ferries using methanol, natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, hydrogen, coal-derived liquid fuels, and biofuels. The law: Establishes a five-year/$250 million Electric of Low Emitting Pilot Program (Sec. Rural areas include areas encompassing a population of less than 50,000 people.

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Electricity Natural Gas Biofuels Law 130

Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

Biofuels Gas or liquid fuel made from plant material. Climate in a wider sense is the state, including a statistical description, of the climate system. Climate Change Climate change refers to any significant change in the measures of climate lasting for an extended period of time.

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