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Unraveling LA’s Hydrogen Combustion Experiment

Legal Planet

This is partly because hydrogen production is energy inefficient and––when derived from fossil fuels––still a significant source of carbon emissions. Natural gas plants retrofitted to blend hydrogen, supporters insist, can cheaply and reliably fill this need with infrastructure that already exists.

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Disinformation Alert: Fossil Fuel Interests Preparing to Deploy False Claims about New EPA Rules

Union of Concerned Scientists

These new protections will include updates to power plant standards on carbon emissions , mercury pollution , and toxic coal ash pollution , just to name a few. Methane leaks are rampant along the entire gas supply chain, and research repeatedly shows that the problem is worse than previously thought.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Acidification : Reducing the pH rating of a substance making it more acidic in nature, for example, increased carbon emissions lead to the oceans absorbing more of it, increasing acidification and damaging ecology such as coral bleaching. Climate change : The process by which the climate changes due to “forcings”.

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Climatology: The Science of Global Weather Systems over the Long Term

Environmental Science

This radiation hits the atmosphere and is absorbed by the ozone layer which reduces the most harmful. By nature, they are warmer and more humid than a garden. The greenhouse gases are methane, water vapor, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide (12). The effect on the global environment is similar. Deforestation.

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September 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Circuit Court of Appeals found that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) failed to adequately analyze the climate change and environmental justice impacts of two liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals on the Brownsville Shipping Channel in Texas and two pipelines that would carry LNG to one of the terminals.

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Should New Gas Stoves Be Banned?

Union of Concerned Scientists

All of the stoves in the Stanford study leaked methane, the primary component of natural gas, and are merely the end point of a natural gas network that leaks like a sieve. But what about the 40 million homes —more than a third of US households—that currently cook with natural gas? in just one day.

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May 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Columbia Climate Law

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. Circuit vacated the 2015 rule to the extent that it prohibited continued use of HFCs by companies that previously switched to HFCs from an ozone-depleting substance. In Mexichem , the D.C.

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