Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 17, 2023

cranks its air conditioners to get through historic high temperatures , the need for energy that slows, not hastens, climate change is more apparent than ever. Yet, in 2022, almost 40% of electricity in the US was generated by power plants fueled by natural gas. And now, as the U.S.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Methane As has been discussed previously in Legal Planet, methane is a colorless, odorless, flammable gas. It is the main component of “natural gas” and is produced predominantly by the agriculture, energy (oil & gas and coal), and waste sectors. C of warming by 2050.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

For Canada’s major oil and gas producers, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a get-out-of-jail-free card, which allows them to keep on polluting while appearing as though they are taking the threat of climate change seriously. billion carbon capture facility at its Genesse power plant west of Edmonton. Want proof?

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

In recent years, The Netherlands has become the leading site of climate change litigation. 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. These lawsuits face three key barriers.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

By: Deborah Klenotic, Deputy Communications Director Climate change is a major challenge facing Pennsylvania, and the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is leading many efforts to fight back and protect communities. Find more materials at DEP’s Climate Change webpage.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

compressed natural gas, solar, hydroelectric, wind). volume mixing ratio), together with a number of trace gases, such as argon (0.93% volume mixing ratio), helium, radiatively active greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (0.035% volume mixing ratio), and ozone. volume mixing ratio) and oxygen (20.9% See, Weather.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In our series on the increasing unreliability of fossil gas , my colleagues at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) have laid out why growing concerns about grid reliability should not be met simply by increasing the number of gas plants on the grid. In fact, too many gas plants are the problem, not the solution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

These higher costs are being driven by a major overreliance on natural gas, which has sharply spiked in price and is currently the dominant fuel source in the US for both home heating and electricity generation. Likewise, pipeline giant Williams Companies now refers to its gas projects as “clean energy” projects.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 14, 2024

The Pathways Alliance is a group of the biggest oil sands producers in Canada: Canadian Natural Resources, Cenovus, ConocoPhillips, Imperial Oil, MEG Energy and Suncor. They are proposing a major carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in northeast Alberta.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

When it comes to climate action, it can be difficult to understand what makes a strong climate plan that puts us on a pathway to zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – and what new policies and tools are actually dangerous distractions from real solutions. They call this Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS).

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 6, 2022

“Our legislation builds on this success by investing in carbon capture technology and incentivizing the use of net-zero carbon emission fuel sources. Importantly, Senate Bill 979 sets both emission and cost parameters on carbon capture, thus providing a pathway that ensures results.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

To help avoid the worst possible consequences of climate change, however, the alliance states need to reach that 100-percent objective much more quickly. Just as important, cleaning up the power grid also lowers carbon dioxide emissions. Below is an abridged version of our conversation.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Burning fossil fuels is a main contributor to climate change. Fossil gas (misleadingly marketed as natural gas) is one of the main contributors to global warming. It is mostly made up of methane which is even worse than carbon dioxide.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Production of nitrogen fertilizers requires ammonia, which is produced through a highly energy-intensive process called Haber-Bosch and fueled by natural gas. Russia is a major supplier of the gas used in the production of nitrogen fertilizers, and also produces about 21 percent of the world’s potash. Where do we go from here?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

Biogas is the direct product of anaerobic digestion, primarily comprised of a mixture of methane and carbon dioxide, plus much smaller amounts of other gases. When biogas is processed to remove carbon dioxide and those other gases, it becomes biomethane, also sometimes referred to as “renewable natural gas.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Just how bad is fossil “natural” gas? Responsible for 12 percent of all US global warming emissions from human activities, methane traps significantly more heat per molecule than carbon dioxide, making it 86 times more harmful for the first 20 years after it is released into the atmosphere.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

In response, Europe has scrambled to replace flows and decouple this dependence , in part by shifting away from gas to clean energy alternatives, in part by increasing local gas production, and in part by turning to imports of liquified natural gas, or LNG—including from the US.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

Take Action: Tell Enbridge shareholders that you care about climate change and want Enbridge to stop lying about the cost and climate pollution associated with gas. He’s perfected the art of spinning “natural” gas, a fossil fuel, and liquified natural gas (LNG) as transition fuels, despite a thorough debunking.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

That requires bringing global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions to net zero by 2050. To meet that goal, the International Energy Agency’s Net Zero Roadmap released in 2021 says no new oil and gas supply projects can come online. DO: Pay your fair share of the costs of climate change.

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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.

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Edouard Stenger

AUGUST 21, 2017

While it is undeniable that we are ramping up our actions against climate change, it is hard to deny that global warming is getting scarier every week. This could increase the speed of climate change even more as this greenhouse gas is 24 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Second, while Popkin correctly notes that forests, like solar farms, offer climate-change benefits, the essay does not provide any information on the relative emissions benefits of forested land versus solar farms. metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. Approximately half of that amount is sequestered in the soil.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 1, 2022

This comprehensive approach to reducing vehicle emissions will help improve Pennsylvanians’ health while also helping to slow climate change.” By replacing older polluting engines and equipment with new technologies, funded projects remove nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, particulate matter, and hydrocarbon pollution from the air.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This shift is good news because tackling methane is crucial to the fight against climate change due to its significantly higher global warming potential than CO2, the disposal of relatively cheap methods of controlling emissions, and its short atmospheric lifespan. This year, several jurisdictions announced new methane regulations.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

New analysis recently released shows that Canadian oil and gas companies in Alberta and Saskatchewan are releasing FOUR TIMES more methane than what they’re reporting to the government. Methane is a really powerful greenhouse gas: it’s 86 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. Why is that such a big deal?

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2022

That’s why investing in zero- and low-emission transportation pays off big: It helps us breathe healthier air and slow down climate change,” said Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Executive Deputy Secretary Ramez Ziadeh. “Transportation is one of the biggest sources of air pollution in Pennsylvania.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Major fossil fuel companies routinely make billion-dollar profits, extracting and distributing oil, gas, and coal. Unfortunately, fossil fuels produce carbon dioxide (CO2) when burnt—and CO2 is the main driver of climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2023

Jacobson's presentation will be on the findings in his new book, No Miracles Needed: How Today’s Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air, published by Cambridge University Press. "We We still have time to save the planet without resorting to 'miracle' technologies.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2023

Oil/Natural Gas Production Other States/National/International -- WITF/NPR: The U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

In 2021 alone, the plants slated for retirement emitted more than 28,000 tonnes of nitrogen oxides (NO x ), 32,000 tonnes of sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), and 51 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), according to EIA data. A recent study found that more than 99 percent of the global population is exposed to unsafe levels of PM 2.5

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 30, 2021

This is especially critical given all the noise coming from the oil and gas sector – and the institutions propping them up – suggesting that the only way to tackle climate change is by paying the very companies fueling the climate crisis to lower their emissions! The window for keeping global warming to 1.5

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2021

We can turn in the direction of healthier air quality and slow down climate change by switching to electric vehicles, whether we're government officials, business owners, school administrators, community leaders, or individual consumers.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This funding builds on Governor 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, one of the greenhouse gases heating up the climate, in the air.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- -- Welcome The Inaugural Class Of 35 High School Keep PA Beautiful Young Ambassadors [PaEN] -- Think Outside Presents Oct.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 21, 2023

Credit: Tobias Reich, Unsplash The Sabin Center’s Global Climate Change Litigation Database currently lists over 2000 cases. And what do they say about the future of climate litigation in the country? And what do they say about the future of climate litigation in the country?

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

EPA tells us succinctly, Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through human activities. In 2020, carbon dioxide accounted for about 79% of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. emission trends. But reduce what to what?

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 24, 2021

After all, if you make a product that is the cause of climate change in the first place–fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas–your approach to tackling climate change better be to fundamentally change your business model, and stop producing this dangerous product. Source: Oil Change International.

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