National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Photo credit: Mark Anson On August 31, the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) announced the availability of $65 million for the Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) program. Forestry : Forests play a significant role in reducing carbon dioxide through carbon sequestration.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

DECEMBER 8, 2023

More than a year later , this once-in-a-generation investment approximately doubled the funding available for the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) core conservation programs. For example, reducing tillage and maintaining in-field residues can reduce the losses of carbon dioxide and may reduce nitrous oxide emissions.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 18, 2023

Energy Policy & Conservation Act Following Berkeley’s 2019 gas prohibition ordinance, a trade group representing members “interested in opening a new restaurant or in relocating a restaurant to a new building in Berkeley,” brought suit against the city. Energy Policy & Conservation Act appeared first on Climate Law Blog.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 25, 2023

Algae are known as phototrophs, meaning they utilize (you guessed it) the process of photosynthesis, harnessing the power of sunlight, carbon dioxide and water to provide themselves with essential nutrition. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2024

He is a PhD candidate in the Department of Biology at Western University where he studies solutions for bird conservation. The Salamander mussel is a species of global conservation concern whose only remaining known population in Canada occurs in the East Sydenham downstream from the proposed landfill site.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 14, 2024

They are proposing a major carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in northeast Alberta. The project will capture carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from 13 oil sands facilities in the Fort McMurray, Christina Lake, and Cold Lake regions and transport the CO 2 to the Cold Lake area where it will be injected underground (just south of St.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2022

However, on the narrow but important issue of carbon dioxide emissions, an acre of solar panels appears to offset more emissions each year than an acre planted with trees can sequester. metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. What about the carbon that is released when an acre of forest is removed?

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Carbon capture : a license to pollute Oil and gas companies like to paint a picture of a future where we can still have oil and gas production, but where power plants and oil refineries can capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks and bury them deep in the ground. They call this Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS).

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 28, 2022

Both categories are regulated by the Office of Conservation within the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources. Enhanced Recovery: Use of carbon dioxide for enhanced hydrocarbon recovery requires the creation of a unit by the Commissioner of Conservation for the purpose of secondary or tertiary recovery under La.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2021

To Invest Federal Rescue Funds For Watershed Restoration, Land Conservation, Park & Trail Improvement Projects -- Guest Essay: Why Environmental Literacy Should Be Part Of Pennsylvania’s Education Standards - Anna R.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

By Department of Conservation & Natural Resources Efforts to slow or stop global warming involve many strategies working together. One strategy is to counterbalance carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that contribute to climate change by drawing an equal amount of carbon out of the atmosphere, such as through planting trees.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

Dr. Leubke will explain the basics of carbon capture and storage (CCS) and how both point-source CCS and direct air capture (DAC) can help the U.S. reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) atmospheric levels. Dave Luebke, technical director of the Direct Air Capture Center at the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 9, 2022

Here are 30 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. Thank you for your leadership! -- Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 1, 2022

The August newsletter from the Pike County Conservation District includes articles on riparian buffers and climate change and forests as part of the District's Forestry month education initiative. Forests function as a “carbon sink”, removing carbon from the air as they grow, storing the carbon in their wood, the soil or other plant matter.

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Washington Nature

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This is a direct result of excessive greenhouse gas emissions, including carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4), and the exploitation of natural resources for capitalistic gain. This can happen naturally, as growing trees and plants turn CO2 into biomass—this is the foundational premise of Natural Climate Solutions.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 28, 2022

On July 28, seeking to further harness the capacity for strategic land protection to counter climate change and its impacts, the Open Space Institute announced a major new effort of its Appalachian Landscapes Protection Fund to conserve key forested areas in western and central Pennsylvania.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 22, 2023

Conservation on working lands provides many ecosystem services talked about frequently. Not covered as often is the carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emission reductions these practices provide. Download the report. Those include water quality and soil health improvement, wildlife habitat, and reduced operation cost.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 2, 2021

The government’s bid to move ahead with the project coincides with the release of an alarming study, published in the journal Nature , that shows certain regions of the Amazon emitting more carbon dioxide than they absorb. It’s such an old-fashioned, backwards vision … that pays absolutely no attention to conservation.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Blind use of statistics without understanding physics Perhaps the most important law of physics is the conservation of energy, and the observed warming of Earth requires a huge energy input, which cannot be provided by random weather fluctuations. Figure 2: Carbon dioxide levels and global temperature over the past 2022 years.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 4, 2024

The Tribunal acted both boldly and conservatively by interpreting UNCLOS as an independent source of international legally binding obligations to address climate change and ocean acidification. At the same time, the Tribunal’s interpretation was also conservative in the sense that it was a straightforward reading of the UNCLOS text.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 18, 2023

We take in oxygen and process it through tiny mitochondria (also known as the power houses of the cell) and expel carbon dioxide—a method that powers the rest of our bodies and gets rid of waste. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Frontiers

JULY 28, 2022

The findings of their review, published today in the journal Frontiers in Climate , identify seven reasons why carbon accounting for coastal ecosystems is not only extremely challenging but risky. REPUBLISHING GUIDELINES : Open access and sharing research is part of Frontiers’ mission.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. They also sequester carbon dioxide more efficiently than terrestrial forests. In time, this site will also be able to store 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide, the equivalent of removing 21,000 cars from the road for a year. Never miss an update.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

On November 15, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn outlined plans for a forthcoming $6 million carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) research and storage facility to house the department’s collection of subsurface core samples and drill cuttings from all over Pennsylvania.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 13, 2024

The 2023 strategy is more ambitious than the earlier one it replaces and covers full life cycle (also known as well-to-wake or WtW) emissions of all greenhouse gases (GHG), not just those from burning fuel onboard and not just carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). Unfortunately, international shipping has been increasing its investments in LNG.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Recent science doesn’t support this optimism, as new studies show that the increased release of Black Carbon, one of the most potent climate change forcers—as well as soot, carbon dioxide, methane and ozone from more traffic in the Arctic—could lead to a 20% increase in the global heating that is causing warmer ocean temperatures.

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Ivy Protocol

MAY 18, 2023

The year 2023 stands as a testament to this synergy, with a plethora of companies innovating in the carbon removal terrain with a shared goal of fighting climate change. Meeting the recent pathways laid out by the IPCC will require total cumulative net carbon dioxide removals of 20–660 GtCO2 by 2100.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2024

Planting native trees and shrubs is an act of hope, faith, and healing will contribute to sequestration of the excess carbon dioxide in our atmosphere that is changing our global weather. The deadline for ordering is January 20. 19 & Feb. 16; Snowmobile/ATV Grants Feb. 1 [PaEN] [Posted: January 12, 2024] PA Environment Digest

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Brag

JUNE 1, 2023

According to BETO, RCRs are carbon-based resources generated through photosynthesis (plants and algae) or through waste generation (non-recycled portions of municipal solid waste, biosolids, sludges, plastics, and carbon dioxide and industrial waste gases).

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Carbon offsets are project investments that help to reduce or avoid carbon emissions, or that are able to capture and store carbon that has already been emitted; each offset represents 1 metric ton of carbon dioxide or its equivalent. This purchase was made by Regen Network Development, Inc.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Second, the Tribunal must decide whether human-released carbon dioxide, and the heat that CO 2 traps, constitute marine pollution. It’s anyone’s guess how the Tribunal will rule.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

Environmental groups, county conservation districts and many others oppose the bill and has been introduced several times in previous sessions. 2015-011-L ).

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Legal Planet

JULY 13, 2021

In my research on solar geoengineering, carbon dioxide removal , and gene drives , I began to wonder whether these proposed technologies are–as many claim–fundamental breaks from past activities or merely additional points along a continuum, albeit somewhat further out.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Funding For Farm Practices “It is imperative that the Governor and General Assembly be proactive in the next state budget, and to increase dedicated investments of financial and technical resources into the Clean Streams Fund and Agricultural Conservation Assistance Program,” said Julia Krall, CBF Executive Director for Pennsylvania.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JULY 12, 2023

Our understanding of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide emissions from agriculture has developed substantially over the past decades, but remains inadequate for fully understanding the best paths toward greenhouse gas reductions in agriculture. Addressing climate change is a central goal of NSAC in this Farm Bill.

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Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The latest science coming from a partnership between The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the University of Washington (UW) highlights ways nature can help Washington achieve its net-zero greenhouse gas emissions goal by midcentury. ” — Jamie Robertson, TNC Conservation Geographer and lead author of the study.

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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.

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