Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

We’re in the midst of an escalating climate crisis, but the Ontario government is acting like the crisis isn’t happening. A new report explains how the provincial government can do just that, while also creating jobs and growing the economy. BONUS – COOL TECH ALERT! Reduced emissions! KEY RECOMMENDATIONS.

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Natural Gas Carbon Dioxide Electricity Air Pollution 103

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

Back in 2018, California legislators were considering a bill that would have created an independent governance structure for California’s grid operator , the California Independent System Operator (CAISO). Western utilities may be more interested in sticking with California and joining EDAM if CAISO has an independent governance structure.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 11, 2022

On December 8, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order on Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability (EO), which aims to set the federal government — the largest purchaser in the country with an annual purchasing power of $650 billion — on a path to net zero emissions by 2050.

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Greenhouse Electricity 2030 Carbon Emissions 130

Circle of Blue

JUNE 28, 2022

The Chicago City Council makes new cooling rules after a heat wave killed three people in an apartment building. The expansions to the cooling requirements will help keep our most vulnerable residents safe as we continue to see the impacts of climate change.”. A case before the U. Maria Hadden, 49th Ward Alderman.

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Regulations 2022 Cooling Climate Change 130

Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

With the federal government and state of Maryland each having announced within days of each other, the mandated disclosure of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, we have received, maybe not surprising, many calls in the last two weeks inquiring “what are GHGs?” In 2020, carbon dioxide accounted for about 79% of all U.S.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The results, published in Nature magazine, provide a much clearer, evidence-based picture, which is likely to change government policy in the US and beyond. What is the social cost of carbon? SCC is a dollar estimate of the long-term damage caused by emitting a tonne of carbon dioxide in a given year.

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Sea Level Carbon Dioxide Carbon Emissions Climate Change 97

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2023

She knows methane emissions have as much as 80 times the heat-trapping effect over a 20-year period as carbon dioxide. Rather than using treated wastewater to cool the steam the Allen plant uses to make electricity, as other plants have done, the TVA continues to tap into the source of Memphis’s drinking water.

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Fossil Fuels Natural Gas Renewable Energy Climate Change 172

Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 1, 2023

links Ontario residents to information about government programs that offer financial incentives for residential retrofits. Heat pumps, a simple but effective technology, use electricity to remove heat from inside your home to cool it in the summer and pull heat in from outside to heat your home in the winter. The website GreenFlags.ca

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Technology Technology Fossil Fuels Electricity 52

Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 7, 2022

As governments enact mandatory greenhouse gas emission laws and as businesses voluntarily make “net zero” pledges, we are increasingly working with organizations, first to understand and calculate their GHG emissions, then to implement strategies for efficacious yet frictionless reductions.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2021

The Erie District avoided over 8,000 metric tons of CO2e [carbon dioxide equivalent] emissions in 2020, an amount equal to the emissions of over 740 homes. In many cases, an entire building needs to be heated or cooled even if only a portion of the building is occupied. percent in 2019. This wastes energy.

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2030 2020 Clean Energy Carbon Dioxide 104

Greenbuilding Law

MARCH 26, 2023

This means that buildings must use electric heating, cooling, and hot water systems instead of natural gas or oil. All electric building codes require that new construction and major renovations be powered by electricity rather than fossil fuels. So, again, the change to all electric buildings is not a simple issue.

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Electricity Fossil Fuels Natural Gas Greenhouse 52

Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

There are other things that will get the headlines (the expected time before we get to 1.5ºC or 2ºC, the headline SLR numbers, the ‘unprecedented rate’ statement, constraints on climate sensitivity , carbon cycle feedbacks, the implications for the carbon budgets etc.), Johnson, A. Lebedeff, P. Rind, and G. 957-966, 1981.

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A Greener Life

MAY 12, 2023

A woman pours water over her head to cool off during soaring temperatures in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 11 April 2023. I was a member of the team that wrote the latest climate report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) in March 2023, which was endorsed by 195 governments including India.

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Climate Change Fossil Fuels Electricity Renewable Energy 52

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Even if there is water available, heat waves can cause the water sources to be too hot, which can reduce the plant’s efficiency or even cause unsafe operating conditions because the plant can’t be adequately cooled.

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Fossil Fuels Electricity 2014 Climate Change 199

Physics World

MAY 30, 2021

Based on a Newtonian free-fall experiment in which a cloud of rubidium atoms cooled close to absolute zero is used as the test mass, Muquans’ system integrates all the key components into a single unit that is robust and reliable enough to be deployed in the field for geophysical monitoring – including on the slopes of Mount Etna.

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Technology Technology Carbon Dioxide Government 137

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

Every time a company or organization installs an energy-efficient heating, cooling, or lighting system, it’s another step for Pennsylvania and the nation toward independence from fossil fuels. Local governments, businesses, school districts, hospitals, and nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply. Who Can Apply?

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Fossil Fuels Carbon Dioxide Natural Gas Electricity 52

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2024

Industrial Project In Northampton County [PaEN] -- DEP Will Hold May 2 Hearing On Stormwater Permit For Maiden Creek Warehouse Project In Berks County [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On Draft Strategy For Prioritizing Development Of Total Maximum Daily Load Watershed Plans From 2024-2032 [PaEN] -- The Energy Age Blog: Development Of Range Resources-Appalachia (..)

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

It would require standardized reporting of GHG emissions (primarily carbon dioxide and methane) by firms doing business in California with total annual revenues more than $1 billion. [19] Scope 2 emissions” means “indirect” GHG emissions from “consumed electricity, steam, heating, or cooling purchased or acquired by a reporting entity.”

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Regulations Law 2023 Climate Change 98

ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

But there has been “no sign” that China’s government intends to shift the country’s policy, said Byford Tsang, a senior policy adviser with the E3G think tank. Capturing carbon is a must. Countries will also have to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to keep global warming in check.

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2022 Fossil Fuels Clean Water Act Climate Change 98

Acoel

JULY 5, 2022

First, under section 115 of the Clean Air Act, governing international air pollution, EPA could determine that GHG emissions from all of the states interfere with air quality in other nations and require every state to submit a SIP requiring those reductions.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Here are 138 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. Chapter Host 20th Washington Cherry Pike Hike Feb.

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Environment Blog

MARCH 25, 2020

Typically, miners want to operate from cool climates because this helps minimise the temperature of the mining farm which, in turn, keeps running costs down. megatons of carbon dioxide during the same period. Governments also need to play their part, by moving from fossil fuels to renewable sources.

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Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy Electricity Carbon Dioxide 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Practices That Sequester Carbon and Increase Resilience Within EQIP and CSP in particular, the practices that receive funding through the IRA tend to accomplish multiple ecological goals. 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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Climate Change Conservation Greenhouse Carbon Dioxide 71

Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

But since it became clear that human actions are damaging the environment and changing the climate, it has become much more prominent nationally and internationally with most government departments in most countries having responsibilities to mitigate or prepare for climate change scenario. The Human Impacts on Climate.

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Atmosphere Climate Change Ocean Greenhouse 52