Legal Planet

JANUARY 16, 2025

The first of the three was the Bipartisan Infrastructure act, which included over $100 billion for mass transit and rail, along with $65 billion to expand the capacity of the nations electrical transmission system. billion to cut emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. It also provides $1.5 Justices last a few decades.

Carbon Dioxide

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

To recap: The unanimous opinion found that nations of the world have a legal obligation to limit their emissions of greenhouse gases or else pay reparations for the harms of climate change. EPA is renouncing its ability to even regulate greenhouse gases as a threat to human health.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Several states and industry groups are challenging EPA’s 2024 rules which set greenhouse gas emissions limits for certain fossil fuel power plants nationwide (referred to here as the Power Plant Rules). This case will have a major impact on how and when power plants must reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Connecticut , 564 U.S.

2024

Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2025

On June 17, 2025, EPA published a proposed rule to either repeal entirely, or significantly revise, a rule issued in 2024 which set performance standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants to limit their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This week, the Sabin Center filed three comment letters opposing the proposal.

Clean Air Act

New Scientist

JULY 1, 2025

It would also help efforts to identify and cap the largest sources of the potent greenhouse gas. Topics: satellites / fossil fuels / greenhouse gas emissions / methane Advertisement Sign up to our weekly newsletter Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox! We are looking at all sorts of options,” says Coifman.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2025

This rule also builds on other national and international actions advanced in recent years to mitigate methane emissionsa greenhouse gas with 80 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide. The full text of the final rule will be available in the Federal Register on publication.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 10, 2025

Methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas -- 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in the first 20 years after it is released into the atmosphere. We must protect children from exposure to oil and gas pollution. Reducing methane escaping from oil and gas infrastructure is also necessary for slowing climate change.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2025

And if you want to get out of RGGI [Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative], come to the table and work on this with us." We wholeheartedly support the Governors plan to lower electricity costs and to build and upgrade more power plants to ensure clean, reliable and affordable energy for Pennsylvania's future.

Electricity

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 29, 2024

For example, among the false solutions funded by the IRA are tax credits for carbon capture and storage facilities. Carbon capture and storage removes carbon dioxide from highly concentrated point sources like power plants. This captured carbon dioxide is typically then used for fracking.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2025

For decades, the federal government has heavily subsidized carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS), a set of technologies that aims to separate, collect and sequester carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion and gas processing. million households for a year.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

AUGUST 13, 2025

Late last month, Energy Secretary Chris Wright and the Energy Department rushed a report called “Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Dessler calls the Energy Department report a “law brief from attorneys defending their client, carbon dioxide.” is pushing alternative science. It is a hoax.”

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 29, 2025

EPA’s proposal to rescind the Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding: “Thanks to clean and abundant American natural gas, our nation’s air quality and environment continues to dramatically improve, creating important health benefits and economic growth. “Our For more than 15 years, the U.S.

Greenhouse

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

More efficient (and cleaner) gasoline cars are part of the reason why gasoline use is down, but the increasing number of electric vehicles being sold in the state will likely drive gasoline use down even further. But a growing share of the reductions is likely due to the increasing sales of electric vehicles (EVs).

Carbon Dioxide

Inside Climate News

JANUARY 31, 2023

Electric utilities are likely responsible for the nation’s higher than expected emissions of sulfur hexafluoride, a greenhouse gas 25,000 times worse for the climate than carbon dioxide. By Phil McKenna While emissions of sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), the world’s most potent greenhouse gas, have fallen sharply in the U.S.

Greenhouse

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 3, 2021

Like all other industries, the clock is ticking for the sector to cut its carbon pollution, given President Joe Biden’s goal to halve the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050. By generating its own energy, the facility cuts its electricity bill, or even turns a profit by selling the surplus.

Carbon Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Replacing petroleum with renewable electricity as the primary source of transportation energy will leave us all much better off. New technologies are not necessary to meet the carbon reduction targets needed to achieve net-zero emissions in 2050.

Electricity

Real Climate

APRIL 6, 2023

Nevertheless, the summary for policymakers states the need for “rapid and deep and, in most cases, immediate greenhouse gas emissions reductions in all sectors this decade” if we want global warming to keep below 1.5°C I had to look up the acronym “CDR” (Carbon dioxide removal). C or 2°C since preindustrial times (p.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2021

The world is gathering soon in Glasgow to debate how to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions over the coming decades. But what happens when we achieve the goal of zero carbon dioxide emissions from human actions? Does the climate keep warming, stay the same, or even cool?

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

To date, most stakeholder engagement has focused on the lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting framework required to accurately report the carbon intensity of electrolytically produced hydrogen, or hydrogen generated by using electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

One is strengthening commitments to reduce heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions in order to keep the planet from dangerously overheating. This hotly contested referendum is focused on the future of electric power in the region. And they think that Maine, which is not the primary user of the electricity, is paying too high a cost.

2021

Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2021

Management approved her shift in emphasis, hoping that she would prove that aerosols in the atmosphere (including those from auto exhaust) would completely offset the greenhouse gas effect. They could have easily built huge factories to make lithium batteries to facilitate the transition to electric cars. The scientist, James F.

Fossil Fuels

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?

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The World Meteorological Organization Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. The WMO’s GHG bulletin’s headline takeaways are stark: Atmospheric concentrations of three major heat-trapping gases, carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), methane (CH 4 ) and nitrous oxide (N 2 O) hit all-time highs in 2021 (see table below).

Fossil Fuels

Law and Environment

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

On September 21, 2023, the Biden administration outlined plans to expand federal agencies’ consideration of the social cost of carbon—a metric for the economic cost of each additional ton of carbon dioxide emitted to the atmosphere. The directive is, nonetheless, significant.

Carbon Dioxide

Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Not only does burning coal contribute massively to rising greenhouse gas emissions, it also endangers people’s health. Thermal coal, which refers to coal used to produce electricity, produces dangerous amounts of air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. million cars.

Air Pollution

Greenbuilding Law

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Which caused us to ponder, “what quantity of greenhouse gas emissions are produced by using an iPhone?” In this blog post, we will explore just how much greenhouse gas emissions are generated from charging a single smartphone and, by extension, from all the smartphones in the world. of carbon dioxide per megawatt hour (.

Greenhouse

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A quick glance at the latest data from CARB shows there are three large and growing sources of credits: bio-based diesel, biomethane and electricity. Bio-based diesel, biomethane and electricity are the largest and fastest growing sources of LCFS credits in recent years. Source California Air Resources Board.

Fossil Fuels

Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

On a yearly basis, that’s more than the global emissions from the largest greenhouse gas-emitting sector, electricity and heat production. The growing field of marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR ) is exploring ways that we can augment the ocean’s ability to absorb and store the most prolific greenhouse gas warming our atmosphere.

Ocean

Legal Planet

JANUARY 26, 2023

Through a series of reactions––which usually take place at a refinery––steam and methane react to produce hydrogen and carbon dioxide. kg of carbon dioxide emissions. kg of carbon dioxide emissions per kilowatt-hour of energy produced. For comparison, the combustion of natural gas produces about 0.42

Carbon Dioxide

Enviromental Defense

JULY 31, 2024

Nova Scotia still relies on dirty coal for half of its electricity. Hydrogen is being presented as a key climate change solution because when it is burned, it doesn’t create any greenhouse gas emissions. Hydrogen’s global warming potential is 33 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. billion by 2028 and $17.7

Government

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2021

Water levels behind Oroville dam have fallen to record lows and for the first time, the dam cannot produce electricity. Hydropower generation across California and the American West has declined in this extremely dry year, meaning that electricity providers will lean more heavily on natural gas, solar, and wind power.

Renewable Energy

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.

Greenhouse

Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In Ontario, fossil gas is used primarily for generating electricity, for heating buildings (residential and commercial), and for industrial uses (for heating substances and as a raw material). In fact, Ontario is planning to build new gas plants and extend expiring gas plant contracts to produce electricity. It is none of those things.

Natural Gas

Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

CCS is a multi-billion dollar boondoggle that doesn’t come close to the hype, has significant safety risks, and is a substantial distraction from real climate solutions, such as building more renewable energy, increasing electricity transmission infrastructure, and developing and using storage technology. Want proof?

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 20, 2021

DEP’s Climate Change Advisory Committee is scheduled to meet August 24 to review the latest Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory for Pennsylvania and hear an overview of DEP’s Energy Office Clean Energy Program Plan. The mix of electric generation fuels switched from 55.5 million tons in 2017 to 241.12 million tons in 2018. million tons.

Greenhouse

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2022

million in Alternative Fuel Incentive Grants (AFIGs) to 18 cleaner fuel transportation projects statewide that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollutants. The program supports electric, ethanol, biodiesel, compressed natural gas (CNG), propane gas, and other cleaner fuel vehicles.

Nitrogen Oxides

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. Air conditioning and refrigeration.

Greenhouse