Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Johnson’s new bill ends rebates for electric appliances, home electrification projects, and training funds for project installation. The United States currently emits at least three times more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than all 54 nations in Africa combined. So far, the investments add up to about $100 billion.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

At least partly—if not largely—because the AGs and their political organization, the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), receive substantial financial support from fossil fuel companies, electric utilities, and their respective trade groups. Electric utilities, meanwhile, gave her $44,750.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 18, 2023

It would require the Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to conduct a competitive bidding process to procure 1,000 megawatts (MW) of offshore wind capacity by 2030 and 2,800 MW by 2035, enough to generate more than half of Maine’s electricity demand. Electricity generation is dispatched at the regional level according to increasing costs.

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Law and Environment

MAY 11, 2023

Administration Objectives for Permitting Reform The Administration supports reforms contained in the Building American Energy Security Act of 2023– a bill introduced by Senator Manchin last week –and encourages the inclusion of several priorities in a permitting reform package: Accelerate Deployment of Critical Electric Transmission.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2021

In July 1977, according to Inside Climate News, a senior scientist at what is now Exxon Mobile told the company that “there is general scientific agreement that the most likely manner in which mankind is influencing the global climate is through carbon dioxide release from the burning of fossil fuels.” The scientist, James F.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

The data These data represent the cumulative carbon dioxide and methane emissions from the largest industrial carbon producers. Despite this, many companies insist that consumers should be on the hook for the emissions created when we use their products to drive our cars, heat our homes, or generate electricity.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. It is within this context that Ocean Conservancy releases Zero-Carbon for Shipping: Sailing Carbon-free along North America’s West Coast. If nothing is done to clean up shipping, its carbon emissions are projected to jump by almost 130% by 2050.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

That approval came a day after the administration said it would bar drilling in some other areas of Alaska and the Arctic Ocean. That would release some 280 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, according to a federal analysis. After completing its own environmental review, the Biden administration gave the greenlight.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2021

By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal Pennsylvania is ideally suited to help the nation fight global warming by becoming a leader in the effort to capture and store emissions of carbon dioxide, state officials say. In the battle to slow global warming, carbon dioxide is the chief target. Studies by the U.S.

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Edouard Stenger

MARCH 20, 2017

This is the third year in a row that emissions from energy are flat, yet, climate scientists report that our atmosphere is seeing its carbon content grow faster than ever. The biggest drop came from the United States, where carbon dioxide emissions fell 3%, or 160 million tonnes, while the economy grew by 1.6%.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

To meet these goals, the state is facilitating burgeoning carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) (CCS) technologies that capture carbon from point sources to store, as well as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which removes carbon from the atmosphere. Ecological Conservation. A Few Notable Vetoes.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Carbon dioxide output plunged during the COVID-19 lockdowns last year, but that was temporary and they have surged again since as economies have recovered. Electric vehicle technology also progressed rapidly, and new fuels such as hydrogen are being developed. Temperatures around the world are already at about 1.1 – 1.2C

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Global Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Over the quarter of 2020, up to 47% of the electricity demand in the UK was met by renewable energy sources. One reason leading to this drastic measure was the insufficient power supplied by solar and wind altogether, which normally provides 30% of the overall electricity in the California State. Ocean energy. Solar and wind.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

We specifically urged the authors to acknowledge the need for effective climate resilience planning and to discuss the limited extent of such planning today by electric utilities, system operators, and others in the energy industry. 175564 (Exhibit A). 175565, 175566, 175567, and 175572 (Exhibit B).

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

Report finds there is no hope of slowing global warming without a radical shift to electrical energy and carbon removal. Capturing carbon is a must. Countries will also have to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to keep global warming in check. In this issue: 5 Takeaways from U.N. Executive Branch.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 22, 2023

Utilities Commission (NCUC) to “take all reasonable steps” to achieve a 70% reduction in carbon dioxide ( CO 2 ) emissions from electric generating units (EGUs) by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality for the utility generation system by 2050. The reduction goals apply to electric utilities that are: 1.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

6] Scientists are alarmed that this year the temperature of the surface of the oceans has reached levels that are much higher, [7] and the extent of Antarctic sea ice is much lower, [8] than ever previously recorded. Scope 2 emissions are those attributable to producing the energy (principally electricity) that the company buys.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The SCC is a metric that seeks to capture all of the costs that emitting a ton of carbon dioxide (or equivalent amounts of other greenhouse gases such as methane) imposes on society by contributing to climate change over the hundreds of years it remains in the atmosphere. N: Missouri v. Biden , Civ. 4:21-cv-00287-SPM (E.D.

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ESA

AUGUST 16, 2021

However, the world could avoid the more extreme scenarios in the report if governments sharply reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. billion for electric grid resilience and infrastructure improvements, $7.5 It’s seen as a way to quickly increase clean energy use without hiking electric bills for consumers.

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Global Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Here I am, in one of the wealthiest cities in the country, six blocks from the Pacific Ocean, being warned about air quality by a man that has obviously had a rough journey. Equal access to clean air and water are major portions of the sustainability equation. This way, the car or bus becomes unnecessary Buy local.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Republicans said the final regulations will increase the cost of electricity for individuals and businesses, have a negative impact on jobs and will not significantly reduce carbon pollution. And in those states RGGI energy efficiency investments of $2.8 billion have produced nearly $13.5 for every dollar invested.

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

From the ocean oscillations to trade winds, pressure systems that drives temperature, airborne particles that influence local conditions and even the phases of the moon and Earth's wobble all affect the climate (1). The east of the ocean is colder than normal while the west is warmer than average. What Climatology Is.

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ESA

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Ahead of COP, ESA issued a statement calling on world leaders attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP26) in Glasgow to pledge immediate action to reduce carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and other greenhouse gas emissions that limits rising temperatures to 1.5? National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

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. They are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, CFCs, and hydrofluorocarbons.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court stated: “Plaintiffs’ claims for public nuisance, though pled as state-law claims, depend on a global complex of geophysical cause and effect involving all nations of the planet (and the oceans and atmosphere). It necessarily involves the relationships between the United States and all other nations. ExxonMobil Corp.

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Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

San Diego commits to 100% clean electricity. . Rick Perry blames ocean for climate change: Energy secretary once again denies scientific consensus. DOE head says carbon dioxide not primary cause of climate change. . Trump Administration Reviewing Marine Protected Areas in US, Will The Ocean Be Valued Accurately?

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Ninth Circuit Said Biden Action Mooted Case Challenging Trump Revocation of Withdrawal of Oceans Lands from Oil and Gas Leasing. In both cases, the New York plaintiffs argue that the allocation of the summer flounder quota is based on obsolete data that does not reflect the fishery’s northeast shift, which may be due in part to ocean warming.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Although the district court acknowledged that BLM provided “a lengthier explanation” of its reasons for not quantifying foreign emissions than the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management provided in the earlier case, the court found that BLM still did not “thoroughly explain” why an estimate of foreign emissions was impossible. 1:21-cv-11390 (D.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

In re Hawaiian Electric Co. , The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the Energy Facilities Siting Board’s approval of a proposal for a new underground electrical transmission line running between substations in the Towns of Sudbury and Hudson. SCOT-20-0000309 (Haw. June 29, 2021).

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

States, Electricity Providers Allowed to Intervene in Case Concerning Management of Glen Canyon Dam. A federal district court in the District of Columbia ruled that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) fulfilled its obligations under NEPA in connection with two offshore oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico.

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