Environment Blog

MARCH 25, 2020

Verifying transactions uses electricity. The cost of this electricity is borne by the miner, so it is no surprise that they have improved the hardware used for the process, creating increasingly more powerful machines. Those that live in areas where electricity has a high cost will find it difficult to turn a profit.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2023

The report—prepared by Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Reclaim Finance, the Sierra Club and Urgewald—examines commercial and investment bank financing, combining lending with underwriting debt and equity issuances. degrees Celsius (2.7 C above preindustrial levels.

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Fossil Fuels Paris Agreement 2016 Carbon Dioxide 354

PA Environment Daily

JULY 15, 2021

Trillion Spending Package -- Bloomberg: Democrats Propose Tax On Carbon-Intensive Imports In Budget Deal -- Utility Dive: U.S. Adopts New Mon Valley Air Pollution Episode Rule -- Reuters: Sweden’s EQT To Buy Covanta Waste Management Company In $5.3

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Air Pollution Carbon Dioxide Rainforest Natural Gas 59

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 are those attributable to producing the energy (principally electricity) that the company buys. The vote on it was 24-9.

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Regulations Law 2023 Greenhouse 98

Legal Planet

MAY 21, 2025

The new four-lane highway at issue would cut down Amazon rainforest “for COP30,” seeming to capture the hypocrisy of Brazil hosting the megaevent. Beto Verissimo, Head of Belem-based rainforest conservation organization Imazon, is the liaison for forests. Jonathan Pershing, a longtime U.S. Energy Costs Rise: The U.S.

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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. Nature-based solutions are projects such as preserving and restoring existing forests , peatlands, wetlands and other natural carbon sinks , and growing more trees.

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Paris Agreement Fossil Fuels Carbon Dioxide 2030 98