Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

, its district, appellate , and supreme courts decided in favor of Urgenda, an upstart environmental organization, ordering the government to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Everyone produces greenhouse gases.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

CT , the Supreme Court said this: We hold that the Clean Air Act and the EPA actions it authorizes displace any federal common law right to seek abatement of carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel fired power plants. at 528–529. 410 (2011). Post, at 20. We answered no, given the existence of Section 111(d).

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

If passed, this new law would finally put an end to the millions of tonnes of coal – the world’s dirtiest and deadliest fossil fuel – that are shipped overseas from Canada’ west coast every year. Not only does burning coal contribute massively to rising greenhouse gas emissions, it also endangers people’s health.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

They called expert witnesses to calculate the total greenhouse gas emissions caused by activity in Montana, a major gas and coal producing state, and connected that to tangible impacts on ecosystems and humans in the state. ” Prioritizing fossil fuels over renewable energy in 2023 for insubstantial reasons does not pass strict scrutiny.

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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.

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Law Columbia

JULY 31, 2023

BLM projects that it will produce 576 million barrels of oil over its 30-year lifetime, resulting in indirect emissions totaling 239 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) equivalent. The project is controversial due to both its location and its climate impacts. C and approximately equal to the remaining budget for 2.0°C.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

The bench trial took place last month in the state capitol, Helena, where 16 youth plaintiffs ages 5 to 22 made the case that Montana’s unwavering promotion of fossil fuels violates the state constitution’s guarantee to a “clean and healthful environment.” Whether Montana’s GHG emissions can be measured incrementally.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Our national overreliance on gas is evidently undermining energy access, not strengthening it, as some fossil fuel industry players would want you to believe. These claims just add to the deluge of greenwashing and disinformation from the fossil fuel industry. Don’t believe the industry spin. There’s a better way forward.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2017

We know that burning fossil fuels is the main cause of anthropogenic climate change, and that climate change is the source of adverse impacts on communities and even regional and national economies. Instead, it has been to stem and confuse the flow of information about climate change to the public and political leaders.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

And it’s been one month since the Montana First District Court determined that the state of Montana had indeed violated Montana youth’s right to a “clean and healthful environment” by collaborating with the fossil fuel industry. As a young person and a UCLA Law student, the importance of the Held trial is not lost on me.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 29, 2023

California has just enacted the Voluntary Carbon Market Disclosures Act which requires the disclosure of specified information about net zero claims, carbon offsets, and more by businesses, including by an untold number of companies located beyond the Golden State’s borders. All information documenting how.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

Ebel, the CEO of Enbridge, to our list of infamous Climate Villains – powerful people with fossil fuel interests holding Canada back from effective climate action. The executives behind the fossil fuel industry often avoid public scrutiny, which is why we’re shining the spotlight on their activities.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The Governor approved a notable slate of climate legislation with a package that includes more stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets and measures designed to reduce the state’s reliance on fossil fuels. In the past several years, UCLA law students from both our Frank G. Climate Change Mitigation.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

The UN agency concluded global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are at the highest levels in human history and without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors limiting climate change to 1.5°C They set out the state of climate mitigation and impacts in a report released on Monday the 4th of April. It was sombre reading.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2023

As of June 20, 2023, the amount of CO2 [carbon dioxide] in the atmosphere has now risen to 421 parts per million, way past the level of 350 ppm considered safe. Because fossil fuels are used both to produce blue hydrogen and to operate its carbon capture technology, its carbon emissions are quite high.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 4, 2023

By coincidence rather than design, two different approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the electric power sector have been under discussion by North Carolina agencies since 2021. A later post will cover the North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC) Carbon Reduction Plan. January 4, 2023. Under the draft N.C.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

By ratifying the 2015 Paris Agreement, [1] nations across the world made a commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by the year 2030. Carbon dioxide is one of the primary greenhouse gases found in the Earth’s atmosphere, accounting for 76% of global greenhouse gas emissions according to published reports.

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Acoel

JANUARY 16, 2024

The Farm Bill is likely the most significant environmental law Congress will address this year. More detail can be found in my book, Farming for Our Future; The Science, Law, and Policy of Climate-Neutral Agriculture , and related Columbia , Harvard , NYU , and Yale Law School blogs). The millions of cows in the U.S.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

China, and United Arab Emirates hosted the Summit on Methane and non-CO 2 Greenhouse Gases that called on the parties of the Paris Agreement to include methane and other GHGs in their nationally determined contributions (NDC). Many of us hoped that this COP would be the moment to agree on a path to phasing out fossil fuels.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 16, 2022

Originally, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

By ratifying the 2015 Paris Agreement, [1] nations across the world made a commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by the year 2030. Carbon dioxide is one of the primary greenhouse gases found in the Earth’s atmosphere, accounting for 76% of global greenhouse gas emissions according to published reports.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The decision at the Glasgow climate conference to phase down fossil fuels is an important step forward — and not just because of climate change. We think of fossil fuels as a source of climate change, but that’s only a one part of the problem. Fossil fuels are a case in point. Consider coal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Let’s look at the three technological strategies which would lead to decarbonization of the transportation sector and the phaseout of petroleum by midcentury: 1) electrification, 2) strengthening greenhouse gas emission standards and fuel economy standards, and 3) clean liquid fuels.

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Columbia Climate Law

APRIL 24, 2020

The Clean Power Plan was the Obama Administration’s rule regulating greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants, the nation’s largest stationary source of climate pollution. The rule was expected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 30% by 2030.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2022

Going back to 1978 and through this month, Congress has acknowledged climate change in a total of 87 enactments, as shown by a database just posted by Columbia’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. The database collects Congress’s references to climate change, along with related terms and concepts like global warming and greenhouse gases.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The Inflation Reduction Act, President Joe Biden’s signature piece of legislation passed into law in 2022, allocated $19.5 Mechanisms of climate mitigation via soil carbon sequestration At the root of the excitement around soils is their ability to hold on to carbon, potentially drawing it out of the atmosphere and locking it away.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 26, 2023

But total emissions of greenhouse gases are around 50Gt of CO 2 ‘equivalents’. Delivering large removals would likely drive up costs of food and energy, exacerbating food insecurity and fuel poverty. Nonetheless there is a desperate need to translate such recommendations into law and policy.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2022

Fossil fuels aren't just the feedstock for those reactions; they also provide the heat and pressure that drive them. As a result, industrial chemistry's use of petroleum accounts for 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions.” Read more here. But Science also reported-- “??Now,

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Law Columbia

MARCH 5, 2024

The stakes are high: whatever version of the code emerges from the appeals process is likely to become law in much of the United States at some point over the coming years. The ICC’s Model Codes Under State Law The actual building codes enforceable in a given U.S. jurisdiction are set under state or local law.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

So when a lot of these regulated utility laws were established the cost of the commodity is a pass through, and to protect consumers a lot of us put laws on the books that said you have to be a least cost consumer, or least cost procurer of gas, which means that we are minimizing the cost to our consumers. “So

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Law Columbia

MAY 28, 2021

Building electrification requirements – at times called “natural gas bans,” including on this blog – are subject to a complicated interplay of federal, state and local law, and many local governments have been found or determined themselves to be preempted from one or more approaches.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2022

Fossil fuels aren't just the feedstock for those reactions; they also provide the heat and pressure that drive them. As a result, industrial chemistry's use of petroleum accounts for 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions.” Read more here. But Science also reported-- “??Now,

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Greenbuilding Law

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Public Health : Based on a law first introduced in 2008 and then the success of a pilot program initially implemented in the heart of London dating to 2019, the first year of this program alone will reduce GHG emissions by 45% from those vehicles that are no longer there. really, why?) Disadvantages: 4.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

These new approaches include asserting new legal theories to creatively applying long-recognized doctrine rooted in the common law. In an unusual approach to an environmental law issue, they have brought claims grounded in the Constitution and the public trust doctrine. Some applaud these novel approaches to environmentalism.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

By Stepehen Wiegand In October 2009, EPA promulgated the Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Rule. The proposed rules would require the reporting of fugitive and vented methane and carbon dioxide emissions, including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide combustion emissions from flares.

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JANZEN AG

MARCH 26, 2021

The term generally means the reduction of a quantifiable amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) or its equivalent from the atmosphere. The phrase CO2 “or its equivalent” denotes that reducing other greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) may also generate a carbon credit. Who buys carbon credits?

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

What is Environmental Law? Humanity has been aware of its environment far longer than there have been laws to protect environments. However, the term “environmental law” does not just cover government legislation. These are not “laws” per se but act as such within a regulatory framework. Useful Environmental Law Terms.

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