Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Each credit one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent pollution below the standard. I’ve written recently about why a Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard , which addresses the bio-based diesel credits. Source California Air Resources Board.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

of the world’s total carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion, many airlines are considering carbon-capture-and-storage technologies and electric-powered planes. In April, Air Canada committed to investing $50 million in SAFs and other carbon-reducing technologies. Biomass and municipal waste.

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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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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

increase in carbon dioxide pollution from the Commonwealth’s power plants between 2020 and 2021. Pennsylvania’s power generation sector is one of the nation’s largest — and thus, also, one of the biggest emitters of climate-changing greenhouse gases. Environmental Protection Agency show a startling 9.6%

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 23, 2024

However, it is a much-awaited step in the right direction as the federal government moves to cap greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from the highest polluting industry in Canada. It is a scientific fact that greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels are causing climate change. The framework is by no means perfect.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Some in the industry see the warming as an opportunity, as passages through the Arctic open for longer periods, even going so far as to claim there will be lower overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the shorter voyages. Warmer water also expands and raises sea levels as well as holds less oxygen.

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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 This would include using materials more efficiently, reusing and recycling products and minimising waste. It was sombre reading.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Fossil fuel power plant owners are facing increased accountability for their air and water pollution, including from a new round of environmental and public health protections that are being rolled out by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). We’ve heard these lazily disingenuous narratives before.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2021

President Biden’s goal is to cut the country’s greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, and to reach net zero emissions by 2050. During this period of greenhouse gas reductions, the energy needs of the wastewater sector are projected to climb, due to population growth and tightening water-quality standards. million metric tons.

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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. Climate Change Mitigation. Clean Energy.

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Acoel

JANUARY 16, 2024

While our industrial food system is producing food that appears inexpensive and abundant (indeed, food is comparatively so inexpensive to most Americans, that the country wastes over 35% of it), it’s also one of the largest sources of water, air, and climate pollution in the country. emit more methane than the fossil fuel gas system.

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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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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 2, 2022

Climate change is a problem which has a known solution: We must dramatically reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and prepare now for intense climate impacts. We can decrease production of virgin plastic that comes from fossil fuels and pollutes our ocean as well. Never miss an update. Sorry, but we failed to add you to the list.

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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

JULY 9, 2023

Methane’s Warming Potential : Methane, a colorless, odorless, and highly flammable gas that occurs abundantly in nature and from a variety of anthropogenic activities, has a considerably higher global warming potential than carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide emissions, on the other hand, arise almost exclusively from burning fossil fuels.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

In the first months of 2024, legislators in four states— Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , and Vermont —have pushed for legislation that would collectively require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 31, 2015

He pleaded for swift global action through a critique of consumerism and wasteful development. The Pope’s 184-page encyclical highlights the looming crisis posed by climate change and places most of the blame on human activity and fossil fuels. On May 24, 2015 Pope Francis used his. encyclical. scientists. Our Children’s Trust.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Like Greta Thunberg, Mariutti comes to the tale as an environmental obsessive passionate about facilitating the world’s transition from fossil fuels to cleaner forms of energy. Does the fossil fuel industry offer any alternative?”, It was Mariutti who first took substantial efforts to flag the data discrepancies.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

For example, the ongoing debate over the impact of certain pesticides in agriculture , greenhouse gas emissions are often a battle between the science and industry's attempts to muddy the science and government lobbying to roll back legislation (2). Typically used in conjunction with “greenhouse gas” but some emissions are not GHGs.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

Waste Coal In July of 2021 a company by the name of Stronghold Digital Mining (Stronghold) filed an S-1 report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosing plans to purchase three waste coal fired power plants and install 57,000 Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) dedicated to mining bitcoin.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Anaerobic digestion is a biological process happening naturally that breaks down organic matter in an airless environment, resulting in the generation of methane and carbon dioxide (among other things, see below). It can also generate vast amounts of low-carbon energy on demand when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

Waste Coal In July of 2021 a company by the name of Stronghold Digital Mining (Stronghold) filed an S-1 report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosing plans to purchase three waste coal fired power plants and install 57,000 Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) dedicated to mining bitcoin.

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Edouard Stenger

JUNE 13, 2023

Reduce methane emissions Methane essentially comes from the decay of vegetation, animals’ digestion and the exploitation of fossil fuels, methane is a greenhouse gas with a massive footprint, 80+ times more potent than carbon dioxide in the first 20 years.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 24, 2021

UN Secretary-General António Guterres stated that we’re in a “ code red for humanity ” and called for an end to fossil fuel production and exploration, along with a massive transition to renewable energy, to mitigate climate change. Over the next 10 years, the fossil fuel industry in the U.S.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 18, 2023

The law provides $140 billion in tax incentives, direct loans, and grants to replace fossil fuels with cleaner renewable energy that lowers emissions of carbon dioxide. Gevo asserts its “farm-to-flight” project will release 80 percent less carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than ethanol produced by a conventional plant.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Methane is essential to control, since stabilizing climate requires reducing all anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions to net-zero. CO 2 is at about 410 parts per million by volume (ppm) in the air, about 50% higher than before the start of large-scale fossil-fuel use. And more methane initiatives are surely on the way.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

Organisms in the soil drive the planet’s metabolism, breaking down waste, as well as helping to provide food, energy, clean air and water. The soil is the largest terrestrial store of organic carbon. An increase of only a few percentage points would sequester huge quantities of carbon.

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Legal Planet

MAY 13, 2024

By one count , Biden has overturned more than two dozen of Trump actions affecting the fossil fuel industry. Biden and the EPA select the recipients for $20 billion in grant awards under two competitions within the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund created under the IRA. April 4, 2024. April 22, 2024. March 29, 2024.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Oil and natural gas operations are the nation’s largest industrial source of methane, a climate “super pollutant” that is many times more potent than carbon dioxide and is responsible for approximately one third of the warming from greenhouse gases occurring today. Click Here for EPA announcement.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Under the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), every country on Earth is treaty-bound to “avoid dangerous climate change”, and find ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions globally in an equitable way. above pre-industrial levels, and greenhouse gas emissions are still on an upward trend.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2023

For more information contact Cathy Lodge at: clodge@environmentalintegrity.org. ] “My Administration is making real progress towards tackling a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions here in Pennsylvania, and creating thousands of good-paying, union jobs in the process,” said Gov. Read more here. Josh Shapiro. “We Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Regardless, only 30 percent of the nation’s biggest livestock farms, known as concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), have waste discharge permits. It is mainly methane, which is 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in trapping heat for the first 20 years after it is released.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

Dr. Moerman said, “It’s time to defend our children’s health and future by reducing methane leaks, stop wasting taxpayer money by cleaning up the fossil fuels legacy, and supply real bonding and royalty reform.” billion in wasted energy. And this wasted methane does not disappear harmlessly into the wind.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

And it reveals how American families and businesses bear the brunt of wild price fluctuations in fossil fuels and deserve more stable, cleaner sources of energy. And making matters even worse, Pennsylvania’s oil and gas companies waste over 1.1 Simply put, wasted methane is wasted dollars we can’t afford.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 25, 2024

Image by Maxim Tolchinskiy (Unsplash) In November of 2022, when the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) proposed new rules to control venting, flaring, and leaks from oil and gas leases on federal land (the “Fossil Fuel Waste Rule”), they noted that these leasing rules would have an enormous ancillary climate benefit.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2022

Tom Wolf’s administration gets its way in Commonwealth Court, Pennsylvania will join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) in a matter of weeks. The administration’s potential victory – a hollow quest to lower carbon emissions in Pennsylvania – will cost residents $2 billion in the next five years. Army Veteran & Rep.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The federal district court for the Northern District of California denied Oakland’s and San Francisco’s motions to remand their climate change public nuisance lawsuits against five major fossil fuel producers to state court. Public Citizen, Inc. Trump , No. 1:17 -cv-00253 (D.D.C.

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