Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 30, 2024

This paper presents recommended actions that federal agencies could take, under existing law, to ensure safe and responsible permitting and regulation of ocean carbon dioxide removal (CDR) research in U.S.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 4, 2024

National governments are the most important systemic actors in the governance of climate action, primarily because they are the only actors with the ability to adopt economy-wide decarbonization measures. Over 80 government framework cases have been filed around the world, using a wide variety of legal and factual arguments.

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Law Columbia

MAY 10, 2022

According to the IPCC, to achieve net zero emissions, carbon dioxide removal (CDR) will be needed to “counter-balance hard to abate residual emissions” from sectors like agriculture, shipping, and aviation. states and the federal government share authority over the 200 nautical mile zone. Combining AU with AD—i.e.,

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 30, 2021

Ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) is one of several proposed techniques for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it in the oceans. In OAE, alkaline materials such as ground rock are added to ocean waters, increasing pH levels (and thus reducing acidity) and enabling greater uptake of carbon dioxide.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 23, 2023

March 8, 2023, marked the start of the demonstration phase of Project Greensand , shipping carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from Belgium for storage in a depleted oilfield in the North Sea off the coast of Denmark. on the Export of Carbon Dioxide Streams for Disposal in Sub-Seabed Geological Formations for the Purpose of Sequestration.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 23, 2022

Read the full post from the Government Accountability Office. Coal-fired power plants release carbon dioxide, mercury, and other emissions that can harm human health. Today’s WatchBlog post looks at two of … Continue reading Federal government efforts to reduce emissions from coal-fired power plants.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 9, 2022

Toronto | Traditional territories of the Huron-Wendat, the Anishnaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Chippewas and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation – The Ontario government solicited expert testimony from a known climate change denier to defend its poor record on climate action, in a court challenge brought from seven Ontario youth.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions include carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes, net carbon dioxide from land use, land use change and forestry, methane, nitrous oxide, and fluorinated gases. of its long-term investments to sources of low-carbon energy like wind and solar.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Coal is supposed to be “phased down” except where the resulting carbon dioxide is removed and securely stored (which may or may not actually be feasible). In a fourth significant subsection, section 28 highlights the role of greenhouse gases other than carbon dioxide. The “phase down” of coal.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

The project was first proposed in 2021, and has already received government subsidies. This decision is just the latest failure in carbon capture’s terrible track record. It should serve as a lesson for governments on how reckless it is to be using taxpayer dollars to subsidize these projects.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 11, 2023

Meeting our net-zero goals will require the deployment of emissions reducing technologies and pathways for directly removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Players in the carbon dioxide pipeline industry canceled major pipeline projects in recent weeks, marking an inauspicious start to President Biden’s ambitious plans to develop carbon capture infrastructure as a key emissions mitigation tool. Read the full story from DeSmog.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

government just announced the first awards from a US$3.5 billion fund for projects that promise to pull carbon dioxide out of the air. by David Kitchen, University of Richmond When soaring temperatures, extreme weather and catastrophic wildfires hit the headlines, people start asking for quick fixes to climate change.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Together with the Chinese Certified Emission Reduction (CCER) Scheme, which was restarted on October 19, 2023, the development and strengthening of the China ETS reaffirms China’s objectives to limit the growth of carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. Read the Client Alert.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Alongside a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels, substantial deployment of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) techniques might avert – or at least limit – overshoot of 1.5°C. At COP 28 this week the US and several partners launched a ‘Carbon Management Challenge’ with an aim to collectively store 1.2 But some optimism remains.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 14, 2024

They are proposing a major carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in northeast Alberta. The project will capture carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from 13 oil sands facilities in the Fort McMurray, Christina Lake, and Cold Lake regions and transport the CO 2 to the Cold Lake area where it will be injected underground (just south of St.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In a blog post last month, I wrote about the growing interest in ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR), and the complex legal issues it raises. Given this, over the last century, a large body of international law has been developed to govern ocean-based activities.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 4, 2023

With little difficulty we can envision these leading to more human-oriented problems — hunger, disease, population displacement, and conflict — problems that could grow unmanageable from governance and international security perspectives.” Kissinger also viewed climate change as an economic threat.

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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. Post, at 20. We answered no, given the existence of Section 111(d). American Elec. Power , 564 U.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

This is the reason over 400 of Canada’s leading energy experts warned the government against providing subsidies for CCS. Yet the Government of Canada is falling for it. The Carbon Capture Facility at the Boundary Dam Power Plant in Saskatchewan went into service in 2014. Carbon leaks can be dangerous and even deadly.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

If Capital Power can’t square the economics of a CCS project that would have received massive subsidies, why would the federal government fork over $16 billion for such a risky project with a low possibility of success? Since then, it has captured less than half of the carbon dioxide it is supposed to.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Let’s look at three tools that are being sold as climate saviours, when their real objective is to prolong the life of the polluting fossil fuels which are driving climate change: carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS), hydrogen and offsets. They call this Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS).

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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. in recent decades, actual emissions are significantly higher than the official government estimates, a new study concludes.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Methane is responsible for 30 percent of current global warming and is 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 20 year period. It is the main component of “natural gas” and is produced predominantly by the agriculture, energy (oil & gas and coal), and waste sectors. C of warming by 2050.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

On November 14, the PA Environmental Council and Environmental Defense Fund expressed concerns about Senate Bill 1361 (Yaw-R-Lycoming) that would direct DEP to apply to EPA for primacy in regulating Class VI injection wells related to carbon dioxide storage using only EPA injection well standards within 90 days of passing the bill.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Biomass is fast becoming a topic of interest for governments looking for solutions to the climate crisis and cleaner energy sources. Of its multiple potential uses, carbon dioxide removal (CDR) may be one of the best ways it can help achieve net-zero emissions goals. Read the full story from the World Resources Institute.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This Private Member’s Bill is only necessary because the federal government has failed to keep its own promise. Back in 2021, the federal government committed to ending the export of thermal coal before 2030. When burnt, that amount of coal would produce 40 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, or the equivalent of 8.7

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 7, 2022

When it comes to acknowledging society’s impact on climate, environment, and human security, water is the next frontier for comprehensive accounting and adaptation strategies — for industry, municipalities, governments, and individuals, all of which have made impressive commitments and progress to track carbon pollution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2023

According to The Global Carbon Project , approximately 36.6 billion global carbon dioxide emissions in 2022 came from fossil fuel use. Governments, including COP28 host the United Arab Emirates, acknowledge this fact. billion tons of the 40.5 This misleading narrative tries to decouple fossil fuels from climate change.

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Clean Energy Law

JULY 8, 2021

Suggested Improvements the Federal Government Can Make. The report also identifies the wide variety of ways by which the captured carbon dioxide can be converted into a product of commercial value, also known as carbon utilization. Next Steps.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 12, 2023

For carbon dioxide removal (CDR) advocates, 2023 was a year of exciting milestones as well as shared challenges. As carbon removal moves increasingly mainstream and enjoys significant federal and private sector investment, government, innovators, and nonprofits are working to set a foundation for responsible deployment.

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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.

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Columbia Climate Law

APRIL 24, 2020

Today, the Sabin Center filed an amicus brief on behalf of local governments in support of state and environmental petitioners in American Lung Association v. The rule was expected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 30% by 2030. reduction in carbon dioxide by 2030, but may not decrease emissions at all.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 4, 2022

She has previously worked in government at the United States Geological Survey and in the oil and gas industry. Her current research and interests are in carbon dioxide sequestration… Read more →

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

Leubke will explain the basics of carbon capture and storage (CCS) and how both point-source CCS and direct air capture (DAC) can help the U.S. reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) atmospheric levels.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 9, 2023

HB 571 provided a balanced approach between providing additional protections for local governments and communities while permitting the CCS industry in Louisiana to move forward.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 9, 2023

HB 571 provided a balanced approach between providing additional protections for local governments and communities while permitting the CCS industry in Louisiana to move forward.

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