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

MAY 14, 2024

The Pathways Alliance is a group of the biggest oil sands producers in Canada: Canadian Natural Resources, Cenovus, ConocoPhillips, Imperial Oil, MEG Energy and Suncor. The Pathways Alliance is a group of the biggest oil sands producers in Canada: Canadian Natural Resources, Cenovus, ConocoPhillips, Imperial Oil, MEG Energy and Suncor.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

Last week, Capital Power, a major energy company with natural gas, waste heat, wind, solar and, until this week, coal assets, announced that it’s scrapping plans for a $2.6 billion carbon capture facility at its Genesse power plant west of Edmonton. Want proof? It’s a good question to ask your Member of Parliament.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Their study examined the carbon dioxide and methane emissions from these companies’ products, as well as from the extraction and production processes of the largest gas, oil and coal producers and cement manufacturers. Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 18, 2023

The court overturned a District Court ruling to invalidate a Berkeley, California, prohibition on natural gas infrastructure in newly-constructed buildings. Berkeley’s so-called “natural gas ban” was the first local ordinance in the country to effectively require all-electric construction of new buildings.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2024

On May 22, Duquesne Light Company released its 2023 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report , which discloses the company’s performance in three core areas of its ESG strategy: climate conscious, powering people and responsible performance. DLC received more than $19.8 From the EPA GHG Equivalence Calculator as of Dec.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

The motion asks the company to produce a report examining how Enbridge’s governance systems are functioning. The motion asks the company to produce a report examining how Enbridge’s governance systems are functioning. Greg Ebel has been vying to expand gas infrastructure in Canada and lock-in our reliance on gas for decades.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2023

The 28 funded projects will install 32 electric vehicle chargers for private and public use and put 95 electric vehicles, 24 compressed or renewable natural gas vehicles, and 11 propane vehicles on the road. It also helps lower the level of carbon dioxide, helping to address climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

These higher costs are being driven by a major overreliance on natural gas, which has sharply spiked in price and is currently the dominant fuel source in the US for both home heating and electricity generation. Likewise, pipeline giant Williams Companies now refers to its gas projects as “clean energy” projects.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Just how bad is fossil “natural” gas? Responsible for 12 percent of all US global warming emissions from human activities, methane traps significantly more heat per molecule than carbon dioxide, making it 86 times more harmful for the first 20 years after it is released into the atmosphere. VY: They do.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

Some of those changes, like cheaper natural gas due to greater use of fracking, helped emissions decline under Obama. The social cost of carbon is an estimate of the harm done by one additional ton of carbon dioxide. We can also take a rough stab at monetizing the amount of resulting harm. discount rate.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Enbridge promises to blend some hydrogen with natural gas, but that’s just a dangerous distraction. Blending a small amount of hydrogen into a gas plant won’t meaningfully reduce emissions. These are not real solutions. One is a subsidy to Enbridge—a fossil fuel giant—to build a fossil fuel power plant.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2021

In Canada, the federal government is pledging more money to provide clean water to Indigenous peoples. The Canadian government had pledged to resolve all boil-water advisories on First Nations reserves by March, but it did not meet that deadline. Using biogas for energy is not carbon neutral. It also includes $1.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Production of nitrogen fertilizers requires ammonia, which is produced through a highly energy-intensive process called Haber-Bosch and fueled by natural gas. Russia is a major supplier of the gas used in the production of nitrogen fertilizers, and also produces about 21 percent of the world’s potash.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2023

E is for (Anti)-ESG Over the past few years, more asset owners and managers have been taking environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into consideration when making investment decisions. Furthermore, hydrogen as a true decarbonization pathway hinges on the fuel being generated in a way that is carbon-free.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

New analysis recently released shows that Canadian oil and gas companies in Alberta and Saskatchewan are releasing FOUR TIMES more methane than what they’re reporting to the government. Methane is a really powerful greenhouse gas: it’s 86 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. Why is that such a big deal?

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

. -- Oil & Gas Industry Spills, Releases Created Over 575 New Brownfield Sites So Far In Pennsylvania, With More Every Week [PaEN] -- Environmental Health Project Finds Results ‘Very Concerning’ From University Of Pittsburgh Studies Showing Links Between Natural Gas Development And Lymphoma Cancer, Worsening Asthma Conditions, Lower Birth Weights (..)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Unfortunately, the very source of the TVA’s grid failure during Winter Storm Elliott in the winter of 2022 is the same source of energy that the TVA is now doubling down on : gas. Note: “Natural gas” is an industry misnomer; UCS considers methane, fossil gas, and gas to be much more appropriate terms for this energy source.)

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Carbon Capture and Storage Oil and gas companies like to paint a picture of a future where we can still have oil and gas production, but where oil wells, power plants and oil refineries can capture carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, from smokestacks and bury them deep in the ground.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

We’re in the midst of an escalating climate crisis, but the Ontario government is acting like the crisis isn’t happening. Take for example Ontario’s plans to expand gas infrastructure into rural and northern communities and build more gas plants. We can’t get to net-zero emissions without tackling fossil gas.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

That requires bringing global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions to net zero by 2050. To meet that goal, the International Energy Agency’s Net Zero Roadmap released in 2021 says no new oil and gas supply projects can come online. degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Others sent in written deputations urging council to say no to the new Napanee gas plant or risk aggravating an already worsening climate situation. To achieve this, the IESO is offering contracts to build new gas plants and expand existing facilities. It is mostly made up of methane which is even worse than carbon dioxide.

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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. C with limited or no overshoot project the use of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) on the order of 100–1000 GtCO2 over the 21st century.

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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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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

To address this financial deficit, governments, the private sector, and philanthropies announced the creation of a $1 billion fund to finance methane reduction initiatives in all sectors. Subnational governments of Brazil, Bolivia, South Korea, Germany, Spain, Canada, Nigeria, and the United States are among the signatories of the coalition.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

In 2021 alone, the plants slated for retirement emitted more than 28,000 tonnes of nitrogen oxides (NO x ), 32,000 tonnes of sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), and 51 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), according to EIA data. What can be done?

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In that decade, the federal government created the U.S. And state governments began to secure those same rights for individuals in their constitutions. NextEra operates a natural gas plant and several solar facilities in Maine, while Calpine and Vistra run natural gas plants in the state.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

With the federal government and state of Maryland each having announced within days of each other, the mandated disclosure of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, we have received, maybe not surprising, many calls in the last two weeks inquiring “what are GHGs?” In 2020, carbon dioxide accounted for about 79% of all U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Take action by telling the government to hold the oil and gas sector accountable for its pollution by urgently implementing a cap on emissions. Pierce proudly boasts about “driving government policy at federal and state levels” for the benefit of oil and gas companies. million gas cars. Is that you?

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 30, 2021

Carbon capture and release: a license to pollute . Oil and gas companies like to paint a future where we can still have oil and gas production, but where power plants and oil refineries can capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks and bury them deep in the ground. Hydrogen: Natural Gas Industry’s Hail Mary Pass.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2021

We can turn in the direction of healthier air quality and slow down climate change by switching to electric vehicles, whether we're government officials, business owners, school administrators, community leaders, or individual consumers. It’s free for public use and distribution.

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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. Busy with our own lives, we’ve simply given agency over to others, counting on the federal government, for example, to save the planet. And it’s still rising.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The war in Ukraine and potential fuel shortages in countries like Germany this winter have brought the issue of gas into the spotlight. The industry is saying the world needs more fossil gas (also known as “natural gas”), exported overseas in the form of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG).

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Law Columbia

MAY 28, 2021

This week marked significant growth for the building electrification movement, as the legal pathways in use by local governments to catalyze electrification doubled in number. This week’s advancements offer two new models for local governments looking to require or promote building electrification: air pollution and land use regulation.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2022

5 The largest drivers of the per capita difference are power emissions (coal and natural gas) and industrial emissions (coal mining, iron and steel production and oil and gas extraction). -- The industrial and power sectors make up 76% of emissions. An interdependent network of infrastructure across multiple technologies (e.g.,

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 24, 2021

To assess how serious net zero pledges are from corporations, there are three fundamental questions one should ask: Are they including all greenhouse gas emissions? That includes both carbon dioxide and methane, since methane is a very potent greenhouse gas that all oil and gas facilities emit.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 1, 2023

links Ontario residents to information about government programs that offer financial incentives for residential retrofits. And, kicking gas out of your home is good for your health and the climate. Gas is made mostly of methane – a climate-damaging fossil fuel that is over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

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