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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

The plan cuts power plant and industrial ozone pollution that wafts from central parts of the nation into eastern states. According to the American Lung Association, nearly 120 million people in the nation—one of every three—lives with unhealthy levels of particle and ozone pollution. A 40-year-old Supreme Court ruling (Chevron v.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

to reducing their carbon emissions. which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. carbon dioxide. including urban photochemical smog, acid rain and increased tropospheric ozone, and climate change at the local, regional, and global level respectively. Clean Power Plan.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2022

The AFIG Program funds projects that replace older gasoline- or diesel-fueled vehicles with cleaner fuel vehicles that helps reduce emissions of carbon monoxide, particulate matter, volatile organic compounds, nitrogen oxides, and carbon dioxide, a principal greenhouse gas.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

While burning gas at a power plant isn’t as carbon intensive as burning coal, the fuel’s main component is methane , which is more than 80 times as powerful as carbon dioxide at warming the planet over a 20-year time frame. It must not respond by watering the protections down based on industry disinformation.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution. Click Here for a copy of Altenburg’s complete testimony with footnotes.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution. Click Here for a copy of Altenburg’s complete testimony with footnotes.

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

But since it became clear that human actions are damaging the environment and changing the climate, it has become much more prominent nationally and internationally with most government departments in most countries having responsibilities to mitigate or prepare for climate change scenario. The effect on the global environment is similar.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Chlorpyrifos is an organophosphate pesticide that the US government banned for use on food crops after we published our study, though it is still used in other parts of the world. The people of Flint demanded that their government recognize their human right to clean and safe drinking water, and they won.

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Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The emissions make a significant contribution to climate change because methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas which, in the first 20 years after it is released, traps approximately 84 times more heat in the earth’s atmosphere than carbon dioxide (on a per ton basis). EPA has offered no explanation for its sudden change in approach.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2022

They experience truck traffic and their diesel exhaust emissions, transient workforces, air pollution, including volatile organic compounds, particulate matter, ozone, oxides of nitrogen and fugitive methane emissions. Finally, this industry has fugitive emissions of methane and the burning of gas releases carbon dioxide.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. The petitioners, joined by intervenor States and local governments, appealed this determination, and in Massachusetts v. Last year, local governments in the U.S. The brief emphasized the threat that U.S. The brief is available here. EPA , 549 U.S. And in 2022 alone, U.S.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. Circuit vacated the 2015 rule to the extent that it prohibited continued use of HFCs by companies that previously switched to HFCs from an ozone-depleting substance. In Mexichem , the D.C.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In an unpublished judgment, the court rejected the petitioners’ other NEPA arguments regarding project design and capacity and cumulative ozone impacts. Federal Government Proceeded with Offshore and Onshore Oil and Gas Leasing but Appealed Louisiana Federal Court Injunction. Vecinos para el Bienestar de la Comunidad Costera v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2023

The federal government,” West Virginia Sen. Like nitrogen dioxide, methane combines with other pollutants to form ground-level ozone—more commonly known as smog—and it is a significantly more potent global warming pollutant than carbon dioxide. At least one fossil fuel-friendly Democrat stoked the fire, too.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Monitoring Hazmat Incident Involving A Rail Car Leaking Carbon Dioxide Saturday In Clinton County -- Williamsport Sun: Project Underway To Rebuild Fishing Creek Trout Habitat, Boost Economy, Help Environment In Clinton County -- Save The Date: Keystone Coldwater Conference Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

And today, we're gonna hear from the ethics of work of EHP on how our state government has failed to defend, to protect our children and the citizens of Pennsylvania from this real problem. There are public health protections baked into government policies and practices.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

By railing against what he calls a “radical climate change movement” and suing the federal government to protect corporate polluters. In 2015, when he took office as AG after stints in the Texas Legislature, he sued the Environmental Protection Agency for strengthening a standard for ground-level ozone, better known as smog.

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

But there has been “no sign” that China’s government intends to shift the country’s policy, said Byford Tsang, a senior policy adviser with the E3G think tank. Capturing carbon is a must. Countries will also have to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to keep global warming in check.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The SCC is a metric that seeks to capture all of the costs that emitting a ton of carbon dioxide (or equivalent amounts of other greenhouse gases such as methane) imposes on society by contributing to climate change over the hundreds of years it remains in the atmosphere. N: Missouri v. Biden , Civ. 4:21-cv-00287-SPM (E.D.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

Climate: The Environmental Protection Agency does not list a timetable to act on a new carbon dioxide rule for existing power plants. 20 executive order that called for a review of energy and environment-related rules across the federal government. Several factors lend the rulemaking to a longer timeframe, including the D.C.

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