New Scientist

JULY 22, 2025

Read more The jet stream may be starting to shift in response to climate change Aerosol pollution, which mainly comes from burning fossil fuels, typically has an opposite effect to greenhouse gases. By some estimates, aerosol pollution has masked as much as half of the warming effect of greenhouse gases to date.

Air Pollution

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 23, 2025

Humans are on track to release so much greenhouse gas in less than three years that a key threshold for limiting global warming will be nearly unavoidable, according to a study to be released Thursday.

Greenhouse

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

The main objectives included: Approving and adopting outlines for the three major working group reports and an additional methodology report on carbon dioxide removal (CDR). The Goals of the Hangzhou Plenary The agenda for this Plenary was packed with essential tasks shaping the next IPCC reports in this cycle.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

The main objectives included: Approving and adopting outlines for the three major working group reports and an additional methodology report on carbon dioxide removal (CDR). The Goals of the Hangzhou Plenary The agenda for this Plenary was packed with essential tasks shaping the next IPCC reports in this cycle.

Climate Change

Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Removing cattle from carbon-rich soils in the eastern U.S. and western Europe while intensifying production elsewhere could drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions, with little hit to global protein production, a new study shows.

Climate Scientist

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Oil and gas companies are proposing the widespread use of carbon capture to deal with their increasing greenhouse gas emissions. Learn more about carbon capture – and why it isn’t a climate solution – here. Numerous counties have passed temporary moratoriums on carbon pipelines given the health and safety risks.

Carbon Dioxide

A Greener Life

JANUARY 9, 2025

The report, submitted to the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), discloses China s greenhouse gas inventory in 2020 and 2021. It showed that total greenhouse gas emissions in 2021, including that from land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF), reached 13 billion tonnes, an increase of 4.3%

Carbon Dioxide

Environmental News Bits

JULY 10, 2025

Google has contracted for super-pollutant credits equivalent to eliminating 1 million tons of carbon dioxide. Google will tailor its credit purchases to address its emissions profile across different types of greenhouse … Continue reading Google uses carbon credit purchase to tackle short-lived super-pollutants

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, estimated to be 80 times more damaging to the atmosphere than carbon dioxide but not as long lasting. “People will say, ‘You could have burned the forest down!’ But people need to see things. You can’t just tell people about things. They won’t listen.”

2010

Law Columbia

JANUARY 31, 2025

Most climate action today rightly focuses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change underscores the urgent need the advance carbon dioxide removal (CDR) as a complement to (but not a substitute for) emissions reductions.

Ocean

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 19, 2024

converting it to carbon dioxide). Methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas, with each ton of methane emitted trapping approximately 80 times more heat in the earths atmosphere than a ton of carbon dioxide over a 20-year timescale. The Sabin Center published a report that explores the international and U.S.

Atmosphere

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 16, 2025

The use of telemedicine reduced carbon dioxide emissions by the equivalent of up to 130,000 gas-fueled cars per month in 2023, a new study has determined. Read the full story at The Hill.

Carbon Emissions

HumanNature

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Beginning with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) release of the report Livestocks Long Shadow in 2006, the totality of the contribution of cattle to livelihoods, food security, and ecosystem services has been questioned when contrasted with their contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and the environmental equilibrium.

Climate Change

Vermont Law

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Methane is a greenhouse gas that traps heat more effectively than carbon dioxide. Greenhouse gases are major drivers of global climate change. We did not heed that warning: livestock still contribute significantly to global greenhouse gas emissions. CAFOs are significant methane emitters through their manure.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

These settlements are the latest in EPA’s urgent efforts to limit the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change and hold corporate polluters accountable for jeopardizing public health.” Uhlmann for EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. Specifically, by Dec. million to plug or remediate them.

Clean Air Act

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In 2022, the amount of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions nationwide was over one billion tons , making Japan the 5 th largest GHG emitter in the world. According to the Japanese Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, the countrys fossil fuel dependency was 83.2% Kobe Steel Ltd.,

2025

Environmental News Bits

JULY 16, 2025

Food companies have a powerful opportunity to address planet-warming methane emissions from dairy production in their supply chains to help achieve greenhouse gas reduction, build resilience in their operations and supply chains and enhance business value. Sustainability Action Plans for Methane Reduction

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2025

EPA Supreme Court ruling which held that greenhouse gas emissions are unambiguously air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. There is nothing mysterious about the heat-trapping attributes of greenhouse gases, nor their impact on public health. These findings followed from the landmark 2007 Mass v.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

In the last sixty years, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has grown 100 times faster than it did at the close of the last ice age. Carbon pollution is pollution. Primarily driven by the burning of fossil fuels, the CO 2 concentration has increased to more than 420ppm.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2025

On March 12, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced plans to reconsider EPAs 2009 endangerment finding for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, along with all regulations and actions that rely on the finding. The Supreme Court explicitly held in Massachusetts v. cars endanger public welfare.

2009

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Although in its early stages, carbon dioxide removal (CDR) techniques – i.e., techniques that remove and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere – have gained traction in recent years as a climate change mitigation strategy. NDCs do not fully outline how BCEs will be scaled up through funding.

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

JULY 7, 2025

It’s also worth noting that local businesses use these tax credits for projects and investments that lessen greenhouse gas emissions and improve public health at the local level, and they now face the same restrictions and termination dates.) Commercial EVs.

2026

Physics World

JUNE 3, 2025

When plants decompose or are burnt, they release the carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) they had absorbed from the atmosphere. One idea to prevent this CO 2 being released back into the atmosphere is to bury the waste biomass under conditions that prevent or slow decomposition, thereby trapping the carbon underground for centuries.

Waste

Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2025

In late 2009, EPA made a formal finding often called the Endangerment Finding that greenhouse gases may endanger human health and welfare. The Bush Administration argued that greenhouse gases dont meet that requirement. The only question , the Court said, was the scientific evidence about the harmfulness of greenhouse gases.

Clean Air Act

Circle of Blue

JULY 9, 2025

These trends converged in Paris in 2015 when 195 countries signed a legally binding international treaty on climate change to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and attempt to keep global temperatures from rising to more dangerous levels. In the United States, coal production actually did peak in 2008 at 1.2

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 21, 2025

Vehicle standards likely to be targeted include: EPAs Multi-Pollutant Passenger Vehicle Emission Standards These standards apply to model year 2026 through 2032 vehicles and will lead to reduced greenhouse gases, nitrogen oxides, particulate matter and other pollutants from new vehicles.

Nitrogen Oxides

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 18, 2025

447) Local government (438) Public lands (54) National parks & forests (45) State government (182) U.S. 447) Local government (438) Public lands (54) National parks & forests (45) State government (182) U.S.

Recycling

Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

In addition, if profits can be maximized by deforestation or releasing methane or other greenhouse gases as well, then profits must again take precedence. This means that the leaders of U.S. More on the Maximization Model of fiduciary duty in a moment. states allow for a more moderate and permissive interpretation of fiduciary duties.

Law

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

However, environmentalists often criticize EQIP for awarding funding to practices that do not reduce greenhouse gas emissions, sequester carbon, or build climate resilience. It defines climate-smart practices as those reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sequestering carbon, and building climate resilience.

Conservation

Legal Planet

JANUARY 16, 2025

billion to cut emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere for centuries, warming the earth every single day. It also provides $1.5 This is not my area of expertise, but Biden obviously made it clear that the U.S. was back in the game after the first four years of Trump.

Carbon Dioxide

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

To recap: The unanimous opinion found that nations of the world have a legal obligation to limit their emissions of greenhouse gases or else pay reparations for the harms of climate change. EPA is renouncing its ability to even regulate greenhouse gases as a threat to human health.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

MARCH 26, 2025

Killing it will have consequencesbuildings are responsible for a major share of global carbon dioxide emissions, and around half of those emissions come from producing and transporting the materials that go into thembut it does not spell the end for policy supporting low carbon construction.

Carbon Dioxide

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 26, 2025

Many of the grant recipients were deploying carbon capture and storage – technologies that are designed to prevent industrial carbon pollution from entering the … Continue reading How the end of carbon capture could spark a new industrial revolution by Andres Clarens, University of Virginia The U.S.

Technology

Legal Planet

APRIL 7, 2025

Rather, our knowledge has grown over 168 years, since an American scientist first discovered the heat-trapping properties of carbon dioxide. Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius predicts changes in surface temperature due to greenhouse effect. Climate change is no fad or Johnny-come-lately in science.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2025

The social cost of greenhouse gases (SC-GHG) helps quantify the costs of climate change related to heat-trapping emissions, in terms of dollars per ton of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) or methane (CH 4 ) or nitrous oxide (N 2 O) emitted. It can also be used to quantify the benefits of reducing these emissions. How costly?

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2025

Carbon Pollution Reduction ] Although the RGGI matter started from a rulemaking petition, when Gov. But this cap-and-trade program of CO2 [carbon dioxide] would have brought in an estimated $443 million in income to be spent only on clean air initiatives such as monitoring and constraining polluting facilities.

Government

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The case involves EPAs 2024 Vehicle Standards that set new air pollutant and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for model year 2027 through 2032 Light- and Medium-Duty Vehicles, which have been challenged by states and industry groups. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Kentucky v.

Clean Air Act