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Glossary of Greenhouse Gas Terms

Greenbuilding Law

With proposed federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions by the Securities and Exchange Commission requiring GHG disclosure and new state statutes, including a new Maryland law that requires not only disclosure, but also a mandated reduction in GHG emissions, a greater appreciation of the subject of GHG appears in order.

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Reducing Your Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Greenbuilding Law

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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Other 2023 N.C. Environmental Legislation

Smith Enviorment

The legislature put two provisions in the Appropriations Act of 2023 (House Bill 259) to prevent state agencies from adopting rules intended to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses such as carbon dioxide (CO2) in the state. ’s current ozone SIP based on vehicle emission inspections in 19 N.C. 130A-309.10

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

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.