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Guest Essay: PA Conventional Oil/Gas Operators Blog: More Carbon Dioxide Is Good, Less Is Bad

PA Environment Daily

People should be celebrating, not demonizing, modern increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). This is one reason why there was no runaway greenhouse warming when CO2 concentrations approached 20 times that of today. First, there is a strong case that these are solar-powered fuels. Read more here.]

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30 Major Climate Initiatives Under Biden

Legal Planet

Biden and the EPA select the recipients for $20 billion in grant awards under two competitions within the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund created under the IRA. EPA adopts emissions rules for cars that will cut CO2 emissions in half by 2032, avoiding more than seven billion tons of carbon dioxide emission over three decades.

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Progress Possible at COP 28 Despite Fossil Fuel Industry Deception

Union of Concerned Scientists

Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions 1990–2019. 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.

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The Carbon Capture Boondoggle Begins To Unwind 

Enviromental Defense

Since then, it has captured less than half of the carbon dioxide it is supposed to. Photo by Sask Power via Flickr Creative Commons Playing Pretend with the Planet Building out carbon capture on a large scale would require a huge network of dangerous pipelines to transport the carbon to storage sites.

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Response to the New York Times Essay “Are There Better Places to Put Large Solar Farms Than These Forests”

Law Columbia

Specifically, it is important to understand that solar is not being sited in equal quantities on these three types of land, as farmland hosts far more solar projects (33%) than either grassland (6%) or forests (4%). For comparison, nearly 3% of solar power is currently sited in urban areas. [1].

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Beware of Two False Solutions to Climate Change Brought to You by Big Oil 

Enviromental Defense

Wind and solar power, paired with energy storage and energy savings, can almost entirely replace fossil fuels – and leave our communities better off. And one of their favourite tactics is to push technology that they claim can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions – especially carbon capture and storage and hydrogen.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson’s Climate Change Playbook: Deny the Science, Take the Funding

Union of Concerned Scientists

It stops the government from factoring in the social cost of greenhouse gases in budgets and environmental reviews. The United States currently emits at least three times more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than all 54 nations in Africa combined.