Law Columbia

JANUARY 23, 2023

She also gave a briefing to Congressional staffers on the 2022 National Academies of Sciences’ report on “A Research Strategy for Ocean-based Carbon Dioxide Removal and Sequestration.” The Center is currently cooperating with legal scholars in Brazil and Australia who are undertaking similar projects in those countries.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 2, 2022

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. As the CEO of Ocean Conservancy, I naturally look to our ocean. We can decrease production of virgin plastic that comes from fossil fuels and pollutes our ocean as well. We can find opportunities for alternative energy like offshore wind and other marine renewables.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. It is within this context that Ocean Conservancy releases Zero-Carbon for Shipping: Sailing Carbon-free along North America’s West Coast. If nothing is done to clean up shipping, its carbon emissions are projected to jump by almost 130% by 2050.

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In addition, recent legislation, including the 2022 Investment Reduction Act, which revised the requirements and qualifications criteria for the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 45Q carbon capture credit (part of the renewable energy tax policy created to meet U.S.

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Law Columbia

JULY 7, 2023

Romany Webb, Korey Silverman-Roati and Carolina Arlota were highly active within the Carbon Management and Negative Emissions space, frequently giving presentations on the legal issues relating to carbon dioxide removal research and deployment in the U.S. and internationally.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

The changes to the world's oceans include warming, more frequent marine heatwaves, ocean acidification, and reduced oxygen levels. As the graph shows, policies on land-use, agriculture, and renewable energy hold a lot of potential for net GHG emissions reduction. Image originally featured on eia.gov. Figure SPM.7

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

We specifically urged the authors to acknowledge the need for effective climate resilience planning and to discuss the limited extent of such planning today by electric utilities, system operators, and others in the energy industry. Legal Mechanisms for Overcoming Obstacles to Siting Renewable Energy Facilities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2022

A transition to renewable energy is not just one of the most consequential tools at our fingertips to act on climate, but also represents a great opportunity to increase control over our energy choices, improve the health of our communities and the planet, create jobs and wealth, and much more. We can do this transition right.

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Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

Decarbonizing the industrial sector is key to achieving these targets, as it is responsible for around 20% of the EU’s total emissions (not including emissions associated with energy consumption by industry). Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) : CDR is an umbrella term for technologies that remove and store CO2 from the atmosphere.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

The GWPF – a group founded to contradict established climate science – has in the past expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mischaracterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”. We are a not-for-profit organisation and rely entirely on the generosity of our network to support our research programme.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 22, 2023

Utilities Commission (NCUC) to “take all reasonable steps” to achieve a 70% reduction in carbon dioxide ( CO 2 ) emissions from electric generating units (EGUs) by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality for the utility generation system by 2050. January 22, 2023. A 2021 North Carolina law requires the N.C.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Acidification : Reducing the pH rating of a substance making it more acidic in nature, for example, increased carbon emissions lead to the oceans absorbing more of it, increasing acidification and damaging ecology such as coral bleaching. They are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, CFCs, and hydrofluorocarbons.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 18, 2023

According to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory ( NREL ), floating offshore wind represents 63 percent of the total technical potential for offshore wind in the North Atlantic and 65 percent at the national level. Tribal nations must be included in the development, permitting, and management of offshore wind projects.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2021

By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal Pennsylvania is ideally suited to help the nation fight global warming by becoming a leader in the effort to capture and store emissions of carbon dioxide, state officials say. In the battle to slow global warming, carbon dioxide is the chief target. Studies by the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

The data These data represent the cumulative carbon dioxide and methane emissions from the largest industrial carbon producers. These data also provide an important counterpoint to industry arguments around Scope 3 emissions, which for fossil fuel companies, are roughly 90% of their total emissions.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

volume mixing ratio), together with a number of trace gases, such as argon (0.93% volume mixing ratio), helium, radiatively active greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (0.035% volume mixing ratio), and ozone. The dry atmosphere consists almost entirely of nitrogen (78.1% volume mixing ratio) and oxygen (20.9%

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 10, 2021

To the extent those sectors continue emitting carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, those gases will need to be captured prior to release into the atmosphere. This necessarily raises the question: what should be done with all of the carbon dioxide? to 2 o C target set in the Paris Agreement. Outer Continental Shelf.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 21, 2023

We know we must rapidly and dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including through a just transition to a renewable-energy driven economy. Blue carbon is carbon captured by ocean and coastal ecosystems. The ocean covers 70% of the Earth’s surface and is a major carbon sink.

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Inside Climate News

MARCH 21, 2023

Ocean-based renewable energy could play a big role in decarbonizing the U.S., and healthier oceans can help stabilize the climate, the Ocean Climate Action Plan suggests. By Bob Berwyn Oceans around the world are beset by marine heatwaves , pollution, coral bleaching , mass die-offs and overfishing.

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Global Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Michael Moore’s last movie, Planet of the Humans , questions the reliability, affordability and sustainability of renewable energy. The thought-provoking film also highlights the renewables’ dependence on fossil fuels. What are the limitations of renewable technologies? the 25% of the total renewable energy share.

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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.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 10, 2023

For several years, Ocean Conservancy has joined with partners to sound the call for the decarbonization of the shipping industry. Each year, the shipping industry delivers more than 10 billion tons of goods—amounting to approximately 90% of all trade but emits 1 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide in the process.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 10, 2023

For several years, Ocean Conservancy has joined with partners to sound the call for the decarbonization of the shipping industry. Each year, the shipping industry delivers more than 10 billion tons of goods—amounting to approximately 90% of all trade but emits 1 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide in the process.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

They said, depending on how the proceeds of the final regulations are invested, it will not have a negative impact on jobs, but will be a job creator and energy efficiency and renewable energy initiatives will reduce energy costs. He's a professor of energy policy and economics and the director of energy law and policy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The trained marine biologist guides shared that water pollution in the Pacific Ocean and local bay have contributed to the population’s decline, and they talked about what is being done to improve it. In addition, the EPA should revise or scrap the social cost of carbon (SCC), according to the Blueprint.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

That approval came a day after the administration said it would bar drilling in some other areas of Alaska and the Arctic Ocean. That would release some 280 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, according to a federal analysis. After completing its own environmental review, the Biden administration gave the greenlight.

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Law and Environment

MAY 11, 2023

Accelerate Energy Project Permitting on Federal Lands. This priority urges Congress to update provisions of the Energy Act of 2020 to provide goals for 2030 and 2035, facilitate renewable energy development zones, and site necessary transmission to attach new generation to the grid. Renewable Energy on Public Land.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 24, 2021

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. UN Secretary-General António Guterres stated that we’re in a “ code red for humanity ” and called for an end to fossil fuel production and exploration, along with a massive transition to renewable energy, to mitigate climate change. That’s not helping our ocean or Americans.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 2, 2022

That clearly includes natural gas—which oil and gas companies continue to tout as a “bridge” fuel from coal to renewable energy. A 2019 UCS study found that Shell, Chevron, ExxonMobil and BP were four of the top seven historical and current contributors of carbon dioxide to the world’s oceans, fueling their acidification.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , No. Both sets of intervenors also said the court should limit any abeyance period to 120 days. Center for Biological Diversity Filed Lawsuit Seeking Records on Termination of National Climate Assessment Advisory Committee. Center for Biological Diversity v. 1:17 -cv-02031 (D.D.C., filed Oct.

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Legal Planet

MAY 7, 2025

Among other cuts, the budget proposes: Cancellation of $15.247 billion in Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act funds (which the document labels Green New Scam funds) for unreliable renewable energy, removing carbon dioxide from the air, and other costly technologies burdensome to ratepayers and consumers.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 1, 2025

Replacing gasoline with electricity greatly reduces carbon emissions from driving, even when emissions from mining, manufacturing, and generating electricity are included. Recently published UCS analysis shows that driving the average EV in the US produces carbon dioxide emissions equivalent to a hypothetical 100 mpg gasoline car.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is expected to hold a hearing on Wrights nomination tomorrow. In videos and Congressional testimony , Wright portrays himself as a truth teller, while falsely claiming that climate scientists and renewable energy advocates are deceptive. Carbon pollution is pollution.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

On the merits, the court found that the respondents had taken the hard look required by SEQRA, rejecting arguments that they failed to consider (1) the New York State Energy Plan and its renewable energy target; (2) the pending solar project; (3) the impact on fossil fuel emissions; and (4) global climate change. filed Sept.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Although the district court acknowledged that BLM provided “a lengthier explanation” of its reasons for not quantifying foreign emissions than the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management provided in the earlier case, the court found that BLM still did not “thoroughly explain” why an estimate of foreign emissions was impossible.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Carbon dioxide output plunged during the COVID-19 lockdowns last year, but that was temporary and they have surged again since as economies have recovered. On the plus side, the cost of renewable energy and other green technology has plunged in recent years, so that it is now as cheap as fossil fuels in most parts of the world.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 27, 2024

The new global record in the generation of renewable energy was powered primarily by solar and wind. The shift helped the United States to drop its share of fossil fuels in the energy mix from 67 percent in 2015 to 59 percent last year. More on that shortly. But first, the undeniably good news. degrees Celsius (2.7-degrees

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