Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

But the effect of greenhouse gases is not even investigated in the paper – which suggests the title is politically motivated. Is it sheer incompetence or is it politically motivated? Figure 2: Carbon dioxide levels and global temperature over the past 2022 years. It is a scandal.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In particular, he said, “reliance upon coal, on the other hand, could aggravate the ‘greenhouse effect,’ whereby excess carbon dioxide (which accompanies coal burning) traps heat inside the earth’s atmosphere, thus possibly melting the icecaps and raising the level of the oceans.”

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

By Phil McKenna and Peter Aldhous Preliminary atmospheric monitoring data from a remote South Korean island off China’s east coast shows elevated concentrations of hydrofluorocarbon-23 (HFC-23), a greenhouse gas 14,700 times more potent than carbon dioxide on a pound-for-pound basis, according to the World Meteorological Association.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 18, 2022

One option, a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, gets the most attention but seems politically impossible. The closest we’ve ever come to a carbon tax is a limited fee on methane emissions under the new IRA law. If a carbon tax were politically feasible, there would be a lot to be said in its favor.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

At the country-level, the United States is the largest historic contributor to the climate crisis, having contributed about one quarter of all carbon dioxide emissions (the main driver of global warming) between 1750-2020. It’s past time to hold these companies and our decision makers accountable.

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Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

A new report finds aluminum manufacturing worldwide emits more than a billion tons of carbon dioxide annually, as well as chemicals called perfluorocarbons that warm the planet for 50,000 years.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Their study examined the carbon dioxide and methane emissions from these companies’ products, as well as from the extraction and production processes of the largest gas, oil and coal producers and cement manufacturers. Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The residents who oppose a plan to let heavy industry use Lake Maurepas as a storage site for carbon dioxide emissions span the spectrum of race, class, age, education level and political affiliation. Chemical giant Air … Continue reading Lake Maurepas carbon capture project draws increasing opposition

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

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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Inside Climate News

JANUARY 16, 2023

By Bob Berwyn, Katie Surma Forests managed by Indigenous peoples and other local communities in the Amazon region draw vast amounts of planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere while the rest of the rainforest has become a net source of the greenhouse gas, a new report has found.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 17, 2023

Over the year, those plants emitted 661 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, more than 13% of the US’s energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. Gas power plants account for about 43% of utility-scale electricity capacity, slightly higher than the 40% of electricity generated from gas in 2022.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 2, 2021

A proposal to extend the road 94 miles through this Andes-Amazon “transition zone,” to reach the Peruvian border, is gaining political momentum. . BR-364, the 2,700-mile asphalt strip that weaves through rainforest to connect São Paulo to Acre, might soon be lengthened.

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Inside Climate News

MARCH 21, 2023

Along the West Coast, kelp, which captures a lot of carbon dioxide, is dying off. By Bob Berwyn Oceans around the world are beset by marine heatwaves , pollution, coral bleaching , mass die-offs and overfishing.

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Environment, Law, and History

JANUARY 12, 2022

In particular, he said, “reliance upon coal, on the other hand, could aggravate the ‘greenhouse effect,’ whereby excess carbon dioxide (which accompanies coal burning) traps heat inside the earth’s atmosphere, thus possibly melting the icecaps and raising the level of the oceans.”

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Legal Planet

JULY 13, 2021

In my research on solar geoengineering, carbon dioxide removal , and gene drives , I began to wonder whether these proposed technologies are–as many claim–fundamental breaks from past activities or merely additional points along a continuum, albeit somewhat further out. Much of this work falls within the natural sciences.

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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 corporations and their surrogates have also co-opted and infiltrated international climate negotiations, further exacerbating the world’s reliance on fossil energy.

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Steep reductions in emissions of methane—which traps 81 times as much heat as carbon dioxide in the first 20 years in the atmosphere—are among the most important steps for slowing climate change in the short term. By Phil McKenna The U.S.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

EPA is the primary authority for Class VI well permits, which are essential for the underground storage of carbon dioxide (CO2). 6] These states’ liability transfer and environmental justice strategies are shaping the landscape for future CCS projects, presenting legal and political challenges. Regan to Governors (Dec.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

But with the recent influx of government incentives for hydrogen production, new and improving production and storage technologies, and greater political will than ever before, H 2 ’s reputation is gaining favor. Because of this, a 30% hydrogen mix by volume delivers only a 10% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

The social cost of carbon is an estimate of the harm done by one additional ton of carbon dioxide. The earliest government estimate of the social cost of carbon was for 2010: $21/ton with a 3% discount rate and $35 at a 2.5% That would have been equivalent to eliminating all emissions for six months of Bush’s term.

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Vermont Law

JULY 31, 2023

The social cost of carbon is an economic tool used to determine how much the cost is, in dollars, of emitting another ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. As carbon dioxide builds up in the atmosphere, it also traps heat surrounding the planet. The damage this heat creates is SCC.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

The current barriers to implementing renewable energy systems are not technical or economic, but social and political,” the decision says.  Is it a ‘game-changer’? When courts leave implementation details to the same agencies that were deficient in the first place, progress is a slow grind and often requires a lot of political pressure.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In the long run, warming will be determined by how much carbon we pump into the atmosphere before we stop. According to the IPCC, every trillion tons of carbon dioxide translates into another half degree of warming. In terms of emissions cuts, the basic rule is simple: Every ton counts.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Wang is a leading expert on environmental governance and the law and politics of China. Ted’s world-leading research project on the governance of geoengineering examines law and policy issues presented by solar geoengineering and carbon dioxide removal.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In the Nile River basin last week, a political power shift in Sudan could turn up the heat on a long-simmering dispute over a major dam in the region. On the other hand, advocates for the transmission line say it is a vital springboard to a low-carbon future. Rhode Island followed in 1987, and was the last state to do so.

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Law Columbia

JULY 7, 2023

Michael Burger was featured among the “Power Players in Climate, Energy and Sustainability” in Politics NY. 2023 Columbia University Press; link to pre-order is available here ) Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal for Climate Mitigation: The Legal Framework , by Romany M. and internationally.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

But make no mistake, the larger issue is the regulation for the first time of GHGs (including carbon) which will literally change the structure of the global economy, our political order, market capitalism and even our biological selves.”. In 2020, carbon dioxide accounted for about 79% of all U.S. emission trends.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

In 2021 alone, the plants slated for retirement emitted more than 28,000 tonnes of nitrogen oxides (NO x ), 32,000 tonnes of sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), and 51 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), according to EIA data. What can be done?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2022

Just as important, cleaning up the power grid can also decrease carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions. What we need now is political will to make this transition happen and ensure that its benefits reach us all. The value of the public health benefits totals almost $280 billion over the two decades.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

It is 80 times stronger than carbon dioxide (CO2) at trapping heat on short timescales. Despite the obvious dangers of fossil fuel production and the multi-decade climate disinformation campaigns fossil fuel producers have perpetrated, the industry still holds political sway.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The WMO’s GHG bulletin’s headline takeaways are stark: Atmospheric concentrations of three major heat-trapping gases, carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), methane (CH 4 ) and nitrous oxide (N 2 O) hit all-time highs in 2021 (see table below). The World Meteorological Organization Greenhouse Gas Bulletin.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The Philippines Commission on Human Rights published report on Carbon Majors’ responsibility for climate change. The court found that complainants’ fundamental rights were not violated preemptively because the federal legislator, not the state legislatures, are subject to a carbon dioxide emissions budget. In Smith v.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Pellegrino PDF Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo Edited by Marco Mandalà; Augusto Pietro Casani; Ji Soo Kim; Daniel Ross Gold PDF Bioregenerative Life-Support Systems for Crewed Missions to the Moon and Mars Edited by Cyprien Verseux; Jean-Pierre Paul de Vera; Natalie Leys; Lucie Poulet PDF Cities, violence and gender: findings and concepts of the (..)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A simple statement that masks just how complicated the issues are: mixing politics, economics, livelihoods, fisheries and endangered species in the ocean body that is the Gulf of Maine. The common enemy explained—and it’s NOT Offshore Wind The common enemy is the oil and gas industry because of their role in climate impacts.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

As a second benefit, they claim to be engaged in political symbolism, trying to disrupt a stuck debate over effective climate responses and get people to talk about solar geoengineering – of which stratospheric aerosol injection is the most promising method being discussed.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 30, 2021

As political parties prepare their election platforms and publish their climate priorities, it can be difficult to determine which parties are releasing strong climate plans that put us on a pathway to zero emissions – and what policies are actually dangerous distractions from real solutions.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

. -- Oil & Gas Industry Spills, Releases Created Over 575 New Brownfield Sites So Far In Pennsylvania, With More Every Week [PaEN] -- Environmental Health Project Finds Results ‘Very Concerning’ From University Of Pittsburgh Studies Showing Links Between Natural Gas Development And Lymphoma Cancer, Worsening Asthma Conditions, Lower Birth Weights (..)

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