Environmental News Bits

MAY 8, 2024

The CO2 pipeline network is undergoing rapid expansion as companies invest in the booming carbon capture and sequestration market. Read the full story at Verite News. With this growth come worries that communities may not be prepared or even aware of the potential for dangerous leaks.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Sabin Center wrapped up Climate Week NYC last Friday with an event exploring the opportunities and challenges posed by ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR). Both the LC and LP require parties to adopt domestic laws to regulate the “dumping” of “waste and other matter” at sea. It is not hard to see why.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 5, 2023

Support for carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is growing globally. In its Sixth Assessment Report , released last year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that global carbon dioxide emissions must reach net-zero by the early 2050s to limit warming to 1.5 By Carolina Arlota and Korey Silverman-Roati.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Sabin Center published a new report today recommending actions that federal agencies could take to ensure safe and responsible permitting and regulation of ocean carbon dioxide removal (CDR) research in U.S. A variety of ocean-based CDR approaches—i.e., Those activities could raise a host of legal issues. and the U.S.

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Law Columbia

JULY 14, 2022

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) will be needed, alongside deep emissions cuts, to achieve global temperature goals. o C or 2 o c, in line with the Paris Agreement, global carbon dioxide emissions must reach net-zero between 2050 and the early 2070s. By Korey Silverman-Roati. At the domestic level in the U.S.,

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2023

However, industry proponents positioned to capitalize on the proliferation of carbon capture and sequestration and the projects that depend on it are aggressively pursuing its development despite wide-ranging risks and diminishing returns,” said Sarah Carballo of FracTracker Alliance. The DEP has struggled with staffing for years.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 21, 2023

A second company has formally asked state regulators for permission to move ahead with constructing a pipeline capable of transporting for permanent storage in Illinois the carbon dioxide captured from ethanol production. Wolf Carbon Solutions, the Canadian energy infrastructure entity with U.S.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 28, 2022

Both categories are regulated by the Office of Conservation within the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources. Enhanced Recovery: Use of carbon dioxide for enhanced hydrocarbon recovery requires the creation of a unit by the Commissioner of Conservation for the purpose of secondary or tertiary recovery under La.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

The InfluenceMap dataset includes company-by-company data on emissions of carbon dioxide–the heat-trapping gas responsible for the largest contribution to climate change–and methane, a very potent heat-trapping gas that lasts a shorter time in the atmosphere.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Coal is supposed to be “phased down” except where the resulting carbon dioxide is removed and securely stored (which may or may not actually be feasible). In a fourth significant subsection, section 28 highlights the role of greenhouse gases other than carbon dioxide. The “phase down” of coal.

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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. Combined, the new rules would reduce methane emissions from the U.S.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

CT , the Supreme Court said this: We hold that the Clean Air Act and the EPA actions it authorizes displace any federal common law right to seek abatement of carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel fired power plants. And, most relevant here, §7411(d) then requires regulation of existing sources within the same category.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

Supreme Court Decision Did Not Affect EPA’s Ability To Regulate Carbon Dioxide As A Pollutant, Has No Impact On DEP's RGGI Power Plant Carbon Pollution Reduction Program [PaEN] -- Evangelical Environmental Network: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Of U.S. Related Articles: -- U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

On November 14, the PA Environmental Council and Environmental Defense Fund expressed concerns about Senate Bill 1361 (Yaw-R-Lycoming) that would direct DEP to apply to EPA for primacy in regulating Class VI injection wells related to carbon dioxide storage using only EPA injection well standards within 90 days of passing the bill.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 23, 2024

The Earth has a natural self-regulation system for balancing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere: the long-term carbon cycle. Read the full story from Northwestern University.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency to apply for primary to regulate underground injection wells. Klapkowski pointed out EPA has primary authority now to regulate underground injection wells, but DEP also requires a permit since they are considered conventional wells under the state’s Oil and Gas Act.

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Law and Environment

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

On September 21, 2023, the Biden administration outlined plans to expand federal agencies’ consideration of the social cost of carbon—a metric for the economic cost of each additional ton of carbon dioxide emitted to the atmosphere. The directive is, nonetheless, significant.

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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). CO2 sequestration projects inject CO2 into the subsurface and are subject to these EPA regulations. Liability transfer regulations could have complex legal ramifications.

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Clean Energy Law

JULY 8, 2021

The report also identifies the wide variety of ways by which the captured carbon dioxide can be converted into a product of commercial value, also known as carbon utilization. Addressing pollution in overburdened communities. Increasing support for CCUS research. Developing and enhancing incentives such as 45Q Tax Credits.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Department of Energy (DOE) to support the development of four regional “direct air capture hubs” (DAC Hubs)—networks that connect direct air capture projects with sequestration facilities and commercial users of captured carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). Why Do We Need CO 2 Pipelines?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering amendments to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation, but indicated they have no plans to address the problems caused by counter-productive subsidies for manure biomethane. Each credit one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent pollution below the standard.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2023

Burning gas and coal leads to carbon dioxide emissions and air pollutants. Carbon dioxide is the main cause of global warming overall. MARC FUTERNICK: To be successful in this fight to curb carbon emissions and reduce the worst impacts of climate change, we need all hands on deck.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Methane is responsible for 30 percent of current global warming and is 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 20 year period. Subnational jurisdictions are particularly suited to reducing methane emissions, as they serve as the primary regulators of emissions from agriculture, energy, and landfills in many cases.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

On September 1, the Independent Regulatory Review Commission voted 3 to 2 to approve the final Environmental Quality Board regulation to reduce carbon emissions from power plants. The Commission acted after hearing comments on the regulation for four hours of comments from those supporting and opposing the regulation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

How do biomethane, lifecycle carbon accounting, and the tax credit interact? Biogas is the direct product of anaerobic digestion, primarily comprised of a mixture of methane and carbon dioxide, plus much smaller amounts of other gases. If this perspective ever held water, it unequivocally now does not.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2024

Approximately 223 tons of carbon dioxide and 27,040 tons of methane were released, which represents approximately 10 percent of the total recorded methane emissions in Pennsylvania in 2022, based on DEP’s inventory of self-reported emissions data. VOCs are a precursor to ozone, which is known to cause adverse health effects.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 11, 2023

See also: Coal and gas-fired power plants would have to eliminate nearly all their climate-warming carbon dioxide emissions in just a little over a decade, under proposed regulations issued today by the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

What’s most remarkable is that the decision calls for a 45% reduction of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions–of not only its own but also those of its customers–within less than a decade. In the face of disappointing legislation and regulation, activists have increasingly turned to courts in the last fifteen years.

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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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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

Supreme Court decision on regulating carbon pollution from power plants-- The Supreme Court decision in West Virginia vs. EPA to limit the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate carbon pollution is a significant blow to God’s children here in the United States and throughout creation.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

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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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 29, 2023

There are some uncertainties, like undefined terms and that this statute has no temporal limitation arguably applying to a business’s current marketing claims about past offsets and GHG emission reductions, but such is to be anticipated in this first ever regulation of this space. All information documenting how.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2021

On October 14, the Department of Environmental Protection presented a proposed regulation that would adopt California’s existing Zero Emission Vehicle Program that requires 22 percent of the new passenger and light duty vehicle fleets offered for sale in the state be zero emission vehicles starting in model year 2025.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 14, 2024

They are proposing a major carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in northeast Alberta. The project will capture carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from 13 oil sands facilities in the Fort McMurray, Christina Lake, and Cold Lake regions and transport the CO 2 to the Cold Lake area where it will be injected underground (just south of St.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2023

As a handy reference for litigators, regulators, investors, and all who are affected by climate change, below is an A to Z of fossil fuel industry denial, deception and delay tactics. However, a 2022 investigation by Global Witness found that the plant actually emits more carbon dioxide than it captures.

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ESA

JULY 1, 2022

At stake was the ability to reduce carbon emissions as written in the ‘Clean Power Plan’ regulation under the auspices of the Clean Air Act that gives the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) power to regulate “the best system of reducing emissions.”

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Leading this subnational trend, California officials launched the Subnational Methane Action Coalition, an international partnership between subnational governments that have some responsibility in overseeing or regulating sources of methane emissions. This year, several jurisdictions announced new methane regulations. Since the E.U.

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