Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Advocates calling on the Nigerian government to prioritize renewable energy investments in the Niger Delta and ensure no community is left behind in its energy transition framework. Litigators pursuing climate justice and corporate accountability, backed by climate science and social science.

Fossil Fuels

Vermont Law

MARCH 3, 2025

Energy development in the PRB is responsible for nearly 15 percent of total U.S. carbon pollution, making it the largest single source of carbon dioxide pollution in the country. Lastly, the PRB is significant because of its massive potential for emissions and pollution.

Carbon Dioxide

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.

Fossil Fuels

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.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

JULY 22, 2025

On July 22, a panel of energy experts gathered to provide a consumer-first, clean energy perspective following the A.I. Data Center and Energy Summit held at Carnegie Mellon University on July 15. million tons of CO2 [carbon dioxide] and 600,000 cars. and energy. and data centers.

Fossil Fuels

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 18, 2025

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Recycling

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

China for its part is exporting enough solar panels, batteries and EVs that is helping to cut emissions 1% outside of China and will avoid some 4 billion tons of carbon dioxide over the lifetimes of the products, according to a new Carbon Brief analysis. More than 80% of us favor building more solar power stations in California.

Fossil Fuels

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.

Clean Energy

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2024

EPA that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases fall within the Clean Air Act’s capacious definition of “air pollutant.” The Supreme Court has repeatedly upheld EPA’s authority “to regulate carbon-dioxide emissions from powerplants” (see, for example, Am. In 2007, the Supreme Court held in Massachusetts v.

2024

National Law Center

JULY 24, 2025

Additionally, much of the money appropriated for conservation programs under the IRA was specifically set aside to fund conservation practices that are aimed at improving soil carbon, reducing nitrogen losses, and sequestering carbon dioxide. A more detailed break down of conservation funding under the IRA is available here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2025

This rule also builds on other national and international actions advanced in recent years to mitigate methane emissionsa greenhouse gas with 80 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide. The full text of the final rule will be available in the Federal Register on publication.

Natural Gas

Scientific American

JUNE 13, 2025

Those pressures are colliding with record-breaking temperatures worldwide and explosive demand for energy, driven by power-hungry data centers linked to artificial intelligence technologies. carbon pollution. is the only one among them that is not trying to hit a carbon reduction goal.

Paris Agreement

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.

Renewable Energy

Environmental News Bits

JULY 21, 2025

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2025

The Lightning Plan will supercharge energy development in the Commonwealth, positioning Pennsylvania to lead the way in clean, reliable, and affordable energy for years to come. It will also empower manufacturers, such as Voith Hydro, to continue to expand operations and lead global energy innovation. Peter Schweyer.

Electricity

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Rejecting False Solutions: The Inflation Reduction Act and the Fight for a Just Energy Transition By Savannah Collins and Mia Montoya Hammersley In 2024, scientists confirmed that, for the first time, the world had crossed the threshold of 1.5 economy away from being reliant on fossil fuels and into renewable energy.

Carbon Dioxide

Environmental News Bits

JULY 28, 2025

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Recycling

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 23, 2025

This cut would also mean shutting down the Mauna Loa Observatory, which has tracked atmospheric carbon dioxide since 1958 and produced the iconic Keeling Curve , which alerted us to the first definitive evidence of human-driven climate change. Farmers flying blind Climate change is already disrupting agriculture and food supply.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

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Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2025

Danger season is here, and US taxpayers are facing double jeopardy thanks to a reckless and inhumane Congressional budget bill that hands billions of dollars to the oil and gas industry as it worsens the impact of climate change by withdrawing support for renewable energies and government mitigation programs.

Fossil Fuels

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 16, 2025

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 1, 2025

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Physics World

AUGUST 1, 2021

Sprinkling powered basalt over natural ecosystems would remove vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the Earth’s atmosphere while also improving soils. But even in best case scenarios for renewable energy and industrial decarbonization, it looks certain that significant carbon dioxide emissions will continue for decades.

Carbon Dioxide

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 3, 2021

energy policy has done little to incentivize the growth of these technologies, relying on a patchwork of energy credit programs, tax breaks, and development spending to promote renewable energy production. But as the market grows, some urge caution before using wastewater to create renewable natural gas.

Carbon Emissions

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.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2023

According to The Global Carbon Project , approximately 36.6 billion global carbon dioxide emissions in 2022 came from fossil fuel use. Fossil fuels are the problem It’s pretty simple: the burning of fossil fuels is the main driver of climate change. billion tons of the 40.5

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2024

A word about CCS : this technology has existed for decades but is only used at a handful of fossil energy facilities. While the IPCC mentions the value of CCS, the 2023 synthesis report also notes, “Currently, global rates of CCS deployment are far below those in modelled pathways limiting global warming to 1.5°C Who needs units anyway?

Carbon Dioxide

Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Traditional chemical manufacturing relies on non-renewable fossil energy sources for power and raw materials. A more sustainable option gaining steam is the use of electrolyzers, devices that instead use electricity to convert raw materials like carbon dioxide (CO2) into useful molecules for chemicals and products.

Carbon Dioxide

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.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 19, 2022

This process uses a lot of energy: producing 1 kilogram of metallurgical grade silicon requires 14-16 kWh of power, which is roughly equivalent to using your home oven for seven hours. Still, over their lifetimes, solar panels emit 25 times less carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt hour than coal-powered electricity.

Carbon Monoxide

New Scientist

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Solar Foods will grow bacteria using carbon dioxide from the air and hydrogen produced by renewable energy, a process more efficient than growing plants

Carbon Dioxide

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.

Carbon Dioxide

The Energy Law

JUNE 3, 2022

In response to various pressures on the energy industry to reduce the environmental impact associated with excess carbon dioxide emissions, many energy companies are investigating carbon capture and sequestration projects as a means of reducing their carbon emissions.

Carbon Dioxide

Environmental News Bits

MARCH 1, 2022

Amid growing global energy demand and rising carbon dioxide emissions, majorities of Americans say the United States should prioritize the development of renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar, and take steps toward the country becoming carbon neutral by the year 2050. Read the full story from Pew.

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2022

However, on the narrow but important issue of carbon dioxide emissions, an acre of solar panels appears to offset more emissions each year than an acre planted with trees can sequester. metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. What about the carbon that is released when an acre of forest is removed?

Carbon Dioxide

Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

” Prioritizing fossil fuels over renewable energy in 2023 for insubstantial reasons does not pass strict scrutiny. Notable for future litigation was this court’s focus on the feasibility of quickly moving to renewable energy systems, especially wind, water, and solar.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

That requires bringing global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions to net zero by 2050. To meet that goal, the International Energy Agency’s Net Zero Roadmap released in 2021 says no new oil and gas supply projects can come online. That $2 billion per year in low-carbon spending is looking smaller all the time.

Fossil Fuels