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FRESH, October 4, 2022: Carbon Dioxide Storage and Transport Emerges as Political Flashpoint

Circle of Blue

If carbon emissions continue to rise until the middle of the century, this figure climbs to $2.2 A similar measure stalled earlier this year due to opposition from conservatives on the state’s Natural Resources Board. A plan to build out electric vehicle chargers draws pushback from gas station owners in Minnesota.

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Tuesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 12.12.23

PA Environment Daily

8 [PaEN] -- Lancaster County Community Foundation Awards $64,837 In Community Conservation Grants -- Williamsport Sun: Experts In Parks, Green Infrastructure Hired In Williamsport -- National Assn. Of Health Pushing For Changes To Reduce Adverse Health Impacts [PaEN] -- Senate Environmental Committee Meets Dec.

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This election, we need real climate plans not false solutions

Enviromental Defense

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. We need to be doing both.

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New Report Highlights Benefits of Zero-Carbon Ports

Ocean Conservancy

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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New York City’s Local Law 97: REC Mechanism Lacks Additionality; Will Set Price Too Low

Law Columbia

A central limitation is that these RECs must have as their source a renewable energy resource “located in or directly deliverable into zone J load zone,” the New York City area of the electricity grid. The second is that the price is too low. Local Law 97, and these rules, risk failure on both grounds. Additionality.

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Analysis: Green jobs take off in China

A Greener Life

In China, government plans to peak and neutralise national carbon emissions, and for a wholesale green transition , have caused a boom in “green employment”. The bump may be linked to China’s commitment, made in September 2020, to reach carbon neutrality before 2060. But analysis based on wider datasets is more conservative.

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Good News from “Down Under”

Legal Planet

The Liberal Party — conservative in everything but name — lost control of the federal government to Labor. Climate change wasn’t a central issue in the campaign, but resistance to climate action no longer provided a political advantage. Polling showed broad public support for more aggressive cuts in carbon emissions.