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Unraveling LA’s Hydrogen Combustion Experiment

Legal Planet

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. It is also a precursor to other pollutants, including ozone (a key component of smog).

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EPA’s Power Plant Carbon Rules Are Critical—and Complex. Here’s What to Know, and What to Watch.

Union of Concerned Scientists

A multi-decade legal history, including four Supreme Court decisions, has led to unimpeachable clarity on this one point: EPA has a statutory obligation to regulate carbon emissions from power plants under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act. EPA ruling, EPA can still establish rigorous carbon emissions standards.

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Using the Free Market to Affect Change: An Argument for Environmental Taxes

Vermont Law

to reducing their carbon emissions. which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. including urban photochemical smog, acid rain and increased tropospheric ozone, and climate change at the local, regional, and global level respectively. would suggest increasing the price of carbon.

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Why I Was Wrong About Methane

Legal Planet

So methane emissions seemed to be something that could be addressed at any point we got around to them. I’ve rethought that conclusion, however for a combination of policy and political economy reasons. Because methane contributes to ozone pollution, emissions cause immediate health effects as well as warming effects.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

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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The 2024 Election Outcome Could Boost the Case for Geoengineering

Legal Planet

and other countries are currently stumbling their way to a sharp reduction in carbon emissions. We definitely seem to be on the path to reducing emissions but having trouble doing so quickly enough. loss of stratospheric ozone); important aspects of regional climate (e.g.,

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Climatology: The Science of Global Weather Systems over the Long Term

Environmental Science

This radiation hits the atmosphere and is absorbed by the ozone layer which reduces the most harmful. The turmoil that followed was political but also showed the lack of resources in societies led to their collapse. It was five times larger than Krakatoa and no other volcano has come close to matching its power. Deforestation.