Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

CARB’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) seeks to incentivize the production and sale of alternative, lower emissions transportation fuels in order to displace conventional fossil fuels. To identify which fuels should be promoted, CARB calculates the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The PA GreenGov Council and the Penn State Sustainability will host a four-part sustainability webinar series on a variety of topics starting January 12. Specifically, the series supports Checklist efforts under the "Culture" category on Employee and Public Engagement (sections 13 and 14).

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Physics World

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Three-quarters of young people, in contrast, believe that wind and solar are low carbon, with only 61% of the eldest-age category polled – 65–74 year olds – knowing that nuclear falls into the low-carbon category too. We want to ensure a clean, sustainable and abundant future for us and the next generation.

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Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The building and transport sectors shall be integrated into the European Emission Trading Scheme (p.14 With a particular view to the transport sector, the Commission assesses that `the transport sector had the lowest share of renewable energy in 2015, with only 6%.

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2022

CARB doubles down on LCFS Program and liquid transportation fuels. The program’s original target was to reduce the carbon intensity (CI) of transportation fuel used in California by 2020 at least 10% from a 2010 baseline. Transportation fuels sold in California with CIs higher than the benchmark generate deficits. By Joshua T.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Jobs for the Future and the Ares Charitable Foundation have chosen Sustainable Pittsburgh as one of ten organizations across the United States to advance to Phase 2 of the Quality Green Jobs Regional Challenge. Executive Director of Sustainable Pittsburgh.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 29, 2022

Sustainable transport begins with active transport and then public transport , but cars will remain important for the foreseeable future. The Global Electric Mobility Readiness Index , or GEMRIX, is an attempt to track the transition internationally, and it sorts countries into a variety of categories.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 15, 2022

On July 14, the Department of Transportation announced it was the recipient of a regional America’s Transportation Award from the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). I am proud that AASHTO has recognized our efforts.” Sponsored by AASHTO, AAA, and the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2024

The banquet will recognize individuals and programs that have demonstrated outstanding dedication to stewardship across 10 different categories. “We The winners will be honored at an Awards Banquet on May 14 at Little Buffalo State Park in Newport, Perry County.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

With advice and input from local experts, Berks Nature identified 25 environmental indicators across five categories: Water, Energy, Air, Waste, and Land. Berks Nature launched the first State of the Environment report in 2008 with the philosophy of “what gets measured, gets done.”

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Post by Shantanu Kumar , 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. The presence of sustainability in the design phase ensures that the various components of cities (buildings, infrastructure, and natural spaces) are created and maintained through a cognizant allocation of resources while working within constrained budgets.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Instead, it is how are we—the collective we—going to incentivize, recognize, and support large-scale investments to protect forests, reduce and avoid emissions due to land-use change, and do so in a way that supports long-term sustainable development efforts of governments and communities.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 29, 2021

These companies were two of 12 companies in the shipper and logistic partner category to receive this distinction, representing the top performing, environmentally responsible SmartWay Partners that move more goods more miles with lower emissions and less energy. said EPA Mid-Atlantic Acting Regional Administrator Diana Esher. “We

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Washington Nature

MAY 2, 2022

Many of these barriers result from the design of transportation infrastructure, including aging culverts at stream-road crossings and toxic chemicals that reach rivers and streams from stormwater runoff. Scoring criteria are broken down into two categories: qualitative and technical. Successfully funded projects score well on both.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2023

To support these DAC Hubs, the United States will need a nationwide network of CO 2 pipelines that transport captured CO 2 to long-term storage sites.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

For 2021, eight Great Places were designated among three categories: Great Greenways/Trail (5), Great Public Spaces (2), and Great Streets (1). The planning process involved community involvement and resulted in a trail designed for shared use by pedestrians, bicyclists, and persons using other non-motorized modes of transportation.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We saw a continued focus on incentivizing affordable and infill developments on the condition that the project pay prevailing wages (AB 2011), reducing barriers for specified sustainable transit projects (SB 922), and amendments akin to “pet project exemptions” that are targeted to solving a narrower set of concerns (SB 118 and SB 886).

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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

Meanwhile, regulatory changes since the last decade have prompted companies and institutional investors to set up sustainability or ESG (environmental, social and corporate governance) departments, which require staff. Jobs are found in a range of sectors, including energy, industry, buildings, transportation and finance.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2023

Several ways to calculate carbon emissions exist, but the most widely used and accepted is the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protoco l developed by the World Resources Institute and World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2022

CEJST includes indicators of disadvantage for the 50 states and the District of Columbia related to climate change, energy efficiency, sustainable housing, ambient air and water pollution, and workforce development, to name a few. As a result, 87% of communities in Puerto Rico have been classified as disadvantaged by CEJST.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 10, 2019

With regards to the scope of the analysis, the new subdivision states that the analysis “should include the project’s energy use for all project phases and components, including transportation-related energy, during construction and operation.” Transportation and Vehicle Emissions. New section 15064.3

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2022

Among the many programs enhanced or created by the legislation, a number relate to carbon sequestration and low-carbon transportation fuels. Sustainable aviation fuel (“SAF”) tax credit. The law introduces a new tax credit targeted towards sustainable aviation fuel that starts at $1.25 Clean fuel production credit.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Some companies (for example, those in heavy industry, depending on their particular customer pool) may only deem Scope 1 and 2 emissions material to their activities, while for others (such as transportation companies) material emissions will all be under Scope 3.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Basically, that translates to a credit for businesses or individuals investing in infrastructure that is used to refuel vehicles that run on certain so-called alternative fuels, a category that includes electricity. I’ll call it the alternative fuel infrastructure tax credit for short. Why now and why in 2032? Increased business cap.

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Arnold Porter

JANUARY 24, 2022

FDA recommends that manufacturers consider the following criteria in determining whether they are required to submit 506J notifications to FDA: Whether the device (with or without accessories) is life-supporting, life-sustaining, or intended for use in emergency medical care (e.g., Who Must Notify FDA Under 506J?

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

There is one called regional fortresses in which we do invest in north America and Europe and east Asia and more sustainability, but we ward off migrants. Another scenario is called the new middle ages, where our sustainability efforts are insufficient. And we do so in a sustainable way. Which is what I call civilization 3.0,

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 10, 2021

The English Premier League Sustainability Table was created by CEO of Sport Positive Summit , Claire Poole, and her team at Sport Positive in the United Kingdom. This organization rates teams across the Premier League on actions taken in a variety of environmental categories. Sustainable Transport. Single-Use Plastics.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 28, 2022

Rio Verde Foothills, where Nabity, Simpson and at least 500 other homeowners rely on the depot for their drinking water, falls into that category. Yet, our present success cannot sustain Arizona’s economic development forever.”. Transporting water in the CAP is similarly complex. Sounds simple in concept.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 2, 2023

Both rounds of funding saw successful NSAC member proposals, including three projects on which NSAC members – the National Center for Appropriate Technology , Pasa Sustainable Agriculture , and Marbleseed – are leads. Categories of commodities receiving focus in Round 1. Categories of commodities receiving focus in Round 2.

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Environmental Science

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

However, others argue that the other topographical features - of low precipitation (1-2” or 2-4cm annually) and high evapotranspiration leave them firmly in the desert category. Balancing Sustainability Against Conservation. Sponsored Content. Types of Desert. Deserts have always been centers of mining activity.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Read more here. ] It also offers a review of trends in research findings.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 14, 2023

Most of the rhetoric and activity has occurred in the first two categories in the US, so we focus there, in an effort to differentiate political narratives from legal reality. The financial institution climate alliances are, again, unlikely to fit these categories.

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Arnold Porter

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The Guidance establishes three general categories of safeguards: vaccine mandates, personal protective equipment (PPE) and social distancing, and designation of COVID-19 safety coordinators. healthcare, transportation, correctional and detention facilities, and schools).[[N: Safeguards. Each is discussed in turn.

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

But in Apocalypse Never I show that, for Malthusians, making the world a “better place” has meant letting the poor starve, keeping poor nations dependent on wood fuel, and diverting World Bank funding from dams, roads, and fertilizer for development to charitable endeavors like solar panels for rural villagers aimed at making poverty sustainable.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The IRA will provide $369 billion in grants, loans, and tax credits for the energy, transportation, and agriculture sectors. Here are three categories of programs that EPA is managing for communities to increase their capacity and ability to take advantage of other federal grant opportunities.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Transportation A Cap-and-Invest Approach . emissions from the transportation sector in RGGI states have remained relatively level or have increased. Transportation accounts for 44 percent total CO. The report breaks down these investments into four categories.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 28, 2022

Transportation is changing every day,” said PennDOT Secretary Yassmin Gramian. Department of Transportation (U.S. The transportation sector produces the largest share of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.,” As part of the BIL, PennDOT will receive and distribute $171.5 DOT) by August 1, 2022.

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