Law Columbia

MARCH 12, 2025

Micronesia , Ghana , and Saint Lucia also emphasized that cessation and non-repetition would involve reducing greenhouse gas emissions, cutting fossil fuel subsidies, and phasing out fossil fuels. States such as Colombia , Jamaica , and Seychelles made similar arguments.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

JULY 6, 2025

However, recent efforts have focused on reversing this trend, with the government implementing stricter enforcement of environmental regulations and bolstering sustainable initiatives, such as promoting conservation efforts and enforcing land-use restrictions. This decline marks a notable shift after years of rising deforestation rates.

2025

Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2025

In the EIS, STB acknowledged that increased oil production was a foreseeable result of the project, and included estimates of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions attributable to the combustion of fuels refined from the crude oil transported on the line. But the import of these statements may be more limited than it at first blush seems.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

Shapiro [PaEN] Lead Counsel On Court Cases Striking Down Provisions In Act 13 To Preempt Local Regulation Of Oil & Gas Operations Raises Concerns About Proposed Legislation Establishing A RESET Board To Site Large Energy Projects [PaEN] Gov. Shapiro Announces Amazon Plans To Invest $20 Billion In Pennsylvania For A.I.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

JUNE 10, 2025

gigatons (Gt) of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions , which compares to slightly more than India’s annual fossil fuel CO2 emissions. Additionally, tropical forests are especially important for biodiversity, carbon storage, and the regulation of regional and local climates. 2024 wildfire hotspots in South America.

2024

Law Columbia

MAY 30, 2025

Local Law 97 is one of the countrys most ambitious municipal climate policies, requiring the Citys largest buildings to comply with increasingly stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limits. The first, CLCPA 10, preserves the existing authority of state entities to adopt and implement greenhouse gas emissions reduction measures.

Law

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

And because roughly 60 percent of global textiles now contain plastic derived from fossil fuels, it is estimated that more than a third of the microplastics in the oceans today were shed from clothing. But what’s enabled things to get this bad is a lack of regulation. Despite being worth some $1.7 In the U.S.

Upcycling

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

OTTAWA/TRADITIONAL, UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE ALGONQUIN ANISHNAABEG PEOPLE — Ecojustice and Environmental Defence have uncovered that greenhouse gas emissions from Canada’s exported oil, gas, and coal ballooned to record levels in 2023.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

MARCH 18, 2025

The burning of fossil fuels and other human activities are continuing to cause rapid temperature rise. Achieving global climate goals will require rapid and dramatic greenhouse gas emissions reductions, along with the removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

Carbon Dioxide

Environmental News Bits

APRIL 25, 2025

The Centennial State may become first in the nation to require retailers to warn consumers that burning fossil fuels releases air pollutants and greenhouse gases, known … Continue reading In Colorado, gas for cars could soon come with a warning label View the current status on the Colorado Legislature’s website.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

18 EarthTalk Features Penn State Sustainability Director Lara Fowler On Decarbonizing The University [PaEN] -- Penn State Delegation In Azerbaijan For UN’s Annual Climate Meeting -- WPSU: When Will Greenhouse Gas Emissions Finally Peak? Of Environmental Professionals Host Dec.

Conservation

Enviromental Defense

MAY 22, 2025

For the past year, Ive been searching for the answer to one question: how can Alberta maintain its position as an energy leader in a world rapidly moving away from fossil fuels? Pathway two: electrification of the grid, weaning us from greenhouse gas-polluting methane ( natural gas ). Petrostate today, but what about tomorrow?

Renewable Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 16, 2024

cases challenging fossil fuel companies for decades of climate disinformation remain stalled, tied up by the defendants in procedural wrangling that prevents them from being heard on their merits, delaying justice for affected communities. Yet, progress often feels frustratingly slow. In the U.S., in the absence of federal leadership.

2025

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

These legal battles often aim to enforce stronger emissions regulations, push for the implementation of climate policies, and secure compensation for those affected by extreme heat events. Yet the idea of litigating heat wave impacts remains concentrated in the global north. Source or company which has caused.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

JULY 15, 2025

transitioning from fossil fuels to renewables) too slowly or too quickly. For mitigation, States must: regulate, monitor and control, and require and approve environmental impact studies. debt, poverty, inequality), with the long-term goal of being carbon neutral.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

. -- DEP Declares Code Orange Air Quality Action Day Thursday, June 12 In Southeast And Southwest PA -- Delaware River Frack Ban Coalition Launch Initiative To Defend The Delaware River Watershed From Oil & Gas Fracking [PaEN] -- MCall: Is Ban On Fracking In Delaware Watershed At Risk?

Greenhouse

PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2025

Data Center-Fueled Rate Hikes -- TribLive: Springdale Planning Commission To Review Plans For Proposed Massive A.I. Related Articles This Week: -- Coterra Energy Fined $299,000 For Contaminating 13 Private Water Supplies In Lenox Twp., Muth Seeks To Protect Pennsylvanians From A.I.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

Shapiro [PaEN] -- PA Senate Republicans Pass Bill To Roll Back Environmental, Health, Safety Regulations By Doing Nothing And Avoiding Accountability [PaEN] -- Spotlight PA: PA Republican Senate Leader Says No Action On Bipartisan Bills To Boost Electricity Production Until PA Supreme Court Decides On Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Rule Case -- (..)

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2025

The report provides renewed evidence of the consequences for our health of using fossil fuels In 1970 the Clean Air Act and the newly formed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were given authority by Congress to regulate pollution from passenger cars and other forms of transportation. These emissions, which in 2022 were 37.4

Ozone

PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2025

Data Center-Fueled Rate Hikes -- TribLive: Springdale Planning Commission To Review Plans For Proposed Massive A.I. So Far This Year [PaEN] -- PJM Electricity Auction: PJM Lost 2.8 Gigawatts Of Power Due To Reduced Reliability Rating Of Natural Gas Power Plants; Could Gain 12.2 Muth Seeks To Protect Pennsylvanians From A.I.

2023

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 4, 2025

As climate disasters strain state budgets, a growing number of lawmakers want fossil fuel companies to pay for damages caused by their greenhouse gas emissions. Read the full story from Grist.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2025

On March 12, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced plans to reconsider EPAs 2009 endangerment finding for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, along with all regulations and actions that rely on the finding. In his remarks, Zeldin focused on the costs imposed by GHG regulations. EPA (2012).

2009

HumanNature

JANUARY 30, 2025

One of the most well-known ways we have impacted our atmosphere is through the emission of greenhouse gases, which have adversely affected our climate. Regulations and technological innovations, such as the catalytic converter, have led to a decline in tailpipe emissions, reducing emissions of secondary organic aerosol precursors.[6]

Ozone

PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2025

Data Center-Fueled Rate Hikes -- TribLive: Springdale Planning Commission To Review Plans For Proposed Massive A.I. MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day 9 Webinar On Growth Of A.I. - By Destinie Nock, Carnegie Mellon University Professor, Founder Of Peoples Energy Analytics -- TribLive Guest Essay: A.I.,

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 1, 2025

Cryptocurrency And PA’s War On The Little Guy - By Joe Morinville, Energy Independent Solutions -- TribLive Letter: We Need Strong Regulations To Reduce Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Operations - By Dr. Gabriel Cisneros -- ABC27: Sen. So Far This Year [PaEN] -- PJM Electricity Auction: PJM Lost 2.8

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2025

NARUC is the national association representing state public service commissioners who regulate essential utility services, including energy, telecommunications, water, and transportation. Data Center-Fueled Rate Hikes -- TribLive: Springdale Planning Commission To Review Plans For Proposed Massive A.I.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 15, 2025

Without specifying the context, the statement The risks of addressing climate change are too large could justify almost any decision from reinforcing a bridge to withstand extreme heat to ignoring greenhouse gas emissions because of the financial losses that the fossil fuel industry would incur. What is Best Available Science?

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

You acknowledged the realities of climate change, the benefits of clean energy, the economic need for environmental justice, and the importance of protecting human health through smart regulation. Like you, EPA employees are committed to these principles.

Environmental Protection

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 9, 2025

[At the June 9 House Energy Committee hearing, the PA State Association of Township Supervisors and the PA State Association of Boroughs said they have significant concerns with the bill taking away their ability to regulate energy generation facilities. Click Here for video. Read more here.] Click Here for this announcement.

Government

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

The latest auction resulted in this generation mix —with 67% of the generation in PJM being from fossil fuels, with gas being the largest source. The budget bill is also going to increase greenhouse gas emissions and that's where federal policies may be the most damaging. Data Centers So now we come to A.I.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2025

During the reading of the opinion, the ICJ recognized the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as the best available science and accepted, without hesitation, that “anthropogenic emissions of greenhouses gases are unequivocally the dominant cause of the global warming.”

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

corporations and institutional investors owe a fiduciary duty to maximize profits through economic activities that continue to produce, sell, and use fossil fuels (i.e. In addition, if profits can be maximized by deforestation or releasing methane or other greenhouse gases as well, then profits must again take precedence.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The EPA requires new trucks to emit fewer greenhouse gases and health-harming pollutants than existing models. The freight rail industry has stymied attempts to clean up locomotives, abusing loopholes in federal regulations. California has passed rules that target the same pollutants, but go beyond federal requirements.

Electricity

Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

For example, Section 60103 of the IRA , which establishes the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) , specifies that $15 billion of the $27 billion allocated to the GGRF should be used for the purposes of providing financial assistance and technical assistance in low-income and disadvantaged communities.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency, agreeing to decide whether fossil fuel manufacturers have legal standing to challenge an EPA decision under the federal Clean Air Act. That court ruled that the fossil fuel company plaintiffs had failed to establish their legal authority (i.e., “standing”) to bring the action.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Its no surprise that this anti-science, pro-fossil fuel administration wants to go after the Endangerment Finding. Those harms will worsen rapidly as global warming emissions, primarily from burning fossil fuels, increase. This blatant attempt to do an end-run around scientific evidence deserves to fail.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2025

Increasingly they are finding ways to use their authority to enact laws and regulations to cap and reduce the emissions that continue to push toward an irreversible tipping point. State and local governments (called subnational by UN member countries) have to bear the brunt of the damage.

Paris Agreement