Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

greenhouse gas emissions and 0.1% In addition, the impact statement was governed by the 1970 version of NEPA and the 1978 White House NEPA regulations. The eighty-mile stretch of track in question would connect the Uinta Basin with the national rail network. The Basin’s oil production would represent up to 0.8% of global emissions.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

This opinion overturned weak fuel efficiency standards adopted by the Bush Administration because the government had not considered the effects of its action on climate change in its environmental impact statement. Circuit decision that upheld EPAs finding emission of greenhouse gases endangers human health and welfare. EPA (2012 ).

Law

Legal Planet

APRIL 8, 2025

A stream of data about methanea potent greenhouse gasis now constantly being beamed down from space. New methane satellites provide a powerful data capability for governments who want to demonstrate leadership in climate policy. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in a 20-year timespan.

Carbon Dioxide

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

The result is that countries in the Global South have not been granted the necessary funds to adapt to climate disasters or to effectively reduce their own greenhouse gas emissions. The decision was unfairly steamrolled through opposition from the most vulnerable countries. We all know that a dollar today does not go as far as it used to.

Paris Agreement

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 18, 2025

This long-term impact reflects the delayed response of ocean temperatures and ice sheet dynamics to past greenhouse gas emissions. While litigation alone wont solve the climate crisis, it is one piece of the broader landscape of climate governance.

Sea Level

Enviromental Defense

APRIL 10, 2025

Missing from the conversation is the fact that the project would threaten the water of tens of thousands of Albertans, including farmers, yet the Alberta government has refused to conduct an environmental assessment. Much attention has been paid to carbon captures role or lack thereof in addressing greenhouse gas pollution.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Working Group 3: Mitigation of Climate Change Evaluates pathways for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable development strategies, and the role of finance, technology, and policy in achieving net-zero emissions. The absence of the US from this Plenary raises concerns about official US government engagement in AR7.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Participants in this free one-hour webinar will learn about conventional orphaned well plugging, remediation, and restoration, with a focus on reducing methane and greenhouse gas emissions. The Penn State Extension will host a December 12 webinar on Carbon Reduction Credits In Oil and Gas Well Plugging from Noon to 1:00 p.m.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

JULY 24, 2025

It’s been a long time coming but nations of the world officially have a legal obligation to limit their emissions of greenhouse gases or else pay reparations for the harms of climate change. Photo credit: UN/ICJ/Jeroen Bouman (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Working Group 3: Mitigation of Climate Change Evaluates pathways for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable development strategies, and the role of finance, technology, and policy in achieving net-zero emissions. The absence of the US from this Plenary raises concerns about official US government engagement in AR7.

Climate Change

Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 23, 2025

Governments, civil society, private sector, general public, all must come together to address the drivers of these problems, restore what we can and assist communities in transitioning to a better future. Currently, plastics drive at least 3-4% of global greenhouse gas emissions and are the fastest-growing demand for fossil fuels.

Ocean

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

State-level Green Amendments allow states to create environmental safeguards for their citizens above and beyond what the federal government provides. This was a major win for the citizens of Hawaii and shows the power that Green Amendments can have in forcing state governments to protect their natural environments.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 9, 2025

DEPs RISE PA Program will offer grants for small-, medium-, and large-scale decarbonization projects at industrial facilities to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) and co-pollutant emissions. RISE PA DEP was awarded $396 million in funding from the EPA Climate Pollution Reduction Grant Program established by the federal Inflation Reduction Act.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

MARCH 7, 2025

Lets fast forward to today; more than half a century of government housing policy favoring sprawling, car-dependent development has spawned long commutes, increased exposure to air pollution, and segregated communities. And across the United States, the transportation sector is now the largest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Nitrogen Oxides

A Greener Life

JULY 27, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen A ruling by the highest global court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), states that individual countries must protect their people and environment from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and act with due diligence to fulfil this obligation. degrees C above pre-industrial levels. degree C is legally the Planetary limit.

Paris Agreement

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The Premier and her government are so focused on picking fights with Ottawa that they are missing the fact that there are now more people employed in the development of renewable energy around the world than people working in oil and gas. The oil and gas industry has to do its part.

Renewable Energy

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 23, 2024

It would seem that the Grinch has once again made off with a ramshackle sleigh full of wind turbines and solar panels and they aren’t likely to return from their shop, not unless the heart of the ole ‘Grinchy-Claus’ (aka the Alberta Government) has an unexpected growth spurt. Stay tuned.

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

JULY 16, 2025

“We are committed to increasing sustainable and renewable energy and these grants will help local governments, businesses, school districts, and nonprofit organizations invest in alternative fuel solutions that are reliable, efficient, and often cheaper to operate,” said DEP Secretary Jessica Shirley.

Nitrogen Oxides

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 8, 2025

The federal government can certainly slow the transition – and they are – but EVs are here to stay and gas cars are getting cleaner which means we will use less gas. The transportation sector in California makes up the majority of our greenhouse gas emissions and a significant portion of our toxic air pollution.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Refining processes , particularly in countries with lax environmental regulations, emit greenhouse gases and toxic waste. Mining critical minerals can lead to human rights violations, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, and soil degradation.

Regulations

A Greener Life

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The revised 2030 energy and climate plan, unveiled by the government, targets the expansion of wind and solar power. Greece, which has recently battled one climate-fuelled wildfire after the other, has ramped up its renewable energy targets. The previous plan released in 2019 had set out only a 66% share.

Renewable Energy

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 3, 2024

By concentrating this much power in the hands of one office, the province’s energy planning will happen in backrooms, likely to the benefit of government insiders. The government’s choice to enshrine in law a prioritization of nuclear power is also troubling. Now, the Minister can simply “consult” with whoever they feel is appropriate.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

CNX did not comply with Act 14 notification requirements to local governments, failing to provide updated notices to affected townships. -- Environmental Concerns: The Chapter 102 Erosion and Sediment permit states that 30.9 acres will be disturbed, contradicting the Project Limit of Disturbance (LOD) of 228 acres.

Natural Gas

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

On 15 October, the port in Shandong was certified as carbon-neutral by the China Classification Society Quality Certification Company, according to a government statement. Globally, the shipping industry accounts for 3% of greenhouse gas emissions, with ports being one of the key contributors along with ships running on heavy fuel oil.

Fossil Fuels

HumanNature

MAY 2, 2025

Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University Despite being one of the lowest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions that are causing climate change, Africa has experienced widespread losses and damages attributed to human-induced climate change. In Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction (pp. Zamisa, N.

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

We rank last in the G7 in terms of progress on greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Even worse, oil and gas companies operating in Canada have huge plans to expand the production of fossil fuels – and governments in Canada are letting them do it. We have one of the worst emissions per capita in the G20.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

JUNE 24, 2025

The new direction is driven by a self-preservation instinct – “a policy revolt,” Matthews said – among the countries who formerly sat the bench as the world’s biggest carbon polluters debated the boundaries of greenhouse gas emission limits. And they said, ‘You haven’t been making good progress on slowing climate change down.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2025

Pennsylvania will need to generate more energy in the next two decades, even as the state has set a goal to reduce greenhouse gases 80 percent by 2050 from 2005 levels. John Walliser is senior vice president of legal and government affairs for the Pennsylvania Environmental Council.

Clean Energy

Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

Furthermore, in some cases, refusing to allow a project to go ahead in Ireland may simply result in the project being relocated to another country with lower environmental standards, thereby doing nothing to reduce overall global greenhouse gas emissions.

Renewable Energy

Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2025

Aviation is a significant and growing source of greenhouse gas emissions. But the federal government in the United States has failed to address it so far.

Clean Air Act

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. The result is skyrocketing pollution levels that will fuel further disasters.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Photo credit: Government of British Columbia Yes, taking action to mitigate and adapt to climate change requires spending now. It’s called the Social Cost of Carbon and it quantifies the damages of greenhouse gas emissions on health, the economy, and the environment. billion.

Climate Change

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

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Over the last five years, at least 25 states have expressly preempted local governments from enacting requirements , or even incentives, to construct new buildings that do not rely on natural gas as a fuel source. On December 6, 2024, two local governments finally fought back in court. of Washingtons November 2024 voters.

Natural Gas

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.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 20, 2025

As we electrify everything, from our cars to our home heating systems, we need electricity to come from sources that dont emit greenhouse gases. To deliver on this goal, the federal government made important investments in renewable energy projects. So, do they do the job? Lets have a look.

Electricity

Law Columbia

JULY 29, 2025

More importantly, all States, especially large current and historical greenhouse gas emitters, must strengthen their Nationally Determined Contributions ahead of COP 30 later this year to include significantly more ambitious targets and effective measures to achieve those targets.

Fossil Fuels