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

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

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2025

And how can we provide job opportunities for the tremendously skilled workers in traditional energy domains while also training the workers we need to accelerate emerging technologies? New and emerging geothermal technologies allow us to tap into and extract the earths naturally occurring heat in ways that were not possible a decade ago.

Clean Energy

Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 7, 2025

The world of technology is moving fast, and unless we act equally fast, it could undo much of the progress made on climate and environment in the last decades. Several governments around the world have already begun to address the environmental impact of AI and data centres.

Renewable Energy

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

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

That’s not all; when the federal government passed new anti-greenwashing rules in June, the Pathways Alliance and other fossil fuel companies removed their advertising and website content about climate action. It’s a risky and ineffective technology with a track record of failure.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

JULY 3, 2025

In China, new energy solutions are being guided by digital technologies and ecological planning. This rapid growth plays a vital role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. As a result, the energy transition has become more than a path to decarbonisation; it’s now a catalyst for systemic transformation.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

MAY 23, 2025

As the organizations head of government affairs, Ms. Through sustained collaboration among local governments, business, state and federal partners, and an army of volunteers, CCCRAs efforts have elevated the regional profile, providing quality of life improvements through vibrant outdoor recreation assets.

Conservation

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

According to the UNs 2024 Emission Gap Report , 107 countries, covering approximately 82% of global greenhouse gas emissions, had adopted net-zero pledges as of June last year. Business is slow Our research references two Bloomberg Terminal ESG (environmental, social and governance) business databases.

Carbon Emissions

Law Columbia

JULY 15, 2025

States are obligated to use the best available science and technology, complemented by traditional, local and Indigenous knowledge to address climate change. Conclusion In the face of recent backtracking on climate commitments by governments (e.g. debt, poverty, inequality), with the long-term goal of being carbon neutral.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

JANUARY 31, 2025

Most climate action today rightly focuses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. One such OAE project , advanced by Ebb Carbon , uses electrochemical technology to reduce the acidity of seawater, then returns the seawater back into the ocean so that more carbon dioxide can be absorbed from the atmosphere.

Ocean

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2025

The ALA has a supplemental series, Something in the Air , that explores emerging and other technologies such as the use of satellites to collect data and help understand the pollution exposure in under-monitored regions. States and local governments are required to take steps to attain the standards 5.

Ozone

Legal Planet

APRIL 21, 2025

Carlson told the story of those who helped topple LAs smog, ending with, Individuals matter, government leaders, scientists, lawyers, activists, reporters what we do matters in an extraordinarily difficult time. Southern California has not violated the standard for lead since 1993. Thats pretty extraordinary.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2025

Freedom to pollute Most of the bill is devoted to ensuring that consumers pay as much of their hard-earned money to the oil industry as possible by preventing the agencies charged with reducing emissions and fuel use from considering the best technology available, electrification. automakers were shunning.

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

MAY 20, 2025

In these meetings, the leaders of states and provinces talk about what they are doing to reduce greenhouse gases and prepare for worsening climate disasters. Its no wonder that philanthropic and business leaders from many sectors are turning to state and provincial policymakers, rather than national governments.

Rainforest

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

On the one hand, global greenhouse gas emissions have reached an all-time high, and the temperature for 2023 is the highest ever recorded. However, it is crucial to consider incorporating these technologies into formal legal and regulatory frameworks that extend beyond inventory reporting and voluntary commitments.

Paris Agreement

Law Columbia

JULY 7, 2025

The OBBB Act ushers in a consequential shift for local governments and community groups building clean energy projects, investing in electric vehicles (EVs) and, in some instances, navigating IRA grant programs. This post focuses on developments and considerations specific to local governments and community partners. Commercial EVs.

2026

Physics World

JUNE 3, 2025

The figure also rates their Technology Readiness Level (TRL), maximum mitigation potential (how many gigatonnes (10 9 tonnes) of CO 2 can be sequestered per year), and storage timescale. We’re selling our first credits at $100 per tonne,” says Hannah Murnen , chief technology officer at Graphyte – a US firm backed by Bill Gates.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

This administration's actions directly contradict EPA's own scientific assessments on human health risks, most notably regarding asbestos , mercury , and greenhouse gases. You are supporting new technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), without addressing AI's intense consumption of environmental resources.

Environmental Protection

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 21, 2025

Decades of government vehicle standards to improve vehicle efficiency and cut down on tailpipe pollution have saved car and truck drivers trillions of dollars at the pump, saved countless lives from reduced exposure to toxic air pollution , and avoided the extraction and burning of billions of barrels of oil. In the U.S.,

Nitrogen Oxides

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 18, 2025

447) Local government (438) Public lands (54) National parks & forests (45) State government (182) U.S. 447) Local government (438) Public lands (54) National parks & forests (45) State government (182) U.S. DOE (19) U.S. Website Powered by WordPress.com. Website Powered by WordPress.com.

Recycling

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

There are tools, technologies, and policies that can reduce impact at almost every step in the processfrom the moment a shipment arrives at port to the day a package is ultimately delivered to your porch or package room. Heres what governments can do. Cleaning up the ports Nearly 80% of cargo entering the U.S.

Electricity

Law Columbia

APRIL 2, 2025

The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), one of the most critical climate spending programs in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), has come under significant fire from the Trump administration. The federal government has relied on them for decades under both political parties, including under President Trump.

Greenhouse

Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

This blog post highlights aspects of the EOs of particular interest to cities, other local governments, and community based organizations (CBOs). Government Accountability Office found that the Trump administration violated the Act during his first term. Still, broader uncertainty around tax credits remains. In addition to EO No.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2025

So the federal government will undermine the state’s ability to meet federal law. The federal government will likely sanction California for failing to meet federal pollution standards while taking away its most effective tool. The other would transition cars to zero emissions.

Ozone

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2025

Renewables, storage, and demand response have not only achieved the technological advances needed to assist our power grid in running reliably, but the business infrastructure has already been put in place by the visionary leaders of the energy industry. This includes solar, wind, and battery storage, as well as energy efficiency.

Electricity

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The case involves EPAs 2024 Vehicle Standards that set new air pollutant and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for model year 2027 through 2032 Light- and Medium-Duty Vehicles, which have been challenged by states and industry groups. However, the Vehicle Standards do not mandate the use of a particular vehicle technology.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

The budget bill is also going to increase greenhouse gas emissions and that's where federal policies may be the most damaging. On Tuesday, US Environmental Protection Agency proposed to rescind the 2009 endangerment finding that increasing greenhouse gas emissions threaten the public health and the welfare of current and future generations.

Natural Gas

Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2025

On June 17, 2025, EPA published a proposed rule to either repeal entirely, or significantly revise, a rule issued in 2024 which set performance standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants to limit their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This week, the Sabin Center filed three comment letters opposing the proposal.

Clean Air Act

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Conference of Mayors , and a second on behalf of experts in carbon capture and storage (CCS) science and technology —in support of the U.S. Several states and industry groups are challenging EPA’s 2024 rules which set greenhouse gas emissions limits for certain fossil fuel power plants nationwide (referred to here as the Power Plant Rules).

2024

Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2025

Burdensome, health-harming, and greenhouse gas emitting development projects, such as pipelines or liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals, are disproportionately sited in environmental justice communities, which are made up of mostly Black, Brown and low-income people. A recording of the webinar is available here.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

By plugging orphaned and abandoned wells, were tackling a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions and creating thousands of good-paying jobs in the process. New Technology Finds More Abandoned Wells Also participating in the announcement was Joe Bonfiglio, Executive Director of the US Region for the Environmental Defense Fund.

Technology

A Greener Life

MARCH 20, 2025

By Robin Pomeroy and Natalie Marchant A lot of the decisions that affect global warming pollution emissions , are not down to what the federal government in the US does. Photo credit: World Economic Forum/Jason Alden. Most importantly, these insights can then be translated into action.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

MAY 1, 2025

Also on January 20, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14151 , Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing , which directed agencies to terminate all environmental justice offices, positions, programs, and activities within sixty days. This action has been challenged in court. In Climate United Fund v.

Government

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

Shapiro Marks Milestone Of Plugging 300 Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Over 2 Years; New Technology Finding More Abandoned Wells [PaEN] -- Observer-Reporter: Gov. Shapiro Touts Capping Of 300th Conventional Oil & Gas Well At North Franklin Twp.,

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2025

And I truly believe that when we are using all our resources, and one of the things that we really haven't touched on is emerging technologies. A huge greenhouse gas producing state. A real energy policy. Click Here for a copy of the Building Trades testimony that includes recommendations for improving the bill from their perspective.

Electricity