Environment + Energy Leader

AUGUST 22, 2022

A new study in the August issue of the “Journal of Cleaner Production” reveals that it is possible for farms to sequester carbon and reduce their overall greenhouse gas emissions. The post Study: Organic Dairy Farming Can Store Carbon and Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The post EPA’s $27 Billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to Prioritize Low-Income and Disadvantaged Communities appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. A minimum of $15 billion from the $27 billion fund will be allocated towards aiding underprivileged and low-income communities, and there will be two award competitions.

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Environment + Energy Leader

APRIL 25, 2023

According to the report, the transportation, electricity and residential heating and cooling sectors are responsible for almost 75% of Connecticut’s greenhouse gas emissions. The post Connecticut’s Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report Shows Emissions Decline with Need for More Reductions appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Environment + Energy Leader

AUGUST 19, 2022

Moreover, it expanded its goals to cut greenhouse gas emissions to include Scope 3, which covers its supply chain. The post Xerox Takes Hacksaw to Greenhouse Gas Emissions And Waste Streams appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. In 2020, Xerox moved up its net-zero goals from 2050 to 2040.

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New Scientist

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Carbon dioxide is the dominant driver of climate change, but countries convening at COP28 are expected to make agreements to reduce methane and other often overlooked greenhouse gases

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Environment + Energy Leader

MARCH 8, 2023

CPIPG hopes to reduce the intensity of its greenhouse gas emissions by 32.4% The post CPI Property Group Secures $100m in Funding to Combat Greenhouse Gases appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. by 2030, compared to the 2019 baseline.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen On the eve of the COP28 UN climate summit, The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a United Nations (UN) body, has warned that the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases (GHG) is forecast to continue the trend that resulted in record-high CO2 measurements last year.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MARCH 10, 2023

Cardinal Health has set greenhouse gas emissions goals, vowing to limit its Scopes 1 and 2 emissions by 50% by 2030, using 2019 as its baseline. The post Cardinal Health Vows to Cut Greenhouse Gases by 50% by 2030 ? appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Environment + Energy Leader

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Nucro's greenhouse gas emissions from steel mills are 25%-%33 of the global average, and it has committed to an additional 35% combined reduction in steel mill scopes 1 scope 2 greenhouse gas intensity by 2030 using the 2015 baseline. That is 77% less than the global average.

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Environment + Energy Leader

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The post Clorox Aims Trims Greenhouse Gases By 32% and Energy Use by 17% From 2011 Baseline appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. Clorox's key priorities include using 100% renewable energy to power its operations and reaching net-zero targets by 2050 from a 2011 baseline.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In its regulatory impact analysis for the supplemental proposal, EPA included a sensitivity analysis detailing a revised methodology and new estimates for social cost of greenhouse gases (SC-GHGs), including carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide. The SCC remains potentially open to a challenge on the merits when applied in a particular case.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

With proposed federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions by the Securities and Exchange Commission requiring GHG disclosure and new state statutes, including a new Maryland law that requires not only disclosure, but also a mandated reduction in GHG emissions, a greater appreciation of the subject of GHG appears in order.

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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Earlier this year, the EPA issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that would amend provisions in its Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule altering data collection including expanding the confidentiality of data collected. yes, T, Trillions) of dollars involved we also blogged, Tenants Monetizing Their Greenhouse Gas Emission Data.

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Yale E360

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Scientists have found that permafrost buried beneath the Arctic Ocean holds 60 billion tons of methane and 560 billion tons of organic carbon — making it a major source of greenhouse gases not currently included in climate projections that could have a significant impact on climate change in the longer-term. Read more on E360 ?.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JUNE 9, 2023

When recent shifts from coal to lower-emission fuels, such as natural gas, have helped reduce the amount of emissions associated with energy usage.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JUNE 19, 2023

According to a Cornell study, the metaverse can greatly contribute to reducing business travel, a major carbon emitter as well as reduce transportation and commercial energy usage, transforming energy distribution.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 12, 2023

Shallow lakes and ponds emit significant amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but emissions from these systems vary considerably and are not well understood.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 14, 2023

Alberta continues to generate more greenhouse gas pollution than any other province in the country, accounting for nearly 40 per cent of Canada’s emissions. By the time Canada’s national greenhouse gas emissions inventory report is published each spring, the data is already 16 months out of date.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

What GAO Found According to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), state departments of transportation (state DOT) and metropolitan planning organizations (MPO) play a key role in implementing activities to reduce transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions, including on-road emissions from vehicles.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JUNE 10, 2022

The post Australia’s Telstra Cuts Greenhouse Gases by 11% by Focusing on Efficiency and Renewables appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. Telstra easily hits in carbon neutrality goal in 2020. Now it wants to bring its suppliers on board.

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Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Scientists say their findings could help close a legal loophole that enables the federal government to avoid considering greenhouse gas emissions impacts on threatened and endangered species.

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NRDC

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

A state court dealt a set-back today to Pennsylvania’s climate fight, ruling against the state's CO2 Budget Trading Program and its participation in the successful Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It is 33 years now since the IPCC in its first report in 1990 concluded that it is “certain” that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities “will enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting on average in an additional warming of the Earth’s surface.”

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 29, 2023

The systems cities use to monitor and analyze greenhouse gas emissions are “flawed,” says a group of researchers from Carbon Monitor, Hestia, IG3IS, Nexqt and RMI.

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Greenbuilding Law

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Which caused us to ponder, “what quantity of greenhouse gas emissions are produced by using an iPhone?” In this blog post, we will explore just how much greenhouse gas emissions are generated from charging a single smartphone and, by extension, from all the smartphones in the world. Given that more than 3.5

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Frontiers

JULY 12, 2023

By Deborah Pirchner, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com Methane production in the livestock sector greatly contributes to greenhouse gas emissions. Manure methane production does contribute to global greenhouse gas emission and needs to be reduced,” Ramin said. Selling the articles is not allowed.

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Inhabitant

JANUARY 12, 2023

Even better, greenhouse gas can now be turned into raw material instead of released into the atmosphere where it causes runaway climate change. Scientists have found a way to use nanodiamonds to convert greenhouse gas into useable industrial material.

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Law and Environment

JULY 17, 2023

Yesterday, Climatewire (subscription required) released a peer review letter on EPA’s Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases (SC-GHG), which got a fair bit of press last year, because EPA’s metric was $190/ton, even though the Biden administration was using the $51/ton figure originally developed by the Obama administration.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 amended the Clean Air Act to create the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a new program which will deploy $27 billion in competitive grants to mobilize financing for clean energy and climate projects that reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions, especially in disadvantaged communities.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 26, 2023

A new greenhouse gas budget shows coastal ecosystems globally are a net greenhouse gas sink for carbon dioxide (CO2) but emissions of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) counteract some of the CO2 uptake, according to researchers. Read the full story from Southern Cross University.

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Yale E360

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Oil, gas, and coal exports are not counted when countries tally their greenhouse gas emissions under the Paris Agreement. This allows wealthy nations to report progress on emissions reduction goals, while shipping their fossil fuels — and the pollution they produce — overseas. Read more on E360 →

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Environmental Leader

AUGUST 16, 2022

In 2021, Lowe's cut its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gases by 42% over the last five years beating its goal of cutting those emissions by 40% by 2025. The post Lowe’s Cuts Greenhouse Gases by 42% Using Renewables, Energy Efficiency appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Scientific American

MARCH 13, 2023

government is celebrating some success at reining in emissions of a potent greenhouse gas called SF 6 , which traps 25,000 times more heat than CO 2 does over a century-long timescale

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The hearing will examine State perspectives … Continue reading EPA’s Proposed Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for the Power Sector On Tuesday, November 14, 2023, at 10:30 a.m. EPA’s Effort to Jeopardize Reliable and Affordable Energy for States.”

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 3, 2023

This post is adapted from a Client Alert to commercial real estate owners and tenants in those buildings in Maryland about the new regulations requiring that beginning January 1, 2024 greenhouse gas emission data be collected for reporting to the state government.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 3, 2022

A free-access platform with a wide diversity of data on greenhouse gas emissions in the Amazon is being built by the Research Center for Greenhouse Gas Innovation (RCGI), at the University of São Paulo (USP).

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 14, 2023

Source: NOAA Levels of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and nitrous oxide, the three greenhouse gases emitted by human activity that are the most significant contributors to climate change, continued their historically high rates of growth in the atmosphere during 2022, according to NOAA scientists. The global surface average for CO2 rose by 2.13

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