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Greenbuilding Law
JUNE 5, 2022
volume mixing ratio), together with a number of trace gases, such as argon (0.93% volume mixing ratio), helium, radiatively active greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (0.035% volume mixing ratio), and ozone. Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Any gas that absorbs infrared radiation in the atmosphere.
Manning Law
JUNE 15, 2022
Under most emissions trading systems, regulated industries, which fail to meet their greenhouse gas emission target must make up the shortfall either with a punitive payment or by purchasing emissions trading credits. On June 7, 2022, the Government of Canada launched Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Offset Credit System , under the federal Output-Based [Carbon] Pricing System (OBPS).
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Environmental News Bits
JUNE 2, 2022
Researchers have significantly improved the performance of numerical predictions for agricultural nitrous oxide emissions that could significantly reduce greenhouse gases from agriculture. Read the full story from the University of Minnesota. Agriculture Climate Publications
Physics World
MARCH 10, 2022
Unfortunately, they are manufactured from fossil resources using highly energy-intensive techniques that release hazardous waste and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
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). The platform will combine variables that control the carbon cycle, in addition to … Continue reading Amazon to have database on greenhouse gases. Read the full story from Agência Brasil.
E2 Law Blog
MAY 31, 2022
EPA ) addressing the scope of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing fossil-fuel powered power plaints.
Greenbuilding Law
MAY 1, 2022
With the federal government and state of Maryland each having announced within days of each other, the mandated disclosure of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, we have received, maybe not surprising, many calls in the last two weeks inquiring “what are GHGs?”
Scientific American
JUNE 1, 2022
NOAA’s Annual Greenhouse Gas Index finds that greenhouse gases trapped nearly 50 percent more heat last year than they did in 1990. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
Environment + Energy Leader
JUNE 24, 2022
The post Nestlé Has Cut Greenhouse Gases by 4 Million Tons Since 2018. Nestlé is well along the path to ensuring that 800 sites in 187 countries are totally green by 2025.
Inhabitant
OCTOBER 8, 2021
Have you ever wanted your own greenhouse? Maybe you've thought about growing an exotic plant like a delicate bonsai or a breathtaking orchid
Environmental News Bits
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
A new, internet-connected lighting system for greenhouses could sharply reduce a farmer’s electrical bill, according to a study by University of Georgia researchers. Read the full story from the University of Georgia. Read more → Agriculture Energy efficiency Publications
Inhabitant
MARCH 7, 2022
Many people dream of having their own greenhouse, but let's face it, it can be impractical. The Bramber mobile greenhouse makes these greenhouse dreams easier to achieve. This mobile greenhouse does everything larger greenhouses do but backward and on wheels Bramber can be moved around as needed to get more or less sun and taken with you when you switch residences.
Environment + Energy Leader
JUNE 24, 2022
The post Nestlé Has Cut Greenhouse Gases by 4 Million Tons Since 2018. Nestlé is well along the path to ensuring that 800 sites in 187 countries are totally green by 2025.
Inhabitant
MARCH 10, 2022
The Solar Greenhouse is a prototype of a space used to harvest food and energy, allowing for self-sufficiency for individuals in both urban and rural regions. The project was designed and assembled by a team of students and researchers in the Advanced Ecological Buildings and Biocities (MAEBB) masters program at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC
New Scientist
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
Sixteen young cows learned quickly how to urinate in a latrine, allowing their urine to be processed without producing greenhouse gases emissions
Environmental News Bits
MAY 16, 2022
This white paper summarizes readily available information on control techniques and measureswith the potential to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from stationary combustionturbines permitted to operate as electric utility generating units (EGUs). Download the document.
Inhabitant
DECEMBER 1, 2021
Scientists at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center are working on a solution that may cut agricultural-based greenhouse gases significantly. The team is working on a nitrogen tracking technology that may help cut greenhouse emissions equivalent to the CO2 produced by 10 million cars annually
Frontier Sin
JULY 11, 2021
New research published by the open access publisher Frontiers inventories greenhouse gas emissions of 167 globally distributed cities. The study shows that just 25 mega-cities produce 52% of the greenhouse gas emissions from the studied cities.
Environmental News Bits
MARCH 24, 2022
But efforts to study, develop and market the black powder as a fertilizer weren’t adding … Continue reading Engineers study biochar to fertilize crops, manage manure odors, reduce greenhouse gases.
Inhabitant
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
The Global Flora Conservatory at Wellesley College already holds several design awards, including the 2021 Architizer A+ Awards Jury Winner for Architecture + New Technology. After several years of planning and construction, it is nearly complete
Environmental Leader
MAY 25, 2021
Waste-to-energy facilities offer significant environmental protection, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and play an important complementary role in recycling efforts, according to a new City College of New York report that reviewed the most up-to-date scientific studies of the industry.
Physics World
JUNE 9, 2022
She explains why the company has set science-based targets to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions that are in line with the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change – and how the firm is meeting those goals.
Environmental News Bits
JANUARY 5, 2022
Richer countries and people are contributing a disproportionate amount to greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report released by the World Inequality Lab (WIL) research organization on Tuesday. Read the full story at The Hill. According to the WIL’s report, the top 1 percent of carbon emitting countries account for 17 percent of emissions, while the bottom 50… Read more → Climate change Climate justice Publications
Frontier Sin
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Deforestation fires in Brazil and Indonesia accounted for 3% and 7%, respectively, of the planet’s total greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in 2019 and 2020, finds a new study in Frontiers in Climate. By Suzanna Burgelman, Frontiers science writer. Image: PARALAXIS/Shutterstock.
Environmental News Bits
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Drought in California, coupled with population growth, is accelerating the need for energy-intensive water projects — driving up greenhouse gas emissions and thwarting the pace of statewide decarbonization efforts, a new study has found. Read the full story at The Hill.
Inhabitant
JUNE 18, 2021
A new urban district is rising from the dust of the former Kellogg's site on the Überseeinsel in Bremen, Germany
Environmental News Bits
APRIL 12, 2022
In architecture, biophilia is seen as a … Continue reading If your hospital suddenly feels more like an Apple store or greenhouse, biophilic design is why. Read the full story at Fast Company. Among a certain subset of designers, there’s a growing feeling that the more natural a space is, the better. So-called biophilic design, or design that integrates nature and natural processes, is making its way into the world of architecture and urban development.
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 ?.
Environmental News Bits
AUGUST 16, 2021
New Zealanders will soon be able track how much greenhouse gas the country is emitting in almost real time. Read the full story at RNZ. Read more → Climate change Data science Information tools
Environmental News Bits
JANUARY 31, 2022
by Klaus Lackner, Arizona State University Two centuries of burning fossil fuels has put more carbon dioxide, a powerful greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere than nature can remove.
Law and Environment
DECEMBER 21, 2021
The post New York Climate Action Council Approves Draft Scoping Plan to Achieve the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions first appeared on Law and the Environment.
Environmental News Bits
MARCH 10, 2022
A new series of webinars for federal contractors on managing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is now available on YouTube. The webinars were developed by EPA and the General Services Administration (GSA) to help federal contractors aid the federal government in meeting its goal of net-zero emissions from procurement by measuring and publicly disclosing their GHGs,… Read more → Events Federal government Green purchasing
New Scientist
JANUARY 7, 2022
The rate at which methane concentrations are rising is concerning researchers, with 2020 marking the biggest annual jump since 1983.
Inhabitant
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide? What produces 14.5% The animal agriculture sector. According to a new report by animal campaigners, 20 livestock companies contribute more emissions than Britain, France or Germany. And governments subsidize them to do so
Greenbuilding Law
APRIL 17, 2022
With legislation that became law last week, without the Governor’s signature, Maryland has enacted the most rigorous state law in the country reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and otherwise addressing ESG stewardship including climate change.
Inhabitant
JUNE 30, 2021
If you enjoyed building forts as a kid, you’re going to love the modular design of the Ekodome Geodesic Dome Kits
Environmental News Bits
JULY 12, 2021
Just 25 cities comprise more than half of greenhouse gas emissions from a sample of 167 urban centers, according to research published Monday in the journal Frontiers in Sustainable Cities. Read the full story in The Hill. Read more → Climate change Publications Sustainable communities
Environmental News Bits
JULY 29, 2021
The transportation sector is the largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, and a lot of attention has been devoted to electric passenger vehicles and their potential to help reduce those emissions. Read the full story from the University of Michigan.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Transportation auto industry Build Back Better Act clean car standards clean cars EPA fuel economy vehicle greenhouse gas standards
Environmental News Bits
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday is finalizing a rule aimed at significantly cutting the use of a type of greenhouse gases called hydrofluorocarbons that are used in refrigeration. Read the full story at The Hill. Hydrofluorocarbons, also known as HFCs, can have up to 14,800 times the climate impact of carbon dioxide. The new EPA… Read more → Food and beverage manufacturing Laboratories Regulation
Environmental News Bits
JUNE 14, 2021
While standing dead trees in ghost forests did not release as much greenhouse gas emissions as the soils, they did increase GHG emissions of the overall ecosystem by about 25 percent, a new study has found. Read the full story from North Carolina State University. Read more → Climate change Publications
Yale E360
MAY 13, 2021
The rapid growth of CO2 emissions in recent decades is heating and expanding the lower atmosphere, leading to its intrusion into the stratosphere, according to a new study. Read more on E360
Environmental News Bits
MARCH 15, 2022
Read the full story in the Washington Post. From Coca-Cola to Tesla, companies report emissions in widely different ways. A new federal rule is expected to standardize climate disclosures, putting the U.S. on closer footing with other countries. Read more → Climate change Corporate sustainability Regulation
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