Legal Planet

JULY 2, 2025

The climate benefits of the rule were highly uncertainty because there is controversy over whether using corn ethanol ultimately reduces emissions of greenhouse gases. Cellulosic biofuels would be environmentally appealing, but no one has figured out an affordable technology for making them. Nearly all U.S.

Biofuels

Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The ocean absorbs more than 90% of the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gasses and generates 50% of the oxygen we breathe. Renewable energy technologies are rapidly advancing, becoming increasingly competitive and, in many cases, becoming cheaper in cost and more efficient than fossil fuels.

Ocean

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 8, 2025

We are caught in the middle, struggling with our identity as a state successfully transitioning to clean technologies yet still reliant on gasoline. The transportation sector in California makes up the majority of our greenhouse gas emissions and a significant portion of our toxic air pollution. And this is objectively a good thing.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 13, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency announced $2,400,000 for 24 small businesses to develop technologies to address public health and environmental challenges. in State College to create an activated metal oxide technology to mitigate the environmental impact of phosphorus runoff into water bodies and enhance crop productivity.

Technology

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 17, 2024

People now really are discussing the possibility of making intentional interventions to change the climate — or rather, to reduce some of the climate disruptions that are happening and coming due to human elevated greenhouse gases. These interventions would not precisely offset greenhouse-gas-driven climate change.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The general permit sets Best Available Technology requirements to meet emission limits for oxides of nitrogen (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO) and other pollutants. DEPs 2022 Pennsylvania Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory shows coal mining-related greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 totaled an estimated 11.91 million metric tons.

Carbon Monoxide

Scientific American

JULY 4, 2025

The first was that back in 1860, scientists in our “Gedanken world” had the technology to monitor global temperature changes in both the troposphere (the atmospheric layer extending from the surface up to about 15 kilometers) and the stratosphere (ranging from roughly 15 km to 50 km). We made three key assumptions.

Atmosphere

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

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. Exploring new technologies promoting green fuels and electric energy alternatives will be key to advancing the low-carbon transformation of ports, they add.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

JUNE 19, 2025

While the court dismissed the claim brought by Peruvian farmer Saúl Luciano Lliuya against RWE, the country’s largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitter, it nonetheless delivered groundbreaking findings on civil liability for major GHG polluters. The court also rejected the argument that the defendant’s contribution was too minor to matter.

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Not only does this contradict the Minister’s stated commitment to a “technology-agnostic” energy planning process, where the best and cheapest technology would win, but it also disregards the clear evidence that wind and solar are the most cost-effective sources of new electricity generation.

Nuclear Power

New Scientist

JULY 4, 2025

Read more Our plans to tackle climate change with carbon storage don't add up A forest-based carbon-offset project involves protecting or replanting forests to generate carbon credits, which can then be sold to companies or individuals to offset their greenhouse gas emissions.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The program uses a third party professional energy manager to work with local governments and school districts to review existing plans and project proposals, make recommendations, and perform assessment services to reduce energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions. Questions should be directed to: Chris Nafe at chnafe@pa.gov or 717-783-9726.

Renewable Energy

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

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

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 16, 2024

When people think about climate policy, they probably think that the goal of climate policy is reducing greenhouse gas emissions. First, we might be concerned about the cost of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Making those choices depends on the political, economic, and technological context. The first post is here.

Politics

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Landing such developments in Alberta could lead to more than $100 billion of investment, says Chris Varcoe in the Calgary Herald (Dec 4), while creating thousands of technology jobs and spurring new demand for natural gas that will be needed to generate electricity to power such facilities.

Renewable Energy

Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

However, this modern technology extends to help farmers effectively and sustainably pursue their practice. Technologies like Nofence help farmers keep track of their livestock, recognize their behaviors, and optimize their well-being and safety. This technology is not just limited to the United States. billion by 2025.

Technology

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

companies include greenhouse gas emissions data called for by the March 2024 SEC rule, and they describe company ambitions to reduce those emissions. According to the Sabin Center / CCSI report, many companies already publish climate-related information in sustainability reports published on their websites.

Climate Change

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

The fashion industry is also responsible for up to 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions—more than the aviation and shipping industries combined. The problem becomes even worse when you consider that most clothes make a quick trip to the landfill, where they’ll emit greenhouse gases such as methane.

Upcycling

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

The [federal Bipartisan Infrastructure and Inflation Reduction Acts] provide billions of dollars in investment aimed at expanding low-and no-carbon technologies, accelerating a just energy transition, and building equity into climate adaptation efforts. from 2019 to 2020 and 44.4% from 2005 to 2020. Read more here.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Technology Center, Room 243, 200 Innovation Blvd, State College. Contact: Todd Wallace at twallace@pa.gov or by telephone at 717-783-6395. Read more here about agenda. December 12-- DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council meeting. Click Here for options to join the meeting remotely.

Natural Gas

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 12, 2025

The path to carbon neutral shipping: A comparative analysis of low carbon technologies. link] Abstract Ship operations are crucial to global trade, and their decarbonization is essential … Continue reading The path to carbon neutral shipping: A comparative analysis of low carbon technologies Journal of Environmental Sciences.

Technology

A Greener Life

DECEMBER 19, 2024

By Jiang Mengnan Chinas oil demand is projected to peak at approximately 770 million tonnes in 2025, according to a forecast by the China National Petroleum Corporations Economic and Technological Research Institute (ETRI), reports Caixin. By 2035, demand for refined fuel is expected to decrease by between 25-40% from 2023 levels.

2025

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Here’s the catch: there are three big flaws with the story they’re peddling: Fossil fuels are still the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. It’s a risky and ineffective technology with a track record of failure. In Canada, oil and gas production accounts for nearly a third of the country’s total climate pollution.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MAY 23, 2025

And because of that, our industrial sector is the largest sector for greenhouse gas emissions in Pennsylvania. Funded through the federal Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, RISE PA offers grants for both larger and smaller scale projects designed to improve technologies and reduce both costs and air pollution from heavy industry.

Conservation

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. Companies that use gas, on the other hand, will have to respect the annual limit by investing in technologies to reduce emissions – or reduce how long they run their plant.

Electricity

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. These include mitigating and adapting to climate change, protecting Nature, and making progressive strides towards sustainable development. 344, 351).

Climate Change

Nanotech

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The rule establishes guidelines for the reporting and verification of practices and technologies used to The post Biden USDA Issues Technical Guidelines for Climate-Smart Agriculture Crops Used as Biofuel Feedstocks appeared first on Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

Biofuels

A Greener Life

JULY 6, 2025

These clean energy technologies are pivotal to Brazil’s goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and meeting its international climate commitments. In 2024, Brazil’s installed capacity for wind power reached approximately 22.6 GW, and solar capacity surpassed 25.5

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. Analyzing vehicle pollution control technologies and testing pollution emissions from vehicles.

Ozone

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. Chinas three major stock exchanges then issued guidance on sustainability reporting for designated firms including a requirement to disclose greenhouse gas emissions.

Carbon Emissions

Legal Planet

APRIL 21, 2025

We will be able to continue to defend Californias progress against the targeting of our climate action by the Trump administration, he said, calling out the states greenhouse gas reduction goals, cap-and-trade law, and clean vehicle waivers as ones he expects to successfully defend.

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. In recent years, however, the real progress has been outside the rooms where the official U.N. negotiations are held, not inside.

Rainforest

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 28, 2025

On June 27, Marcellus Drilling News reported Rain City Resources and Avonlea Lithium Corporation announced the successful completion of a pilot test of the proprietary ACCELi technology using lithium-rich wastewater sourced from fracking in the Marcellus Shale, Pennsylvania. Click Here for a copy of the Avonlea Lithium announcement.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 9, 2025

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Natural Gas

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