Environment + Energy Leader

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Union Pacific Corporation has issued a $600 million green bond offering to fund investments aimed at decarbonizing the company's footprint and achieving set emissions reduction targets. The post Union Pacific Issues $600M Bond Offering to Decarbonize Locomotives appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Environment + Energy Leader

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Union Pacific Corporation has issued a $600 million green bond offering to fund investments aimed at decarbonizing the company's footprint and achieving set emissions reduction targets. The post Union Pacific Issues $600M Bond Offering to Decarbonize Locomotives appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Physics World

AUGUST 17, 2021

Justus Ndukaife and colleagues at Vanderbilt University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory used a combination of gold nanopillar arrays and a specialized optical tweezer to transport individual nanodiamonds to specific locations within just a few seconds. Their techniques could pave the way for a diverse range of advanced quantum technologies.

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Frontiers

JULY 15, 2021

As many countries open up to tourists, we are highlighting the most recent Research Topics on transportation. Check out our curated list of the best Research Topics addressing these issues! Research Topics: Collaborative Transportation. Artificial Intelligence in Transport and Logistics. Transportation and Public Health.

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Clean Energy Law

JULY 8, 2021

On June 30, 2021, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued a report to Congress that outlines a framework for how the US can accelerate carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS) technologies and projects in a way that is efficient, orderly, and responsible. By Joshua T. Bledsoe , Nikki Buffa , and Nolan Fargo.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) isn’t listening to people and communities. . Here are some of the issues I noticed when I attended a PIC. Contrary to the MTO’s “need” argument, our expert study shows that a more efficient and sustainable way to move people is to add public transportation options. The solution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Activities associated with construction of the CT plants at Paradise and Colbert and associated offsite TL (transmission lines) and natural gas upgrades have the potential to result in adverse impacts to visual resources, transportation, natural areas, parks and recreation, and noise during construction activities.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

It is accompanied by several issue-specific deep dive … Continue reading Carbon Capture, Transport, & Storage: Supply Chain Deep Dive Assessment.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

Department of Transportation announced the agency has denied Energy Transfer Partners a special permit to transport liquefied natural gas (LNG) by rail from Wyalusing, PA to Gibbstown, NJ across the river from Philadelphia. On April 25, the Natural Resources Defense Council said a Federal Register notice from the U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat – On Saturday November 18, 2023 at Evolving Space in Scarborough, from 10 am to noon, Environmental Defence will host Moving Together: Creating The Transportation Future We Want.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 6, 2023

House Committee Targets Permitting The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee passed two items that would reduce federal government oversight over water resources. The post Federal Water Tap, March 6: EPA Issues Cybersecurity Order for Water Utilities appeared first on Circle of Blue. government water policy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2024

These corporations and politicians don’t want to see a transformational transportation system we need, one that prioritizes people before highways, health before harm, access before asphalt, climate before corporations, freedom over fossil fuels. Transportation planning settled into status quo through the 1990s. How did we get here?

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 8, 2024

The changes target emissions from the production and transport of building materials like concrete, steel, insulation and wood. The Commission also issued new rules governing the state’s 18 most polluting facilities, including the world’s largest maker of mozzarella cheese. In 2026, the threshold will drop to 50,000 square feet.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

California’s transportation fuel policy is knee deep in cow poop, and it’s not a good look. CARB’s use of the LCFS as a cash cow to fund manure digesters is bad transportation fuel policy and bad agricultural policy. Accounting gimmicks disguise a poorly run offset scheme as a magic carbon negative climate solution.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2024

On January 17, the PJM Interconnection announced it has issued a new Cold Weather Alert for its Western Region from January 19-22. PJM normally issues this alert when actual temperatures are projected to fall near or below 10 degrees Fahrenheit. Alerts do not indicate that emergency actions are currently needed.

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 22, 2022

port, transported offshore, and then laid on top of the pipe/cable. coastwise point because it is a means of transporting resources, regardless of whether it is near another structure that would independently be considered to be a coastwise point. flag, coastwise endorsed vessel is required to transport the mats from a U.S.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Candidate at UCLA Law (2L) Last week, Assemblymember Dr. Joaquin Arambula introduced AB 2623 , a bill designed to guard California communities against the dangers of transporting carbon dioxide in pipelines. The California Legislature should take action on this issue now. Guest contributor Jennifer Imm is a J.D.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The verdict on this issue seems very clear. The Picture for Transportation is Less Clear. Total direct transportation emissions in 2019 were about the same as those a decade earlier. Thus, California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard made a real difference in the overall carbon footprint of the state’s transportation system.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The Department of Transportation issued an invitation to apply for Multimodal Transportation Fund Grants to invest in a variety of multimodal projects, including funding for bicycle and pedestrian improvements. Visit PennDOT’s Multimodal Transportation Fund Grants webpage for more information.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

This morning, the Emmett Institute released a policy report analyzing several commonly raised issues regarding California’s dairy digester policy. When manure-derived biogas is used as renewable natural gas (instead of burned onsite for electricity generation, for example) it is transported through pipelines.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Similarly, we would have understood that the problem wasn’t just cars producing smog but urban designs and transportation systems that produced a car-based society. Environmental law is not all about climate change, but climate change is the central issue today. Other parts of environmental law might also have looked different.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 26, 2024

The second reason is that many — probably most — impact statements are already subject to earlier NEPA laws that streamlined the process for many types of projects, including many energy and transportation projects. Some of those laws are stricter than the NEPA amendments. It’s not a great bargain. Download as PDF

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2022

The Public Utility Commission is inviting comments on a petition from ChargEVC-PA requesting the Commission to issue a Policy Statement on electric utility rate design for electric vehicle charging in PA. The burning of transportation fuels, such as gasoline and diesel, is a substantial source of air pollution.

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Real Climate

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

If you’re not familiar with the issues surrounding the risk of abrupt ocean circulation changes, I briefly summarized ten key facts on this topic last year in this blog post. As I’ve said before: the issue is not whether we’re sure this is going to happen. Particularly bad news for Britain and Scandinavia.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 6, 2023

Statement by Nate Wallace, Clean Transportation Program Manager, Environmental Defence Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – The TTC’s budget crisis is not unique. And all the money spent to date preventing cuts will have been wasted.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2024

Understanding the transportation needs of rural residents Rural areas are home to approximately 46 million people, according to the 2020 census, and rural roads play a critical role in the country’s transportation system. In rural areas, people face unique transportation challenges. Is the reliability of new EVs improving?

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

CARB’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) seeks to incentivize the production and sale of alternative, lower emissions transportation fuels in order to displace conventional fossil fuels. To identify which fuels should be promoted, CARB calculates the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And will the grid be able to handle all of the electric vehicles we will have as we progress toward a highly-electrified transportation future, by say 2040 or 2050? Even in states with higher EV adoption currently, power demand from EVs is not causing issues. Let’s pick apart these two questions. For example, California has reach 16.3%

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 31, 2023

The best solutions in 2024 and beyond to the breadth and scope of the globe’s environmental issues will be found by businesses. The greenhouse gas issue just coming into focus in 2024 is reducing food waste. The pendant issue “with a bullet” in 2024 is working to eliminate modern slavery in business supply chains.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2022

On April 11, the departments of Transportation and Environmental Protection wrote a joint letter to the Public Utility Commission supporting a rulemaking petition from ChargEVC-PA requesting the Commission to issue a Policy Statement on electric utility rate design for electric vehicle charging in PA.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2023

The regulations coming out of the EPA and the Transportation Department are the most expensive in U.S. Congress addressed the national security issue raised by Texas with incentives for American producers, and the grid reliability issue with provisions to encourage new transmission lines. And this case is even more influential.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 23, 2023

Economic advancements The most obvious contribution of such a cross-border transportation of CO 2 for overseas storage lies in its economic aspects. More specifically, the lack of operational data for CO 2 shipping has been considered to impose conservative limitations on its cross-border transportation and storage.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

And, even more importantly, how are we going to ensure that this rapid EV transition is equitable , promoting locally appropriate transportation options, avoiding higher costs for lower-income and underserved communities, and increasing mobility overall? . And last month, the California Air Resources Board issued a complementary $2.6

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Legal Planet

JUNE 8, 2023

The Transport Decarbonisation Alliance (TDA) is a collaboration among countries, cities, regions and companies with the goal of accelerating the global transformation of the transport sector towards a net-zero emission mobility system by 2050. These zones effectively reduce pollution and improve the quality of urban life.

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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The issues on appeal were limited to the adequacy of certain aspects of the project EIR’s analyses of GHGs and criteria air pollutants. residential, commercial, industrial, transportation, agriculture, etc.). threshold); and transportation emissions would be 2.50 threshold); and transportation emissions would be 2.50

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

NHTSA This case involves fuel efficiency standards set by the Department of Transportation — commonly known as CAFÉ standards. The issues here are pretty technical. The standing issues are similar to those in the previous case but arguably even stronger.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Transportation is now the source of 28% of U.S. The transportation sector is also a substantial source of nitrogen oxides and particulates, both of which are dangerous to human health. The big issue in this case is whether the agency violated a statutory prohibition against “considering” electric vehicles in setting the standard.

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