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metric tons of carbondioxide a year for up to 30 years. White House: The United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is requesting input to create an updated version of the 2009 “Climate Literacy: Essential Principles of Climate Science” report. million acres of the Arctic Ocean from oil and gas exploration.
Alito famously said that carbondioxide from fossil fuel burning, a key contributor to global warming, is not a pollutant. That is despite studies tying carbondioxide to skyrocketing rates of childhood asthma. There is evidence linking elevated carbondioxide to longer pollen seasons. Photo by Derrick Z.
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12] Specifically, ClientEarth claimed that Shell had made a net zero carbondioxide emission pledge as in the long-term interests of the corporation and its shareholders but did not put in place an actual or realistic plan to achieve this target. 29] Hale, op. 30] Richard J.
EPA , the landmark 2007 decision that said the EPA has the authority to regulate carbondioxide emitted from new motor vehicles. Carbondioxide is not a pollutant. Carbondioxide is not harmful to ordinary things, to human beings, or to animals, or to plants. All of us are exhaling carbondioxide right now.
Several factors¾including the effects of the economic recession, shifts in energy markets from coal to natural gas and renewable energy sources, and carbon pollution mitigation and clean energy programs like renewable portfolio standards¾have been identified as principal drivers of these reductions. [2]. emissions from the power sector. [3].
BLM estimates that the project will produce up to 576 million barrels of oil over its 30-year lifetime, resulting in indirect emissions totaling 239 million metric tons of carbondioxide (CO 2 ) equivalent. See Karuk Tribe of California v. USFS (9th Cir. 2012) ; Cal. USDA, (9th Cir.
32] Part of the reason the planet is greening stems from greater carbondioxide in the atmosphere, and greater planetary warming. [33] 33] Scientists find that plants grow faster as a result of higher carbondioxide concentrations. 66] Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals (New York: Little Brown, 2009), 95–96. [67]
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