Ivy Protocol

MAY 30, 2023

Nature-based Solutions (NBS) offer a promising approach to addressing the challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, and ecosystem degradation. One specific subset of NBS, known as Blue Carbon projects, focuses on the conservation, restoration, and sustainable use of coastal and marine ecosystems (i.e.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Sea level rise within the Pacific has already surpassed the 2007 estimate from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and further predictions infer a further 2m increase within the century. [1] Greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide are great absorbers of heat radiation coming from the Earth’s surface.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 6, 2010

By Stephen Wiegand On December 15, 2009, EPA published in the Federal Register its final endangerment findings with respect to greenhouse gases. 15, 2009) [[link] This rulemaking is a response to Massachusetts v. These gases include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydroflourocarbons, perflourocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2022

So when this industry and its drilling took off in the late otss, you know, 2009, 2010, we were sort of in the right place at the right time. Finally, this industry has fugitive emissions of methane and the burning of gas releases carbon dioxide. And so all of these have very significant impacts on climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

And it helps lower greenhouse gas emissions to slow climate change and its negative effects.” Background DEP and Reinvestment Fund launched the Green Energy Loan Fund in 2009 with $12 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It lowers operating expenses, allowing an entity to focus more resources on its mission.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

It was a sign of how much has changed since 2021 when the UK hosted the flagship COP26 UN climate summit with a promise “irrefutably to turn the tide and to begin the fightback against climate change”. million from fossil fuel interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since the 2019 election.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions include carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes, net carbon dioxide from land use, land use change and forestry, methane, nitrous oxide, and fluorinated gases. Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions 1990–2019.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

According to the Oversight Committee, ExxonMobil has spent $68 million to advertise its algae biofuel research, nearly a quarter of what the company reportedly spent since 2009 on the research itself (which is a tiny fraction of what ExxonMobil still spends on developing oil and gas).

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

By 2009, a study by Chinese scientists found that cadmium was going into China’s topsoil at around 0.004mg/kg per year. This represents 25% of the potential of all natural climate solutions. Soil can both be a source of greenhouse gas emissions, by releasing carbon dioxide and methane, or it can fix organic carbon.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 18, 2023

But since 2009, the cost of land-based wind has dropped by more than two-thirds as inflationary pressures eased, the technology advanced, and the US-based supply chain matured. Land-based wind similarly experienced temporary cost increases during the 2008 economic recession.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

In January 2009, DEP ordered then Cabot Oil & Gas, the company that drilled in the shale gas wells, to cease all fracking operations in Susquehanna County to conduct an evaluation of its fracking operations.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 24, 2024

SB 831, the Carbon Dioxide Geologic Sequestration Primacy Act, would open the door to geologic storage of carbon dioxide by declaring it to be in the public interest and a beneficial use. Today, the estimated number of abandoned wells is at least three times higher than the 2009 estimate.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

An Urgent Call The Ecological Society of America (ESA) calls on world leaders attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), to pledge immediate action to reduce carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and other greenhouse gas emissions to limit rising global temperatures initially to 2.0⁰

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Burning coal in these two regions account for a little under two gigatonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year, with 1.29 Burning coal emits twice as much carbon dioxide as natural gas and up to 50 times more than solar and wind in their entire lifecycles (manufacturing and recycling included). A moral imperative.

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ESA

MARCH 20, 2023

States Texas State Board of Education issues guidance encouraging schools to emphasize the “positive” aspects of climate change in textbooks. Julia Brownley (D-CA) introduced the Marine Mammal Climate Change Protection Act ( H.R. metric tons of carbon dioxide a year for up to 30 years.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The US Energy Information Administration is forecasting the wholesale price of gas to reach its highest level since the winter of 2009-2010 in inflation-adjusted terms. Methane is more than 80 times as powerful at warming the planet over a 20-year time frame than carbon dioxide. . There’s a better way forward.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

So when this industry and its drilling took off in the late otss, you know, 2009, 2010, we were sort of in the right place at the right time. Finally, this industry has fugitive emissions of methane and the burning of gas releases carbon dioxide. And so all of these have very significant impacts on climate change.

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Testimony before the House Agriculture Committee for a Hearing on “Climate Change and the U.S. Technological change and agricultural modernization will significantly outweigh climate change in the U.S. Technological change and agricultural modernization will significantly outweigh climate change in the U.S.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

Although not a silver bullet, it is likely to have positive consequences of decreasing GHGs, advancing work to prepare for the worsening physical impacts of climate change, and encouraging climate friendly innovations. [10] 12] Here are some details about the proposed California legislation. The vote on it was 24-9.

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Cresforum

APRIL 22, 2021

What a 50% reduction looks like The GHGs implicated in climate change are primarily carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and fluorinated gases, like hydroflourocarbons. greenhouse gases. In 2005, President Biden’s baseline year, U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions stood at roughly 6.0 gigatons (Gt).

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Cresforum

APRIL 22, 2021

The GHGs implicated in climate change are primarily carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and fluorinated gases, like hydroflourocarbons. carbon dioxide pollution fell by a sharp 11 percent, largely due to the societal and economic disruptions caused by efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

24 Organizing Black Birders Week Webinar With Tykee James -- Keep PA Beautiful Local Affiliates Recycle 1.1 17; Loving The Land Thru Working Forests Conference Sept.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Climate change EPA has been a key agency to help cut greenhouse gases contributing to human-caused climate change and its harmful impacts on people and the environment. In addition, the EPA should revise or scrap the social cost of carbon (SCC), according to the Blueprint.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2025

In late 2009, EPA made a formal finding often called the Endangerment Finding that greenhouse gases may endanger human health and welfare. In this post, Ill explain the 2009 finding, its significance, the specific arguments EPA is making, and why they are likely to fail. First, it has to qualify as an air pollutant.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 9, 2024

EPA that EPA has the statutory authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from new motor vehicles because carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and other GHGs fall within the Clean Air Acts capacious definition of air pollutant. In 2007, the Supreme Court held in Massachusetts v.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 23, 2021

On April 1, 2021, a unanimous Second Circuit panel dismissed a lawsuit filed by New York City against a handful of fossil fuel companies seeking damages for climate change harms under state public nuisance and trespass law. As my collaborators and I argue in our book, these criteria are satisfied in the case of climate change. (A

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 12, 2022

Supreme Court issued a decision striking down an Obama era rule regulating carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from existing power plants. In 2009, EPA made a finding that six greenhouse gasses endanger public health and welfare because of their contribution to climate change. The decision in West Virginia v.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 103. and non-U.S.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 6, 2024

DEED) Oil and gas companies and their top trade groups were aware for decades that carbon emissions contribute to climate change, according to a scathing new report from congressional investigators. This week, we’re shining a light on the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long campaign of deceit about climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2025

In a blitz of destructive actions announced by EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin last month, he specifically called for a reconsideration of the 2009 Endangerment Finding. The Union of Concerned Scientists will fight back to defend climate science and protect public health safeguards. These findings followed from the landmark 2007 Mass v.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

A key action on the chopping block is the Endangerment Finding - which is critical to regulating greenhouse gases and curbing climate change. This determination, known as the Endangerment Finding, triggered EPAs legal duty and provides its corresponding authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

In recent years, states in New England and the mid-Atlantic region have made significant progress in reducing climate change-inducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity generation sector. [1]. Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Transportation A Cap-and-Invest Approach .

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

For almost three decades, world governments have met nearly every year to forge a global response to the climate emergency. As part of the Paris agreement, the world’s leading authority on climate science – the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – was charged with examining closely what a 1.5C Why is 1.5C

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

and an area that is highly sensitive to climate change. 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 carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) equivalent. See Karuk Tribe of California v. USFS (9th Cir. 2012) ; Cal.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

12] Specifically, ClientEarth claimed that Shell had made a net zero carbon dioxide 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. World Scientists Warning of a Climate Emergency 2022, 72 BioScience 1149 (2022), [link].

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Bush had already “established a comprehensive global climate change policy.” Cities across the country are taking action to mitigate climate change and adapt to its effects. On March 2, the Sabin Center filed a brief in Texas v. Conference of Mayors (USCOM).

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Columbia Climate Law

APRIL 1, 2020

Briefly, by way of background, the GHGRP was established in 2009 after Congress authorized funding for EPA to develop rules requiring mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions in the FY2008 Consolidated Appropriations Act. It is, therefore, a useful tool for tracking changes in emissions over time. Published to fulfill the U.S.’

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