Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Just days before the conference she was featured in an article where she attempted to shift blame away from the fossil fuel industry by saying that oil companies can only decarbonize as fast as the rest of the economy – a comment that completely ignores the fact that the oil and gas industry is Canada’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Washington Nature

JUNE 8, 2021

by Pascale Chamberland, Masters of Public Administration Candidate 2021, University of Washington Evans School of Public Policy & Governance From a massive social media campaign to plant 20 million trees to businesses planting a tree for each product sold, people seem eager to fight climate change using natural climate solutions (NCS).

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 22, 2023

It would be one thing if this topic was only prospective, about leases to be entered into in the future, but the reality is there are very large numbers of existing leases including with renewal terms that are for premises that will be regulated by emergent greenhouse gas emission disclosure and reduction statutes, rules, and regulations.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Between 2005 and 2017 Ontario phased-out coal plants, reducing greenhouse gas pollution from our electricity system by 93 per cent. And between 2009 and 2016, Ontario built over 2000 MW of solar power and about 3000 MW of wind power. Tell the Ontario government to stop expanding dirty gas!

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

Between 2009 and 2016, Ontario built over 2000 MW of solar power and about 3000 MW of wind power. The government could provide financial incentives for large power users or groups of smaller users to reduce or shift demand during peak periods. This is completely doable. And it would cost a lot less too. .

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. We need governments to regulate industry. Under Baiton’s leadership, CAPP has lobbied the federal government 74 times in the first 9 months of 2023 – that’s once every 2.5

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

1) of Australia’s Environmental Planning & Assessment Act (the EPA), obligates the government to consider the public interest as part of its review of a development application. cases in which the courts struck down agency decisions for their failure to adequately consider or estimate downstream greenhouse gas emissions.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog post highlights three ways in which this pioneering carbon capture and storage (CCS) operation could advance the field—through its economic aspects, climate governance, and the pertinent international legal regime. This amendment was adopted at the 2009 Conference of the Parties to the LP.

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Law Columbia

JULY 1, 2022

While the United States Supreme Court yesterday delivered a major setback to the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions in West Virginia. The case, which was filed in 2020, relates to the government’s failure to disburse payments from the Climate Fund. By Maria Antonia Tigre.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 28, 2023

Modeling from Evolved Energy Research (where our panelist Jeremy Hargreaves is a principal) and Princeton University shows that reaching the IRA’s full potential for greenhouse-gas reductions will require transmission capacity to grow at a rate of about 2.3% per year—double last decade’s growth rate. The IRA also provides $9.7

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Frontiers

MARCH 24, 2023

Through high school and college, I continued to spend my summers farming and eventually started my own mixed-vegetable operation, which I ran between 2009 and 2019. Yes, there are ecological factors at play, but human governance, or lack of governance, creates a stage for degradation. The work was very rewarding.

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Environmental Europe

JULY 1, 2020

The EU is facing a key challenge in climate and energy governance. The European Green Deal and the proposed European Climate Law reinforce the EU’s goal to achieve “net zero” emissions by 2050, meaning that the EU will emit no more greenhouse gases than it removes from the air (for example through reforestation). Knodt, Michèle (2019).

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This is a positive development, given that the applicability of the 2009 Gas Directive to hydrogen has been discussed controversially in the past. Accordingly, the Directive as well as the Regulation differentiate between rules applicable to natural gas and gases more broadly defined. 2 (11) rGD).

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 12, 2021

It is one thing when a political leaders in a government make an ESG claim. In 2009 the King of Bhutan proclaimed his Himalayan country was ‘carbon negative’ because all of its power was hydroelectric or solar buttressed with large forested areas. carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, all emissions?).

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Although free seed distribution programs were immensely popular among farmers, emerging private seed breeders and horticulturalists lobbied the federal government to end the program in 1924. Moreover, they have more potential to contribute to greenhouse gas mitigation via carbon sequestration.

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HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

Scientists used satellite data of ship tracks and climate models to estimate that, globally, changes in low-level clouds due to human-caused (anthropogenic) pollution has a cooling effect that is equivalent to about 25-33% of the anthropogenic warming caused by greenhouse gases , or approximately 1 Watt of energy per square meter.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), site of the COP28 conference at the end of the month, where government representatives from all UN countries will discuss global efforts to limit climate change and adapt to its effects. Fossil fuels alone – coal, oil and gas – account for over 75% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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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.” Local governments, businesses, school districts, hospitals, and nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply. It creates good-paying jobs in energy efficiency system manufacturing and installation. Who Can Apply? Sullivan in 1978.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Pakistan’s production of natural gas peaked in 2009, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), but gas has continued to increase as a percentage of total energy supply steadily since then. In December last year, the government said the country will soon run out of local gas, therefore increasing reliance on expensive imported gas.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

2] [3] [4] The desperation of climate activism parallels the rate of loss (and likelihood of climate injustice) predicted by the IPCC and climate scientists, if governments fail to curtail greenhouse gas emissions. 24] Jose Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopias: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, (New York: NYU Press, 2009), 12. [25]

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 23, 2022

It is one thing when government leaders make an ESG claim: In 2009 the King of Bhutan proclaimed his Himalayan country was ‘carbon negative’ because all of its power was hydroelectric or solar buttressed with large forested areas. all emissions or only greenhouse gases or just carbon dioxide or?). Scope 3 emission).

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

On October 26, 2021, Observatório do Clima (OC), a network of 71 civil society organizations, filed a class action at the federal court of Amazonas against the Environmental Ministry and Brazilian government ( Laboratório do Observatório do Clima v. Omissions from the Brazilian government on climate policy. o C global warming scenario.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Investors and governments will be expected to refer to the Taxonomy in order to determine whether an activity they want to pursue can be considered sustainable, and under what conditions (screening criteria). Extending the license of existing installations is particularly efficient in environmental and economic terms.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

Only portions of the legislation apply directly to units of local government, but taken as a whole it can be expected to help U.S. cities move toward their greenhouse gas reduction goals via a cleaner national electric grid, increased vehicle and building electrification, and new distributed renewable energy resources.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions 1990–2019. 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. trillion or 6.8%

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Just as with climate change, local, state, provincial, and national governments in Canada and the United States have collaborated with science agencies, universities, and non-profit groups to develop effective responses, especially for Lake Erie. In 2009, the U.S. What have all the spending and committee meetings wrought?

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

California passed ambitious climate legislation without waiting for the federal government. And near the end of Bush’s term, the Supreme Court ruled that EPA had the power to regulate greenhouse gases under a 1970 air pollution law. Still, there was hope that after Bush, Congress would step up and pass a new climate law.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 12, 2021

But it also indicates that by swiftly and drastically cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the worst effects of climate change can be prevented, avoiding worst-case outcomes for water availability. And it shows that certain trends such as rising seas and shrinking ice sheets will continue even if carbon pollution were halted immediately.

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Acoel

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Percival Effective March 1, 2023, the Chinese government abruptly lifted travel restrictions imposed to combat the COVID pandemic. In 2009 the U.S. State Department sent me on a two-week lecture tour of China to highlight the importance of China agreeing to cap its greenhouse gas emissions.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 5, 2023

Extracting oil from the sand is an energy-intensive process that results in massive emissions of greenhouse gasses even before the oil is used for things like energy, transportation or petrochemicals and plastics. An aerial view of the Suncor oil sands extraction facility on the banks of the Athabasca River in Alberta, Canada, in 2009.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2022

Ultimately, the success of the 2022 Scoping Plan update will be measured by our ability to implement the actions modeled in the Proposed Scenario at all levels of government and society. The views presented here are my own. ]. What is a Scoping Plan?

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Environmental Progress

JULY 6, 2020

The main reason is that the government of Australia, as in California, refused to do controlled burns, for both environmental and human health reasons. The 2019–2020 fires ranked sixth in fatalities, about half as many as the fifth-place year, 1926, and a fifth as many fatalities as the worst fire on record in 2009.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Steingraber noted similar conclusions were reached in 2014 when New York State banned fracking, saying “At the time, and again, this is nine years ago in 2014, there were 400 studies and investigations in the peer-reviewed scientific literature in government reports and by journalists that showed evidence for harm. They are also born smaller.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Last Thursday, December 15, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NOPR) seeking comments on proposed changes to its regulations governing the siting of interstate electric transmission lines. greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. To get there, the U.S.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 17, 2013

In other words, rather than just considering the greenhouse gas emissions from individual projects, environmental impact statements are now regularly considering how a proposed project will be affected by anticipated sea level rise, increased storm surges, more intense heat waves, and the like. Background. 3] [link]. [4]

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ESA

MARCH 20, 2023

Across administrations, the President’s Budget Request is typically viewed as a “wishlist” and allows the administration to demonstrate its priorities and vision for the federal government. What form should the final product(s) take to be most accessible and useful to you, your community, and the government?”

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

A second bill would require annual reporting of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by a covered firm’s operations. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has adopted a Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule [25] requiring facilities that emit more than 25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent to report their direct GHG emissions. [26]

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