A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

Lord David Frost , the former Brexit minister, became a GWPF director in 2022, former Tory peer Matt Ridley has sat on the GWPF academic advisory board since 2011, while Conservative politician Andrea Jenkyns joined the board of its sister group Net Zero Watch in May 2023.

Fossil Fuels

Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Manabe’s early focus was on radiative-convective equilibrium, and his seminal 1967 paper (with his longtime collaborator Richard Wetherald, who passed in 2011 ). The basic issue stems from the different timescales of the ocean and atmosphere. Fred Singer, before his turn to the dark side). 1975) , and Bryan et al.

Atmosphere

PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2023

People should be celebrating, not demonizing, modern increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). In other words, the Earth came within 30 ppm in CO2’s atmospheric concentration of witnessing the extinction of most land-based plants and all higher terrestrial life-forms – nearly a true climate apocalypse.

Carbon Dioxide

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

To meet these goals, the state is facilitating burgeoning carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) (CCS) technologies that capture carbon from point sources to store, as well as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which removes carbon from the atmosphere. Land Use and Building Decarbonization.

2021

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Because methane has 28 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide and a shorter atmospheric life of only 12 years, immediate action to reduce methane emissions —including from agriculture—is critical to slow our warming climate, especially in light of expanding global populations and food demand. 2018 , Petersen et al.,

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) estimates that it will produce 576 million barrels of oil over its 30-year lifetime, resulting in more than 239 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO 2 )-equivalent. 2011) ; Regehr et al. See, e.g., IPCC AR6 WGI Ch.3 3 ; Laidre et al. 2018) ; Tartu et al. 2018) ; Aars et al.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

It would require standardized reporting of GHG emissions (primarily carbon dioxide and methane) by firms doing business in California with total annual revenues more than $1 billion. [19] The vote on it was 24-9. 26] About 8,000 facilities are required to report. [27] NASA Finds June 2023 Hottest on Record,” July 13, 2023, [link].

Regulations

HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

When fuels are burned to create energy in a process called combustion, black carbon along with carbon monoxide and other compounds are created because there is not enough oxygen in the atmosphere for the reaction to go to completion. Whenever there are combustion processes, of which there are many in our industrial society (e.g.,

Atmosphere

Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

32] Part of the reason the planet is greening stems from greater carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and greater planetary warming. [33] 33] Scientists find that plants grow faster as a result of higher carbon dioxide concentrations. 54] FAO, “Data,” FAOSTAT, [link].,

Climate Change

ESA

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Australia passes first climate legislation since 2011. Gabon Record Carbon Credit Sale a ‘Litmus Test’ Before COP27 – Bloomberg. Australia’s first climate law since 2011 seals green comeback – The Straits Times. ‘I NASEM: The Board on Atmospheric Science and Climate released a review of the U.S. International.

2022

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

EPA lawsuit—Landry joined 18 other AGs, including Paxton and AGs from Mississippi and South Carolina, on a letter to two Senate committees urging them to vote against tighter restrictions on methane emissions, which are considerably worse for the climate than carbon dioxide. No surprise, Fitch is an oil and gas industry favorite.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , No. In March 2011, pursuant to the 2002 Act, the Minister had set a target of 50% reduction from 1990 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions levels by 2050. Both sets of intervenors also said the court should limit any abeyance period to 120 days. Center for Biological Diversity v. filed Oct.

2017

Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

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. 2011) ; Regehr et al. See, e.g., IPCC AR6 WGI Ch.3 3 ; Laidre et al. 2018) ; Tartu et al. 2018) ; Aars et al.

Climate Change

ESA

MARCH 6, 2023

1213 ) reversing a provision of the Fiscal Year 2023 omnibus spending bill preventing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from drafting new protections for the North Atlantic right whale. Legislative updates: House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) introduced a bill ( H.R.1213

2023

Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

The federal district court for the Northern District of Texas dismissed for lack of standing a lawsuit against the EPA in which an individual pro se plaintiff asserted that EPA restrictions since 1990 on aerosols in the atmosphere had caused global warming. Friends of the Santa Clara River v. County of Los Angeles , No. B296547 (Cal.

2020

ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

Climate: The Environmental Protection Agency does not list a timetable to act on a new carbon dioxide rule for existing power plants. 3692 ), which requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to develop climate impact management plans for marine mammals that are at significant risk due to climate change.

2021

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Trump, the fact that each month is warmer than the same month the previous year has nothing to do with the adverse consequences associated with spewing obscene amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. into the atmosphere each year, with no end in sight. in domestic or international efforts to reduce carbon emissions.

2016