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Electric Vehicles Help Combat Climate Change, Here’s Why.

Union of Concerned Scientists

Driving the average EV in the US produces carbon dioxide emissions equivalent to a hypothetical 100 mpg gasoline car. In the 2012 analysis, only 45% of the country lived where driving an EV was better than a 50 MPG gasoline car.

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Intercalation-based desalination and carbon capture for water and climate sustainability

Physics World

Similar symmetric FDI architectures using proton intercalation materials are also shown to facilitate direct-air capture of carbon dioxide with unprecedentedly low energy input by reversibly shifting pH within aqueous electrolyte.

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Cattle and Climate Change: Putting Sustainability in Perspective

HumanNature

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, with a global warming potential of approximately 28 times greater than carbon dioxide over a 100-year time horizon (IPCC, 2021). Deforestation not only threatens biodiversity and disrupts ecosystems but can also increase carbon losses and reduce the capacity for carbon sequestration (Macedo et al.,

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Zeldin Wants to “Reconsider” the EPA’s GHG Endangerment Finding. He Can’t Bury the Facts on Climate Science.

Union of Concerned Scientists

Importantly, courts have repeatedly upheld both, including in a resounding 2012 decision from the U.S. In its 2012 decision , the DC Circuit was also clear is noting that By employing the verb shall, Congress vested a non-discretionary duty in EPA. Court of AppealsD.C. Circuit in Citizens for Responsible Regulation v.

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Attribution Science and EPA’s Reconsideration of the GHG Endangerment Finding

Law Columbia

In the original finding, issued in 2009, EPA concluded that six GHGs carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), methane (CH 4 ), nitrous oxide (N 2 O), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), and sulfur hexafluoride (SF 6 ) threaten the public health and welfare of current and future generations. EPA (2012).

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Dissecting the Attacks on the Endangerment Finding

Legal Planet

Circuit in a 2012 decision, Citizens for Responsible Regulation [CARE] v. In making the Endangerment Finding, EPA put six types of substances, most notably carbon dioxide and methane, into a single category of “well-mixed greenhouse gases.” The Endangerment Finding was challenged in court and upheld by the D.C.

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Is There Really a Fiduciary Duty to Destroy the Climate?

Law Columbia

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. 516 (2012); SpeechNow.org v. federal system. [7] Strine, Jr., 310 (2010).

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