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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. Even where the grid still has significant fossil fuel-powered generation, EVs are a cleaner choice.

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Sea Level Rise is Already Threatening Communities

Union of Concerned Scientists

The primary cause of accelerating sea level rise is human activity As people burn fossil fuels and emit heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide, our atmosphere and our oceans warm up. First, we don’t know how much more carbon dioxide, methane, and other heat-trapping gases humanity will emit in the coming decades.

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The summary for policymakers of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sixth assessment reports synthesis

Real Climate

The term “oil” is only mentioned twice in this summary, and only in connection with carbon capture and storage and methane emissions. The term “fossil fuels”, however, is mentioned 16 times. I had to look up the acronym “CDR” (Carbon dioxide removal). 775-779, 2012. C or 2°C since preindustrial times (p.

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Wetland Protections Remain Bogged Down in Mystery 

Union of Concerned Scientists

Alito famously said that carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning, a key contributor to global warming, is not a pollutant. That is despite studies tying carbon dioxide to skyrocketing rates of childhood asthma. There is evidence linking elevated carbon dioxide to longer pollen seasons.

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Something Stinks: California Must End Manure Biomethane Accounting Gimmicks in its Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Union of Concerned Scientists

Each credit one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent pollution below the standard. I’ve written recently about why a Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard , which addresses the bio-based diesel credits. Source California Air Resources Board.

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Repurposing Cropland Can Bring Environmental, Socioeconomic, and Water Justice to California

Union of Concerned Scientists

million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. That is equivalent to what half a million fossil-fueled cars emit annually. Yet, Teviston needed drought relief because of the 2012-2016 drought and their wells failed again in 2021. Yet, Teviston needed drought relief due to the 2012-2016 drought.

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Proposed EPA Rules Would Subject Oil and Gas Sources to Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The Energy Law

This rule required reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from a number of large sources including suppliers of fossil fuels or industrial greenhouse gases, manufacturers of vehicles and engines, and certain facilities that emit 25,000 metric tons or more per year of greenhouse gas emissions. and April 20, 2010 in Washington, D.C.