Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

After the EPA proposed the Clean Power Plan in 2014, for example, fossil fuel interests and their backers tried to argue that the proposal’s 2030 emission-reduction targets were completely unrealistic, and that the country would see astronomically high costs and blackouts due to the rule.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Now however, the updates to the historical warming , the use of four datasets instead of one, and of course, the series of record breaking years subsequently (2014, 2015, 2016/2020), the issue of variability in decadal trends is no longer so salient. Russell, "Climate Impact of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide", Science , vol.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

The Carbon Capture Facility at the Boundary Dam Power Plant in Saskatchewan went into service in 2014. Since then, it has captured less than half of the carbon dioxide it is supposed to. Carbon dioxide is an asphyxiant, meaning that it displaces the oxygen in the air.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

The CAISO’s Western Energy Imbalance Market (WEIM) started in 2014, and participation has grown to the point that it now covers approximately 80% of load in the western interconnection. So far the WEIM has been very successful, reducing global warming emissions by nearly 800,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide and saving participants $3.4

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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.,

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) is the most important greenhouse gas that we have added to the atmosphere, however, some of it has been absorbed by land and oceans. The annual precipitation amount may increase from the 1995-2014 levels with up to 13% by 2081-2100 averaged over global land areas.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

My presentation was a summary of a single chapter in The Sixth Extinction , science writer Elizabeth Kolbert’s landmark 2014 book exploring warning signs of a coming human-induced extinction event as destructive as the five previous episodes documented in the fossil record.

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HumanNature

APRIL 14, 2022

Candidate in the Department of Biology and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University Over the past two decades, the United States has seen a high increase of dry periods without rain otherwise known as drought across the entire country (IPCC 2014). Climate change 2014. Dereczynski CP, Menezes WF. Campus, 1–54.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

Dr. Leubke will explain the basics of carbon capture and storage (CCS) and how both point-source CCS and direct air capture (DAC) can help the U.S. reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) atmospheric levels. He spent 12 years as a carbon capture researcher at the NETL before leaving in 2014 for entrepreneurial ventures.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 27, 2023

In 2021, overall annual emissions from oil and gas globally were 40,800 megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e). Before the pandemic started, 17 per cent of Canadian fossil fuel jobs already disappeared between 2014 and 2019. By 2021, the oil and gas industry employed 25,788 fewer workers than in 2014.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Methane is a climate super-pollutant that is 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. Given its potency and short life, experts believe that reducing methane emissions is the highest-yield action that governments and businesses can take to curb near-term warming.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

Covered Entities : The Program regulates manufacturers, electricity importers, suppliers of natural gas, gasoline and other fuels, and CO2 suppliers that emit more than 25,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MTCO2e) annually. The Program has been linked with the Cap-and-Trade System of Québec since 2014. billion.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

In Kobe city, the construction of two new coal-fired power plants was planned, and the operator started the environmental impact assessment despite the opposition by the Kobe residents in 2014. Civil Case : Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v. However, the Court did not touch upon this claim.

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Law Columbia

MAY 31, 2024

In reality, however, the eight old coal-fired power plants had been shut down since 2014. Specifically, they claimed that the cumulative environmental impact of the emissions should be examined in the EIA: The estimated annual amount of carbon dioxide was to be 7.26 This significantly improved air quality in the local area.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The mechanism for this is relatively straight-forward: when plants are growing through photosynthesis, they’re pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and incorporating it into plant structures. The amount of drawdown in agricultural lands can be quite dramatic— a 2014 study found that at peak growth, the US Corn Belt (i.e.,

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A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2021

That fund started its coal divestment in 2014, also due to Urgewald’s campaigns, and tightened its guidelines in 2019. For example, the world’s largest pool of retirement savings, the Japanese Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), has investments of $635 million in China’s GCEL companies, making it their fifth biggest investor.

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Science & Climate

MARCH 30, 2021

For the study , the scientists deployed sensors between 2014 and 2019, collecting millions of data points from seven seagrass meadows of eelgrass stretching from Northern to Southern California. As more carbon dioxide is emitted on the planet, about a third is absorbed by the ocean. Courtesy, Melissa Ward). Night and day.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Fossil fuel combustion produces carbon dioxide (CO2), the most abundant global warming pollutant, but also produces local pollutants such as fine particulate matter (PM2.5), nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). It damages lung tissue by chemically reacting with it.

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Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

At a time where scientists are trying to figure out how to suck the excess carbon out of our atmosphere, Mother Nature has known how to do it for millions of years. Trees are very efficient at absorbing carbon dioxide. It is estimated that one acre of forest absorbs six tons of carbon dioxide and puts out four tons of oxygen.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 21, 2013

On August 21, CCCL released a new white paper that evaluates the legal workability and constitutionality of regulating imports into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or “RGGI” (for background on RGGI, the Northeastern states’ cap-and-trade program for carbon dioxide, see prior posts ).

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

While “natural” gas is mostly composed of methane, a greenhouse gas that’s 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide during its first 20 years in the atmosphere, Ebel and his industry counterparts have succeeded in minimizing the perception of its climate impact. Gregory Ebel doesn’t let bad press get him down.

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HumanNature

MARCH 24, 2022

Forests are incredibly good at storing carbon, in both soils and plants. When forests burn, that carbon is released into the atmosphere and contributes to greenhouse gases (mostly as carbon dioxide). Normally when a forest regrows after a fire, it’s able to capture that carbon dioxide and store it again.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

California’s 2020 fire season, along with many other climate change induced severe weather events; is a wake up call and a reminder that these events will only worsen if we don’t cap carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. [12] This will force not only wildlife species to flee from their habitats, but humans too. Climate Central. Abramson M.,

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide are great absorbers of heat radiation coming from the Earth’s surface. Increased levels of greenhouse gases from human industry and agriculture are the root cause of the erosion occurring within the Pacific Islands. should be. [4] Pacific Climate Change’ accessed 28 February 2021, [link].

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

laws governing the cross-border transport of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) for sequestration, and how such transportation fits into broader climate and environmental protection regimes, including the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, carbon markets and emissions trading. Louis in 2014.

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

By Jillian Marullo House Bill 788, signed into law on June 14, 2013, authorizes the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (“TCEQ”) to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases (“GHG”) “[t]o the extent that greenhouse gas emissions require authorization under federal law.”

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2022

CNX began its natural gas development-related activities at the airport in 2014, bringing its Marcellus shale wells into production in 2016 with the airport sharing the resulting revenue. million pounds of carbon dioxide per year within the region.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In November 2014, the United States and China—two of the world’s most significant emitters—. to reducing their carbon emissions. which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. carbon dioxide. jointly committed. In August 2015, the Obama administration announced the.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

According to his findings, the carbon intensity of solar panels manufactured in China and installed in European countries like Italy was off by an order of magnitude. The scale of the IPCC’s undercount shocks once applied to the EU’s “clean” energy plans.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

The inaugural project in 2014 provided a first-of-its kind approach through the fusion of river surfing, paddleboarding, and conservation actions that fostered love and appreciation for the outdoors and improved the lives of students in areas with limited opportunities and access.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

million km2 and its result were published in a report in 2014. billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent every year – 40% from protecting existing carbon, and the remaining 60% from rebuilding depleted stores. 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 16, 2023

Since that 2014 study, which laid the foundation of what is called climate source attribution science , UCS scientists have collaborated with Heede on two other studies that pinpointed the major carbon producers’ culpability for specific climate change-related trends. percent of total emissions. percent of total emissions.

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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] 34] See Omri Ben-Shahar & Carl E. 35] See Richard J.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Studies show it may be possible through the adoption of improved farming practices which take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store it in the soil. Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change. Biden’s climate strategy looks to pay farmers to curb carbon footprint. References 1 IPCC. link] 12 Evarts, A.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Oil and natural gas operations are the nation’s largest industrial source of methane, a climate “super pollutant” that is many times more potent than carbon dioxide and is responsible for approximately one third of the warming from greenhouse gases occurring today. Read more here.]

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Figure 1: Size reference for atmospheric particles (US EPA 2016) and a general structure of freshly created black carbon. Direct Environmental Effects Did you know that black carbon is the second most important warming agent in our atmosphere behind carbon dioxide (CO 2 )? March 26, 2014. April 19, 2016.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 21, 2023

By Travis Rosenbluth In 2014, scientists of the IPCC agreed that human influence on the climate system is evident. Some of what is to come may be provocative and contrarian; so, take a breath —but not too deep because the air is full of carbon dioxide. Seven Years to Midnight?

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