Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Between 2015 and 2021, 274 North American oil and gas producers filed for bankruptcy with a debt load of $177 billion. Methane is more than 80 times as powerful at warming the planet over a 20-year time frame than carbon dioxide. . The bankruptcies were set in motion even before 2020.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 31, 2015

On May 24, 2015 Pope Francis used his. Francis has outlined a three-pronged climate change fix: remove greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, restore ecosystems, and help the people who are most vulnerable to climate change with resources to adapt to our changing climate. He linked science, morality and church doctrine to do so.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

By ratifying the 2015 Paris Agreement, [1] nations across the world made a commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by the year 2030. Carbon dioxide is one of the primary greenhouse gases found in the Earth’s atmosphere, accounting for 76% of global greenhouse gas emissions according to published reports.

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A Greener Life

MAY 9, 2022

Thanks to a combination of atmospheric science studies based on sophisticated climate modelling and geoscience studies based on paleoclimate data derived from fossil coral records , researchers generally agree that human-caused climate change will soon increase El Niño frequency and intensity. Modelling a future of more frequent extremes.

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HumanNature

APRIL 14, 2022

Alarmingly, a drought in 2012 cost the agricultural industry $30 billion (Rippey 2015). In general, increased carbon dioxide from human activities will lead to higher temperatures. Losses of water from the soil and plants will lead to immediate losses of moisture to the atmosphere. Last modified 12 Dec 2019. Rippey, BR.

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Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

In fact, the impact assessment supporting the Commission’s proposed 2040 target suggests that the EU may need to remove up to 400 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere annually by 2040, and significantly more to achieve net-negative emissions after 2050.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

King calls for immediate testing and deployment of often-controversial carbon removal techniques to begin drawing down atmospheric greenhouse gases by tens of billions of tonnes per year. But “while daunting, we have great agency here. It is still technically possible to reduce emissions and stabilize the climate.”.

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HumanNature

MARCH 24, 2022

For example, forests store about 30-40% of the carbon found on land, improve air quality, and even filter water. 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).

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Law Columbia

MAY 4, 2023

Credit: Ilmi Granoff In September 2015, then Bank of England Governor Mark Carney gave a landmark speech on the “ Tragedy of the Horizon.” Global mean temperature change caused by rising atmospheric GHG levels is conventionally measured out to 2100. o C by 2100 as an optimal societal goal. For example, a 1.5

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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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Acoel

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Pact also reset the target for achieving net-zero GHG emissions from the 2015 Paris Agreement’s focus on the end of the century to a much more aggressive goal of net-zero emissions “by about mid-century,” interpreted by most as 2050.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

SS: My climate change research journey began in 2015 when I started my Ph.D. My research evolved over time, but initially focused on trying to understand how ice sheet collapse—specifically Antarctic ice sheet collapse—could impact climate change around the world through changes in the oceans, sea ice and atmosphere. at UMass Amherst.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

million as chief strategy officer of Gulf Keystone Petroleum from 2015 to 2018 while serving as a Conservative MP. Tory peer and journalist Lord Charles Moore was a GWPF trustee from 2015 to 2021, as was fellow peer Lord Peter Lilley from 2015 to 2019.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2024

On July 2, 2024 , DEP inspected two conventional gas wells-- WT 2850 Lot 9 26 & Lot 9 27 in Howe Township, Forest County owned by Pennhills Resources LLC and found they were recently completed and now venting to the atmosphere (a normal procedure). Drill cuttings were found in a lined pit at the well sites.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

He simply stated: “Who else is going to put carbon back into the ground other than farmers? know how to absorb the carbon dioxide (CO2). In order to keep up with demand for beef and leather, 21 million ha of deforestation has occurred in the Brazilian Amazon between 2000 and 2015 to support cattle. They know how to do it.”

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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). which is formed in the atmosphere from precursor gases such as NOx.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

In China, cadmium in soil mainly comes from atmospheric deposition of the metal after it has been emitted from coal-burning, metallurgical facilities and animal-source fertilisers. An increase of only a few percentage points would sequester huge quantities of carbon. each year.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

That 2013 headline resulted from the first effort to quantify emissions from the ‘carbon majors’ —fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers whose businesses have contributed an outsized amount of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2020

The Juliana plaintiffs bring public trust claims, asserting that the federal government violated the young plaintiffs’ constitutional rights by allowing dangerous carbon dioxide concentrations to be emitted by fossil fuel companies. United States is at the forefront. United States , No. 6:15-cv-1517-AA, 2018 WL 6303774 (D.

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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. But there’s a bright side to our black carbon problems: it doesn’t live very long.

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Physics World

APRIL 22, 2021

Preliminary estimates from satellite data indicate that global atmospheric carbon dioxide level increased by 0.6%, a slightly lower rate of increase than in recent years. Guterres stressed that co-operation between the US and China is vital to limiting global warming to well below 2 °C, the goal of the 2015 Paris climate accord.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Although in its early stages, carbon dioxide removal (CDR) techniques – i.e., techniques that remove and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere – have gained traction in recent years as a climate change mitigation strategy.

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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. Licker et al.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide in the short term — 86 times more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere when measured over a 20-year period. Between 1987 and 2015, stray methane gas from abandoned wells was known to contaminate 55 public or private water supplies, according to the DEP.

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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. See, e.g., Ferguson et al. 2017) ; Laidre et al.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) : A group of inert chemical used in many industrial and everyday processes such as our refrigerators that are not broken down at lower atmospheric levels and rise to the upper levels, destroying ozone.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Cop stands for conference of the parties under the UNFCCC, and the annual meetings have swung between fractious and soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama and the occasional triumph ( the Paris agreement in 2015 ) and disaster (Copenhagen in 2009). Why do we need a Cop – don’t we already have the Paris agreement?

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

States and Cities Challenged Rule Preempting State Regulation of Vehicle Carbon Dioxide Emissions. The rule also finalized text in NHTSA regulations explicitly preempting state regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration , No. Bernhardt , No. filed Sept.

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Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The emissions make a significant contribution to climate change because methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas which, in the first 20 years after it is released, traps approximately 84 times more heat in the earth’s atmosphere than carbon dioxide (on a per ton basis).

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 23, 2022

Starting with methane was likely more politically feasible than carbon dioxide for several reasons. For one thing, methane is emitted in smaller quantities than carbon dioxide, accounting for just 11 percent of total national greenhouse gas emissions (compared to 79 percent for carbon dioxide).

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court stated: “Plaintiffs’ claims for public nuisance, though pled as state-law claims, depend on a global complex of geophysical cause and effect involving all nations of the planet (and the oceans and atmosphere). 34-2015-80002005 (Cal. It necessarily involves the relationships between the United States and all other nations.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Outside of bird protection acts of the early 20 th century, protections for water, air and the atmosphere are a late 20 th -century development, created in the wake of Rachel Carson’s 1962 treatise on pesticides, Silent Spring. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. All of us are exhaling carbon dioxide right now.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 3, 2024

Wetlands even help fight climate change by acting as “ carbon sinks ,” absorbing climate-altering carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As previously reported on this blog, during the Obama administration, EPA relied on section 111 to adopt so-called “ New Source Performance Standards ” (NSPS) to control methane emissions from oil and natural gas production, processing, transmission, and storage facilities constructed or modified after September 18, 2015.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. Circuit vacated the 2015 rule to the extent that it prohibited continued use of HFCs by companies that previously switched to HFCs from an ozone-depleting substance. In Mexichem , the D.C.

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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. See, e.g., IPCC AR6 WGI Ch.3 3 ; Laidre et al. 2018) ; Tartu et al. 2018) ; Aars et al. 2017) ; Lunn et al. 2011) ; Regehr et al.

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