National Law Center

JULY 24, 2025

Additionally, much of the money appropriated for conservation programs under the IRA was specifically set aside to fund conservation practices that are aimed at improving soil carbon, reducing nitrogen losses, and sequestering carbon dioxide. A more detailed break down of conservation funding under the IRA is available here.

2013

Scientific American

JUNE 13, 2025

Together they account for more than 40 percent of gross domestic product globally and around a quarter of all energy-related carbon dioxide pollution, according to the International Energy Agency. is the only one among them that is not trying to hit a carbon reduction goal.

Paris Agreement

Physics World

AUGUST 1, 2021

Sprinkling powered basalt over natural ecosystems would remove vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the Earth’s atmosphere while also improving soils. But even in best case scenarios for renewable energy and industrial decarbonization, it looks certain that significant carbon dioxide emissions will continue for decades.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Gasoline consumption is down by more than two billion gallons per year since 2017, when 15.6 Burning gasoline in an automobile produces carbon dioxide, the primary cause of climate change. pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per gallon. billion gallons were sold in the state.

Carbon Dioxide

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.

Carbon Dioxide

Scientific American

JULY 17, 2025

That would be somewhat comparable in size to our first two interstellar visitors: 1I/ʻOumuamua , which was discovered in 2017 and was up to about 400 meters (0.25 Thanks to its keen infrared vision, JWST is better suited for teasing out the presence of molecules such as water, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and ammonia.

Carbon Monoxide

Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

Chemical synthesis is responsible for the significant emission of carbon dioxide worldwide. We are developing an electrosynthetic toolkit in which distributed feedstocks, including carbon dioxide, dinitrogen, water and renewable electricity can be converted into diverse fuels, chemicals and materials. Join the audience.

Carbon Dioxide

Energy & the Law

MARCH 23, 2022

Denbury Resources determined in 2017 that subterranean pore spaces are owned by the landowner. North Dakota is a promising area for carbon dioxide injection. Incidentally, the court in Mosser v. Disputes involving pore space are likely to continue in North Dakota given increased oil and gas activity.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Responsible for 12 percent of all US global warming emissions from human activities, methane traps significantly more heat per molecule than carbon dioxide, making it 86 times more harmful for the first 20 years after it is released into the atmosphere. Its primary component is methane.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Ted’s world-leading research project on the governance of geoengineering examines law and policy issues presented by solar geoengineering and carbon dioxide removal.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The WMO’s GHG bulletin’s headline takeaways are stark: Atmospheric concentrations of three major heat-trapping gases, carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), methane (CH 4 ) and nitrous oxide (N 2 O) hit all-time highs in 2021 (see table below). The World Meteorological Organization Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. According to the IEA, “From USD 1.3

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

She was a board member of the pro-oil Fraser Institute from 2017-2020. And this year Shell abandoned it’s much lauded plans to cut global oil production , in a walk-back of climate action in favour of trying to boost short-term shareholder profits.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Because of recycling, nearly 10 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions are avoided every year, or the equivalent of removing 2.15 Economic Benefits According to a 2017 Recycling Economic Impact study, the recycling marketplace contributed $22.6 million (or 25 percent of) vehicles from Pennsylvania roads annually.

Recycling

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

of the world’s total carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion, many airlines are considering carbon-capture-and-storage technologies and electric-powered planes. In 2017, British Airlines partnered with U.S.-based It is made by combining hydrogen and carbon dioxide.

Carbon Dioxide

The Energy Law

AUGUST 3, 2021

Revenue Ruling 2021-13 addresses the application of section 45Q to carbon dioxide captured with carbon capture equipment installed at a methanol plant that had existing carbon dioxide separation equipment.

Carbon Dioxide

Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

By the end of the century, Montana could see several months a year with temperatures staying above 90 degrees, said Cathy Whitlock, a retired paleoclimate scientist at Montana State University who was the lead author of the 2017 Montana Climate Assessment.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

T he bill was introduced at the request of Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation which was unhappy with an April 17, 2017 settlement with DEP over an appeal of a stormwater pollution prevention permit for its West Point, Montgomery County plant (Environmental Hearing Board Docket No. 2015-011-L ).

Carbon Dioxide

Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

In 2017, AB 398 authorized the extension of the Program through 2030, instituted certain design changes, and set a new GHG reduction goal of 40 percent by 2030. The market-based compliance mechanism deigned by CARB went into effect in 2012 in the form of the California Cap-and-Trade Program.

2030

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 16, 2021

million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2018. million metric tons of carbon dioxide emission equivalents in 2018, According to the same inventory, natural gas production, transmission and distribution result in 9.74 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2018. million metric tons.

Natural Gas

The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), signed into law on November 15, 2021, amended Section 40307 of the Outer Continental Shelfs Act (OCSLA) to provide authority to the U.S.

Carbon Dioxide

HumanNature

APRIL 14, 2022

In general, increased carbon dioxide from human activities will lead to higher temperatures. Higher temperatures also lead to higher evaporation of water from the soil and plants, as well as, lower amounts of snowfall and higher snow melt. References Dai, Aiguo & National Center for Atmospheric Research Staff (Eds). Campus, 1–54.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 12, 2022

MMBtu, as inventory withdrawals slightly outpaced the five-year (2017–2021) average. “We energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions increased by more than 6% in 2021 as economic activity increased and contributed to rising energy use. “We Natural Gas Prices “In March, the Henry Hub natural gas spot price averaged $4.90

Natural Gas

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.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

To do this, the city government identified a mitigation potential of 133,346 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year by 2026-27 while addressing local climate risks through initiatives around solid waste, buildings, transport, water supply, street lighting, wastewater and drainage, urban biodiversity and air quality.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has just told us we need to reach net-zero carbon emissions no later than 2050 to forestall the worst effects of climate change. So, what could be wrong with a technology that promises to capture carbon dioxide and remove it from the atmosphere as a way to bring those emissions under control?

Fossil Fuels

Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Looking at the current polls compared to the results of the elections of 2017, VVD, PvdA, CU, PvdA, FvD and JA21 increase their amount of seats, while D66, GL, SP, 50+ and Denk fear their amount of seats declines. Carbon Dioxide could be stored offshore in depleted gas fields in the North Sea.

Renewable Energy

Law Columbia

AUGUST 3, 2018

EPA and DOT estimate that, compared with retaining the existing standards, implementing the SAFE Vehicle Rule would increase vehicle carbon dioxide emissions by 713 million metric tons (MMT) (over the lifetime of the vehicles produced from MY1979 through MY2029). transportation sector in 2016 (based on EPA data ).

Carbon Dioxide

CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MTCO 2 e) per service population for development projects because the record lacked substantial evidence that the threshold, which relied on statewide service population and GHG inventory data, was appropriate to apply to San Diego County development projects.

2008

Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

November 11, 2017. Considering that 75% of the Earth’s surface is composed of oceans and that oceans absorb 25% of carbon dioxide emissions and 90% of heat associated with climate change, it was a wonder that the UNFCCC’s Conference of the Parties did not put much emphasis on oceans until present. Oceans Action Day.

Ocean

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. Her work explores international and domestic (U.S.)

Paris Agreement

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 20, 2021

million tons in 2017 to 241.12 percent decrease in the amount of carbon dioxide sequestered in 2018 compared to 2017 from the forest and land use sectors-- 4.55 The Inventory was updated to include 2018 numbers which show greenhouse gas emissions increased for the second consecutive year in Pennsylvania from 236.21

Greenhouse

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

We emitted about 269 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2018 (the latest year for which data are available), with industry, electricity production, and transportation the largest sources. Pennsylvania is acting to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. percent average job growth rate, compared to a 1.9

Climate Change

Law Columbia

JUNE 21, 2023

The first wave of climate cases In early 2017, the High Court in Pretoria handed down a judgment in the country’s first climate case: Earthlife Africa Johannesburg v Minister of Environmental Affairs (also known as the “Thabametsi judgment”). The climate litigation that finally reached the courts in the mid-2010s was many years in the making.

Climate Change

Columbia Climate Law

MARCH 19, 2019

CO 2 emissions in 2017 were approximately 5.3 The Center also recently published a new report on Overcoming Impediments to Offshore Carbon Dioxide Storage – Legal Issues in the U.S. NETL has estimated that the total storage capacity of saline formations in the U.S. ranges from 2,379 – 21,633 billion tons CO 2. Gerrard).

2015

Law Columbia

MAY 9, 2023

On Tuesday, May 9, the Sabin Center and the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment launched Transferred Emissions are Still Emissions: Why Fossil Fuel Asset Sales Need Enhanced Transparency and Carbon Accounting.

Fossil Fuels

Science Blogs

AUGUST 29, 2017

The release of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels is, conceiveably, the most important environmental issue in the world today. — "Costs and benefits of carbon dioxide," Nature , May 3, 1979. Tue, 08/29/2017 - 08:57. The limits of adaptation. Indeed, why not wait a little more?

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