HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In recent history, we have witnessed LUC exacerbating climate change due to disturbed soils, development of greenhouse gas (GHG) producing land uses, and more 4. Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change. Farmers struggle to break into booming carbon-credit market. Ecological Modelling 345 , 30–40 (2017).

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Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2016

The amount that the Senate has proposed diverting from the RGGI fund for FY 2017 is more than 80% of the total value of RGGI auction proceeds earned by New York in FY 2016 (which totaled approximately $166 million ). Jessica Wentz. Associate Director and Fellow.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Both Republicans and Democrats are touting natural gas with CCS as the next clean energy solution, and significant funding has been earmarked for its research and development — at the expense of renewable energy projects that have proven to be cheaper and to produce fewer carbon emissions.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 12, 2021

In 2009 the King of Bhutan proclaimed his Himalayan country was ‘carbon negative’ because all of its power was hydroelectric or solar buttressed with large forested areas. In 2017 Sweden became the first nation to enshrine a ‘net zero by 2045’ target into law, but the law actually only requires 5 year reports on progress.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

A sampling protocol was developed, as well as a field sampling tool using Field Maps in ESRI to record data for reporting purposes. -- Natural Lands for the Bryn Coed Farm Conservation: In 2017, Natural Lands acquired a 1,505-acre mosaic of forest and fields known as Bryn Coed Farms—which means “wooded hill” in Welsh.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 23, 2022

It is one thing when government leaders make an ESG claim: In 2009 the King of Bhutan proclaimed his Himalayan country was ‘carbon negative’ because all of its power was hydroelectric or solar buttressed with large forested areas. all emissions or only greenhouse gases or just carbon dioxide or?).

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Vermont Law

MARCH 16, 2018

So actions taken to curtail some carbon emissions, but not all, might still suffice. Common Dreams (March 10, 2017), [link]. Trial was set for December 11, 2017 but was cancelled and the case is awaiting a new trial date. May 30, 2017). June 7, 2017). in some way. alleviate or reduce the risk. reasonable.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

By 2017, half of all cars were “connected.” As businesses and governments increasingly adopt EVs to reduce carbon emissions and meet sustainability goals, telematics systems allow them to address some of the unique challenges associated with electric mobility.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 16, 2022

In 2020, greenhouse gases (GHG) in Nigeria totalled 126.9 The energy sector accounts for the largest source of GHG emissions (60% of total emissions). In 2017, Nigeria’s GHG emissions per capita (including land use) was 3.37 The law is the first stand-alone comprehensive climate change legislation in West Africa.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The attorney general said that PwC also served from at least 2008 to 2013 as global advisor and report writer for the Carbon Disclosure Project, a non-profit organization that functions as a global disclosure system for environmental information, including greenhouse gas emissions, from companies including Exxon. Ruffatto , No.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

In 2012, 2017, and 2021 the National Academies of Science and Engineering published three separate reports on threats to the grid, resilience, and the future of electricity. [1] 1] In its 2017 report, the Academies warned that U.S. electrical grids were increasingly “complex and vulnerable.” [2] trillion. [25]

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 2, 2022

On November 22, 2022, sixteen municipalities of Puerto Rico filed a lawsuit in the federal district court in Puerto Rico seeking to hold coal, oil, and gas companies liable for losses resulting from storms during the 2017 hurricane season and ongoing economic losses since that time. In Municipalities of Puerto Rico v.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A 2017 study led by geographer Camilo Mora from the University of Hawaii found that around 30% of people around the world are already exposed to climatic conditions above this deadly threshold for at least 20 days a year ( Nature Climate Change 7 501 ). Overall, cement accounts for 3% of the world’s carbon emissions.

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Edouard Stenger

JULY 27, 2018

Crossing the Energy Divide is another gem that lays out three main goals; m assive reduction of greenhouse emissions at negative or very low net cost ; e nergy independence without drilling for oil off the California or Florida coasts; and g reatly improved energy security. . Climate of Hope was my favorite book last year.

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Edouard Stenger

OCTOBER 29, 2018

To limit climate change to runaway levels, the report mentions a deadline and a target: in the next 12 years we need to essentially halve global emissions. If renewables are booming and energy efficiency is gaining some traction, greenhouse gases emissions are still growing and the atmospheric concentration of carbon is still rising.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Pennsylvania’s move to link to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a multi-state program slashing climate pollution from power plants and investing in clean energy, offers opportunities to save consumers money. This switch can help low-income households in particular, which bear a heavier cost burden from volatile natural gas.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2022

Public Health -- Berkeley Lab: Halfway to Zero: Progress towards a Carbon-Free Power Sector ( April 2021 ) “Switching from coal to natural gas for power generation played a big role in lowering carbon emissions. Natural gas generation grew rapidly, driven by the shale gas revolution and low fuel prices.” Air Quality -- U.S.

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Vegetarianism is not important for protecting the environment or reducing greenhouse gas emissions. 12] Though pastureland and cropland expanded 5 and 16 percent, between 1961 and 2017, the maximum extent of total agriculture land occurred in the 1990s, and declined significantly since then, led by a 4.5 and around the world.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The bill retains a provision from the House bill repealing section 20001 of the 2017 Tax Act, which required the Bureau of Land Management to offer oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and cancels the leases sold in January 2021. House votes to ‘disapprove’ of entering Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, defying Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Check Out C-SAW -- Trout Unlimited, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers New R.I.S.E 17 [PaEN] -- ScrantonT: Lackawanna River Heritage Trail Receives Great Greenway/Trail Designation -- SunburyDI: Friends Group Formed For R.B. Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Historic England, an NGO responsible for maintaining and monitoring historic sites in England, reported that around 18% of protected heritage conservation sites and areas suffered heritage crime in 2017 (34). It is also believed that the spread of tree canopy has accelerated the warming already being triggered by carbon emissions (35).

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The plaintiffs alleged that Peabody (and a number of other fossil fuel companies) caused greenhouse gas emissions that resulted in sea level rise and damage to their property. Peabody, a coal company, filed for bankruptcy in April 2016 and emerged from bankruptcy under a plan that became effective on April 3, 2017.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Transportation A Cap-and-Invest Approach . In recent years, states in New England and the mid-Atlantic region have made significant progress in reducing climate change-inducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity generation sector. [1].

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

still does not limit carbon emissions from existing power plants, which generate 25 percent of our greenhouse gases. On June 2, 2014 , this blog led with an almost-identical sentence about EPA releasing its rule to regulate climate change-related carbon emissions from existing power plants, known as the Clean Power Plan.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 8, 2017

of total United States greenhouse gas emissions, with passenger cars and light-duty trucks being the largest source. of the Clean Air Act requires the Environmental Protection Agency to address this through emissions standards for air pollution from cars and trucks. Transportation accounts for. 27 percent. Section 202.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Circuit Declined to Speed Up or Slow Down Challenges to Withdrawal of California Waiver and Preemption of State Authority to Regulate Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions. The court noted that the administrative record currently documented the Corps’ decision to reissue NWP 12 in 2017. Trump , No. 4:19-cv-00028 (D. C076888 (Cal.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

True, Congress hasn’t passed the comprehensive emission limits that many of us would like to see. But it has passed laws regulating two powerful greenhouse gases, and some other climate laws stretching back over the past five decades. Only laws that specifically cover climate or greenhouse gases are included.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

After concluding in 2011 that listing of the Pacific walrus was warranted due to threats that included sea-ice loss through 2100, the FWS issued a final decision in October 2017 that the Pacific walrus no longer qualified as a threatened species. Sierra Club v.

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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. In particular, the court found that conclusion that greenhouse gas emissions constituted a significant impact was not clearly erroneous. Circuit’s partial vacatur in Mexichem Fluor, Inc.

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ESA

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Ahead of COP, ESA issued a statement calling on world leaders attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP26) in Glasgow to pledge immediate action to reduce carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and other greenhouse gas emissions that limits rising temperatures to 1.5? 12 in Glasgow, Scotland.

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