A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Cities are major sources of greenhouse emissions, globally producing more than 60% of planet-warming gases. Narayanganj to cut CO2 by hundreds of thousands of tonnes Narayanganj’s adaptation plan , written in 2022, strives to achieve an annual greenhouse gas emission reduction of 12.6% Photo credit: Balaji Srinivasan / Alamy.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Under Governor Wolf, we’ve accelerated and expanded work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to equip Pennsylvania’s communities, businesses, and individual residents to address climate change impacts occurring now and projected for the near future. Pennsylvania’s greenhouse gas emissions are tracked yearly.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2021

SG would cool the Earth, temporarily and imperfectly offsetting some of the climate effects of elevated greenhouse gases, by reflecting a bit (around 0.5% And serious anticipatory adaptation measures, even for risks as well known as coastal inundation from sea-level rise, remain few, weak, and highly contentious.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 20, 2023

The horrible impacts of Matthew’s rainfall would soon be repeated by others, like Harvey (2017) and Florence (2018). Coastal flooding : Sea levels are rising as the ocean heats up and polar ice melts. Higher seas mean higher storm surge and more coastal flooding leading to coastal community and ecosystem damage.

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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

It would halve the number of humans that will be exposed to water scarcity; prevent runaway sea level rise that could put many of the world’s islands under water and render uninhabitable the large delta and low-coastal regions that are home to two-thirds of the world’s population. That is a lot for just one technology.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

D-2017-009-2 ), located in Gloucester County NJ (the “Dock 2 Project”). The level of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere locks us into a rise in sea- level that is extremely detrimental to communities and businesses on our coastal lands and river banks.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In its regulatory impact analysis for the supplemental proposal, EPA included a sensitivity analysis detailing a revised methodology and new estimates for social cost of greenhouse gases (SC-GHGs), including carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide. The SCC remains potentially open to a challenge on the merits when applied in a particular case.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

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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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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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Circuit Court of Appeals granted motions seeking to dismiss as moot the proceedings challenging the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, which established emission guidelines for greenhouse gases from existing power plants. The court dismissed the proceedings 11 days after the effective date of the U.S.

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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

APRIL 26, 2023

The justices declined to take up numerous cases in which government entities have sued oil, gas and coal companies, seeking compensation for the climate change-related damage the jurisdictions they claim to have suffered, and which they attribute to the greenhouse gas emissions the companies’ products have released into the atmosphere.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

The project is controversial due to its contribution to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and its location on the North Slope of Alaska, which happens to be the largest undisturbed track of public land in the U.S. 2017) ; Lunn et al. There is also research on the adverse effects of sea ice loss on seals and other ice-dependent species.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

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. 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Fast forward to 2017, when the Republican-controlled U.S.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

For example, Bank of America announced last week its plan to achieve net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in its financing, operations, and supply chain by 2050, and net zero GHG emissions in its own operations by 2030.[[N:Bank N: Recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures , June 2017.Another

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. Following the 2007 landmark Supreme Court case Massachusetts v. These emissions standards were significantly loosened in the last year of the Trump Administration. Since Massachusetts v.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court stated that the issue arose “because a necessary and critical element of the hydrological damage caused by defendants’ alleged conduct is the rising sea level along the Pacific coast and in the San Francisco Bay, both of which are navigable waters of the United States.” 2017 CA 006685 B (D.C. Jacobson v. Clack , No.

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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. State , No.

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Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

This post covers from approximately mid-June, 2017 up to August 31, 2017. Actual Scientists Say Sea-Level Rise Is A Threat To Tangier Island, Virginia. July 2017. . NOAA erases ‘human activity’ from news release on soaring greenhouse gases. August 2017. . And now the full list: . 2017.06.01.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

Chevron filed the third-party complaint in December 2017 against the company—of which the Norwegian State is majority stakeholder—for indemnity and contribution. Bureau of Land Management failed to take a hard look at the indirect and cumulative impacts of greenhouse gases associated with a coal lease that authorized expansion of a coal mine.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

In the coming weeks, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) will reveal its plan for revising the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations and guidance for analyzing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. ocean acidification, sea-level rise, or storm events). N: See, e.g., id. efficiency metrics (e.g.,

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ESA

MAY 17, 2021

This bill requires publicly listed companies to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and how climate change will impact their businesses to the Securities and Exchange Commission. reentry in the Trans-Pacific Partnership despite Trump’s decision to pull out of the pact in 2017. The House Financial Services Committee approved Rep.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

s challenge to the constitutionality of the linkage between California’s greenhouse gas emissions cap-and-trade program and Quebec trading program. Developers of Southern California Warehouse Project Agreed to Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Measures to Resolve CEQA Claims. United States v. California , No. 20-16789 (9th Cir. A20-0952 (Minn.

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Legal Planet

JULY 19, 2022

EPA has made a formal finding, based on an exhaustive review of the scientific evidence, that greenhouse gases endanger human life and welfare both within the United States and globally. The most significant action was the passage of the Defense Authorization Act of 2017, HR 1810. The Environmental Protection Agency. 50 USC 1701-1707).That

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The SCC is a metric that seeks to capture all of the costs that emitting a ton of carbon dioxide (or equivalent amounts of other greenhouse gases such as methane) imposes on society by contributing to climate change over the hundreds of years it remains in the atmosphere. 4:21-cv-00287-SPM (E.D. March 8, 2021).]]

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