Law Columbia

JUNE 4, 2024

The Earth’s surface is about 70 percent ocean; the ocean absorbs 95 percent of our excess heat and over 25 percent of our excess carbon dioxide, contributes half of Earth’s oxygen production, and provides other services that sustain life as we know it. 29, citing the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, article 31).

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Edouard Stenger

OCTOBER 11, 2021

I haven’t published regularly since 2018… Since my last blog post here I have trained for a technical degree in green buildings and renewable energy, interned as an Energy advisor for the healthcare sector and started a job as an energy manager for local communities. November 2018. January 2019.

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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.

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HumanNature

APRIL 14, 2022

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. References Dai, Aiguo & National Center for Atmospheric Research Staff (Eds). Last modified 12 Dec 2019.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 1, 2022

It’s now widely acknowledged that to avoid catastrophic climate change we’ll need to physically remove CO2 from the atmosphere. Yet the technologies needed to do this, collectively known as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), remains nascent, underfunded and largely unregulated.

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

Together with colleagues, he has analysed Australian astronomers’ total greenhouse-gas emissions over 2018–2019 from “regular activities” such as travelling, using supercomputers and working at large observatories. In 2018 each researcher at the institute emitted around 18 tCO 2 e ( Nat. © 2020 Springer Nature Limited.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The emissions don’t lie: Shell’s flagship LNG project will add 14 million tonnes of greenhouse gas pollution to the atmosphere every year, which is the equivalent of adding over 3 million gas-powered cars. million gas cars. 654 million of the $1 billion costs of Shell’s Quest facility stemmed from Canadian government subsidies.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Additionally, methane has more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide over the first 20 years after it reaches the atmosphere and is responsible for 25% of the human-produced warming we experience today. The higher temperatures we are seeing in the U.S.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The ocean has buffered our planet from the impacts of climate change, absorbing much of the carbon dioxide we’ve emitted and a substantial amount of the heat from our warming atmosphere. Take Action for Climate-Ready Fisheries. That comes at a cost. We know the ocean will keep changing. 1] Cheung, W. Bruggeman, J.,

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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. In 2018 alone, it’s estimated that California’s wildfire damages amounted to nearly $149 billion. Forests are incredibly good at storing carbon, in both soils and plants. link] (5) Bladon, K. Emelko, M.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Illustrating the variation in sea levels from 1993 – 2018. Source: NASA (August 2018). Greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide are great absorbers of heat radiation coming from the Earth’s surface. Shows a generally increasing trend. Many islands within the Pacific are surrounded by coral reefs. should be. [4]

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 1, 2022

By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal In an effort to combat climate change, some owners of small forests in Chesapeake Bay drainage states are being paid to either delay harvesting trees or take other steps to make their woods better at capturing carbon dioxide from the air. Reprinted from Chesapeake Bay Journal.)

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 15, 2020

6:15-cv-1517-AA, 2018 WL 6303774 (D. 21, 2018), appeal docketed , No. 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.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

It has also been reported that between the years of 2002 and 2018 more than 20 million hectares of tropical forests were cleared in the Amazon purely for beef production. Brazil is the world’s leading exporter of beef [1] with 159 million hectares of land used for pasture growth [2].

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Physics World

JANUARY 7, 2022

As recently as 2018, when the cost was about to break the $8bn barrier, US Congress had to vote to provide it with more funds. The JWST’s main exoplanet task will be to probe the atmospheres of these distant worlds as they pass between the telescope and their parent stars. But the telescope’s exoplanet studies will go deeper, too.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

As those paying attention to agriculture know, climate impacts have become increasingly apparent since the last assessment was published in 2018. Although carbon dioxide enrichment and warmer, wetter temperatures may increase forage growth, that is likely to be accompanied by a decrease in forage quality.

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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. The GWPF – a group founded to contradict established climate science – has in the past expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mischaracterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

In 2018, results were published from the survey of pollution of agricultural land, which again warned of pollution risks in some soil. 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. Photo credit: Alamy.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 16, 2022

million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent into the atmosphere. In September 2018, Energy Transfer’s Revolution pipeline exploded behind Karen Gdula’s house on Ivy Lane, only a few miles away from where we were standing. The plant will use ethane to make 1.6 It is permitted to emit 2.2 Read more here.]

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Fortunately, Manabe recently wrote a retrospective on his early work in response to receiving the Crafoord prize in 2018. The key aspects were the inclusion of water vapour feedback as temperatures increased, and the use of ‘convective adjustment’ to maintain stability of the lower atmospheric column.

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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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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

not plants, animals, or bacteria), get their energy by breaking down organic molecules via a different chemical pathway than we air-breathers use to get our energy, which does not require oxygen and ends in methane instead of carbon dioxide and water. Atmospheric concentrations. Climate impact. W/m 2 from elevated CO 2.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Most recently, the 2018 Farm Bill expanded EQIP, steadily increasing its annual budget from $1.75 However, environmentalists often criticize EQIP for awarding funding to practices that do not reduce greenhouse gas emissions, sequester carbon, or build climate resilience. billion in FY2019 to over $2 billion in FY2023.

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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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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Recent studies have shown that there has been more than an eight-fold increase in summer forest fires in California over the years 1972 to 2018.[3]. 4] As our climate is warming due to rising emissions of greenhouse gases into our atmosphere, extreme weather events and intense variations in temperature are becoming more frequent. [5].

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

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

In just five years, from 2018 through 2022, wildfires scorched 38.3 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.

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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] 4] David Vogel, California Greenin’: How the Golden State Became an Environmental Leader (2018). [5] The vote on it was 24-9.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

In June 2018, DEP finalized an Air Quality General Permit to reduce methane emissions from new unconventional oil and gas operations. billion metric tons of carbon dioxide – nearly as much as all the carbon dioxide emitted by the power sector in 2021. Read more here. [In Read more here.]

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

32] Part of the reason the planet is greening stems from greater carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and greater planetary warming. [33] 33] Scientists find that plants grow faster as a result of higher carbon dioxide concentrations. 6 (2018), [link]. [25] 8] Xiaoping Liu et al., 9] Christopher D. Smith, D.J.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2025

The planned cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), according to news reports , are not the equivalent of trimming but of sawing a whole tree down to the ground. This NOAA graph shows the full record of monthly mean carbon dioxide measured at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 13, 2023

A more recent study found that the intense multi-day rainfall was associated with two atmospheric rivers drawing moisture from the Arabian Sea. percent of cumulative global carbon dioxide emissions and yet is bearing this terrible toll from climate change caused primarily by emissions from richer nations and fossil fuel companies.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

But this win was unfortunately short-lived, as the 2018 Farm Bill overturned the courts ruling. Biogas is mostly comprised of methane and carbon dioxide, which are harmful gases that contribute to climate change. California enacted its LCFS to combat greenhouse gases (GHGs) being released into the atmosphere.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

EPA lawsuit—Landry joined 18 other AGs, including Paxton and AGs from Mississippi and South Carolina, on a letter to two Senate committees urging them to vote against tighter restrictions on methane emissions, which are considerably worse for the climate than carbon dioxide. billion in damage in September 2018.

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 29, 2020

He noted that “the federal government has long understood the risks of fossil fuel use and increasing carbon dioxide emissions” and was actively promoting policies and actions that risked an “environmental apocalypse.”. as plaintiffs requested. The Court has issued two Orders raising doubts about the case.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The rule took effect on January 17, 2017; on June 15, 2017, BLM issued a notice of postponement of January 17, 2018 compliance dates. The rule requires that measures be taken, beginning in January 2018, to reduce venting and flaring from oil and gas production on federal and tribal lands. Center for Biological Diversity v. filed Oct.

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