PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

These settlements are the latest in EPA’s urgent efforts to limit the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change and hold corporate polluters accountable for jeopardizing public health.” The EPA identified the alleged violations through field investigations conducted in 2018 and 2019. Specifically, by Dec.

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Real Climate

JULY 10, 2022

Step 1: There is a natural greenhouse effect. Thus there must be a large amount of IR absorbed by the atmosphere (around 158 W/m 2 ) – a number that would be zero in the absence of any greenhouse substances. Step 2: Trace gases contribute to the natural greenhouse effect. The Earth’s Energy Budget (NASA).

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

, its district, appellate , and supreme courts decided in favor of Urgenda, an upstart environmental organization, ordering the government to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Everyone produces greenhouse gases.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

2019 ) gives a good overview of Manabe’s particular philosophy of climate modeling which was very much focused on getting things to work, and not worrying too much about the details. As you will recall, Hansen had declared in 1988 that “the greenhouse effect is here!”, Manabe’s Climate Modeling. Hegerl et al.,

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Physics World

MARCH 14, 2022

Carbon world. Developed in 2019 by Wang and colleagues including Charley Lineweaver of the Australian National University, the new model allows astronomers to predict the chemical composition and mineralogy – and consequently the geology and atmospheric gases – of a planet. Real-life planetary laboratories.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Oil and gas major ConocoPhillips’ website says gas is “one of the safest and cleanest fuels available” and that when it is burned, it “produces mostly carbon dioxide and water vapor—the same substances emitted when humans exhale.” Methane is also a fast-acting greenhouse gas in terms of its impact on the climate.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

The cause of our changing climate is the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations that we have released into the air. Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) is the most important greenhouse gas that we have added to the atmosphere, however, some of it has been absorbed by land and oceans.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

Understanding Climate Change & Greenhouse Gas Emissions. The greenhouse effect is a popular name for the earth’s warming effect which occurs naturally when gasses in the atmosphere trap heat from the sun and prevent it from escaping back into space. Greenhouse Gas Emissions are Increasing. F) of warming in the 21st century.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

In a 2019 scenario exercise examining governance responses to four scenarios of unauthorized SAI deployment, the scenario of a widely distributed grassroots effort using weather balloons was the only one the expert participants rejected as pure political symbolism, unable to achieve a meaningful climate impact.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 4, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen The emissions from methane , a powerful greenhouse gas (GHG) with 80 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide (CO2) rose in 2023 despite several pledges and initiatives to reduce emissions. Graph credit: IEA.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

As I outlined here , Montana state law prohibits the consideration of greenhouse gas emissions or climate impacts–– inside and outside the state’s borders––when reviewing projects and approving permits. If Montana stopped emitting greenhouse gases, would that prevent the injury to plaintiffs from climate change? “We

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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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Law Columbia

JULY 31, 2023

BLM projects that it will produce 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. The project is controversial due to both its location and its climate impacts. C and approximately equal to the remaining budget for 2.0°C.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the raising of livestock and growth of crops for human consumption represent 14% of global GHG emissions. While burning methane to generate energy releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the overall climate impact is reduced and the gas could potentially replace fossil fuel sources.)

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

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]. We need to make changes in the present day so we don’t leave a carbon dioxide ridden earth without forests for our future generations.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In addition to the 22 percent passenger and light duty vehicle requirement, the proposed regulation will also add a greenhouse gas fleet average requirement for Pennsylvania sales. Transportation generates 47 percent of nitrogen oxide and 21 percent of carbon dioxide emissions in Pennsylvania.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

million metric tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent greenhouse gas emissions over its lifetime and infuse $15 million directly into the local economy through payments to participating landowners. The Flint Mine Solar Project will displace up to 4.9 New York State critically needs solar energy.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Wolf directed DEP to prepare the regulation in October 2019. For more information on the final regulation, visit DEP’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative webpage. Photo: The Bruce Mansfield Power Plant, Beaver County, the largest coal-fired power plant in Pennsylvania closed in November 2019 due to competition from natural gas.

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

But in reality the proposed emission targets were achieved 11 years early in 2019—without the plan ever even taking effect. Research has shown that the country’s remaining coal plants are responsible for 3,800 premature deaths per year, based on 2019 data.

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 11, 2021

In December 2018, after having successfully reduced greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector by 53.3%, a majority of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) jurisdictions announced plans to design a program to address carbon emissions from the combustion of transportation fuels. (See Background.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

Climate change is often discussed in terms of global temperature increase, sea level rise, and hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,” said Secretary McDonnell. “But Video and photos of the event will be available later today at PAcast.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2024

Question a) referred to States’ obligations to prevent, reduce and control marine pollution in relation to the deleterious effects resulting or likely to result from climate change and ocean acidification caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions into the atmosphere. 157 as used in para. 52, 54, 60 and 68).

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

After a decade of global warming trends, the world experienced the second warmest year on record in 2019. Through the Lancaster County Community Climate Fund , RegenAll is launching an innovative pathway for Lancaster County to achieve carbon neutrality and slow the impacts of climate change on communities.

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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.

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HumanNature

MARCH 24, 2022

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). Normally when a forest regrows after a fire, it’s able to capture that carbon dioxide and store it again.

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Greenbuilding Law

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Public Health : Based on a law first introduced in 2008 and then the success of a pilot program initially implemented in the heart of London dating to 2019, the first year of this program alone will reduce GHG emissions by 45% from those vehicles that are no longer there. using 1,175 cameras to monitor which cars enter and exit the zone.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2022

It also details actions, near- and longer-term, that will need to be taken by regional stakeholders, working in partnership, to realize southwestern Pennsylvania’s full potential in a low-carbon future. Carbon Dioxide pipeline, CCS, EV charging and solar installations) must be built.

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 12, 2021

carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, all emissions?). And while very low carbon emissions is possible, at some dollar cost, the absence of all quantity is not so easily if ever achieved (. And that concern is real without delving into the science of whether net zero is actually possible?

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

Since as early as 1992, some academics have pointed to CERCLA as a model for pooling funds from greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters to remedy or mitigate climate change impacts. Each bill addresses emissions over roughly the same period—2000 to 2018 in Maryland, Massachusetts, and New York, and 2000 to 2019 in Vermont. Constitution.”

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan at a meeting in 2019. On top of this, the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from wind and solar are a mere fraction of those associated with LNG. Over a 20-year period, methane can be 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide,” she said.

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Law Columbia

MAY 28, 2021

2317, which would amend the City’s building code to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new and renovated buildings to 50 kilograms of carbon dioxide per million BTUs. New York City : On Thursday, May 27, Councilmember Alicka Ampry-Samuel and four of her colleagues introduced Intro. 2317 is not yet scheduled for a hearing.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The state recognizes that a reduction in scope three emissions can count towards the utilities reduction in their greenhouse gas emissions.” Methane, the largest component of natural gas, traps up to 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. 27 Released 1.1

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Methane is essential to control, since stabilizing climate requires reducing all anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions to net-zero. For example, methane stayed roughly flat for about a decade from the late 1990s, but has increased rapidly since then – by nearly 16 ppb in 2020 over 2019. There are several good reasons for this.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 23, 2022

all emissions or only greenhouse gases or just carbon dioxide or?). And while very low carbon emissions are possible, at some dollar cost, the absence of all quantity is not so easy if ever achieved (. And that concern is real without delving into the science of whether net zero is even possible.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

FERC’s newly announced Interim Greenhouse Gas Emissions Policy Statement represents its first attempt to tackle climate change, which FERC’s Chair Richard Glick has rightly described as “ an existential threat to our security, economy, environment, and, ultimately, the health of individual citizens.” FERC –the D.C. FERC –in which the D.C.

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