Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 21, 2025

Eliminating these standards would increase climate emissions (measured in carbon dioxide equivalent or CO2e) by more than 7 billion metric tons and result in an estimated $13 billion in health costs from increased hospitalizations, illness, and premature deaths caused by exposure to dirtier air. (My

Nitrogen Oxides

Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

12] Specifically, ClientEarth claimed that Shell had made a net zero carbon dioxide emission pledge as in the long-term interests of the corporation and its shareholders but did not put in place an actual or realistic plan to achieve this target. 1 (2020); Christopher Geczy, Jessica S. 122(1.1) (emphasis added). [5] 5] Lucian A.

Law

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

However, environmentalists often criticize EQIP for awarding funding to practices that do not reduce greenhouse gas emissions, sequester carbon, or build climate resilience. In 2020, over 11% of the funding went to Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs). These critiques are not without merit.

Conservation

Legal Planet

APRIL 7, 2025

Rather, our knowledge has grown over 168 years, since an American scientist first discovered the heat-trapping properties of carbon dioxide. above 1850-1900 in 2011-2020. Climate change is no fad or Johnny-come-lately in science. have unequivocally caused global warming, with global surface temperature reaching 1.1C

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2025

The social cost of greenhouse gases (SC-GHG) helps quantify the costs of climate change related to heat-trapping emissions, in terms of dollars per ton of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) or methane (CH 4 ) or nitrous oxide (N 2 O) emitted. The dollar costs of a ton of CO 2 emitted in 2020, using a 2% discount rate, are $190.

Fossil Fuels

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

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2025

The new rule is in response to Section 113 of the PIPES Act of 2020 (signed into law by then-President Trump), which mandates the issuance of new rules to require gas pipeline operators to develop advanced leak detection programs capable of identifying, locating, and categorizing natural gas leaks from pipeline infrastructure for timely repair.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

In 2020, DEP issued a $1.95 In 2020, the PUC imposed a $200,000 penalty on Energy Transfer/Sunoco related to integrity testing of the Mariner East Pipeline 1. Read more here. Don White (Indiana County) at a Senate Committee meeting-- We should be able to deal with that company and put them out of business. Read more here.

Natural Gas

Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

After the repeal of the 2016 rule was vacated, a federal district court in Wyoming vacated the 2016 rule itself in October 2020. Environmental groups and two blue states appeals from the October 2020 decision were still pending when the Biden administration BLM adopted a new waste prevention rule in April 2024.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

Residents Will Have Drinkable Water By 2026 Resource Links - Dimock: -- AG Shapiro: Coterra Energy, Formerly Cabot Oil & Gas, Pleads No Contest To A Criminal Charge Related To Polluting Water Supplies In Dimock, Susquehanna County [PaEN - December 2022] -- DEP Consent Agreement Allowing Shale Gas Drilling To Resume Under Dimock, Susquehanna County (..)

2026

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 29, 2024

For example, among the false solutions funded by the IRA are tax credits for carbon capture and storage facilities. Carbon capture and storage removes carbon dioxide from highly concentrated point sources like power plants. This captured carbon dioxide is typically then used for fracking.

Carbon Dioxide

Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

, but it inevitably brings forth a mish-mash of half-remembered, inappropriate or out-of-date comparisons between the impacts of carbon dioxide and methane. In 2020, CO 2 was at ~410 parts per million, while CH 4 was around 1870 parts per <it>billion</it> (or 1.87 Historical comparisons. Stocks and flows.

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The dip in gasoline use in 2020 was due to the reduction in personal vehicle use during the initial phases of the coronavirus pandemic. Burning gasoline in an automobile produces carbon dioxide, the primary cause of climate change. pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per gallon.

Carbon Dioxide

Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Advocates, on the other hand, say the transmission line is a vital springboard to a low-carbon future. They claim annual reductions of 3 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, equivalent to 700,000 vehicles. An effort in 2020 was invalidated by the Maine Supreme Court. All that spending adds up. Senate race.

2021

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 18, 2021

Carbon dioxide emissions in Los Angeles and the Washington DC/Baltimore regions fell roughly 33 percent in April of 2020 compared with previous years, as roads emptied and economic activity slowed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study. But while… Read more →

Carbon Dioxide

Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 10, 2022

Methane (CH4) is a greenhouse gas that is 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide (CO2) over a twenty year cycle, and accounts for nearly one-fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions. The importance of methane … Continue reading Methane Reduction Potential in the EU Between 2020 and 2030.

2030

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Their study examined the carbon dioxide and methane emissions from these companies’ products, as well as from the extraction and production processes of the largest gas, oil and coal producers and cement manufacturers. Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

What’s most remarkable is that the decision calls for a 45% reduction of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions–of not only its own but also those of its customers–within less than a decade. gigatons CO 2 equivalent in 2020, about that of Japan. That final “Scope 3” source is by far the greatest: 1.4

Carbon Dioxide

New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

About 80 per cent of the carbon dioxide released by Australia’s huge wildfires of 2019-2020 was captured by ocean algal blooms that grew due to the iron-rich ash

Carbon Dioxide

Real Climate

JULY 10, 2022

Constrained pdfs for ECS from Sherwood et al (2020). but before any of the ‘slow’ feedbacks have kicked in (ice sheets, vegetation, carbon cycle etc.). This was recently done by Sherwood et al (2020) , and they come up with, you guessed it, 3ºC (and also a tighter uncertainty bound of 2.3 ºC/(W/m 2 ). Etminan, G.

Radiation

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Sabin Center wrapped up Climate Week NYC last Friday with an event exploring the opportunities and challenges posed by ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR). In 2020 and 2021, Germany amended two existing laws—1998 High Seas Dumping Act and 2009 Water Management Act—to regulate marine geoengineering activities.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 20, 2024

The primary cause of accelerating sea level rise is human activity As people burn fossil fuels and emit heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide, our atmosphere and our oceans warm up. On average, over the 1993-2020 period, sea level has risen more quickly along the coastline of the contiguous United States than it has globally.

Sea Level

Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Now however, the updates to the historical warming , the use of four datasets instead of one, and of course, the series of record breaking years subsequently (2014, 2015, 2016/2020), the issue of variability in decadal trends is no longer so salient. Russell, "Climate Impact of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide", Science , vol.

Sea Level

Environmental News Bits

JULY 27, 2022

Booking a rental car online recently, I was asked to check a box to plant a tree to offset my car’s anticipated carbon dioxide emissions. by Jason McLachlan, University of Notre Dame “Plant a tree” seems to be the go-to answer to climate change concerns these days.

Carbon Dioxide

Environmental News Bits

MARCH 23, 2022

Coal-fired power plants release carbon dioxide, mercury, and other emissions that can harm human health. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently reported that emissions from power plants have increased from 2020 to 2021, reflecting growth in coal-fired power generation.

Government

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The pledge is a voluntary agreement to reduce global methane emissions by 30 percent below 2020 levels by 2030; however, methane levels keep going up and we are woefully off track for meeting this goal. Compared to carbon dioxide (CO2), methane doesn’t linger for long in the atmosphere after being emitted.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

For example, Hurricane Laura (2020) resulted in a two-week disruption at the Sabine Pass LNG export facility but well over a month at Cameron LNG, the latter of which was sidelined by an accumulation of incidents, including to external supplies of electricity as well as required repairs and dredging to the associated shipping channel.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The pledge is a voluntary agreement to reduce global methane emissions by 30 percent below 2020 levels by 2030. It is 80 times stronger than carbon dioxide (CO2) at trapping heat on short timescales. To date, more than 130 countries have signed onto the pledge. But its short lifetime in the atmosphere is also a reason for hope.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

One strategy is to counterbalance carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that contribute to climate change by drawing an equal amount of carbon out of the atmosphere, such as through planting trees. By Department of Conservation & Natural Resources Efforts to slow or stop global warming involve many strategies working together.

Climate Change

New Scientist

MARCH 31, 2022

After a sharp fall in 2020, the UK’s emissions of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases increased by 4.7 per cent in 2021, the biggest annual rise since records started in 1990

Carbon Dioxide

Physics World

MARCH 10, 2022

According to the International Energy Agency, the chemical production sector is the single largest industrial consumer of oil and gas and the third-largest carbon emitter, putting out just short of a gigatonne of carbon dioxide emissions in 2020. kg of carbon dioxide, respectively. kg and 1.85 kg and 1.17

Greenhouse

Law Columbia

MARCH 23, 2023

March 8, 2023, marked the start of the demonstration phase of Project Greensand , shipping carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from Belgium for storage in a depleted oilfield in the North Sea off the coast of Denmark. on the Export of Carbon Dioxide Streams for Disposal in Sub-Seabed Geological Formations for the Purpose of Sequestration.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The 2020 Maine Fishermen’s Forum was the last conference I and many others attended before the pandemic shutdown. Over the years, the Maine Fishermen’s Forum has been an important event for me; I go to listen and engage with different stakeholders of the Gulf of Maine.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

We can achieve a 60% reduction in 2040, and by 85% in 2050, relative to 2020 levels. A declining share of the fleet will still be powered by gasoline and diesel through 2040 and beyond, as vehicles stay on the road for around 15 years. The implication of these two strategies is a drastic reduction in the use of liquid fuels.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

EIA also forecasts a slight increase in carbon dioxide emissions from energy sources in 2022, but still short of 2019 levels. gigawatts of new wind in 2020, 17 gigawatts of new wind in 2021 and 6.9 gigawatts of new solar in 2020, 15.7 gigawatts of new wind in 2020, 17 gigawatts of new wind in 2021 and 6.9

Carbon Dioxide

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). Methane emissions showed their biggest annual increase in 2020 and again in 2021.

Fossil Fuels