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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

From 2020 to 2040, solar generation in these states jumps nearly ninefold and wind generation more than sevenfold. Just as important, cleaning up the power grid also lowers carbon dioxide emissions. Under current policies and plans, carbon dioxide emissions would decline by only 12 percent. percent in 2040.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2022

From 2020 to 2040, solar generation in these states grows nearly ninefold and wind generation more than sevenfold. Just as important, cleaning up the power grid can also decrease carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions. We found that, in our “100% RES” scenario, coal generation essentially disappears by 2040 in USCA states.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The bankruptcies were set in motion even before 2020. A 2020 study found that Native American households’ median energy burden was 45 percent higher than non-Hispanic White households, while Black households’ median energy burden was 43 percent higher and Hispanic households’ burden was 20 percent higher.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

6 was enacted, the plants have emitted more than 29 million tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide, 28,000 tons of nitrogen oxides (NOx), and 16,000 tons of sulfur dioxide (SOx). That amount, however, is less than what Ohio households have already paid in coal subsidies since January 2020. Ohio regulators need to act.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Oil and gas companies are proposing the widespread use of carbon capture to deal with their increasing greenhouse gas emissions. Learn more about carbon capture – and why it isn’t a climate solution – here. Numerous counties have passed temporary moratoriums on carbon pipelines given the health and safety risks.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

What they showed are the distinct fingerprints of two kinds of forcing; increasing solar activity which warms all parts of the atmosphere, and carbon dioxide increases which warm the surface and troposphere, but cool the stratosphere and above. Both these predictions have been evaluated in recent years to see how well they did.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

As mentioned above, the carbon market, where forest landowners receive payments for sequestering carbon, is growing.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

During 2020, I started hearing aerosol particles mentioned outside of the atmospheric science field. Carbon dioxide (CO2) monitors are a relatively inexpensive method to estimate the concentration of COVID-19 aerosol particles since individuals exhale CO2 at the same time as aerosol particles.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Carbon Capture Facility at the Boundary Dam Power Plant in Saskatchewan went into service in 2014. Since then, it has captured less than half of the carbon dioxide it is supposed to. The International Energy Agency had predicted that by 202 0 CCS projects would be capable of capturing 300 million tonnes of carbon dioxide.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In this case, standing and the causal link seem to be an obstacle for the citizens as the judges did not recognize the plaintiffs standing in relation to climate change and carbon dioxide emissions while recognizing the standing for air pollution. Portugal and 32 Other States filed before the European Court of Human Rights in 2020.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

These plants, which were originally slated to close in 2020, include the Ormond Beach Generating Station located in the predominantly Latinx, low-income community of Oxnard. Even as some parts of the country transition away from fossil fuel infrastructure, the retirement of gas plants has become another driver of inequity.

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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.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 16, 2025

A 2020 UN Development Programme report found that in Harare alone, there were 30 wetlands under threat from illegal settlements. Wetlands also capture and store atmospheric carbon dioxide, allowing it to be converted into other carbon compounds and cellulose and thus mitigating global heating.

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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

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Carbon capture : a license to pollute Oil and gas companies like to paint a picture of a future where we can still have oil and gas production, but where power plants and oil refineries can capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks and bury them deep in the ground. They call this Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS).

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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.

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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.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Since 2010, there have been 76 incidents involving carbon dioxide pipelines in the US. For example, a carbon dioxide pipeline exploded in Satartia, Mississippi in 2020 and a carbon dioxide pipeline leaked in Louisiana in April 2024.

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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.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

On the other hand, advocates for the transmission line say it is a vital springboard to a low-carbon future. They anticipate annual reductions of 3 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, equivalent to 700,000 vehicles. Senate race.

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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.

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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. 2020 , Linquist et al.,

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 8, 2022

Assembly Bill 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, 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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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

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