Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2022

Unless people adapt to rapid environmental change and greenhouse gas emissions are slowed, the risks to biodiversity, water security, food production, infrastructure stability, and health are much higher toward the end of the century. Warming temperatures are causing rapid shifts between wet and dry, flood and drought.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 29, 2020

Under Governor Northam’s direction, Virginia’s Energy Policy shifted quite dramatically from when he first took office in January 2018 to what we have at the end of the 2020 Legislative Session. greenhouse gas emissions. Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. DEQ’s carbon regulations. By Antonia Douglas. recent flip.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

These risks aren’t hypothetical: A leak from a carbon dioxide pipeline already caused serious health harms in Satartia, Mississippi, where 45 people were hospitalized following a pipeline rupture in early 2020. You might be familiar with carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change.

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Law and Environment

JUNE 16, 2021

On June 10, 2021, the Transportation Climate Initiative Program (TCI-P) states released a final model rule creating a regional cap-and-trade-program to reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector. We wrote about the draft model rule and its implementation challenges when it was released at the beginning of March.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

.” A growing body of scientific research shows that even if society were to halt emissions overnight, a certain amount of atmospheric warming—and accompanying environmental risks— would still occur. The report noted wealthy nations’ unkept promise to deliver $100 billion in annual climate aid by 2020.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 26, 2022

Improving the cars and trucks we drive has been crucial in reining in transportation emissions, and we will not make the magnitude of progress necessary on climate without just plain driving less. Transportation is now the largest source of US greenhouse gas emissions. Bleviss, 2020 ).

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

They found that the past seven years were the world’s warmest by a clear margin, with 2016 and 2020 the warmest on record. The C3S director Carlo Buontempo said, “These events are a stark reminder of the need to change our ways, take decisive and effective steps toward a sustainable society and work towards reducing net carbon emissions”.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

When it comes to climate action, it can be difficult to understand what makes a strong climate plan that puts us on a pathway to zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – and what new policies and tools are actually dangerous distractions from real solutions. Current global CCUS capacity is about 0.001% of annual greenhouse gas emissions.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 13, 2021

On November 24, Queen’s Park Today reported that in response to the Ontario Liberal Party’s campaign proposal to offer electric vehicle incentives, Minister Piccini claimed the Progressive Conservative government policies have already led to “a 210 per cent increase in EV (electric vehicle) sales year over year from Q2 2020 to Q2 2021.”.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 13, 2022

In 2010, GM committed to a 20% reduction in carbon intensity by 2020. It achieved that goal in 2017. And in January 2021, it said it would source 100% renewable energy to power GM facilities in the U.S. by 2030 and globally by 2035.

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E2 Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

CDV-2020-307 (Mont. The case has received some serious attention in the weeks since because Judge Kathey Seely found that the plaintiffs—16 young residents of Montana—had suffered and would suffer injury on account of climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions in Montana and combustion of fossil fuels extracted from Montana.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

The decision to ditch coal was the biggest single action of its time to cut carbon emissions in North America. That means carbon emissions from electricity in Ontario will be rising back up again after years of decline. Ontario Energy Output by Fuel Type: 2020 . Source: IESO [link]. times more than reported.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 6, 2022

It would raise the cost of electricity for 5 million retail power customers, increase greenhouse gas emissions associated with electricity generation, and eliminate key grid-support services that hydropower provides. More coal and natural gas will certainly increase greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 13, 2024

A plane flies over a football match at the Japan National Stadium, the primary venue for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. By Niu Yuhan With the 2024 Euros and Paris Olympics vowing to be greener, I explore the challenges of cutting emissions from major sporting events. million, avoiding 512,000 tonnes of carbon emissions.

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

As the world grapples with the consequences of climate change, many scientists have begun to face up to the realities of their carbon emissions. According to a 2020 study ( Glob. © 2020 Springer Nature Limited. It turns out, for example, that climate-change researchers fly more frequently than scientists in other fields.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Grist said, "These leaders have pushed back against harmful industries (and won), cut carbon emissions from hospitals, advanced wildfire solutions from Hawaii to California, and brought together unlikely coalitions to break ground on clean energy networks. Of Interior Approves $76.4

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

With the effects of Climate Change an imminent threat to the world and with cities contributing to more than 60% of Global Greenhouse Gas emissions (United Nations, 2021), future cities will also need to secure sustainable development. Resilient Melbourne, 2020, p.03. Foster, 2020.Urban 2020, July).

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

It calls on “rich, polluting countries,” including historic polluters as well “more recent carbon contributors” like the Middle Eastern Gulf states, India, and China, to “drastically cut their carbon emissions to prevent runaway climate change” and avert “exponentially higher levels of climate impacts affecting more people more quickly.”.

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Cresforum

MARCH 10, 2022

In the Unites States’ march to transition to clean energy and reduce greenhouse gasses, resilience may be the most important word to summarize 2021. While the cost of building solar, wind and natural gas was higher in 2021 than 2020 — due to rising material, freight and fuel prices — new projects skyrocketed. gigawatts in 2020.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

“The use of SAF is expected to contribute around 65% of the reduction in emissions needed by aviation to reach net-zero in 2050,” says Albert Tjoeng, head of corporate communications for the IATA, which defines a SAF as a non-fossil fuel that has the potential to generate lower carbon emissions than conventional kerosene in its life cycle.

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Cresforum

OCTOBER 28, 2021

government in reducing greenhouse gas emissions around the world is to make strategic investments in research and development (R&D), such as those included in the Energy Act of 2020 , which serves as a strong foundation to an all-of-the-above approach: renewables, nuclear, fuel and energy efficiency, hydrogen, electrification (i.e.,

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4 They Deserve Our Thanks, Our Support! Posted: September 5, 2021] PA Environment Digest

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In recent history, we have witnessed LUC exacerbating climate change due to disturbed soils, development of greenhouse gas (GHG) producing land uses, and more 4. Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change. Farmers struggle to break into booming carbon-credit market. Glob Change Biol 26 , 219–241 (2020).

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 30, 2021

Even if it were possible, simply eliminating carbon emissions from fossil fuel production would not address the myriad impacts of fossil fuel production faced primarily by Indigenous and front-line communities. Carbon capture and release: a license to pollute . Check out this blog for a backgrounder on hydrogen.).

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Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Only rapid and drastic reductions in greenhouse gases over the coming decade can prevent such climate breakdown, the IPCC says, with every fraction of a degree of further heating likely to compound the accelerating effects. “A There has never been stronger evidence that we need to act now and together,” Hardaker added. Global goals.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2022

C carbon budget set forth in the 2015 Paris Agreement, countries must reduce CO2 emissions in the entire [existing] built environment by 50-65% by 2030 and reach zero carbon by 2040. The built environment accounts for approximately 28% of global CO2 emissions and 40% of all U. below the baseline, compared to 28.9%

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2022

“As part of our commitment to create a clean energy future for all in the Pittsburgh region, DLC is increasing opportunities for customers and communities to experience the many benefits of electric mobility while addressing one of our area’s largest sources of carbon emissions and air pollution —?transportation,”

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 27, 2022

Just as key will be new regulations and measures that push the shipping industry to zero emissions, and we caught a glimpse of what those could be during the IMO meeting as well. After agreeing to a very weak short-term measure in November 2020, the discussions last week focused on new measures that could take effect by 2030.

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Cresforum

JUNE 8, 2020

Last week, Senators Mike Braun (R-IN) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), among a bipartisan group, introduced The Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2020 , which could become a watershed moment in the conservative clean energy movement. If you’ve followed CRES Forum for a while and these ideas seem familiar to you—you’re right.

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Cresforum

JUNE 8, 2020

Last week, Senators Mike Braun (R-IN) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), among a bipartisan group, introduced The Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2020 , which could become a watershed moment in the conservative clean energy movement. If you’ve followed CRES Forum for a while and these ideas seem familiar to you—you’re right.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 4, 2021

It is caused by human activity and carbon emissions. She said to address these challenges, she is inviting her Senate colleagues to co-sponsor legislation to invest the proceeds from the proposed Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) program. A climate crisis is happening before our eyes. The science is clear.

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A Greener Life

JULY 20, 2022

And at the same time, the facts of our failure as a society to deal with the problem have been demonstrated by the ever-growing carbon emissions. And even with ever-increasing and sophisticated green technology, we are not making a big enough dent in bringing emissions down. How to deal with heat. That is just a fact.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 7, 2021

None of this happened in 2020 due to the COVID-19 crisis, which led the UN to postpone the meeting, and negotiations are resuming this year with the same agenda. Bangladesh has said it can reduce emissions a lot more if it gets money from rich nations to do so. “All The net-zero debate.

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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Embodied carbon refers to the greenhouse gas emissions associated with materials’ manufacturing, transportation, installation, maintenance, and disposal. In a building, there is “upfront” embodied carbon in construction and then operational carbon largely from energy consumption.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Based on 2020 data the average across Pennsylvania was 0.08%, so Pennsylvania is already in this space. The state recognizes that a reduction in scope three emissions can count towards the utilities reduction in their greenhouse gas emissions.” is considered responsibly sourced.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The NPCC establishes a binding commitment to reduce GHG emissions between 36.1% by 2020 against a 2010 baseline. Overall, since 2010, when the NPCC was regulated, Brazil increased emissions by 23.2%, and therefore did not alter its emissions trajectory. o C global warming scenario.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Much of the cradle-to-grave carbon intensity data that governments depend on to guide in photovoltaic arrays are instead based on modeling assumptions that are likely to have grossly under-estimated — if not made-up — solar’s carbon emissions because they cannot get insights from Chinese manufacturers. million cars to the road.

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