Law Columbia

JANUARY 25, 2022

The case concerns the scope of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing fossil fuel power plants under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act (CAA). In January 2021, the D.C. Read the brief here.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 3, 2021

A new study finds greenhouse gas emissions from the world’s reservoirs are higher than earlier estimates. Al Jazeera reports the move comes after years of negotiations with the Namibian government, which sought reparations and acknowledgement for the genocide of at least 75,000 Ovaherero and Nama people by German settlers in the early 1900s.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 11, 2023

. #22) have taken action to lower the environmental footprint of State government across a wide range of areas, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions, reducing waste, decreasing the use of … Continue reading Greening New York State: 11th Progress Report on Agency Sustainability: Fiscal Year 2021-2022

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

On September 9, National Fuel Gas Company announced the release of its 2020 Corporate Responsibility Report , providing a comprehensive review of environmental, social, and governance performance metrics.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 5, 2023

Governments are, it seems, beginning to listen to the growing chorus of scientists who have warned that deploying CDR is essential to avoid catastrophic climate change. Government funding for research and deployment of CDR is increasing. Yet, key issues around definitions, guidance, and climate governance remain.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 8, 2023

Maryland is on the cusp of being the first state in the country to authorize use of the new 2021 edition of the International Green Construction Code for public and private building. Many see this cutting edge enactment as crucial to making possible the State’s ESG goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in buildings.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The global climate crisis requires immediate action, and we can start here at home in our Commonwealth, where we produce more than one percent of global greenhouse gases annually. The ERA is surprisingly not well known in government or by the public.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 25, 2021

The Hindustan Times reports that government officials in the Indian state of Karnataka has proposed a project to supply treated water from the Vrishabhavathi river in Bengaluru to water-deprived regions. Driven by increases in heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions, the global average temperaturehas increased roughly 1 degree Celsius (1.8

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 4, 2023

By coincidence rather than design, two different approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the electric power sector have been under discussion by North Carolina agencies since 2021. In January 2021, Clean Air Carolina and the N.C. In July 2021, the EMC voted to approve the rulemaking petition.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

In the past two years, however, the things have started trending upward after years of inaction by conservative governments. As in the US, Australia’s climate policy was long a victim of a lengthy period of divided government and political upheaval. As in the United States, state governments made some effort to pick up the slack.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 10, 2024

The increase in greenhouse gas emissions has made many parts of the world hotter and drier. However, the best way to prevent extreme wildfires is through reducing the greenhouse gasses that are responsible for the warmer and drier conditions behind these disasters. million hectares in 1989. This is not normal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2024

For more than a century, the United States has recognized this, and maintaining roads and bridges has been a core function of federal, state, and local governments. The federal government embraced a role in supporting transit in the 1970s, but this was cut back for the past 40 years and didn’t rebound until the pandemic.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 23, 2021

A look back at significant decisions in climate litigation in 2021. 2021 was a significant year for climate litigation, with several decisions worldwide providing a fresh look at stakeholder responsibility for climate change. Perhaps the most significant decision in climate litigation in 2021 came from the Netherlands.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Without steep cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions, the report reminds us, the world will warm by over 2 °C this century – triggering more frequent heat waves, greater flooding, higher sea levels and more extreme heavy rainfall and droughts. The nuclear fight – Robert P Crease talks to William D Magwood IV, director-general. challenges.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions 1990–2019. Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions include carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes, net carbon dioxide from land use, land use change and forestry, methane, nitrous oxide, and fluorinated gases. trillion or 6.8%

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 12, 2021

But it also indicates that by swiftly and drastically cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the worst effects of climate change can be prevented, avoiding worst-case outcomes for water availability. The post The Stream, August 12, 2021: Major Rivers in India Are Rising To Dangerous Levels appeared first on Circle of Blue. ON THE RADAR.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 26, 2022

Transportation is now the largest source of US greenhouse gas emissions. Since April 2021, travel has returned to pre-pandemic levels and has kept increasing, though with a different flavor—increasing truck traffic, less commute trips but more non-work trips, and unfortunate declines in transit ridership. FHWA, 2021 ).

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2022

million in Alternative Fuel Incentive Grants (AFIGs) to 18 cleaner fuel transportation projects statewide that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollutants. Vehicles alone release 21 percent of carbon dioxide emissions in the state, a known greenhouse gas and direct contributor to climate change.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In July 2021, the U.S. Constitution, and most states, including California, delegate some or all aspects of it to local governments within their borders. Disallowing Berkeley’s ordinance would put at risk countless ways in which local governments protect their residents’ welfare. .

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 4, 2021

The index measures the performance of companies’ environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices. Released in April 2021, PPG’s 2020 Sustainability Report highlights the company’s progress in achieving its 2025 sustainability goals and progress in key ESG areas.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 26, 2023

This year, many on the far-right are attempting to rebrand Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing as “woke capitalism.” In fact, the Board of Directors’ response states that “reducing Chevron’s absolute Scope 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is not in stockholders’ interests, nor should it be Chevron’s responsibility.”

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 15, 2022

Tom Wolf released the Pennsylvania GreenGov Council 2021 Annual Report , marking further progress in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s work to promote sustainability and environmentally-friendly policies. ernor Wolf has also unveiled a Climate Action Plan , announced the largest government solar energy commitment in the U.S.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This assessment wasn’t ExxonMobil’s idea, but was compelled by a successful shareholder resolution that was part of a 2021 investor revolt against the industry’s climate inaction that ultimately displaced several members of ExxonMobil’s Board of Directors. ExxonMobil’s withdrawal from IPAA is certainly a positive development.

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Greenbuilding Law

MARCH 3, 2024

This blog may sound like a broken record as we have time and again warned about the risks of a business claiming that they will be “net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040” or the like. in a scheme to garner climate conscious customers. So, Letitia James’ problem is with beef.

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Governor Edwards’ Climate Initiatives Task Force, charged with making recommendations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions originating in Louisiana, recently took another step towards that goal. The Task Force released a first draft of the report in the spring of 2021. Associated Submitted Action Proposals: N/A).

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Law and Environment

JULY 1, 2022

EPA on Thursday, June 30, 2022, curbing the power of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants across the country. Make no mistake: the Court’s opinion will have major implications for how the federal government addresses climate change nationally. What is the case about? .

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2021

United States case, plaintiffs sought an order directing the federal government to slash the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. United States case, plaintiffs sought an order directing the federal government to slash the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. Not so in the United States.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 26, 2022

The President issued an announcement on September 9, 2021 and an accompanying Climate Action Plan highlighting the administration’s goal of a fully zero-carbon aviation sector by 2050. With respect to SAF, the government plans to scale up SAF production to at least 3 billion gallons per year by 2030. White House SAF Initiative.

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Law and Environment

JULY 10, 2023

On June 26, 2023, the Cambridge City Council voted to amend the city’s Building Energy Use Disclosure Ordinance (BEUDO) to require large non-residential buildings to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2035 and mid-size non-residential buildings to do so by 2050.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2024

A study from Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), an update of a 2021 collaboration ( here , here ) with Evolved Energy Research (EER), shows that we can meet US climate goals and have a fossil-free economy by mid-century, including the petroleum-guzzling transportation sector. percent in 2021 to about 16 percent in 2050.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In 2021, the Government of Canada set out a target to reduce 40-45 per cent of its emissions by 2030, from 2005 levels. The report is clear that government action must target the most polluting industries. The report is clear that government action must target the most polluting industries.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 22, 2023

A 2021 North Carolina law requires the N.C. More below on the requirements of Session Law 2021-165 (also referred to as House Bill 951) and NCUC action in response. More below on the requirements of Session Law 2021-165 (also referred to as House Bill 951) and NCUC action in response. January 22, 2023.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Adaptation, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and accounting for climate damages will be prominent topics at the UN climate convention in November. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – September 15, 2021. The UK government is strongly recommending that all convention participants be fully vaccinated. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

A bare-chested old man lies in the emergency room of a government hospital in northeast Nigeria. 15, 2021, incident that harmed Mikaila and another farmer is just one in a larger pattern of growing hostilities between herders and farmers in this region. between 1984 and 2021, while the area experienced a 71.9% We grew up here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

ExxonMobil’s reduction pledges do not take Scope 3 emissions into account, and the company’s leadership takes issue with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s approach to measuring emissions, as described below. Studies show Scope 3 emissions account for roughly 85% of oil and gas emissions.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The answers may be out there somewhere on government websites, but if so I didn’t find them: Why didn’t total emissions from California’s in-state generation decrease? Post-2021 figures don’t seem to be available (or at least I didn’t find them), and 2020-2021 numbers were distorted by the COVID pandemic and recovery.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 29, 2024

For example, research by climate scientists working with the Canadian government show that the recent June heatwave in Ontario, Quebec and several Atlantic regions was two to 10 times more likely because of climate change. During the 2021 heat dome in BC, temperatures were up to 20 degrees celsius above normal.

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