Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Several states and industry groups are challenging EPA’s 2024 rules which set greenhouse gas emissions limits for certain fossil fuel power plants nationwide (referred to here as the Power Plant Rules). EPA that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases fall within the Clean Air Act’s capacious definition of “air pollutant.”

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

In October 2022, DEPs well plugging work was supercharged by the award of $25 million under an Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) Initial Grant through the US Department of the Interior (DOI). Read more here.] Federal Funding Gov. Shapiro has also directed DEP to leverage all available federal funds for this effort.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

On March 6, the Department of Environmental Protection ordered Energy Transfer/Sunoco to install water treatment systems in over 200 homes impacted by the pipeline leak. Read more here.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

Lawsuits challenging expedited reviews of fossil fuel energy projects under emergency permitting procedures announced by the U.S. This assertion of presidential power is all but certain to be contested. Department of the Interior on April 23, 2025.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

For fertilizers, the life cycle begins with the extraction of minerals, refining, and manufacture using fossil fuels. These gases are far more potent than carbon dioxide (at least 28 to 80 times for methane and 265 times for nitrous oxide) when it comes to trapping heat.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

This new public groundwater system is funded by a 2022 plea agreement negotiated between the Office of Attorney General under then-Attorney General Josh Shapiro and Coterra Energy. [As [DEP received 4,859 drinking water complaints and later confirmed 392 private water supplies were contaminated by shale gas fracking. Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2025

It's not just enough for us as a Commonwealth to reduce our reliance on fossil fuel infrastructure. John Inglis (D-Allegheny [ co-sponsor memo ] : The Pennsylvania Economic Development for a Growing Economy (PA EDGE) Tax Credit Program, established in 2022, hasnt been used, leaving billions in potential economic development untapped.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 29, 2024

While the transition to renewable energy is more urgent than ever, it is crucial to recognize corporate greenwashing and push back against false solutions in order to ensure that the disproportionate harms perpetuated by the fossil fuel economy do not continue. economy away from being reliant on fossil fuels and into renewable energy.

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Legal Planet

MAY 21, 2025

Heres what else I see Good news A Cleaner China: For the first time, the growth in Chinas clean power generation has caused the nations carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to fall despite rapid power demand growth. -China climate cooperation are also named, notes Sarah Schonhardt for E&E News. Energy Costs Rise: The U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

Pennsylvanias DEP adopted a regulation limiting methane emissions from conventional oil and gas and shale gas facilities in 2022, however, the agency has been developing a new program to limit methane emissions under the regulation now being reconsidered by EPA.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Shapiros Budget Includes Energy Plan; Funding To Make-up Deficit In Oil & Gas Program; New State Park, Trail Initiative; Over $6.2

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Yet, driven by vested interests in the fossil fuel industry , misleading narratives aim to distort and hinder meaningful climate commitments. Fossil fuels are the problem It’s pretty simple: the burning of fossil fuels is the main driver of climate change. billion tons of the 40.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

A new dataset released by InfluenceMap provides information on heat-trapping emissions traced to the 122 largest investor and state-owned fossil fuel companies in the world. Fossil fuels are the main driver of climate change and the terrifying effects of it that we see happening across the world.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

October 4, 2022. Indiana regulates the underground storage of carbon dioxide. In central Illinois , residents are reluctant to make way for an underground carbon dioxide pipeline. Residents of central Illinois are organizing against a proposed carbon dioxide pipeline, Energy News Network reports.

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Real Climate

JULY 10, 2022

The sources of these increases are dominated by the burning of fossil fuels, landfills, mining, oil and gas operations, agriculture (especially livestock for methane), and industry. The post The CO 2 problem in six easy steps (2022 Update) first appeared on RealClimate. Etminan, G. Myhre, E.J. Highwood, and K.P.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2024

In addition, environmental justice advocates and frontline communities routinely point to the danger of concentrated carbon dioxide , embedded siting inequities , and the use of CCS to distract from the real work of phasing out fossil fuels.) Who needs units anyway? Why do Exxon’s greenwashed graphs matter?

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New Scientist

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

This year will see a smaller jump in carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels compared with 2021, driven partly by the continuing recovery of aviation following covid-19 travel restrictions

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

There is still much we can do to bend that emissions curve sharply within this decade—but only if world leaders, especially leaders of richer countries and major emitting nations, take responsibility to act together quickly and fossil fuel companies are held accountable for their decades of obstruction and deception.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Responsible for 12 percent of all US global warming emissions from human activities, methane traps significantly more heat per molecule than carbon dioxide, making it 86 times more harmful for the first 20 years after it is released into the atmosphere. Its primary component is methane.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

That requires bringing global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions to net zero by 2050. But a March 2022 analysis from the investor consortium Climate Action 100+ determined that no major oil company was on track to meet the Paris goals. degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Chevron alone is facing a $9.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

While the epicenter of the war and its horrors has remained trained on and in Ukraine, Russia has also leveraged its position as a major fossil fuel exporter to fund its war efforts and to manipulate and threaten others, including countries across Europe that have long relied on Russian supplies of gas. Credit: U.S. Credit: U.S.

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Data reported by the World Bank show that prices for two key fertilizers spiked dramatically between April 2021 and April 2022: diammonium phosphate prices went up 75 percent and potash prices rose a staggering 178 percent. The price of urea also surpassed its previous recorded spike in 2008 by approximately 18 percent.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 25, 2023

For the AMOC (and other climate tipping points ), the only action we can take to minimise the risk is to get out of fossil fuels and stop deforestation as fast as possible. In 2022, the G20 governments alone subsidised fossil fuel use with 1.4 In 2022, the G20 governments alone subsidised fossil fuel use with 1.4

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 5, 2022

Human activity adds more than 50 gigatons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere each year. New Solid Carbon technology might be able to lock climate-warming carbon dioxide below ocean bedrock. Large-scale solutions are urgently needed. Photo credit: Francisco Anzola, Flickr CC BY 2.0. By Dr Kate Moran.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 26, 2023

Today, hydrogen technology has more momentum than ever , driven by the promise of a clean, carbon-free energy source, deployable at scales necessary to decarbonize large sectors of the economy. Through a series of reactions––which usually take place at a refinery––steam and methane react to produce hydrogen and carbon dioxide.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Any day now, Minister Freeland is expected to introduce a giant new fossil fuel subsidy called the carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) investment tax credit. The government is breaking their own rules The government introduced new rules to end fossil fuel subsidies this summer. Let me tell you why.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

The Pathways Alliance wants to use more than $16 billion of Canadian taxpayer’s dollars to build a massive CCS project to remove 3MT of carbon from their collective tar sands operations. The tar sands currently (2022) emit 87 MT of carbon each year, so a $16 billion investment of taxpayer money would net a reduction of 3.4

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and cement have increased by 1.0% in 2022, new estimates suggest, hitting a new record high of 36.6bn tonnes of CO2 (GtCO2). The estimates come from the 2022 Global Carbon Budget report by the Global Carbon Project.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

If passed, this new law would finally put an end to the millions of tonnes of coal – the world’s dirtiest and deadliest fossil fuel – that are shipped overseas from Canada’ west coast every year. According to Government of Canada data, in 2022 Canada exported over 18 million tonnes of Canadian and American thermal coal.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

Since then, the Conservative government has made a series of U-turns on its own net zero policies, attacked Labour’s green spending plans, and doubled down on its support for new fossil fuel projects, approving more than 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences. This comes as DeSmog and Democracy for Sale reveal that £6.8 percent (£1.8

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Ontario’s plan to ramp up gas In 2022, the Ontario government mandated the Independent Electricity Service Operator (IESO) to solicit proposals for 1500 MW of new gas electricity generation by 2024. Burning fossil fuels is a main contributor to climate change.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

The IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee during the unveiling of the report: Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. The report Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of climate change looked at a variety of pathways for increased climate actions. Photo credit: IPCC / Mark Speight. By Anders Lorenzen.

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 11, 2021

This framework includes a multi-jurisdictional cap-and-invest program, under which certain fuel suppliers will be required to acquire compliance instruments called “allowances” to cover carbon dioxide emissions from specified fuels (i.e., fossil-based gasoline and diesel). Environmental Justice and Equity Concerns.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

Ebel, the CEO of Enbridge, to our list of infamous Climate Villains – powerful people with fossil fuel interests holding Canada back from effective climate action. The executives behind the fossil fuel industry often avoid public scrutiny, which is why we’re shining the spotlight on their activities.

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Acoel

JANUARY 4, 2022

Posted on January 4, 2022 by David M. The report also offered several significant recommendations including the caution that “[r]esponsible CCUS projects should address cumulative pollution and should incorporate environmental justice and equity considerations.” .

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