Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 18, 2025

Previous attribution research published by my Union of Concerned Scientists colleagues have allowed us to draw causal connections between sources of heat-trapping emissions and resulting impacts, like present day increases in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, air temperatures, sea levels , ocean acidification , and wildfire burned area.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

We can explore the issues and pitfalls of this using the ‘simple model’ of the greenhouse effect we explored back in 2007. The simplest model for the greenhouse effect. Over the last 20 years the LW radiative forcing change from well-mixed greenhouse gases is around 0.7 A simple model with feedbacks.

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Scientific American

JANUARY 10, 2023

power emissions to decline, emissions from buildings and transportation went up in 2022. Though renewable energy surpassed coal generation for the first time in 60 years, causing U.S.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2024

It is significant because if its huge public health benefits and because it has provided the basis for EPA regulation of greenhouse gases. Until gutted by the Supreme Court in 2022, it also provided important protection to the nation’s wetlands. If I were listing laws in order of importance, I would put the CAA on top. Pavley Act.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This winter, Big Oil companies are announcing their 2022 profits, and records are being shattered. How big are the 2022 profits? How big are the 2022 profits? International giant Exxon Mobil reported $56 billion (USD) in profit for 2022 , “setting not only a company record but a historic high for the Western oil industry.”

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen On the eve of the COP28 UN climate summit, The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a United Nations (UN) body, has warned that the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases (GHG) is forecast to continue the trend that resulted in record-high CO2 measurements last year.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 19, 2022

On August 19, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative announced Pennsylvania is removing its allowances for sale at the next allowance auction on September 7. Visit the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative website for more information on the removal of Pennsylvania’s allowances. Posted: August 19, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 2, 2022

Last week, Senators Schumer and Manchin announced a compromise on a reconciliation bill, called the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 , that includes significant climate and air quality progress and a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions nationwide by 40 percent by 2030. A key step towards addressing climate change and air quality.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

In this UN forum, the main agenda items are reducing greenhouse gas emissions, adapting to climate extremes, and compensating poorer countries for damage caused by a warming planet. The post What’s Up With Water – November 8, 2022 appeared first on Circle of Blue. This is Eileen Wray-McCann – thanks for being here.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Here are the biggest stories of 2022. Congress ratified the Kigali treaty, which will reduce emissions of super-greenhouse gases. A lot has happened on the environmental front. Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act, providing $369 billion in tax credit and spending to reduce carbon emissions.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

To identify which fuels should be promoted, CARB calculates the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels. In these “carbon intensity” calculations, CARB is not allowed to count reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that are already required by law. Agricultural operations are almost uniquely unregulated.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 2, 2024

GHG emissions in 2022 were the lowest they have been in 25 years, with the exception of the pandemic years. Alberta continues to generate more greenhouse gas pollution than any other province in the country, accounting for nearly 40 per cent of Canada’s emissions.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 7, 2025

And across the United States, the transportation sector is now the largest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. CLEEs 2022 report, Implementing SB 743: Design Considerations for Vehicle Miles Traveled Bank and Exchange Programs , provided guidance for state, regional, and local leaders developing plans for VMT MBEx programs.

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CEQA Developments

JUNE 8, 2023

In late April the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (“BAAQMD”) promulgated its revised 2022 CEQA Guidelines (“2022 Guidelines”), available here. Thus, BAAQMD drafted the 2022 Guidelines (first blogged on here , which originally consisted of thresholds of significance but have now been substantially expanded and revised.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

2022 was no different, with courts further delineating the procedural dimensions of climate cases and expanding on the responsibilities of stakeholders for climate mitigation and adaption. In June 2022, the Prague Municipal Court ruled in Klimatická žaloba ČR v. See a detailed analysis of the decision here.).

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The scoping process has been key to California’s success in cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The State of New York most recently adopted the scoping process as part of an aggressive new scheme to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The 2022 Revision. b) The range of projected air pollution reductions that result from the measure. (c)

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The Council must then issue its final Scoping Plan by the end of 2022. The post New York Climate Action Council Approves Draft Scoping Plan to Achieve the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions first appeared on Law and the Environment.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

–Sean Post, JD 2022. –Kelsey Manes, JD 2022. –Richard Diaz, Master of Public Policy candidate, 2022. [I]t –Polina Hristova, LLM 2022. To be sure, a subset of the population inuring itself to a problem that everyone will face is scarcely a just solution. –Tom Hanrahan, JD 2023.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

By Penn State News With a goal of achieving 100% greenhouse gas emissions reduction by 2035, Penn State – under the direction of President Neeli Bendapudi -- is moving forward with several of the recommendations presented by the University’s Carbon Emissions Reduction Task Force in Spring 2022.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 10, 2025

Just four oil companies used 200 billion litres of Alberta’s freshwater in 2022. Much attention has been paid to carbon captures role or lack thereof in addressing greenhouse gas pollution. For example, it has been estimated that retrofitting a coal-fired power plant with CCS would increase water use by 25 to 200 per cent.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 5, 2024

There were fewer buses in service in peak periods across Canada in 2022 than there were in 2013, a year when transit systems served 2.7 Read the full report here The post How Canada Can Unlock the Power of Public Transit to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions appeared first on Environmental Defence. million fewer people.

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HumanNature

MAY 2, 2025

Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University Despite being one of the lowest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions that are causing climate change, Africa has experienced widespread losses and damages attributed to human-induced climate change. Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.

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Real Climate

MAY 21, 2023

That means the greenhouse substances are basically just CO2 and ozone, and they absorb in quite different parts of the spectrum. The basic concept is easy to grasp though. The upper atmosphere is different from the troposphere in that pressure is much less, and it’s very dry.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

Most prominently, because the approach is changing from rewarding specific technologies to rewarding anything that meets the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions threshold of “clean”—hence the “tech-neutral” label—exactly how the government goes about determining whether or not something is actually eligible will be enormously important.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We then drafted state legislation to require disclosure of climate change-related financial risks, which was introduced by California State Senator Henry Stern as SB 449 (Stern) in the 2021-2022 session. While SB 449 was held in the Appropriations Committee in 2022, Senator Stern re-introduced the bill with amendments as SB 261 in 2023.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 4, 2025

Recent developments have extended the power of satellite data … Continue reading Satellite detection of methane plumes, 2022-2024 Examples are forest cover and deforestation, weather and extreme events, air pollution, and freshwater availability, among many others.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2023

On October 18, the Safety Division of the Public Utility Commission announced it is continuing their investigation into the circumstances surrounding a December 2022 house explosion and fire in Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County. Shapiro, Let's Hold Them Accountable - Support The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative - By Rev.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The 2022 UN NDC Synthesis report assesses the collective impact of emissions reduction pledges, known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs), that countries have submitted under the Paris Agreement. Source: UN Climate Change 2022 NDC Synthesis Report. Source: UN Climate Change 2022 NDC Synthesis Report.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

An increased focus on water’s role in climate mitigation may bring about solutions — including reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sequestering carbon, protecting biodiversity, and improving soil quality. Bridging this knowledge gap, according to the report, has “not yet been clearly articulated and recognized.”

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2022

Governor Newsom’s May Revise budget proposal includes this item: Methane Satellites—$100 million Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund on a one-time basis to expand the number of satellites launched for methane observations, which would provide weekly measurement of large methane emissions in the state and enhance enforcement capabilities.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2025

Pennsylvania will need to generate more energy in the next two decades, even as the state has set a goal to reduce greenhouse gases 80 percent by 2050 from 2005 levels. The good news is that these goals are not mutually exclusive. Our neighboring states have recognized geothermals potential and are moving fast to capitalize on it.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The radiative forcing over such a long time period needs to take into account the increase in solar irradiance (about 4%) and the impacts of paleo-geography on temperature that aren’t linked to greenhouse gas changes. 103-121, 2022. The first factor increases the apparent sensitivity, and the second decreases it.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

It has taken 17 months to get a comment published pointing out the obvious errors in the Scafetta (2022) paper in GRL. Back in March 2022, Nicola Scafetta published a short paper in Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) purporting to show through ‘advanced’ means that ‘all models with ECS > 3.0°C 26-29, 2022.

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Real Climate

JUNE 25, 2022

2022 ) that have proved so useful in building credibility (or not) for the shifts predicted by current climate models. 499-503, 2022. 496-499, 2022. 493-493, 2022. Since these are the biggest structural uncertainties at present (IMO), we can’t look to k-scale models to help reduce them. Fox-Kemper, B. Pearson, M.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

By using recycled instead of newly mined materials, reduction of climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions is approximately 64%. Since the materials recovered through recycling were already in the economy, the only impacts associated with their production are from transporting the battery to recycling, pre-processing, and recycling.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 10, 2022

term, even for the very low greenhouse gas emissions scenario.” The report points out that under all of the illustrative scenarios it considered, “there is at least a greater than 50% likelihood that global warming will reach or exceed 1.5° C in the near?term, That’s not a cure-all, however, even if we can do it. The pace of change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The reason given for the 2022 withdrawal (lobbying reports lag by a year) is IPAA’s “misalignment” with ExxonMobil’s stated goal of “helping society achieve its ambition for a net-zero future.”

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