Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 22, 2024

Solar for All: The $7 billion provision that is included in the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund seeks to expand access to solar for low-income communities with all funds required to be used to enable low-income and disadvantaged communities to deploy and benefit from residential distributed solar.

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New Scientist

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Renewable energy continued to grow in 2024, and there were other hopeful developments in technologies aiming to reverse the rise in greenhouse gas emissions

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2024

million-- to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve water quality on more than 50 farms and the National Hemp Association -- $19.6 On October 25, US Senator Bob Casey announced $40 million in funding to the Department of Agriculture and Land O'Lakes Farmer Cooperative -- $21.2 6 Hearing, Dec.

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Real Climate

MARCH 18, 2025

2024 and references therein). We also know what is needed to stop global warming: the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases such as CO2 and methane must stabilise, and the forests must be protected. References A. Dobler, R.E. Benestad, C. Lussana, and O. Benestad, K.M. Parding, and A. 45-65, 2025.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 12, 2025

Micronesia , Ghana , and Saint Lucia also emphasized that cessation and non-repetition would involve reducing greenhouse gas emissions, cutting fossil fuel subsidies, and phasing out fossil fuels. States such as Colombia , Jamaica , and Seychelles made similar arguments.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 15, 2023

Buildings account for more than 30% of greenhouse gas emissions in the state, and the budget includes requirements for advancing zero-emission construction.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Participants in this free one-hour webinar will learn about conventional orphaned well plugging, remediation, and restoration, with a focus on reducing methane and greenhouse gas emissions. The Penn State Extension will host a December 12 webinar on Carbon Reduction Credits In Oil and Gas Well Plugging from Noon to 1:00 p.m.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

DEP’s Climate Change Advisory Committee is schedule to meet February 20 to hear presentations on the 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment, PA Greenhouse Gas Inventory and an update on the PA Climate Action Plan. Million In Tax Credits To Subsidize Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County; Total Expected To Be $1.17

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 10, 2025

However, in 2024 leaks were detected at the first commercial CO2 storage site in the United States , due to corrosion. It is difficult to justify the use of high volumes of water for CCS when the Cold Lake region experienced moderate to severe drought conditions throughout the 2024 growing season.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

Presented telephonically during the August 13 th , 2024, public hearing for Docket ID No. For C&G facilities, eligibility for the 45Y/48E tax credit hinges on calculation of a net greenhouse gas emissions rate, meaning the structure of, and implementation choices around, the underlying lifecycle analysis (LCA) are of central importance.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 2, 2024

It was particularly disheartening that at a moment when transport emissions are rising so rapidly, the 2024 federal budget stripped half a billion dollars from existing public transit investment programs, while continuing to delay the Permanent Public Transit Fund until after the next federal election.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

billion tons of greenhouse gases each year, resulting in the transportation sector being the largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions across all sectors. In January 2024, Representative Hank Johnson introduced H.R. Vehicles emit 1.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

They are also disproportionately responsible for climate-warming emissions, representing around 30 percent of greenhouse gas pollution from vehicles on our roads and highways. UCS/S&P Global Mobility, 2024 Some states are seeing more accelerated deployments than others. mile, while the gasoline-powered version costs around $0.19/mile.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

2024) ( direct link ) has just appeared in Science. 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. The resulting paper Judd et al., References E.J. Huber, S.L.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, estimated to be 80 times more damaging to the atmosphere than carbon dioxide but not as long lasting. Note: So far in 2024, DEP has issued 823 notices of violation to conventional oil and gas well owners for abandoning their wells, a routine business practice to avoid plugging liability.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

DEP’s RISE PA Program will offer grants for small-, medium-, and large-scale decarbonization projects at industrial facilities to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) and co-pollutant emissions. Posted: November 18, 2024] PA Environment Digest Read more here.]

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

by Llewellyn Leonard, University of South Africa The 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) takes place in Azerbaijan in November 2024. The annual climate change conference must focus on holding corporations and countries accountable for greenhouse gas emissions.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 17, 2024

The first quarter of 2024 was a busy one for the oil and gas industry! Greenhouse gas emissions from oil, coal, and gas are causing the climate crisis, yet these companies’ entire business model is to continue growing fossil fuel production. We’re excited to be back sharing some juicy updates from the first three months of this year.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Dietterich - Violations - 3 Abandoned Wells November 25, 2024 follow-up inspections of three conventional wells in Allegheny and Washington counties found them all abandoned and not plugged and with violations for failure to submit production, waste generation, well integrity reports. .: Original violation December 5, 2023. Read more here.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 9, 2025

The report, submitted to the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), discloses China s greenhouse gas inventory in 2020 and 2021. It showed that total greenhouse gas emissions in 2021, including that from land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF), reached 13 billion tonnes, an increase of 4.3%

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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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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 5, 2024

By providing public transit operating funding, encouraging housing density near public transit, setting zero-emission bus procurement requirements and providing incentives for cities to speed up public transit service with dedicated bus lanes, Canada can cut polluting carbon emissions by 65 million tonnes from 2024 to 2035.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 20, 2025

As we electrify everything, from our cars to our home heating systems, we need electricity to come from sources that dont emit greenhouse gases. The rules, known as the Clean Electricity Regulations (CER), were finalized in December 2024. So, do they do the job? Lets have a look.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

On August 9, 2024, An Bord Pleanla (the national planning authority) rejected permission for the wind farm, citing visual impacts and local development plan designations for wind turbines. Facts The case concerned an application by a wind farm developer for planning permission to construct a wind farm in Co.

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HumanNature

MAY 2, 2025

Guest Post by Julia Choolwe Munsaka , 2024-2025 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But while greenhouse gas emissions may be reduced, a delivery fulfilled by a diesel-burning truck may lead to increases in emissions of smog-forming nitrogen oxides and lung-damaging particulate matter. While the latter part of this conclusion is obvious, the former part isn’t as much. on routes between 250 and 450 miles.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Increased and sustained funding for farm practices, and more streambank fencing are among what the Chesapeake Bay Foundation sees as legislative priorities for Pennsylvania in 2024. Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions Pennsylvania is the fourth-largest carbon dioxide emitter in the country, according to the Energy Information Administration.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Working Group 3: Mitigation of Climate Change Evaluates pathways for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable development strategies, and the role of finance, technology, and policy in achieving net-zero emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 19, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the January 20 PA Bulletin it is extending the deadline for public comments on a proposed grant program to reduce industrial sector greenhouse gas emissions (RISE PA) to January 29. Information must be received no later than Monday, January 29, 2024.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In one podcast segment titled “The Real Cause of Climate Change, ” he says he’s been trying to convince friends and family that natural “solar cycles” are behind global warming, not greenhouse gas emissions from humans.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This is according to data from the European Union’s climate change monitoring satellite Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) which was released on Thursday (8th of February 2024). 2023 was already the warmest year ever recorded, based on data since records began, dating back to 1850. above pre-industrial temperatures for the first time.”

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Key problems include: -- Permitting Inconsistencies: The PA Bulletin does not reflect that the Erosion and Sedimentation Control Plan (ESCP) application was revised and resubmitted in March 2024. acres will be disturbed, contradicting the Project Limit of Disturbance (LOD) of 228 acres.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2024

From March 25 to March 27, 2024, the U.S. Presented via telephone during the March 27, 2024, public hearing for Docket ID No. Department of the Treasury is hosting a public hearing on the December 2023 proposed regulations governing implementation of the Section 45V Credit for Production of Clean Hydrogen. REG-117631-23.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

29 Take Five Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation [PaEN] -- TribLive Editorial: When Should PA Deer Season Start?

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2025

. -- Old-Growth Forest Protection : Added eight forests to the National Old-Growth Forest Network, boosting carbon sequestration and improving air and water quality. -- Plugging Abandoned Wells : Plugged 95 abandoned oil and gas wells on state forest lands, reducing greenhouse gas emissions. -- Renewable Energy Expansion : Increased solar capacity (..)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Working Group 3: Mitigation of Climate Change Evaluates pathways for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable development strategies, and the role of finance, technology, and policy in achieving net-zero emissions.

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