New Scientist

JULY 22, 2025

Read more The jet stream may be starting to shift in response to climate change Aerosol pollution, which mainly comes from burning fossil fuels, typically has an opposite effect to greenhouse gases. By some estimates, aerosol pollution has masked as much as half of the warming effect of greenhouse gases to date.

Air Pollution

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.

Natural Gas

A Greener Life

DECEMBER 19, 2024

By Jiang Mengnan Chinas oil demand is projected to peak at approximately 770 million tonnes in 2025, according to a forecast by the China National Petroleum Corporations Economic and Technological Research Institute (ETRI), reports Caixin. Image generated by AI.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 9, 2025

PennTAP and DEP will begin accepting RISE PA grant applications during the first quarter of 2025. DEPs 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.

Natural Gas

Real Climate

JULY 29, 2025

The EPA, along with the “Climate Working Group” of usual suspects (plus Judith Curry and Ross McKitrick) at DOE, have just put out a document for public comment their attempt to rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding for greenhouse gas emissions.

2009

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 25, 2025

They are thoughtful and engaged farmers who are invested in the collective well-being of the sustainable agriculture community. -- Leadership Award: Lisa Freeman, Freeman Family Farm & Greenhouse : Lisa Freeman is a farmer and urban agriculture advocate in Pittsburgh. Posted: January 25, 2025] PA Environment Digest

2025

Legal Planet

JULY 24, 2025

It’s been a long time coming but nations of the world officially have a legal obligation to limit their emissions of greenhouse gases or else pay reparations for the harms of climate change. July 23, 2025 is a historic day for international law, for climate change, and for humanity,” UCLA Law Professor Anna Spain Bradley told me.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

As of February 2025, there are two pending climate cases in Japan, namely, Youth Climate Case Japan for Tomorrow and Citizens Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v. In 2022, the amount of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions nationwide was over one billion tons , making Japan the 5 th largest GHG emitter in the world.

2025

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.

Greenhouse

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In short, developed countries committed to providing $100 billion to vulnerable countries every year between 2020 and 2025. COP29 is the deadline for negotiations that would set a new target for 2025. The next round is due in February 2025. We rank last in the G7 in terms of progress on greenhouse gas emissions reductions.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 16, 2025

AFIG aims to lower greenhouse gas emissions and improve air quality for many Pennsylvania communities with the use of electric school buses, Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) trucks, electric charging stations, and other clean transportation alternatives.” The awards will save an estimated 1,262,825 gallons of gasoline per year.

Nitrogen Oxides

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Where, at the beginning, there was really only one input parameter (the CO 2 concentration) that needed to be coordinated, the inputs have now broadened to include myriad forcings related to other greenhouse gases, air pollution, land surface change, ozone, the sun, volcanoes, irrigation, meltwater etc.

2003

A Greener Life

JULY 27, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen A ruling by the highest global court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), states that individual countries must protect their people and environment from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and act with due diligence to fulfil this obligation. degrees C above pre-industrial levels. degree C is legally the Planetary limit.

Paris Agreement

Scientific American

JULY 4, 2025

Skip to main content Scientific American Opinion July 4, 2025 5 min read A Thought Experiment Reveals the Fingerprints of Climate Change Came Early Climate change left its signature on the atmosphere early in the industrial revolution, reveals a thought experiment investigation By Ben Santer , Susan Solomon , David W. It is all too real.

Atmosphere

Law Columbia

JUNE 19, 2025

On May 28, 2025, the Higher Regional Court of Hamm issued its ruling in what has become Germany’s most high-profile climate lawsuit — Lliuya v. A judicial site visit to Huaraz took place in 2022, and evidentiary hearings were held in 2025. And a courtroom in a mid-sized German city.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

This shift not only helps to lower greenhouse gas emissions but also improves air quality, making Steelton a healthier place to live. By harnessing the power of the sun, we can significantly reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, which have long been a staple of our energy production.

Electricity

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.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 27, 2025

Senate Bill 186 (Yaw-R-Lycoming) abrogates Pennsylvania's carbon pollution reduction program covering power plants consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Democrats on the Committee opposed the bills. Resource Links: -- Gov.

Greenhouse

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 17, 2025

PennTAP and DEP will begin accepting RISE PA grant applications during the first quarter of 2025. DEPs 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.

Renewable Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 2, 2025

Driving away from state climate targets Transportation has been the biggest sector contributing to climate change in Massachusetts practically every year since the earliest emissions inventory for 1990 and most recently has contributed 38% of state greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2021.

2018

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 (..)

Conservation

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

Skip to main content Scientific American June 17, 2025 2 min read Why Climate Goals Aren’t a Lost Cause—Even If We Overshoot Them Earth will likely warm by more than 1.5 °C IS EXCEEDED By how much and for how long depends on the trajectory of net-negative CO₂ emissions, as well as emissions from other greenhouse gases.

Paris Agreement

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

Email: PaEnviroDigest@gmail.com [Posted: June 13, 2025] PA Environment Digest Data Center Infrastructure; Amazon Told PUC It Has Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Goal By 2040 [PaEN] DEP Invites Comments On Air Quality Permit For 72 - 2.5 PA Environment Daily Blog : Update on PA environmental issues. Click Here for a Calendar of Upcoming Events.

Fossil Fuels

New Scientist

JULY 4, 2025

Read more Our plans to tackle climate change with carbon storage don't add up A forest-based carbon-offset project involves protecting or replanting forests to generate carbon credits, which can then be sold to companies or individuals to offset their greenhouse gas emissions.

Fossil Fuels

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

The fashion industry is also responsible for up to 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions—more than the aviation and shipping industries combined. The problem becomes even worse when you consider that most clothes make a quick trip to the landfill, where they’ll emit greenhouse gases such as methane.

Upcycling

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%

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

On January 10, 2025, the Irish High Court decided in Coolglass Windfarm Limited v. Furthermore, in some cases, refusing to allow a project to go ahead in Ireland may simply result in the project being relocated to another country with lower environmental standards, thereby doing nothing to reduce overall global greenhouse gas emissions.

Renewable Energy

Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 6, 2024

International agreements to reduce greenhouse gases aren’t moving at the pace the science tells us we need. And climate misinformation and disinformation continue to be a … Continue reading Webinar: Together, We Can: How to move climate solutions forward in 2025 Federal action on climate in the U.S. is likely to stall.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 13, 2025

These companies are using innovative approaches that include treating PFAS in biosolids, reducing the amount of greenhouse gas emissions from building materials, and developing chemical alternatives that are safer for our environment. Posted: January 13, 2025] PA Environment Digest A $100,000 grant was awarded to Phospholutions, Inc.

Technology

HumanNature

MAY 2, 2025

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

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 6, 2025

Cold Weather, LNG Demand Push Prices Higher] [ PDF of Article ] -- WTAJ: 200,000+ PA Residents Could See 18% Increase In National Fuel Gas Natural Gas Bills In 2025 -- WFMJ: National Fuel Gas Customers Could See 17% Increase In Gas Costs Starting Aug. Get Your Passport To 2025 PA Farm Show, Enhance Your Conservation Skills Starting Jan.

Conservation

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

It is time the United States, as historically the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, investigates ways it can support those displaced by environmental destruction caused by climate change. With legal protections remaining inadequate, the need for a robust legal framework to support climate refugees has never been more pressing.

Climate Change

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.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2025

Credit: Christine Olsson/TT On February 19, 2025, the Swedish Supreme Court dismissed the Aurora case ( Anton Foley and others v Sweden ), the first systemic climate change case brought in Sweden. The applicants called for annual reductions of 6.4-9.4 million tons of CO 2 -equivalent between 2019 and 2030, including 2.2-3.1

Climate Change

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

In their joint report, Shedding Light on Climate Risk in 2025: Upcoming Debates About the SEC’s Climate Disclosure Rule , the Sabin Center and CCSI explore novel questions of implementation and enforcement that the SEC will likely face in coming months, as it establishes climate disclosure policies under anticipated new leadership.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

19 [PaEN] -- PA Sea Grant Names PA 2025 Knauss Marine Policy Fellows: Nathaniel Edelheit-Rice, Sahara Rios-Bonilla, Chelsea Russ [PaEN] -- Gov. Partnership For The Delaware Estuary Science & Environmental Summit Feb. 12 [PaEN] -- Three Rivers Waterkeeper Calls For Stronger Environmental Oversight Of U.S.

Conservation

Law Columbia

APRIL 10, 2025

This follows a decade of record-breaking temperatures, with the World Meteorological Organization concluding that the past ten years 2025-2024 are the ten warmest years on record. Reversing this trend requires urgent action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but that wont be sufficient by itself.

Carbon Dioxide