Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Earlier this month the International Energy Agency (IEA) released data showing that global carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions hit an all-time high in 2021, rebounding sharply from the 2020 decline caused by COVID-19 related economic slump. It’s clear we cannot continue to live this way, it will destroy our civilization.”.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2024

The energy used by commercial buildings is responsible for 16% of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions and costs more than $190 billion per year. ENERGY STAR certified buildings use an average of 35% less energy and are responsible for 35% less carbon dioxide emissions than typical buildings.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Failing to measure and report emissions related to logging roads and seismic lines. Adopting an arbitrary and generous “reference level” baseline for the forest sector that gives Canada a free “accounting contribution” towards its 2030 emission reduction goals.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2024

These measures led to a reduction of 78,650 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, which is equal to the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from 15,878 gas-powered passenger vehicles driven for one year or 182,909,597 miles. From the EPA GHG Equivalence Calculator as of Dec.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Ontario needs to do our part in reducing global emissions and phasing out fossil gas is a smart way to do it. Nearly a third of our current carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions come from burning fossil gas for electricity, home heating and other uses! While the full report is worth a look, we’ve included a few highlights below.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 24, 2021

There are an increasing number of companies and countries that are pledging to reach Net Zero carbon emissions–or carbon neutrality–by 2050. To assess how serious net zero pledges are from corporations, there are three fundamental questions one should ask: Are they including all greenhouse gas emissions?

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In July 2022, the High Court of England and Wales in R (Friends of the Earth Ltd and Others) v Secretary of State for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy found that the UK Government’s plans to cut carbon emissions were inadequate and breached national law. Nordrhein-Westfalen (NRW) ). In Smith v.

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Ivy Protocol

MAY 18, 2023

The year 2023 stands as a testament to this synergy, with a plethora of companies innovating in the carbon removal terrain with a shared goal of fighting climate change. Meeting the recent pathways laid out by the IPCC will require total cumulative net carbon dioxide removals of 20–660 GtCO2 by 2100. Mulligan, J., Ellison, G.,

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

As the world grapples with the consequences of climate change, many scientists have begun to face up to the realities of their carbon emissions. At around 15 tonnes per astronomer, it ran to almost four times their annual emissions from flights (figure 1). © 2020 Springer Nature Limited. kg of CO 2 per kilowatt hour.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 16, 2017

Now, not only coal is spewing insane amounts of carbon dioxide – one kilogram per kilo-watt/hour on average – it is also now more expensive than wind, solar, and soon battery storage. Recently India has unveiled working on having only electric cars on the roads by 2030. Cleantechnica has a full article on that.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

This is a game-changing move as peaker plants and even baseload ones will become more and more irrelevant, decreasing carbon emissions. India plans to stop selling ICE cars by 2030. The intense wildfires that have been seen in Southern Europe and the Western part of North America are emitting a lot of carbon dioxide.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

As I have spent some sleepless nights since the latest IPCC report on how Mankind has to halve its carbon emissions by 2030. As we shall see, this is already currently happening, it is the moral thing to do, the best economic choice, and the fastest and easiest way to halve our emissions. A moral imperative.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Regarding carbon removal, in May 2024, DOE announced 24 semifinalists would receive $1.2 million to scale up their carbon dioxide removal technologies. This Carbon Dioxide Removal Purchase Pilot Prize allows companies to compete for the opportunity to deliver carbon dioxide removal credits directly to the Department of Energy. 

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Businesses making a net zero claim like, “we will be net zero by 2030” risk a charge that they are misleading consumers. In 2009 the King of Bhutan proclaimed his Himalayan country was ‘carbon negative’ because all of its power was hydroelectric or solar buttressed with large forested areas.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Sustainable Pittsburgh and CEOs for Sustainability will host two educational events on March 10 and 15 on embodied carbon, the carbon dioxide emissions associated with materials and construction processes through the whole lifecycle of a building or infrastructure.

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Vermont Law

JULY 31, 2023

The social cost of carbon is an economic tool used to determine how much the cost is, in dollars, of emitting another ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. As carbon dioxide builds up in the atmosphere, it also traps heat surrounding the planet. The damage this heat creates is SCC. However, the U.S.

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Cresforum

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

It has the potential to greatly reduce emissions in hard-to-decarbonize industrial applications such as steelmaking, cement manufacturing, trucking and aviation, as well as power generation and energy storage. hydrogen market is also estimated to result in an additional 27,000 jobs by 2030. Growth in the U.S. Source: U.S.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Businesses making a net zero pledge like, “we will be net zero by 2030” risk a charge that they are greenwashing and misleading consumers. And some months ago, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia pledged to reach ‘net zero carbon emissions within its borders’ by 2060, but that calculation will not include oil exports (.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

New UCS study shows how we can accelerate US clean energy ambition An interdisciplinary team of UCS experts set out to explore how the US can meet its goals to cut heat-trapping emissions 50%-52% below 2005 levels by 2030 and achieve net zero emissions no later than 2050. Coal is phased out of the power sector by 2030.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Acknowledging that the United States is a leading contributor to carbon emissions, the Biden administration has committed to cutting US emissions 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2022

According to the latest report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, action between now and 2030 is most critical: Immediate, deep cuts in heat-trapping emissions are necessary across all sectors if we are to limit global warming to 1.5 That would be shortsighted and dangerous. degrees Celsius. Looming Liability.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Opponents of EPA Carbon Standards for New Coal-Fired Power Plants Filed Initial Briefs. Petitioners challenging EPA’s new source performance standards for carbon emissions from power plants filed their opening briefs in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. The plaintiff labeled this scheme the “Climate Alarmism Enterprise.”

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Acoel

AUGUST 2, 2022

Waterlogged conditions enable peatlands to trap enormous amounts of organic matter underwater in a low-oxygen environment, inhibiting the breakdown and release of carbon dioxide. The lofty plan strives to end global forest loss by 2030 and restore additional acreage of degraded landscapes and forestlands.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 29, 2020

Today the energy sector accounts for 30% of the carbon dioxide emissions in. which set a 30% renewable energy goal by 2030 and a 100% carbon-free goal by 2050 for Virginia. to reduce statewide electric carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2030. [1]. DEQ’s carbon regulations.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

White House: President Biden issued an executive order setting a course for the federal government to become carbon neutral by 2050. The executive order requires the federal government to only purchase energy from renewable sources by 2030 and to exclusively buy zero-emissions vehicles by 2035. But Is It Burning Less Carbon? –

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Cresforum

APRIL 22, 2021

Today, President Biden announced that the United States would pledge to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 50 percent by 2030, compared to a 2005 base year. So to meet his goal, America would need to reduce our CO2 emissions by 3.0 CO2 emissions are tracking a rebound, with estimated levels of 4.8

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Cresforum

APRIL 22, 2021

Today, President Biden announced that the United States would pledge to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 50 percent by 2030, compared to a 2005 base year. The GHGs implicated in climate change are primarily carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and fluorinated gases, like hydroflourocarbons.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2022

The administration’s potential victory – a hollow quest to lower carbon emissions in Pennsylvania – will cost residents $2 billion in the next five years. It won’t exist either, since nothing can prevent carbon dioxide and other air pollutants emitted from power plants in Ohio or West Virginia from drifting across state lines.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 11, 2022

The president’s executive order aims to use the US government’s procurement power to achieve “carbon pollution-free electricity” by 2030 and net zero emissions by 2050. By Jennifer Roy and Julie Miles.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

still does not limit carbon emissions from existing power plants, which generate 25 percent of our greenhouse gases. The EPA is proposing a new standard for fossil fuel-fired power plants to avoid 617 million metric tons of carbon dioxide through 2042. In the year 2023, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

19 EarthTalks Webinar: The Economic Impact Of Carbon Emission Trading Scheme On Building Retrofits [PaEN] -- PA Solar Center, Partners Host Feb. 27 Webinar Creating An Assessment Method For PA Old-Growth Forests. Million In Tax Credits To Subsidize Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County; Total Expected To Be $1.17

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Several factors¾including the effects of the economic recession, shifts in energy markets from coal to natural gas and renewable energy sources, and carbon pollution mitigation and clean energy programs like renewable portfolio standards¾have been identified as principal drivers of these reductions. [2]. emissions from the power sector. [3].

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2022

Steel is intensifying efforts to become an industry leader in lower-carbon production methods,” Masciantonio said. “We We have been progressing on our 2030 goal to reduce our global greenhouse gas emissions intensity by 20%, and in April 2021, we announced an ambitious goal to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.”

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants. Second, ACCR alleges that Santos’ claims that it has a clear and credible plan to achieve net zero emissions by 2040 are misleading. West Virginia v.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

19 EarthTalks Webinar: The Economic Impact Of Carbon Emission Trading Scheme On Building Retrofits [PaEN] -- Utility Dive: Grid-Enhancing Technologies Could Facilitate 6.6 Million In Tax Credits To Subsidize Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County; Total Expected To Be $1.17

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

32] Part of the reason the planet is greening stems from greater carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and greater planetary warming. [33] 33] Scientists find that plants grow faster as a result of higher carbon dioxide concentrations. 63] This difference in emissions comes down to diet and lifespan. Elvidge et al.,

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Scavello Introduces Bill Authorizing Community Solar Projects; $2 Billion Worth Of Projects Waiting For It To Pass -- Business, Environment, Energy Groups Praise Introduction Of Bipartisan Bills Increasing Solar Energy Mandate From 0.5% Check Out C-SAW -- Trout Unlimited, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers New R.I.S.E

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