Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Switching from fossil fuels like gasoline to increasingly clean electricity sources is vital for hitting climate and air pollution goals. To meet emissions goals and avoid the worst impacts of climate change, this trend will need to accelerate over the coming decades. pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per gallon.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 5, 2023

California is no stranger to the impacts of climate change. From droughts to wildfires to rising sea levels and torrential rains, the state has felt the effects of a changing climate in a variety of ways. Vapor pressure deficit is a measure of how dry or humid the air is. What is vapor pressure deficit?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The transition to electric vehicles (EVs) is necessary to decrease climate-changing emissions. By using recycled instead of newly mined materials, reduction of climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions is approximately 64%. The short answer is yes. But this is a complicated question, so let’s dig in further.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

For example, home deliveries in some areas may cut climate-warming emissions compared to driving in a personal vehicle to purchase items in person. Even when accounting for pollution from electricity generation, electric trucks can significantly reduce air pollution and get us on a better track to addressing climate change.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

MAY 19, 2022

Going forward, WFH will also helps us to adapt to the rising climate risks we now face. New climate risk modelling firms such as First Street Foundation a nd Jupiter are mapping the risks of flooding and fire risk that every land parcel may face over the next decades. spikes during summer months.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 25, 2022

Limiting climate change will require the rapid reduction in these emissions from the vehicles we drive. Electric vehicles (EVs) can eliminate tailpipe emissions altogether and so are an attractive option for reducing both global-warming and smog-forming air pollution. global warming) emissions.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Both are leading scholars in their fields, exceptional classroom educators, and leaders of public interest initiatives that are shaping climate change and environmental law and policy in California, the U.S., and China could drive global climate action. and jurisdictions around the world.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The record-breaking heat this summer has produced higher air conditioning bills, greater energy usage, increased air pollution and more greenhouse gas emissions here in Indiana and across the country. … Read more →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The impacts of climate change are upon us, a consequence of over a century of global warming emissions from human activity. An average global temperature change greater than 1.5 Replacing petroleum with renewable electricity as the primary source of transportation energy will leave us all much better off. But is this affordable?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is currently considering one of the most critical rules for air quality and climate change in many, many years. emissions, and just under 15 percent of climate-warming greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the state’s on-road vehicles.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 22, 2022

On June 13, 2022, Chile published its Climate Change Framework Law (“the Climate Act”). The Climate Act includes a binding goal of net zero emissions by 2050 at the latest, following the recommendations of the IPCC. In 2019, Chile became President of the 25th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But as a future healthcare provider, I want to use my voice outside the exam room to prevent future cases of disease induced by toxic environmental exposures—which we have the power to change right now. Vehicles emit 1.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It’s immediately clear how fully-electric battery electric vehicles (BEVs) can help reduce emissions; eliminating gasoline and tailpipes in favor of increasingly clean electricity helps limit both climate change and air pollution. Plug-in hybrids are a bit more complicated.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The detection and the attribution of climate change are based on fundamentally different frameworks and shouldn’t be conflated. But there is a fundamental problem here to which I’ll return below. But first, an easy example: Global mean surface temperatures. As in the previous example, it’s not even wrong.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

It was the first case in which the Court was confronted with the issue of climate change. The Court then held that greenhouse gases are covered by the Clean Air Act as a type of air pollutant. EPA , the Obama Administration issued a series of regulations dealing with greenhouse gases.

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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 process requires the government to assess past progress, project future emissions, and come up with a strategy to meet its climate goals. b) The range of projected air pollution reductions that result from the measure. (c)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 22, 2024

It’s also worth noting that while the IRA will make a massive difference in our fight against climate change, it alone won’t be enough to help us meet the US’s Paris Climate Agreement commitment of reducing its economy-wide emissions by 50% to 52% by 2030. It is made up of $4.75 Will you join me?

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Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

On March 9, 2023, the Japanese Supreme Court refused to hear the first climate change litigation brought before it without specifying substantive reasons. Those rights are established through case law and frequently invoked in environmental pollution cases. Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2024

To address these dual needs, UC Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy and the Environment (CLEE) and the UCLA Law Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment are today releasing the new report Fueling & Financing: Addressing the Urgent Challenges Facing Electric Heavy-Duty Vehicle Deployment.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

EPA : when it comes to prodding progress from coal- and gas-fired power plants, the nation’s second-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, the agency is constrained, but it’s not out. That’s particularly critical, approaching irreplaceable, when it comes to driving change in laggard states.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 19, 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is currently developing a regulation to reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from trucks, known as the Phase 3 GHG standards, which would in theory result in increased adoption of electric trucks.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 6, 2024

Statement by Emilia Belliveau, Energy Transition Program Manager Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – At today’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development (ENVI), Members of Parliament grilled the fossil fuel industry about their climate pollution.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Not only does burning coal contribute massively to rising greenhouse gas emissions, it also endangers people’s health. Air pollutants from coal plants are linked to chronic heart and respiratory disease, and a host of acute ailments. Years later, it has still made no progress – and Canadian ports continue to ship coal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 4, 2023

Trucks and buses on California’s roads and highways are responsible for the majority of lung-damaging fine particulate and ozone-forming nitrogen oxide emissions, and a sizable amount of climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions as well.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2023

Although these programs differ in their details, they all attempt to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions cost-effectively by creating a market for permissions to emit—called “allowances”—subject to an overall cap on the amount of aggregate emissions allowed.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 9, 2023

In this blog post, we will explore why targeting methane emissions presents a more advantageous strategy for the United States in its quest to mitigate climate change. Co Benefits for Human Health : Methane is a key precursor of tropospheric ozone (ground level), a harmful air pollutant.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

By: Deborah Klenotic, Deputy Communications Director Climate change is a major challenge facing Pennsylvania, and the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is leading many efforts to fight back and protect communities. Find more materials at DEP’s Climate Change webpage.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 4, 2023

The sector—including personal transportation like passenger cars, as well as air, marine, and surface goods and people movement—is the largest source of greenhouse gasses in the U.S.: But, as our panelist Beth Osborne has argued , greenhouse-gas reductions will also depend on reducing the amount of driving we do in general.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 28, 2024

Union of India (2024) is groundbreaking as it both recognizes environmental rights as absolute and fundamental, and offers a constitutional protection from the adverse effects of climate change under Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution of India ( Constitution ).

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Acoel

AUGUST 17, 2021

I now revisit the topic in light of the data in the recently released report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that explains the profound significance of agricultural methane emissions (primarily ruminant gaseous emissions a/k/a cow farts) on global warming.

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MGKF Law

AUGUST 2, 2023

The panel’s reasoning focused on a close statutory reading of §7410 of the CAA, which prevents EPA from approving any SIP revision that would “interfere with any applicable requirement for attainment and reasonable further progress” in reaching the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (“NAAQS”).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2022

The burning of transportation fuels, such as gasoline and diesel, is a substantial source of air pollution. ChargEVC-PA noted the Commission has already taken some steps to promote EV adoption.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Medium- and heavy-duty vehicles (MHDVs), like the big rigs on our highways and the vans that deliver our packages, make up just over 1 in 10 of the vehicles on our roads, but are responsible for over half of ozone-forming nitrogen oxide pollution and lung-damaging fine particulate pollution from on-road vehicles.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

These communities may be experiencing challenges in areas such as climate change, energy, health, housing, legacy pollution, transportation, water and wastewater, and workforce development, and in many cases have endured decades of underinvestment.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

We’re already experiencing the impact of climate change across the world; now an update from the IPCC suggests weather extremes could become the norm in the near future. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As noted at the end of last year, 2021 was significant for climate litigation, with several decisions worldwide providing a fresh look at stakeholder responsibility for climate change. A landmark decision recognizing the impacts of climate change on human rights. In September this year, the U.N.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

More is needed to produce the same amount of energy compared with higher calorific coal, requiring more land for mining, and creating more air pollution per unit of energy produced. Air pollution and emissions from coal are problems across Indonesia. Photo credit: Ulet Ifansasti / Greenpeace.

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