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California Climate Policy: A Preliminary Report Card

Legal Planet

That adds up to something in the ballpark of fifty million tons of CO2 that California kept out of the atmosphere during that decade beyond what happened in the power sector nationally. Over the course of the decade, then, about a quarter of California’s reduction was over and beyond the national trend.

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‘The Opportunity Is Now’: Water Advocates View Upcoming UN Climate Conference as Moment of Relevance

Circle of Blue

That report, in the technical language of probabilities and scenarios, underscored the urgency of the moment and the need not only to reduce the release of heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere and limit global warming to 1.5 Both options can increase water use , and biofuel production adds the potential for nutrient pollution of waterways.

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Something Stinks: California Must End Manure Biomethane Accounting Gimmicks in its Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Union of Concerned Scientists

When I started working on biofuel policy back in 2008, there was a lot of criticism of corn ethanol because in some cases it had lifecycle emissions higher than gasoline. The CI of an electric vehicle charged with solar power is zero, and most of the biofuels fall somewhere in the middle [i]. Unfortunately, this is far from the truth.

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What’s Up With Water – September 20, 2021

Circle of Blue

It stressed the need to reduce the release of heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, and to limit global warming to 1.5 Both options can increase water use, and biofuel production adds the potential for nutrients to pollute waterways. degrees Celsius.

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An A to Z of Fossil Fuel Industry Deception

Union of Concerned Scientists

H is for Hydrogen ExxonMobil, which spent an estimated $68 million to advertise its $300-million investment in algae biofuels , has pulled the plug on that research and now wants us to put our faith in hydrogen and carbon capture and storage as climate solutions.

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Glossary of Greenhouse Gas Terms

Greenbuilding Law

Atmosphere The gaseous envelope surrounding the Earth. The dry atmosphere consists almost entirely of nitrogen (78.1% The dry atmosphere consists almost entirely of nitrogen (78.1% In addition, the atmosphere contains water vapor, whose amount is highly variable but typically 1% volume mixing ratio.

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New Inflation Reduction Act Tracker Launched by the Sabin Center and EDF

Law Columbia

Department of Agriculture (USDA), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of the Interior (DOI), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—to implement the IRA. This section appropriates $27 billion to EPA for the GGRF, including $7 billion for low-income and disadvantaged communities.