Law Columbia

JANUARY 31, 2025

Most climate action today rightly focuses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. CDR refers to deliberate human activities that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and durably store it in geologic, terrestrial, or ocean reservoirs or in long-lived products. In Washington State, certain state laws regulate ocean resources.

Ocean

Law Columbia

MARCH 18, 2025

Achieving global climate goals will require rapid and dramatic greenhouse gas emissions reductions, along with the removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. The burning of fossil fuels and other human activities are continuing to cause rapid temperature rise.

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

JULY 15, 2025

Mitigation targets are to be as ambitious as possible, informed by a nation’s current and cumulative historical greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, its capacity to contribute to mitigation measures, and other national circumstances (e.g. Conclusion In the face of recent backtracking on climate commitments by governments (e.g.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2025

Summer Forecast According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the summer of 2025 is forecast to be hotter and wetter than normal, with an above-average Atlantic hurricane season already underway.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2025

are formed indirectly in the atmosphere from other toxic pollutants also emitted from tailpipes. States and local governments are required to take steps to attain the standards 5. Fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards have together saved 2 trillion gallons of gasoline since 1975 and reduced global warming gases by 14 billion tons.

Ozone

Vermont Law

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Reforming Oceanic Governance: A Department of Oceans by Joseph Lepak Current federal ocean governance is spread across a myriad of federal agencies in different departments and the time has come to bring them all together. Governing this vast area, four agency mandates prioritize oceans, while other mandates involve oceans.

Ocean

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

On the one hand, global greenhouse gas emissions have reached an all-time high, and the temperature for 2023 is the highest ever recorded. Photo: Cara Horowitz Some have described the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku as “challenging,” “ineffective,” and “disappointing.” from the Paris Agreement again.

Paris Agreement

Physics World

JUNE 3, 2025

The team, led by atmospheric scientist Ning Zeng of the University of Maryland in the US, found that the wood had only lost 5% of its carbon compared with a freshly cut Eastern red cedar log. When plants decompose or are burnt, they release the carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) they had absorbed from the atmosphere.

Waste

Circle of Blue

JULY 9, 2025

In China we found the Central Government building new clean energy plants to quadruple wind and solar generation. In India, a plan to build a fleet of 15 immense 4,000-megawatt coal-fired plants collapsed while utilities were busy installing wind and solar installations at a frantic pace.

Clean Energy

Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 11, 2025

New research shows that even with modest reductions in military funding, the United States would keep a whole lot of carbon out of the atmosphere. Read the full story at Grist.

Atmosphere

A Greener Life

JULY 13, 2025

Present-day atmospheric conditions resembling this event are now wetter and warmer, favouring the kind of rapid river surges that overwhelmed Camp Mystic and nearby towns. Above all, we must reduce greenhouse gas emissions to limit future risks.” We need to rethink early warning systems, land-use planning, and emergency preparedness.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

APRIL 30, 2025

has created myriad issues for environmental journalists, including the silencing of sources people inside and outside of government who typically help the flow of trustworthy information reach audiences. When the federal government retreats, cities, counties and states pick up the slack. Same thing, different words.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

APRIL 15, 2025

The news that started leaking last Friday is that the Trump administration wants to break up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and essentially end NOAAs climate work by abolishing its primary research office and forcing the agency to instead help boost U.S. Trump wants to Make Weather a Mystery Again.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 3, 2025

I could have gone on as there are a myriad of other climate change impacts unfolding across the country while fossil fuel driven greenhouse gas emissions continue to pervade our atmosphere. government and science-based groups such as the Electric Power Research Institute ( EPRI ) and UCS.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

This is after Zeldin told senators in written answers for his confirmation that he planned to learn from EPA career staff about the current state of the science on greenhouse gas emissions and follow all legal requirements. Instead, Zeldin has scientists in a state of bewilderment. billion backlog for deferred maintenance.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

Susquehanna County [PaEN] -- Scranton Times: PA American To Provide Clean Drinking Water In Dimock To Replace Fracking-Contaminated Private Wells [ PDF of Article ] -- WVIA: PA American Water: Dimock Twp. Shapiro Touts Capping Of 300th Conventional Oil & Gas Well At North Franklin Twp.,

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 14, 2025

The Trump 2026 proposal constitutes an abdication of environmental governance and mocks the thoughtful, intentional, hard-fought process of setting up a system upholding public health priorities. Prioritizing limited public resources into the most overburdened communities is efficient governance. Promises made were broken.

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2025

He’s right: The nonpartisan Senate parliamentarian and an independent government watchdog literally said it couldn’t be done, because Congress can’t use the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to revoke EPA waivers. “They said it couldn’t be done,” Trump said at the White House signing (before giving the podium to an oil executive).

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 11, 2025

This scientific finding, which followed a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that heat-trapping emissions are pollutants covered under the Clean Air Act, firmly established EPA’s authority and responsibility to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, power plants, oil and gas operations, and other sources of these pollutants.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

AUGUST 5, 2025

Wang, who studies Chinese environmental governance, told me in an interview. “It’s If EPA succeeds in reversing the all-important Endangerment Finding, it would “eviscerate the biggest regulatory tool the federal government has” to keep climate change in check, my colleague Ann Carlson told Grist.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2025

My colleagues and I have been tracking federal government actions, decisions, or policies that undermine science or the scientific process. For folks who came here to find out how they can help defend science and scientific integrity in the federal government, I’ve included resources at the bottom of this page.

Politics

New Scientist

JULY 7, 2025

The government scientists achieved this by giving molecules from substances of interest more time to randomly bump into other molecules and produce a detectable chemical reaction. We made the atmospheric flow tube, which provided 2 or 3 seconds of reaction time and gave three orders of magnitude increase in sensitivity.”

Carbon Dioxide

New Scientist

JANUARY 3, 2025

Countries have pledged to phase out HFC-23, a powerful greenhouse gas, but atmospheric data shows that emissions are five times higher than governments are reporting

Greenhouse

Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

The “for one year” part is crucial: stratospheric aerosols stay in the atmosphere roughly a year, so one gram offsets the heating effect of one ton only for the first year after the ton is emitted. After that, the sulfur is gone but the CO 2 is still there and heating.) This may be on the cusp of changing, but it hasn’t yet.).

Cooling

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

In the United Kingdom, government leaders are hoping to solve two problems with one effort. The UK government has allocated 4 million pounds for a test run of the concept. government scientists just declared as the hottest on record. Transcript. I’m Eileen Wray-McCann. The rapid melting event occurred in a month that the U.S.

2021

Enviromental Defense

JULY 31, 2024

Hydrogen is being presented as a key climate change solution because when it is burned, it doesn’t create any greenhouse gas emissions. But that hides hydrogen’s dirty secret – when it leaks into the atmosphere it actually does contribute to global heating. And it leaks a lot. billion by 2028 and $17.7 billion by 2035.

Government

Real Climate

APRIL 6, 2023

Nevertheless, the summary for policymakers states the need for “rapid and deep and, in most cases, immediate greenhouse gas emissions reductions in all sectors this decade” if we want global warming to keep below 1.5°C Humans work hard to add greenhouse gases such as CO 2 into the atmosphere.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2024

A highly potent greenhouse gas, methane makes a significant contribution to climate change, but has historically received relatively little attention in climate mitigation discussions. Those issues are explored in a new report by researchers at the Sabin Center, Removing Methane via Atmospheric Oxidation Enhancement: The Legal Landscape.

Atmosphere

Enviromental Defense

MAY 9, 2022

Toronto | Traditional territories of the Huron-Wendat, the Anishnaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Chippewas and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation – The Ontario government solicited expert testimony from a known climate change denier to defend its poor record on climate action, in a court challenge brought from seven Ontario youth.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

Most prominently, because the approach is changing from rewarding specific technologies to rewarding anything that meets the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions threshold of “clean”—hence the “tech-neutral” label—exactly how the government goes about determining whether or not something is actually eligible will be enormously important.

Electricity

Scientific American

AUGUST 20, 2024

government are investing billions of dollars in carbon capture technology to suck greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. Tech firms, oil companies and the U.S. Can it save the warming world?

Climate Change

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

It reminded me of the unsurprising, but still disappointing finger pointing between high carbon emitting-countries while negotiating climate responsibilities and greenhouse gas emission caps at COP27. The state contended that their actions are not responsible for global climate change.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2023

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. Some Puzzles Remain.

2009

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 9, 2024

If governments bypass or undermine science and public comments in policy making, our health could be in jeopardy from increased pollution, cases of foodborne illnesses, politically-driven medicine approvals or disapprovals, and more. This is a major federal law that governs if a chemical will be regulated, limited, or even banned.

Toxic Substances Control Act

Frontiers

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Deforestation fires in Brazil and Indonesia accounted for 3% and 7%, respectively, of the planet’s total greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in 2019 and 2020, finds a new study in Frontiers in Climate. When peatlands burn, the stored CO2 gets released into the atmosphere, together other GHGs such as carbon monoxide (CO) and methane (CH4).

Greenhouse

Legal Planet

AUGUST 17, 2021

Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, responsible for fully 25 percent of warming. It is also known as natural gas – a product with economic value, estimated to be $30 billion — that we are squandering in massive quantities into the atmosphere. Some Methane Facts. Download as PDF.

Atmosphere

Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

its district, appellate , and supreme courts decided in favor of Urgenda, an upstart environmental organization, ordering the government to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Everyone produces greenhouse gases.

Carbon Dioxide