Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2025

But when there are really heavy rain events, like atmospheric rivers , these systems often overflow untreated wastewater (raw sewage) mixed with stormwater into surrounding waterways, streets, sidewalks, businesses and even homes.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2024

In addition to investigating new ways to control methane emissions, scientists are also researching the possibility of removing methane already in the atmosphere. Those issues are explored in a new report by researchers at the Sabin Center, Removing Methane via Atmospheric Oxidation Enhancement: The Legal Landscape.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 9, 2024

Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) were developed to replace a type of chemical that impacted the ozone layer in our upper atmosphere, but these replacements are potent greenhouse gases. When facilities emit less pollution, their regulations require less specific record-keeping and monitoring.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering amendments to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation, but indicated they have no plans to address the problems caused by counter-productive subsidies for manure biomethane. California’s transportation fuel policy is knee deep in cow poop, and it’s not a good look.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 14, 2022

A thirsty atmosphere evaporates or sublimates its share. With increasing temperatures, “we’re seeing places that do have drought, the intensification is more rapid,” says Roger Pulwarty, a senior scientist in the physical sciences laboratory at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 3) Cutbacks Are Inevitable.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 3, 2024

Forever is only a bit of an overstatement: NASA says CO2 stays in the atmosphere three hundred to a thousand years. If we wait to get the stronger policy, we’re accumulating emissions that will stay in the atmosphere for centuries — in other words, doing permanent damage to the climate.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

22 degrees by 2050 because of both the reduced emissions and the dissipation of methane in the atmosphere, potentially allowing the world a bit more time to reduce and sequester other greenhouse gases. A worldwide methane emission reduction of 30 percent by 2030 could reduce global warming by.22

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In the long run, warming will be determined by how much carbon we pump into the atmosphere before we stop. If we can shave down the curve even a little, we reduce the ultimate tonnage of carbon lingering in the atmosphere. The answer is unequivocally “yes.”. In terms of emissions cuts, the basic rule is simple: Every ton counts.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 30, 2023

The threat of flooding and erosion is increasing throughout the United States as a warming atmosphere makes precipitation events more extreme and contributes to sea level rise. Include more specific references to coastal regulations (e.g. In fact, the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Although methane doesn’t linger very long in the atmosphere, increasing methane levels are particularly bad news because it packs a big punch. But its short lifetime in the atmosphere is also a reason for hope. It is 80 times stronger than carbon dioxide (CO2) at trapping heat on short timescales. The planet has already warmed 1.1

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 16, 2024

It is, after all, a necessary component of point-source carbon capture and storage (“CCS”) systems that seek to prevent carbon dioxide produced by power plants and other industrial facilities entering the atmosphere (i.e., Liability for Sequestration Another issue that has become central to the regulation of carbon sequestration is liability.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

These regulations (both state and federal) that UCS has advocated for have saved drivers money and reduced emissions. Each gallon of gasoline used results in 19 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere, and the extraction of oil, refining, and distribution of gasoline results in the equivalent of an additional 4.5

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Steep reductions in emissions of methane—which traps 81 times as much heat as carbon dioxide in the first 20 years in the atmosphere—are among the most important steps for slowing climate change in the short term. By Phil McKenna The U.S. Combined, the new rules would reduce methane emissions from the U.S.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Whomever shares the immediate blame, it was systemic under-regulation that set the scene for the spill. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration responds to more than 150 oil and chemical spills in US waters each year. Read the full story from Mother Jones.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Resource managers have varying control over the intricate blend of factors that affect nutrient delivery to the river such as physical factors (geology, climate, and hydrology), source inputs (atmospheric and land use) and legacy storage of nutrients (dams and groundwater) that remain a challenge toward meeting water quality goals.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Indiana regulates the underground storage of carbon dioxide. Navigator responds that it has complied with state regulations, which require the company to notify landowners in the pipeline’s path and consider citizen safety when routing the project. The company is seeking powers of eminent domain from state regulators.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Instruments installed on the International Space Station are refining weather forecasts by measuring water vapor in the atmosphere and water held in clouds. California regulators police water use with an open-source program from OpenET. California regulators police water use with an open-source program from OpenET.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 19, 2022

No PFAS chemical is currently regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act. But the agency is developing binding regulations for two of the chemicals, PFOA and PFOS. In addition, a thirsty atmosphere also takes its share through evaporation. Draft versions of the rules are expected this fall. 2) Drought Has a Long Reach.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2022

On Friday there were two seismic shocks in the world of gas pipeline regulation. A whole point of a natural gas pipeline is to deliver the gas to users who will burn it, thereby releasing CO2 into the atmosphere. FERC has spent years resisting pressure to change the way it licenses new gas pipelines.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 9, 2023

Today, the New York Times reported that a recent assessment shows that the world is on track to reach pre-1980 levels of upper atmosphere ozone by roughly 2040. Especially when it’s good news about effective international cooperation on environmental protection issues. .

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Circle of Blue

JULY 26, 2022

We as the consumer have the burden of paying for a lack of regulation, mandates, and policies on water contamination.”. Extreme rain events are becoming heavier and more frequent across the Midwest as Earth’s atmosphere warms. Wisconsin ’s attorney general sues 18 chemical manufacturers over PFAS contamination. In the News.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Even if the resolution is adopted, it would not be binding in the same way as a formal international agreement, but it could still impact how countries regulate marine CDR. Both the London Convention and London Protocol require parties to adopt domestic laws to regulate the “dumping” of “waste and other matter” at sea.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Workers in facilities that produce and use EtO as well as people living near facilities that release it into the atmosphere are at risk of unsafe exposures even when the facilities are using the best available technologies to handle and contain it. Have I been exposed to ethylene oxide?

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

In the face of disappointing legislation and regulation, activists have increasingly turned to courts in the last fifteen years. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. However, given the unprecedentedruling’s questionable logic, I doubt that it stand on appeal. Third is causation.

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Physics World

APRIL 11, 2022

Some high-energy neutrinos detected in the Antarctic ice and thought to have come from outside the solar system may have been produced in Earth’s atmosphere. They are distinct from the generally lower-energy neutrinos produced when cosmic rays interact with nuclei in the atmosphere to generate particle showers.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Responsible for 12 percent of all US global warming emissions from human activities, methane traps significantly more heat per molecule than carbon dioxide, making it 86 times more harmful for the first 20 years after it is released into the atmosphere.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

Instead, the Court has ruled that, though the agency can still regulate carbon emissions, it must do so narrowly and set standards solely based on options available at individual power plant facilities, such as efficiency measures to improve plant-level heat rates. There is no time to waste.

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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. Previous reports have also analyzed state authority to regulate OAE , and looked at state regulation of seaweed cultivation in California and OAE in Washington.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Compared to carbon dioxide (CO2), methane doesn’t linger for long in the atmosphere after being emitted. Small scale fixes are what the industries raking in billions of dollars in profit want, so that regulations don’t cut into their bottom line. degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

In Pennsylvania alone, regulators estimate there are hundreds of thousands of orphaned and abandoned wells. If these wells are improperly plugged, or damaged, they can leak methane into the atmosphere and groundwater. If we use existing wells, we are basically hitting two birds with one stone, Taleghani said.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 11, 2021

More than five and a half years ago, Governor Tom Wolf promised regulations to reduce methane emissions from existing oil and gas industry operations. It’s time to finalize these regulations. Regulations which require state-of-the-art equipment and frequent leak inspections will reduce this leakage. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

The InfluenceMap dataset includes company-by-company data on emissions of carbon dioxide–the heat-trapping gas responsible for the largest contribution to climate change–and methane, a very potent heat-trapping gas that lasts a shorter time in the atmosphere. Let’s look at their cumulative emissions since the 1950s in Figure 2.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

PG&E resisted a requirement for the company to create a wildfire mitigation plan, and California utility regulators acquiesced. In contrast, regulators have required Southern California utilities to submit wildfire mitigation plans for over a decade. Photo: Mark Specht.

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Frontiers

JULY 15, 2022

His research is focused on several topics of the atmospheric physics, the numerical simulation of coastal fronts, and severe meteorological events. Without any regulation the pandemic would have likely generated much more mortality.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

At a hurriedly called meeting November 14, the Republicans on the House Environmental Resources and Energy voted to send a letter to the Independent Regulatory Review Commission disapproving of the final regulation limiting VOC/methane emissions from conventional oil and gas facilities. Click Here for a copy of the letter. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 26, 2024

This free, morning-long, conference is presented by the Center for Energy Policy and Management and will include panel discussions on the basics of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), Pennsylvania’s efforts to regulate this emerging industry, and proposed CCS activity in the Appalachian region.

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Legal Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Methane has a comparatively short life in the atmosphere (about 12 years, as opposed to 100 years or more for CO2) and high potency (84 times stronger than CO2, averaged over 20 years). These include the Landfill Methane Regulation , SLCP Reduction Strategy , 2022 Scoping Plan , and SB 1383.

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