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Building Resilience Through the Conservation Stewardship Program

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) is perhaps the single most ready-made tool for farmers to voluntarily tackle climate change. CSP’s Approach to Conservation Farmers and ranchers are important managers of our shared air, water, and soil resources, and CSP recognizes and rewards this critical role.

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How Green Tech Helps Create Sustainable Mobility in Cities

Earthava

However, one of its most pressing current challenges is reducing the carbon emissions from transportation, a sector that is one of the highest contributors to greenhouse gases. Here are just some of the ways in how green tech can develop cities while conserving and preserving the environment. A great example is a biofuel.

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Response to the New York Times Essay “Are There Better Places to Put Large Solar Farms Than These Forests”

Law Columbia

In Virginia, where the primary source of electricity is natural gas, the emissions intensity of electricity is 679 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour (MWh), not including other greenhouse gases. According to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, utility-scale solar power produces between 394 and 447 MWh per acre per year.

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CARB Attempts to Contain LCFS Credit Prices

Clean Energy Law

The LCFS is a key pillar of California’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the transportation sector. CARB conservatively estimated that the new LCFS credit cap would result in US$2.9 According to CARB, this provision is intended to ensure that the CFR program, which is entirely funded by the LCFS, remains solvent.

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Why Ontario needs to stop burning polluting gas for electricity

Enviromental Defense

The rest of our power comes from a mix of nuclear power, renewables like hydro, wind and solar power, and biofuel. But their plans to fill some of this gap with renewables, energy conservation, and other programs were derailed in 2018. Ontario Electricity Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions Historical and Forecast.

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IRA Implementation: The State of Play

Legal Planet

Here are some major actions by EPA: Opening three grant competitions under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund including the $7 billion Solar for All competition , the $14 billion National Clean Investment Fund , and the $6 billion Clean Communities Investment Accelerator. USDA also awarded 59 domestic biofuel projects totaling $25 million.

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New York State Environmental Regulator Issues Draft Plan to Achieve GHG Emissions-Reduction Goals

E2 Law Blog

Enacted in 2019, the CLCPA transformed the state’s earlier clean energy standard efforts from administrative fiat to law and sets more aggressive goals to reduce statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions economy-wide to 60% from a 1990 baseline by 2030, and 15% from a 1990 baseline by 2050.