PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2025

And if you want to get out of RGGI [Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative], come to the table and work on this with us." Shapiro had this to say to legislators who just want to attack him and his plan. .I I am saying here's a better way forward that we can work on together. Now it's time to be big and bold and do something real.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

Methane Emissions EPA announced it would reconsider regulations for the oil and gas industry under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act and Subpart W of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. EPA also announced it would reconsider risk management rules that cover oil and natural gas refineries and chemical facilities.

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2025

For decades, the federal government has heavily subsidized carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS), a set of technologies that aims to separate, collect and sequester carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion and gas processing. One analysis estimated the rollbacks will cost US taxpayers $6 billion over the next decade.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JULY 30, 2025

Much will be said about the weakness of the various justifications EPA and the Department of Energy offered yesterday about why greenhouse gases do not endanger public health and welfare under the Clean Air Act. Finally, EPA can just repeal all the Biden rules that cut greenhouse gases rather than revoking the endangerment finding.

Clean Air Act

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 I had to look up the acronym “CDR” (Carbon dioxide removal). C or 2°C since preindustrial times (p.

Climate Change

Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

On a yearly basis, that’s more than the global emissions from the largest greenhouse gas-emitting sector, electricity and heat production. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. The post Should We Use the Ocean to Capture Carbon?

Ocean

Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Worldwide, nature’s power to breathe, filter and store carbon dioxide can provide more than 1/3 of emissions reductions needed to meet the Paris Agreement target, according to a pioneering study by The Nature Conservancy and partners. Trees capture and store carbon dioxide (CO2) through the process of photosynthesis.

Carbon Dioxide

Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The ocean has absorbed nearly 33% of all greenhouse gas emissions and around 90% of the excess heat produced through climate change. In addition to cutting greenhouse gas emissions, we must shore up our natural coastlines. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Never miss an update. Enter Your Email.loading.

Ocean

Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

If you’re an anti-regulatory conservative, you’d probably flip these designations. The Court then held that greenhouse gases are covered by the Clean Air Act as a type of air pollutant. This gave EPA the power to impose limits on carbon emissions by vehicles and industry. The environmental side won most of these cases.

Clean Air Act

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2022

However, on the narrow but important issue of carbon dioxide emissions, an acre of solar panels appears to offset more emissions each year than an acre planted with trees can sequester. metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. What about the carbon that is released when an acre of forest is removed?

Carbon Dioxide

Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Some in the industry see the warming as an opportunity, as passages through the Arctic open for longer periods, even going so far as to claim there will be lower overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the shorter voyages. appeared first on Ocean Conservancy. as a national policy leader.

Ocean

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 11, 2023

In other words, the water conservation efforts made by farmers have been used (especially by large corporations) as a justification to be more unsustainable with California’s water use. million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Photo credit: Mark Anson On August 31, the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) announced the availability of $65 million for the Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) program. Forestry : Forests play a significant role in reducing carbon dioxide through carbon sequestration.

Conservation

Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2024

He is a PhD candidate in the Department of Biology at Western University where he studies solutions for bird conservation. The Salamander mussel is a species of global conservation concern whose only remaining known population in Canada occurs in the East Sydenham downstream from the proposed landfill site.

Air Pollution

Legal Planet

JULY 13, 2021

In my research on solar geoengineering, carbon dioxide removal , and gene drives , I began to wonder whether these proposed technologies are–as many claim–fundamental breaks from past activities or merely additional points along a continuum, albeit somewhat further out.

Carbon Dioxide

Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

As another year comes to a close, I am reflecting on the incredible progress Ocean Conservancy has made in 2023 towards a healthy, resilient ocean future. For better or worse, this is the nature of ocean conservation work—sometimes we hit roadblocks, but it’s a reminder of why this work is so critically important.

Ocean

Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 14, 2023

Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Food and other organic waste rotting in landfills or dumps emit a greenhouse gas called methane, which is far more powerful at trapping heat than carbon dioxide. appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

Ocean

Law Columbia

MARCH 23, 2023

March 8, 2023, marked the start of the demonstration phase of Project Greensand , shipping carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from Belgium for storage in a depleted oilfield in the North Sea off the coast of Denmark. on the Export of Carbon Dioxide Streams for Disposal in Sub-Seabed Geological Formations for the Purpose of Sequestration.

Carbon Dioxide

Frontiers

JULY 28, 2022

The findings of their review, published today in the journal Frontiers in Climate , identify seven reasons why carbon accounting for coastal ecosystems is not only extremely challenging but risky. REPUBLISHING GUIDELINES : Open access and sharing research is part of Frontiers’ mission.

Carbon Dioxide

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JULY 12, 2023

The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) applauds USDA’s commitment of funds to improve the tracking and analysis of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. As the agency increasingly focuses on implementing incentive-based support for reducing agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, effective measurement becomes ever more vital.

Greenhouse

Washington Nature

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This is a direct result of excessive greenhouse gas emissions, including carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4), and the exploitation of natural resources for capitalistic gain. This can happen naturally, as growing trees and plants turn CO2 into biomass—this is the foundational premise of Natural Climate Solutions.

Carbon Dioxide

Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The latest science coming from a partnership between The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the University of Washington (UW) highlights ways nature can help Washington achieve its net-zero greenhouse gas emissions goal by midcentury. ” — Jamie Robertson, TNC Conservation Geographer and lead author of the study.

Climate Change

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

DECEMBER 8, 2023

More than a year later , this once-in-a-generation investment approximately doubled the funding available for the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) core conservation programs. For example, reducing tillage and maintaining in-field residues can reduce the losses of carbon dioxide and may reduce nitrous oxide emissions.

Climate Change

The Energy Law

JUNE 21, 2022

The carbon credit market continues to evolve as oil and gas companies face increasingly stringent regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Operators may now have the potential to sell carbon credits in exchange for the P&A of inactive, shut-in, or temporarily abandoned wells. million vehicles per year.

Carbon Dioxide

Greenbuilding Law

JULY 9, 2023

Methane’s Warming Potential : Methane, a colorless, odorless, and highly flammable gas that occurs abundantly in nature and from a variety of anthropogenic activities, has a considerably higher global warming potential than carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide emissions, on the other hand, arise almost exclusively from burning fossil fuels.

Climate Change

Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 2, 2022

Climate change is a problem which has a known solution: We must dramatically reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and prepare now for intense climate impacts. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. As the CEO of Ocean Conservancy, I naturally look to our ocean. You can take action with Ocean Conservancy today.

Ocean

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Over the last 15 years, Penn State University has cut its carbon emissions by more than 35 percent, putting the University ahead of schedule to meet its goal of reducing greenhouse gas outputs to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. The University has been a leader in dramatically reducing its greenhouse gas footprint.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

Dr. Leubke will explain the basics of carbon capture and storage (CCS) and how both point-source CCS and direct air capture (DAC) can help the U.S. reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) atmospheric levels. Dave Luebke, technical director of the Direct Air Capture Center at the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2022

Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming), Majority Chair of the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, is circulating a co-sponsor memo asking his colleagues to sponsor the Pennsylvania Geologic Storage of Carbon Dioxide Act. billion metric tons of carbon dioxide underground.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Funding For Farm Practices “It is imperative that the Governor and General Assembly be proactive in the next state budget, and to increase dedicated investments of financial and technical resources into the Clean Streams Fund and Agricultural Conservation Assistance Program,” said Julia Krall, CBF Executive Director for Pennsylvania.

2024

Law Columbia

JUNE 4, 2024

The Tribunal acted both boldly and conservatively by interpreting UNCLOS as an independent source of international legally binding obligations to address climate change and ocean acidification. At the same time, the Tribunal’s interpretation was also conservative in the sense that it was a straightforward reading of the UNCLOS text.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 1, 2022

The August newsletter from the Pike County Conservation District includes articles on riparian buffers and climate change and forests as part of the District's Forestry month education initiative. Forests function as a “carbon sink”, removing carbon from the air as they grow, storing the carbon in their wood, the soil or other plant matter.

Climate Change

Ivy Protocol

MAY 18, 2023

The year 2023 stands as a testament to this synergy, with a plethora of companies innovating in the carbon removal terrain with a shared goal of fighting climate change. Meeting the recent pathways laid out by the IPCC will require total cumulative net carbon dioxide removals of 20–660 GtCO2 by 2100.

2023

Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2022

On June 30, 2022, the New York Department of Environmental Conservation denied Greenidge Generation LLC’s application to renew a Title V air quality permit for the Greenidge Generating Station. megatonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year. Other estimates put Bitcoin’s annualized carbon footprint at 72.05

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2023

to 2:00 p.m. -- Delaware Highlands Conservancy Photo Contest - Confluence: Land, Water Wildlife -- Delaware Highlands Conservancy Highlights Upcoming Summer Events -- DCNR's New Woods And Meadows News Offers Tips, Examples On Lawn Conversions To Native Meadows, Woods [PaEN] -- DCNR Let It Grow!

Air Pollution

Environmental News Bits

MARCH 22, 2023

Conservation on working lands provides many ecosystem services talked about frequently. Not covered as often is the carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emission reductions these practices provide. Download the report. Those include water quality and soil health improvement, wildlife habitat, and reduced operation cost.

Conservation

Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Underpinning these processes is the sense of urgency from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) most recent report , which made it clear that time has run out for incremental approaches to zeroing out greenhouse gas emissions. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Never miss an update.

Carbon Dioxide