Legal Planet

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Whether other mechanisms that disproportionately cool the Arctic would have the same effects has yet to be modeled, but seems worryingly plausible. If so, any meaningful Arctic cooling program would need a counterbalancing Antarctic cooling program.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

With the federal government and state of Maryland each having announced within days of each other, the mandated disclosure of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, we have received, maybe not surprising, many calls in the last two weeks inquiring “what are GHGs?” In 2020, carbon dioxide accounted for about 79% of all U.S.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 30, 2024

The refrigerant gases commonly used to keep the freezer and cold sections of grocery markets at the right temperature contain hydrofluorocarbons, chemicals that can be hundreds to thousands of times more powerful greenhouse gases than carbon dioxide.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 7, 2022

As governments enact mandatory greenhouse gas emission laws and as businesses voluntarily make “net zero” pledges, we are increasingly working with organizations, first to understand and calculate their GHG emissions, then to implement strategies for efficacious yet frictionless reductions. Air conditioning and refrigeration.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2023

These companies’ efforts show that it is possible to keep food cool while protecting our Earth’s ozone layer and climate system by setting and achieving ambitious goals year after year.” This is roughly equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions from consuming over 12 billion gallons of gasoline.

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Ozone Carbon Dioxide Cooling Atmosphere 80

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

What is the social cost of carbon? SCC is a dollar estimate of the long-term damage caused by emitting a tonne of carbon dioxide in a given year. What about the cost of energy for heating and cooling? It’s designed to weigh the benefits of reducing warming against the costs of cutting emissions.

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Sea Level Carbon Dioxide Carbon Emissions Climate Change 97

Physics World

MAY 30, 2021

Based on a Newtonian free-fall experiment in which a cloud of rubidium atoms cooled close to absolute zero is used as the test mass, Muquans’ system integrates all the key components into a single unit that is robust and reliable enough to be deployed in the field for geophysical monitoring – including on the slopes of Mount Etna.

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Technology Technology Carbon Dioxide Government 137

Law Columbia

MARCH 23, 2022

.” Disclosure of internal carbon price : Under the proposed rule, registrants would be required to disclose any carbon price used internally. emissions form the generation of purchased or acquired electricity, steam, heat, or cooling that is consumed by operations owned or controlled by [the] registrant.”

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Carbon Dioxide Sea Level Greenhouse Cooling 75

PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

Utilizing manure nutrients efficiently means that risk of loss of nitrogen, phosphorus, sediment, and greenhouse gas is minimized. The project is reducing emissions and Phoenix Contact’s carbon footprint. The overarching goal of Manure Expo is based on environmental quality.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 1, 2022

They also provide cooling shade which helps heat-sensitive aquatic organisms survive (such as brook trout), and control algal growth by blocking sunlight. 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.

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Climate Change Conservation Atmosphere Carbon Dioxide 57

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Wild Weather Threatens Farm Viability Although the IRA funds are directed at greenhouse gas mitigation, many forms of agricultural climate mitigation also increase farm resilience. For example, reducing tillage and maintaining in-field residues can reduce the losses of carbon dioxide and may reduce nitrous oxide emissions.

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Climate Change Conservation Greenhouse Carbon Dioxide 72

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

Every time a company or organization installs an energy-efficient heating, cooling, or lighting system, it’s another step for Pennsylvania and the nation toward independence from fossil fuels. And it helps lower greenhouse gas emissions to slow climate change and its negative effects.” Sullivan Human Services Center in Philadelphia.

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

Much of the discussion of climatology in public discourse concerns anthropogenic climate change - the contribution of human activity to such events as carbon particles, greenhouse gases, and their effects such as the Greenhouse Effect and coral bleaching. This leads to the greenhouse effect. Greenhouse Gases.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It is 33 years now since the IPCC in its first report in 1990 concluded that it is “certain” that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities “will enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting on average in an additional warming of the Earth’s surface.” It’s not hard to understand. Gray areas show lack of data.

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Greenhouse Radiation Cooling Carbon Dioxide 356

Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

With proposed federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions by the Securities and Exchange Commission requiring GHG disclosure and new state statutes, including a new Maryland law that requires not only disclosure, but also a mandated reduction in GHG emissions, a greater appreciation of the subject of GHG appears in order.

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Greenhouse Carbon Dioxide Atmosphere Fossil Fuels 98

Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

What they showed are the distinct fingerprints of two kinds of forcing; increasing solar activity which warms all parts of the atmosphere, and carbon dioxide increases which warm the surface and troposphere, but cool the stratosphere and above. Hegerl et al., 1996 ; Hegerl et al., References. 1620078, 2019. Manabe, and R.T.

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Atmosphere Ocean Greenhouse Climate Change 359

Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 13, 2024

If we are to avert climate catastrophe, the shipping sector must immediately begin to eliminate the 1 billion-plus metric tons of greenhouse gases it emits every year. Growth in the LNG Fleet However, LNG is not a low greenhouse gas fuel and has serious climate implications. Liquified natural gas is not exactly “natural”.

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Natural Gas Ocean Ground-Level Ozone Greenhouse 130

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.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 25, 2023

Algae are known as phototrophs, meaning they utilize (you guessed it) the process of photosynthesis, harnessing the power of sunlight, carbon dioxide and water to provide themselves with essential nutrition. Built-in sunscreen sounds pretty cool, doesn’t it? Algae are powerhouses when it comes to removing greenhouse gases.

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Carbon Dioxide Ocean Climate Change Atmosphere 98

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Methane is essential to control, since stabilizing climate requires reducing all anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions to net-zero. The issue is that total human radiative forcing includes several parts that heat and some that cool, so counting separate heating contributions like this leaving out the cooling parts gives too much heating.).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Even if there is water available, heat waves can cause the water sources to be too hot, which can reduce the plant’s efficiency or even cause unsafe operating conditions because the plant can’t be adequately cooled.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 28, 2022

The Chicago City Council makes new cooling rules after a heat wave killed three people in an apartment building. The expansions to the cooling requirements will help keep our most vulnerable residents safe as we continue to see the impacts of climate change.”. A case before the U. Maria Hadden, 49th Ward Alderman.

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Regulations 2022 Climate Change Cooling 130

Greenbuilding Law

MARCH 26, 2023

There is a move toward all electric buildings as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change. This means that buildings must use electric heating, cooling, and hot water systems instead of natural gas or oil.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

A second bill would require annual reporting of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by a covered firm’s operations. It would require standardized reporting of GHG emissions (primarily carbon dioxide and methane) by firms doing business in California with total annual revenues more than $1 billion. [19]

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Republicans said the final regulations will increase the cost of electricity for individuals and businesses, have a negative impact on jobs and will not significantly reduce carbon pollution. There is broad consensus in this legislature on the subject of aggressively pursuing reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

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Acoel

JULY 5, 2022

First Court did not eliminate the Agency’s ability to require greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions reductions under section 111 or any other section of the Clean Air Act. Co-firing of coal with wood, which does not add carbon-dioxide to the atmosphere on a net basis, is well established.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 11, 2022

This electricity must include “24/7 carbon pollution-free electricity” that matches “actual electricity consumption on an hourly basis” and is “produced within the same regional grid where the energy is consumed.”

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

This latest report looks at mitigation — or what the world can do to stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. or 2 degrees without a radical reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and electrifying many of the things that currently run on fossil fuels. Capturing carbon is a must. The IPCC said 1.5

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