Acoel

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Two years later, in denying petitions to reconsider and stay the final CPP rule, EPA explained that sources covered by the CPP are well on their way toward meeting the[se] carbon dioxide (CO2) emission reductions. at 33,243 (May 23, 2023). Not surprisingly, the final rule was challenged in the D.C.

2005

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Conference of Mayors , and a second on behalf of experts in carbon capture and storage (CCS) science and technology —in support of the U.S. This blog post begins with an overview of EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel power plants and the Power Plant Rules. Connecticut , 564 U.S.

2024

Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2025

These directives, alongside illegal funding freezes, firings of federal employees, closures of entire agency offices, as well as withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organization show that the current administration prioritizes fossil fuel interests at the expense of human life. So what can we do?

Fossil Fuels

New Scientist

JULY 1, 2025

This view was intended to estimate methane emissions from regions known for fossil fuel production, like the Permian Basin in the south-western US. Topics: satellites / fossil fuels / greenhouse gas emissions / methane Advertisement Sign up to our weekly newsletter Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox!

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

New Technology Finds More Abandoned Wells Also participating in the announcement was Joe Bonfiglio, Executive Director of the US Region for the Environmental Defense Fund. More information about the orphan and abandoned well plugging program is available on DEPs website: Rewriting Pennsylvanias Legacy.

Technology

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

Shapiro Marks Milestone Of Plugging 300 Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Over 2 Years; New Technology Finding More Abandoned Wells [PaEN] -- The Derrick: FrenchCreek Twp.,

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

Shapiro Marks Milestone Of Plugging 300 Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Over 2 Years; New Technology Finding More Abandoned Wells [PaEN] -- The Derrick: FrenchCreek Twp.,

Natural Gas

New Scientist

JULY 25, 2025

This is the second year in a row in which the land carbon sink has nearly vanished due to climate-related stressors, and would explain why 2024 saw a record jump in the concentration of CO₂ in the atmosphere.

Atmosphere

Scientific American

JUNE 13, 2025

Those pressures are colliding with record-breaking temperatures worldwide and explosive demand for energy, driven by power-hungry data centers linked to artificial intelligence technologies. carbon pollution. is the only one among them that is not trying to hit a carbon reduction goal. “Especially now that the U.S.

Paris Agreement

Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

Lawsuits challenging expedited reviews of fossil fuel energy projects under emergency permitting procedures announced by the U.S. This assertion of presidential power is all but certain to be contested. Department of the Interior on April 23, 2025.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Of Environmental Professionals Host March 18 Webinar On Emerging PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' Treatment Technologies [PaEN] -- Patch.com: Radnor Environmental Advisory Council To Host Lecture Series In Delaware County -- Call For Presentations: PA Assn. Of Environmental Professionals Inviting Presentation Proposals For Annual Conference Sept.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

Shapiro Marks Milestone Of Plugging 300 Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Over 2 Years; New Technology Finding More Abandoned Wells [PaEN] -- PA Council Of Trout Unlimited: $180 Million In Trout Unlimited Watershed Projects Now Frozen Across The US; Office Closures, Staff Cuts 'Sacrificing Our National Conservation Legacy' [PaEN] -- Gov.

2026

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2025

By producing more energy, Governor Shapiros Lightning Plan will boost key sectors of the Commonwealths economy, including manufacturing, robotics and technology, agriculture, and life sciences. It's not just enough for us as a Commonwealth to reduce our reliance on fossil fuel infrastructure.

Electricity

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 29, 2024

While the transition to renewable energy is more urgent than ever, it is crucial to recognize corporate greenwashing and push back against false solutions in order to ensure that the disproportionate harms perpetuated by the fossil fuel economy do not continue. economy away from being reliant on fossil fuels and into renewable energy.

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

MAY 1, 2025

The second Trump Administrations first 100 days dealing with carbon management and negative emissions can be summed up in one word incoherence. However, other steps taken have meaningfully undermined federal government policy and expertise on carbon removal. For example, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act provided for $3.5

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2025

PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboards: -- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard- March 8 to 14 [PaEN] -- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - March 15 [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On Water Quality Permits, 401 Certification For National Fuel Gas Tioga Pathway Natural Gas (..)

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

The Clean Water Act requires EPA to revise industry-wide wastewater treatment limits, called effluent limitations guidelines, to keep pace with innovations in pollution control technology. Technologies to treat produced water to a quality for safe discharge and reuse have become more effective and affordable. Read more here.

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2025

Here are the bill’s biggest handouts to the oil and gas industry: Carbon capture subsidies The oil and gas industry loves a tax break, and considering how much it has promoted carbon capture , the related 45Q tax credit was a solid bet for surviving the budget bill’s knife.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Shapiros Budget Includes Energy Plan; Funding To Make-up Deficit In Oil & Gas Program; New State Park, Trail Initiative; Over $6.2

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Yet, driven by vested interests in the fossil fuel industry , misleading narratives aim to distort and hinder meaningful climate commitments. Fossil fuels are the problem It’s pretty simple: the burning of fossil fuels is the main driver of climate change. billion tons of the 40.5

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

AUGUST 18, 2022

Production and combustion of fossil fuels imposes enormous costs on society, which the industry doesn’t pay for. One option, a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, gets the most attention but seems politically impossible. A more promising alternative might be a clean-up tax on the fossil fuel industry.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Union of Concerned Scientists’ (UCS) research shows that top fossil fuel producers’ emissions are responsible for as much as half of global surface temperature increase. Updated analysis from 2020 shows that emissions traced to the 88 largest carbon producers contributed approximately 60 percent?of

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 3, 2021

utilities have been slower to adopt the energy- and emissions-saving technologies than those in other parts of the world. Despite the economic advantages of these technologies and their potential environmental benefits, U.S. Despite the economic advantages of these technologies and their potential environmental benefits, U.S.

Carbon Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2024

A word about CCS : this technology has existed for decades but is only used at a handful of fossil energy facilities. C to 2°C,” and, “Implementation of CCS currently faces technological, economic, institutional, ecological-environmental, and socio-cultural barriers.” Who needs units anyway?

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 26, 2024

Because one of Pennsylvania’s two hubs, ARCH2, is also proposing to be heavily reliant on fossil fuel-based hydrogen production projects, I also detailed the serious risks of policymakers propping up such an approach. Here are three critical flags with pursuing a fossil-based “clean” hydrogen future.

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

With a new federal budget in the works, Finance Canada is currently developing two new investment tax credits – one for clean technology and one for hydrogen. But that disguises hydrogen’s dirty secret – it actually does contribute to global heating – and is actually 33 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

With an outsized credit for the lowest-carbon tier, the incentive’s aim is clear: Drive deployment of hydrogen production technologies that will be needed by, and aligned with , the nation’s overall clean energy transition. How do biomethane, lifecycle carbon accounting, and the tax credit interact?

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Each credit one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent pollution below the standard. I’ve written recently about why a Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard , which addresses the bio-based diesel credits. Source California Air Resources Board.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

That requires bringing global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions to net zero by 2050. Meanwhile, annual reports show corporations are pushing ahead with plans to expand production, betting on new technologies to somehow make it all okay in the future. degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2022

Assessments by the IPCC have made clear that the most feasible way for the world to meet its target of restricting climate change to below two degrees Celsius of warming includes rapid and massive expansion of carbon removal technology – technology that would extract carbon dioxide and permanently sequester that carbon dioxide underground.

Carbon Dioxide

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. Its primary component is methane.

Clean Energy

Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

Statement from Julia Levin, Associate Director, National Climate Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – Today Capital Power announced that they would not be pursuing carbon capture at the Genesee Generating Station, east of Edmonton Alberta, given the high costs and complexity of implementing the technology.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

While there is enormous potential for UN climate negotiations to transform climate action, meaningful progress has been delayed in part by the fossil fuel industry’s deceptive tactics. Last year’s COP was notable as the first to explicitly mention “fossil fuels” in the final decision document.

Sea Level

Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 31, 2022

by Klaus Lackner, Arizona State University Two centuries of burning fossil fuels has put more carbon dioxide, a powerful greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere than nature can remove. As that CO2 builds up, it traps excess heat near Earth’s surface, causing global warming.

Greenhouse

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

An equitable and people-centered transition of this nature will require changes that go beyond the necessary technological shifts and must focus on overcoming significant social, institutional, and behavioral barriers. In other words, technological solutions are necessary but not sufficient. How do we make this transformation happen?

Electricity

A Greener Life

AUGUST 5, 2022

Human activity adds more than 50 gigatons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere each year. New Solid Carbon technology might be able to lock climate-warming carbon dioxide below ocean bedrock. Large-scale solutions are urgently needed. Photo credit: Francisco Anzola, Flickr CC BY 2.0. By Dr Kate Moran.

Carbon Dioxide

Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 12, 2022

by Kevin Trenberth, University of Auckland When politicians talk about reaching “net zero” emissions, they’re often counting on trees or technology that can pull carbon dioxide out of the air. There are … Continue reading How not to solve the climate change problem.

Climate Change