Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Fossil fuel power plant owners are facing increased accountability for their air and water pollution, including from a new round of environmental and public health protections that are being rolled out by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). We’ve heard these lazily disingenuous narratives before.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

And fossil fuel power plants may not stick to their retirement schedules for a variety of reasons. In 2021 alone, the plants slated for retirement emitted more than 28,000 tonnes of nitrogen oxides (NO x ), 32,000 tonnes of sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), and 51 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), according to EIA data.

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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.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 30, 2021

In fact, in 1938 Sir George Simpson, a leading meteorologist, dismissed the link between rising carbon-dioxide (CO 2 ) concentration and temperature as “ rather a coincidence ”. Then in 1896, preliminary calculations by Arrhenius hinted that humanity’s burning of fossil fuels could raise CO 2 levels and warm our planet.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Alongside a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels, substantial deployment of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) techniques might avert – or at least limit – overshoot of 1.5°C. At COP 28 this week the US and several partners launched a ‘Carbon Management Challenge’ with an aim to collectively store 1.2 Gt of CO2 by 2030.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 6, 2024

Newly discovered documents confirm that the petroleum and automobile industries funded the early climate science of Charles David Keeling at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) from 1954 to 1956. Keeling became known for the “Keeling Curve,” which demonstrated the upward trajectory of the planet’s carbon dioxide levels.

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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?

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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

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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?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

The shift from fossil fuels in the 100-percent RES scenario reduces the amount of toxic power plant air pollution much more than what we called a “no-new-policy,” or business-as-usual, scenario. Emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from power plants in alliance states drop 88 percent and 77 percent respectively by 2040.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 26, 2024

This event offers a comprehensive overview of the latest advancements, strategies, and solutions in carbon capture, utilization, and storage technologies. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage in thought-provoking discussions and network with professionals working in the carbon capture space.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee is scheduled to hold an informational meeting September 19 on carbon capture technology and related legislation. Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming), Majority Chair of the Committee, announced his intention to introduce legislation to promote carbon capture, utilization and sequestration.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2022

A transition to 100 percent renewable energy is about more than just technology. The shift from fossil fuels in the 100% RES scenario reduces the amount of harmful air pollution from power plants much more than in our “No New Policy”/business-as-usual scenario. by 2035 is needed. And our modeling shows renewables’ power.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

CCS is a multi-billion dollar boondoggle that doesn’t come close to the hype, has significant safety risks, and is a substantial distraction from real climate solutions, such as building more renewable energy, increasing electricity transmission infrastructure, and developing and using storage technology. Want proof?

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 26, 2023

In his 1874 novel, The Mysterious Island , Jules Verne wrote that “water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.” kg of carbon dioxide emissions.

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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.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 30, 2023

Environmental justice advocates have long opposed efforts to build carbon capture infrastructure in marginalized communities. Fossil fuel power plants might linger, their life span extended by a technology that captures carbon dioxide but not smog and soot. Their worries are manifold. Pipelines could burst.

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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.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Addressing methane is critically important in addressing climate change – methane is the second largest contributor to human-driven warming after carbon dioxide. Human-driven sources of methane, including fossil fuels, agriculture, and waste, account for about 60% of emissions. Methane has contributed 0.5°C C of the 1.1°C

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 30, 2021

In this blog, we’ll take a look at the technologies that are being sold as climate saviours when their real objective is to prolong the life of the polluting fossil fuels which are driving climate change: carbon capture, offsets and ‘blue’ hydrogen. Carbon capture and release: a license to pollute .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

However, make no mistake: Technological advancement did not create the production boom by itself. Our national overreliance on gas is evidently undermining energy access, not strengthening it, as some fossil fuel industry players would want you to believe. Don’t believe the industry spin.

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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.

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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.

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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. Its primary component is methane.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2023

The Better Path Coalition and the PA Climate Convergent Network are hosting an April 26 webinar on No Miracles Needed - How Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate, Clean Our Air from Noon to 1:00 p.m. We still have time to save the planet without resorting to 'miracle' technologies.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 12, 2023

One is a subsidy to Enbridge—a fossil fuel giant—to build a fossil fuel power plant. Instead, it will lock in polluting fossil fuel infrastructure for decades. Enbridge promises to blend some hydrogen with natural gas, but that’s just a dangerous distraction.

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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.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

CT , the Supreme Court said this: We hold that the Clean Air Act and the EPA actions it authorizes displace any federal common law right to seek abatement of carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel fired power plants. at 528–529. Post, at 20. We answered no, given the existence of Section 111(d). American Elec.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

It can be produced to emit nothing but oxygen, and when used it doesn’t produce carbon dioxide, making it an attractive alternative to the polluting fossil fuels in use today. But like any new technology, myths … Continue reading Five hydrogen myths – busted

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Fossil gas, or “natural gas,” as it’s been cunningly branded, is a fossil fuel that causes warming and is harmful to human health. Its mainstream name is nothing more than a clever marketing scheme by Big Oil to make the fuel sound natural, safe, and clean. Three Ways We Can Turn Off Polluting “Natural” Gas 1.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

But with the recent influx of government incentives for hydrogen production, new and improving production and storage technologies, and greater political will than ever before, H 2 ’s reputation is gaining favor. But for many of these use-cases, hydrogen doesn’t do the job particularly well, at least as compared to existing technology.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 24, 2022

But while the scoping plan talks a lot about the low carbon technologies we need, it also should be clearer about the implications for the technologies we are leaving behind, so everyone can plan for what comes next. What is a petroleum phaseout plan and why does California need one?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

Dave Luebke, technical director of the Direct Air Capture Center at the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh. 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.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

volume mixing ratio), together with a number of trace gases, such as argon (0.93% volume mixing ratio), helium, radiatively active greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (0.035% volume mixing ratio), and ozone. Fluorocarbons Carbon-fluorine compounds that often contain other elements such as hydrogen, chlorine, or bromine.

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