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New Bill Targets Carbon Dioxide Pipeline Leaks

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Candidate at UCLA Law (2L) Last week, Assemblymember Dr. Joaquin Arambula introduced AB 2623 , a bill designed to guard California communities against the dangers of transporting carbon dioxide in pipelines. You might be familiar with carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change.

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The definitive CO2/CH4 comparison post

Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

, but it inevitably brings forth a mish-mash of half-remembered, inappropriate or out-of-date comparisons between the impacts of carbon dioxide and methane. So this is an attempt to put all of that in context and provide a hopefully comprehensive guide to how, when, and why to properly compare the two greenhouse gases.

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Sprinkling basalt over soil could remove huge amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

Physics World

AUGUST 1, 2021

Sprinkling powered basalt over natural ecosystems would remove vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the Earth’s atmosphere while also improving soils. Worldwide, nations are pledging to reach net zero emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, if not earlier. They found it has the potential to remove 2.5

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The Woman Who Demonstrated the Greenhouse Effect

Scientific American

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Eunice Newton Foote showed that carbon dioxide traps the heat of the sun in 1856, beating the so-called father of the greenhouse effect by at least three years. Why was she forgotten?

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New Study Says World Must Cut Short-Lived Climate Pollutants as Well as Carbon Dioxide to Meet Paris Agreement Goals

Inside Climate News

MAY 23, 2022

The study found that limiting warming in coming decades as well as longer term requires policies that focus not only on reducing emissions of carbon dioxide, but also of “short-lived climate pollutants”—greenhouse gases including methane and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)—along with black carbon, or soot.

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Progress Possible at COP 28 Despite Fossil Fuel Industry Deception

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions 1990–2019. Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions include carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes, net carbon dioxide from land use, land use change and forestry, methane, nitrous oxide, and fluorinated gases.

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Net Zero/Not Zero

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

With empirical data and more and better modeling, it has become clear that, to first approximation, the eventual anthropogenic warming from carbon dioxide is tied to the cumulative emissions. This figure is from the AR6 SPM: The relationship between cumulative carbon emissions and temperature (SPM AR6). Article 4, section 1.

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Upcoming Developments in International Governance of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The next week has the potential to bring important developments for international governance of marine carbon dioxide removal (CDR). seaweed) for carbon storage. The post Upcoming Developments in International Governance of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal first appeared on Climate Law Blog.

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How big a problem are methane and other non-CO2 greenhouse gases?

New Scientist

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Carbon dioxide is the dominant driver of climate change, but countries convening at COP28 are expected to make agreements to reduce methane and other often overlooked greenhouse gases

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Science denial is still an issue ahead of COP28

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.” Carbon dioxide data from air bubbles enclosed in Antarctic ice.

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Glossary of Greenhouse Gas Terms

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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The CO2 problem in six easy steps (2022 Update)

Real Climate

JULY 10, 2022

Step 1: There is a natural greenhouse effect. Thus there must be a large amount of IR absorbed by the atmosphere (around 158 W/m 2 ) – a number that would be zero in the absence of any greenhouse substances. Step 2: Trace gases contribute to the natural greenhouse effect. The Earth’s Energy Budget (NASA).

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New Space Station Sensor Can Reveal Hidden Greenhouse Gas Polluters

Scientific American

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

An instrument mounted to the International Space Station was built to map dust in the atmosphere, but it’s also giving scientists a wealth of information about methane and carbon dioxide emissions

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Fermentation turns greenhouse gases into useful chemicals

Physics World

MARCH 10, 2022

According to the International Energy Agency, the chemical production sector is the single largest industrial consumer of oil and gas and the third-largest carbon emitter, putting out just short of a gigatonne of carbon dioxide emissions in 2020. kg of carbon dioxide, respectively. kg and 1.85 kg and 1.17

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Twenty years of blogging in hindsight

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

It shows the atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and tells a story about the carbon cycle, involving Earth’s crust, the atmosphere, land surface, the biosphere, and the oceans. In a nutshell, they are responsible for climate change, mainly due to an increased greenhouse effect.

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The Origins of Climate Awareness in the Legal Academy

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Westlaw searches for “global warming” and “greenhouse effect” pick up only a handful of citations before 1985. The other article about nuclear power also observed in passing that “coal combustion may disrupt global weather patterns by increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, creating a ‘greenhouse effect.’”.

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Developing Model Federal Legislation to Advance Safe and Responsible Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal Research in the United States

Law Columbia

MARCH 15, 2023

The Sabin Center today published model federal legislation to advance safe and responsible ocean carbon dioxide removal (CDR) research in U.S. Modeling shows that carbon dioxide emissions must reach net zero by 2050 or 2070 to reach these temperature goals. reach its climate goals. o C above pre-industrial levels.

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New Satellite Will Track Methane Super Emitters

Scientific American

AUGUST 19, 2024

Tanager-1 is the first in a series of satellites that aim to pinpoint major emitters of carbon dioxide and methane, major greenhouse gases

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Russia faces $32 billion bill for carbon emissions from Ukraine war

New Scientist

JUNE 12, 2024

The estimated greenhouse gas emissions caused by the war in Ukraine are equivalent to around 175 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, and Ukraine plans to include the associated climate damage in its compensation claim against Russia

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A Nobel pursuit

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. As you will recall, Hansen had declared in 1988 that “the greenhouse effect is here!”,

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Another Historic Climate Court Ruling in the Netherlands

Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

, its district, appellate , and supreme courts decided in favor of Urgenda, an upstart environmental organization, ordering the government to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Everyone produces greenhouse gases.

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US Emissions of the World’s Most Potent Greenhouse Gas Are 56 Percent Higher Than EPA Estimates, a New Study Shows

Inside Climate News

JANUARY 31, 2023

Electric utilities are likely responsible for the nation’s higher than expected emissions of sulfur hexafluoride, a greenhouse gas 25,000 times worse for the climate than carbon dioxide. By Phil McKenna While emissions of sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), the world’s most potent greenhouse gas, have fallen sharply in the U.S.

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These machines scrub greenhouse gases from the air – an inventor of direct air capture technology shows how it works

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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Deciphering the ‘SPM AR6 WG1’ code

Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

The cause of our changing climate is the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations that we have released into the air. Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) is the most important greenhouse gas that we have added to the atmosphere, however, some of it has been absorbed by land and oceans.

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Two Arizona Ethylene Oxide-Emitting Facilities Impact Community Health

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

Since 1940, almost all industrial ethylene oxide is produced in this energy intensive process that is a heavy emitter of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. In 1931, the process of making ethylene oxide from ethylene was developed from treating ethylene with extreme heat and pressure.

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Eleven Chemical Plants in China and One in the U.S. Emit a Climate Super-Pollutant Called Nitrous Oxide That’s 273 Times More Potent Than Carbon Dioxide

Inside Climate News

MAY 1, 2023

Proven, low-cost pollution controls could quickly curb those emissions, but neither China nor the U.S. require abatement measures used by other plants around the world.

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In the Amazon, Indigenous and Locally Controlled Land Stores Carbon, but the Rest of the Rainforest Emits Greenhouse Gases

Inside Climate News

JANUARY 16, 2023

By Bob Berwyn, Katie Surma Forests managed by Indigenous peoples and other local communities in the Amazon region draw vast amounts of planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere while the rest of the rainforest has become a net source of the greenhouse gas, a new report has found.

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Is California Overstating the Climate Benefit of Dairy Manure Methane Digesters?

Inside Climate News

DECEMBER 30, 2023

By Phil McKenna A California state grant program designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions results in the direct release of approximately 225,000 to 300,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide into the air each year, according to an Inside Climate News analysis of state data.

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Biomethane Threatens to Upend the Clean Hydrogen Tax Credit

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

To date, most stakeholder engagement has focused on the lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting framework required to accurately report the carbon intensity of electrolytically produced hydrogen, or hydrogen generated by using electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.

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The summary for policymakers of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sixth assessment reports synthesis

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.

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Waste-To-Energy Tech Could Slash U.S. Water Sector Carbon Emissions, But Its Potential Remains Underdeveloped

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 3, 2021

Like all other industries, the clock is ticking for the sector to cut its carbon pollution, given President Joe Biden’s goal to halve the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050. Using biogas for energy is not carbon neutral because burning the methane-rich gas still releases carbon dioxide.

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Why Energy Bills Will Be Even Higher This Winter

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Oil and gas major ConocoPhillips’ website says gas is “one of the safest and cleanest fuels available” and that when it is burned, it “produces mostly carbon dioxide and water vapor—the same substances emitted when humans exhale.” Methane is also a fast-acting greenhouse gas in terms of its impact on the climate.

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India is poised to become a climate leader, but is it up to the task?

New Scientist

APRIL 30, 2024

As the world's third largest emitter of greenhouse gases, climate policy decisions taken by India will shape the fate of the entire world. But can it continue to develop its economy while keeping carbon dioxide down?

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Is China Emitting a Climate Super Pollutant in Violation of an International Environmental Agreement?

Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Concentrations of HFC-23, one of the world’s most potent greenhouse gases, remained elevated in East Asia after China, a known past polluter, agreed to curb emissions.

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Coastal ecosystems are a net greenhouse gas sink, new research shows

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 26, 2023

A new greenhouse gas budget shows coastal ecosystems globally are a net greenhouse gas sink for carbon dioxide (CO2) but emissions of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) counteract some of the CO2 uptake, according to researchers. Read the full story from Southern Cross University.

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Liebherr reveals results of greenhouse gas study

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 27, 2022

Consulting firm Frontier Economics, on behalf of equipment manufacturer Liebherr Group, has shared the results of a life cycle assessment analysis related to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of construction machines equipped with various drive technologies.

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Measuring greenhouse gas from ponds improves climate predictions

Environmental News Bits

JULY 12, 2023

Shallow lakes and ponds emit significant amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but emissions from these systems vary considerably and are not well understood.

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Breakthrough innovations in carbon dioxide mineralization for a sustainable future

Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 22, 2024

Breakthrough innovations in carbon dioxide mineralization for a sustainable future. Chung, W.J., Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology (2024).

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Fossil Fuels Must Go: Re-inventing US Transportation

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2024

Carbon dioxide and methane (a short-lived but extremely powerful global warming gas) are emitted during the extraction, processing, storage, transportation and combustion of gasoline, diesel and other petroleum fuels used by our vehicles. We have over 284 million gasoline- and diesel-burning cars, trucks and buses on our roads.

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EPA finalizes rule cutting use of potent greenhouse gas used in refrigeration

Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday is finalizing a rule aimed at significantly cutting the use of a type of greenhouse gases called hydrofluorocarbons that are used in refrigeration. Hydrofluorocarbons, also known as HFCs, can have up to 14,800 times the climate impact of carbon dioxide.

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Delayed harm and the politics of climate change, reconsidered

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2021

The world is gathering soon in Glasgow to debate how to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions over the coming decades. But what happens when we achieve the goal of zero carbon dioxide emissions from human actions? Does the climate keep warming, stay the same, or even cool?

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Crucial for a Clean Energy Economy, the Aluminum Industry’s Carbon Footprint Is Enormous

Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

A new report finds aluminum manufacturing worldwide emits more than a billion tons of carbon dioxide annually, as well as chemicals called perfluorocarbons that warm the planet for 50,000 years.

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Greenhouse gas levels have hit yet another record – here's why

New Scientist

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide reached record-high concentrations in the atmosphere in 2021, including the largest recorded increase in methane

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Aggregating the Harms of Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

There are different regulations and often different regulators for impacts from coal mining on public lands, private lands, carbon dioxide emissions from combustion, methane emissions from mines, particular emissions, sulfur dioxide emissions, etc. Fossil fuels are a case in point. Consider coal.

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New Bill Targets Carbon Dioxide Pipeline Leaks

The definitive CO2/CH4 comparison post

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Sprinkling basalt over soil could remove huge amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

The Woman Who Demonstrated the Greenhouse Effect

New Study Says World Must Cut Short-Lived Climate Pollutants as Well as Carbon Dioxide to Meet Paris Agreement Goals

Progress Possible at COP 28 Despite Fossil Fuel Industry Deception

Net Zero/Not Zero

Upcoming Developments in International Governance of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal

How big a problem are methane and other non-CO2 greenhouse gases?

Science denial is still an issue ahead of COP28

Glossary of Greenhouse Gas Terms

The CO2 problem in six easy steps (2022 Update)

New Space Station Sensor Can Reveal Hidden Greenhouse Gas Polluters

Fermentation turns greenhouse gases into useful chemicals

Twenty years of blogging in hindsight

The Origins of Climate Awareness in the Legal Academy

Developing Model Federal Legislation to Advance Safe and Responsible Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal Research in the United States

New Satellite Will Track Methane Super Emitters

Russia faces $32 billion bill for carbon emissions from Ukraine war

A Nobel pursuit

Another Historic Climate Court Ruling in the Netherlands

US Emissions of the World’s Most Potent Greenhouse Gas Are 56 Percent Higher Than EPA Estimates, a New Study Shows

These machines scrub greenhouse gases from the air – an inventor of direct air capture technology shows how it works

Deciphering the ‘SPM AR6 WG1’ code

Two Arizona Ethylene Oxide-Emitting Facilities Impact Community Health

Eleven Chemical Plants in China and One in the U.S. Emit a Climate Super-Pollutant Called Nitrous Oxide That’s 273 Times More Potent Than Carbon Dioxide

In the Amazon, Indigenous and Locally Controlled Land Stores Carbon, but the Rest of the Rainforest Emits Greenhouse Gases

Is California Overstating the Climate Benefit of Dairy Manure Methane Digesters?

Biomethane Threatens to Upend the Clean Hydrogen Tax Credit

The summary for policymakers of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sixth assessment reports synthesis

Waste-To-Energy Tech Could Slash U.S. Water Sector Carbon Emissions, But Its Potential Remains Underdeveloped

Why Energy Bills Will Be Even Higher This Winter

India is poised to become a climate leader, but is it up to the task?

Is China Emitting a Climate Super Pollutant in Violation of an International Environmental Agreement?

Coastal ecosystems are a net greenhouse gas sink, new research shows

Liebherr reveals results of greenhouse gas study

Measuring greenhouse gas from ponds improves climate predictions

Breakthrough innovations in carbon dioxide mineralization for a sustainable future

Fossil Fuels Must Go: Re-inventing US Transportation

EPA finalizes rule cutting use of potent greenhouse gas used in refrigeration

Delayed harm and the politics of climate change, reconsidered

Crucial for a Clean Energy Economy, the Aluminum Industry’s Carbon Footprint Is Enormous

Greenhouse gas levels have hit yet another record – here's why

Aggregating the Harms of Fossil Fuels

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