Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The Sabin Center today released the second in a series of white papers discussing legal issues associated with different ocean-based carbon dioxide removal techniques. the growing of kelp and other macroalgae which may be harvested for food, bioenergy, or other uses or sunk in the ocean to sequester the carbon it contains.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

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. Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANC) v. Illinois Central Railroad v. Army Corps of Engineers.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

Last week, Capital Power, a major energy company with natural gas, waste heat, wind, solar and, until this week, coal assets, announced that it’s scrapping plans for a $2.6 billion carbon capture facility at its Genesse power plant west of Edmonton. Carbon dioxide is an asphyxiant, meaning that it displaces the oxygen in the air.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2024

Concern: Toxic waste The landfill would receive all kinds of waste, including organic waste, blue box recycling and up to 500 tonnes of asbestos per day, much of which will be transported in from the Greater Toronto Area. However, what enters a landfill doesn’t necessarily remain there.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 17, 2021

Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, responsible for fully 25 percent of warming. First, as a greenhouse gas, it is 20 to 85 times as potent as CO2. Some Methane Facts. Two other attributes of methane make it particularly important as a target of climate action.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2021

President Biden’s goal is to cut the country’s greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, and to reach net zero emissions by 2050. During this period of greenhouse gas reductions, the energy needs of the wastewater sector are projected to climb, due to population growth and tightening water-quality standards. million metric tons.

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NRDC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Food decomposing in landfills generates methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times as powerful as carbon dioxide in the. Food is the most prevalent material disposed in municipal landfills and incinerators in the U.S., amounting to 24 percent of landfill contents.

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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.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 14, 2023

Our new city offered curbside composting, and ever since then we’ve been separating eggshells, coffee grounds and other food items from the rest of our household waste. But the change has underscored just how much of our waste stream was previously going into landfills. Unfortunately, a lot of organic waste ends up in landfills.

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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. Organic waste sent to landfills emits CH4.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 29, 2024

Methane, a potent greenhouse gas that is roughly 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide, fuels extreme weather across the country by trapping heat in the atmosphere. That’s roughly the same impact as 50 million passenger cars!

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

of the world’s total carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion, many airlines are considering carbon-capture-and-storage technologies and electric-powered planes. Biomass and municipal waste. Then with municipal solid waste, you’re solving a waste problem and turning it into energy.”.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 23, 2024

However, it is a much-awaited step in the right direction as the federal government moves to cap greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from the highest polluting industry in Canada. It is a scientific fact that greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels are causing climate change. The framework is by no means perfect. C continues to shrink.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It found that greenhouse-gas emissions emitted by the lab in 2018 was 223 800 tonnes of carbon-dioxide equivalent. In 2020, the lab released its first public Environment Report that detailed the status of CERN’s environmental footprint.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

million metric tons of food are wasted annually on U.K. Rotting food releases methane, a greenhouse gas that is far more potent than carbon dioxide, and the resources used to grow that food … Continue reading Gleaning: The ancient practice fighting modern food waste At a time when 3.3

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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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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Governments across the United States are for the first time regulating greenhouse gas emissions. If it is January 1, 2024, most commercial building owners not already measuring greenhouse gas emissions for reporting to the government under the Maryland Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, may be in violation of law.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

increase in carbon dioxide pollution from the Commonwealth’s power plants between 2020 and 2021. Pennsylvania’s power generation sector is one of the nation’s largest — and thus, also, one of the biggest emitters of climate-changing greenhouse gases. Environmental Protection Agency show a startling 9.6%

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Manning Law

JUNE 15, 2022

Under most emissions trading systems, regulated industries, which fail to meet their greenhouse gas emission target must make up the shortfall either with a punitive payment or by purchasing emissions trading credits. Regulated parties whose emissions are less than their target will receive credits for that emissions saving.

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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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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. Anticipating the rate of sea level rise is particularly challenging due to uncertainties in the climate system.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Methane is a really powerful greenhouse gas: it’s 86 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. Companies also sometimes treat methane as a waste product and either release it on purpose (“venting”) or burn it (“flaring”). It’s also good for companies: leaked methane means wasted methane.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

greenhouse gas emissions in the year 2020. cattle, sheep, goats), food waste, and soil emissions. It loves to absorb infrared radiation, the same kind that heats our planet, and it can absorb this radiation 235 times more efficiently than its friend, carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). Those emissions come from farm equipment (e.g.,

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

By Jennifer Matthews, Penn State News Upcycling plastic waste into graphite, used in electric vehicles and renewable energy storage, could positively contribute to the global economy, preserving resources, saving energy and reducing carbon dioxide emissions, according to Penn State researchers.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This development comes at a time when facilities across the country are looking to address their greenhouse gas emissions through CCS projects but have been facing permitting delays from EPA. EPA is the primary authority for Class VI well permits, which are essential for the underground storage of carbon dioxide (CO2).

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Physics World

OCTOBER 16, 2021

In theory this could seed clouds that reflect sunlight back into space – counteracting the greenhouse effect. Kolbert runs through the smorgasbord of negative-emissions technologies designed to sequester carbon dioxide. The tomatoes were “perfect, in that greenhouse tomato-y way,” reports Kolbert.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

The UN agency concluded global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are at the highest levels in human history and without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors limiting climate change to 1.5°C This would include using materials more efficiently, reusing and recycling products and minimising waste. It was sombre reading.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 6, 2023

By focusing on capping and plugging these wells, my Administration is making real progress towards tackling greenhouse gas emissions here in Pennsylvania and creating thousands of good-paying, union jobs in the process,” said Gov. Josh Shapiro. “We We must reject the false choice between protecting jobs and protecting our planet. 25 to Dec.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Burning waste pollutes the air and warms the climate. This subsidy—the largest granted to any company on the list at nearly $3 million—tips the scales in favour of expanded waste burning at a time when we need to focus on generating less waste and fewer emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2023

For more information contact Cathy Lodge at: clodge@environmentalintegrity.org. ] “My Administration is making real progress towards tackling a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions here in Pennsylvania, and creating thousands of good-paying, union jobs in the process,” said Gov. Read more here. Josh Shapiro. “We Read more here.

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Law Columbia

MAY 24, 2024

The first, known as greenhouse gas (GHG) removal , seeks to mitigate climate change by pulling GHGs – most commonly carbon dioxide – out of the atmosphere and durably storing them. based company—Planktos— announced plans to undertake a project aimed at removing and storing carbon dioxide.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2022

As a result, industrial chemistry's use of petroleum accounts for 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions.” Read more here. But Science also reported-- “??Now, First, renewable electricity would split abundant molecules such as CO2, water, oxygen (O2), and nitrogen into reactive fragments.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

have long demonstrated leadership on climate change, with more than 170 of them having set targets to phase out fossil energy and many others committing to net zero greenhouse gas emissions. Waste decarbonization plays out in the context of the dormant Commerce Clause of the U.S. Cities around the U.S.

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Brag

JUNE 1, 2023

In its May 19, 2023, announcement, BETO states that RCR supports applied research and pilot-scale projects for the production, harvesting/collection, supply logistics, storage, and preprocessing of biomass and wastes to feedstock.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Under Governor Wolf, we’ve accelerated and expanded work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to equip Pennsylvania’s communities, businesses, and individual residents to address climate change impacts occurring now and projected for the near future. Pennsylvania’s greenhouse gas emissions are tracked yearly.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2023

Trillion Across Global Economy, Report -- Spotlight PA: Federal Money Won’t Be Enough To Solve PA Abandoned Conventional Oil/Gas Well Problem, Current Well Owners Routinely Fail To Plug Their Wells -- PA General Energy Announced It Will Plug Proposed Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well In Grant Twp.,

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Cities are major sources of greenhouse emissions, globally producing more than 60% of planet-warming gases. Narayanganj to cut CO2 by hundreds of thousands of tonnes Narayanganj’s adaptation plan , written in 2022, strives to achieve an annual greenhouse gas emission reduction of 12.6% Photo credit: Balaji Srinivasan / Alamy.

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