Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In particular, he said, “reliance upon coal, on the other hand, could aggravate the ‘greenhouse effect,’ whereby excess carbon dioxide (which accompanies coal burning) traps heat inside the earth’s atmosphere, thus possibly melting the icecaps and raising the level of the oceans.”

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Their study examined the carbon dioxide and methane emissions from these companies’ products, as well as from the extraction and production processes of the largest gas, oil and coal producers and cement manufacturers. Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO₂e) , equivalent to 5.2 He doesn’t only profit from fossil fuels, but has expanded his ownership into mining companies, speculative carbon capture technofixes, recreational resorts, a consulting firm, and even co-ownership of the Calgary Flames.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Advocates, on the other hand, say the transmission line is a vital springboard to a low-carbon future. They claim annual reductions of 3 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, equivalent to 700,000 vehicles. Proponents of the transmission line have spent more money on their campaign.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 2, 2021

A proposal to extend the road 94 miles through this Andes-Amazon “transition zone,” to reach the Peruvian border, is gaining political momentum. . BR-364, the 2,700-mile asphalt strip that weaves through rainforest to connect São Paulo to Acre, might soon be lengthened.

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Inside Climate News

MARCH 25, 2025

Wetlands can also act as carbon sinks, sequestering carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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Environment, Law, and History

AUGUST 3, 2022

The abstract: In the late 1960s, New Zealand and the United States collaborated to establish a southern hemispheric carbon dioxide (CO2) monitoring station on New Zealand’s coastal cliffs. The New Zealand CO2 Project, as it came to be known, is an underappreciated landmark in the history of environmental monitoring.

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

‘Despite decades of warnings, we are still heading in the wrong direction’ By Bob Berwyn Research released this week raises new questions about how much more Earth may warm, or cool, if and when human carbon dioxide emissions zero out.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In the long run, warming will be determined by how much carbon we pump into the atmosphere before we stop. According to the IPCC, every trillion tons of carbon dioxide translates into another half degree of warming. In terms of emissions cuts, the basic rule is simple: Every ton counts.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

The new bill seeks to put North Carolina on the road to carbon neutrality.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Wang is a leading expert on environmental governance and the law and politics of China. Ted’s world-leading research project on the governance of geoengineering examines law and policy issues presented by solar geoengineering and carbon dioxide removal.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In the Nile River basin last week, a political power shift in Sudan could turn up the heat on a long-simmering dispute over a major dam in the region. On the other hand, advocates for the transmission line say it is a vital springboard to a low-carbon future. Rhode Island followed in 1987, and was the last state to do so.

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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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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

By Phil McKenna and Peter Aldhous Preliminary atmospheric monitoring data from a remote South Korean island off China’s east coast shows elevated concentrations of hydrofluorocarbon-23 (HFC-23), a greenhouse gas 14,700 times more potent than carbon dioxide on a pound-for-pound basis, according to the World Meteorological Association.

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Inside Climate News

APRIL 26, 2024

A 1971 plan for a global carbon dioxide monitoring network never came to fruition. The proposal is detailed in a document newly unearthed by the National Security Archive.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

It is 80 times stronger than carbon dioxide (CO2) at trapping heat on short timescales. Despite the obvious dangers of fossil fuel production and the multi-decade climate disinformation campaigns fossil fuel producers have perpetrated, the industry still holds political sway.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

As a second benefit, they claim to be engaged in political symbolism, trying to disrupt a stuck debate over effective climate responses and get people to talk about solar geoengineering – of which stratospheric aerosol injection is the most promising method being discussed.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

The social cost of carbon is an estimate of the harm done by one additional ton of carbon dioxide. The earliest government estimate of the social cost of carbon was for 2010: $21/ton with a 3% discount rate and $35 at a 2.5% That would have been equivalent to eliminating all emissions for six months of Bush’s term.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

The current barriers to implementing renewable energy systems are not technical or economic, but social and political,” the decision says.  Is it a ‘game-changer’? When courts leave implementation details to the same agencies that were deficient in the first place, progress is a slow grind and often requires a lot of political pressure.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Even if such interventions can be demonstrated to be scientifically valid, practical and political questions of delivery weigh heavy. This vision of a space of exception from politics as usual is a legacy of the cold-war era. These may already have been triggered, or result from multiple drivers, not just temperature.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The WMO’s GHG bulletin’s headline takeaways are stark: Atmospheric concentrations of three major heat-trapping gases, carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), methane (CH 4 ) and nitrous oxide (N 2 O) hit all-time highs in 2021 (see table below). The World Meteorological Organization Greenhouse Gas Bulletin.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

In the 1960s, scientists were warning that the burning of fossil fuels was releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which could have catastrophic consequences for the planet. But climate litigation is an important step in holding the fossil fuel industry accountable for its role in the crisis and determining who should pay.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 8, 2025

Approves Solar Energy Facility In Blair County -- WHYY - Sophia Schmidt: New Federal Clean Energy Rebates In Limbo For Residents Of PA, DE, NJ -- Reminder: Center For Agricultural Conservation Assistance Training Hosts Jan.

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Legal Planet

JULY 13, 2021

In my research on solar geoengineering, carbon dioxide removal , and gene drives , I began to wonder whether these proposed technologies are–as many claim–fundamental breaks from past activities or merely additional points along a continuum, albeit somewhat further out. Much of this work falls within the natural sciences.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A simple statement that masks just how complicated the issues are: mixing politics, economics, livelihoods, fisheries and endangered species in the ocean body that is the Gulf of Maine. The common enemy explained—and it’s NOT Offshore Wind The common enemy is the oil and gas industry because of their role in climate impacts.

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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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2023

-- Grist: In A Growing Petrochemical Hub, The Ohio/PA Train Derailment Triggers ‘An Uneasy Feeling’; Upper Ohio River Valley Has Been Layered In Industrial Pollution For Centuries, And Residents Are Fed Up 6th Oil/Natural Gas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables [ There Is No Limit To What Oil/Natural Gas Industry Can Make You Pay ] -- (..)

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 3, 2024

Pittsburgh gas giant EQT pledges to tackle climate change and flexes political muscle. Join PublicSource.org reporter Quinn Glabicki and Editor-in-Chief Halle Stockton online July 9 from Noon to 1:00 p.m. Communities in its frack path, though, face stark realities.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

Since then, it has captured less than half of the carbon dioxide it is supposed to. Photo by Sask Power via Flickr Creative Commons Playing Pretend with the Planet Building out carbon capture on a large scale would require a huge network of dangerous pipelines to transport the carbon to storage sites.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It says that just outcomes require full political participation, recognition of the underlying social drivers of privilege and oppression, and an understanding of the uneven distribution of impacts across space and time. To explore climate justice, I drew on the three-fold framework of justice theory. I restructured my Ph.D.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2021

In July 1977, according to Inside Climate News, a senior scientist at what is now Exxon Mobile told the company that “there is general scientific agreement that the most likely manner in which mankind is influencing the global climate is through carbon dioxide release from the burning of fossil fuels.” The scientist, James F.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

. -- November 13 PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN] -- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - November 4 to 10 - Eight More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Venting Gas; Improper Plugging, Failed To Restore Well Pads [PaEN] -- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - November 11 [PaEN] (..)

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Steep reductions in emissions of methane—which traps 81 times as much heat as carbon dioxide in the first 20 years in the atmosphere—are among the most important steps for slowing climate change in the short term. By Phil McKenna The U.S.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

UARG involved a regulation that required industry to cut carbon emissions for new facilities. EPA said that it applied to power plants that emitted a lot of carbon dioxide but not much of other air pollutants. The regulation’s coverage was at issue. The Supreme Court rejected that interpretation of the law.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

What we heard in plaintiffs’ case was not justiciable controversy, but rather a weeklong hearing of political grievances that properly belongs to the legislature, not a court of law,” said Assistant Attorney General Michael Russell. The admission says a lot about political will. I’m kidding, but only slightly.)

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2024

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 5, 2024

The days were long, and results were mixed, but at the end of the week, key decisions were made to move the IPCC process forward.

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