Circle of Blue

APRIL 21, 2025

Hes working out how to evade the 2007 Supreme Court decision that enabled EPA to limit carbon dioxide emissions. The life-sustaining value of environmental protection attracted deep support from voters, regardless of their political affiliation. Protected wilderness expanded to 112 million acres, an area larger than California.

Earth Day

Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

12] Specifically, ClientEarth claimed that Shell had made a net zero carbon dioxide emission pledge as in the long-term interests of the corporation and its shareholders but did not put in place an actual or realistic plan to achieve this target. He believed that economic externalities of this kind should be handled by government. [24]

Law

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 15, 2024

SB 201 is an effort to overturn a state law regulating carbon dioxide pipelines. Question 4 is a $53 million green bond measure to fund climate resilience measures, forest restoration, and other investments in green spaces and waterways. South Dakota.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Shapiro -- Inquirer: Shapiro To Consider Legal Action If Federal Education Cuts Affect PA Students -- TribLive: Shapiro Touts A.I. Program For State Employees During Visit To Carnegie Mellon -- TribLive/Inquirer: Gov. Ohio- $3.07 Ohio- $3.07 Ohio- $3.07

Politics

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

Climate change is exposing land formerly covered by ice, heightening political tensions on the island nation—and in the waters surrounding it as sea ice also disappears. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere then was less than 300 parts per million. Today we’re at 428 parts per million.

Sea Level

Legal Planet

JANUARY 16, 2025

Joe Biden is about to vanish from the political scene, but not from the history books. When the political wheel turns, and EPA is again able to function normally, industry knows whats coming down the pike. Carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere for centuries, warming the earth every single day.

Carbon Dioxide

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

China for its part is exporting enough solar panels, batteries and EVs that is helping to cut emissions 1% outside of China and will avoid some 4 billion tons of carbon dioxide over the lifetimes of the products, according to a new Carbon Brief analysis.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

This editorial first appeared in the Republican Herald (Schuylkill County), Citizens Voice (Luzerne County) and Scranton Times (Lackawanna County) on March 11, 2025-- Theres really no fine line between what constitutes a political rally and an open, honest discussion about issues on which reasonable people can disagree.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2025

The social cost of greenhouse gases (SC-GHG) helps quantify the costs of climate change related to heat-trapping emissions, in terms of dollars per ton of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) or methane (CH 4 ) or nitrous oxide (N 2 O) emitted. This is not just ordinary politics and run-of-the-mill disagreements on policy details.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2025

Data Centers - By John Quigley, Senior Fellow, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Pennsylvania May Not Have Enough Electricity For A.I.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2025

Data Center Industry Growth [ PDF of Article ] -- Inside Climate News: Why Electricity Prices Are Soaring In The PJM Grid Region Explained In 5 Charts New Federal Administration -- AP: After Deep Cuts, National Weather Service Gets OK To Fill Up To 450 Jobs -- AP: President Moves To Shut Down NASA Mission Measuring Carbon Dioxide And Plant Health PA (..)

Natural Resources

PA Environment Daily

JULY 1, 2025

Shapiro Says State Budget Deal ‘Very Close’ -- PennLive: PA Budget Deadline Slips By, As Shapiro, Legislature Continue To Negotiate -- WESA: Gov.

Carbon Dioxide

Legal Planet

JUNE 13, 2025

Other Environmental Issues at Play Legislators are also looking at some bold and broad bills that would fundamentally change CEQA, participating in cap-and-trade reauthorization discussions, and continuing conversations on carbon dioxide removal.

Carbon Dioxide

Legal Planet

MAY 7, 2025

Among other cuts, the budget proposes: Cancellation of $15.247 billion in Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act funds (which the document labels Green New Scam funds) for unreliable renewable energy, removing carbon dioxide from the air, and other costly technologies burdensome to ratepayers and consumers.

Renewable Energy

Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

With some exceptions, federal agencies formerly defending Biden administration climate actions requested that the cases be held in abeyance to allow new political leadership time to be briefed on the litigation and to determine how to proceed. Courts have generally granted these requests.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2025

Fast forward to today I know Our political crises are a lot to hold. For millions of us in the climate movement, it was the first time we saw the Keeling Curve , the iconic chart illustrating the steady rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels since 1958, as recorded at NOAAs Mauna Loa Observatory.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Manufacturing fertilizers requires a massive amount of energy, which comes from the burning of fossil fuels that release heat-trapping gases including carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) , methane (CH 4 ), ammonia (NH 3 ), and nitrous oxide (N 2 O).

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2025

Trump Signed One Damn Dirty Deal I have to admit I was wrong when I wrote in 2023 that repealing the Inflation Reduction Act was politically impossible because it was “a candy shop” for corporations and red states hungry for manufacturing jobs who would fight any repeal effort.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 23, 2025

This cut would also mean shutting down the Mauna Loa Observatory, which has tracked atmospheric carbon dioxide since 1958 and produced the iconic Keeling Curve , which alerted us to the first definitive evidence of human-driven climate change. America’s innovation engine has always been resilient. But engines need maintenance and fuel.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy April 11-12 Stream Clean-Up At 200 Sites In Montgomery County [PaEN] -- The Daily Herald: ClearWater Conservancy Seeks Volunteers For April 12 Watershed Cleanup -- PA Sea Grant, Partners Host April 16 Storm Drain Marking Workshop In Delaware County [PaEN] -- Erie Times: Republican Candidate For Governor In Ohio Wants (..)

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2025

. -- March 10 - Weekly PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN] -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 1 to 7: Cryptocurrency Facility, 9 More Shale Gas Wells Abandoned; Attorney General Investigates Conventional Wastewater Spill; Pipeline Ordered To Provide Clean Water [PaEN] -- The Derrick: State Attorney General Launches Criminal (..)

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2025

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- PennLive: Statute Of Volunteer Firefighter Killed During Attack On President In Butler County Placed At The Site -- Gov. Shapiro -- The Center Square: Shapiro Talks Budget Impasse -- LancasterOnline: Here Are All Of Gov. Ohio- $3.00 Ohio- $3.00

Politics

Legal Planet

JULY 30, 2025

First, the Court held that air pollutants, as defined by the Clean Air Act, include greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane. Massachusetts v. EPA , decided in 2007, had two important findings.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2025

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Shapiro -- Gov. Ohio- $2.98 PA- $3.26 -- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Rigs Same Again As Last Week- 15; 21 On Aug. 23 -- WESA: Could Locally Drilled Natural Gas Get More Expensive With New Republican Administrations Push To Increase LNG Gas Exports? Ohio- $2.98

Politics

PA Environment Daily

JULY 29, 2025

The original federal endangerment finding was deeply flawed and based on overreaching political agendas. “As We heard loud and clear the concern that EPA's GHG emissions standards themselves, not carbon dioxide which the Finding never assessed independently, was the real threat to Americans’ livelihoods.

Greenhouse

Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Indiana regulates the underground storage of carbon dioxide. In central Illinois , residents are reluctant to make way for an underground carbon dioxide pipeline. Residents of central Illinois are organizing against a proposed carbon dioxide pipeline, Energy News Network reports. CO2 STORAGE: Indiana Gov.

Carbon Dioxide

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2021

But what happens when we achieve the goal of zero carbon dioxide emissions from human actions? It turns out this is a critical question for understanding what carbon budgets we have in terms of emissions, if we seek to meet temperature thresholds like 2 degrees Celsius. Some models show a potential for a rise of up to 0.3

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2023

According to The Global Carbon Project , approximately 36.6 billion global carbon dioxide emissions in 2022 came from fossil fuel use. What’s lacking is political will. 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

One option, a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, gets the most attention but seems politically impossible. The closest we’ve ever come to a carbon tax is a limited fee on methane emissions under the new IRA law. If a carbon tax were politically feasible, there would be a lot to be said in its favor.

Fossil Fuels

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.

Carbon Dioxide

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.”

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

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.

Fossil Fuels

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.

2021

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.

Rainforest

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.

Carbon Dioxide

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.

Carbon Dioxide

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.

Paris Agreement