Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act’s new hydrogen production tax credit , known as code 45V, is intended to incentivize a shift to low-carbon hydrogen production by offering producers a credit that increases in value as the carbon emissions associated with produced hydrogen declines.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Globally, temperature increases, driven by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, reach 0.8C The Court overturned a landmark ruling that had required Shell, whose energy sales in 2023 were 91% derived from major GHG sources, to reduce its carbon emissions by 45% by 2030. in the Netherlands.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Strategies identified in a new industrial decarbonization roadmap would slash carbon emissions by 84% by 2050 in Pennsylvania, achieving crucial climate goals, yielding billions in annual savings, growing jobs, and improving public health, according to a new analysis prepared for the Ohio River Valley Institute.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2022

Steel is intensifying efforts to become an industry leader in lower-carbon production methods,” Masciantonio said. “We We have been progressing on our 2030 goal to reduce our global greenhouse gas emissions intensity by 20%, and in April 2021, we announced an ambitious goal to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.”

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2023

Ninety percent of the hydrogen being produced today is known as grey hydrogen and is produced using methane, a process whose greenhouse gas emissions make it an unacceptable solution for reducing our carbon footprint. Blue hydrogen has a very, very large greenhouse gas footprint.” The science doesn’t support it.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The US puts a dollar figure on the damage caused by carbon emissions, but new research finds it’s too low, meaning the benefits of reducing emissions are being underestimated. Effectively, SCC indicates what price society should be willing to pay now to avoid the future damage of today’s carbon emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

PACER Under PACER, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection will calculate a Pennsylvania-specific cap on carbon emissions and hold our own independent PACER credit auctions. Abney, and our legislative partners and co-sponsors for their support of this bold and forward-thinking plan.”

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

On May 8, the PJM Interconnection issued a statement on the US Environmental Protection Agency's final rule setting New Source Performance Standards for Greenhouse Gas Emissions and its potential impact on electric grid reliability.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

By Katie Bohn, Penn State News The effectiveness of national voluntary programs asking companies to pledge to lower their pollution and greenhouse gas emissions depends on pressure from the public, according to a new study led by a Penn State researcher. For example, the U.S.

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E2 Law Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency. On June 30, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its long-awaited decision in West Virginia, et al. By a 6-3 opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Court ruled in favor of the four petitioners, holding that the U.S.

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E2 Law Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

26, 2023, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) solicited public input to inform two new Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) programs creating standards and labeling for construction materials that have “substantially lower levels of embodied greenhouse gas emissions.”

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In July 2022, the High Court of England and Wales in R (Friends of the Earth Ltd and Others) v Secretary of State for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy found that the UK Government’s plans to cut carbon emissions were inadequate and breached national law.

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MGKF Law

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The holding halts former Governor Tom Wolf’s efforts to make Pennsylvania the first major fossil-fuel producing state to implement a price on carbon emissions. Read More » Tags: Air , Climate Change , Commonwealth Court , Pennsylvania , Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection , Taxes

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Pennsylvania Climate Change Act of 2008 requires the state Department of Environmental Protection to provide the Legislature and governor every three years a report on current and projected climate change impacts, and a plan of actions to reduce carbon emissions. Related Articles - Climate: -- Gov.

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Brag

AUGUST 19, 2022

The press release states that due to ethanol’s high-octane rating, greater ethanol blends result in both additional fuel efficiency and significant greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction. It would also require sources of the added octane value to reduce carbon emissions by at least 40 percent compared to baseline gasoline.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 22, 2016

Whether the Paris agreement can avoid being another Kyoto Protocol depends on the technology and lifestyles that developing nations choose to adopt as they eventually earn more income and whether the American government steps up to be a leader in environmental protection. By Mark Latham. Without U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2022

The legislation would create a legal and regulatory framework for carbon dioxide capture and sequestration (CCS) projects in the state. This is equivalent to the level of greenhouse gases emitted from 517 million gas-powered passenger vehicles annually, according to the EPA.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

This visionary project aligns seamlessly with Governor Shapiro’s dedication to combatting climate change by significantly reducing carbon emissions. The Council works to advance energy efficiency across state agencies through projects like PA PULSE that lower emissions while cutting costs for Pennsylvanians.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The forum included keynotes by senior leaders from the US Department of Energy and the Department of Environmental Protection, who provided an update on Pennsylvania’s implementation of $400 million in federal investment to address pollution from small, medium, and large industrial facilities through the RISE PA grant program.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 13, 2024

Reusing venues and replacing fossil fuel with renewable energy use is essential to cutting emissions at a large sporting event. Approximately 95% of venues for the Paris Games will be pre-existing or temporary facilities, and this factor alone is expected to reduce carbon emissions by one million tonnes compared to new buildings.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

“There's also a low methane rating, which is really designed to evaluate methane emissions on operations, both at a site and a facility level. The state recognizes that a reduction in scope three emissions can count towards the utilities reduction in their greenhouse gas emissions.” Applegate noted the U.S.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

A little background : As one component of its state plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, California required its Air Resources Board (CARB) to develop regulations that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fuels by ten percent by 2020. As part of this effort, CARB adopted the LCFS.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

And we’ve lost a significant opportunity to reduce the carbon emissions that are making the Climate Crisis worse every single day. We've all agreed that environmental health does not need to come at the cost of economic health, and vice versa. billion in RGGI proceeds over the past eight auctions. We’ve lost a lot of money.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 10, 2023

One goal of the partnership is to build one of the largest sustainable aviation fuel plants in the country.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Once the investigation was complete, the court ordered France to take immediate and concrete actions to comply with its commitments on cutting carbon emissions and repair the damages caused by its inaction by December 31, 2022. In Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action Incorporated v.

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 18, 2016

According to the US Environmental Protection . the UHIE occurs in metropolitan areas and “can affect communities by increasing summertime peak energy demand, air conditioning costs, air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, heat-related illness, mortality, and water quality.”. gency (EPA). , The EPA maintains.

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Cresforum

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Conservatives have overseen some of the most enduring legacies of American environmental policy. KEEP ALL OPTIONS ON THE TABLE TO REDUCE EMISSIONS Government should not pick winners and losers, but instead support all possible technological options available to avoid, reduce, capture and sequester greenhouse gases.

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Cresforum

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Conservatives have overseen some of the most enduring legacies of American environmental policy. Government should not pick winners and losers, but instead support all possible technological options available to avoid, reduce, capture and sequester greenhouse gases. has been able to reduce carbon emissions more than any other country.

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

Much of the discussion of climatology in public discourse concerns anthropogenic climate change - the contribution of human activity to such events as carbon particles, greenhouse gases, and their effects such as the Greenhouse Effect and coral bleaching. This leads to the greenhouse effect. Greenhouse Gases.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

For example, the ongoing debate over the impact of certain pesticides in agriculture , greenhouse gas emissions are often a battle between the science and industry's attempts to muddy the science and government lobbying to roll back legislation (2). Typically used in conjunction with “greenhouse gas” but some emissions are not GHGs.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had failed to fulfill its non-discretionary obligation under Section 321(a) of the Clean Air Act to conduct evaluations of loss or shifts in employment that might result from implementation of the Clean Air Act. Opponents of EPA Carbon Standards for New Coal-Fired Power Plants Filed Initial Briefs.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The petitioner in this case requests that the NPCC be updated according to the best available science and the IPCC’s sixth assessment report ( Climate Change 2021 ) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by the Brazilian government consistent with a 1.5 o C global warming scenario.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 18, 2023

Federal law to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is encouraging livestock feeding operations, like this one in Cochise County, Arizona, to convert manure to methane for electricity and transportation fuel. The plant will capture and sequester carbon emissions and be powered with renewable energy. greenhouse gas emissions.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lacked authority to administratively stay portions of new source performance standards for the oil and gas sector for which it had granted requests for reconsideration. New Jersey Appellate Court Affirmed State Authority to Take Easements for Coastal Protection Projects. FEATURED CASE.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2023

The proposal requires companies to report information related to “Scope 1” direct carbon emissions (think fuel use and greenhouse gases), “Scope 2” indirect carbon emissions (e.g., purchased energy and electricity), and for some companies to report on information related to “Scope 3” carbon emissions (i.e.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2022

Electric trucks, on the other hand, emit no tailpipe emissions. That’s a whopping difference and closer to the type of progress we need to see in the transportation sector if we’re serious about reducing carbon emissions and air pollution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2023

thus, it is crucial that we address carbon emissions from power plants. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently published a proposed rule which would limit carbon pollution from fossil fuel burning power plants, a move which is critically important, statutorily required, and long overdue.

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