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7 Things to Know About Burning Hydrogen in Gas Plants: An H2 FAQ 

Union of Concerned Scientists

In turn, this means a given percentage of hydrogen (by volume) blended in doesnt lead to the same percentage reduction in the amount of gasor to the same reduction of carbon emissions. A blend with 50% hydrogen by volume, for example, gets you only 23% less smokestack carbon pollution.

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The Emperor’s New Endangerment Theory (Wrap-Up)

Legal Planet

billion tons of carbon dioxide a year, a little less than the entire country of Russia. The Trump Administration is proposing to end all regulation of carbon emissions by power plants, on the theory that these emissions should be considered insignificant. power sector’s emissions are only 3% of global emissions.

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The Emperor’s New Endangerment Theory (Part I)

Legal Planet

EPA’s core argument is that the statute requires it to determine whether an industry’s emissions “significantly cause or contribute” to climate change and that the industry’s carbon emissions don’t meet that standard. power industry’s emissions are nearly as large as Russia’s total emissions.

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EPA Moves to Ignore Power Plant Carbon Emissions, Deny Climate Science 

Union of Concerned Scientists

On June 11, less than five months into the Trump administration, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin used a rulemaking about regulating power plant carbon pollution to officially establish climate denial as EPA policy. Plus, a rundown on how to fight back. What is EPA proposing to do? And that’s not all.

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EPA’s Power Plant Carbon Rules Are Critical—and Complex. Here’s What to Know, and What to Watch.

Union of Concerned Scientists

Through the Clean Air Act , and as affirmed—and reaffirmed—through multiple legal sagas, EPA is statutorily obligated to address carbon pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants. Indeed, EPA still retains the ability to set strong standards that curtail carbon pollution at the scale, speed, and rigor required.

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FRESH, October 4, 2022: Carbon Dioxide Storage and Transport Emerges as Political Flashpoint

Circle of Blue

If carbon emissions continue to rise until the middle of the century, this figure climbs to $2.2 The new law creates a permitting process for polluting companies to capture carbon dioxide emissions and store them in underground chambers. Wisconsin faces difficulty enforcing pollution control from small farms.

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Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Holds that Regional Climate Program Rule is an Illegal Tax

MGKF Law

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. Bowfin KeyCon Holdings, LLC vs. Pa. Dep’t of Env’t Prot. Env’t Quality Bd. 2023 WL 7171547, at *1 (Pa. Env’t Quality Bd.