PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Over the last 15 years, Penn State University has cut its carbon emissions by more than 35 percent, putting the University ahead of schedule to meet its goal of reducing greenhouse gas outputs to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. The group began meeting this summer and aims to share its recommendations by the end of this year.

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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.

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Law and Environment

JUNE 16, 2021

On June 10, 2021, the Transportation Climate Initiative Program (TCI-P) states released a final model rule creating a regional cap-and-trade-program to reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector. We wrote about the draft model rule and its implementation challenges when it was released at the beginning of March.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Here’s an embarrassing confession: Though I had taught environmental law for 25 years at that point, I had never heard of section 111(d) until it was discussed as possible tool to limit carbon emissions. That’s fair game in politics, but we should expect better of judges. .”

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2021

Bernal was politically-minded from a young age. But what galvanized her political consciousness were the Standing Rock protests, a sustained resistance movement of Native American communities against the Dakota Access oil pipeline, beginning in 2016. This view of the natural world lacks the ethic of reciprocity that she was taught.

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Legal Planet

JULY 28, 2022

At other end of the country and the political spectrum, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill providing $640 billion to fund coastal resilience efforts. There’s always been concern that talking about climate adaptation might mislead people into thinking that cutting carbon emissions isn’t urgent. The bill includes $1.5

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 5, 2022

On this theory, China seems to have a clear duty to pay: it emits about 28% of world carbon, so it should be paying a hefty fee to other countries to compensate them for the harm its current emissions will cause them now and in the future. Compensation for Past Conduct. Global Income Redistribution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Indeed, a peer-reviewed study published in September linked nearly half of all global carbon emissions from the biggest energy companies to just 10 financial institutions, led by Vanguard and BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager. To date, the commission has received more than 15,000 comments showing broad support.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The Federal Cabinet adopts its first climate target, a 25-30% cut in carbon emissions by 2005 under 1987 levels. Note: the estimates of 1990 emissions that I found are not entirely consistent, with one estimate closer to 1.2 Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. trillion tons.]

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Legal Planet

APRIL 8, 2024

Probably the more serious barrier to adaptation is that Nigeria has what is politely referred to as a governance problem. Conflict—triggered by political competition and communal, ethnic, religious or resource allocation rivalries—poses a major threat to democracy. Download as PDF

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Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

New California legislation will require corporations to disclose their carbon emissions. The resulting economic growth also helps create a stronger political base for aggressive expansion of clean energy. California set a 2035 deadline for eliminating gas and diesel cars, and eight other states are following suit.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

On a per capita basis, Australia’s carbon emissions are even higher than the United States. As in the US, Australia’s climate policy was long a victim of a lengthy period of divided government and political upheaval. A decade ago, Australia had a climate tax. That was repealed in 2014, and the ensuing period saw little progress.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Kathy Hochul of New York proposing to cut heat-trapping carbon emissions. Favorable political alignments could help many states convert water worries into action. Laura Kelly of Kansas explaining the need to conserve water from the shrinking Ogallala aquifer that nourishes the state’s agriculture industry. They are not alone.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 3, 2024

One of those ways could be summed up by saying “Carbon is Forever.” So today’s carbon emissions will still be warming the planet far into in the future. Forever is only a bit of an overstatement: NASA says CO2 stays in the atmosphere three hundred to a thousand years. This fact makes delays in climate policy really costly.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Furthermore, climate responses, both practical and political, are viewed and acted upon through a cultural lense. The same is true at the decision-making and political levels, where Indigenous and local communities have not had the platform to speak for themselves, rather than mediated through the voices of others.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Emissions trading systems are often launched with relatively lenient design features, typically justified as giving the system a chance to “learn-by-doing” and to gain political buy-in for approval of a program. Yet it can be difficult to make emission trading systems more environmentally ambitious after program launch.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Is this as opposed to a political purpose on the part of the managers? because the company engages in the exploration, production, utilization, transportation, sale, or manufacturing of fossil fuel based energy. ” Suppose instead that the company refuses to do business with firms with high carbon emissions. “.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

As part of Environmental Defences mission to inform voters about crucial environmental issues, weve put together a list of seven things that we believe all political parties should put in their election platforms to strengthen clean transportation options in Ontario. Ontarios provincial election is on February 27.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 20, 2023

The political dimension is a huge part of the solution to the water crisis,” said Federico Properzi, chief technical adviser of UN-Water. Reducing carbon emissions would relieve the mounting pressure of weather extremes. Charles Iceland of the World Resources Institute is tracking the commitments.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

Minnesota’s current goal is to reduce statewide carbon emissions 30 percent by 2025 compared to 2005 levels and 80 percent by 2050. The Minnesota House has proposed legislation to update the state’s target for reducing heat-trapping emissions to achieve “net zero” emissions by 2050 and reach 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2040.

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

My point is this: No matter how many battles we end up losing in the fight to stop carbon emissions, we can never afford to give up. It’s not hard to see why some people despair about the climate. The Paris Agreement’s goal is to keep global warming well below 2°C, preferably to 1.5° C, over pre-industrial levels.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 2, 2024

These results are consistent across voters for all political parties. A 2024 report by Environmental Defence and Équiterre, supported by modeling from Dunsky Climate + Energy advisors, found that this is possible to achieve with increased operations funding, and would reduce carbon emissions by 65 million tonnes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

A multi-decade legal history, including four Supreme Court decisions, has led to unimpeachable clarity on this one point: EPA has a statutory obligation to regulate carbon emissions from power plants under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act. EPA ruling, EPA can still establish rigorous carbon emissions standards.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2022

One important win came when the Dutch court ruled that Shell must cut carbon emissions from both its operations and the oil and gas products the company sells. Perhaps most importantly, the new IPCC assessment draws attention to research on disinformation and political polarization over climate science in the United States.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 24, 2024

All political parties can and should adopt strong policies to reduce our province’s greenhouse gas emissions, while building a robust green energy sector that supports Albertans and their communities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

There are multiple realistic, tangible solutions that would rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, yet policy addressing anthropogenic climate change remains slow and insufficient. This dangerous delay in action is largely due to the fossil fuel industry continuing to increase carbon emissions and standing in the way of change. .

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

This gave EPA the power to impose limits on carbon emissions by vehicles and industry. 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.

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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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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

On the opposite side of the world, a Dutch court mandated a 40% cut over the next ten years in carbon emissions by Shell Oil, including the emissions resulting from the ultimate use of its oil and gas. The judge used the Paris Agreement as the benchmark for setting the company’s obligations.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The issue has begun changing minds about climate change among recreational fishermen, a demographic that leans politically conservative. Across the country, these anxieties are gradually translating into political momentum. The root cause of the issue is global climate change. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

Carbon emissions stayed about constant under Bush, with an average around 5.6 Assuming parity between the two is a reasonably plausible, though ultimately unprovable, assumption. Given that assumption, we can roughly calculate the harm done by Bush. billion tons per year. billion by the time he left office, about a 13% cut.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In contrast to civil, political, and economic rights, cultural rights have been side-lined and neglected in dialogues about climate policy and human rights. Cultural rights include the right to freedom for scientific research and creative activity, and the right to participate in cultural life.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

CO 2 emissions remain mostly level through 2050—nowhere close to meeting US climate goals. Carbon emissions remain high. Here are five key takeaways from this year’s AEO, focused primarily on the electricity sector: 1. Source: US Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2022 (AEO2022).

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The Decision text of COP26 completed the Rulebook by resolving sticky issues on fundamental norms related to carbon emission markets under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (PA). The Rulebook sets out the functioning of international carbon markets to support global cooperation on ambitious emission reductions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Declining targets: State departments of transportation and metropolitan planning organizations are required to set carbon emission targets but figure out for themselves how they go about it. A single project can take years or decades to go from an idea to implementation and can go through political twists and turns along the way.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

However, the bill’s definition of what constitutes clean energy includes nuclear power (which doesn’t emit carbon but isn’t “clean”) and fossil gas power plants that capture and store at least 90 percent of their carbon emissions.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Across the country, these anxieties are gradually translating into political momentum. Recreational fishermen are a demographic that leans politically conservative, and the issue has begun changing minds about climate change. The good news is that, just as stress on river ecosystems accumulates, so too it can be lessened.

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