Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

By Georgina Gustin At its annual conference on climate change this week, the United Nations released a major report saying the world has little hope of reaching global climate targets without quickly lowering emissions of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas that’s nearly 300 times more powerful at warming the atmosphere than carbon dioxide.

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Inside Climate News

APRIL 3, 2023

By Phil McKenna Emissions of a small group of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), man-made chemicals that destroy Earth’s protective ozone layer and fuel global warming, are back on the rise after their production was all but banned more than a decade ago, a new study concludes.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Today, climate change is the central, though by no means the only, concern in environmental law. Westlaw searches for “global warming” and “greenhouse effect” pick up only a handful of citations before 1985. I found only one relevant reference using the term “climate change” before 1985.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The detection and the attribution of climate change are based on fundamentally different frameworks and shouldn’t be conflated. But there is a fundamental problem here to which I’ll return below. But first, an easy example: Global mean surface temperatures. As in the previous example, it’s not even wrong.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 3, 2022

Climate researchers are learning that warming temperatures and heat waves resulting from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions could adversely affect air quality in the United States and increase deaths from air pollution exposure. This effect is referred to as the “climate penalty.” Read the full story from U.S.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

No serious person is advocating for any large-scale deployment of solar geoengineering or substituting it for other urgent climate change mitigations, so the shorthand use of “opponent” or “supporter” is itself misleading and pushes voices to extremes. Anyone can float a balloon. Critics believe it is the path to catastrophe.”

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

“Hilcorp and XTO Energy’s violations contributed to smog that reduces air quality, as well as methane releases that are a primary driver of near-term climate change,” said Assistant Administrator David M. These settlements are part of the EPA’s National Enforcement and Compliance Initiative Mitigating Climate Change.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

In the last few months he has given two interviews in which he goes into to detail about what he describes as a ‘missing element’ in climate science and what he imagines the consequences are for climate change. Clauser however takes that number, removes 80 and 20 W/m 2 for atmospheric absorption by ozone (!!)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Medium- and heavy-duty vehicles (MHDVs), like the big rigs on our highways and the vans that deliver our packages, make up just over 1 in 10 of the vehicles on our roads, but are responsible for over half of ozone-forming nitrogen oxide pollution and lung-damaging fine particulate pollution from on-road vehicles.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 8, 2023

The de riguer environmental imperative of responding to the immediate threat of global warming through reducing greenhouse gas emissions, to the detriment of other environmental impacts, is simply taking one environmental impact too far. This is not my perspective alone.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

For example, EPA rules limiting ozone pollution or carbon from power plants move the first lever, while the combined $1.25 Throughout this year, EPA has heard from numerous stakeholders at many forums and made these interesting changes to the design. Details on eligible applicants and coalitions for this section are available here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 4, 2023

Trucks and buses on California’s roads and highways are responsible for the majority of lung-damaging fine particulate and ozone-forming nitrogen oxide emissions, and a sizable amount of climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions as well.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 9, 2023

In this blog post, we will explore why targeting methane emissions presents a more advantageous strategy for the United States in its quest to mitigate climate change. Co Benefits for Human Health : Methane is a key precursor of tropospheric ozone (ground level), a harmful air pollutant.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

And to zoom out a bit, burning fossil fuels is the primary contributor to global climate change, which is driving and exacerbating the once-rare extreme weather events that are impacting people across every part of the country—and across the world. It must not respond by watering the protections down based on industry disinformation.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

States and local air quality regulators have the legal authority to set particulate matter (PM), ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions standards and adopt regulations for these pollutants when they are already in attainment of the national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQS ) set by the U.S.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 4, 2021

Plug gaps to measure ozone-destroying chemicals and greenhouse gases and verify compliance with Paris and Montreal treaties. Read the full story at Nature. Read more →

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Real Climate

MAY 12, 2021

The CPDW is thought to be affected by the shift in the westerly winds around Antarctica which have increased in recent decades due to a combination of greenhouse gas forcing and the polar ozone hole ( Miller et al, 2006 ). 2020) or Sadai et al. References. Miller, G.A. Schmidt, and D.T. Marshall, M. Russell, L.S. Nazarenko, Y.

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Breezometer

JANUARY 26, 2022

While the movie might seem pessimistic to many, our hope is that climate tech innovation and rising awareness will assist us all in the creation of a positive, safe and healthy future. Climate Change is No Laughing Matter. But it’s up to all of us to act. By the 2040s, wildfire numbers could increase by 32% and burn area by 33%.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

China is intent on using the Winter Olympics to showcase how they’re at the forefront of implementing low-carbon technologies and thereby tackling climate change. This is replacing the traditional hydrofluorocarbons which have been found to damage the ozone layer. Photo credit: Beijing 2022. By Anders Lorenzen.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

million commercial trucks on California roads, and although they make up just seven percent of vehicles on the road, these trucks are responsible for more than one-quarter of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, more than 60 percent of smog-forming nitrogen oxides (NOx) and more than 55 percent of lung- and heart-harming fine particulate (PM2.5)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule has the potential to significantly reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as harmful air pollutants like fine particulates (PM2.5) This new regulation would apply to delivery vans, big rigs, box trucks, and buses.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Basin does not meet the state or federal ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter, and existing regulations have to date proved insufficient to bring the Basin into compliance. The SCAQMD is the local agency responsible for attaining these clean air standards in the Basin. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Mitigation – deep rapid cuts to worldwide emissions – is the first, essential element of effective climate response. I don’t think there’s anyone thinking seriously about climate change who disagrees with this. First, what the Earth system sees and what actually matters for climate change is net emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2022

million in Alternative Fuel Incentive Grants (AFIGs) to 18 cleaner fuel transportation projects statewide that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollutants. Transportation generates 47 percent of nitrogen oxide emissions in Pennsylvania, contributing to the formation of ground-level ozone.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2022

. -- Air pollutant reductions and human-health improvements – the DEP Electric Vehicle Roadmap indicates that a number of Pennsylvania counties consistently exceed EPA human-health standards for ozone and fine-particulate matter. The burning of transportation fuels, such as gasoline and diesel, is a substantial source of air pollution.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Some in the industry see the warming as an opportunity, as passages through the Arctic open for longer periods, even going so far as to claim there will be lower overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the shorter voyages. Maritime shipping must do its part to tackle climate change. as a national policy leader.

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 18, 2016

Summary: Green-roof zoning laws may provide a solution to the Urban Heat Island Effect, which contributes to anthropogenic climate change through heat pollution originating from large cities. Green-roofs are an overlooked solution to the complex problem of heat pollution, which contributes to anthropogenic climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This funding builds on Governor Shapiro’s agenda to create a bold, comprehensive climate and energy plan that will grow Pennsylvania’s economy, protect and create jobs, and address climate change. It also helps lower the level of carbon dioxide, one of the greenhouse gases heating up the climate, in the air.

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Law Columbia

MAY 24, 2024

For many, this problem is writ large in the climate context. On one view, this might seem to set the stage for the exacerbation of a fragmented international legal response, ‘undermining the foundations of future cooperation combating climate change’.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

The House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing May 1 on cryptocurrency and climate change. At the hearing, Robert Altenburg, PennFuture’s Senior Director for Energy and Climate presented an overview of cryptocurrency mining in Pennsylvania and its environmental impacts.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In addition to the 22 percent passenger and light duty vehicle requirement, the proposed regulation will also add a greenhouse gas fleet average requirement for Pennsylvania sales. There is no ban on traditional internal combustion engine vehicles.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Shapiro’s agenda to create a bold, comprehensive climate and energy plan that will grow Pennsylvania’s economy, protect and create jobs, and address climate change. It also helps lower the level of carbon dioxide, helping to address climate change. It builds on Gov. The deadline is December 15.

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Capaccio

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) were developed and introduced in the late 1980s to serve as replacements for ozone-depleting substances (ODS) primarily used in the air conditioning, refrigeration, aerosols, fire suppression, and foam blowing industries.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

The past two years have yielded unprecedented executive and regulatory engagement in the climate change discussion. international climate change agreement. to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Furthermore, the specific effects of carbon emissions on global climate change are also. free market.

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Science & Climate

APRIL 22, 2021

Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in California. In order to achieve the state’s goals of carbon neutrality by 2045 and avoid the worst impacts of climate change, decarbonizing this sector is essential. Health: Transportation is a major cause of local air pollution, as well as climate change.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. and non-U.S. The magistrate judge’s order also set the trial to begin on February 5, 2018.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

True, methane is a potent greenhouse gas. Because methane contributes to ozone pollution, emissions cause immediate health effects as well as warming effects. Before we can take those steps, institutions and public attitudes will themselves have to adapt to the realities of climate change. According to the U.N., “a

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