Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 4, 2023

In the coming years, Californians will begin to see a massive switch away from highly polluting fossil-fueled trucks to zero-emission electric trucks. Additionally, the rule phases out the sale of fossil-fueled trucks in 2036. Why did the state create this truck rule?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

The Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule, which I’ve blogged about in detail before, will phase out fossil-fueled trucks over the next several decades. Many electric work vans and home-delivery trucks already show a favorable lifetime cost over comparable fossil-fueled models. There are more than 1.8 pollution from vehicles.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 13, 2024

If we are to avert climate catastrophe, the shipping sector must immediately begin to eliminate the 1 billion-plus metric tons of greenhouse gases it emits every year. To reach these targets, a massive energy transition from dirty conventional marine fuels to zero-emission energy (like wind-assisted propulsion) and fuels is imperative.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

Hydrogen’s supply-side has been buttressed by incentives from state and federal governments, refineries and utilities looking to extend the life of fossil fuel infrastructure, and renewable energy companies seeking to take advantage of the huge amounts of clean energy needed to produce green hydrogen.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 7, 2022

As governments enact mandatory greenhouse gas emission laws and as businesses voluntarily make “net zero” pledges, we are increasingly working with organizations, first to understand and calculate their GHG emissions, then to implement strategies for efficacious yet frictionless reductions. Organic waste sent to landfills emits CH4.

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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. Warmer water also expands and raises sea levels as well as holds less oxygen.

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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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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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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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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This investment will enable us to begin transitioning our fleet from burning fossil fuels to using renewable resources to reduce our carbon footprint, which will benefit both our company and our community.” 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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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 9, 2023

This makes methane reduction crucial for addressing the urgency of climate change and buying time for the development and implementation of longer term greenhouse gas strategies. Carbon dioxide emissions, on the other hand, arise almost exclusively from burning fossil fuels.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution. It's unlikely Bitcoin will do anything to alleviate this issue.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution. It's unlikely Bitcoin will do anything to alleviate this issue.

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Science & Climate

APRIL 22, 2021

Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in California. The studies are designed to identify paths to slash transportation-related fossil fuel demand and emissions while also managing a strategic, responsible decline in transportation-related fossil fuel supply. featured image by Getty.

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 18, 2016

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.”. for example, allows both open-air and greenhouse rooftop farming. gency (EPA). , Through green-roofs. ,

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. including urban photochemical smog, acid rain and increased tropospheric ozone, and climate change at the local, regional, and global level respectively. would be to charge individuals based on their consumption (usually of fossil fuel) as a proxy for their total carbon emissions.

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Real Climate

JULY 10, 2022

Step 1: There is a natural greenhouse effect. Thus there must be a large amount of IR absorbed by the atmosphere (around 158 W/m 2 ) – a number that would be zero in the absence of any greenhouse substances. Step 2: Trace gases contribute to the natural greenhouse effect. The Earth’s Energy Budget (NASA).

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

It’s in their very first mitigation recommendation, for a “graduated, differentiated phaseout” in production and consumption of fossil fuels. Isn’t it obvious that the world needs to get rid of fossil fuels, and haven’t a bunch of people called for it? Targeting fossil fuels not emissions.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

The California Supreme Court declined to review an intermediate appellate court’s decision upholding the statewide greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program. They alleged that the standards could reduce annual greenhouse gas emissions by more than 26 million metric tons and save $24 billion over 30 years.

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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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2022

From World War II to the two Wars in Iraq to Putin’s war on Ukraine, control and access to fossil fuels have been center-stage. With so many conflicts being financed and inflamed by fossil fuels, we would do well to remember President George W. Our own kids, far from the conflict zone, can’t wait either. Mitchell C.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

As the world ran almost entirely on coal power at that time (and later on petroleum fossil fuels), it was quite clear that coal was not an infinite resource, and some scientists pleaded in the countries of most heavy use to take steps to limit mining and burning. Energy Conservation. Energy Conservation.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Hydrogen is an indirect greenhouse gas that can lead to the formation of ozone and methane. Emissions Performance Standards The process of hydrogen production and delivery poses significant leakage risks if not actively managed.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Nitrous oxide has been called the “ forgotten greenhouse gas ” because while it is a powerful contributor to climate change, it generates far fewer headlines than carbon dioxide. But nitrous oxide is even more insidiously efficient at disrupting the climate.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that traps about 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide, on average, over the first 20 years after it reaches the atmosphere and is responsible for approximately one third of the warming from greenhouse gases occurring today. can take in the short term to slow the rate of climate change.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Circuit found that FERC failed to address the significance of a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulation that the petitioners argued required use of the social cost of carbon or another methodology to assess the impacts of the projects’ greenhouse gas emissions. Vecinos para el Bienestar de la Comunidad Costera v. 20-1045 (D.C.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Shapiro’s Work Group Concludes A Cap-And-Invest Carbon Pollution Regulation Program Would Be Optimal Approach To Reducing Greenhouse Emissions From Power Plants; Scale Up Solar Energy [PaEN] -- Inside Climate News - Kiley Bense: Gov. 1-7; PA Climate Convergence Oct. 1-2 [PaEN] -- CEOs For Sustainability Host C-Suite Summit Nov.

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Legal Planet

MAY 24, 2022

It seems clear that the Court will strike down the third pillar of the Clean Power Plan, which targets overall shifts in a state’s generation mix, including shifts away from companies owning fossil fuel plants to other generators. Scenario #4: The Court entirely strips EPA of power to regulate greenhouse gases.

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Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The emissions make a significant contribution to climate change because methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas which, in the first 20 years after it is released, traps approximately 84 times more heat in the earth’s atmosphere than carbon dioxide (on a per ton basis).

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. In 2022, Texas, along with several other states and industry groups representing fuel manufacturers (together, Petitioners), challenged EPA’s new emissions standards in court.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. Circuit vacated the 2015 rule to the extent that it prohibited continued use of HFCs by companies that previously switched to HFCs from an ozone-depleting substance. In Mexichem , the D.C.

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

Despite the panel’s regular reports about the consequences of burning fossil fuels, between 1990 and 2019 global emissions rose 54 percent and they are still rising. This latest report looks at mitigation — or what the world can do to stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Secretary-General António Guterres.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

CEQ is also planning to revive guidance on how to factor greenhouse gas emissions and climate change into NEPA reviews, after Obama-era guidance was yanked by the Trump administration. The agenda notes DOE is preparing a major rulemaking to reduce the use of fossil fuels in federal buildings — an implementation of a 2007 law.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The SCC is a metric that seeks to capture all of the costs that emitting a ton of carbon dioxide (or equivalent amounts of other greenhouse gases such as methane) imposes on society by contributing to climate change over the hundreds of years it remains in the atmosphere. 4:21-cv-00287-SPM (E.D. March 8, 2021).]] 2019); Birckhead v.

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ESA

MAY 15, 2023

International UAE spokesperson says that the world is not ready to “switch off” fossil fuels ahead of COP28. This proposed rule requires power plants to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 90% between 2035 and 2040 – or shut down. 12 at the Expo City Dubai, UAE.

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