Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The post EPA’s $27 Billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to Prioritize Low-Income and Disadvantaged Communities appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. A minimum of $15 billion from the $27 billion fund will be allocated towards aiding underprivileged and low-income communities, and there will be two award competitions.

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Environment + Energy Leader

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The post Clorox Aims Trims Greenhouse Gases By 32% and Energy Use by 17% From 2011 Baseline appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. Clorox's key priorities include using 100% renewable energy to power its operations and reaching net-zero targets by 2050 from a 2011 baseline.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JUNE 9, 2023

When recent shifts from coal to lower-emission fuels, such as natural gas, have helped reduce the amount of emissions associated with energy usage.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The program requires oil companies to continually reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of California’s transportation fuels. It’s what CARB must do again now. The Low Carbon Fuel Standard is one of California’s most innovative policy successes.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JUNE 19, 2023

According to a Cornell study, the metaverse can greatly contribute to reducing business travel, a major carbon emitter as well as reduce transportation and commercial energy usage, transforming energy distribution.

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

In one of three new reports on emissions, UN officials went as far as saying that the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius may be out of reach.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Circuit decision that upheld EPAs finding emission of greenhouse gases endangers human health and welfare. It also upheld the Obama Administrations pathbreaking regulation of greenhouse gases from vehicles. Coalition for Responsible Regulation v. EPA (2012 ). This is a D.C.

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

and western Europe while intensifying production elsewhere could drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions, with little hit to global protein production, a new study shows. Removing cattle from carbon-rich soils in the eastern U.S.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Similarly, there have been increases in other greenhouse gases , which Gavin nicely describes in his recent post Operationalizing Climate Science. In a nutshell, they are responsible for climate change, mainly due to an increased greenhouse effect.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 17, 2024

People now really are discussing the possibility of making intentional interventions to change the climate — or rather, to reduce some of the climate disruptions that are happening and coming due to human elevated greenhouse gases. These interventions would not precisely offset greenhouse-gas-driven climate change.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

greenhouse gas emissions and 0.1% The eighty-mile stretch of track in question would connect the Uinta Basin with the national rail network. The main purpose is to provide a way to get a lot more oil and possibly some minerals to market. The Basin’s oil production would represent up to 0.8% of global emissions.

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New Scientist

JANUARY 3, 2025

Countries have pledged to phase out HFC-23, a powerful greenhouse gas, but atmospheric data shows that emissions are five times higher than governments are reporting

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Achieving climate goals requires significant investments in clean energy, transportation, and other climate technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and remove carbon from the atmosphere.

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Yale E360

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Oil, gas, and coal exports are not counted when countries tally their greenhouse gas emissions under the Paris Agreement. This allows wealthy nations to report progress on emissions reduction goals, while shipping their fossil fuels — and the pollution they produce — overseas. Read more on E360 →

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Yale E360

JUNE 17, 2021

Now, scientists see the beginnings of a more sudden, disruptive rearrangement of the world’s flora — a trend that will intensify if greenhouse gas emissions are not reined in. Previous periods of rapid warming millions of years ago drastically altered plants and forests on Earth. Read more on E360 ?.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2024

million-- to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve water quality on more than 50 farms and the National Hemp Association -- $19.6 On October 25, US Senator Bob Casey announced $40 million in funding to the Department of Agriculture and Land O'Lakes Farmer Cooperative -- $21.2

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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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Yale E360

MAY 19, 2022

Despite decades of studies and climate summits, greenhouse gas emissions continue to soar. Energy scientist Vaclav Smil says it’s time to stop ricocheting between apocalyptic forecasts and rosy models of rapid CO2 cuts and focus on the difficult task of remaking our energy system. Read more on E360 ?.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

The cause of our changing climate is the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations that we have released into the air. Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) is the most important greenhouse gas that we have added to the atmosphere, however, some of it has been absorbed by land and oceans.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

So this is an attempt to put all of that in context and provide a hopefully comprehensive guide to how, when, and why to properly compare the two greenhouse gases. You might recall that GWP is defined as the ratio on per-kg basis of the temperature impact of other greenhouse gases compared to CO 2 over a specific time period.

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Real Climate

MARCH 20, 2025

As well as the (now) standard set of graphs related to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations , rising temperatures , reducing glacier mass, etc., since the 1850-1900 baseline is very clearly associated with the increases in greenhouse gases, slightly (and decreasingly) modulated by the changes in atmospheric pollution.

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Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Wabtec estimates that the FLXdrive reduces a freight train’s total fuel consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, particulate matter, and nitrogen oxides by at least 10%. The post Union Pacific To Purchase Ten Battery-Powered Locomotives from Wabtec appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Environment + Energy Leader

OCTOBER 7, 2022

of the globe’s greenhouse gases. Patagonia is committed to organic materials and running all its operations using renewable energy. Indeed, the apparel industry is responsible for 6.7% The post Patagonia is Committed to Using Organic Materials and 100% Renewable Energy appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Yale E360

JUNE 15, 2021

New satellites are bolstering this urgent mission by pinpointing emitters of this potent greenhouse gas from space. Stemming the methane leaks from landfills, oil fields, natural gas pipelines and more is one of the most powerful levers we have to quickly slow global warming. Read more on E360 ?.

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Environment + Energy Leader

APRIL 19, 2022

Nine global brands have been added to the Supplier Leadership on Climate Transition (Supplier LoCT), a consortium created to accelerate action throughout the supply chain in the march toward net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Net-zero greenhouse gas emission does not have any geophysical significance. Wherever the authors had made a reference to net-zero CO2 emissions, the Saudis (and sometimes China) tried to amend it to say net-zero greenhouse gases instead. coming as part of the upgrade to Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) for the COP26 meeting.

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Inside Climate News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

By Bob Berwyn A trio of reports released ahead of next month’s COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan all show that the existing national policies to cut greenhouse gas emissions under the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement will heat the planet by close to 3 degrees Celsius by 2100, as warming has accelerated in the past few years.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2024

It is significant because if its huge public health benefits and because it has provided the basis for EPA regulation of greenhouse gases. This California law imposes limits on greenhouse gas emissions from new vehicles, a breakthrough in U.S. If I were listing laws in order of importance, I would put the CAA on top. Pavley Act.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Once enacted by the Governor, these two bills will set a new national standard for greenhouse gas emissions reporting and for disclosure of climate-related financial risks consistent with the framework established by the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD). Breaking news!

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

We can explore the issues and pitfalls of this using the ‘simple model’ of the greenhouse effect we explored back in 2007. The simplest model for the greenhouse effect. Over the last 20 years the LW radiative forcing change from well-mixed greenhouse gases is around 0.7 A simple model with feedbacks.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It is 33 years now since the IPCC in its first report in 1990 concluded that it is “certain” that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities “will enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting on average in an additional warming of the Earth’s surface.”

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Yale E360

AUGUST 3, 2021

While pandemic-related lockdowns led to a dramatic drop in greenhouse gas emissions last year, the event that had the biggest impact on the climate in 2020 was actually a series of devastating bushfires in Australia, according to a new study.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

To identify which fuels should be promoted, CARB calculates the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels. In these “carbon intensity” calculations, CARB is not allowed to count reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that are already required by law. Agricultural operations are almost uniquely unregulated.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

This concern centers on the fact that by premising eligibility of combustion or gasification (C&G) facilities on net greenhouse gas emissions rates, the framework opens the door to complex issues requiring careful resolution to avoid heavily polluting generators exploiting carbon accounting loopholes. Fuel blending.

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Environment + Energy Leader

DECEMBER 19, 2022

European Union governments and lawmakers reached a deal Sunday about key elements of the 27-nation bloc’s green deal, reforming the EU’s trading system for greenhouse gas emissions. The post EU Reforms Elements of the Green Deal appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Yale E360

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Scientists say climate negotiators have misjudged the effects of rising methane emissions and warn the potent greenhouse gas could imperil hopes of meeting mid-century climate targets. The key, they say, is to focus on cutting those emissions and their big short-term impact. Read more on E360 ?.

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Environment + Energy Leader

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Campbell Soup Company and Enel North America today announced a 12-year virtual renewable power purchase agreement, supporting Campbell’s goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The post Campbell Soup Company to Source 115 MW of Renewable Energy from Oklahoma Wind Farm appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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