Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Working Group 3: Mitigation of Climate Change Evaluates pathways for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable development strategies, and the role of finance, technology, and policy in achieving net-zero emissions. Delegates questioned when (or if) the IPCC should develop methodologies for technologies with unclear risks.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

Most prominently, because the approach is changing from rewarding specific technologies to rewarding anything that meets the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions threshold of “clean”—hence the “tech-neutral” label—exactly how the government goes about determining whether or not something is actually eligible will be enormously important.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

With the shift to a tax credit premised on technology-neutral framing, the risk is high that heavily polluting power plants—the very polluters this tax credit is meant to drive the shift away from—instead co-opt it for their own. UCS appreciates and strongly supports this effort. Lifecycle analyses must be based on rigorous carbon accounting.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 13, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency announced $2,400,000 for 24 small businesses to develop technologies to address public health and environmental challenges. in State College to create an activated metal oxide technology to mitigate the environmental impact of phosphorus runoff into water bodies and enhance crop productivity.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 31, 2022

by Klaus Lackner, Arizona State University Two centuries of burning fossil fuels has put more carbon dioxide, a powerful greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere than nature can remove. As that CO2 builds up, it traps excess heat near Earth’s surface, causing global warming.

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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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Environment + Energy Leader

JUNE 10, 2022

The post Australia’s Telstra Cuts Greenhouse Gases by 11% by Focusing on Efficiency and Renewables appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. Telstra easily hits in carbon neutrality goal in 2020. Now it wants to bring its suppliers on board.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Not only does this contradict the Minister’s stated commitment to a “technology-agnostic” energy planning process, where the best and cheapest technology would win, but it also disregards the clear evidence that wind and solar are the most cost-effective sources of new electricity generation.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 2, 2024

The oil and gas industry has been unwilling to reduce its emissions voluntarily, instead banking on ineffective technology like carbon capture and storage (CCS). Alberta continues to generate more greenhouse gas pollution than any other province in the country, accounting for nearly 40 per cent of Canada’s emissions.

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Scientific American

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The ocean absorbs more than 90% of the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gasses and generates 50% of the oxygen we breathe. Renewable energy technologies are rapidly advancing, becoming increasingly competitive and, in many cases, becoming cheaper in cost and more efficient than fossil fuels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

An equitable and people-centered transition of this nature will require changes that go beyond the necessary technological shifts and must focus on overcoming significant social, institutional, and behavioral barriers. In other words, technological solutions are necessary but not sufficient. How do we make this transformation happen?

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 3, 2021

utilities have been slower to adopt the energy- and emissions-saving technologies than those in other parts of the world. Despite the economic advantages of these technologies and their potential environmental benefits, U.S. Despite the economic advantages of these technologies and their potential environmental benefits, U.S.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The article surveys a range of criticisms of the use of carbon taxes as a tool to address greenhouse gas emissions, and criticisms of the focus of many economists on carbon taxes as the primary tool to address climate change. That’s the question implicitly raised by this article in the New York Times from late August.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Utilities were famously set in their ways, using nineteenth century technologies to produce and deliver their products. Energy use accounts for the bulk of greenhouse gas emissions. Technological changes. Only specialists really paid much attention. All that has changed dramatically. Energy law is a hot topic. Climate change.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Carbon capture has never worked as promised, the carbon is dangerous to transport, and the technology is extremely expensive, especially compared to the plummeting costs of renewable energy. This isn’t just a bad bet for the climate, it’s bad for Albertans.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

ExxonMobil’s reduction pledges do not take Scope 3 emissions into account, and the company’s leadership takes issue with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s approach to measuring emissions, as described below. Studies show Scope 3 emissions account for roughly 85% of oil and gas emissions.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

Last week, MIT’s “Technology Review” reported that a small startup firm is proposing to spray reflective aerosols in the stratosphere commercially as a climate corrective. Even more seriously — and unlike removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere — SAI perturbs the climate in a different way than greenhouse gases.

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New Scientist

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Food production is responsible for more than a third of greenhouse gas emissions. To get everyone the food they need in a warming world, governments worldwide must invest in securing our food systems

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The scoping process has been key to California’s success in cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The State of New York most recently adopted the scoping process as part of an aggressive new scheme to cut greenhouse gas emissions. b) The range of projected air pollution reductions that result from the measure. (c)

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The plan describes in great detail the pathways to achieving the Climate Act’s ambitious requirements, and frames for the clean energy market the technologies and strategies that will be more (or less, in some cases) promising in New York State for decades to come.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2023

Chevron’s board of directors said that “reducing Chevron’s absolute Scope 3 greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions is not in stockholders’ interests, nor should it be Chevron’s responsibility.” This method allows companies to get credit for using carbon offsets as well as technologies such as carbon capture and storage.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

Because while this decision does still recognize EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, it simultaneously sharply curtails the agency’s ability to do so. EPA did not revoke EPA’s underlying authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Unfortunately, those ominous signs were right on the mark.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We’ve been hearing a lot lately about geoengineering – the various scientific theories and governance ideas that could eventually lead to technological interventions to help cool the planet. In fact, the academic sources that this story describes as “supporters” simply support the goal of further studying geoengineering.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 2, 2022

billion to the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), with language clearly instructing the USDA to “prioritize projects and activities that mitigate or address climate change through the management of agricultural production, including by reducing or avoiding greenhouse gas emissions.”

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2025

And how can we provide job opportunities for the tremendously skilled workers in traditional energy domains while also training the workers we need to accelerate emerging technologies? New and emerging geothermal technologies allow us to tap into and extract the earths naturally occurring heat in ways that were not possible a decade ago.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This technology can be confusing and complex, so I have included a terms section for the italicized words at the end of this piece. Hydrometallurgical recycling is the best available technology because it has high mineral recovery rates and results in low environmental impacts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Research shows there are enough explored or prospective reserves to electrify the global transportation sector using current technology if a high amount of battery recycling occurs. Reserve estimations are therefore much less than total resources and fluctuate based on material value, mineral exploration, and technological development.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

What makes me most optimistic are the recent technological innovations and falling costs for renewable energy generation, battery storage and alternative fuel vehicles. Now, a framework of foreign diplomacy exists through which we can decide how to best utilize new technologies as they develop. –Tom Hanrahan, JD 2023.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

By Penn State News With a goal of achieving 100% greenhouse gas emissions reduction by 2035, Penn State – under the direction of President Neeli Bendapudi -- is moving forward with several of the recommendations presented by the University’s Carbon Emissions Reduction Task Force in Spring 2022.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2023

In 2016 Monterey County voters passed Measure Z, a citizen initiative intended to bar the drilling of new oil and gas wells in the county and ban the use of fracking technology for existing wells in Monterey County. The oil and gas industry, led by Chevron U.S.A.,

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Inside Climate News

MAY 26, 2024

Environmentalists counter that carbon capture technology is unproven, expensive and, at best, of minimal benefit.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But while greenhouse gas emissions may be reduced, a delivery fulfilled by a diesel-burning truck may lead to increases in emissions of smog-forming nitrogen oxides and lung-damaging particulate matter. While the latter part of this conclusion is obvious, the former part isn’t as much.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Transportation is a large contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, auto manufacturers can access further information through the onboard diagnostic system, a proprietary technology that is only available at certified mechanics. While these batteries are revolutionary, they don’t last forever.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 3, 2023

EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act (CAA) A. Investment and incentives for clean technologies under the Inflation Reduction Act. Administrative law questions, including the major questions doctrine. Standing based on climate impacts C. Social Cost of Carbon D. Co-benefits E. Climate science F.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2021

As the climate crisis grows more urgent, unconventional technological responses are getting increased attention and controversy. We’ve written previously on Legal Planet about these technologies and their promise and risks. Reynolds, who recently completed an Emmett Institute Geoengineering Governance Fellowship.

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Nanotech

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The rule establishes guidelines for the reporting and verification of practices and technologies used to The post Biden USDA Issues Technical Guidelines for Climate-Smart Agriculture Crops Used as Biofuel Feedstocks appeared first on Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

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