SCOTLAND ABANDONS AMBITIOUS GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION TARGET
The Scottish government has decided to abandon its ambitious target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 75% by 2030, due to its unattainability (BBC,
The Scottish government has decided to abandon its ambitious target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 75% by 2030, due to its unattainability (BBC,
Last week, China and the United States released a joint statement agreeing to greenhouse gas reductions and accelerating renewable energy development. The announcement comes just a few weeks ahead of important climate talks at the COP28 in Dubai (New York Times, AP, Politico).
would require the Secretary of the Interior and the chief of the Forest Service to align management of public lands and waters with the president's greenhouse gas emission reduction goals.
The Air Quality Control Commission proposed amendments to the state's greenhouse gas reporting and emission reduction requirements. The amendments would address recovered methane protocols for use in clean heat plans to help demonstrate greenhouse gas reductions by gas utilities and develop a crediting and tracking system for recovered methane. A hearing will be held November 16, 2022. Comments are due November 1, 2022.
The Division of Air Quality proposed new rules and amendments as part of a comprehensive strategy to implement relevant provisions of the Global Warming Response Act. The Act requires New Jersey to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 80% less than the 2006 level by 2050. In particular, this rulemaking seeks to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from: (1) fossil fuel-fired electric generating units through the application of emission limits; (2) commercial and industrial fossil fuel-fired boilers based upon additional permit requirements; and (3) No. 4 and No.
would amend the Internal Revenue Code to establish a carbon fee to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Executive Order 13693 of March 19, 2015
Planning for Federal Sustainability in the Next Decade
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to maintain Federal leadership in sustainability and greenhouse gas emission reductions, it is hereby ordered as follows: