Filed under: Climate Change, Sustainability | Tags: Carbon, Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) latest report on United States (U.S.) annual emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) (available at http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/usinventoryreport.html) confirms the trend seen over the latest few years — the U.S. emitted 1.6 percent fewer tons of carbon dioxide equivalents in 2011 than in 2010. In fact, 2011 emissions were 6.9 percent lower than the amount emitted in 2005 (which was the baseline used in the failed federal climate change legislation). However, the U.S. 2011 emissions were 8 percent higher than in 1990 (the baseline year for the Kyoto Protocol) and will need to be reduced another 10.1 percent to meet the Administration’s goal of a 17 percent reduction in U.S. emissions from 2005 to 2020. (more…)
Filed under: Climate Change, Sustainability | Tags: GHG, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Sustainability Practices
In its January 22, 2013 publication, Reducing Risk and Driving Business Value, the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) reported that 38 percent of suppliers in the U.S. product supply chain have set internal targets for greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions, with 29 percent achieving year-on-year reductions. Interestingly, 92 percent of the CDP Supply Chain Project companies (more…)
Filed under: Climate Change | Tags: Carbon, Caselaw, DOE, EPA, GHG, Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Late last year, in Coalition for Responsible Regulation v. EPA, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (by a 6 to 2 vote) rejected petitions seeking to rehear en banc a three judge panel’s unanimous per curiam decision to uphold the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Air Act (CAA) greenhouse gas “tailoring” rule. (more…)
In a recent INSIDEEPA.COM article as well as other publications, sources predict that 2013 may see increased EPA enforcement based on greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions.
With a number of GHG-related regulations already on the books and more nearing finalization, EPA’s recent focus (more…)
Filed under: CleanTech, Climate Change, Sustainability | Tags: GHG, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Renewable Energy, Sustainability Practices
According to a December report prepared by the World Wildlife Fund, Ceres, and Calvert Investments, two thirds of Fortune 100 companies have adopted commitments to reduce (more…)
