Environmental Defense Fund - Building a vital Earth for everyone
WEBAdvancing toward a clean energy future. Natural solutions. Boosting nature’s ability to capture and store carbon. Sustainable fishing. Making fishing communities stronger and fish more plentiful. Hydrogen. Helping the world get hydrogen energy right. Clean Air. Helping a billion people breathe cleaner air in this decade.
9 ways we know humans caused climate change - Environmental …
WEBMay 9, 2024 · 3. Measuring CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and trapped in ice to find they are increasing, with levels higher than anything we’ve seen in nearly a million years (measurements beginning in the 1950s). 4. Chemical analysis of the atmospheric CO2 that reveals the increase is coming from …
How cap and trade works - Environmental Defense Fund
WEBJan 22, 2020 · Cap and trade is one way to do both. It’s a system designed to reduce pollution in our atmosphere. Cap and trade reduces emissions, such as those from power plants, by setting a limit on pollution and creating a market. The cap on greenhouse gas emissions that drive global warming is a firm limit on …
WEBEquivalent activities We follow emissions referenced in EPA calculations with modifications and additions listed below. Note that the EPA equivalency calculations are based on 100-year climate impact only.
Plugging orphan wells across the United States - Environmental …
WEBOct 14, 2021 · This legislation, for the first time, allocated $4.7 billion to plug orphan wells across the country and lays the groundwork for reducing the number of unplugged orphan wells going forward. Initial grants totaling $560 million have already been distributed to states and plugging work has started. This legislation will create tens of thousands ...
Overfishing: The most serious threat to our oceans
WEBSep 18, 2023 · Overfishing is catching too many fish at once, so the breeding population becomes too depleted to recover. Overfishing often goes hand in hand with wasteful types of commercial fishing that haul in massive amounts of unwanted fish or other animals, which are then discarded. As a result of prolonged and widespread overfishing, nearly a third of ...
EPA Unveils Plan to Reduce Dangerous Pollution from Landfills
WEB(Washington, D.C. – May 17, 2021) The Environmental Protection Agency today announced a plan to implement final standards that will protect millions of Americans from the toxic and climate-damaging pollution emitted by municipal landfills.. The action comes only about a month after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit threw out a Trump administration rule that would have delayed ...
This is why fighting climate change is so urgent
WEBThat global warming trend is increasingly disrupting our climate — the average weather over many years. Earth has already warmed by about 1 degree Celsius, or 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit, since the 19th century, before industry started to boom. While we experience the effects, we’re on our way toward 1.5 degrees C (2.7 F) by as early as 2030.
Sustainable fishing - Environmental Defense Fund
WEBEmpowering fishing communities worldwide. The problem: More than 3 billion people around the world rely on seafood as a primary source of protein, yet climate change and overfishing are straining fisheries and ocean ecosystems. This puts people’s nutritional needs and livelihoods at risk, and threatens the variety of life in the oceans, too.
Personal Travel Carbon Footprint Worksheet - Environmental …
WEBThe emissions factors employed for air travel are provided by our source using an average Radiative Forcing Index of approximately 2.7. Non-CO2 emissions for hotel stays include N2O and CH4. We note that the inclusion of non-CO2 emissions undervalues their potency in the near-term, and that alternatively using a GWP-20/CO2e-20 would undervalue ...
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