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U.S. judges raise doubts about early challenge for EPA carbon rules
2015-04-16 19:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: In the first legal test of the Obama administration's plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, two of three federal judges hearing a challenge to the regulations on Thursday expressed skepticism about weighing in before they are formally adopted. More than a dozen states and Murray Energy Corp [MUYEY.UL] have filed lawsuits challenging the administration's proposal, which would require the U.S. power sector to slash carbon dioxide emissions by 30 percent from 2005 levels. Judges...
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C.H. Robinson and MIT Develop New Model for Carbon Emissions
2015-04-16 06:01:03| Logistics - Topix.net
With sustainability a topic of significant interest among many in the logistics industry, C.H. Robinson and the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics have combined to develop research aimed at finding ways to better quantify carbon emissions at the Less-Than-Truckload shipment level. According to the newly completed white paper, "A New Model for Estimating Carbon Emissions from LTL Shipments," the current methods of calculating carbon emissions can be highly inaccurate, and determining emissions for LTL is more challenging than for other types of transportation.
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Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide limits soil storage
2015-04-15 17:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Carbon dioxide, the major cause of global warming, is released to the atmosphere when oil, coal, and gasoline are burned. Soils contain the largest pool of terrestrial organic carbon, helping counteract rising carbon dioxide levels and thus potentially playing a key role in modulating climate change. Carbon accumulates in soil through many years of plant photosynthesis and is lost from soil as microscopic organisms, mostly bacteria and fungi, decompose soil carbon, converting it back to carbon dioxide...
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Permafrost holds key to release of trapped carbon
2015-04-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: Three sets of scientists in the same week have helped narrow the uncertainties about how the natural world will respond to extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere caused by the burning of fossil fuels. Carbon locked in the frozen earth will escape gradually as the Arctic permafrost melts but the scientists say the process could accelerate. As greenhouse gas levels soar, and soils warm, and plant roots tap down into the carbon stored there by centuries of ancient growth, they will release potent...
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Dutch Govn't Facing Legal Action Over Failure to Curb Carbon Emissions
2015-04-15 14:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The first public hearings will take place in the Hague on Tuesday in the first case in the world to use existing human rights and tort law to hold a government responsible for failing to reduce carbon emissions fast enough. The 886 citizens involved in the class action against the Dutch government aim to force it to take more robust action to reduce emissions. They also hope to offer a legal solution to the political impasse on international climate change action. They will ask the judiciary...
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