The Supreme Court's next climate fight
By Ben Geman, Axios, May 2, 2023
The big picture: Curtailing "Chevron" could be a one-two punch with last year's ruling, said Michael Burger, executive director of Columbia University's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.
COP28 President Al Jaber Calls for End of ‘Fossil Fuel Emissions’
By Petra Sarge, Bloomberg Green, May 2, 2023
Al Jaber said the UAE “will encourage smart government regulation to jump start the hydrogen value chain and make carbon capture commercially viable.” While the technologies are needed to mitigate emissions from hard-to-abate sectors, their deployment globally is currently far from the scale needed to cut emissions quickly enough to avoid the worst impacts of global warming.
How quickly can trucking decarbonize? California is about to find out
By Jeff St. John, Canary Media, May 1, 2023
Getting polluting commercial trucks off the road is a climate, health and equity imperative. These trucks make up 7 percent of vehicles but are responsible for more than a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions and more than half of the smog-forming nitrogen oxides and health-harming fine-particulate pollution from vehicles, Sam Wilson, senior vehicles analyst at the Union for Concerned Scientists, noted in an April blog post.
But the new rules will be hard to meet.
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Climate Adaptation & Supply Chains: Everstream Analytics’ AI Solution
Climate Rising, April 26, 2023
