Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions. A. By 2030 and thereafter, subject to available supply, 100% of the electricity used by Affected Entities for their own operations, except electricity needed to support the generation of electricity by an Affected Entity in accordance with its enabling authority, shall come from energy systems that are eligible under the CES (“Eligible Systems”) as part of an all-of-government approach to meet the goals of the Climate Act in a cost-effective manner.
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Increasing levels of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere are the leading threat to Oregon’s public health and the environment. Scientists predict that the scale and frequency of climate change impacts in Oregon will continue to grow throughout this century, damaging our economy, endangering public health, and destroying natural and cultural resources. Oregon has the capability and hence the responsibility to demonstrate specific steps that state governments can take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and begin to bend the trajectory of climate change back. In December of 2021, the EQC adopted rules establishing Oregon’s Climate Protection Program. The CPP rules required reductions of greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels and from natural gas and propane of at least 50 percent by 2035 and by 90 percent by 2050. The CPP also regulates greenhouse gas emissions from the largest industrial sources in the state through a best available technology approach. The CPP was invalidated by the Oregon Court of Appeals based on a failure to notice those rules in a specific manner. DEQ is initiating a rulemaking process to re-establish a climate program in place of the invalidated CPP rules. Additionally, DEQ administers Oregon's low-carbon fuel standard, follows California's clean car standards, enforces the most stringent limits on landfill methane emissions in the nation, oversees incentives for clean vehicles that have helped make Oregon a national leader in EV adoption, and implements a variety of other programs to reduce GHG emissions. Addressing Environmental Justice Environmental justice is integral to DEQ’s mission to protect the public health of all people and the environment that we depend on. Federal and state mandates guide DEQ’s work to integrate environmental justice into its programs. DEQ adopted a policy on environmental justice in 1997 and is embarking on an update of that policy in connection with a significant expansion of how environmental justice will be incorporated into all program areas, including both regulatory and non-regulatory actions, program implementation and policy development (rulemaking, legislative proposals, and internal management directives), and budget development and execution. Title VI of the Federal 1964 Civil Rights Act and Federal Executive Order 12898 (Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations), Executive Order 13985 (Advancing Racial Equity and Support for...
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Both Bangladesh and Indonesia are key countries for USAID’s global climate change program. We propose to extend the baseline measurement of greenhouse gases (GHG) to include these two countries. In the case of Bangladesh, this will be lead by IRRI and linked to the CSISA program. We will also collaborate with the International Fertilizer Development Center to measure the impact of Urea Deep Placement (UDP) on greenhouse gas emissions and look for synergies between Arcadia’s NUE technology and UDP as tools for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. In the future, when NUE rice and wheat are introduced to Bangladesh, it is possible that the combination of UDP and NUE provide a strategic policy opportunity to reducing the heavy drain that fertilizer subsidies have on the government’s agricultural budget. In Indonesia, ICABIOGRAD will collaborate with the Indonesian Center for Land Resources Research and Climate Change, also part of the Ministry of Agriculture, to conduct greenhouse gas emissions. Arcadia has japonica varieties of rice that have been transformed with NUE. As tropical varieties of japonica are produced in Indonesia, the field trials of these will provide one of the first opportunities to measure greenhouse gas emissions directly on NUE rice and compare the carbon footprint to current agricultural practices. TECHNICAL OBJECTIVES & SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), human activities have substantially added to the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. In response to concerns about the link between greenhouse gas emissions and global warming, in September 2006, the Governor of California signed landmark legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in that state. The legislation requires the California Air Resources Board to develop regulations and market mechanisms that will reduce California’s greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2020. A handful of other states have followed California’s lead by establishing mandatory emission reductions through legislation, and several states have established statewide targets for such reductions. Although several bills addressing global warming have been introduced in Congress, to date, no federal legislation has been enacted. However, on March 27, 2008, EPA announced that it will issue an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking later this spring to discuss and solicit public input on the specific effects of climate change and the potential regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from stationary and mobile sources. As introduced, Senate Bill 309/House Bill 712 (both failed) would have established an Office of Climate Change within MDE. MDE would have been required to adopt regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by a minimum of 25 percent by 2020 and 90 percent by 2050 (from 2006 levels). The bills contained several provisions regarding the adoption of regulations to achieve those reductions, including regulations to establish a cap-and-trade system; regulations relating to the reporting, verification, and monitoring of reductions; and possible regulations to establish offset allowances. RGGI auction proceeds would have been used to implement the bill. If such proceeds were inadequate, MDE would have been authorized to establish a greenhouse gas emissions fee. Finally, the bills as introduced would have repealed the cap on the Maryland Clean Air Fund and would have modified the revenue sources and uses of that fund. As passed by the Senate, Senate Bill 309 would have required MDE to develop plans, adopt regulations, and implement programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent from 2006 levels by 2020, subject to specified conditions. However, the mandatory reduction of 90 percent by 2050 was modified by the Senate to become a target. Various reports would have been required, and legislation wo...
