Greenhouse gas emissions Archives ~ MAVEN'S NOTEBOOK

REPORT SUMMARY: Exploring the Water Footprint of “Green” Hydrogen for Power Generation in California

April 15, 2025 379

Hydrogen, as an emerging alternative fuel source, holds the potential to significantly contribute to California’s climate goals. Its carbon-free production...

GRIST: Can carbon capture solve desalination’s waste problem?

Grist

News

January 17, 2024 10

A startup claims it can store carbon dioxide in the toxic brine produced by desalination plants. By Jake Bittle, Grist...

PRESS RELEASE: Scientific Report: Yearly Greenhouse Gas Pollution From Proposed Sites Dam and Reservoir Project Would Equal 80,000 Gas-Powered Cars

Conservation organizations & coalitions

Press Release/Other

August 24, 2023 253

New Patagonia & Friends of the River Study Estimates the Proposed Dam’s Annual Emissions Press release from Friends of the...

CAL MATTERS: Southern California’s natural gas plants to stay open through 2026

Cal Matters

News

August 15, 2023 75

by Rachel Becker, CalMatters Stay up-to-date with free briefings on topics that matter to all Californians. Subscribe to CalMatters today...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: California ignoring carbon sink benefits of local habitats

Courthouse News Service

News

July 24, 2023 161

By Michael Gennaro, Courthouse News Service California’s native habitats can be used as valuable carbon sinks to help combat the...

STANFORD NEWS: Droughts in Western states drive up emissions and threaten human health

Stanford University

News

July 18, 2023 110

Switching from hydropower to fossil fuels during droughts has led to higher carbon emissions and cost 11 Western states tens...

CAL MATTERS: California approves far-reaching strategy for tackling climate change. So what’s next?

Cal Matters

News

December 15, 2022

Here are six ways that Californians will be affected by the state’s new climate change blueprint. By Nadia Lopez, Cal...

CAL MATTERS: Slashing greenhouse gases: California revises climate change strategy

Cal Matters

News

November 16, 2022

A new version of California’s climate plan sets a more stringent — some say unrealistic — target for cutting greenhouse...

ESTUARY NEWS: Sniffing the Delta for Greenhouse Gases

Estuary News Group

Delta science

June 10, 2022 7

by Janet Byron, Estuary News Group Dutch Slough in Oakley, on the southern edge of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, is...

DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST: Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Carbon Budgets

Maven

Delta science

March 1, 2022 153

At the February meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen continued profiling the work of...

CA WATER COMMISSION: The Climate Registry: Water-Energy Nexus; Dam safety fee regulations; 2018 State Water Project Review

Maven

Notebook News and Features

March 5, 2019 278

At the February meeting of the California Water Commission, the Commissioners heard a presentation on the Climate Registry, approved new...

STATE WATER PROJECT UPDATE: Oroville spillways construction overview, subsidence along the California Aqueduct; DWR’s GHG reduction plan

Maven

Notebook News and Features

November 21, 2017 609

The nine-member California Water Commission has been given a number of responsibilities as dictated by the California Water Code; one...

SCIENCE JOURNAL: Winter-run Chinook salmon, GHG reductions and economics in the Delta, and landscape-scale restoration highlighted in latest issue of San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science

Maven

Delta science

October 2, 2017 152

The latest issue of the San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science is now available online. Research highlighted in this month’s...