U.S. Cities Are Vastly Undercounting Emissions, Researchers Find
Inconsistent and flawed data is undercutting efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from American cities, according to a new study.
San Francisco at dusk. Nearly three-quarters of the carbon dioxide generated from fossil fuels in the United States comes from cities.Credit.Brandon Thibodeaux for The New York Times
Feb. 2, 2021
When cities try to figure out the amount of greenhouse gases they emit, they tend to undercount and not just by a little.
The average error is nearly 20 percent, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications. The researchers suggested that if that error was consistent across all American cities, the resulting annual missed emissions would be nearly one-quarter higher than those of the entire state of California.
A California tomato company wants to revive an antitrust and racketeering lawsuit that accused a rival processor of conspiring to fix prices and suppress competition.
Morning Star Packing Co. of Williams, Calif., is seeking to convince the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that a jury trial is warranted in its litigation against Los Gatos Tomato Products of Huron, Calif., over collusion in the processed tomato market.
A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit last year after determining that Los Gatos wasnât part of a bribery scheme that injured Morning Star, so it couldnât be held liable for damages under antitrust and racketeering statutes.
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) Defending the decision to give farm irrigation districts permanent access to low-cost, federally pumped water in California, a Justice Department lawyer urged a federal judge Thursday to flush a Native American tribe’s lawsuit against the endless entitlements.
The Hoopa Valley Tribe sued the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in August, claiming the Trump administration’s conversion of 14 time-limited contracts for Central Valley Project water into permanent deals violated a host of federal laws. The contracts were made permanent in February. Another 26 agreements are in the process of being converted to permanent deals.
According to the tribe, the unending contracts do not prioritize water for Trinity River in-basin flows or require contractors to pay for fish restoration and wildlife preservation programs as mandated by a 1992 law, the Central Valley Project Improvement Act.