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Emissions by the Big Utilities: Where They Are, What They’re Aiming For

Legal Planet

It turns out that most of them are 50-60% reliant on fossil fuels, with a lot of the remainder coming from nuclear and hydro. However, there are important differences in the mix of gas and coal in generation, which matters a lot since coal-fired generators emit much more carbon per kilowatt. Fossil Fuel Use.

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Atlantic Hurricane Season 2023: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly—and More

Union of Concerned Scientists

2020 was also the second time in tropical storm naming history (after 2005) that the National Hurricane Center had to use the Greek alphabet letters to name storms after the regular list of names was exhausted. 2022 fortunately kept to the lower end of the forecast range with 14 named storms, eight hurricanes, and two major hurricanes.

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Oil Refineries: A Deadly Industry

Union of Concerned Scientists

The fossil fuel industry has systematically contaminated our environment with a wide range of toxic chemicals for over a century. It is one of the so-called criteria air pollutants , along with NOx, SOx, carbon monoxide (CO), and lead 5. Bermix Studio/Unsplash PM2.5: A subset of these particles, called PM2.5,

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Testimony of Michael D. Shellenberger Founder and President, Environmental Progress For the House Oversight Committee August 5, 2020

Environmental Progress

Governments and farmers have known what “biosecurity” measures to take for decades, and enacted them, partly, in response to the 2005 avian flu (H5N1) epidemic. US electricity sector emissions decreased 34 percent from 2005 to 2019, including an astonishing 10 percent in 2019, which is the largest year-on-year decline in history.

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