Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Fossil fuels are the root cause of climate change, of long-standing environmental injustices, and are also frequently connected to geopolitical strife and violent conflicts. Other countries are dependent upon these fossil fuels, they don’t make themselves free of them. This is a fossil fuel war.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

The majority 6–3 decision sharply curtails the EPA’s authority to set standards based on a broad range of flexible options to cut carbon emissions from the power sector—options such as replacing polluting fossil fuels with cheap and widely available wind and solar power coupled with battery storage.

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Legal Planet

JULY 15, 2024

But the scientific and technological advances that made these technologies competitive with fossil fuels are much more recent. So in a sense, these are old technologies — about the same age as the very first internal combustion engines. California wind will reach over 2.2 GW — over half of world wind capacity. Wind reaches 10% of U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Despite adding six million more passenger cars, trucks, and SUVs to the roads over the last 10 years, California’s gasoline consumption has dropped over two billion gallons from its peak in 2005. Switching from fossil fuels like gasoline to increasingly clean electricity sources is vital for hitting climate and air pollution goals.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

The state-specific fact sheet, On the Road to 100 Percent Renewables for Minnesota , outlines how it could meet its electricity needs completely and equitably with renewable energy by 2035 and dramatically reduce fossil fuel use in vehicles and buildings.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

However, as we replace fossil fuels with clean electricity for heating and transportation to meet our climate goals, these peak demands will increasingly shift to the winter in many parts of the country. Decarbonizing the power sector also plays a critical long-term role by replacing fossil fuels in other sectors.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Our national overreliance on gas is evidently undermining energy access, not strengthening it, as some fossil fuel industry players would want you to believe. These claims just add to the deluge of greenwashing and disinformation from the fossil fuel industry. Don’t believe the industry spin.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

This is in total opposition to the US commitment under the Paris Agreement to achieve a 50-52 percent emissions reduction below 2005 levels by 2030, and net-zero by 2050. These projections show that without additional policies or incentives, the US is very much in danger of not meeting our climate goals.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2023

However, great opportunities for more new clean energy supplies to replace fossil fuel energy need supporting grid investments. While the majority of states have clean energy portfolio laws, there are fewer that have taken on the task of expanding the grid to enable the clean energy transition and retirement of fossil fuel powerplants.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Hurricane Ian, for its part, made landfall as a high-end Category 4 with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph, decimated western Florida communities, causing the second-largest insured loss after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and was the costliest disaster of 2022. The city of Fort Myers was hit by a record 7.26-foot

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

Over the past year, precisely as our ability to identify the specific magnitude of action required to hit 2030 climate targets of 50-52 percent below 2005 levels has resolved into ever clearer view, the range of viable pathways for meeting those targets has consistently and considerably narrowed. No pivoting, just pivotal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Last November, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) released an interdisciplinary study exploring the various pathways to meeting US goals to cut heat-trapping emissions economywide 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions no later than 2050. The good news?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 16, 2024

Smaller, decentralized growth in electric heat pumps for buildings, and electric transportation replacing fossil fuels also require more access to electricity and a modern grid. Texas went first in 2005, with a law called SB 20.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

Since then, the Conservative government has made a series of U-turns on its own net zero policies, attacked Labour’s green spending plans, and doubled down on its support for new fossil fuel projects, approving more than 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences. This comes as DeSmog and Democracy for Sale reveal that £6.8 percent (£1.8

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2023

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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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

o C in 2100, relative to pre-industrial times, is still avoidable, but whether or not we are able to stay within these limits and avert catastrophic climate change depends on achieving our climate goals of emissions reductions at least 50 percent below 2005 levels in 2030, on the way to net-zero emissions in 2050.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2022

In the 1960s climate change was not really a significant concern, not even amongst environmentalists – this was despite the fact that the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius in 1896 was the first to claim that emissions from fossil fuels might eventually result in enhanced global warming. This has since changed many times.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Among those contradictions is the need to wean society off fossil fuels versus the desire for short-term economic gain. That draft called on “Parties to accelerate the phasing-out of coal and subsidies for fossil fuels.” It is significant, however, that “fossil fuels” and “coal” finally survived in a COP text.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Now the Prime Minister needs to chart the pathway to reduce the industry’s emissions – which account for 26% of Canada’s domestic emissions and increased by nearly 20 per cent from 2005 to 2019 – all of this while most other sectors have reduced theirs. The 2030 goal for the emissions cap needs to be a 60% reduction from 2005 levels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

It’s the interaction of the California LCFS with federal policy, particularly the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), that has led to California’s renewable diesel boom. In its early years, between 2005 and 2010, the RFS helped launch the massive scaleup of corn ethanol that established 10 percent ethanol as the de facto standard for US gasoline.

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Biofuels Deforestation 2030 Fossil Fuels 330

Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 7, 2023

Yeti Crab The hairy yeti crab ( Kiwa hirsuta ) is a crustacean that was just discovered in 2005. Take action with us today and help Ocean Conservancy in our work to fight for policies that strengthen climate resilience , prioritize clean energy and fight against fossil fuel dependence.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

I also wrote a post on this topic in 2005 ( Naturally trendy? ), and even if it is a blog, it could provide some clues for Dagsvik and Moen. Although there was no clarification on that at the time, we can say that the discussion is characterised by tunnel vision that does not take into account all our knowledge and how physics plays a role.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Mexican shopkeeper defeats Coke BBC | November 17, 2005 A small shopkeeper in Mexico City has won a David versus Goliath legal battle against the US drinks firm, Coca-Cola. When Coca-Cola's Mexican subsidiary told Raquel Chavez to get rid of a rival cola product or else they might stop selling her Coke, she took action.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This could be met from a variety of sources—including pollution fees on fossil fuel companies, the elimination of fossil fuel subsidies, and wealth taxes on the richest people. Despite important gains in renewable energy, there is still more progress needed and fossil fuels continue to expand at odds with this agreement.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Six kids in town besides Jacob were diagnosed with cancer from 2005 to 2013. So does fossil fuel combustion. He and Shari are active in the Pediatric Cancer Action Network, a grassroots advocacy and support group in Nebraska. Their work has revealed to them one of the darker sides of rural life in Nebraska.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 17, 2024

Since 2005, wind turbines have been producing renewable power for the grid and a reliable cash crop for the ranch. I strongly believe we have to wean ourselves off fossil fuels, and I felt that this was an excellent statement on how we might do that. Ferrell: The park was completed in 2005. It is industrial.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2023

As a result, between 2005 and 2017 greenhouse gas pollution from Ontario’s electricity system dropped by 93 per cent. Meanwhile, it is leaving the public with increasing fossil gas emissions and electricity prices. The current government acts like it’s somehow responsible for this feat.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

But this announcement was seemingly at odds with another made just three days earlier, when coal minister Pralhad Joshi confirmed that India intends to increase production for the fossil fuel. Fossil fuels remain necessary”, Jairaj says. These updates mean India is well on its way to fulfilling its NDCs.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 11, 2021

And this change comes in part from increasing diffusion of fossil fuels. I have working on the costs of climate change for 15 years now going back to my 2005 Death Toll paper. John is optimistic about our future; "The share of the world population in extreme poverty is plummeting. People who used to hoe by hand now use tractors."

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Earlier this year, the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines released its final report detailing the findings of a groundbreaking inquiry ( In re Greenpeace Southeast Asia and Others ) into the responsibility of “ Carbon Majors ”—large global fossil fuel and cement companies—for the adverse effects of climate change on human rights.

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Cresforum

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

CO 2 emissions by up to 10 percent from 2005 levels by 2050. Clean hydrogen production relies either on electricity, which may be generated through renewable or fossil fuel resources; or directly on fossil fuels, via steam methane reformation (SMR) or coal gasification accompanied by carbon capture, or via methane pyrolysis.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 7, 2023

India is looking to cut its emissions by 45% from 2005 levels by 2028. Excluding big hydro and nuclear power, India has 122 GW of renewable energy installed capacity and 175 GW of non-fossil fuel capacity as of the end of February, according to government data.

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Clean Energy 2028 Wind Power Renewable Energy 52

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In 2021, the Government of Canada set out a target to reduce 40-45 per cent of its emissions by 2030, from 2005 levels. Canadian investors are the largest fossil fuel financiers globally, which means they still invest more in climate pollution than in climate solutions. Additional delay is not an option.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

Since the combustion of fossil fuel is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, changes in emissions from fossil fuel combustion have historically been the dominant factor affecting total U.S. We have been doing this GHG work since 2005. decreased by about 8% between 1990 and 2020.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Despite the worldwide mobilisation towards the adoption of renewable energy, the Brazilian government continues to promote the use of coal, the most polluting fossil fuel. billion in energy projects in Brazil between 2005 and 2019, according to data from Boston University’s Global Policy Development Center.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 2, 2020

Amidst historically low oil prices and economic shutdowns, fossil fuel companies continue to defend against lawsuits brought by state and local governments claiming climate-change related damages. 308, 314 (2005)). Minton , 568 U.S. 251, 258 (2013) (citing Grable & Sons Metal Products, Inc. Regions Bank of La.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

New UCS study shows how we can accelerate US clean energy ambition An interdisciplinary team of UCS experts set out to explore how the US can meet its goals to cut heat-trapping emissions 50%-52% below 2005 levels by 2030 and achieve net zero emissions no later than 2050. Coal is phased out of the power sector by 2030.

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