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Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 20, 2024
And since 2006, it has been even faster: as high as 4.2 The primary cause of accelerating sea level rise is human activity As people burn fossil fuels and emit heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide, our atmosphere and our oceans warm up. This loss of land ice has been the dominant contributor to sea level rise since 2006.
Enviromental Defense
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. The biggest barrier to climate action in Canada is the oil and gas lobby.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 21, 2024
These corporations and politicians don’t want to see a transformational transportation system we need, one that prioritizes people before highways, health before harm, access before asphalt, climate before corporations, freedom over fossil fuels. How did we get here? Why aren’t there more ways to get around my community?
PA Environment Daily
MAY 17, 2024
Dawes was instrumental in the reauthorization of the federal Abandoned Mine Lands Fund in 2006 and served as Chair of the campaign that led to Pennsylvania receiving $1 billion to address Pennsylvania’s mining legacy of more than 185,000 acres of unsafe, mine-scarred lands. from Villanova University School of Law.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 10, 2024
Many are oil refineries being converted from fossil fuel production to renewable fuel production. Imported bio-based diesel fuel consumed another 1.0 MMT of feedstock for fuel production abroad, so total US bio-based diesel consumption in 2022 required 12 MMT of feedstock, half of it to supply fuel to California.
Corp Watch
JANUARY 17, 2024
Website Summary Repsol is a fossil fuel exploration company that evolved from a Spanish state venture that was set up in the 1920s. The company sued the government of Argentina in 2012 for $10 billion after the country nationalized YPF with the backing of 80 percent of legislators of parliament. Corporation Repsol S.A.
Law Columbia
JULY 6, 2017
The plaintiffs in lawsuits challenging the cap-and-trade program had argued that it was not authorized by the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 and that the requirement to purchase emissions allowances constituted a tax that required approval by a two-thirds majority of the State legislature.
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