Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Its no surprise that this anti-science, pro-fossil fuel administration wants to go after the Endangerment Finding. Those harms will worsen rapidly as global warming emissions, primarily from burning fossil fuels, increase. Back in 2007, the Supreme Court reached a landmark judgment in Massachusetts et al.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 7, 2025

Scientist calculates greenhouse effect from fossil fuels and matches it to recorded global temperature changes. English scientist John Tyndall publishes similar finding in a better-known paper. Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius predicts changes in surface temperature due to greenhouse effect.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Several states and industry groups are challenging EPA’s 2024 rules which set greenhouse gas emissions limits for certain fossil fuel power plants nationwide (referred to here as the Power Plant Rules). In 2007, the Supreme Court held in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in West Virginia v.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 30, 2025

Stewart again raised the issue of how a played-out conventional gas well owned by Seneca Mineral in Erie County got permission from DEP to use brine water from their wells as the commercial product-- LS-25-- for de-icing and dust control in 2007. Click Here for DEPs 2007 Seneca Mineral letter.]

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Legal Planet

APRIL 28, 2025

The fourth paper in our Monograph series focuses on Project 2025’s promotion of fossil fuels and Trump’s declaration of a national energy emergency, available here. Between 1987 and 2007, he was the co-author of Guide to the California Environmental Quality Act (Solano Press).

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2025

Read more here ] [ Read more here ] DEP field inspectors are historically understaffed, and though the DEP cited conventional and unconventional operators 102,652 times for violations between 2007 and 2023, these citations have not deterred operators from continuing to pollute, often at will. Indeed, Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

Drilled in 2007. Wise held 4 permits. 1 Abandoned Shale Gas Well Apex Energy (PA) LLC - Violations: Abandoned Shale Gas Well March 6, 2025 inspection of the Marian Laskowski 6 shale gas well in Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County found the well abandoned and not plugged. No emergency plan on site. Violations issued. DEP inspection report.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 16, 2025

Source: EIA Here’s some of what I see in that virtuous spiral of clean energy progress: The early days represented in the data had very little generation from wind, and very very little from solar; combined, wind and solar generation reached 1% on a monthly basis for the first time only in 2007.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2025

Laws Covered Laws covered by the order-- Department of Energy-- Atomic Energy Act of 1954; National Appliance Energy Conservation Act of 1987; Energy Policy Act of 1992; Energy Policy Act of 2005; and Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

First and foremost, despite some fossil fuel interests swinging for the fossil fuel-favored fences, the Supreme Court’s decision in West Virginia v. While this authority—itself rooted in a prior Supreme Court decision , the 2007 Massachusetts v. What the Supreme Court decided in West Virginia v.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

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. This table shows how much power is generated from fossil fuels by the top ten utilities (ranked by market value). There was more fuel oil in use in some places than I expected. Carbon Goal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

The key word here is “ intensity :” Fossil fuel companies often focus on emissions intensity, meaning emissions per barrel of oil, rather than absolute emissions, which is a set number measured in metric tons. That means Exxon still plans to spend the vast majority of its funds on fossil fuel exploration and production.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

US emissions went down by around 15% between 2007 and 2019, while GDP per person went up around 25%. Another is that the costs of renewable energy and electric vehicles have declined so greatly in the past ten years, making them more or less competitive with their fossil-fuel alternatives.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

Now the same district court has gone further, again in favor of environmental groups but now against Royal Dutch Shell (“Shell”) , the world’s largest non-state-owned fossil fuel company. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. In the US, for instance, Massachusetts v.

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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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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

The bench trial took place last month in the state capitol, Helena, where 16 youth plaintiffs ages 5 to 22 made the case that Montana’s unwavering promotion of fossil fuels violates the state constitution’s guarantee to a “clean and healthful environment.” Whether Montana’s GHG emissions can be measured incrementally.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2024

PJM directs the revenues and operation of the largest fossil fuel power plant fleet (124 gigawatts), making it the largest utility in the US. Every state in PJM has some kind of state policy for subsidizing generation, either clean or fossil-fueled.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Up in western Washington State, the Swinomosh have been focused on the issue since 2007. They generally weren’t located to areas with oil and gas resources, so they haven’t benefited much from the fossil fuel industry. Thus, climate change will worsen the already precarious situation of many tribes. The Navajos, the Seminoles.,

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Mine Cleanup Law Weakened by Coal’s Decline — Reclamation is a flashpoint for the partisan divide over fossil fuels. It is Syria’s first outbreak of the waterborne pathogen since 2007. . — Brett Walton, Interim Stream Editor. Recent WaterNews from Circle of Blue.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 13, 2021

This is a pretty clear illustration of how sea level starts to rise slowly; but in the long run, sea-level rise caused by fossil-fuel burning and deforestation in our generation could literally go off the chart and inundate many coastal cities and wipe entire island nations off the map. But first things first.

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Cresforum

OCTOBER 25, 2023

imports peaked in 2007. These scenarios are: Low-volume, high fossil fuels Low-volume, carbon-neutral High-volume, carbon-neutral High-volume, fossil fuels Noting the fourth scenario is inconsistent with global net zero goals, the first three scenarios include a mixture of e-fuels (hydrogen, hydrocarbon, wind, etc.),

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

Ebel, the CEO of Enbridge, to our list of infamous Climate Villains – powerful people with fossil fuel interests holding Canada back from effective climate action. The executives behind the fossil fuel industry often avoid public scrutiny, which is why we’re shining the spotlight on their activities.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 25, 2024

Climate change is driven by the release of greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. With 10 per cent of all of the world’s known oil reserve s found in Canada, the country has become a hub for the funding and production of fossil fuels. Pension fund fossil fuel assets can be found everywhere.

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Real Climate

JULY 10, 2022

However, that was written in 2007 – 15 years ago! The sources of these increases are dominated by the burning of fossil fuels, landfills, mining, oil and gas operations, agriculture (especially livestock for methane), and industry. All of these increases contribute to an enhanced greenhouse effect.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The city of Chengdu, China in 2007. What’s Up With Water–September 13, 2022 – This week’s episode of What’s Up With Water covers what to expect at COP27, new research on the link between water and the fossil fuel industry in Texas, and an update on Jackson, Mississippi’s failing water system. . Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

According to the European Chemical Society this reflects the serious threat to the environment that the burning of carbon-based fossil fuels poses and the fact that some oil is extracted in areas of conflict. Now he has completed his PhD with the approval of his thesis “Corrections to the geometrical interpretation of bosonization”.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 4, 2024

For instance, mortgages are connected to homes, while fossil fuel finance is tied to infrastructure like pipelines, oil wells, and the reserves still in the ground. The 2007-8 financial crisis was caused by a housing bubble worth an estimated $250-500 billion. They’re expected to generate a return over the coming decades.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2023

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

In other words, the claim shows a lack of knowledge and is a well-known old argument that I commented on Realclimate.org in 2007. The truth, on the contrary to their claim, is that the simplest physical models for both the greenhouse effect and the earth’s energy balance are precisely based on the earth’s average temperature.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

King served under the Tony Blair and Gordon Brown New Labour Government from October 2000 to December 2007. He set out to outline the global acceleration of extreme weather events driven by continued fossil fuel production. He set the tone with his opening remark “unfortunately I don’t have good news”.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In the early days of the current price shocks, fossil fuel boosters blamed clean energy and climate policy. In fact, it is abundantly clear that this is a fossil fuel energy crisis and, primarily, a natural gas crisis that is mainly affecting Europe. The Capacity Story.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2021

Its State Council introduced a plan for responding to climate change in 2007 and in 2020, President Xi announced that China will be carbon neutral by 2060. and protecting the planet’s diversity, the expansion of the fossil fuel industry must cease. At a national level, China seems to be playing its part.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2022

And there at Geisinger, I am the founding director of the Environmental Health Institute, which we founded in 2007. We founded the Environmental Health Institute in 2007. Work toward a quick and just transition away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energies.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

First issued by the EIB (European Investment Bank) in 2007 in Sweden, green bonds have grown from $11 billion USD in 2013 to $1 Trillion USD in December 2020 globally. Moreover, such bond prices appear to be highly susceptible to oil movements, being more pronounced when demand for fossil fuel is less, for example during the pandemic years.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 20, 2022

Energy Information Administration reported-- in our January Short-Term Energy Outlook , we forecast that rising electricity generation from renewable energy resources such as solar and wind will reduce generation from fossil fuel-fired power plants over the next two years. The forecast share of generation for U.S.

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ESA

AUGUST 25, 2023

Running shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 as a chapter Lead Author for the 4th Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In the popular press, his essay in 2007, “The 5 Stages of Climate Grief” has been widely quoted.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 7, 2022

Emissions from natural gas consumption represent 79% of the direct fossil fuel CO2 emissions from the residential and commercial sectors in 2020. Additionally, indirect emissions from electricity use by homes and businesses increased from 1990 to 2007 but have decreased since then to approximately 10% below 1990 levels in 2020.

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