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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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Another Historic Climate Court Ruling in the Netherlands

Legal Planet

, its district, appellate , and supreme courts decided in favor of Urgenda, an upstart environmental organization, ordering the government to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. These lawsuits face three key barriers.

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Gregory L. Ebel: The Pipeline Pusher

Enviromental Defense

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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Ways of Price Making, Inflation, and Energy Price Shocks

Legal Planet

Higher prices for oil, natural gas, coal, and electricity are all pushing up inflation across the economy, dampening consumer demand, canceling out wage gains, and compounding the burdens facing working families and the poor as they seek to recover from the pandemic. The Capacity Story.

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Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Continue To Push DEP To Legalize Road Dumping Their Wastewater

PA Environment Daily

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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Sustainable Finance 101: Understanding the impact of your money

Enviromental Defense

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. Despite accounting for just 0.5

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Wednesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 12.13.23

PA Environment Daily

Considering Similar Proposal -- PA Trout Unlimited: Partnerships Pave Way For Success At Muddy Paws Enviro Center In Centre County [PaEN] -- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: Pittsburgh Chosen For Park Outdoor Equity Program By Trust For Public Lands -- Reading Eagle: Reading’s Newest All-Abilities Playground Officially Opened -- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: (..)