Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency, agreeing to decide whether fossil fuel manufacturers have legal standing to challenge an EPA decision under the federal Clean Air Act. That court ruled that the fossil fuel company plaintiffs had failed to establish their legal authority (i.e., “standing”) to bring the action.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 17, 2025

This kind of oversight, transparency and enforcement is urgently needed, especially as climate-fueled disasters are increasingly disrupting insurance markets and leaving people at the mercy of arbitrary decisions by insurance companies even as they deal with the trauma of losing their homes.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

APRIL 8, 2025

Elon Musks journey to the extreme right-wing It was not until relatively recently that Musk became heavily involved in politics, at least not when it did not directly implicate his business interests.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2025

. -- PA Recycling Markets Center Hosts 3-Part Business Fundamentals For Compost Operations Webinars Starting June 17 [PaEN] Public Participation -- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - May 24 [PaEN] -- DEP Posted 95 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In May 24 PA Bulletin [PaEN] -- PUC Sets June 5 Hearings (..)

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2025

Honore (Retired) [Stop Selling LNG To Our Competitors] -- PUC Urges Electricity Customers To Start Shopping, Conserve Energy To Help Avoid Impact Of June 1 Rate Increases Of Between 5% and 16% On Most Electric Bills [PaEN] -- PUC To Investigate Proposed 18.4% Customer Charge Increase By Wellsboro Electric; 18% Gas Increase + 13.4%

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 26, 2024

And we know that as our climate warms further—driven by burning fossil fuels—the risk of large wildfires will only grow. This alarming finding clarifies the significant role and responsibility of fossil fuel companies to not only stop their harm moving forward, but also to address damage they have already done.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

Wind power costs fell by half from 2008 to 2021. The Department of Energy estimates the cost of an electric vehicle lithium-ion battery pack declined 89% between 2008 and 2022. Cheaper renewable energy attracts private investment and makes limits on fossil fuels more feasible.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Scientists have unequivocally confirmed that human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, are driving unprecedented changes to the Earth’s climate, raising fundamental questions about our responsibility to safeguard the environment for future generations.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Under the LCFS each fuel pathway gets a unique carbon intensity (CI) based on a lifecycle analysis of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production and use of the fuel. This approach holds fuel producers accountable for reducing fossil fuel use and other global warming pollution in their supply chains.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The price of urea also surpassed its previous recorded spike in 2008 by approximately 18 percent. Data reported by the World Bank show that prices for two key fertilizers spiked dramatically between April 2021 and April 2022: diammonium phosphate prices went up 75 percent and potash prices rose a staggering 178 percent.

Carbon Dioxide

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.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

JULY 5, 2024

There’s a direct line of culpability between fossil fuel corporations and climate change – it’s why so many oil and gas CEOs have topped our list of Climate Villains. But they aren’t the only powerful players who shoulder responsibility for keeping us hooked on fossil fuels, the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Royce Hall at UCLA following a rain event, Los Angeles, CA (Charlie Nguyen, 2008, Flickr). Practical and creative solutions by environmental and financial agencies aimed at limiting the funding available to fossil fuel companies may achieve more in a shorter period of time compared to the efforts to reach an international agreement.

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 14, 2022

But Canada’s largest financial institutions still fund fossil fuel expansion projects and are too slow to invest in climate solutions. Canadian financial institutions can’t claim to be moving towards net-zero while still funding new fossil fuel projects. Consider the economic crisis of 2008-2009. Why is this? .

Regulations

Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Last week world leaders gathered in New York for the UN Climate Ambition Summit where countries shared concrete action they’ve taken to phase out fossil fuels. There, the conversation was grounded in science, with leaders such as California’s Governor Newsom saying “The climate crisis is a fossil fuel crisis.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Alito famously said that carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning, a key contributor to global warming, is not a pollutant. But a 5-4 conservative majority , led by Justice Samuel Alito, a long-time skeptic of both EPA authority , and what constitutes any kind of pollution, went a fateful extra step.

Carbon Dioxide

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.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

OCTOBER 12, 2021

And the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson , when Mayor of London (2008-2016) used his Telegraph column to air doubts about whether climate change was real. Fossil fuel support. Furthermore, the UK is struggling with two fossil fuel-related crises at the moment. The role of diplomacy.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

In Germany, fossil fuels are king. While Germany has had a huge focus on renewable energy this has done little to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels. But the reality is that Germany is far from the top of the leaderboard when it comes to climate action in Europe, let alone in the world.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The head of DESNZ explained that fossil fuels today hold back rather than advancing the UK: “Fossil fuels cannot provide us with the energy security and affordability it once could, to ensure energy security we must build our energy independence based on clean energy”, he stated.

Clean Energy

A Greener Life

JANUARY 3, 2022

set at London St James Park in 2008. This article also completely fails to mention climate breakdown at all, let alone that it is caused by the fossil fuel industry and everything will keep getting worse until we end said industry #EndMediaDenial — Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman) January 1, 2022.

Climate Change

Global Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Yes, in some cases, fossil fuels are burned to generate the electricity used to charge electric cars, but this highlights two of electric vehicles’ many advantages. Electric energy generation by renewable sources has doubled since 2008. Taking a national average of 25.1 Recently that has changed.

Electricity

Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This strategy aims for net zero emissions by around 2050 and includes shorter-term goals of cutting emissions by at least 20% and aiming for a 30% reduction by 2030, relative to 2008 levels. Early Phase-Out of Coal-Fired Power Plants (CFPP) The Taxonomy also provides a hybrid framework to phase out CFPPs at both a facility and entity level.

Paris Agreement

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Since the beginning of the Appalachian shale gas boom in 2008, the twenty-two largest gas producing counties in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia have lost a collective 10,000 jobs and nearly 50,000 residents, even as gas production far outpaced industry expectations.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2023

Committed to fostering sustainable practices, PWSA has been an active participant in WPEC's clean energy initiatives since 2008. Additionally, this agreement further safeguards the region’s energy needs by providing a long-term hedge against rising energy prices.

Wind Power

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

She joined the government in 2008 where she served as Director of the Spanish Office of Climate Change. Hoekstra represents the centre-right political spectrum and has been under scrutiny as between 2005-6 he worked for the fossil fuel giant, Royal Dutch Shell.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2024

The Phase I prize includes the assembly of the project team, a comprehensive facility needs assessment, and the identification of the infrastructure upgrades to be completed during the implementation phase.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

APRIL 20, 2023

The world will need large amounts of lithium to reduce fossil fuel emissions drastically. In 2008, Bolivia nationalized lithium, and since then, the state has controlled the access, extraction process, and production of lithium carbonate. million tons by 2030.

Government

Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Because of this, Europe ‘s five major utilities lost more than €100 billion in value from 2008 to 2013 because they were unprepared for an 8 per cent growth in renewable power, of which solar panels played a big part. Nowadays, coal is losing ground in its main markets such as India and China, the United States and the European Union .

2020

Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

Law Students for Climate Accountability publishes an annual scorecard that assigns a letter grade to each of the Vault 100 law firms based on “how much fossil fuels work they have engaged in over a five-year period.” In the U.S., IBA has a registry of such resolutions here.)

Paris Agreement

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2022

Pitt has already made substantial progress in reducing its carbon footprint: The most recent greenhouse gas inventory showed a 32% decrease in emissions between 2008 and 2020, thanks in part to a shift to cleaner steam plants and ongoing energy efficiency projects in campus buildings. Nancy Guenst (D-Montgomery), U.S. Army Veteran & Rep.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The Human Toll From 2008 to 2018 in four heavily fracked counties in southwestern Pennsylvania, David Templeton and Don Hopey, two reporters of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette uncovered 27 cases of Ewing sarcoma, which is a very rare and frequently fatal bone cancer in childhood. Fracking isn't any different. 27 Released 1.1

Natural Gas

A Greener Life

APRIL 15, 2022

Without further action, shipping emissions are projected to rise by at worst 30% by 2050, compared to 2008 levels. To date, the IMO has set an emissions reduction target of just 50% by 2050 compared to 2008 levels, which campaigners say is insufficient to help limit global heating to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.

Fossil Fuels

Edouard Stenger

MAY 24, 2017

As more and more institutions and people are divesting from fossil fuels globally, climate responsible finance is booming. Part of this revolution is the meteoritic growth of green bonds, which were started in 2007 by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2022

There also are two off-grid solar arrays at Caledonia and Oil Creek state parks that use batteries to store energy. True Energy Independence [Posted: March 10, 2022] PA Environment Digest

Renewable Energy

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

And aluminum prices are higher than at any time since the financial crisis of 2008. But there is one clear parallel that is worth emphasizing: the current crisis, like the crisis of the 1970s, is a crisis of the fossil fuel energy system. Fossil fuel supporters have been quick to say “I told you so.” In the U.S.,

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

It results in this dangerous radioactive wastewater that the fossil fuel industry cannot recycle or dispose of in a benign manner. The Green Party has been against fracking since it was introduced by PA Governor Ed Rendell in 2008. There is absolutely no need for anyone to be devising new ways to use fossil fuels at this point.

Fossil Fuels