Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Our experts will be able to provide insight on the negotiations at COP29 – including on issues related to climate finance, the energy transition and fossil fuel subsidies. Our team will also be tracking the participation in the negotiations and proceedings by the Government of Canada, provincial leaders, and oil and gas lobbyists.

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Circle of Blue

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. In 2009, wealthy countries promised to deliver $100 billion annually to poorer countries.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

However, China will also have to fix problems that have led to an underuse of renewable capacity and a preference for fossil fuel generation on the grid. This is not an accident: the government poured $22 billion into the EV industry starting in 2009. How is China’s commitment to clean energy impacting other countries?

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 2, 2024

A year ago, we celebrated a milestone victory : the Government of Canada finally released new rules ending fossil fuel subsidies. The federal government first promised to end these subsidies back in 2009. billion in financial support to fossil fuel and petrochemical companies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Consider IPAA’s website Energy in Depth (EID), which attacks UCS and other climate accountability experts while promoting disinformation, such as claims that fossil gas and fracking benefits the environment.

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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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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

For years, grid parity – the time when solar and wind would be cost-competitive with fossil fuels and nuclear – was the holy grail of renewables energy, a target to reach in a distant future. The numbers for this year’s edition are quite impressive: Nuclear is the most expensive per MWh: $148 (+20% since 2009).

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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? .

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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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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.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2024

In addition, the upfront price of battery-powered heavy-duty vehicles is currently higher than their fossil-fueled counterparts, leading to the need for financial assistance for many purchasers, particularly smaller fleets.

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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. A report this year by the US Fish and Wildlife Service found between 2009 and 2019, the nation lost enough acreage of forest and scrub wetlands to equal the size of Rhode Island. Photo by Derrick Z.

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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. UCS began pushing for strong planning with new rules as early as 2009. Unfortunately, FERC’s currently proposed rules allow most reforms to be optional.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Notably, in the same proposal, the Commission has also included screening criteria for gaseous fossil fuels. The Regulation sets a time limit on the inclusion of nuclear energy but not on fossil fuels and grants the Commission special powers to rule on nuclear taxonomy compliance.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2024

Pennsylvania won the International Envirothon competition in 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2009 and 2017 and frequently places in the top 10 finishers. Now more than 15,000 high school students across the state compete in 67 county Envirothons.

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Legal Planet

JULY 21, 2023

A more conventional ‘risk-benefit’ analysis of geoengineering – such as that by the Royal Society back in 2009 – already attends to climate risks, insofar as they are affected by geoengineering. So what’s new? But to security experts, and students of political science, geoengineering appears as a hybrid, dual-use security technology.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We are calling on the Government of Canada to use their political muscle to push for what is truly needed: a fair, fast and funded phase out of all fossil fuels – without any dangerous loopholes. A Fossil Fuel Phaseout The litmus test for COP28 is whether it will deliver a full, fast, fair and fully funded fossil fuel phase out.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 27, 2023

Imperial Oil Ltd: 2019-Present Exxon Mobil Corp: 1983-2009 & 2014-2019 Esso Petroleum Co Ltd: 2009-2014 Villain Career Profile Corson has spent his entire career extracting and marketing oil and gas, working mostly for Imperial Oil and its parent company ExxonMobil. Leaks and Spills 2022 / 2023 (ongoing) — Kearl Lake, AB 5.3

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Vermont Law

MARCH 23, 2022

The use of fracking to extract fossil fuels is a very controversial process due to the overwhelming impacts it has in human and environmental. The negative impacts of fracking do not end with environmental damage, this method of fossil fuel extraction negatively impacts human health as. degradation. . malfunction.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Job-intensive infrastructure upgrades, efficiency improvements, and measures to repair fossil fuel damage, including repairing roads and bridges (99%), weatherizing homes to make them more energy efficient (96%), cleaning up old oil and gas wells (95%), and reclaiming abandoned mine lands (86%), enjoy broad support among Pennsylvania voters.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In my last post I discussed the Commission’s remarkably radical – and challenging – headline recommendation on mitigation, a global phaseout of fossil fuels. But no part of their mandate or report matches this description of “stuff you wish you didn’t have to think about, but realize you must” better than SRM.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

We all know that to successfully address climate change we need to phase out fossil fuels and switch to electric power. Unfortunately, the current Ontario government’s plan is to burn more fossil gas to generate power. . Between 2009 and 2016, Ontario built over 2000 MW of solar power and about 3000 MW of wind power.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 22, 2022

According to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the price of solar panels has dropped by almost 90% since 2009. The fuel can be used in the transportation sector to reduce fossil fuel dependency. Globally, the cost of developing solar energy has decreased significantly in the past decade.

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Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

However, unlike the energy sector, where renewable energy sources, reduced consumption and increased energy efficiency offer clear alternatives to today’s heavy reliance on fossil fuels, decarbonizing the industrial sector presents a more complex challenge.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 28, 2023

And since the amount of power generated by wind and solar fluctuates more than typical fossil-fuel generation, the grid needs to be ready to shift power from one area to another. But two appellate-court decisions strictly limited this authority: A 2009 Fourth Circuit decision, Piedmont Environmental Council v.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2022

So when this industry and its drilling took off in the late otss, you know, 2009, 2010, we were sort of in the right place at the right time. Work toward a quick and just transition away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energies. And over the last 15 years, I've spent regular time in Danville.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 13, 2009

Secretary Timothy Geithner said when speaking to Congress on March 4, 2009. energy policy will focus on promoting renewable energy sources and rely less on traditional fossil fuels. By Emma Hinnigan U.S. The proposed budget would levy an excise tax on oil and gas produced in the Gulf of Mexico, which is expected to raise $5.3

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2024

in Stonycreek Township Somerset County and found the operator still has not submitted mechanical integrity, production and waste generation reports dating back to 2009. Holdings; conventional well owner DRI Opr Co failed to submit annual reports since 2009 and did not remove unused equipment from well site; Bradford Pipe & Supply Co.;

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Last week, I joined my colleagues at COP28 in Dubai , as negotiators and civil society push for a fossil fuel phaseout to meet climate goals. The industry is pushing a narrative that misleadingly calls out emissions , not fossil fuels as the problem. Source: IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.

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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. Corporation Repsol S.A. Image Image Products Oil and gas exploration and production, LNG trading and transportation, Oil refining, Petrochemistry Repsol S.A. Repsol fined for anti-competitive practices.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 31, 2010

By Stepehen Wiegand In October 2009, EPA promulgated the Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Rule.

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Environment Blog

MARCH 25, 2020

It was created in 2009 by the anonymous programmer, Satoshi Nakamoto, and was designed to make it easier to transfer wealth from one party to another regardless of their geographical location. This is down to the governments and local authorities that choose coal-powered plants and other fossil fuel powered electricity production.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

“Every time a company or organization installs an energy-efficient heating, cooling, or lighting system, it’s another step for Pennsylvania and the nation toward independence from fossil fuels. It creates good-paying jobs in energy efficiency system manufacturing and installation. Sullivan in 1978.

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This is a positive development, given that the applicability of the 2009 Gas Directive to hydrogen has been discussed controversially in the past. Accordingly, the Directive as well as the Regulation differentiate between rules applicable to natural gas and gases more broadly defined.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

As part of its ongoing investigation of fossil fuel industry climate disinformation, the US House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform released more than 200 pages of internal corporate documents last month that provide new evidence of industry deception. Companies Plot “Greenwashing” Campaigns.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

in Stonycreek Township, Somerset County and found the operator had failed to submit annual production and waste generation reports since 2009 and that there were no annual mechanical integrity reports on file.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

One of the great failures of climate finance has been that of developed countries to furnish the USD 100 billion per year by 2020 that they promised to developing countries back in 2009 to support climate action. Fossil fuels alone – coal, oil and gas – account for over 75% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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