Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

These higher costs are being driven by a major overreliance on natural gas, which has sharply spiked in price and is currently the dominant fuel source in the US for both home heating and electricity generation. These claims just add to the deluge of greenwashing and disinformation from the fossil fuel industry.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

After 30 years of international negotiations failing to mention the root cause of the climate crisis, the acknowledgement that we must phase out all fossil fuels and massively scale up renewable energy in order to effectively tackle the climate crisis, was both long overdue and extremely significant.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 19, 2023

Uber founded in 2009; Lyft in 2012), public micromobility systems such as scooters and bikeshares, electrification, shared automated vehicles : all came with the promise of “ faster, smarter, greener ” cities that would be “ connected, heterogenous, intelligent and personalized.” New ride hailing services (e.g.,

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Demonstrators took to the streets at the 2009 global climate convention in Copenhagen. Removing carbon from the air or growing crops as a fuel stock — two options that will be necessary unless fossil fuel use declines steeply and swiftly — come with significant tradeoffs for water supply and water quality.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

USA: Coke Sued for Fraudulent Claims on Obesity-Promoting “VitaminWater” Center for Science in the Public Interest | January 15, 2009 Coke markets VitaminWater as a healthful alternative to soda by labeling its several flavors with such health buzz words as "defense," "rescue," "energy," and "endurance."

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 11, 2021

And this change comes in part from increasing diffusion of fossil fuels. My 2009 piece; " Urban Growth and Climate Change" fleshes this out. I discuss this point at length in chapter 1 of my 2021 Yale Press book and in the 2009 piece "Urban Growth and Climate Change" linked to above. Here is 2012 video where I elaborate.

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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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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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The Energy Law Blog

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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Environmental Progress

JULY 6, 2020

Hausfather admits I am correct that wood fuel is far worse for people and wildlife than fossil fuels but then adds that biomass "is quite controversial and opposed by most environmental advocates." more land than fossil fuels, but those numbers are incorrect, and Hausfather has cherry-picked them, while ignoring better data.

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The Energy Law Blog

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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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

To BNEF the onshore wind levelized costs decreased by 50 percent since 2009 and the price of solar PV modules have been slashed by a massive 80 percent since 2008. Ending fossil fuels subsidies and divesting away from coal will put the final nails in the coffin. while GDP grew too.

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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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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Given the limitations of the global carbon budget, he suggested that only a limited number of fossil-fuel development projects can proceed and used a balancing test to determine which projects may have benefits justifying the costs. federal courts considering municipal suits against fossil fuel companies for climate-related damages.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

That means we’ll need to quickly add additional clean energy policies and policies to phase out fossil fuels just to meet our 2030 goals. Back in 2009, richer nations committed to a goal of providing $100 billion a year in climate finance by 2020, a goal that was reaffirmed in Paris in 2015. For the next round of NDCs, the U.S.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Moccia said the Student Sustainability Center was founded in 2009 by Diana Wall, the Inaugural Director of the School of Global Environmental Sustainability. The Divestment Campaign is another student-started sustainability project on campus that is challenging CSU to divest from fossil fuels, according to their website.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

As Russia seeks new clients for its construction technology and fossil fuels, and with Pakistan desperate for a secure and cheap supply of natural gas, the visit could lay the foundations for Russia to build a pipeline to transport natural gas from Karachi to Lahore. “My Increasing demand, decreasing supply.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. French Oil Giant Total S.A.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. French Oil Giant Total S.A.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. French Oil Giant Total S.A.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Tanker Spills Crude Oil Off Huntington Beach Steven Churm | Los Angeles Times | February 8, 1990 An estimated 6,000 barrels of crude oil spilled into the Pacific on Wednesday night after an oil tanker apparently hit its own anchor, opening a hole in its hull while attempting to moor about two miles off Huntington Beach.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 13, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen Whether or not to include the language stating ‘fossil fuels must be phased out’ rather than ‘phased down’ became the key contentious issue at this year’s UN climate talks. A draft text released Friday, with just under a week for the summit to conclude included the key fossil fuel language as an option.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. French Oil Giant Total S.A.

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