2009 Fossil Fuels Law 
Enviromental Defense
AUGUST 23, 2021
million for other categories of support to fossil fuels. In fact, the Polluter Pays principle is enshrined across provincial and Canadian laws: companies don’t just have a moral obligation to clean up after making huge profits from public resources. Cleaning up is the law.
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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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. Texas went first in 2005, with a law called SB 20. UCS began pushing for strong planning with new rules as early as 2009.
Legal Planet
AUGUST 22, 2024
But these goals will only be achievable if the state has sufficient charging infrastructure to fuel the vehicles, along with available financing to help truck owners purchase or lease them. For this transition to succeed, it will require not just technological innovation but also robust policy support and financial investment.
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.
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
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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