Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

Now the same district court has gone further, again in favor of environmental groups but now against Royal Dutch Shell (“Shell”) , the world’s largest non-state-owned fossil fuel company. In fact, Shell has the most ambitious emissions abatement plan of all fossil fuel companies , for whatever that is worth.)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

What are the physical limitations of this fossil fuel resource that make it vulnerable during, say, summer droughts , or the types of extreme heat waves the world has been experiencing for months now? From 2010 to 2015, Texas experienced its second-worst drought in the state’s history.

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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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Legal Planet

JUNE 13, 2022

Prior to Glasgow, the NRDC had concluded that India was on track to meet its previous commitment to have 40% non-fossil fuel power generation by 2030. For many years, India’s position was that the developed world was responsible for cutting emissions while economic growth should be the priority for developing countries.

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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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Real Climate

JULY 10, 2022

For some parts of the spectrum, the IR can be either absorbed by CO 2 or by water vapour or by clouds, but taking those overlaps into account we find that 50% of the greenhouse effect is from water vapour, 25% from clouds, and about 20% from CO 2 and the rest absorbed by ozone, aerosols, and other trace gases ( Schmidt et al, 2010 ).

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2017

We know that burning fossil fuels is the main cause of anthropogenic climate change, and that climate change is the source of adverse impacts on communities and even regional and national economies. by Justin Gundlach. These points are largely undisputed. Peter Frumhoff led off, presenting two key points.

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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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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 25, 2024

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. Pension fund fossil fuel assets can be found everywhere.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 6, 2023

Six fossil fuel companies funneled more than $700m in research funding to 27 universities in the US from 2010 to 2020, according to a new study. Read the full story in The Guardian.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In order to reduce emissions, we must phase out fossil fuels—oil, coal and gas—and move towards renewable energy and less plastic and petrochemical production since these products, so dangerous as ocean pollutants, are made from oil. By 2050 they could represent 20% of oil demand by 2050.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

That’s a far cry from just six years ago, when EVs were considered a niche technology (and the fossil fuel baron Charles Koch and his minions wanted to keep it that way). Since 2010, the state’s clean vehicle rebate program has issued half a million rebates totaling $1.2 California is also a leader in EV tax incentives.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

For example, in the United States, there have been nearly 100 leaks or ruptures on existing carbon pipelines since 2010. Each step along the way poses risks, including installing carbon capture at oil refineries and other industrial sites, carbon pipelines (which can leak or rupture) and underground carbon storage sites.

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

In its early years, between 2005 and 2010, the RFS helped launch the massive scaleup of corn ethanol that established 10 percent ethanol as the de facto standard for US gasoline. After 2010, bio-based diesel fuels (biodiesel and renewable diesel) have been the main beneficiary of the RFS.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

But the United Nations has just said that the latest commitments of the 192 parties of the 2015 Paris agreement will equate to a 16% rise in global greenhouse-gas emissions in 2030 compared to 2010. That trend may lead to a warming of about 2.7 °C C by the end of the century. Courtesy: Michelle Bell. “We

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The fossil fuel company claims it can prevent Line 5 from spilling into high-risk areas such as the Straits of Mackinac. In 2010, it took Enbridge 17 hours to stop oil from bursting out of one of its pipelines into the Kalamazoo River, resulting in one of the largest inland oil spills in U.S. And that’s in a best-case scenario.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

They pointed to the fact that since 2010 the cost of solar, wind and battery technology has decreased by up to 85%. The report makes clear that we urgently need the political will to leave fossil fuels in the ground, advance renewable energy and invest in nature-based carbon dioxide removal through forest and ecosystem protection.”.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 4, 2021

In 2010, Line 6B ruptured into the Kalamazoo River resulting in over $1 billion in clean up costs. Despite the urgent need to eliminate our dependence on fossil fuels, crude oil production in the United States and Canada has actually grown substantially over the past several years. It took Enbridge 17 hours to shut down Line 6B.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

According to the report , average net annual human-caused GHG emissions were at their highest levels in human history between 2010 and 2019, with urban areas responsible for an increasing proportion of the emissions. The rate of emissions growth year on year slowed between 2010-2019 in comparison to the previous decade.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2022

This is another in a years-long attempt by Republicans to reverse the unconventional shale gas fracking moratorium adopted by the Commission in various forms starting in 2010. Tom Wolf’s job-killing, punitive crusade against the profitable production and exportation of natural gas and other homegrown fossil fuels.”

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Enbridge continues to spin a narrative that it can be trusted as a fossil fuel megacorporation to act in the best interest of the Great Lakes. Despite this, Enbridge refuses to comply, and the Canadian federal government is working alongside the fossil fuel giant, prioritizing industry interests over Indigenous rights.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

of the world’s total carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion, many airlines are considering carbon-capture-and-storage technologies and electric-powered planes. Since 2020, Neste has picked up used cooking oil from 252 of the fast-food restaurants and refines it into fuel. With the sector contributing 2.8%

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Physics World

OCTOBER 4, 2021

“I don’t think there’s ever been a more exciting time to join the energy sector,” says Ann Davies , who is chief operations officer at Lightsource BP , a firm that has been developing solar projects since 2010, and now employs nearly 600 people. All technologies have advantages and disadvantages.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 10, 2023

Almost all plastic is made from fossil fuels. The worst inland spill in US history occurred when more than 1 million gallons of heavy crude from another Enbridge pipeline poured into the Kalamazoo River watershed in 2010. And leaks and large spills certainly happen. Line 5, too, has already dumped some 4.5 Take action here.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

Japan’s dependency on fossil fuel s had been slightly declining until 2010. But the country changed course as a result of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, which led to the forced shutdown of nuclear power plants and greater reliance on fossil fuels.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 22, 2023

Since the drilling boom began in Pennsylvania between 2005 and 2010, the state government has played a game of catch-up, long hindered by lawmakers who refused to conduct studies relative to public health. And he asked a question that should be directed at lawmakers wearing their pro-drilling blinders: “Why is anyone surprised about that?”

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 12, 2023

The author recording data on debris – largely made of plastics – collected from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in 2010. In fact, according to the Science model, if we seek to return to 2010 ocean-plastic pollution levels (8 MMT], which is still 8 MMT too many!), where you’ll find yourself knee-deep in plastic trash in some places.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 24, 2023

Question: Some people claim EVs are worse for the environment than gasoline cars Answer: Battery-Electric vehicles (BEVs) have on average two thirds lower lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions than gasoline cars today, and this will improve as electricity grids get cleaner by cutting out fossil fuels.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

EIA -- Reuters: With Years Of High Natural Gas Prices Ahead, LNG Buyers Covet Long-Term Deals -- Reuters: EU Considers Push For Fossil Fuel Phasedown Ahead Of COP28 Climate Summit Other States/National/International -- U.S. EIA: Coal And Natural Gas Power Plants Will Account For 98% Of U.S.

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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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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Barr co-founded Save Our Streams PA in 2010 to try and help; her work became all the more urgent when methane from abandoned wells caused two homes in a nearby county to explode. Carbon capture and storage, or CCS, has long been controversial, often seen as a distraction or a crutch for fossil fuel companies.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 31, 2010

This rule required reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from a number of large sources including suppliers of fossil fuels or industrial greenhouse gases, manufacturers of vehicles and engines, and certain facilities that emit 25,000 metric tons or more per year of greenhouse gas emissions. and April 20, 2010 in Washington, D.C.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

percent annually of total global fossil fuel emissions. Construction of the plant began in 2010; by 2017, the plant was still not in service and the costs had risen to $7.6 If the intent is to reduce our carbon emissions, using captured carbon to produce more fossil fuels is simply not a reasonable solution.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 24, 2023

York HACC Campus, 2010 Pennsylvania Ave. Offers Free Solar Sprint Student Competition Teacher Training Jan. 13 -- PA Farm Link: Jan. 23 Farm Succession Workshop. to 2:30 p.m. -- Save The Date! North Branch Land Trust To Hold Annual Dinner May 1 Programs/Information -- PAcast: Santa’s Reindeer Cleared For Christmas Travel By PA Dept.

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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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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

While Japan once had one of the world’s most diverse energy portfolios, the loss of its nuclear program has caused a sudden shift towards a fossil-fuel heavy generation industry. 2010 Energy Plan. With the loss of nuclear power, the electricity generation shifted towards a fossil-fuel dependent portfolio.

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