Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

org Summary ExxonMobil is a fossil fuel company headquartered in Irving, Texas. Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution.

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 18, 2016

Green-roofs are an overlooked solution to the complex problem of heat pollution, which contributes to anthropogenic climate change. One method of city greening is roof greening, planting vegetation atop buildings to offset some of the UHIE. According to the US Environmental Protection . gency (EPA). , Notably, global urbanization.

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Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

EPA’s latest proposed rule targeting NOx emissions from fossil-fueled electric generating units (EGUs) is a classic study of diminishing returns. The downwind air quality benefits are minimal. EPA MATS Regulatory Impact Analysis, 2011. Posted on June 29, 2022 by Eugene M. million tons, a reduction of 5.1

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

City of Rocklin (2011) 197 Cal.App.4th Appendix F elaborates that relevant considerations include “decreasing reliance on fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas and oil” and “increasing reliance on renewable energy sources.” Citing Clover Valley Foundation v. 4th 200, 243; CEQA Guidelines, § 15064.7.).

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

“ We Refuse To Die ” is a multi-year, multi-city campaign that connects frontline communities in the Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley to communities in the Gulf South, and the Permian Basin, leveraging art, storytelling, ceremony, and action to stop the fossil fuel and petrochemical poisoning of communities, lands, and waters.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

It also improved air quality and made smog days a thing of the past. But what you probably haven’t heard is that our grid is getting dirtier again, with fossil fuels increasing in our electricity supply from burning natural gas. Ontario Energy Output by Fuel Type: 2020 . Source: IESO [link]. times more than reported.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

These associations can be attributed to the environmental impacts of fracking, including air pollution, water contamination, noise, traffic, and community impacts." So these are all problems that are known to be related to exposure to toxic air pollution. And I'm going to quote now from that study.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. VW Chops Labor Costs in U.S.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. VW Chops Labor Costs in U.S.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. VW Chops Labor Costs in U.S.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. VW Chops Labor Costs in U.S.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. VW Chops Labor Costs in U.S.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. VW Chops Labor Costs in U.S.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. VW Chops Labor Costs in U.S.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. VW Chops Labor Costs in U.S.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. VW Chops Labor Costs in U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 30, 2024

Shapiro's New Energy/Climate Plans [PaEN] -- WHYY - Susan Phillips: Green Hydrogen: A Climate Change Solution Or Fossil Fuel Bait And Switch? -- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: York Pilot Program Prepares Students For Green Energy Jobs -- LancasterOnline: Amid Air Pollution Concerns, Consumers Consider Electric Lawn Care -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: (..)

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FEBRUARY 25, 2018

The report estimates that “[t]he lifetime effects of these investments are projected to save 28 million MMBtu of fossil fuel energy and 9 million MWh of electricity, avoiding the release of 5.3 million metric tons] of carbon pollution.”. [35]. An alternative is to use transportation fuel as the point of regulation.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

Shapiro Needs To Fix It - By Conservative Commonwealth Foundation -- Chesapeake Bay Model Estimates Decline In Nutrient, Sediment Pollution; PA, 4 Other Jurisdictions Did Not Meet Reduction 2023 Targets For Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Sediment [PaEN] -- Chesapeake Bay Journal: Environmental Groups Send EPA Notice Of Potential Lawsuit On Wastewater Plant (..)

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Several states and industry groups are challenging EPA’s 2024 rules which set greenhouse gas emissions limits for certain fossil fuel power plants nationwide (referred to here as the Power Plant Rules). EPA’s 2024 Power Plant Rules EPA is required to regulate power plant emissions under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

Renewables contributed to electricity prices rising six times more in California than in the rest of the US since 2011, the state’s “take-off” year for rapid growth in wind and solar, a price rise that occurred despite the state’s reliance during the same years on persistently-low-priced natural gas.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

None of that means climate change isn’t, and won’t continue to be, a factor in global health, particularly if action to prevent it also reduces air pollution, or removes other health stressors. Carbon emissions are thus following the same trajectory as other air pollutants. For example, the Green New Deal proposed by Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

Health First Pennsylvania is a dedicated bunch of health professionals, health advocates, parents, faith leaders, all dedicated to trying to make the use and extraction of fossil fuels, especially methane, in Pennsylvania, as safe as possible, and to limit the damage. He created the Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission in 2011.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

In Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies, Supreme Court Held that Appellate Review of Remand Order Extends to All Grounds for Removal. The fossil fuel companies removed the case in March 2021, citing five grounds for removal, including the federal officer removal statute. In a 7-1 decision, the U.S.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

FWS developed the interpretation in a 2011 “Polar Bear Memo” that addressed the determination of threatened status for polar bears.) Ninth Circuit Heard Oral Argument in California Local Government Cases; Fossil Fuel Companies Said Juliana Decision Supported Their Position.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

Now comes the court’s crippling of the most important federal weapon available to avoid catastrophic climate change and its associated killing of tens of thousands of Americans every year with fossil fuel air pollution. The Supreme Court is ignoring the science on health. The data are overwhelming.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Casey, Colleagues: Introduce Bill To Empower Fossil Fuel Workers To Train, Find Jobs In Changing Energy Industry [PaEN] -- Patch.com: Chester County Commissioners Adopt New Climate Action Plan -- ReadingE: Muhlenberg Twp. Of Environmental Professionals Award Scholarships To Isaac Nulton, Poppy Northing; Conference Starts Oct.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

The Biden administration laid out its timeline for rolling back major Trump environmental rules, but acknowledged that the process of enacting more protective regulations on climate and air pollution and drinking water will take years — if they can estimate the timeline at all. The court determined that the U.S.

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DECEMBER 19, 2016

The Trump Watch confidently predicts that Big Oil and Gas are about to receive an unimaginable return on their investments with the Fossil Fuel Dream Team. Coupled with the Fossil Fuel Dream Team Mr. Ebell’s appointment does not bode well for the serious, engaged and continued involvement of the U.S.

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