Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2022

For example, in July 2022, Tulsa, OK saw 20 days with maximum temperatures above 100°F, and the next higher number of such days, 26, occurred in 2011. Danger Season will continue to threaten our lives and wellbeing and we need to act now to avoid the worst of climate impacts.

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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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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

With most energy investments still in fossil fuels, significant reform is needed to modernise the sector and meet Kazakhstan’s pledge to become net-zero by 2060. Social unrest related to fossil fuels is not a new phenomenon in Kazakhstan. An oil pump in a dust storm on the road to Aktau, Kazakhstan. By Kate Watters.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Background Japan has heavily relied on the use of fossil fuels for its power generation. According to the Japanese Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, the countrys fossil fuel dependency was 83.2% in 2021, which is 2% higher than the percentage before the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 23, 2024

This is not only important for the climate, but for frontline communities that have been historically burdened by fossil fuel energy generation. Gas plants not only release smog and pollution which harm health, but they are disproportionately sited in disadvantaged communities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 26, 2022

Depending on the nature and extent of the damage, the plant could experience one or more core meltdowns or spent nuclear fuel pool fires, which could trigger a radiological release rivaling that of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi accident or even the larger release from the 1986 Chernobyl accident.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

The market at the time (all of 6,743 California sales in 2011) was dominated by the 73-mile range Nissan Leaf, the plug-in hybrid Chevy Volt (with a 35-mile electric range ). There was robust debate about the feasibility of EVs reaching 15 percent market share in CA by 2025. Automakers pushed back, concerned the rules were too stringent.

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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 2011 study in the journal Asthma and Allergy , said the parallel increase of global asthma and carbon dioxide emissions is “remarkable.”

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 4, 2024

For instance, mortgages are connected to homes, while fossil fuel finance is tied to infrastructure like pipelines, oil wells, and the reserves still in the ground. Up to $4 trillion of fossil fuel assets are at risk of being stranded, with $100bn at risk in Canada by 2036. However, Canada is falling behind.

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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. When I was born in 1979 it had stood at 4.36

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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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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 26, 2024

In 2011, my community experienced what was the second-largest oil spill in the province’s history – 4.5 While our world transitions to renewable energy from fossil fuels, we must be critical and aware of the impacts of “clean” energy so we do not replicate the same system of harms that have been perpetuated from the previous energy era.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

In 2011, in AEP v. CT , the Supreme Court said this: We hold that the Clean Air Act and the EPA actions it authorizes displace any federal common law right to seek abatement of carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel fired power plants. 410 (2011). Now, in West Virginia v. Connecticut , 564 U. Post, at 20.

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

In Germany, fossil fuels are king. While Germany has had a huge focus on renewable energy this has done little to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels. But the reality is that Germany is far from the top of the leaderboard when it comes to climate action in Europe, let alone in the world.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Replacing one fossil fuel with another is the wrong solution, but one seen in many countries where coal plants are being retired or new coal power projects dropped. About a third of the coal plants “retired” in the US between 2011 and 2019 were actually converted to burn gas. Gas power should not be an option.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Throughout his career, Minott and the Clean Air Council earned a reputation for holding government agencies and fossil fuel companies accountable. He was concerned about the worldwide consumption of fossil fuels and its impact on climate change. In 2011, Kraybill purchased his first electric car, a Chevy Volt.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

This is based on a 2011 analysis and ignores a more recent 2021 study prepared for CARB that looks at the NOx and PM from biodiesel emissions in legacy and new technology diesel engines. Capping vegetable oil fuels and investing in alternatives to combustion The oil industry is in transition.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 17, 2022

Since 2011, the Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee has resulted in total revenues of $2.258 billion. Extensive details regarding the impact fee distribution are available online, including specifics on funds collected and distributed for each year since 2011. Also, $25,189,477 will be distributed to state agencies, as specified by Act 13.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Around 75% comes from fossil fuels: burning coal, natural gas and oil. ” Following the 2011 Fukushima incident, Germany sped up its nuclear decommissioning programme, even though no fatalities were reported as a direct result of the nuclear accident.

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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

APRIL 30, 2024

Lee Bill To Improve Data On Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Well Locations, Plugging Technology -- DEP Launches Pilot Program In 10 Counties To Speed Up Processing Chapter 102 Erosion & Sedimentation Permits Starting May 1 [PaEN] -- Pittsburgh Business Times: DEP Pilot Seeks To Quicken Pace Of Stormwater Discharge Permit Process -- Pennsylvania (..)

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But the country switched off most of its nuclear generators following the 2011 Fukushima disaster. ” In recent years Japan has been ravaged by a series of extreme weather events linked to the burning of fossil fuels. Japan is the fifth-largest CO2 emitter in the world and has committed to being carbon-neutral by 2050.

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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. earthquake occurred off the Japanese coast on March 11, 2011. While Japan’s 48 nuclear reactors have been idling, the NRA issued. new safety rules.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 20, 2022

Energy Information Administration reported-- in our January Short-Term Energy Outlook , we forecast that rising electricity generation from renewable energy resources such as solar and wind will reduce generation from fossil fuel-fired power plants over the next two years. The forecast share of generation for U.S.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 17, 2024

I strongly believe we have to wean ourselves off fossil fuels, and I felt that this was an excellent statement on how we might do that. At the end of eight years, that was up until 2011, we were able to discern that the prairie chicken population was as healthy on the ranch as prior to construction, which was pleasing to us.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 29, 2023

The country announced its nuclear phase-out on the back of the Fukushima incident in Japan in 2011. Also that renewables , instead of replacing other fossil fuels, must now replace another low-carbon energy source. The facts The facts are pretty simple. The country is surrounded by other nuclear power nations.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 13, 2009

energy policy will focus on promoting renewable energy sources and rely less on traditional fossil fuels. billion from 2011 to 2019. The Secretary’s comments, made when speaking to the Senate Finance Committee on the proposed budget, reinforced the Obama administration’s stance that new U.S.

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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.

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Frontiers

APRIL 24, 2023

There’s one estimate that says that 80% of the carbon emissions between 1850 and 2011 (more than one and a half centuries) were caused by rich countries who made up 14% of the global population. Similarly, we need to move away from fossil fuels and encourage investment in green options, even if that means regulation.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

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 . The decision to ditch coal was the biggest single action of its time to cut carbon emissions in North America.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Few people realize that Germany has actually increased its fossil fuel combustion capacity over the 20 years of its landmark renewable energy program from 2001 to the present. We can see the same impact of variable energies in Germany.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Thus did the “Berlin Mandate” of 1995 (adopted at COP1) lead to the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, and the “Durban Platform for Enhanced Action” of 2011 (adopted at COP17) lead to the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Like Greta Thunberg, Mariutti comes to the tale as an environmental obsessive passionate about facilitating the world’s transition from fossil fuels to cleaner forms of energy. Does the fossil fuel industry offer any alternative?”, It was Mariutti who first took substantial efforts to flag the data discrepancies.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2022

The denial cites a Sabin Center white paper published in March 2022 that argues that the New York Executive Branch has the legal authority to implement a moratorium on the permitting of fossil fuel power plants that are providing behind-the-meter energy to proof-of-work cryptocurrency miners.

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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. Mediterranean Reefs Will Be Destroyed Upon Repsol's Prospecting Published by Oceana | July 21, 2011 Information provided by Repsol Investigaciones Petrolíferas, S. Corporation Repsol S.A.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 6, 2025

Gas plants failed disproportionately, compared to gas share of total installed capacity, during all five extreme winter storms since 2011 that were identified by federal regulators as having jeopardized grid reliability.

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