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Electric Vehicles Help Combat Climate Change, Here’s Why.

Union of Concerned Scientists

Even where the grid still has significant fossil fuel-powered generation, EVs are a cleaner choice. In the grid region that serves most of Texas, driving the average EV produces emissions equal to an 83 mpg gasoline car, despite over 60% of electricity generation coming from fossil fuels.

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Seniors are mobilizing – we want to be part of the bigger climate action movement

Enviromental Defense

But this year, 2024, was different – Canadian seniors in 76 locations mobilized 6000 people to call for a better world, free from the destruction caused by burning fossil fuels. We also have to: integrate our support for, and build stronger alliances with, the Indigenous peoples who are leading the resistance to fossil fuel expansion.

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Environmental Defence Sponsors Olympic Athlete to Raise Attention to the Oil and Gas Industry’s Blatant Greenwashing of Sports 

Enviromental Defense

The fossil fuel industry has known that its products are fueling the climate crisis for decades. Since their launch in 2012, the organisation has dedicated itself to encouraging Canadians to pledge support for the fossil fuel industry. Canada Action is an oil and gas industry advocacy group.

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Sen. Bartolotta, Sen. Yaw Announce Bill To Withhold Gas Drilling Impact Fees To Municipalities That Set More Protective Standards On Natural Gas Development Than State Law, And While There Is a Legal Challenge To Local Restrictions

PA Environment Daily

History Of Preventing Local Regulation Of Oil/Gas The Bartolotta/Yaw announcement forgets to mention Act 13 of 2012 setting up the impact fee also originally included a provision preempting any local regulation of drilling operations. Click Here for the complete announcement. Read more here. Although not yet introduced, Sen. Read more here.

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PA Republican Senators Introduce Bill To Punish Local Elected Officials Who Want To Protect Their Constituents From The Documented Adverse Health, Environmental Impacts Of Shale Gas Development

PA Environment Daily

Republican History Of Preventing Local Regulation Of Oil/Gas The original announcement of this legislation references Act 13 of 2012 which originally contained a provision preempting any local regulation of drilling operations included at the insistence of Republicans. Cecil Township is in Sen. Bartolotta’s district. Read more here.

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Groups question Canada’s climate leadership at COP29, after new data shows skyrocketing fossil fuel export emissions   

Enviromental Defense

This data, which was not previously publicly available, shows that despite Canada’s commitments to reducing emissions at home, exported emissions have risen a shocking 58 per cent from 2012 to 2023. The data show a stark contrast between Canada’s rhetoric as a climate leader and its record.

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Attribution Science and EPA’s Reconsideration of the GHG Endangerment Finding

Law Columbia

EPA (2012). For example, Callahan and Mankin (2025) demonstrate how climate models and economic damage functions can be used to calculate heat-related losses attributable to GHG emissions from certain fossil fuel companies products. This is because there are so many independent lines of evidence supporting that conclusion (e.g.,