Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Switching from fossil fuels like gasoline to increasingly clean electricity sources is vital for hitting climate and air pollution goals. Only around 50,000 EVs were on the road in 2013, but there are now over 1.5 But even though we’ve added six million passenger cars to the road in the last 10 years, gasoline use has dropped.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 23, 2025

At present, Diablo Canyon is the only nuclear power plant operating in California, but the state has a long and storied history with nuclear power (including the tale of missing nuclear fuel rods that PG&E never could locate ).

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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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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

since 2013 have been integral to creating the conditions that led to the County’s actions, is also a member of the County coalition. Much hard work lies ahead in removing fossil fuel infrastructure and preparing this land for healthier uses. STAND-L.A., Physicians for Social Responsibility–Los Angeles represents STAND-L.A.’s

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Real Climate

AUGUST 13, 2021

This is a pretty clear illustration of how sea level starts to rise slowly; but in the long run, sea-level rise caused by fossil-fuel burning and deforestation in our generation could literally go off the chart and inundate many coastal cities and wipe entire island nations off the map. But first things first.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 30, 2025

isoprene, carbitol, benzyl alcohol) to secondary organic aerosol are emitted from trees, fossil fuels, and an assortment of industrial and personal care compounds collectively known as volatile chemical products (VCPs). As fossil fuel emissions continue to decline, the fraction of SOA from VCP sources will likely increase.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Suncor is also a founding member of the Pathways Alliance , a fossil fuel industry association made up of six major tar sands producers and the newest major lobby group. Suncor Energy Inc: 2023-Present Imperial Oil Ltd: 2013–2019 ExxonMobil Corp: 1981-2013 Villain Career Profile Rich Kruger has a long and storied career in oil.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 23, 2023

These wildfires, which were exacerbated by emissions from fossil fuel producers, burned over 17 million hectares of forest. However, this research was hidden from the public eye and Exxon continued to publicly cast doubt about climate science, fund climate denial groups and think tanks, and promote fossil fuel expansion and use.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 26, 2024

In 2013, I returned to university to complete a master’s degree with a research focus on energy transition. My journey in energy transition started as my attempt to protect my family and community – and other impacted communities – from the devastating environmental and human rights impacts of the fossil fuel industry.

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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% This blog post provides an overview of those cases and the broader landscape of climate litigation in Japan.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In the United States, a ruling by a federal judge in Wisconsin has long-term implications for fossil fuel infrastructure in the Great Lakes region. Easements for those lands, located on the Bad River Reservation in northern Wisconsin, expired in 2013.

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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). Today, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) projects that 50 percent of US passenger car sales could very well be electric by 2030.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 15, 2024

Researchers working in the field of attribution science have been able to state with clarity that last year’s fires and droughts, the Alberta floods of 2013, BC’s atmospheric rivers, and the heat waves that have killed hundreds of people in the BC’s Lower Mainland, have all been intensified and magnified by human-caused climate change.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Then in 1896, preliminary calculations by Arrhenius hinted that humanity’s burning of fossil fuels could raise CO 2 levels and warm our planet. Callendar analysed historical global measurements of temperature, of atmospheric CO 2 , and the use of fossil fuels. Callendar was born in 1898. 139 1961 ).

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

One important new commitment that Canada made is joining over 20 countries in agreeing to eliminate public financing for international fossil fuel development by 2022. No country should be subsidizing or financing the fossil fuel companies that are fueling the climate crisis. Finally F-words: fossil fuels.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2021

Most of these provisions were enacted in the early 1970s during that great period of environmental lawmaking, but they received relatively little attention until a 2013 decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Robinson Township v. State of Montana , a suit brought by some of the same lawyers involved in Juliana.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 11, 2022

Already an annual headache for a bird that is loyal to its nesting spot, the rearranging of rocks is now a figurative migraine as climate change from the world’s burning of fossil fuels intensifies rain, wind and crashing waves. During the last decade, one set of storms slashed the number of burrows from more than 90 down to 52. “We

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

” The loss and damage mechanism was first adopted in Warsaw in 2013 during COP19 , however since then developing and developed economies have been arguing over how much should be paid and how the scheme should work. The issue will be picked up again this year in November when negotiators and world leaders gather in Egypt for COP27. .

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

While burning methane to generate energy releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the overall climate impact is reduced and the gas could potentially replace fossil fuel sources.) 2013 , IPCC 6th Assessment Report, Chapter 6 , González et al., 2013 , Patra and Yu, 2012 , Kinley et al., 2018 , Petersen et al.,

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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. As a result, Japan’s CO 2 emissions increased, peaking in 2013.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2024

Founded in 2013, the mission of EPA’s Trash Free Waters Program is to prevent that trash from getting into waterways and to remove what is already in the environment. Most of the trash that pollutes rivers, lakes, estuaries, and oceans comes from sources on land.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

In 2013, there was a report in the Guardian about scientific studies that refuted the opinion that solar activity or cosmic radiation should explain climate change. In 2015, an extensive European research collaboration, COST-TOSCA, produced a handbook that dealt with the question of how solar activity affects the Earth’s climate.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

References: Did Coca-Cola Ever Contain Cocaine? USA: Coke, EPA to reach settlement in Clean Air Act ammonia violation charges Shane O'Halloran | Food Engineering Mag | March 19, 2014 EPA alleged 27 violations at a Minute Maid juice processing facility in Michigan.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 22, 2021

You could make similar health arguments as to why on earth Heineken are also allowed to sponsor this sporting event, or on climate grounds why are fossil fuel giants, Russia’s Gazprom and Germany’s car giant Volkswagen , also on the sponsor list? UEFA and CSR.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Six kids in town besides Jacob were diagnosed with cancer from 2005 to 2013. So does fossil fuel combustion. He and Shari are active in the Pediatric Cancer Action Network, a grassroots advocacy and support group in Nebraska. Their work has revealed to them one of the darker sides of rural life in Nebraska.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2023

Ontario Power Generation, a Crown corporation that generates a chunk of the province’s electricity, has been secretly selling clean energy credits since about 2013 and has made billions in profit from the sales. Meanwhile, it is leaving the public with increasing fossil gas emissions and electricity prices.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 11, 2021

In 2013, after moving with my husband and young children to the beautiful coastal community of White Rock/South Surrey, BC, I learned that there was a plan to develop a US thermal coal transfer facility at Fraser Surrey Docks, about a 30-minute drive from our home with the intent of shipping 8 million metric tonnes of coal to Asia.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 22, 2022

A draft regulatory framework has already been prepared and the 2013 Alternative Renewable Energy Policy revised. The fuel can be used in the transportation sector to reduce fossil fuel dependency. However, officials from the Department of Renewable Energy said this will require changing policies and regulations.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

While we don’t expect final, precise details until January, the Roadmap’s five major objectives, with high-level preliminary strategies shared under each, are likely to include: Harness Abundant Renewable Energy to Reduce Long-term Costs, Reliance on Fossil Fuels, and Fight Climate Change.

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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. With the loss of nuclear power, the electricity generation shifted towards a fossil-fuel dependent portfolio. Sendai Nuclear Power Plant.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

But this announcement was seemingly at odds with another made just three days earlier, when coal minister Pralhad Joshi confirmed that India intends to increase production for the fossil fuel. From 2013 to 2014, Indian coal production was 565 million tonnes; from 2022 to 2023, that had increased by 58% to 893 million.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

First issued by the EIB (European Investment Bank) in 2007 in Sweden, green bonds have grown from $11 billion USD in 2013 to $1 Trillion USD in December 2020 globally. Moreover, such bond prices appear to be highly susceptible to oil movements, being more pronounced when demand for fossil fuel is less, for example during the pandemic years.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Enbridge, like many other fossil fuel companies, has well funded PR teams that expertly craft marketing campaigns to give the appearance that the company is willing to work alongside Indigenous communities and act as partners in good faith. Reality: Between 1994 and 2013, the U.S.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Because of this, Europe ‘s five major utilities lost more than €100 billion in value from 2008 to 2013 because they were unprepared for an 8 per cent growth in renewable power, of which solar panels played a big part. Nowadays, coal is losing ground in its main markets such as India and China, the United States and the European Union .

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

LLC and DEP over permits for an oil and gas wastewater injection well that began in 2013. This well was ground zero in a years-long dispute between Grant Township, PA General Energy Co. In May, PA General Energy Co. LLC announced they were abandoning the project and plugging the well. Read more here. DEP inspection report 9.14.23(A).

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2023

On August 8, PJM Interconnection and other regional electric grid operators submitted comments on a proposed EPA regulation to cut greenhouse gas emissions from power plants expressing concerns the rule will accelerate retirements of fossil fuel plants without reliable renewable and electric storage technologies to replace them.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 2, 2020

Amidst historically low oil prices and economic shutdowns, fossil fuel companies continue to defend against lawsuits brought by state and local governments claiming climate-change related damages. 251, 258 (2013) (citing Grable & Sons Metal Products, Inc. Minton , 568 U.S. Darue Engineering & Manufacturing, 545 U.S.

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