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.

Ozone

PA Environment Daily

JULY 29, 2025

Beginning in July 2013, Coterra drilled and put into production the first four gas wells. The remaining five wells were completed in early 2021. Cryptocurrency And PA’s War On The Little Guy - By Joe Morinville, Energy Independent Solutions -- Bloomberg: US And China Are Diverging On Strategies To Power A.I.

Natural Gas

A Greener Life

APRIL 21, 2025

The peoples climate champion Pope Francis has won accolades across the world from all faiths since his election as the 266th Pope in March 2013. Pope Francis’s primary criticisms were the persistent use of fossil fuels and the lifestyle choices of wealthy nations.

2013

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 16, 2025

But then things heated up: wind and solar generated more than 5% of monthly electricity for the first time in 2013, passed the 10% point in 2017, leapt past 15% in 2021, and soared past 20% just one year later, in 2022. Wind and solar have supplied at least 10% of US electricity in every single month since September 2021.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Of Health, Penn State Project ECHO Webinar To Educate Medical Professionals, Public On Exposures To Natural Gas Facility Pollution; Real Washington County CNX Facility Case Study Used [PaEN] -- Washington County Judge Rules Sunoco Pipeline Did Not Have Eminent Domain Authority To Take Property For Mariner East Pipelines In Landowner Lawsuit Alleging (..)

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

MAY 21, 2025

Between 2013 and 2023, the agency said, electricity prices had tracked with inflation but are now expected to rise faster than inflation through 2026. Energy Information Administration projects that retail electricity prices are expected to continue a rapid rise this year, with the average price increasing 13 percent from 2022 to 2025.

Rainforest

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

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Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

The new paper in Science summarizes key statements by ExxonMobil executives between 2000 and 2013 that cast doubt on the science. 3) ExxonMobil predicted the possibility of linking rising temperatures to fossil fuels ExxonMobil researchers accurately predicted when it would become possible to attribute changes in climate to human activity.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2023

Another study found that climate change made severe flooding in the United Kingdom 43 percent more likely during the winter of 2013-14. Scientists have long known that burning fossil fuels is the primary cause of the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, but now they can identify the specific sources.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The share of online transactions among total US sales grew from just under six percent in 2013 to around 15 percent in 2021, according to the Census Bureau’s Annual Retail Trade Survey.

Nitrogen Oxides

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.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 10, 2024

In North America, the land carbon sink between 2004 and 2013 offset roughly 39% of fossil fuel emissions , but varied substantially year to year. This does not undercut the conclusions drawn from any given model, but rather increases the urgency with which we must phase out fossil fuels and adapt to coming climate change.

Atmosphere

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.

Fossil Fuels

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

Natural Resources

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.

Sea Level

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.

Electricity

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.

Renewable Energy

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.

Paris Agreement

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.

Fossil Fuels

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.

Climate Change

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. .

Climate Change

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.

Paris Agreement

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.

Sea Level

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.

2020

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.

Fossil Fuels

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.

Clean Energy

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.

Renewable Energy

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.

2023

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Hoekstra represents the centre-right political spectrum and has been under scrutiny as between 2005-6 he worked for the fossil fuel giant, Royal Dutch Shell. The Social Democrat has a long experience in EU politics having served in the European Parliament (EP) between 2004 and 2013.

Clean Energy

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.

Nuclear Power

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.

Fossil Fuels

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.

Renewable Energy

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.

Natural Resources

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 .

2020

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.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

A Republican, he wrote the 2013 opinion that brought the ERA back to life. And then was approved by voters across the Commonwealth by a vote of four to one.” The Initiative will also be celebrating the Honorable Ron Castille , former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Natural Gas

Environment Blog

JUNE 25, 2021

Portfolios were typically created by just excluding certain types of business such as tobacco, weapons, and fossil fuels and the number of companies available to invest in, that were involved in solving environmental problems, was limited.

Fossil Fuels