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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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.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

That provision was declared unconstitutional by the PA Supreme Court in a landmark ruling in December 2013 based on the Environmental Rights Amendment in Pennsylvania’s Constitution. Yaw announced the introduction of legislation prohibiting the distribution of Act 13 impact fees to any county “that is actively suing over fossil fuel use.”

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 (..)

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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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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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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.

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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 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.

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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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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.

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Environmental Progress

OCTOBER 17, 2021

When we published our paper in 2013, it was widely covered in the media , including by Scientific American , New Science , and Le Monde, but that hasn't stopped the European Commission and other governmental bodies from recognizing "Earth Overshoot Day" on social media.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

As we consider the known and well-researched health risks from fossil fuel pollution impacting our children and neighbors, as well as the recent PJM cost and reliability concerns, we question whether this is the right path toward the affordable, reliable, and clean energy grid that Pennsylvania needs.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 30, 2023

PV Magazine published at the beginning of the year an article stating that fossil fuels already had peaked. I googled “peak coal ” and the Wikipedia page informed me that global consumption for that black dirty and nasty stuff peaked in 2013. Yup, ten years ago.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

After several years of deadlock, parties established a work program on L&D in 2012 (at COP17 in Durban), further formalized in 2013 as the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage (WIM). The first explicit use of the term L&D was in the 2007 Bali Action Plan , in a section on enhanced action for adaptation.

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Acoel

AUGUST 27, 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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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 1, 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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Edouard Stenger

MAY 24, 2017

As more and more institutions and people are divesting from fossil fuels globally, climate responsible finance is booming. Part of this revolution is the meteoritic growth of green bonds, which were started in 2007 by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank.

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