Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2024

Questioning fossil fuel companies is part of our mission, but each year the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) gets a chance to aim some choice words directly at corporate leaders during their annual shareholders’ meetings. million last year to pump out disinformation about California’s energy policies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

However, as we replace fossil fuels with clean electricity for heating and transportation to meet our climate goals, these peak demands will increasingly shift to the winter in many parts of the country. And this problem will only get worse as the impacts of climate change become more frequent and severe.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The fossil fuel industry has systematically contaminated our environment with a wide range of toxic chemicals for over a century. Nitrogen and sulfur oxides harm lungs and produce acid rain NOx forms when fossil fuels are burned at high temperatures, as a result of a reaction with the nitrogen in air.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 14, 2023

During the 2014 Polar Vortex (shown below), gas plants accounted for 40% of the generating capacity within the storm-impacted area, but 55% of the generating capacity that failed during the storm. During the 2014 Polar Vortex, gas plants accounted for a disproportionately large percentage of power plant failures.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

PennFuture celebrated 25 years of fighting climate change and industrial pollution by holding anniversary celebrations in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to honor seven Pennsylvanians for their contributions to restoring and protecting the environment. Church was an elementary school counselor in Philadelphia until 2014.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 28, 2021

As a result, in 2014, the Canadian company Enbridge moved that a new, larger Line 3 be built, a proposition that immediately disregarded indigenous land rights and Anishinaabe culture. One of the lines, Line 3, has “extensive corrosion” and would require 7,000 digs to repair, according to its replacement project director.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2023

That’s a really good thing given the central role we expect and need solar to play in a just transition away from fossil fuels. This graph depicts actual growth in solar installations since 2014 and projections for further growth in the next five years. (GW The solar energy sector is big and getting bigger.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 23, 2025

The report also found that contrary to the AERs assertion that there has been no environmental impact from tailings spills between 2014 and 2023, 50 per cent of reported spills with images show visible environmental degradation. Dakota Norris, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment dakota@cape.ca

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

CCS does nothing about methane leakage or the emissions that result from burning fossil fuels; therefore ignoring 90 per cent of the problem. Carbon capture prolongs our dependence on oil and gas at a time when preventing catastrophic climate change requires winding down fossil fuel production and use.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 11, 2021

John Cochrane has posted an important blog post about adapting to climate change. No plausible estimate of climate damage comes close to this kind of change. And this change comes in part from increasing diffusion of fossil fuels. safer places) if climate change turns out to be as bad as you claim.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The biggest barrier to climate action in Canada is the oil and gas lobby. For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 5, 2024

There’s a direct line of culpability between fossil fuel corporations and climate change – it’s why so many oil and gas CEOs have topped our list of Climate Villains. Fossil fuels are finite resources, and extraction is an expensive endeavour. billion CAD into fossil fuels.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 27, 2023

One is Alex Pourbaix is the CEO of Cenovus, one of the biggest oil sands producers, who is regularly in the media talking about energy and climate change politics. Truth: A managed phase-out of oil and gas production is the only way to get to a safe and stable climate.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Solar activity provides no alternative explanation for today’s climate change Dagsvik and Moen claim that recent research indicates that variations in the sun’s magnetic field are of great importance for long-term fluctuations in solar activity. Our job is to be thorough and verify questionable results. It has taken time.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Renters are more likely to be denied FEMA assistance than homeowners: according to FEMA’s own analysis of its almost five million aid applications from 2014-2018, poor renters were 23% less likely to receive assistance than wealthier homeowner applicants.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In August, the oil and gas industry had 64 lobby meetings with the federal government, with the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) being the most active fossil fuel lobbyist once again. CAPP is the largest oil and gas industry association and lobby group in Canada. The influence doesn’t stop there. Will you join us?

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

For Canada’s major oil and gas producers, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a get-out-of-jail-free card, which allows them to keep on polluting while appearing as though they are taking the threat of climate change seriously. The Carbon Capture Facility at the Boundary Dam Power Plant in Saskatchewan went into service in 2014.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

The impacts of climate change are downright frightening. Rich Kruger is the CEO of Suncor, a company responsible for nearly 35 million metric tons of climate pollution annually – the equivalent of 8.3 This lobby group has been trying to re-brand tar sands companies as they are working on climate solutions.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 30, 2023

But despite this, it did not shift the dominance of fossil fuels. ” The surge in renewables does not mean a reduction in emissions While this shows that investments in renewables are increasing, it is still evident that reducing reliance on fossil fuels is a huge challenge. to its highest level since 2014.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

Ebel, the CEO of Enbridge, to our list of infamous Climate Villains – powerful people with fossil fuel interests holding Canada back from effective climate action. The executives behind the fossil fuel industry often avoid public scrutiny, which is why we’re shining the spotlight on their activities.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Guest Post by Philip Cafaro , Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Colorado State University Scientists and climate ethicists argue that more attention needs to be given to population growth’s role in the climate crisis. 3 from IPCC, Fifth Assessment Report, Mitigation Report, Summary for Policymakers (2014).

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A Greener Life

MAY 20, 2022

With more than 300,000 panels deployed over an area of 214 hectares, it is the largest of its kind in the country, with a production capacity of 100 megawatts (MW) – a sizeable output, but not enough on its own to turn Bolivia’s energy mix away from fossil fuels and towards renewables. Advantageous and encouraging.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 7, 2024

used the words “ climate change ” expressly. The consequences of the climate crisis are already visible and devastating, such as rising temperatures, melting ice caps, sea level rise, extreme weather events, droughts, floods, wildfires, biodiversity loss, food insecurity, water scarcity, displacement, conflict, disease, and death.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 4, 2021

Between 2000-2014 alone, there have been over 1,276 spills across the entire Enbridge pipeline system that have dumped over 35 million liters of oil into the environment. 4, We need urgent action on the climate emergency and climate justice. . We are in a very real climate emergency. That’s an average of 91 spills and 2.5

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 27, 2023

The majority of Canadians understand that climate change is one of the most important issues we face. Enter, Canada’s Top Climate Villains The influential players behind Canada’s oil and gas industry, who should be held responsible for their outsized role in causing the climate crisis, aren’t the ones feeling the heat.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Elmore (2014) Coca-Cola: The Alternative Report by War on Want (2006) The Coke Machine by Michael Blanding (2010). 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 24, 2021

At President Biden’s climate summit in April all parties agreed that everyone must pull together to mitigate climate change. Its State Council introduced a plan for responding to climate change in 2007 and in 2020, President Xi announced that China will be carbon neutral by 2060.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

As background, I am an invited expert reviewer of the next assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment.” My name is Michael Shellenberger, and I am Founder and President of Environmental Progress, an independent and nonprofit research organization.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 24, 2022

A New Muhlenberg College Pennsylvania Climate and Energy Survey found 77 percent of Pennsylvanians believe climate change is a serious or very serious problem 55 percent believe human activity-- such as burning fossil fuels-- is the reason for the earth getting warmer.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 12, 2024

21 Online Community Engagement And Climate Resilience Planning Workshop Penn State Extension Hosts Sept. 16 Webinar On Adaptive Silviculture For Climate Change: Exploring Options For Sustaining Eastern Forests Penn State Extension Hosts Sept. 16 In Montrose, Susquehanna County Center For Coalfield Justice Hosts Aug. 28 To Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

CO2 is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through human activities by burning fossil fuels and contributes to global warming by trapping heat in the atmosphere. He spent 12 years as a carbon capture researcher at the NETL before leaving in 2014 for entrepreneurial ventures. Dr. Luebke holds a Ph.D.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

When I was growing up, climate change wouldn’t have qualified as a typical topic of conversation around the dinner table, let alone soil health or the ability of soils to store carbon. billion USD to support the USDA’s efforts to mitigate climate change via agricultural soils. Not so in the modern day, however.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 11, 2021

And then there was the potential for environmental impacts to land, water and animals from dust, derailments and spillage – and of course the big one, impacts to our climate from the burning of this fossil fuel in Asia. It was a lot to take in. Jumping In. My decision to jump in and try to do something was very natural.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Less than a month after the UK handed over the presidency of COP26 to the Egyptian hosts of COP27 , the country had not only proudly claimed how quickly they had reduced their reliance on coal but also actively pushed other countries to move away from the most polluting fossil fuel, announced they granted permission to build a new coal mine. .

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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.) 2014 , Moeletsi and Tongwane, 2015 , Kritee et al., References (may be paywall-restricted) . 2018 , Petersen et al., 2012 , Bayat et al.,

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

By Rejimon Kuttappan Along with a major expansion of renewable energy, India is also pushing for big increases in its coal production, casting doubt on its climate commitments. On the same day at COP28, the Indian government submitted its third “National Communication” to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

To put these figures in context, the recent 2014-15 oil price collapse was the result of a two mbd (2%) shift in the supply-demand balance. But to conclude, while peaking fossil fuels and exponential renewable energy growth sounds like we are on our way to solve climate change, it simply is not the case as I reported in October.

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