A Greener Life

JULY 6, 2025

By Amber Brady Ahead of the pivotal 2025 COP30 summit, which will take place in November and December, Amber Brady provides an updated version of our 2014 piece on Brazil’s environmental facts. Ethanol accounts for over 40% of fuel used in Brazil’s vehicles, making it a key component of the country’s renewable energy strategy.

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MAY 30, 2025

On the building side, in addition to Local Law 97, the City enacted Local Law 154 in 2021 to prohibit fossil fuel combustion in most new buildings. Each of these laws will help the City reduce GHG emissions by 80 percent by 2050, as required by Local Law 66 of 2014.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2025

The report provides renewed evidence of the consequences for our health of using fossil fuels In 1970 the Clean Air Act and the newly formed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were given authority by Congress to regulate pollution from passenger cars and other forms of transportation. These emissions, which in 2022 were 37.4

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 24, 2025

( Per capita , they are 10th) However, the trend lines are positive: There are 210,433 electric vehicles registered in Texas and battery storage did not exist in Texas until 2014, now they are second in the country. Texas generated more solar energy in 2023 alone than all in-state solar generation before 2021 combined.

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Scientific American

JUNE 16, 2025

Global insured losses from wildfires reached $74 billion between 2014 and 2023. That could lead to lawsuits against engineers who worked on failed infrastructure and cases brought against fossil fuel companies for their role in the progression of global warming. Chelsea began writing about climate science in 2014.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 16, 2025

Here are just a few: Administrative actions – Many of the actions of President Trump and his administration have underscored his decidedly unhealthy obsession with promoting fossil fuels and degrading renewables. So much momentum. Changing winds So… about that momentum.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 8, 2025

A timeline of events 2008 Presidential Election: Musk supports Barack Obama 2012 Presidential Election: Musk supports Barack Obama 2014 – Musk described himself politically as half Democrat and half Republican 2016 Musk voiced support for Universal Basic Income (UBI) and Direct Democracy as a response to the threat of Artificial Intelligence (..)

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Yale E360

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The Russian attack on Ukraine has led to a spike in energy prices, with oil briefly surpassing $100 a barrel , the highest level since 2014, and Dutch and British gas prices rising 40 to 60 percent Thursday. As the war intensifies and sanctions loom, analysts fear disruptions to the supply of fossil fuels. Read more on E360 ?.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2023

The same scenario has played out with the power plants that use fossil fuels, predominantly methane (“natural”) gas, delivered by pipelines. This system worked so well in the past that gas plants totally dominated new power plant investment from 1990 through 2014. It’s a vicious feedback loop.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Union of Concerned Scientists’ (UCS) research shows that top fossil fuel producers’ emissions are responsible for as much as half of global surface temperature increase. Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014. The best solution: Replace fossil fuels with renewable energy.

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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. Decarbonizing the power sector also plays a critical long-term role by replacing fossil fuels in other sectors.

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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 With solar, there are no smokestacks, no fuel extraction.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

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. The biggest barrier to climate action in Canada is the oil and gas lobby.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 4, 2023

When all is said and done, lower resource adequacy requirements could theoretically reduce utilities’ reliance on fossil fuels and reduce the cost of resource adequacy requirements for ratepayers. Lower resource adequacy requirements could accelerate the retirement of fossil fuel plants.

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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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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. But they aren’t the only powerful players who shoulder responsibility for keeping us hooked on fossil fuels, the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 22, 2024

For wind, that would be two and a half times as much electricity as it produced in the United States in 2014, and would increase its generation to 11 percent of the US supply. For solar, the decade will have brought it from well below one percent of US electricity supply in 2014 to 7.5 percent in 2024 (again, with rooftop solar).

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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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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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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 7, 2024

The Carbon Capture Facility at the Boundary Dam Power Plant in Saskatchewan went into service in 2014. Real solutions, not dangerous distractions, are needed Fossil fuels are causing the climate crisis. Saskatchewan’s Boundary Dam project, operating for a decade now, has only achieved a maximum of 57 per cent efficiency.

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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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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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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

These prohibitions are part of cities’ broader effort to participate in the transition away from fossil fuels. In 2014, SB 1456 became law in Oklahoma, allowing utilities to charge higher rates to consumers generating electricity through small-scale solar panels or wind turbines.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

On October 18, the FracTracker Alliance announced the winners of the 2023 Community Sentinel Awards to honor the leadership of individuals working to protect communities from the harms of the fossil fuel industry. The other winners are Maury Johnson, Greenville, West Virginia and Debra Ramirez, Lake Charles, Louisiana.

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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. All of this is happening at a time when we should be prioritizing a just transition to renewable energy rather than burning more fossil fuels.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

This debate is not new and there was a similar public discussion about long-term memory in the climate system and trends in 2014 on a Dutch website, Climate Dialogue. On the other hand, we expect to see the effect of greenhouse gases when we look at the temperature averaged over the entire globe.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 27, 2023

Imperial Oil Ltd: 2019-Present Exxon Mobil Corp: 1983-2009 & 2014-2019 Esso Petroleum Co Ltd: 2009-2014 Villain Career Profile Corson has spent his entire career extracting and marketing oil and gas, working mostly for Imperial Oil and its parent company ExxonMobil. Leaks and Spills 2022 / 2023 (ongoing) — Kearl Lake, AB 5.3

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In the early days of the current price shocks, fossil fuel boosters blamed clean energy and climate policy. In fact, it is abundantly clear that this is a fossil fuel energy crisis and, primarily, a natural gas crisis that is mainly affecting Europe. The Capacity Story.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Throughout his career, Minott and the Clean Air Council earned a reputation for holding government agencies and fossil fuel companies accountable. Church was an elementary school counselor in Philadelphia until 2014. He was concerned about the worldwide consumption of fossil fuels and its impact on climate change.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2021

That fund started its coal divestment in 2014, also due to Urgewald’s campaigns, and tightened its guidelines in 2019. and protecting the planet’s diversity, the expansion of the fossil fuel industry must cease. Further financing of fossil companies, and above all the coal industry, is the first step towards this.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 12, 2024

16 In Montrose, Susquehanna County Center For Coalfield Justice Hosts Aug. 22, 23, 24 PA Assn. Of Environmental Professionals Hosts Aug. 5 PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers Hosts Aug. 21 Online Community Engagement And Climate Resilience Planning Workshop Penn State Extension Hosts Sept. 28 To Oct. 6 DCNR To Host Aug.

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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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Vermont Law

MARCH 23, 2022

The use of fracking to extract fossil fuels is a very controversial process due to the overwhelming impacts it has in human and environmental. wells that were fractured between 1940 and 2014, about one-third of those were fractured after. degradation. . malfunction.

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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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