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

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

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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

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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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

CCS is a multi-billion dollar boondoggle that doesn’t come close to the hype, has significant safety risks, and is a substantial distraction from real climate solutions, such as building more renewable energy, increasing electricity transmission infrastructure, and developing and using storage technology. Want proof?

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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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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. Napoleon Nelson with the Champion of the Environment Award for his commitment to environmental justice and green technologies in Philadelphia and across the state.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

The Future of Carbon Capture,” will be led by Dr. Dave Luebke, technical director of the Direct Air Capture Center at the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh. The Center was established in 2023 to jumpstart DAC technologies and accelerate the commercialization of DAC technologies beyond the conceptual stage.

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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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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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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2023

Commissioner Stephen DeFrank, Vice Chairman of the Public Utility Commission, told the House Consumer Protection, Technology and Utilities Committee in June-- “I think that Winter Storm Elliot, over the Christmas holiday, showed some vulnerabilities in our grid and in our system. Read more here.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

But I digress, let us get back to that study, which was published by the Carbon Tracker Initiative and Imperial College’s Grantham Institute , show that continued rapid adoption of breakthrough technologies such as solar, giant wind turbines , large batteries and electric vehicles could further disrupt energy markets very quickly.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2023

Natural gas had the same problems during a cold weather event in 2014 and the polar vortex in 2018. Renewables could, if long duration battery storage or other technology is deployed at scale. -- Independent Energy Office Proposal: Sen.

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

The other is to improve the energy structure, replacing fossil fuel sources with alternatives. billion) over the three years 2014–16. When those demonstrations and the technology are in place, when there’s a business model, the money will flow in, creating a positive cycle between the economy and financing,” he said.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Worse than that, it might end up misdirecting the world’s clean energy efforts into dirtier than appreciated energy technologies because of the country’s ongoing dependence on coal-fired energy. Does the fossil fuel industry offer any alternative?”, We all used Chinese electricity mixes for c-Si PV.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 24, 2023

Utilities and grid operators prepared for the storm as it was coming down the pike, but they still underestimated the energy demand it would trigger, as well as the number of outages at fossil fuel power plants—mainly natural gas-fired, plus some coal-fired plants.

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A Greener Life

MAY 28, 2023

Currently, 84% of the energy consumed in Argentina is generated using natural gas and oil, fossil fuels whose production and use drive global warming, and which can bring other harmful impacts on ecosystems, societies and their health.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

In response to a question about what will fill the gap between retiring generation and new clean renewables in the regional grid, Thomas said-- “I think the only thing that closes the gap is new technology. I mean, I think technology solves this problem and our current technology isn't there. “I I'll be honest. Read more here.]

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The IPCC’s 5 th Assessment Report noted that, “Globally, economic and population growth continue to be the most important drivers of increases in CO 2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion”. 3 from IPCC, Fifth Assessment Report, Mitigation Report, Summary for Policymakers (2014). Figure SPM.3

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 14, 2023

On June 13, Public Utility Commission Chairman Gladys Brown Dutrieuille told the House Consumer Protection, Technology and Utilities Committee Winter Storm Elliot has again demonstrated extreme weather can have a significant impact on electric grid operations in terms of reliability and resilience.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Fossil fuel power plant owners are facing increased accountability for their air and water pollution, including from a new round of environmental and public health protections that are being rolled out by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). We’ve heard these lazily disingenuous narratives before.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 9, 2015

To make matters worse, extracting oil as a basis for these textiles adds fuel to the global warming fire by sustaining a demand for fossil fuels and toxic contamination. So how do we halt the spread of plastic into the sea and remove what is already there? Larger groups that employ booms and filters, like the . Ocean Cleanup.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

That 2013 headline resulted from the first effort to quantify emissions from the ‘carbon majors’ —fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers whose businesses have contributed an outsized amount of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere. Nearly two-thirds of industrial heat-trapping emissions can be traced to just 90 entities.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

million km2 and its result were published in a report in 2014. It contains three times as much as the 830 billion tonnes found in the atmosphere, and 240 times as much as the 10 billion tonnes emitted by fossil fuel burning every year. The first covered around 6.3 Pollution was found to breach standards at 16.1%

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 27, 2023

The other was Kendall Dilling, CEO of the Pathways Alliance, a new group made up of oil sands producers like Cenovus, with the intention to push carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) to perpetuate fossil fuel production. Myth: The oil and gas industry has ready-to-deploy technology to get us to net-zero.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

And newly-developed drilling technology allows operators to first drill downward and then horizontally for thousands of feet. Application of these “monster fracking” technologies has in recent years made the United States the largest oil and gas producing nation in the world.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

We are disappointed that Canada’s Carbon Management Strategy , released by Minister Wilkinson, doubles down on the federal government’s risky approach of over-reliance on speculative and dangerous technologies being promoted primarily by oil and gas companies. Let’s be clear: any funding to oil and gas companies is a fossil fuel subsidy.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Natural gas had the same problems during a cold weather event in 2014 and the polar vortex in 2018. Read more here ] -- Renewable Energy Generation Isn’t Coming Online Fast Enough: A study PJM released February 24 showed renewable energy generation sources were not coming online fast enough to replace fossil fuel plants that are retiring.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

In 2014, leaders made a similar pledge in the New York Declaration on Forests , but since then, tropical primary forest loss has increased and tree cover gains have been insufficient. This came alongside a separate commitment to end public financing for “unabated” fossil fuel projects by the end of 2022.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

This is despite the expense of CCS , its record of failures and underperformance , and recognition from climate and energy experts that we need to phase out fossil fuels to avoid climate disasters. Most CCS is used for “enhanced oil recovery” meaning the carbon captured is pumped back into the ground to push out more oil.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Dr. Steingraber noted similar conclusions were reached in 2014 when New York State banned fracking, saying “At the time, and again, this is nine years ago in 2014, there were 400 studies and investigations in the peer-reviewed scientific literature in government reports and by journalists that showed evidence for harm.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 11, 2021

And this change comes in part from increasing diffusion of fossil fuels. If economic growth accelerates, then GHG emissions will accelerate (given current technologies). See my 2014 lecture. John is optimistic about our future; "The share of the world population in extreme poverty is plummeting.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 26, 2024

waiving papers with her written remarks] I typically just roll off the cuff because this topic has been a passion of mine since long before I was elected in 2014. You are using the fossil fuel industry right now. Bartolotta said-- “I got a lot of words here, but you know what?

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 21, 2022

First proposed in 2014, the 780-mile transmission line is intended to transport electricity generated by wind turbines in Kansas to customers in Indiana, passing through Missouri and Illinois along the way. will need to rapidly decarbonize its electricity generating system, replacing fossil fuel power plants with renewable energy systems.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

This is a corollary to my colleague Julie McNamara’s observation that fossil fuels are the problem, not the solution. Furthermore, there’s ample evidence from around the globe that nations whose economies rely heavily on oil and gas extraction are less secure and less stable than those that are less dependent on fossil fuel resources.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

EPA’s final rule leverages the latest cost-effective, innovative technologies and proven solutions to prevent an estimated 58 million tons of methane emissions from 2024 to 2038, the equivalent of 1.5 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide – nearly as much as all the carbon dioxide emitted by the power sector in 2021.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

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