Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 16, 2024

cases challenging fossil fuel companies for decades of climate disinformation remain stalled, tied up by the defendants in procedural wrangling that prevents them from being heard on their merits, delaying justice for affected communities. Over 140 such cases have been filed globally since 2016, with 47 new filings in 2023 alone.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Finance is the top priority for this COP and is the linchpin to help lower income nations transition from fossil fuels to clean energy, close the energy poverty gap, adapt to climate impacts, and address mounting loss and damage. Those investments will deliver huge climate and public health benefits from reduced fossil fuel pollution. Meanwhile,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Even now, with fall in the air, we are reminded of the harsh reality that fossil-fueled climate change is causing fall to be warmer across the contiguous US, particularly in the southwest. Shorter-than-needed acclimatization periods.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 8, 2025

While these nominations are dangerous, whats even more disturbing is the opening they create for fossil fuel corporations that have masterminded climate deception campaigns to regain social license. Major fossil fuel corporations lit the fuse decades ago Climate change denial is no accident.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

corporations and institutional investors owe a fiduciary duty to maximize profits through economic activities that continue to produce, sell, and use fossil fuels (i.e. 33] However, this view directly contributes to the climate crisis because the use of fossil fuels is ubiquitous in the economy. 23, 2025, [link].

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

42-43) Later in the hearing, Senator Ed Markey asked Mr. Zeldin to confirm comments made in 2016 by then-Congressman Zeldin that the U.S. must reduce its reliance on fossil fuels and pursue clean, green energy. Zeldin affirmed that we must, with urgency, be addressing these [climate] issues. (Tr.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2025

For years, IRIS assessments have helped shield EPA regulations from the chemical and fossil fuel industries efforts to strip our nation of environmental protections. In 2016, IRIS published a risk assessment linking ethylene oxide exposure to cancer, concluding that this toxic chemical is much more dangerous than previously thought.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Trump didnt expect to win in 2016. The pick to head DOE made his fortune in fracking, not a good sign, and the pick to head Interior is a fossil fuel enthusiast but not a climate denier. But there are a few additions to the cast and some new construction on the set. I talked about areas of continuity in my last post.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 21, 2025

A Standing Rock solidarity march held in San Francisco in November 2016. ” – Greenpeace International Executive Director, Mads Christensen DAPL during its construction in North Dakota in 2016. Photo credit: Pax Ahimsa Gethen – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia. “We will not back down. .”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2025

Well, the short version is that we are in a warmer world primarily from the burning of fossil fuels. With fossil fuel-driven climate change , the atmosphere is warmer, so our atmospheric “sponge” is much bigger. From 1958-2016, every region in the contiguous US observed an increase in the heaviest precipitation events.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 1, 2025

On July 1, PA Interfaith Power & Light is launching a new Faith and Fossil Fuels Initiative to prepare a report and story map documenting how to build a faithful ethic of stewardship for the earth in response to the impacts of polluting industry in Pennsylvania. Fossil fuels are the largest driver of the climate crisis.

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New Scientist

JULY 25, 2025

This was even less than the struggling sink removed during the 2015-2016 El Niño, making it the weakest land carbon sink in over a decade. But this weakening would explain most of the record jump in the concentration of CO₂ in 2024, which was too large to be explained by fossil fuel emissions alone.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

For example, in November 2016, the Obama administrations Bureau of Land Management (BLM) promulgated a regulation to reduce waste of natural gas from venting, flaring, and leaks during oil and natural gas production activities on public and Tribal lands. This assertion of presidential power is all but certain to be contested.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2025

Climate change nearly doubled burned area in forests of the western US between 1984-2016, and more than a third of burned area has been traced to emissions from the largest fossil fuel producers and cement manufacturers. Climate change is primarily caused by burning fossil fuels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

A new dataset released by InfluenceMap provides information on heat-trapping emissions traced to the 122 largest investor and state-owned fossil fuel companies in the world. Fossil fuels are the main driver of climate change and the terrifying effects of it that we see happening across the world.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 20, 2024

Last week, I participated in the Scientists Speakout Day during the Summer of Heat on Wall Street , to protest and disrupt the financial institutions that are enabling the fossil fuel industry (and, as a result, our current climate crisis).

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

As of 2016, half of its total emissions are from the power sector, with 20% from industry and 15% from transportation, and. According to the Energy Information Agency , South Korea’s power sector is heavily reliant on fossil fuels. Actual generation is tilted a bit more toward fossil fuels and nuclear.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Two-thirds of the G20’s public finance for energy went to fossil fuels in 2019–2020. The G20 group of nations provided nearly US$200 billion in support of fossil fuels in 2021, despite the worsening impacts of the climate crisis and their pledge in 2009 to phase out “inefficient” subsidies. By Catherine Early.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

If honored, this commitment will likely unseat Canada as the worst-ranking in the G20 for international public financing to the fossil fuel sector. . This means while EDC’s overall fossil fuel support was CAD 13.6 Shifting public finance for energy out of all fossil fuels and into clean energy is an urgent task.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2023

In 2016 Monterey County voters passed Measure Z, a citizen initiative intended to bar the drilling of new oil and gas wells in the county and ban the use of fracking technology for existing wells in Monterey County. Later this month the justices will hear arguments in Chevron U.S.A.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

While the epicenter of the war and its horrors has remained trained on and in Ukraine, Russia has also leveraged its position as a major fossil fuel exporter to fund its war efforts and to manipulate and threaten others, including countries across Europe that have long relied on Russian supplies of gas. Credit: U.S. Credit: U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

It’s worth noting that the shareholder proposal requesting the nomination of a climate expert to ExxonMobil’s board received just over 20 percent support in 2016. Avery was a respected climate scientist—although she had also sparked controversy with her decisions at WHOI to accept major funding from oil and gas corporations.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2024

In addition, environmental justice advocates and frontline communities routinely point to the danger of concentrated carbon dioxide , embedded siting inequities , and the use of CCS to distract from the real work of phasing out fossil fuels.) Who needs units anyway? Why do Exxon’s greenwashed graphs matter?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Under the LCFS each fuel pathway gets a unique carbon intensity (CI) based on a lifecycle analysis of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production and use of the fuel. This approach holds fuel producers accountable for reducing fossil fuel use and other global warming pollution in their supply chains.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The radiative forcing from these changes in concentrations can be easily calculated using standard formulas (from Etminan et al, 2016 which supersede the slightly simpler ones from IPCC TAR), as about 2 W/m 2 for the CO 2 change and 0.65 W/m 2 for CH 4. W/m² (to about 60% of the CO 2 effect since 1750).

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 17, 2022

Caption: The Salar de Atacama salt works in Chile in 2016. Amid a growing global appetite for electrical power as an alternative to planet-warming fossil fuels, the value of this natural endowment is soaring. . A battle is brewing over the future of lithium, an essential component of the world’s transition to renewable energy.

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Legal Planet

JULY 5, 2023

A 2022 Rainforest Action Network repor t found that “fossil fuel financing from the world’s 60 largest banks has reached USD $4.6 trillion in the six years since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, with $742 billion in fossil fuel financing in 2021 alone.” The biggest US bank investors in fossil fuels? “At

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Real Climate

AUGUST 25, 2023

This was shown by Halldór Björnsson of the Icelandic weather service and presented at the Arctic Circle conference 2016. I discussed this here in 2016 and also in my 2018 RealClimate article “ If you doubt that the AMOC has weakened, read this ”, together with possible other alternative explanations of the ‘cold blob’.

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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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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

There are many possible emergency actions. These are legitimate concerns that cannot simply be pushed aside. But, in an emergency, we need to change our approach, find compromise, consider risk differently, and move much more rapidly.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Central to these questions is the role of fossil fuels, which have long been seen as the backbone of economic growth, but now threaten to interfere with international climate goals. In a July 2016 report , the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs described climate change as the “single biggest threat to development.”

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Real Climate

JULY 10, 2022

The sources of these increases are dominated by the burning of fossil fuels, landfills, mining, oil and gas operations, agriculture (especially livestock for methane), and industry. New greenhouse gas compounds such as halocarbons (CFCs, HFCs) did not exist in the pre-industrial atmosphere. ln(CO 2 /CO 2 _orig) (seen in Table 6.2

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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

APRIL 25, 2024

Canada promised to cut its greenhouse gas emissions after the 2016 Paris Agreement. The issue is that our banks, pension funds and insurance companies take our hard-earned money and heavily invest in fossil fuels. However, we have heard that the government wants to label fossil fuels as green under this new system.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 27, 2024

million from fossil fuel interests, climate science deniers, and highly polluting industries. Until April 2024, Farmer held shares in the fossil fuel giants Shell and BP, each worth more than £100,000. From the 2019 general election to the start of the 2024 election campaign, the Tories had accepted at least £8.4

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 6, 2023

However, it’s a disappointment to the initiative’s proponents and to a larger group of environmental advocates who seek to promote California’s quick transition from reliance on heavily-polluting and climate-damaging fossil fuels to renewable energy resources.

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