Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 24, 2024

We’re witnessing an increase in costly damages thanks to fossil-fueled climate change , which has increased the intensity and frequency of some extreme events , and also thanks to more buildings and people in risky areas. And the damages to transmission and distribution systems can be costly. billion in the red by September.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

California’s LCFS is causing problems for other states and the federal government. The LCFS is designed to hold fuel producers accountable for their supply chain emissions The LCFS and related Clean Fuel Standard policies are performance standards for transportation fuel based on lifecycle analysis.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Our national overreliance on gas is evidently undermining energy access, not strengthening it, as some fossil fuel industry players would want you to believe. These claims just add to the deluge of greenwashing and disinformation from the fossil fuel industry. Don’t believe the industry spin.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

By Adam Barnett DeSmog catalogues how oil and gas firms have forged ties with the highest levels of government, the media, and influential think tanks. This retreat from climate action did not happen in a vacuum but was fuelled by a steady campaign by a network of climate science deniers and fossil fuel interests.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2021

United States case, plaintiffs sought an order directing the federal government to slash the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. United States case, plaintiffs sought an order directing the federal government to slash the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. Not so in the United States. Most recently, in the famous Juliana v.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 12, 2021

With just weeks to go before COP26 kicks off, all eyes are on the British hosts and the Conservative government and its leader Boris Johnson. And the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson , when Mayor of London (2008-2016) used his Telegraph column to air doubts about whether climate change was real. Fossil fuel support.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 2, 2021

However, they fell far below what competitor BP had set out in their strategy, where Shell aimed to cut the carbon intensity of its products by at least 6% by 2023, by 20% by 2030, by 45% by 2035, and by 100% by 2050 from 2016 levels.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In a separate but similar Ninth Circuit appeal, the federal government filed a brief on October 18 urging the court to overturn a district court decision vacating the listing of a ringed seal subspecies as threatened based on climate change threats through the end of the century. 24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2023

The closure in January 2016 of one of Pittsburgh’s biggest coal-processing plants led to immediate and lasting declines in emissions of fossil fuel–related air pollutants. Before closing under community pressure, the plant had incurred millions of dollars in government fines for air and water pollution. Thurston, ScD.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 27, 2023

The refinery was a major polluter, according to 2019 report by the City of Philadelphia it was the largest stationary source of air pollution and the largest single emitter of toxic pollutants in Philadelphia, accounting for 57% of total toxic emissions from larger sources in Philadelphia in 2016 including benzene and other known carcinogens.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

To rapidly reduce methane emissions, governments (at the local, state, and national level) will need to develop legal, regulatory, and incentive policies that require implementation of available cost-effective methods and support development of new strategies. 2016 , Benchaar and Greathead, 2011 , Gutierrez et al., 2016 , LaHue et al.,

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Other Key Sources Business and Human Rights Resource Centre's profile on Coca-Cola - UK-based Business and Human Rights Resource Centre is an NGO that employs researchers on five continents who work with activists, companies and governments alike to advance human rights in business by eradicating abuse.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

As of April 2018, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region, which encompasses the Basin, was home to approximately 34,000 warehouses with 1.17 According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures. Endnotes. [1]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Last month, the British-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) reported that London-based HSBC, one of the world’s top-10 biggest banks, has helped raise $47 billion for the fossil fuel industry since its 2022 announcement that it would not finance new gas and oil infrastructure. degrees Celsius, or 2.7

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

The region will need to change its industrial structure and energy mix to meet national carbon targets, requiring policy and financial support from central government. The other is to improve the energy structure, replacing fossil fuel sources with alternatives. The local government has to recognise its responsibilities.”.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

As one of the world’s top funders of fossil fuels, taking over HSBC’s Canadian operations, at a time when its parent company was already taking concrete action to lower its financed emissions, is a significant step backwards on climate. They all have asked the Federal Government to kill the deal.

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Cresforum

JANUARY 16, 2024

has only seen two new nuclear plants enter commercial operation since the 1990s with Watts Bar Unit 2 in 2016 and Vogtle Unit 3 in 2023. Although some plants have received licensing extensions allowing operation to 60 years or more, the U.S. While the existing fleet of U.S. The legislation comes on the heels of a report by the U.S.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

In 2016, around 70 gigawatts of solar photovoltaic capacity were installed. While this needs strong commitments from national governments, it doesn’t need that much as the economics are already on the side of renewables nowadays. It had taken Mankind fifty years to reach that milestone. GW by 2025 according to Cleantechnica.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Its proposed new pipeline in Selwyn Township will deliver harmful fossil gas to our residents who will be locked in to higher prices for decades. Heat pumps are an amazing technology that allow people to get their homes off of fossil fuels, and save money while doing so,” said Jack Gibbons, chair of Ontario Clean Air Alliance.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 22, 2020

This blog post will explore the electric alternatives to fossil fuel-powered industrial farm equipment, and the barriers to their adoption. The first, the SESAM (Sustainable Energy Supply for Agricultural Machinery), debuted in 2016 and was battery powered. [6]. Is Electrified Farm Equipment Available? Yes and no.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 18, 2021

Instead, the hearing served as a showcase for the benefits of natural gas to the economy and to address climate change and a platform for protests by the Better Path Coalition against fossil fuels. Read more here. Photos: Revolution Pipeline explosion in Beaver County; protesters from Better Path Coalition.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

News that the Pakistan government plans to secure financing and start construction on a long-stalled 300-megawatt coal-fired power plant in the port city of Gwadar has triggered a debate on the direction of the country’s energy sector. The Gwadar coal power plant was first conceived in 2016, with an estimated cost of USD 542.32

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution. It's unlikely Bitcoin will do anything to alleviate this issue.

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Acoel

AUGUST 27, 2021

United States case, plaintiffs sought an order directing the federal government to slash the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. United States case, plaintiffs sought an order directing the federal government to slash the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. Not so in the United States. Most recently, in the famous Juliana v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

As part of its ongoing investigation of fossil fuel industry climate disinformation, the US House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform released more than 200 pages of internal corporate documents last month that provide new evidence of industry deception. Companies Plot “Greenwashing” Campaigns.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution. It's unlikely Bitcoin will do anything to alleviate this issue.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. Two steps forward, one step back: In February 2016, the Supreme Court issued a. Equally exciting, in August 2016, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld agencies’ ability under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to include the.

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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. From a mere three billion USD in 2012 it has grown to $81 billion in 2016 and could reach $150 billion this year. If growth was slow from the first green bond issuance to 2012, things have accelerated since.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. In the U.S. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. In the U.S. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. In the U.S. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. In the U.S. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. In the U.S. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. In the U.S. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. In the U.S. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 16, 2022

The United States previously hosted these meetings in 2016 in San Francisco. “By Once known exclusively as a heavy industry center reliant on fossil fuels, Pittsburgh now ranks among the top cities in the United States for fostering innovation in clean energy, green buildings, and advanced manufacturing solutions.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

org Summary ExxonMobil is a fossil fuel company headquartered in Irving, Texas. ImportYeti Profile of ExxonMobil Similar Companies Gulliver Profiles Related to ExxonMobil BP (British Petroleum) Chevron Royal Dutch Shell Website ExxonMobil Federal Contractor Misconduct Database Project On Government Oversight's list of U.S.

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