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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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

Importantly, that number can be reduced in many ways: greater solar panel efficiency (possibly through new materials like perovskites ), panels on waste sites , panels on aqueducts , agrivotaics (solar and agriculture combined), roof-top solar, off-shore wind, and increased and improved energy storage (often co-located with renewables).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2024

A word about CCS : this technology has existed for decades but is only used at a handful of fossil energy facilities. Who needs units anyway? Another visualization they use is a roadmap is paired with an abatement curve, showing the costs of emissions reduction strategies compared to the amount of mitigation benefit they provide.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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. Negative CI scores undermine California’s goal of phasing out fossil fuels and combustion fuels in general.

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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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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. ExxonMobil’s advertising campaigns mislead consumers, overstate its current and planned clean energy endeavors, and increase its own liability.

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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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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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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. That is now beginning to occur in many developed countries, which are increasingly looking at renewable energy sources.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

Since then, the Conservative government has made a series of U-turns on its own net zero policies, attacked Labour’s green spending plans, and doubled down on its support for new fossil fuel projects, approving more than 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences. This comes as DeSmog and Democracy for Sale reveal that £6.8 percent (£1.8

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

We all know that to successfully address climate change we need to phase out fossil fuels and switch to electric power. Unfortunately, the current Ontario government’s plan is to burn more fossil gas to generate power. . Between 2009 and 2016, Ontario built over 2000 MW of solar power and about 3000 MW of wind power.

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A Greener Life

JULY 23, 2021

Hydrogen may have lost the race to fuel electric cars but it looks a likely contender to replace fossil fuels in trucks, ships, planes and heavy industry. The Tokyo Olympics will be powered by a fuel with ambition – hydrogen. Japan, once a passionate advocate of nuclear energy , now has serious hydrogen ambitions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In response, Multnomah County, which includes Portland, filed a lawsuit for over $51 billion against major fossil fuel entities–one of the largest claims for a climate case to date. and nearly 100 globally that seek compensation from fossil fuel companies for disinformation and/or climate impacts.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. Murray Energy Corp. Healey issued the CID in connection with an investigation into unfair or deceptive acts or practices in trade or commerce with respect to fossil fuel products and securities. Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. Pritzker , Nos. 14-35806, 14-35811 (9th Cir.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 5, 2022

The hydrogen becomes an available fuel while the carbon dioxide emissions are captured and stored underground. CCS technology is a problematic solution to controlling fossil fuel emissions. This underground storage process is called carbon capture and storage or carbon capture and sequestration (CCS).

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Global Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Yes, in some cases, fossil fuels are burned to generate the electricity used to charge electric cars, but this highlights two of electric vehicles’ many advantages. Conventional gasoline vehicles only convert between 12 percent and 30 percent of the energy stored in gasoline to power at the wheels.

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

One is by cutting energy intensity, adjusting the industrial structure to reduce the amount of energy consumed per unit of GDP. The other is to improve the energy structure, replacing fossil fuel sources with alternatives. According to a 2016 report from Jiemian.com , Datang Coal-Chemicals lost 11.6

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Renewable energy sources and electric vehicles are progressing so fast around the world that according to a new study coal and oil use could peak worldwide in as little as three years. In 2016, around 70 gigawatts of solar photovoltaic capacity were installed. That’s it ! Yes, you read that right.

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Cresforum

JANUARY 16, 2024

Renewable energy technologies (such as solar photovoltaic and wind power) are also increasing in capacity to provide clean energy, but they are either variable or intermittent sources of power. 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.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2023

. -- Electricity Exporter: Pennsylvania is the second-largest net supplier of total energy to other states, after Texas. Yaw did not mention renewable energy in this announcement.] Yaw noted the IEO would be modeled after Pennsylvania’s Independent Fiscal Office , which was created by Act 120 of 2010, and Act 100 of 2016.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Like Greta Thunberg, Mariutti comes to the tale as an environmental obsessive passionate about facilitating the world’s transition from fossil fuels to cleaner forms of energy. It wasn’t until 2016, long after much PV production had already moved east, that the transition appeared on data collectors’ radars.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2023

Read on to learn why and how more than a thousand scientists issued an open letter urging JPMorgan Chase shareholders to vote in favor of a time-bound phaseout of financing for new fossil fuel development and exploration at the bank’s annual meeting on May 16. Those three alone borrowed more than $200 billion between 2016 and 2021.

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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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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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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

The Gwadar coal power plant was first conceived in 2016, with an estimated cost of USD 542.32 Pakistan’s energy sector is dominated by fossil fuels. According to the country’s Finance Division , as of April 2022, just under 60% of total installed generation capacity used fossil fuels, including gas, oil and coal.

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Columbia Climate Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

For example, as of August 2016, North Carolina had 1,173 MW of installed solar photovoltaic (“PV”) capacity as a direct result of PURPA. PURPA requires electric utilities to purchase energy and capacity from qualifying renewable energy facilities (“QFs”). Jeffrey graduated from Columbia Law School in 2016.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 1, 2024

While at least one event provided a platform for oil and gas industry greenwashing, others centered people directly affected by fossil fuel-driven climate change who are holding bad actors accountable. I had the honor of moderating one of the latter events, Scientists & Activists vs. Fossil Fuel Finance.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

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. stay on implementation. of the Plan, pending judicial review. social cost of carbon.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Limiting Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities To Oct. 11 Executive Council Meeting DEP Provides PA Chesapeake Bay Watershed Healthy Waters Partnership Update Register Now For NFWF Virtual Chesapeake Bay Agricultural Networking Forum & Listening Sessions Starting Nov. To Host A Virtual Symposium Oct.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 13, 2024

For comparison, the 2012 London Olympics and 2016 Rio Olympics emitted 3.3 Reusing venues and replacing fossil fuel with renewable energy use is essential to cutting emissions at a large sporting event. Paris 2024 has also committed to using 100% renewable energy, primarily wind and solar but also biogas.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

California Sues Fossil Fuel Polluters California’s climate accountability lawsuit is groundbreaking in several ways: California is the first major fossil fuel-producing state to file a climate accountability lawsuit. California Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

Muth, Environmental Advocates Join Author Justin Nobel At Capitol To Discuss Oil/Gas Industry Hazardous Waste -- Center For Coalfield Justice, Partners Host May 4 Book Signing In Washington County With Justin Nobel, Author of Petroleum 238: Big Oil's Dangerous Secret [PaEN] -- Better Path Coalition: On Demand: Brown Bag Briefing By Justin Nobel On (..)

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a West Virginia federal district court had erred in concluding that it had jurisdiction to consider the coal company Murray Energy Corporation’s and its affiliates’ lawsuit that sought to compel EPA to conduct evaluations of the Clean Air Act’s employment effects. 451962/2016 (N.Y.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2023

A decade ago, the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) estimated that, based on the available technology, the United States could get 80% of its electricity from renewables by 2050. Now NREL says the country has the potential to reach 100% clean energy by 2035. of total auto sales.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 14, 2023

In North Carolina, where many hog CAFOs lie within 100 miles of the Atlantic Ocean, several hurricanes have struck and caused lagoons to overflow, including Hurricane Florence in 2018, Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and Hurricane Floyd in 1999. 6 How does EQIP work? Over 160 different practices are eligible for EQIP funding. Accessed May 3, 2023.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 7, 2022

A key argument for public intervention here is that the market (absent a large price on carbon) doesn’t take into account the societal harm that fossil fuel combustion produces, requiring some form of government intervention. States with higher levels of public ownership don’t have higher levels of renewable energy capacity. (The

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Back in 2016 I wrote a long post about biodiesel , explaining what it is made from (mostly vegetable oil) and arguing that EPA should show restraint in setting targets for biodiesel because of the limited availability oils and fats and the harmful consequences of drawing too heavily from these limited sources.

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