A Greener Life

JANUARY 2, 2025

The IEA analysis points to todays coal prices, which remain 50% higher than the average between 2017 and 2019. This, as there, of course, as with all fossil fuels, is a finite amount. In addition to India, the report cites Indonesia and Vietnam. billion tonnes. Analysis: Could electric vehicles feed Chinas grid?

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The first climate case in Japan was filed in Sendai in 2017 ( Sendai Citizens v. Background Japan has heavily relied on the use of fossil fuels for its power generation. According to the Japanese Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, the countrys fossil fuel dependency was 83.2% Sendai Power Station ).

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JUNE 17, 2025

In 2017 Marsh co-founded the Hudson Valley Textile Project (HVTP), a natural-textile supply chain that aims to break free from the global fashion industry. ” The company says its operations have diverted more than four million pounds of textile waste from landfills since 2017. Cotton agriculture alone uses 2.1

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 23, 2024

When Trump first took office in 2017, coal use was just under 60 million tons a year. According to a recent report , coal-fired power plants have immense piles of coal 138 million tons, equal to the entire output of Appalachia. Theres a reason for that: coal plants arent burning as much coal as they used to.

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DECEMBER 24, 2024

In 2017, Guam filed suit against the United States under CERCLA, arguing it was a potentially responsible party (PRP) who should foot some of the clean-up bill. In June 2024, New York legislators passed another historic bill that would force fossil-fuel companies to pay for costs associated with climate change.

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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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OCTOBER 22, 2024

That made 2022 the 3 rd most costly year on record behind 2017, when Hurricane Harvey landed as a Category 4 storm, and 2005 when Hurricane Katrina landed as a Category 5 storm. While 2022 had fewer billion-dollar disasters (18), it was a record-setting year for the cost of damages with a total cost of $165 billion.

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MARCH 21, 2025

The NWS’ own assessment in 2017 found that private businesses can derive up to $13 billion dollars in economic value from weather knowledge, and that its freely-available data powers a $7 billion-dollar market that creates tailored weather products for business and people. That investment totals about $1.3 This is not speculation.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Scientists have found that climate change made the conditions that drove the devastating fires some 35 percent more likely than they would have been had the fires occurred before humans began burning fossil fuels on a large scale. Current drought conditions U.S.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2025

The reasons are simple: wind and solar power are less costly and more quickly deployed than alternatives fueled by natural gas or coal. The levelized cost of energy for wind and solar power is now competitive and often lower than fossil fuels. The lead time to buy and install equipment is far shorter.

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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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Law Columbia

MAY 5, 2025

President Trump retook the White House in the midst of a booming transition from fossil fuels to clean energy. While fossil fuels still generated approximately 58% of electricity nationwide, wind and solar generated at least 33% of electricity in ten states. To read other posts from the series, click here.

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

EPA, Basis for Denial of Petitions to Reconsider and Petitions to Stay Clean Power Plan (January 17, 2017), Appendix 2, pp. Once again, EPA emphasized that if finalized, [the rule] would significantly decrease GHG emission from fossil fuel-fired EGUs. at 33,243 (May 23, 2023).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2025

After Hurricane Irma in 2017, Florida relied on more than $5.5 This NPR article speaks to what will be at stake if FEMA is taken out of the equation: Without FEMA, states would need to find thousands of additional personnel to inspect damage, distribute disaster aid and plan the rebuilding of public infrastructure.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 21, 2025

Court ruling overview A court in oil-rich North Dakota found on Thursday that Greenpeace, which relies on independent founders to run its operations, must pay the pipeline and energy company First Transfer $667 million in damages for the pipeline protests in Standing Rock against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) between 2016 and 2017.

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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. Our changing climate We are now dealing with the repercussions of the unchecked burning of fossil fuels.

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Scientific American

JUNE 13, 2025

Rather than being aligned with much of the worlds assertion that fossil fuels should be tempered, Trump embraces the opposite position — drill for more oil and gas and keep burning coal, while repealing environmental regulations on the biggest sources of U.S. carbon pollution. “Especially now that the U.S.

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JUNE 16, 2025

But then things heated up: wind and solar generated more than 5% of monthly electricity for the first time in 2013, passed the 10% point in 2017, leapt past 15% in 2021, and soared past 20% just one year later, in 2022. Wind and solar have supplied at least 10% of US electricity in every single month since September 2021.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 17, 2025

California’s insurance challenges are not new and date back to the two back-to-back 2017-2018 terrible wildfire seasons with tremendous costs that triggered a wave of insurance market repercussions that have only gathered steam since then.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2025

Bad news The EPA has told staff to stop enforcing violations against fossil fuel companies, CNN reports citing multiple sources. Hortman joined the US subnational delegation organized by The Climate Registry, Climate Action Reserve, and Georgetown Climate Center to attend COP 23 in Bonn in 2017.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

A renewed emphasis on fossil fuels is expected under another Trump administration, though coal will likely remain moribund thanks to poor economic fundamentals and constrained access to capital. Renewable Energy Vs. Fossil Fuels Renewables or fossil fuels?

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Scientific American

JULY 10, 2025

the Trump administration is slashing clean energy incentives and arguing that more fossil fuel production is needed to support the growth of data centers for AI, which it is prioritizing. Fossil fuel emissions are the main cause of climate change. Yet in the U.S.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 10, 2025

It mattered in 2017, and it matters now to make sure they’re not carrying out their attacks behind the scenes. We’ll continue to work with states to support clean energy and transportation policies, and we’ll continue to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for the damage theyve done to our climate.

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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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Legal Planet

JULY 16, 2025

LAist climate reporter Erin Stone moderated this panel called “Six Months After the Fires: Stories Shared, Lessons Learned” with panelists affected by various fires from 2017 to now. Google announced $25 B in data centers and AI infrastructure.

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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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APRIL 4, 2024

You can read their insights from their experiences—including being denied the opportunity to take the floor—and their efforts to engage with Dr. Avery in 2017 , 2018 , and 2019. At ExxonMobil’s 2017 AGM—when Dr. Avery was added to the board—a majority of shareholders for the first time approved a climate-related shareholder proposal.

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OCTOBER 27, 2022

There is still much we can do to bend that emissions curve sharply within this decade—but only if world leaders, especially leaders of richer countries and major emitting nations, take responsibility to act together quickly and fossil fuel companies are held accountable for their decades of obstruction and deception.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Meanwhile, on the West Coast, a 2017 PSE Healthy Energy study found that nearly half of California’s gas power plants are in communities that are among the state’s 25 percent most disadvantaged neighborhoods. In New England, for example, the percentage of people of color that live within 6 miles of a power plant is as much as 23.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 19, 2024

Egregiously, even as climate-driven disasters leave communities reeling, private insurers are continuing to underwrite insurance for the expansion of massive new fossil fuel projects that are directly responsible for fueling the climate crisis—and show no sign of withdrawing from these markets!

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Starting in 2017, cities, counties, and states across the United States have filed claims (see here and here ) in state courts against fossil fuel companies seeking redress for the climate harms their products have caused. By Korey Silverman-Roati. Background. Many of these cases asserted nuisance and other tort law claims.

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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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AUGUST 5, 2024

Instead, it has focused on increasing the supply of fossil fuels during extreme cold weather. But those efforts have encountered the same constraints that caused the problem in the first place; because New England has no fossil fuel supplies of its own, 100% of oil and gas supply must be imported.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

The bench trial took place last month in the state capitol, Helena, where 16 youth plaintiffs ages 5 to 22 made the case that Montana’s unwavering promotion of fossil fuels violates the state constitution’s guarantee to a “clean and healthful environment.” Whether Montana’s GHG emissions can be measured incrementally.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Barclays and HSBC are two of the major banks which continue to fund fossil fuel investments. A report by ShareAction has delivered a damning verdict on European banks connection to fossil fuel investments. Major European banks at the heart of continued fossil fuel support. Photo credit: AFP / Getty Images.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Last week world leaders gathered in New York for the UN Climate Ambition Summit where countries shared concrete action they’ve taken to phase out fossil fuels. There, the conversation was grounded in science, with leaders such as California’s Governor Newsom saying “The climate crisis is a fossil fuel crisis.

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