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. CAPP is trying to buy and build the social license (ie.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Emissions trading systems are often launched with relatively lenient design features, typically justified as giving the system a chance to “learn-by-doing” and to gain political buy-in for approval of a program. . – Continual reform to improve ambition, integrity, and buy-in. Most ETS have fallen on the prices-too-low side.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 2, 2022

On November 22, 2022, sixteen municipalities of Puerto Rico filed a lawsuit in the federal district court in Puerto Rico seeking to hold coal, oil, and gas companies liable for losses resulting from storms during the 2017 hurricane season and ongoing economic losses since that time. In Municipalities of Puerto Rico v.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

From 2017 to 2019, the agency counted 321 emergency department visits related to harmful algal bloom exposure. million from 1978 to 2017. million from 1978 to 2017. million acres in both states in 2017. The fossil fuel sector and its industrial allies block curbs to greenhouse gas emissions.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 27, 2023

This blog is co-authored with Alienor Rougeot, Climate and Energy Program Manager Two prominent figures of Canada’s oil and gas industry were recently on Global TV’s politics show, The West Block with Mercedes Stephenson, where they spread a bunch of misinformation and half truths.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 10, 2025

Trumps political appointeesmany with a record of science denial or close ties to the industries theyre supposed to be regulatingare threatening to stop enforcement and roll back rules on chemical safety, clean transportation, emissions standards, pollution control, and other important issues.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 15, 2024

In 2023, in the middle of the most devastating fire season in Alberta on record, there was near radio silence on the subject of climate change, and what our political leaders were, or were not doing, to address the calamity. After the 2017 Kenow Fire. At least it hasn’t been so far. But talk we must.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2024

These corporations and politicians don’t want to see a transformational transportation system we need, one that prioritizes people before highways, health before harm, access before asphalt, climate before corporations, freedom over fossil fuels. How did we get here? Why aren’t there more ways to get around my community?

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

Ebel, the CEO of Enbridge, to our list of infamous Climate Villains – powerful people with fossil fuel interests holding Canada back from effective climate action. The executives behind the fossil fuel industry often avoid public scrutiny, which is why we’re shining the spotlight on their activities.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Suncor is also a founding member of the Pathways Alliance , a fossil fuel industry association made up of six major tar sands producers and the newest major lobby group. It wasn’t until 2007 that Exxon publicly acknowledged that climate change was occurring and largely driven by the burning of fossil fuels.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

To help voters determine which candidates would deliver the needed course correction, Environmental Defence and its allies in the Ontario Priorities Working Group asked each of the province’s major political parties whether – and how – they would deliver the rapid emissions reductions Ontario will need to head off climate catastrophe. .

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Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

Cuba’s power system is currently heavily reliant on fossil fuels. In 2022, fossil fuels accounted for about 95% of electricity generation, and about 48% of the fossil fuels used were imported, putting the country at high risk of price shocks and supply shortages.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

They apparently have not realised that both the UN climate panel and the professional communities in the USA and Europe have written a number of reports to do exactly that ( IPCC AR6 2021 , NCA 2017 , ESOTC2022 ). Hence my friend’s question about COP28.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Total Penalties $241,580,318 (July 7, 2023) Number of Records 118 Books Agrifood Atlas: Facts and figures about the corporations that control what we eat by Heinrich Böll Foundation, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation & Friends of the Earth Europe (2017) Citizen Coke by Bartow J. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), promising to pay $2.25

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

Japan’s dependency on fossil fuel s had been slightly declining until 2010. But the country changed course as a result of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, which led to the forced shutdown of nuclear power plants and greater reliance on fossil fuels. In September 2017, in Sendai Citizens v. Civil law cases.

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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. Mr. Minott holds two degrees in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from Villanova University School of Law.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 23, 2023

This is a good opportunity for the government of Ontario to select a more appropriate person to lead the agency, ideally one that supports the much needed transition away from fossil fuels. All of the alternatives are available now and are cheaper than fossil gas.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Six environmental groups launched the proceeding challenging the stay after EPA published notice of the stay in the June 5, 2017 issue of the Federal Register. filed June 5, 2017; emergency motion for stay granted July 3, 2017). June 29, 2017). June 28, 2017). June 28, 2017). filed June 9, 2017).

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 27, 2023

5 5,000 litres contaminated water leaked ( more here ) 2020 — Kearl Lake, AB Pipeline leak of 90 m3 of diluent on the ground ( more here ) 2019 — Nanticoke, ON 95 litres of diesel was lost from a leaking valve ( more here ) 2017 — Cold Lake, AB 1.2 Leaks and Spills 2022 / 2023 (ongoing) — Kearl Lake, AB 5.3

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Legal Planet

APRIL 20, 2023

The world will need large amounts of lithium to reduce fossil fuel emissions drastically. Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile are all in complex political, social, and economic situations. Few cases can show more clearly how relevant political approaches, laws, and regulations are for the future of the people and the planet.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 19, 2022

Celebration when Emmanuel Macron was elected President of France in 2017. Photo credit: By Lorie Shaull CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia. By Anders Lorenzen. France could be at a crossroads, and it could be a worrying one if you care about the climate crisis.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. Each of them was adopted at some prior COP, after parties at some still-earlier COP made a political (i.e., The largest decision adopted this year, and the main focus of negotiations and political conflict, was called the “Glasgow Climate Pact.”

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2023

I think the one thing, regardless of how you feel about fracking or chemical manufacturing or any kind of fossil fuel energy extraction, is that the harm that happens to the public and the workers has to stop,” said Sen. We cannot have these conversations in good faith, because of the corrosive power of money in politics.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

In a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi after that hearing I noted that I am aware that Congressional hearings involve some political theater. However, I am not a political appointee. I did not expect to be drawn into political theater that violates basic civility. That may be the case. I do not represent a large trade association.

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The methane impacts of fossil fuel imports shall be tackled in a two step-approach: first so called `transparency tools´, that will show the performance and reduction efforts of countries and energy companies across the globe in curbing their methane emissions shall be established (articles 28 & 29 MER).

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Vermont Law

MARCH 16, 2018

In deciding on necessity issues so closely related to systemic political choices, juries are essentially deliberating on policy issues, which implicates difficult questions of majority rule and separation of powers. Common Dreams (March 10, 2017), [link]. Further, he found that “actions that [merely]. has been sorely lacking.”.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Website Summary Repsol is a fossil fuel exploration company that evolved from a Spanish state venture that was set up in the 1920s. Major Shareholders Click here for the latest list Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of Repsol Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Royal Dutch Shell BP Total S.A.

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The slow shift from fossils fuels, like oil and coal, to more green sources of energy hasn’t been exactly met with a. presently hostile political administration. warm reception. As experts collectively work towards long-term sustainable energy plans for the future, what’s keeping the lights on in the meantime? great success.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Few people realize that Germany has actually increased its fossil fuel combustion capacity over the 20 years of its landmark renewable energy program from 2001 to the present. We can see the same impact of variable energies in Germany. We need to respect our grid authorities. Terrorism and the Electric Power Delivery System.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2023

And now, I participated in a seminar that PJM was part of in New York City, and one of the comments made is the political policies that we as legislators in the various states associated with PJM probably give to PJM. "In "Obviously, that doesn't add up quite, but there's a little bit of renewables included in that. “We Yaw praised.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 22, 2024

It’s perhaps not surprising then that Congress has provided the majority of DRF funding through the often last minute, politically fraught supplemental appropriations. 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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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

org Summary ExxonMobil is a fossil fuel company headquartered in Irving, Texas. Oil workers go on strike at Exxon Mobil in Nigeria: union Reuters | May 11, 2017 Nigerian workers at U.S. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. and Chevron Corp CVX.N

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

org Summary ExxonMobil is a fossil fuel company headquartered in Irving, Texas. Oil workers go on strike at Exxon Mobil in Nigeria: union Reuters | May 11, 2017 Nigerian workers at U.S. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. and Chevron Corp CVX.N

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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

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. This project was approved in 2017, long before the Chinese president’s proclamation.”

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Science Blogs

AUGUST 29, 2017

The release of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels is, conceiveably, the most important environmental issue in the world today. — "Costs and benefits of carbon dioxide," Nature , May 3, 1979. And along with the economic costs will come social and political side effects. Tue, 08/29/2017 - 08:57.

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