Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Subsequently, two administrative cases were filed, one in Kobe in 2018 ( Citizens Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v. filed in 2024 and 2018, respectively. Background Japan has heavily relied on the use of fossil fuels for its power generation. Sendai Power Station ). Kobe Steel Ltd.,

2025

HumanNature

DECEMBER 31, 2024

For example, consuming foods produced locally can reduce the amount of fossil fuel that was needed for transportation, however, this may not be feasible in all areas, and the definition of “local” needs to be flexible. 2018/02/01;160. Also, some growing methods are more water intensive than others. The Lancet.

Fossil Fuels

Vermont Law

APRIL 9, 2025

Unsurprisingly, according to a 2018 study, wildlife populations are more stable during peacetime and decline during war. War fuels the climate crisis and gas (and other dirty fossil fuels) fuel war. Some argue environmental destruction is an explicit military tactic. During the Vietnam War, the U.S.

Fossil Fuels

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

And because roughly 60 percent of global textiles now contain plastic derived from fossil fuels, it is estimated that more than a third of the microplastics in the oceans today were shed from clothing. Andrea Thompson; ScientificAmerican.com, August 13, 2018. Cotton agriculture alone uses 2.1 1 ( July/August 2025 ), p.

Upcycling

HumanNature

JANUARY 30, 2025

isoprene, carbitol, benzyl alcohol) to secondary organic aerosol are emitted from trees, fossil fuels, and an assortment of industrial and personal care compounds collectively known as volatile chemical products (VCPs). As fossil fuel emissions continue to decline, the fraction of SOA from VCP sources will likely increase.

Ozone

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 22, 2024

After much public advocacy to reduce future impacts and invest in preparedness, in 2018 Congress passed critical legislation that established the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities “BRIC” grant program to allow the President to set aside 6 percent of the DRF specifically for pre-disaster, preparedness and resilience efforts.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Theres another aspect to nitrogen fertilizer manufacturing that needs to be discussed: its dependence on fossil fuels. Combining nitrogen and hydrogen to produce ammonia is an incredibly energy-demanding process that is achieved by burning fossil fuels.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

OCTOBER 30, 2024

It has long been a given that Texas is a no-go area for Democrats, but in the 2018 Senate election, Ted Cruz, a potent climate denier, was nearly unseated by the progressive Democrat and former rockstar Beto ‘O Rourke. Allred who currently sits in the US House favours clean energy but also have a positive opinion of the fossil fuel industry.

Fossil Fuels

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. 2] See also Janis P.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Its no surprise that this anti-science, pro-fossil fuel administration wants to go after the Endangerment Finding. Those harms will worsen rapidly as global warming emissions, primarily from burning fossil fuels, increase. This blatant attempt to do an end-run around scientific evidence deserves to fail.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

Mackintosh has closely followed the case which was first filed in 2018 by Vanuatu, an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. The fossil fuel age is flailing and failing,” UN Chief António Guterres said in a speech last week, accusing coal, oil and gas of being “the greatest threat to energy security today.”

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2025

In forests of western North America, climate change nearly doubled burned area between 1984 and 2015 by increasing the dryness of vegetation (or fuel aridity for the wonks among us). Most importantly, we must reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, the main driver of climate change, and limit greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

AUGUST 7, 2025

Ties to the fossil fuel industry However there’s a reall spanner in the works of ARN’s sustainability messages, at least if you were to ask climate activists. The Arctic University of Norway (UiT) in Tromsø is cultivating municipal climate adaptation networks that is enhancing local resilience strategies.

Sea Level

Circle of Blue

APRIL 1, 2025

From 1992 to 2018, some 3,541 cubic kilometers of water 935 trillion gallons poured off Greenland, or the equivalent of 12 years of the Mississippi Rivers flow into the Gulf of Mexico. Engineers assert that fossil fuel pipelines can be thoroughly cleaned and made available for shipping freshwater to almost any location in America.

Ocean

Legal Planet

JANUARY 17, 2025

Since the 2018 Camp Fire and PG&Es bankruptcy, the states three major investor-owned utilities have dramatically increased spending to prevent wildfires caused by their equipment. Denise Grab: In recent years, Californias utilities have spent tens of billions of dollars on fireproofing power lines. billion between 2023-25.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2025

Both Atlas and Diversified reported this well plugged in 2018, but Diversified submitted production reports in 2023 showing the well is producing. Atlas holds 564 permits, many of which are inactive or were proposed but never materialized. The well may have been transferred to Diversified Production Co. Multiple violations issued.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2025

Thomas Mehaffie (R-Dauphin) , a member of the Committee, noted in 2018 a baseload power plant was shut down in his district [Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant]-- Dont make the same mistake. I sounded this alarm in 2018. Here is a summary of comments by some of the witnesses before the Committee. Read more here. ] Read more here. ]

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

million for multiple, serious violations related to the construction of the Mariner East Pipelines and the Revolution Pipelines starting in 2018 that resulted in an explosion, contamination of water supplies, pollution of the Marsh Creek State Park lake and the lake at the Raystown Lake Recreation Area. Read more here.] Read more here.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 17, 2025

The use of fossil fuels in the power sector, via gas, coal, and oil plants, is a major source of pollutants that harm people and communities. Offshore wind provides a ready solution, with more electricity from offshore wind farms directly leading to less generation from fossil fuel plants.

Fossil Fuels

Acoel

JANUARY 17, 2025

On December 26, 2024 , New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law the Climate Change Superfund Act (the Climate Superfund Act or the Act), which seeks to impose retroactive fees on fossil fuel producers for their disproportionately large contributions to negative climate change impacts.

Fossil Fuels

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.

Paris Agreement

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. percent above inflation.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2025

And you can see those costs are up considerably from the last three years and even historically looking back to the 2017, 2018 capacity auction. “So Cicero made the comments on electric service insecurity during a media briefing on the impacts of the latest PJM electricity capacity auction. That is up 9.5% from last year at $14.7

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2025

[Exxon] - Violations: Failure To Restore Impoundment May 20, 2025 inspection of the Spang Freshwater Impoundment in Penn Township, Butler County found the owner failed to restore the impoundment after its last recorded use on October 26, 2018. This well was declared abandoned in November 2018 and was previously inspected on May 13, 2025.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2025

Million Planted Since 2018 [PaEN] -- Guest Essay: Life Depends On Protecting The Natural World, Federal Rollbacks Are Threatening Our Future - By Michael Kensinger, Juniata Valley Audubon Society [PaEN] -- TribLive: Flight 93 Memorial Supporters In Somerset County Step Up Fundraising As Potential Job Cuts Loom -- Gov.

Conservation

Legal Planet

APRIL 23, 2025

LA Times climate columnist Sammy Roth reread the Laudato Si encyclical , and was struck by his nuanced discussion of extreme weather and sea level rise, and the need to phase out fossil fuels making it almost certainly the most famous climate essay ever written. In that way, we just lost one of the most impactful climate communicators.

Earth Day

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 21, 2025

Instead, her resume looks like this : She pursued a law degree, worked as deputy general counsel and then policy director for then-Governor Rick Perry of Texas, and led a state-based free-market think tank that advocated for school vouchers and fossil fuel interests and against environmental safeguards.

Fossil Fuels

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 29, 2024

While the transition to renewable energy is more urgent than ever, it is crucial to recognize corporate greenwashing and push back against false solutions in order to ensure that the disproportionate harms perpetuated by the fossil fuel economy do not continue. economy away from being reliant on fossil fuels and into renewable energy.

Carbon Dioxide

Legal Planet

MAY 28, 2025

In 18 years of working in newsrooms around Los Angeles, I talked with lots of political campaigns but a phone call from Antonio Villaraigosa in early spring of 2018 stands out. Photo: Flickr / David Starkopf, Office of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa CC BY-NC 2.0

Politics

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 (..)

Fossil Fuels

Law and Environment

AUGUST 12, 2022

Earlier this month, Chief Judge Brian Morris made clear that NEPA remains a powerful weapon against the leasing of public lands for fossil fuel extraction. In short, the need to balance different uses does not allow BLM to avoid assessing whether that balance may require an alternative that limits future fossil fuel extraction.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 9, 2021

. – Ontario has launched the second phase of a program to expand fossil fuel gas pipelines to new communities. This is a big subsidy for fossil fuels and a step in the wrong direction, when the government could have chosen to support clean technologies, help customers save money long term, lower capital costs, and cut carbon emissions.

Fossil Fuels

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.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

According to the Energy Information Agency , South Korea’s power sector is heavily reliant on fossil fuels. Two thirds of generation capacity is based on fossil fuels, split evenly between coal and natural gas, with 17% nuclear, and 14% hydro and other renewables. 50% coal, 26% gas, and 25% nuclear.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 26, 2023

That would be the straw man erected by defenders of the fossil fuel industry who claim that facing climate change is a doctrinaire liberal policy. One group that has filed resolutions in the past is the far-right National Center for Public Policy Research, which fossil fuel companies including ExxonMobil have funded.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 30, 2024

Even where the grid still has significant fossil fuel-powered generation, EVs are a cleaner choice. In the grid region that serves most of Texas, driving the average EV produces emissions equal to an 82 MPG gasoline car, despite over 60% of electricity generation coming from fossil fuels.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2023

A study of a 2018 South African drought found that climate change made it three times more likely. Scientists have long known that burning fossil fuels is the primary cause of the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, but now they can identify the specific sources. Tropical cyclones or hurricanes.

Climate Change