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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2024

Questioning fossil fuel companies is part of our mission, but each year the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) gets a chance to aim some choice words directly at corporate leaders during their annual shareholders’ meetings. million last year to pump out disinformation about California’s energy policies.

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 5, 2024

It was a bitter cold day on January 5, 2018, and Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker had no choice. On the afternoon of Friday, January 5, 2018, he signed a “Declaration of Emergency” ” to waive the driving-time limits and allow the critical fuel deliveries to the oil plants to proceed.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Fossil fuel companies are well established as founts of disinformation , agents of obstruction, and drivers of climate change. From Pulitzer-prize winning investigations to groundbreaking scholarly research , the evidence of their knowledge and deception is irrefutable.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 8, 2024

As I wrote in 2018: [W]e are drowning in plastics. As such, the complaint follows a legal model set in cases brought by California public entities against purveyors of lead paint and against fossil fuel companies for deceiving consumers about the harms of fossil fuel.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 21, 2024

Since 2018 we have worked together with Chevron to be a ‘Force for Good’ in our region by providing resources and opportunities for youth soccer players,” LAFC Co-President & CBO Larry Freedman said in a press release. LAFC and the Dodgers are hardly the only teams participating in so-called “sportswashing.” Why does all this matter? “I

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 4, 2023

It gained traction in California in 2018, although that particular effort fell short. When all is said and done, lower resource adequacy requirements could theoretically reduce utilities’ reliance on fossil fuels and reduce the cost of resource adequacy requirements for ratepayers. It’s not a new concept.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 3, 2023

This year’s theme, “No Faith in Fossil Fuels,” is an opportunity to dig deep, ask hard questions, and dream together of what we want our collective future to look like. billion plastics manufacturing plant in 2018, and has continued to be a force against fossil fuel expansion in the region known as “Cancer Alley.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

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. Scientists from a range of disciplines and institutions joined me to ask questions of corporate decision-makers and speak in support of climate action.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Coal mine reclamation has become a flashpoint in the partisan divide over fossil fuel use. Illinois keeps about $8,000 per acre in bonding, according to 2018 data published by Climate Home News, and Indiana and Kentucky had only about $4,000 per acre. . Photo © Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

Now the same district court has gone further, again in favor of environmental groups but now against Royal Dutch Shell (“Shell”) , the world’s largest non-state-owned fossil fuel company. In fact, Shell has the most ambitious emissions abatement plan of all fossil fuel companies , for whatever that is worth.)

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Among the targets of the critics is the work of William Nordhaus, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2018 for advancing economic analysis of climate change, and for his steadfast advocacy of a carbon tax.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 13, 2021

This is a pretty clear illustration of how sea level starts to rise slowly; but in the long run, sea-level rise caused by fossil-fuel burning and deforestation in our generation could literally go off the chart and inundate many coastal cities and wipe entire island nations off the map. But first things first. Source: IPCC AR6 Fig.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 25, 2023

2018 ( PDF ; I’m a coauthor on that paper). I discussed this here in 2016 and also in my 2018 RealClimate article “ If you doubt that the AMOC has weakened, read this ”, together with possible other alternative explanations of the ‘cold blob’. In 2022, the G20 governments alone subsidised fossil fuel use with 1.4

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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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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.,

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 22, 2021

Their new commitments include a pledge to reach net zero emissions by 2050 and a target to reduce its financing support to the six most carbon intensive sectors – including oil and gas extraction – by 40% below 2018 levels by 2023. billion a year in oil and gas support from 2018-2020. billion a year to $13.5

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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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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Ross involves Prop 12, adopted by California voters in 2018. For example, the Ninth Circuit upheld California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard against a similar legal attack. Like some other states, California also imposes limits on utility purchases of power from fossil fuel plants that apply to generators outside the state.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Despite promises to end public financing for fossil fuels, so far this year the Government of Canada has already committed up to $15.4 The Government of Canada has a long-standing commitment to end fossil fuel subsidies. Through Export Development Canada, Canada provided $13 billion per year on average from 2018 to 2020.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

But the distribution system will be even more important when making a rapid clean energy transition, particularly considering the role distributed energy resources, such as rooftop solar, battery storage and electric vehicles, can play in helping Illinoisans dump fossil fuels. Illinois utilities contributed to that trend.

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Environmental Leader

JUNE 24, 2022

Additionally, it is switching its global fleet of vehicles from those that run on fossil fuels to those that are sustainable. The post Nestlé Has Cut Greenhouse Gases by 4 Million Tons Since 2018. Nestlé is well along the path to ensuring that 800 sites in 187 countries are totally green by 2025.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

By expanding renewable power, phasing out fossil fuels, electrifying as much of the economy as possible, and deploying other technologies, the U.S. The average Seattle resident drove just 6,150 miles a year in 2018, 17% fewer than in 2005. can achieve its climate goals by 2050—and a new report from UCS shows how.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

With most energy investments still in fossil fuels, significant reform is needed to modernise the sector and meet Kazakhstan’s pledge to become net-zero by 2060. Social unrest related to fossil fuels is not a new phenomenon in Kazakhstan. An oil pump in a dust storm on the road to Aktau, Kazakhstan. By Kate Watters.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 14, 2022

But Canada’s largest financial institutions still fund fossil fuel expansion projects and are too slow to invest in climate solutions. The federal government launched an Expert Panel on Sustainable Finance in 2018 and recently appointed a Sustainable Finance Action Council. Why is this? .

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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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Energy & the Law

JULY 31, 2022

And so it is with the plethora of lawsuits by states, cities and counties against oil and gas producers claiming catastrophic damages from fossil fuels. Baltimore alleges oil company defendants violated state-laws and concealed dangers associated with their fossil fuel products. There are others. Suncor Energy .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 23, 2024

This is not only important for the climate, but for frontline communities that have been historically burdened by fossil fuel energy generation. Beginning in 2018, the Hawai‛i PUC initiated a process to tie energy rates to customer benefits and emission reductions rather than solely to utility capital investments.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 10, 2022

Burning fossil fuels has caused heat-trapping gases to accumulate in the atmosphere. A comprehensive University of Michigan report published last year found that average water prices in the state, when adjusted for inflation, had nearly doubled between 1980 and 2018.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 25, 2022

Because of its detail-oriented nature, production cost modeling is best suited to answer such questions as “How much will fossil-fuel power plants operate and how much emissions will they produce?,” “How much will it cost to operate the power system next year?,”

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 11, 2021

In December 2018, after having successfully reduced greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector by 53.3%, a majority of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) jurisdictions announced plans to design a program to address carbon emissions from the combustion of transportation fuels. Background.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Renters are more likely to be denied FEMA assistance than homeowners: according to FEMA’s own analysis of its almost five million aid applications from 2014-2018, poor renters were 23% less likely to receive assistance than wealthier homeowner applicants.

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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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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

11 Workshop On Living Near Shale Gas In Westmoreland County [PaEN] -- Philadelphia LNG Export Task Force Issues Report On The Best Ways To Increase Exports Of PA's Natural Gas; Minority Report Rebuts Need For LNG Facility, Outlines Impacts [PaEN] -- PA League Of Women Voters, University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health Nov.

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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. As a result, Japan’s CO 2 emissions increased, peaking in 2013.

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