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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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 13, 2021

But when the PC government was elected in June 2018, it cancelled those incentives. In Q2 of 2018, the last quarter with incentives, 3 per cent of vehicle sales were EVs. In Q4 of 2018, the first quarter with no Ontario incentives, EV sales dropped to just 1 per cent of vehicles sold. What happened? Absolutely not. . Marie, Ont.,

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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. Chinese investments fuel Kazakhstan’s energy economy. By Kate Watters.

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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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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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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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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 20, 2021

DEP’s Climate Change Advisory Committee is scheduled to meet August 24 to review the latest Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory for Pennsylvania and hear an overview of DEP’s Energy Office Clean Energy Program Plan. million tons in 2018. million tons in 2018-- 47.88 The mix of electric generation fuels switched from 55.5

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 2, 2023

Fossil fuels currently account for around 60% of electricity generation , a share that it aims to reduce to 35% by 2030 through the expansion of renewables, including hydropower, and in particular wind and solar. The transition away from fossil fuels has, however, been an elusive goal for Argentina to date.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2022

With zero tailpipe emissions, EVs present the potential to reduce air pollution and adverse health impacts and burdens on Pennsylvanians and their communities. -- Greenhouse gas reductions – climate change caused by greenhouse gas (including carbon) emissions is one of the most significant challenges we face today.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

While the main focus has been on operational activities in Antarctica, global warming caused by fossil-fuel burning by these (and other) countries has left Antarctica on the brink of irreversible change. In the ocean, 19 marine heatwaves have been recorded between 2002 and 2018.

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Global Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions is from transportation. 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.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The CPP doesn’t fully disclose our holdings, it’s still investing billions of dollars in fossil fuels, and it doesn’t seem to have a credible climate plan. Yet the manager of my Municipal Pension Plan won’t even disclose how much it has invested in the primary cause of the crisis– fossil fuels. Andrea Reimer.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 27, 2024

Fully half of Montgomery County's population lives in communities committed to a fossil-fuel-free future. Lower Providence Township was recently the 19th municipality in the county to adopt those or similar goals.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 15, 2024

When the current Ontario government came to power in 2018, one of the first things they did was introduce a bill that canceled the cap and trade program and weakened Ontario’s climate target, which had been enshrined in law. What’s the case about? This move set back climate ambition in Ontario, and Canada, significantly.

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

Together with colleagues, he has analysed Australian astronomers’ total greenhouse-gas emissions over 2018–2019 from “regular activities” such as travelling, using supercomputers and working at large observatories. In 2018 each researcher at the institute emitted around 18 tCO 2 e ( Nat. Source of the problem.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

In the first months of 2024, legislators in four states— Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , and Vermont —have pushed for legislation that would collectively require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

[‘We do not trust foxes to guard henhouses’] -- PennLive Guest Essay: Let’s Celebrate More Climate Wins In Pennsylvania - Plugging Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells - By Mandy Warner, Environmental Defense Fund & John Walliser, PA Environmental Council -- Attorney General Henry Announces Criminal Charges Against Equitrans For 2018 Natural (..)

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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. . Luckily it’s entirely possible (and cost effective!)

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 10, 2023

Methane from fossil fuel operations, agriculture, and other industries causes roughly 30% of today’s global warming, according to the Environmental Defense Fund. This will be a game changer,” said Daniel Zavala-Araiza, Senior Scientist at Environmental Defense Fund, which created the MethaneSAT mission in 2018. Read more here.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 27, 2022

Transport accounts for about 13% of Kenya’s greenhouse gas emissions. Leonard Kirago, a PhD researcher from the University of Nairobi, told me that fossil fuel combustion in the transport sector is a major source of particulate matter (PM2.5) Greenhouse gas emissions are another problem, he said. Rush hour in Nairobi.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

As of April 2018, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region, which encompasses the Basin, was home to approximately 34,000 warehouses with 1.17 If the SCAQMD’s development timeline holds, Proposed Rule 2305 will phase in on July 1, 2020.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The Commonwealth should be engaged in a transition away from fossil fuels because of the need to address climate change," said Rep. Hohenstein. "As Minority Report Conclusion “The bottom line is, there is simply no suitable location for an LNG facility in Philadelphia or Southeastern Pennsylvania.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2023

Trillion Across Global Economy, Report -- Spotlight PA: Federal Money Won’t Be Enough To Solve PA Abandoned Conventional Oil/Gas Well Problem, Current Well Owners Routinely Fail To Plug Their Wells -- PA General Energy Announced It Will Plug Proposed Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well In Grant Twp.,

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 28, 2024

Since the last review of LNG export projects was conducted in 2018 when export capacity was 4 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd), capacity has tripled and is set to shoot higher by 2030 with new projects under construction. “It sets the stage for potential rejections and slows down the progress of these projects,” she added.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Last week, I joined my colleagues at COP28 in Dubai , as negotiators and civil society push for a fossil fuel phaseout to meet climate goals. The industry is pushing a narrative that misleadingly calls out emissions , not fossil fuels as the problem. Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions 1990–2019.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

But what you probably haven’t heard is that our grid is getting dirtier again, with fossil fuels increasing in our electricity supply from burning natural gas. Ontario Energy Output by Fuel Type: 2020 . But their plans to fill some of this gap with renewables, energy conservation, and other programs were derailed in 2018.

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Environment Blog

JUNE 25, 2021

Portfolios were typically created by just excluding certain types of business such as tobacco, weapons, and fossil fuels and the number of companies available to invest in, that were involved in solving environmental problems, was limited.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Gigatonnes of CO 2 equivalent emissions from 1990 to 2018. Most of Indonesia’s greenhouse gas emissions come from the Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) and energy sectors. C, for example, by continuing to approve new fossil fuel projects. The human rights complaint.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

As recently as November, 21, 2018, the U.S. New York City has previously filed suit against a number of fossil fuel companies in an attempt to hold them liable for damages to the city due to climate change. in October 2018. There’s no way to know how many more obstacles this case will need to overcome in the future.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 15, 2021

On October 14, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University-- together with collaborators at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boise State University-- released a research study on how Southwestern Pennsylvania can thrive during the transition to a future with net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Building more pipelines is simply baking in the use of fossil fuels into the future,” said Rep. The 17 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions [Pennsylvania has seen], that's the shift from coal to natural gas. Read more here. Read more here.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MAY 10, 2024

They help farmers and ranchers keep drinking water clean for our urban and rural communities, build soil resilience and limit the impacts of severe drought and flooding, provide healthy habitats for wildlife, mitigate agriculture’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and support farm operations that are productive and sustainable long-term.

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Acoel

MAY 18, 2021

Perhaps predictably, the large energy companies NextERA and Calpine oppose it, and are funding the opposition: the companies own fossil fuel and other power plants that will become less economical, and stand to lose many millions when the less expensive hydropower enters the grid.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 14, 2024

-- Evangelical Environmental Network: EPA Proposes Waste Charge On Methane Leaking From Large Oil & Gas Facilities [PaEN] -- Jewish Earth Alliance, Beth Am Israel Hosting Jan.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 28, 2023

The cap-and-trade program will require emitters of greenhouse gases to purchase credits at auctions, which will generate revenue that will be invested in clean energy and disadvantaged communities. Since 2018, they’ve recommended that the program regulators tighten the 2030 cap to correct the oversupply.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Transport trucks transfer raw coal in pits as deep as 200 meters at the East Junggar Basin on July 4, 2018 in Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous of China. Does the fossil fuel industry offer any alternative?”, Photo by Liu Xin/China News Service/Visual China Group via Getty Images) By C.

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Columbia Climate Law

AUGUST 6, 2015

These efforts would also be helped by the new Clean Power Plan, which requires states to submit final plans by 2018 to cut GHG emissions to targets specified by the EPA. The second component of Clinton’s plan is a “Clean Energy Challenge.” But there are other issues that she has yet to address.

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