Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Alito famously said that carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning, a key contributor to global warming, is not a pollutant. That is despite studies tying carbon dioxide to skyrocketing rates of childhood asthma. There is evidence linking elevated carbon dioxide to longer pollen seasons.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

GOM communities, not fossil fuel interests, should determine policies that affect GOM people. He was on to something And the lobsterman was correct: we can blame carbon emissions for ocean acidification and warming in the Gulf of Maine. They should be held accountable for their actions.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 26, 2022

Today marks one year since the precedent-setting court ruling in the Netherlands, which ordered Shell to cut its activities’ carbon emissions by 45 percent compared to 2019 levels to align with the Paris climate agreement. The industry’s actions, the CHR report said, were driven “not by ignorance, but greed.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 20, 2024

The primary cause of accelerating sea level rise is human activity As people burn fossil fuels and emit heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide, our atmosphere and our oceans warm up. A 2019 UCS analysis, Underwater , found that Charleston can expect roughly 500 homes to flood on a chronic basis by 2035.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Each credit one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent pollution below the standard. I’ve written recently about why a Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard , which addresses the bio-based diesel credits. Source California Air Resources Board.

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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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Real Climate

JULY 10, 2022

The sources of these increases are dominated by the burning of fossil fuels, landfills, mining, oil and gas operations, agriculture (especially livestock for methane), and industry. The total forcing from the trace greenhouse gases mentioned in Step 3, is currently (to 2019) about 3.3 Etminan, G. Myhre, E.J. Highwood, and K.P.

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Law Columbia

JULY 31, 2023

BLM projects that it will produce 576 million barrels of oil over its 30-year lifetime, resulting in indirect emissions totaling 239 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) equivalent. The project is controversial due to both its location and its climate impacts. C and approximately equal to the remaining budget for 2.0°C.

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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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A Greener Life

JULY 23, 2021

Hydrogen may have lost the race to fuel electric cars but it looks a likely contender to replace fossil fuels in trucks, ships, planes and heavy industry. The Tokyo Olympics will be powered by a fuel with ambition – hydrogen. It is planning to replace fossil fuels with hydrogen in heavy industries such as steel-making.

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 11, 2021

(See Latham’s blog post TCI Proposes to Reduce Carbon Emissions From Transportation in the Northeast.) In October 2019, the TCI published a Framework for a Draft Regional Policy Proposal, which described the TCI-P’s key design elements. fossil-based gasoline and diesel).

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

According to the report , average net annual human-caused GHG emissions were at their highest levels in human history between 2010 and 2019, with urban areas responsible for an increasing proportion of the emissions. C increase, the IPCC report states GHG emissions must be cut back by 43% by 2030 and 84% by 2050 (relative to 2019 levels).

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The applicants sought an injunction declaring that Shell is legally bound to reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 45% below 2019 levels by 2030. This leads to an important distinction between fossil fuels specifically produced or merely traded by Shell, as discussed in more detail below. Royal Dutch Shell.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 23, 2024

As proposed, the oil and gas industry must reduce its emissions by 35-38 per cent from 2019 levels by 2030. Offsets are tradable credits that polluters can purchase to compensate for a ton of carbon dioxide or the equivalent in greenhouse gasses, by investing in emissions-reducing environmental projects elsewhere.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 18, 2023

Since 2019, more than seventy local and state jurisdictions have followed Berkeley’s lead in requiring or strongly incentivizing all-electric or fossil-fuel-free new buildings, with more considering similar approaches. can be fueled by natural gas), and must base these options on a defensible “one-for-one” basis.

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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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A Greener Life

APRIL 4, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen The emissions from methane , a powerful greenhouse gas (GHG) with 80 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide (CO2) rose in 2023 despite several pledges and initiatives to reduce emissions. Graph credit: IEA.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2021

That fund started its coal divestment in 2014, also due to Urgewald’s campaigns, and tightened its guidelines in 2019. and protecting the planet’s diversity, the expansion of the fossil fuel industry must cease. Further financing of fossil companies, and above all the coal industry, is the first step towards this.

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

A 2019 study ( Environ. 14 095001 ) found that professors at the University of Montreal in Canada had twice the annual carbon footprint of the average Canadian, with most of the difference linked to professional travel. They estimated that in 2019, the average astronomer in the Netherlands emitted 4.7

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

The arguments used for and against the resolution were the same familiar and often repeated comments on the economic and environmental impacts heard on the regulation since the concept was first suggested in 2019 by Gov. Read more here. At least $12.5 At least $12.5

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 15, 2020

Since the initiation of climate change litigation several years ago, various state governments and interest groups have filed lawsuits against fossil fuel companies and governing authorities. July 1, 2019). Below we take a closer look at each category of lawsuits and provide an update on where they stand today. BP P.L.C.,

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Still I remain concerned that in greening the fossil fuel industry, we are missing out on opportunities to invest in renewables. Methane, the largest component of natural gas, traps up to 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. “I welcome these conversations and I come to the table with an open mind. “If

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2022

In 2019, the governor set Pennsylvania’s first statewide climate goals , aiming to reduce greenhouse gases by 80 percent by 2050. Street Introduces Bill To Set A New Clean Energy Standard And Support Carbon Capture To Eliminate All Carbon Dioxide Emissions From Power Plants By 2050 [Posted: January 11, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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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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Law Columbia

MAY 28, 2021

2317, which would amend the City’s building code to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new and renovated buildings to 50 kilograms of carbon dioxide per million BTUs. Under WA-26, buildings built with fossil fuels will receive special permits that expire in 2030, while buildings built without them (i.e.,

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Science Blogs

APRIL 11, 2019

This could absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and help biodiversity thrive. I should emphasise that even if we use natural climate solutions to the max, we still need to halt almost all greenhouse gas emissions and leave fossil fuels in the ground, if we are to prevent more than 1.5? (or Thu, 04/11/2019 - 12:42.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 1, 2023

Gas is made mostly of methane – a climate-damaging fossil fuel that is over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Between 2005–2019, heat pump use increased by just one per cent, from four to five per cent of Canadian homes. The science is clear that we need to stop building new fossil fuel projects.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2022

The arguments used for and against the resolution were the same familiar and often repeated comments on the economic and environmental impacts heard on the regulation since the concept was first suggested in 2019 by Gov. Read more here. At least $12.5 At least $12.5

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan at a meeting in 2019. LNG used to be the “cheapest and cleanest of fossil fuels ”, he said, and Pakistan had a ready-to-use gas infrastructure in place. Over a 20-year period, methane can be 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide,” she said.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

After a decade of global warming trends, the world experienced the second warmest year on record in 2019. Through the Lancaster County Community Climate Fund , RegenAll is launching an innovative pathway for Lancaster County to achieve carbon neutrality and slow the impacts of climate change on communities.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Like Greta Thunberg, Mariutti comes to the tale as an environmental obsessive passionate about facilitating the world’s transition from fossil fuels to cleaner forms of energy. The reference given is to yet another IEA report , Trends In Photovoltaic Applications 2019. Does the fossil fuel industry offer any alternative?”,

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Greenbuilding Law

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Public Health : Based on a law first introduced in 2008 and then the success of a pilot program initially implemented in the heart of London dating to 2019, the first year of this program alone will reduce GHG emissions by 45% from those vehicles that are no longer there. really, why?) Disadvantages: 4.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Fossil fuel power plant owners are facing increased accountability for their air and water pollution, including from a new round of environmental and public health protections that are being rolled out by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

And fossil fuel power plants may not stick to their retirement schedules for a variety of reasons. In 2021 alone, the plants slated for retirement emitted more than 28,000 tonnes of nitrogen oxides (NO x ), 32,000 tonnes of sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), and 51 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), according to EIA data.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

The soil is the largest terrestrial store of organic carbon. It contains three times as much as the 830 billion tonnes found in the atmosphere, and 240 times as much as the 10 billion tonnes emitted by fossil fuel burning every year. An increase of only a few percentage points would sequester huge quantities of carbon.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2022

Two key things have changed since last year: 1) Evidence has piled up that sharp cuts in fossil fuels are needed to keep the goals of the Paris climate agreement within reach—and that major oil and gas companies’ climate claims are greenwashing. That would be shortsighted and dangerous. degrees Celsius. Shell is appealing the ruling.

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