2019 Carbon Dioxide Fossil Fuels 
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 7, 2023
One study found that human-caused climate change made the 2019 European heatwave as much as 100 times more likely to occur. 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.
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
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.
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.”
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.”
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.)
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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