Enviromental Defense

JULY 24, 2023

If applied with integrity, these new rules for government spending will effectively shut the door on the creation of new handouts of public money to the companies most responsible for the climate disasters being experienced today – and free up billions for climate solutions.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Two-thirds of the G20’s public finance for energy went to fossil fuels in 2019–2020. The G20 group of nations provided nearly US$200 billion in support of fossil fuels in 2021, despite the worsening impacts of the climate crisis and their pledge in 2009 to phase out “inefficient” subsidies. By Catherine Early.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 11, 2024

Will the City of Ottawa ban fossil fuel promotion in City facilities? Fossil fuel advertisements indeed contradict the City’s policies on climate. City Council declared a climate emergency in 2019 and committed to a full phase-out of fossil fuels by 2050. It’s possible. And who knows?

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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

MAY 23, 2024

Both fossil fuel and utility companies bear some responsibility for wildfires’ damage, and must be held accountable to ensure disadvantaged and low-income communities aren’t left to shoulder the costs and impacts of these disasters. In 2019, a fire in Maui came within 150 feet of an oil-fired power plant. That 37% equates to 19.8

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2024

Back then, those contracts were canceled by the Puerto Rican government for failing to improve service and meet minimum performance standards. And their specialization in methane gas means that they have an obvious incentive to promote fossil fuels and not renewables. It is truly crazy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Minnesotans are already experiencing the climate crisis, as well as health impacts, from burning fossil fuels. The Minnesota House has shown strong leadership in addressing the climate crisis and funding the clean energy transition at the scale necessary to swiftly curb heat-trapping emissions from fossil fuels.

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In 2015, the Dutch environmental organization Urgenda Foundation with nearly 900 co-plaintiffs took the Dutch government to court. They argued that the government was failing to take sufficient action to combat climate change, which was, in their view, a violation of its duty to protect its citizens’ well-being. In the Leghari v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The fossil fuel industry has systematically contaminated our environment with a wide range of toxic chemicals for over a century. The 2019 explosion at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) refinery was in a unit which used hydrofluoric acid as a catalyst. A study has shown that PM2.5 Another study found high levels of PM2.5

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 15, 2024

Last month, the federal government amended the IAA – and the changes mean that major projects can no longer be rejected based on their climate impacts. A strong project review process is the only way governments can assess the environmental and social impacts of major projects like pipelines, mines, transmission lines and dams.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Smoke screens for oil and gas UCS has documented how ExxonMobil and other major fossil fuel companies hide behind trade associations and front groups to do their lobbying and disinformation dirty work, and EID is a prime example.

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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. In 2019, 70 percent of Seattle residents lived within walking distance of a bus or train service running at least every ten minutes—up from 25 percent in 2015.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Federal government releases new policy aimed at ending international public financing for fossil fuels, next step is ending domestic financing . The Government of Canada estimates that this policy will redirect $2.5 billion in fossil financing towards accelerating the urgent implementation of climate goals.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Although NRG Energy as a company does generate some electricity using some renewable sources like solar and wind, more than 80% of its fuel mix is from fossil fuels, according to a 2023 analysis of the top 47 investor-owned utilities. She’s right.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Our national overreliance on gas is evidently undermining energy access, not strengthening it, as some fossil fuel industry players would want you to believe. These claims just add to the deluge of greenwashing and disinformation from the fossil fuel industry. Don’t believe the industry spin.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

California’s LCFS is causing problems for other states and the federal government. The LCFS is designed to hold fuel producers accountable for their supply chain emissions The LCFS and related Clean Fuel Standard policies are performance standards for transportation fuel based on lifecycle analysis.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 26, 2021

Perhaps not surprisingly, these are the very same companies leading a coalition that filed a shocking lawsuit against the federal government last week suing them for taking action to tackle plastic pollution. Big Plastic wants to stop the federal government from regulating plastics under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA).

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 11, 2022

Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – Ministers Chrystia Freeland and Mary Ng have just approved a giant new fossil fuel subsidy: a $10 billion loan guarantee for the Trans Mountain pipeline. It’s another broken promise from a government that committed to end fossil fuel subsidies.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 25, 2022

The case concerns the scope of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing fossil fuel power plants under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act (CAA). In January 2021, the D.C.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

, its district, appellate , and supreme courts decided in favor of Urgenda, an upstart environmental organization, ordering the government to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, Shell has the most ambitious emissions abatement plan of all fossil fuel companies , for whatever that is worth.)

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Gone are the net-zero promises and focus on a rapid clean energy transition, and in its place is a new narrative that more fossil fuels will solve the country’s energy crisis. The revamped UK government, almost unrecognisable from the one led by Boris Johnson , has opened up new licenses for North Sea oil and gas production.

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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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Law Columbia

MARCH 27, 2025

City of New York , plumbing and building trade groups challenged New York Citys Local Law 154 of 2021 , a piece of legislation that prohibits fossil fuel combustion in most new buildings. It just limits the types of fuel a covered product may consume in new buildings. California Restaurant Association v.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 27, 2023

The other was Kendall Dilling, CEO of the Pathways Alliance, a new group made up of oil sands producers like Cenovus, with the intention to push carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) to perpetuate fossil fuel production. Every government dollar spent on CCUS is a dollar that doesn’t go to reliable solutions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2024

For more than a century, the United States has recognized this, and maintaining roads and bridges has been a core function of federal, state, and local governments. The federal government embraced a role in supporting transit in the 1970s, but this was cut back for the past 40 years and didn’t rebound until the pandemic.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 19, 2021

Buried two-thirds of the way through a dense tax code bill, nestled between tax breaks for entertainment venues and expansion criteria for Keystone Opportunity Zones, was a major $320 million giveaway for a new fossil fuel facility. In 2012, the Legislature passed the largest corporate subsidy in its history—a 25-year, $1.65

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 14, 2022

In Bolivia, the rising price of gold is fueling a boom in illegal, small-scale mining – activity that is polluting rivers in the South American country. According to Reuters, government officials have been threatened and attacked when visiting illegal mining areas in Bolivia’s Amazon region.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

By Adam Barnett DeSmog catalogues how oil and gas firms have forged ties with the highest levels of government, the media, and influential think tanks. This retreat from climate action did not happen in a vacuum but was fuelled by a steady campaign by a network of climate science deniers and fossil fuel interests.

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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. The government had abruptly stopped subsidies, dramatically increasing the price for consumers. The direction of Chinese investment will be key.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 8, 2022

So far this year the federal government has provided the oil and gas sector with $18.4 It’s a staggering amount of taxpayer money that is being used to prop up the very companies most responsible for fueling the climate crisis as well as polluting our land and water. Fossil hydrogen: $300 million. What should the government do?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It doesn’t make financial sense for many coal plants stay open due to competition from more affordable clean resources —such as wind and solar—as well as from other fossil fuel power plants, such as those fired by methane gas. Ohioans were forced to subsidize some of these costs through various surcharges on their utility bills.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Suncor is also a founding member of the Pathways Alliance , a fossil fuel industry association made up of six major tar sands producers and the newest major lobby group. Suncor Energy Inc: 2023-Present Imperial Oil Ltd: 2013–2019 ExxonMobil Corp: 1981-2013 Villain Career Profile Rich Kruger has a long and storied career in oil.

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Law Columbia

JULY 31, 2023

Our brief also emphasizes the importance of the federal government adopting a rational approach to its assessment of new fossil fuel infrastructure. Most remaining fossil fuel reserves will, therefore, need to be left in the ground in order to avoid significant overshoot of the temperature targets.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

During the shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, it is crucial not only to prevent certain groups from being excluded, but also to guarantee that disadvantaged communities can step into positions of leadership and ownership, and that past injustices are remedied.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2021

Reynolds, who recently completed an Emmett Institute Geoengineering Governance Fellowship. First, opponents of solar geoengineering research and governance development prevail, so understanding of methods, their efficacy and risks, and potential means of governance make little progress. It would take just three steps.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The fossil fuel industry repeatedly claims that reducing its pollution to fight climate change is just too costly or difficult, but is that really the case? The federal government must move forward with these regulations now. Canada needs to have a real conversation about a fair and equitable phaseout of fossil fuels.

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