Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Three years later, energy production emerges as a force to be reckoned with by fishermen, clean energy advocates, those focused on the endangered Right Whale, and everyone who depends upon the Gulf of Maine (hereafter referred to as “GOM”) and its future. They should be held accountable for their actions.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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. Negative CI scores undermine California’s goal of phasing out fossil fuels and combustion fuels in general.

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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. We need a major buildout of renewable energy. can achieve its climate goals by 2050—and a new report from UCS shows how.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 2, 2023

The country will also target 5,000 kilometres of new transmission lines, an 8% reduction in overall energy demand, and one gigawatt (GW) of distributed generation, with the government putting the plan’s estimated costs at US$86.6 These targets represent a potentially significant shift in Argentina ’s energy mix.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

Planning law has proven to be a useful tool for climate activists seeking to block or challenge new fossil fuel developments. However, it has also been used to frustrate efforts to accelerate the renewable energy transition by delaying the construction of new renewable energy infrastructure (see here ).

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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 . This new policy will end a significant portion of EDC’s support for fossil fuels and redirect those funds to support the clean energy transition.

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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. ExxonMobil’s advertising campaigns mislead consumers, overstate its current and planned clean energy endeavors, and increase its own liability.

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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. A 2019 report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis projected that “most of the Illinois Basin coal industry will be gone” by the middle of this century. In the committee hearing, Rep.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 30, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen The renewable energy sector experienced record growth in 2022 of 1%. But despite this, it did not shift the dominance of fossil fuels. They still account for 82% of the global energy supply according to the industry’s Statistical Review of World Energy released this week.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In the process of striving for equity in the emerging clean energy transition, I must emphasize that livelihoods dependent on the power sector are on the line. In 2019 and 2020, I served as a member of a committee involved in the implementation of California’s Assembly Bill 617.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 24, 2024

He worked on the carefully targeted ’50 by 30′ campaign that helped to normalise renewable energy targets in US states, and founded the youth democracy organisation Nextgen. He even ran for president in 2019 to push climate up the agenda, because any you can do that in America if you have a spare billion or two.

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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? Wind, solar, and other renewable energy sources can power their extraction and refining processes, which would make a huge difference in reducing emissions.

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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.

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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

JANUARY 2, 2025

IEA analysts expect this amount to remain relatively stable until around 2027, when consumption levels will start to level off as renewable energy sources start to play a more significant role, particularly in China – the worlds largest coal consumer and producer. billion tonnes in 2024. billion tonnes.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

For years, grid parity – the time when solar and wind would be cost-competitive with fossil fuels and nuclear – was the holy grail of renewables energy, a target to reach in a distant future. This is absurdly cheap and this won’t stop there as analysts believe that solar could be $1 cent per kWh in 2019.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Despite the climate crisis and the pledges made by global oil and gas companies to start moving their operations away from hydrocarbons and invest more heavily in low-carbon energy technologies, the reality is often different. All whilst releasing net-zero strategies declaring their commitment to tackling the climate crisis. Keep drilling.

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Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

. (…) In another sign the energy transition is taking hold, the IEA now sees electricity generated from fossil fuels falling in four out of the six years between 2019 and 2024. What is desperately needed is actually slashing energy use in G20 nations to accelerate our much needed energy transition.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 27, 2024

In fact, new analysis we released today finds that in 2023, the federal government provided the fossil fuel Industry with at least $18.6 billion in public financing for fossil fuel and petrochemical companies through crown corporation Export Development Canada Over $1.3 Fossil fuels are causing the climate crisis.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The 2021 climate audit by the Auditor General is the follow-up to one produced in 2019, which provided 22 recommendations for the province to improve its climate outcomes. For example, the province could phase-out the use of gas plants (which utilize fossil fuels) to generate electricity for the province.

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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. Japan, once a passionate advocate of nuclear energy , now has serious hydrogen ambitions.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 31, 2023

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 27, 2024

On August 27, Ready for 100% Montgomery County announced nearly one-third of the communities in Montgomery County committed to a gradual transition to 100 percent clean, renewable energy in its electricity usage by 2035 and in all sectors (heat, transportation) by 2050.

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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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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

As per the World Investment Report 2023, much of the growth in international investment in renewable energy, which has nearly tripled since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, was concentrated in developed countries. Developing countries need renewable energy investments of about US$1.7 ” (2021).

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Advocates of renewable energy have argued since the 1970s that the variable, weather-dependent nature of sunlight and wind is a modest obstacle at best to relying on 100 percent renewables. Some have argued that weather-dependent energies would, paradoxically, make electricity even more reliable.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Now the Prime Minister needs to chart the pathway to reduce the industry’s emissions – which account for 26% of Canada’s domestic emissions and increased by nearly 20 per cent from 2005 to 2019 – all of this while most other sectors have reduced theirs. A critical part of any roadmap is getting the destination right.

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Manning Law

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Although criticized for half measures and loopholes, blamed in part on the influence of petrostates, the agreement reached at the conference should be welcomed as a significant step in the move away from fossil fuels. C within reach. But it notes Parties are off track when it comes to meeting their Paris Agreement goals.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2023

At the same time, PJM reported it has approved at least 35,000 MW of renewable energy generation that have not yet been connected to the electric grid throughout its operating region. PJM said in July 95% of the 260,000 MW of electricity projects in its project queue are renewable energy generation, battery storage or a hybrid of both.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 22, 2024

Bill C-50 is a necessary tool to set Canadian workers up for success in a low-carbon economy Countries around the world are choosing to ditch fossil fuels, like oil, gas and coal, to use renewable energy and increase the energy efficiency of homes, cars and factories.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 7, 2023

India missed its target to install 175 GW of renewable energy by 2022, and is now trying to make up for that by boosting solar, wind, nuclear, hydropower and bio-power to 500 GW by 2030. Overall, India is also looking to boost its share of non-fossil capacity, which can include big hydro and nuclear to 50% by 2030.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 7, 2021

March for Climate Justice in Kolkata, India, in September 2019. Bangladesh and Pakistan have promised significant reductions in their carbon emissions, but both countries continue to invest in and rely on fossil fuel infrastructure, particularly coal and gas. Photo credit: Pacific Press Media Production Corp. By Lou Del Bello.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 25, 2022

The Ukraine conflict has dramatically underlined the imperative to shift to cleaner energy sources, not just to reduce emissions, but to dilute the influence of oil and gas on geopolitics. This has given a much-needed boost to the drive to wean the world off fossil fuels and transition to renewable energy.

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Introduction On 11 December 2019, the new European Commission presided by Ursula Von der Leyen presented the European Green Deal. By Dr. Romain Mauger 1. The aim for the EU is to become climate-neutral by 2050 and this will require massive investments. refineries) or on highly carbon-intensive industries (such as cement plants or smelters).

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Earthava

APRIL 20, 2021

The 1973 oil crisis gave everyone an overview of the impact of energy crises on day-to-day life. As per Our World in Data, the primary energy consumption of the world in 1973 was 75.6 Petawatt hour and in the year 2019, it was 173.3 In 46 years, energy consumption has risen about 100 Petawatt hours. Petawatt hour.

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

A 2019 study ( Environ. When the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union took place in California in 2019 the 28,000 delegates emitted around 80,000 tonnes of CO 2 equivalent (tCO 2 e) travelling there and back home afterward. They estimated that in 2019, the average astronomer in the Netherlands emitted 4.7

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