Enviromental Defense

JULY 9, 2025

While multiple factors contribute to this financial strain, a significant yet often overlooked culprit behind the affordability crisis is the fossil fuel industry. Fossil fuels are making life unaffordable for Canadians Fossil fuel prices are volatile, and they have a pronounced impact on inflation.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 20, 2025

Thats why Prime Minister Trudeaus 2021 promise to deliver a net-zero electricity grid by 2035 was important. Yet, reaching net zero also means phasing out polluting fossil fuel energy, so the government developed rules to impose a pollution limit on electricity producers.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

We need big investments in the energy transition from polluting fossil fuels to clean renewable energy. The cost of BC’s 2021 season of climate disasters, which included the heat dome, rampant wildfires, widespread flooding and dangerous landslides, was estimated to have cost more than $17 billion. trillion per year by 2050.

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Scientific American

JULY 4, 2025

Given today’s network of satellites and temperature sensors, when could scientists have first known, beyond a reasonable doubt, that increases in atmospheric CO 2 from fossil fuel burning and land use change were altering our global climate? The work of Syukuro (“Suki”) Manabe helped inspire this investigation.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2025

data centers risks deepening Americas reliance on fossil fuels and can put consumers and communities at risk, according to the report. The report shows that between 2021-2024, the number of data centers in the U.S. Rising electricity demand from U.S. Electricity demand to power these centers is projected to increase as well.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2025

For example, the agencies that are responsible for managing public lands and approving fossil fuel development on those lands operate under much broader mandates than the STB, including mandates related to multiple use, sustainable use, conservation, and environmental protection. 1984; Knobe & Shapiro (2021). [4]

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

A decade later In 2021, Steelton-Highspire School District worked with McClure Company to install a solar array large enough to offset 100 percent of its annual electricity usage. With the buses being powered by electricity from the sun, the school is no longer paying for fuel, and putting each dollar saved into programming for the district.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 10, 2025

gigatons (Gt) of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions , which compares to slightly more than India’s annual fossil fuel CO2 emissions. The scientists voice concerns that we are alarmingly off track from the commitment signed by 140 world leaders in 2021 at the COP26 UN climate summit, which pledged to halt and reverse forest loss by 2030.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In 2021, a record-breaking heat dome enveloped Oregon , tragically claiming the lives of 72 people. In response, Multnomah County, which includes Portland, filed a lawsuit for over $51 billion against major fossil fuel entities–one of the largest claims for a climate case to date. This case is just one of dozens in the U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 2, 2025

In 2021, a Google data centres was responsible for almost 30 per cent of The Dalles, Oregon’s water consumption. In October 2024, BP’s CEO Murray Auchincloss explicitly cited tech “hyperscalers” as driving demand for natural gas, describing AI as “a major boon for the fossil fuel industry.”

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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. In Association of Contracting Plumbers of The City of New York, Inc.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 6, 2025

Investor-owned utilities want to protect the bottom line of their fossil fuel power plants and stave off competition from low-cost renewables that would be aided by transmission, even if those cleaner solutions would help ratepayers and boost grid reliability.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The US only exited the Paris Agreement days after Joe Biden won the 2020 US Presidential Election and swiftly joined it again once Biden was inaugurated in January 2021. Like he did in his first presidential term, he will exit the Paris Agreement, but this time around he will be able to execute it much faster.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

This attribution is valuable as it can serve as a method to level the playing field with fossil fuel majors who have historically not been held accountable for their contribution to climate change. Source or company which has caused. However, producing such attributes fromto science studies is extremely expensive and time consuming.

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Real Climate

MARCH 19, 2025

This unprecedented warming, which began in the 19th century and has so far reached around 1.31.4C , is almost entirely driven by human activity – primarily the burning of fossil fuels. km over the past 140 years and the thawing of permafrost above the city of Huaraz in Peru.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 10, 2025

On the other hand, transit has been weathering decades of disinvestment in transportation policy, while fossil fuel, automotive, and road-building interests profit off a restrictive status quo where driving is the only option. The state will also require an additional $54 million yearly to account for expense inflation.

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Law Columbia

JULY 15, 2025

transitioning from fossil fuels to renewables) too slowly or too quickly. States must adopt “binding measures” to achieve the mitigation target, apply the maximum available resources, avoid reliance on unproven technologies, and target the main sources of emissions (fossil fuels, agriculture and deforestation).

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Law Columbia

MAY 30, 2025

On the building side, in addition to Local Law 97, the City enacted Local Law 154 in 2021 to prohibit fossil fuel combustion in most new buildings. Department of Transportation from withholding funds while litigation over the tolling scheme plays out.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2025

The report provides renewed evidence of the consequences for our health of using fossil fuels In 1970 the Clean Air Act and the newly formed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were given authority by Congress to regulate pollution from passenger cars and other forms of transportation. These emissions, which in 2022 were 37.4

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Background Japan has heavily relied on the use of fossil fuels for its power generation. According to the Japanese Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, the countrys fossil fuel dependency was 83.2% in 2021, which is 2% higher than the percentage before the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

For example, a 2021 United States Supreme Court decision in Territory of Guam v. In May 2024, Vermont enacted the first law of its kind requiring fossil-fuel companies to pay for a portion of the costs of climate-change-fueled weather disasters that have plagued the State. The Climate Change Superfund Act (S.02129)

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

During Trump’s first term, the US became the first nation in the world to announce its withdrawal from the Paris Agreement (a decision reversed by Joe Biden in 2021). Trump’s second victory is very likely to increase fossil fuel production, and he has also pledged to “rescind all unspent funds under the Inflation Reduction Act ’’.

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Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

And because roughly 60 percent of global textiles now contain plastic derived from fossil fuels, it is estimated that more than a third of the microplastics in the oceans today were shed from clothing. Cotton agriculture alone uses 2.1 percent of the world’s arable land.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 30, 2025

isoprene, carbitol, benzyl alcohol) to secondary organic aerosol are emitted from trees, fossil fuels, and an assortment of industrial and personal care compounds collectively known as volatile chemical products (VCPs). As fossil fuel emissions continue to decline, the fraction of SOA from VCP sources will likely increase.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Already this year, the President has declared 117 disasters, 87 of which have been major disaster declarations (compared with 71 major disaster declarations in 2023, 47 in 2022, 58 in 2021 and 104 in 2020).

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Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

corporations and institutional investors owe a fiduciary duty to maximize profits through economic activities that continue to produce, sell, and use fossil fuels (i.e. 33] However, this view directly contributes to the climate crisis because the use of fossil fuels is ubiquitous in the economy. at 17 & tbl.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

Among the EOs rescinded on Monday was President Bidens 2021 Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad (EO No. In rescinding many of those EOs, President Trump is within his authority to dismantle the executive branchs EJ work.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 24, 2025

Texas generated more solar energy in 2023 alone than all in-state solar generation before 2021 combined. So, while 26 per cent of its energy comes from wind and solar, and they are among the leaders in battery storage and transmission, they are still the largest producer of greenhouse gas emissions, at 622.4 MT in 2020, or 13.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2025

For years, IRIS assessments have helped shield EPA regulations from the chemical and fossil fuel industries efforts to strip our nation of environmental protections.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 26, 2025

Third, the Administration’s policy is that “continued and increased reliance on fossil fuels” is crucial for public welfare. It seems to completely ignore the fact that it reached a directly contrary conclusion in 2021. Of course, that policy is dubious, and might be changed with a stroke of the pen by the next President.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

The Delaware River Basin Commission placed a moratorium on fracking in 2010 before banning it permanently in 2021 in places like Wayne and Pike counties locally, saying it posed signicant, immediate and long-term risks to the development, conservation, utilization, management and preservation of the rivers water resources.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The second policy proposal is to reinstate permitting of liquified natural gas (LNG), also known as methane, a fossil fuel that is a potent source of global warming emissions. The fourth policy proposal involves the federal permitting process, a perennial enemy of the fossil fuel industry. Pump up gas.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2025

In our current fossil-fueled freight system, the cost for convenience spans far beyond membership fees for expedited deliveries. Between 2010 and 2021, not only did the frequency of new warehouse construction rise, but the size of these new warehouses increased by nearly 150 percent compared to the norm.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 28, 2025

Talking up fossil fuels and minerals Carney’s positive mention of fossil fuels and minerals as a strength for Canada’s economy as a response to Trump is unlikely to have pleased climate advocates. Right now, he would make any moves that would weaken Canadas oil and gas and fossil fuel infrastructure sectors.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2025

Original violation issued April 19, 2021. The owner failed to comply with an August 31, 2021 consent order and agreement to plug this well. The defective conditions were discovered during mechanical integrity testing in November 2021 and attempts to plug the well and stop the gas flow in 2022 and 2024 failed.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 6, 2025

In this post, I examine how President Trumps cuts are degrading extreme weather science and our ability to stay safe in a world made increasingly dangerous by ongoing fossil fuel use and climate change. We didnt get to see how the atmosphere had evolved between 3 p.m.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 17, 2025

As others have noted , IRS data from the 2021 tax year shows that LA County residents filed tax returns owing a cumulative $20 billion more than most states. In 2022, for example, California contributed $83 billion more in taxes than it received from the federal government, according to Rockefeller Institute of Government analysis.

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