2021 Fossil Fuels Politics 
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 1, 2024
To adjust the focus of this picture a little closer, just our passenger cars and light trucks contribute to a whopping 58 percent of total transportation emissions, placing our car-centric society in the fossil fuel spotlight. percent in 2021 to about 16 percent in 2050. Since vehicles are the largest sources of PM2.5
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Earlier this year, The Guardian ran a powerful article exposing the ties of Elsevier, one of the world’s largest academic publishing companies, to the fossil fuel industry. The article caught my attention because I’d never considered the ways in which an academic publisher might be perpetuating and enabling a fossil fuel economy.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 23, 2023
GW record from 2021. And fossil fuel power plants may not stick to their retirement schedules for a variety of reasons. Note: this is adjusted for inflation to 2022 dollars and is based on the amount those plants emitted in 2021, the EIA’s most recent year of finalized data. A bit more on those reasons later.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 17, 2025
The use of radiative forcing to understand emissions trajectories was then paired with varied political pathways to generate Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs). SSP4: A divided world A highly unequal world where some adopt clean technology while much of the population remains dependent on fossil fuels.
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Since the summer of 2021, five Republican-controlled state legislatures have passed bills banning their state governments from doing business with financial institutions that they allege have divested from fossil fuel companies as a result of ESG investment policies. Another six statehouses are considering similar bills.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
In its last NDC, back in 2021, the U.S. That means we’ll need to quickly add additional clean energy policies and policies to phase out fossil fuels just to meet our 2030 goals. 3 : Defending against bad-faith actions from fossil fuel interests Fossil fuel interests are a perennial threat to climate progress, at home and abroad.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 26, 2023
The image that comes to mind when I think of fossil fuel villains is Batman’s adversary Two-Face. To be two-faced is to be deceitful, and deception is what the fossil fuel industry executives excel in. I know we can agree that we don’t want political grabs for power to fall on us taxpayers. What is ESG?
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