Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Policy drivers State leadership has been important in driving the development and adoption of clean energy for decades, and remains key to accelerating the move toward clean energy and away from fossil fuels. It also means, per the Solar Energy Industries Association, that at full capacity, U.S.

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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. What is ESG? The bill was sponsored by Kentucky state senator Robbie Mills. Who else has been applauded by the KCA?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In 2022 I visited Glacier National Park for the first time with two close friends. Some estimates suggest they could disappear by 2030 due to the climate change triggered by human fossil fuel use, which began less than 200 years ago.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 22, 2023

Both extreme heat and wildfires are directly linked to climate change. For years, fossil fuel companies have socialized the costs of their pollution while privatizing the benefits. Perhaps less obvious is the importance of state and local governments in holding the fossil fuel industry accountable.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 30, 2024

Transportation is the largest sector for emissions , and passenger cars, trucks, and SUVs are the majority of transportation emissions, so there is no way to slow down climate change without a fundamental shift from petroleum to clean electricity to power our vehicles.

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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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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Don’t forget to add on top of that the cost of climate change. From increasing costs of insurance and everyday items like coffee and chocolate, to major expenses when dealing with climate crisis infrastructure damage, like damaged roads, bridges and buildings, we know climate change is expensive.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

There’s good news in the recently released official data on electricity generation in the United States in 2022: renewable energy has continued to grow, coal power has continued to drop, and renewables are now firmly ahead of coal for the first time ever. percent of the 2022 generation, and small solar 1.4 It supplied 10.5

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

A trillion dollars of climate finance is being called for every year, and anything that does not meet this call would be miserly. Being stingy on climate finance is self-damaging: climate change is a collective problem, and countries like Canada need to help ensure that all countries are equipped with the necessary funds for climate action.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

October 4, 2022. Climate change could hike the cost of maintaining Ontario ’s transportation infrastructure by over $1.5 We work together to produce news and information about the impact of climate change, pollution, and aging infrastructure on the Great Lakes and drinking water. Laura Gersony, Fresh Editor.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Last week, the federal government showed some much-needed climate leadership at COP26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow. Here’s why: This commitment will likely unseat Canada as the worst-ranking G20 nation for international public financing to the fossil fuel sector. . This is a big deal.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 10, 2022

The severity of this and other recent heat waves in the region is a consequence of climate change. Burning fossil fuels has caused heat-trapping gases to accumulate in the atmosphere. In Australia, climate change could soon hit home for residents – literally.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Earlier this month the Government of Canada delivered on a key climate promise and released new rules which end public funding for fossil fuels abroad, starting January 1, 2023. It also begins to align federal spending with a climate-safe future, by prioritizing public dollars towards climate solutions like renewable energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Ironically, these are many of the same people who also argued that climate change wasn’t “real” just a few short years ago.) billion in 2022. Climate change is here and it’s costly. Groundwater storage, unlike surface water storage (or dams) will continue to work even as it gets hotter and drier.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 26, 2023

That would be the straw man erected by defenders of the fossil fuel industry who claim that facing climate change is a doctrinaire liberal policy. I got an early taste of this trend while scrutinizing Chevron’s 2022 annual financial report and reading a paragraph that stood out from the usual boring boilerplate.

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Law and Environment

MAY 27, 2022

On April 28, 2022, the California Attorney General launched an investigation into the “fossil fuel and petrochemical industries for their role in causing and exacerbating the global plastics pollution crisis.” Stay tuned for our continuing series on climate change related state attorney general actions.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Glasgow — Today at COP26, Canada, US, Mali, UK, and 20 other countries and institutions from both developed and developing countries launched a joint statement committing to end direct international public finance for unabated coal, oil and gas by the end of 2022 and prioritize clean energy finance. This was 2.5

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The Pathways Alliance’s multi-million dollar “Let’s Clear the Air” ad campaign, which began in 2022, is currently being investigated by the Competition Bureau for greenwashing. These fossil fuel companies continue to fuel destructive climate change, and their rebranding campaign does not change that fact.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 13, 2024

As electric vehicle charging stations sprout like mushrooms along our roads and clusters of new wind turbines come online, these two clean energy solutions to the climate crisis are becoming more commonplace. Also more commonplace are the obvious , dangerous , and destructive effects of climate change on people and communities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2024

Questioning fossil fuel companies is part of our mission, but each year the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) gets a chance to aim some choice words directly at corporate leaders during their annual shareholders’ meetings. million last year to pump out disinformation about California’s energy policies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

They just released their 2022 “Annual Energy Outlook” (AEO), which is a big deal: it tells us where electricity is headed over the next 30 years. CO 2 emissions remain mostly level through 2050—nowhere close to meeting US climate goals. Source: US Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2022 (AEO2022).

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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. Subsidies reached new highs in 2021, even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a Climate Transparency analysis finds. In total, 63% of the G20’s public finance for energy went to fossil fuels in 2019–2020. By Catherine Early.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 31, 2023

Record-setting heat , heavy rains, and wildfires scientifically linked to climate change are causing devastating and costly harm to people and communities across the country. As the proposed rule currently stands, however, it fails to fully reckon with the costs and consequences of carbon pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Four important global reports released in the last two days set up a deeply sobering context for the upcoming annual international climate talks in Egypt, also called COP27. Source: UN Climate Change 2022 NDC Synthesis Report. Source: UN Climate Change 2022 NDC Synthesis Report.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 14, 2023

If 2022 was the year that corporate climate-related financial disclosure jumped out of the boardroom into the headlines, then 2023 may be the year when the global tide quietly turned in its favor. What’s the holdup?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In its recent Climate Lobbying Report , ExxonMobil announced it had withdrawn its membership in the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) , a Washington, DC-based organization founded in 1929 to represent “independent,” i.e. smaller, oil and gas producers.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 12, 2024

You may have noticed getting price-gouged at the grocery store, but you may not realize that climate change is one of the main reasons why food prices are increasing. Climate change driven droughts in West Africa and Southeast Asia, where coffee and cocoa are grown have significantly reduced supply, and caused prices to rise.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

However, as we replace fossil fuels with clean electricity for heating and transportation to meet our climate goals, these peak demands will increasingly shift to the winter in many parts of the country. And this problem will only get worse as the impacts of climate change become more frequent and severe.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Last year, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) made headlines across the country when we published a report demonstrating how worsening wildfires in the West are linked to the unrelenting, shameless emissions of the fossil fuel companies. Climate-change fueled disasters will continue to have impacts on human health.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 30, 2023

That lower-than-expected electricity demand also makes spring (and the other “shoulder” season, fall) the go-to seasons for fossil fuel and nuclear power plants to go offline for scheduled maintenance—or refueling, in the case of the nuclear plants. That means that any renewable energy generation will supply a larger portion of demand.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Today, the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) released its assessment that a windfall profits tax on fossil fuel companies could generate $4.2 billion, based on 2022 profits. Fossil fuels are by far the largest contributor to climate change. It’s time to make polluters pay. Suncor Energy Inc.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Sea level rise presents numerous climate justice issues. Some of the venues where people are addressing the injustices of climate change are UN climate negotiations, the courts, and community organizing efforts around the world. Climate justice research can help inform these conversations.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

Fuel transport – Spring floods can hinder the transportation of fuels like coal. While it is a heavily polluting fossil fuel that is set to continue declining as a fuel source for US electricity generation over the next decade, coal still accounted for roughly 20 percent of the country’s generation in 2022.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

The bad news is that we’re not yet on track to avoid dangerous climate change. climate policy. The Department of Energy estimates the cost of an electric vehicle lithium-ion battery pack declined 89% between 2008 and 2022. But there’s also good news: We’ve taken important steps that will ease further progress.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2024

Earlier this year, ExxonMobil released its annual Advancing Climate Solutions report detailing the company’s current and planned contributions to a net-zero future. These kinds of curves are fairly standard when comparing strategies to address climate change as you can see in the comparable figure below. Who needs units anyway?

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2024

In October 2022, Sen. Yaw announced the introduction of legislation prohibiting the distribution of Act 13 impact fees to any county “that is actively suing over fossil fuel use.” The IFO projects another $100 million drop in revenue in calendar year 2024 fee revenue from 2022 to $170 million. Read more here.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Domestic Chinese EV sales in 2022 were 6.8 The amount of new solar capacity in 2023 was double 2022’s, and new wind capacity was up 66%. However, China will also have to fix problems that have led to an underuse of renewable capacity and a preference for fossil fuel generation on the grid. million, eight times U.S.

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