Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 22, 2024

It’s perhaps not surprising then that Congress has provided the majority of DRF funding through the often last minute, politically fraught supplemental appropriations. While 2022 had fewer billion-dollar disasters (18), it was a record-setting year for the cost of damages with a total cost of $165 billion.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2025

The reasons are simple: wind and solar power are less costly and more quickly deployed than alternatives fueled by natural gas or coal. The levelized cost of energy for wind and solar power is now competitive and often lower than fossil fuels. But politics in 2025 is pretty different from what many imagined.

Clean Energy

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. ENDNOTES [1] William J.

Law

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

million vehicles from 2022 to 2023, a thirty five percent year over year increase. We have made too much progress in cutting our dependence on fossil fuel. In California 25 percent of all new vehicle sales are electric and in the state of Washington, 20 percent. Global sales increased by 3.5 Download as PDF

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

API also targets an EPA waiver for a 2022 California rule that would reduce pollution from new gasoline-powered cars while increasing sales requirements for zero-emission vehicles. The fourth policy proposal involves the federal permitting process, a perennial enemy of the fossil fuel industry. Pump up gas.

Fossil Fuels

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. Exposure to pollution from heavy-duty vehicles results in thousands of premature deaths and nearly $100 billion in monetized negative health impacts each year, according to UCS modeling.

Ground-Level Ozone

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

The latest auction resulted in this generation mix —with 67% of the generation in PJM being from fossil fuels, with gas being the largest source. PJM's dependency on natural gas is particularly problematic because market forces are driving up natural gas prices, making the region dependent on an increasingly expensive fuel source.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

JANUARY 17, 2025

Holding aid hostage to serve political goals slows the process down and threatens to rob ordinary folks of the help that they desperately need, from a system they paid into and now depend on for quick relief. The very idea is abhorrent, when families of all political stripes are in desperate straits.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2025

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Billion In Products To China In 2024] -- Financial Times: China Says It Can Live Without US Farm, Energy Goods [PA Exported $3.1 Ohio- $3.18 Ohio- $3.18 Billion In Farm Products To China In 2023] -- AP: US Economy Shrinks 0.3%

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 16, 2025

But then things heated up: wind and solar generated more than 5% of monthly electricity for the first time in 2013, passed the 10% point in 2017, leapt past 15% in 2021, and soared past 20% just one year later, in 2022. Wind and solar have supplied at least 10% of US electricity in every single month since September 2021. So much momentum.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2025

Since the inauguration, I’ve found solace in slowly rewatching The West Wing, a good bedtime story for anyone who feels nostalgia for partisan politics of yesteryear. And there are lessons from previous environmental protests relevant to the current political moment, as others have noted. Anyone else doing this? In April when Sen.

Clean Air Act

Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

With some exceptions, federal agencies formerly defending Biden administration climate actions requested that the cases be held in abeyance to allow new political leadership time to be briefed on the litigation and to determine how to proceed. Courts have generally granted these requests. Department of the Interior on April 23, 2025.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

A renewed emphasis on fossil fuels is expected under another Trump administration, though coal will likely remain moribund thanks to poor economic fundamentals and constrained access to capital. Renewable Energy Vs. Fossil Fuels Renewables or fossil fuels?

2025

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

For fertilizers, the life cycle begins with the extraction of minerals, refining, and manufacture using fossil fuels. Fertilizers impact on people The reality is that fertilizer manufacturing does not occur in isolation, and the plants are usually located in the vicinity of other fossil fuel industries.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JANUARY 15, 2025

She went to Washington to serve as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Climate and Energy Economics at the US Treasury in 2021-2022, and from there went on to join the MIT faculty. It does this by making it cheaper for consumers to move away from fossil fuels. fossil fuel production or on clean energy development?

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

APRIL 23, 2025

LA Times climate columnist Sammy Roth reread the Laudato Si encyclical , and was struck by his nuanced discussion of extreme weather and sea level rise, and the need to phase out fossil fuels making it almost certainly the most famous climate essay ever written. In that way, we just lost one of the most impactful climate communicators.

Earth Day

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 21, 2025

As a Senate committee prepares to question Rollins at her confirmation hearing this week, they should take a hard look at her record, which includes far more anti-science rhetoric, inflammatory political statements, and ties to polluting industry than demonstrated interest and expertise in agriculture or food policy.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

APRIL 8, 2025

Elon Musks journey to the extreme right-wing It was not until relatively recently that Musk became heavily involved in politics, at least not when it did not directly implicate his business interests.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

For PA Parks & Forests Foundation People’s Choice Photo Contest Award [PaEN] -- Nov. Ohio- $2.86 PA- $3.24 -- Baker Hughes: No Change In PA Natural Gas Drilling Rigs From Last Week - 15; Aug.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 29, 2025

Train Derailments -- Post-Gazette: Local Ohio School Officials Sue Norfolk Southern Over Broken Promises To Reimburse Them For Costs Related To Train Derailment, Including Abandoning A $30 Million Plan Building Plan Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant Restart/Data Centers -- TribLive: Proposed TECfusions Data Center To Use 2 Gigawatts Of Natural Gas-Fired (..)

Air Pollution

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 16, 2025

EPA issued a proposal that attempts to entirely remove the agency from regulating carbon emissions from current and future fossil fuel-fired power plants (coal, gas, and oil). Plus, a rundown on how to fight back. What is EPA proposing to do? How is EPA proposing to justify the repeal? This is not a joke.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

JULY 29, 2025

The original federal endangerment finding was deeply flawed and based on overreaching political agendas. “As gas-fueled vehicles, fossil fuel power plants, and other sources are contributing to the global warming that is putting our weather on steroids and threatening the stability of life as we know it.

Greenhouse

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Yet, driven by vested interests in the fossil fuel industry , misleading narratives aim to distort and hinder meaningful climate commitments. Fossil fuels are the problem It’s pretty simple: the burning of fossil fuels is the main driver of climate change. What’s lacking is political will.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

October 4, 2022. The move represents a lifeline for fossil fuel use in a decarbonizing energy grid. October 11-13, 2022: Great Lakes Commission Annual Meeting – register. October 18, 2022: EPA’s Debra Shore at the Great Lakes Conference — register. October 28, 2022: Great Lakes Water Conference — register.

Carbon Dioxide

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?

Fossil Fuels

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

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Mine Cleanup Law Weakened by Coal’s Decline — Reclamation is a flashpoint for the partisan divide over fossil fuels. Social and political circumstances in Syria may have aided the outbreak. . — Brett Walton, Interim Stream Editor. Recent WaterNews from Circle of Blue.

2022

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.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Some states, like California, Louisiana, or Alaska may be feeling the impacts more acutely earlier on, but it does not feel like things have become bad enough for political will to be marshalled. But it beats a structure in which political paralysis is so severe that nothing, whether adaptation or mitigation, can be done.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

There is still much we can do to bend that emissions curve sharply within this decade—but only if world leaders, especially leaders of richer countries and major emitting nations, take responsibility to act together quickly and fossil fuel companies are held accountable for their decades of obstruction and deception.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

The Department of Energy estimates the cost of an electric vehicle lithium-ion battery pack declined 89% between 2008 and 2022. Cheaper renewable energy attracts private investment and makes limits on fossil fuels more feasible. Prices for battery storage have declined even more sharply.

Fossil Fuels

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. Source: US Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2022 (AEO2022). Source: US Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2022 (AEO2022).

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In the study, we found that political power dynamics shape international negotiations, that the Paris Agreement temperature goal doesn’t fully account for the dangers of sea level rise, and that climate justice requires fully considering diverse views and experiences of climate change. they would experience 1.2 times the global mean.

Sea Level

Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Coal mine reclamation has become a flashpoint in the partisan divide over fossil fuel use. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — October 6, 2022. A Political Quagmire. There might be state politics that are prohibiting the regulators from fixing broken parts of the program. Photo © Prairie Rivers Network.

Law

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. CAPP is trying to buy and build the social license (ie.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

To help voters determine which candidates would deliver the needed course correction, Environmental Defence and its allies in the Ontario Priorities Working Group asked each of the province’s major political parties whether – and how – they would deliver the rapid emissions reductions Ontario will need to head off climate catastrophe. .

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 30, 2023

In 2022, the MPSC similarly approved a revised version of utility Consumers Energy’s long-range energy plan following settlement negotiations. Reform utility political contribution and lobbying regulations. In addition, more than 200 of our supporters submitted comments to the MPSC urging it to strengthen DTE’s plan.

Clean Energy