Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Fossil fuel companies are well established as founts of disinformation , agents of obstruction, and drivers of climate change. In March 2023, the resolution was adopted by the UNGA by consensus. And yet, these corporations continue to sow disinformation and reap record- breaking profits.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 17, 2023

We need more electricity to transition our homes and cars off fossil fuels, but we can’t afford to let that electricity come from more gas power plants. gigawatts of capacity from gas plants are planned to go online from 2023 to 2026. I hope these companies will be held accountable.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

” Prioritizing fossil fuels over renewable energy in 2023 for insubstantial reasons does not pass strict scrutiny. The current barriers to implementing renewable energy systems are not technical or economic, but social and political,” the decision says.  Is it a ‘game-changer’? They’ll have to be pushed.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Even so, it is concerning that legislators included fossil gas in the definition of clean energy given the risk of continuing our reliance on fossil fuels and the impact of emissions from gas production, transportation, and combustion. What Still Needs to be Done?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2022

On the contrary, it relies on the routine exploitation of food and farm workers , heavy use of fossil fuels and chemicals that pollute the environment , and the degradation of soil and other natural resources that are critical to future production of healthy food. We need healthy and sustainable food systems.

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Inside Climate News

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The push and pull of progress and catastrophe made 2023 one of the most discordant—and consequential—years for the world’s climate. By ICN Staff In 2023, clean energy progress and the horrors of a radically warming climate fought almost to a draw.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2023

By Dave Jenkins, Conservatives For Responsible Stewardshi p The following goest essay first appeared in the Erie Times on March 27, 2023 -- We are at an inflection point on energy: 2022 was the first year when global investment in carbon-free sources of energy matched investment in fossil fuels. Energy is energy.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 27, 2024

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak tours a Shell gas plant in Aberdeen in July 2023. million from fossil fuel interests, climate science deniers, and highly polluting industries. Until April 2024, Farmer held shares in the fossil fuel giants Shell and BP, each worth more than £100,000. million since 2001.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2024

These corporations and politicians don’t want to see a transformational transportation system we need, one that prioritizes people before highways, health before harm, access before asphalt, climate before corporations, freedom over fossil fuels. How did we get here? Why aren’t there more ways to get around my community?

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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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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 24, 2024

All political parties can and should adopt strong policies to reduce our province’s greenhouse gas emissions, while building a robust green energy sector that supports Albertans and their communities. We congratulate all participants in the leadership contest and acknowledge their important service to Albertans.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

How political will often favors a coal billionaire and his dirty fossil fuel Washington Post pratap Sun, 11/12/2023 - 21:09 Friday, December 9, 2022 [link] Gerry Shih, Niha Masih and Anant Gupta GODDA, India — For years, nothing could stop the massive coal-fired power plant from rising over paddies and palm groves here in eastern India.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

State of Montana, a Montana trial court ruled that the state Constitution’s guarantee of a healthy and clean environment prevails over Montana’s longstanding fossil-fuel-based state energy system. legal history.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 6, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his government are intensifying their support for the fossil fuel industry, and they have thus distanced themselves further from climate action previously pursued by successive UK governments. The UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pictured at a gas plant in Aberdeen. via FLICKR.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2024

These firms recognized that they could not assume the risks of exacerbating climate damage from continued burning of fossil fuels. Across the US data center energy use grew 66% from 2020 to 2023, from 90 billion kilowatthours to 150 billion kilowatthours. We just need to bring the political will.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

The share of bio-based diesel blend in overall diesel fuel consumption, or blend rate, is assumed to range between 44 and 56 percent through 2035, and then to increase as total diesel fuels consumption falls, as heavy-duty electrification starts to gain traction. Renewable Fuel Standard in Danger of Going Over a RIN Cliff?

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In order to reduce emissions, we must phase out fossil fuels—oil, coal and gas—and move towards renewable energy and less plastic and petrochemical production since these products, so dangerous as ocean pollutants, are made from oil. Individual nations, like Vietnam, made new commitments as well.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 15, 2023

Billion Over 4 Years -- Independent Fiscal Office: Budget Impact Of New Union Contract FY 24-25 - $696 Million -- The Center Square: In-State Tuition At Penn State, University Of Pittsburgh Among Costliest Nationwide -- York Dispatch: Dr. Oz Repaid Himself $1.2

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 28, 2023

Capitol Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: January 28, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Climate Envoy Kerry: No Rolling Back Clean Energy Transition PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Inquirer: 100 Days: A Look At Shapiro’s ‘Common Ground’ Approach To Governing One Of The Nation’s Most Politically Divided States -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Pennsylvania’s House Takeover - A Tale Of Two Speakers - By Fmr Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Washington -- Penn State Extension Offers Wide-Ranging Resources For Pesticide Applicators -- Warren Times: Drake Well Museum Offering Summer 2024 Student Internships -- Kittatinny Ridge: Explore The 2023 Kittatinny Ridge Conservation Plan - Strategy And Protection For This Critical Resource -- South Mountain Partnership: Registration Open For Winter (..)

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 18, 2023

Natural Gas Drops 7% To 3-Week Low On Milder Weather Forecasts PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Scranton Times Editorial: PA Lawmakers Prove Bigger Isn’t Better -- PA Gaming Control Board Reports February Gaming Revenue Up 22% Over Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

On December 31, 2023, he retired from the Clean Air Council after serving as the organization's executive director and chief counsel for over 35 years. Throughout his career, Minott and the Clean Air Council earned a reputation for holding government agencies and fossil fuel companies accountable.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2023

They were powered by fossil fuels, mostly gas. PJM reported failures across the gas system, including low pressure, frozen compressors, and simply no commercially available fuel. PJM must plan accordingly, and reform rules that subsidize fossil fuel power plants by pretending they’re more reliable than they really are.”

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

In the first months of 2024, legislators in four states— Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , and Vermont —have pushed for legislation that would collectively require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Total Penalties $241,580,318 (July 7, 2023) Number of Records 118 Books Agrifood Atlas: Facts and figures about the corporations that control what we eat by Heinrich Böll Foundation, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation & Friends of the Earth Europe (2017) Citizen Coke by Bartow J. Major Shareholders Click here for the latest list.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 11, 2023

Of Delaware River Basin Announces 2023 Award Winners [PaEN] -- Philadelphia Water Dept. Performance Center on the second floor of the Natali Student Center on the PennWest California University campus, 250 University Ave, California, Washington County. 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Click Here to join online. Read more here. -- Water Resources Assn.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2023

2, 3, 4 [Unless Sooner Recalled] -- Committee Schedule House next voting day September 26, 27; October 2, 3, 4, 16 [Unless Sooner Recalled] -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events TODAY, THURSDAY: Penn State's 2023 Ag Progress Days. “Pursue Your Happiness In Pennsylvania” Senate next voting day September 18, 19, 20; Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2023

“Pursue Your Happiness In Pennsylvania” Senate next voting day August 30; September 18, 19, 20; Oct. Allegheny County -- WTAE: 4.0

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Million -- TribLive: Fetterman Says He Is ‘Not A Progressive’ Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Threads PA Environment Digest Feed Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: December 16, 2023] PA Environment Digest Haddock -- EPA/DOE Award DEP $44.4

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2023

Capitol Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: April 14, 2023] PA Environment Digest Million To Delaware Estuary Program, Including Support For Mussel Hatchery At Philadelphia's Bartram's Gardens [PaEN] -- Dept.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2023

Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: April 17, 2023] PA Environment Digest Million Pounds Of Industrial Air Pollutants Discharged In Pittsburgh Area In 2021 Came From U.S.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In my last post I discussed the Commission’s remarkably radical – and challenging – headline recommendation on mitigation, a global phaseout of fossil fuels. But no part of their mandate or report matches this description of “stuff you wish you didn’t have to think about, but realize you must” better than SRM.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Guest Post by Vedanshi Nevatia , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph. Sounding Green” has not only become politically correct, but also a possible finance-generating mechanism. Climate is a global issue and when complex political systems around the world are brought together, solutions cannot be straightforward.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 13, 2024

In response, the International Maritime Organization (IMO)—the United Nations body that governs global shipping—passed a new strategy to eliminate the sector’s greenhouse gas emissions in July 2023. It’s abundantly clear that LNG use as a marine fuel does not meet stated climate goals and can perpetuate environmental injustices.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

17 [PaEN] -- NRCS-PA: Pennsylvania State Technical Advisory Committee Meeting Jan. 18 [PaEN] -- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: PUC Commissioners Ask For Permanent Federal Low-Income Water, Wastewater Bill Assistance -- Foundation For Sustainable Forests Woods & Water Film Series Jan. 19 & Feb. 19 & Feb.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Two weeks ago, the Zambezi River Authority ordered the operators of Kariba Dam to halt hydropower generation through at least January 2023, worsening electricity shortages in Zimbabwe and Zambia. But bad economic, managerial, and political choices serve to sharpen the teeth and deepen the bite. Atlantic Coast unusable. Laura Gersony.

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