Yale E360

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Close ties between the ruling elite and the coal industry have helped perpetuate South Africa’s dependence on the dirtiest fossil fuel for electricity. But now residents of the nation’s most coal-intensive region are suing to force the government to clean up choking air pollution. Read more on E360 ?.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Union of Concerned Scientists’ (UCS) research shows that top fossil fuel producers’ emissions are responsible for as much as half of global surface temperature increase. The best solution: Replace fossil fuels with renewable energy. A small number of big corporations are responsible for the climate crisis.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 14, 2025

Even where the grid still has significant fossil fuel-powered generation, EVs are a cleaner choice. In the grid region that serves most of Texas, driving the average EV produces emissions equal to an 83 mpg gasoline car, despite over 60% of electricity generation coming from fossil fuels.

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Legal Planet

JULY 13, 2023

To begin with, there are the health benefits of the energy transition away from fossil fuels. As we clean up our energy system, we simultaneously reduce the tons of pollutants we now produce from burning coal, oil, and natural gas. Pollution from these sources kills thousands of Americans a year and millions of people globally.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 13, 2024

Paul Arbaje is an energy analyst in the Climate & Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists and an expert on electricity policies and reforms that reduce fossil fuel use and reliance. The energy enthusiast who owns their own homes can take further steps toward making their homes completely free of direct fossil fuel use.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

Minnesotans are facing concurrent crises of climate change, high energy prices and inflation, and the inequitable public health impacts of fossil fuel air pollution. Getting energy from where it’s produced to where it’s needed. Unlocking the gridlock for Minnesota’s renewable energy future.

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Inside Climate News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Researchers have discovered how tiny particles from fossil fuel emissions exploit a gene mutation to promote the growth of cancer. By Victoria St. Martin The cough just wouldn’t go away.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 30, 2024

Even where the grid still has significant fossil fuel-powered generation, EVs are a cleaner choice. In the grid region that serves most of Texas, driving the average EV produces emissions equal to an 82 MPG gasoline car, despite over 60% of electricity generation coming from fossil fuels.

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New Scientist

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Fossil fuel power plants filled the gap but that has led to increased air pollution The ongoing drought in the western US depleted reservoirs and reduced hydropower generation.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 9, 2025

The world is moving away from fossil fuels in favour of things like new and improved heat pumps and renewable energy sources. Heat pumps can now be used in most of the country all year round and replace more expensive, polluting and dangerous gas and oil. Vancouver has done this and many other Canadian cities could follow.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The dangerous impacts of a warming, fossil-fuel dependent world span from wildfires capable of destroying entire towns to cancer-causing air pollution that afflicts the next generation. The climate crisis is one of humanity’s most complex conflicts yet.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

First, there’s air pollution. Gas plants and infrastructure emit nitrogen oxides (NOx) during combustion, which degrade local air quality. Exposure to NOx and other gas infrastructure air pollutants has been associated with respiratory illnesses and an increase in childhood asthma rates.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 4, 2023

This means that, with few exceptions, new buildings will need to exclusively use electric appliances, and will not be allowed to contain any fossil-fuel infrastructure, like natural-gas lines. All-electric as the new normal. A win for climate, health & safety, and equitable process.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2021

It attempted to move away from fossil fuels and toward zero-carbon sources like solar power to supply electricity. Fossil fuel plants — coal-fired power plants in particular — cause serious air pollution problems. The Plan was Obama’s signature climate policy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Minnesotans are already experiencing the climate crisis, as well as health impacts, from burning fossil fuels. The Minnesota House has shown strong leadership in addressing the climate crisis and funding the clean energy transition at the scale necessary to swiftly curb heat-trapping emissions from fossil fuels.

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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

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Upcoming research from my colleague Dave Cooke shows that electric delivery trucks can reduce climate-warming emissions from driving by up to 92 percent and reduce lifecycle public health impacts by up to 85 percent compared to today’s average fossil-fueled delivery trucks.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Another is that the costs of renewable energy and electric vehicles have declined so greatly in the past ten years, making them more or less competitive with their fossil-fuel alternatives. They also reduce air pollution and benefit public health. In short, maybe we can have our cake and eat it too.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2024

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.” Read more here. Although not yet introduced, Sen. Read more here. 16 [PaEN] -- EPA Files $4.2 16 [PaEN] -- EPA Files $4.2

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

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. Chinese government support for manufacturing of clean technologies may be partly due to concern about climate change and urban air pollution. auto sector.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

While the epicenter of the war and its horrors has remained trained on and in Ukraine, Russia has also leveraged its position as a major fossil fuel exporter to fund its war efforts and to manipulate and threaten others, including countries across Europe that have long relied on Russian supplies of gas.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 23, 2021

Urban air pollution kills millions of people around the world. Eliminating fossil fuels will radically reduce that problem. We will also get rid of coal mines and oil wells, which produce other kinds of pollution today. Accomplishing that will be no easy feat. What does it buy us?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Switching from fossil fuels like gasoline to increasingly clean electricity sources is vital for hitting climate and air pollution goals. Eliminating gasoline combustion also means getting rid of harmful pollutant emissions like nitrogen oxides and reactive organic gases.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The jobs did not come, and while the price of gas didn’t go up, air and water pollution sure did. That means they are going to politicians with their hand out to receive more of your tax dollars with nothing to show for it except receipts from past failures like leaking pipelines, harmful air pollution, and dangerous explosions.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 21, 2024

In fact, the California attorney general’s lawsuit states that “Chevron’s minimal efforts in the area of renewable and lower-carbon energy, coupled with its expansion of its fossil fuel business, belie its statements suggesting that it is part of the climate change solution.” Why does all this matter? “I

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

Through the Clean Air Act , and as affirmed—and reaffirmed—through multiple legal sagas, EPA is statutorily obligated to address carbon pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants. Indeed, EPA still retains the ability to set strong standards that curtail carbon pollution at the scale, speed, and rigor required.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 13, 2022

Prior to Glasgow, the NRDC had concluded that India was on track to meet its previous commitment to have 40% non-fossil fuel power generation by 2030. Much of the shift may have been due to recognition that renewables would provide more energy independence and would help get India’s crippling urban air pollution under control.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Regulatory risk assessments that inform chemical regulations are sometimes required to account for human variability (hazardous air pollutants, for example). This variability can be driven by both intrinsic and extrinsic factors.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2025

Community solar will grow Pennsylvanias capacity to get energy from the sun, which will improve air quality and reduce our reliance on more polluting energy sources, said Alice Lu, Policy Analyst at Clean Air Council. Yet they are still a reliable and affordable source of energy.

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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% This blog post provides an overview of those cases and the broader landscape of climate litigation in Japan.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 22, 2024

The IRA also includes some less than ideal fossil-fuel supporting incentives that will need continued monitoring. EPA Climate Pollution Reduction Grants : This $5 billion program administered by the EPA aims to reduce climate warming emissions and other air pollution. It is made up of $4.75

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2025

Families like mine are in danger because of MarkWests Harmon Creek facility, which has a history of violating protective air pollution regulations while processing fracked ethane gas for use in the overproduction of plastics.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 18, 2022

What’s on the table includes provisions to: Drive robust air quality monitoring so that targeted interventions can have the greatest impact, and we can more easily track progress in air quality improvements for residents most burdened by the harmful localized air pollution.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 6, 2024

Statement by Emilia Belliveau, Energy Transition Program Manager Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – At today’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development (ENVI), Members of Parliament grilled the fossil fuel industry about their climate pollution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

That’s a far cry from just six years ago, when EVs were considered a niche technology (and the fossil fuel baron Charles Koch and his minions wanted to keep it that way). Today, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) projects that 50 percent of US passenger car sales could very well be electric by 2030.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 4, 2023

In the coming years, Californians will begin to see a massive switch away from highly polluting fossil-fueled trucks to zero-emission electric trucks. Additionally, the rule phases out the sale of fossil-fueled trucks in 2036. The rule will apply to commercial, federal, state, municipal, and drayage fleets.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

There is also a very small impact of the CH 4 oxidation to CO 2 itself for any fossil-fuel derived methane. (a) Whatever way you slice this it implies that CH 4 reductions have an outsize effect on climate, as well as an undeniably positive impact on air pollution, crop yields and public health.

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