Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Many have stooped to spreading misinformation concerning the cost of climate action. Canadians are dealing with unnatural disasters and other climate change impacts including risks to health, lost livelihoods, property damage, mounting home insurance costs and increasing food prices. There is no time to waste.

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This is essential, because scientific monitoring efforts suggest that for all emissions sources, the actual emissions are higher than what countries are reporting to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in their own emissions inventories. But still, much more action is needed. Science shows that keeping the 1.5

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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? ” Kentucky officials are not doing this alone, it is part of a coordinated effort.

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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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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 9, 2021

. – Ontario has launched the second phase of a program to expand fossil fuel gas pipelines to new communities. This is a big subsidy for fossil fuels and a step in the wrong direction, when the government could have chosen to support clean technologies, help customers save money long term, lower capital costs, and cut carbon emissions.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The complaint is a cri de coeur : clear, outraged, and horrifying in its recounting of the plastic waste problem and its causes. In fact, Mobil patented the co-processing of plastic waste in cokers in 1978. million tonnes of plastic waste escaped into California’s environment. In California, from 1990 to 2022, an astounding 2.7

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Inhabitant

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

While the focus is usually on fossil fuel emissions as the main climate change culprit, a new analysis by the nonprofit Energy Vision concludes that reducing emissions from organic waste would more steeply reduce methane. And it would cost less to accomplish.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

The science is clear: Limiting the adverse effects of climate change requires rapid reductions in emissions now. Minnesotans are already experiencing the climate crisis, as well as health impacts, from burning fossil fuels. billion budget surplus. 8 million for solar projects on state buildings. $3

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 23, 2025

It is a victory that Imperial Oil will have to face the courts for releasing millions of litres of toxic waste into the environment. Yet, this enforcement does not change the need for urgent regulatory reform in Alberta. trillion litres of waste, covering an area more than 2.6 No public updates have been issued since.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 30, 2025

. -- York County - Harley-Davidson: As part of a $89 million grant, Harley-Davidson will be expanding and upgrading their York County facility for more energy-efficient EV motorcycle manufacturing and reducing waste from the painting process. Click Here to go to the PA investment map. Click Here for the PennEnvironment announcement.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

PennFuture celebrated 25 years of fighting climate change and industrial pollution by holding anniversary celebrations in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to honor seven Pennsylvanians for their contributions to restoring and protecting the environment. from Villanova University School of Law.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

We give lots of lip service describing climate change as an emergency or existential threat. According to the Climate Emergency Declaration Organization, 2336 jurisdictions around the world have declared it to be an emergency, but we are not really acting like it. There are many possible emergency actions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2023

It is overwhelmingly produced by a process known as steam methane reforming (SMR), which is heavily carbon-polluting, and the resulting hydrogen is primarily consumed as a feedstock for industrial purposes, such as oil refining and fertilizer production, not as a way to displace fossil fuels. And this isn’t just hypothetical.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

The twin goals are are to improve the flow of information and reduce the wasting of water. This week, Circle of Blue looks at a major new climate report, which finds that a warming planet is accelerating the water cycle. The 1,300-page paper is the most comprehensive, up-to-date survey of the physical science of climate change.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Any day now, Minister Freeland is expected to introduce a giant new fossil fuel subsidy called the carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) investment tax credit. The government is breaking their own rules The government introduced new rules to end fossil fuel subsidies this summer. Let me tell you why.

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Legal Planet

JULY 25, 2023

We give lots of lip service describing climate change as an emergency or existential threat. According to the Climate Emergency Declaration Organization, 2336 jurisdictions around the world have declared it to be an emergency, but we are not really acting like it. animal stomachs, shale gas formations, piles of food waste).

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 24, 2024

Despite the damage, you can bet that curbing fossil fuel production and putting aside the funds needed to implement safe clean-up isn’t often top of the agenda for the petroleum industry. For many Albertans, though, the impact of tailings waste on the environment and human health is a real concern. They also contaminate land.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

One factor is the dirtiness of fossil fuels. Even plants with the same fuel might use it differently. A combined-cycle gas plant might have an efficiency of 60 percent , while a gas peaker plant might be 20- to 35-percent efficient—that is, waste as much as 80 percent of the energy in its fuel.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

This includes loopholes related to biomethane, whereby heavily polluting fossil fuel-fired hydrogen production facilities—the very facilities the tax credit is trying to incentivize a shift away from—can cloak themselves as “clean” and reap full tax credit rewards, without having done anything but pushed around paper.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 30, 2023

It’s Danger Season right now for climate impacts around the United States and the world. While we confront extreme heat, wildfires, and intense storms, crucial work to reduce global warming pollution and mitigate the worst effects of climate change continues. Expand energy savings and energy efficiency programs.

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Global Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Yes, in some cases, fossil fuels are burned to generate the electricity used to charge electric cars, but this highlights two of electric vehicles’ many advantages. That means much less waste and a better deal for the environment. The post Electric Vehicles Combat Climate Change appeared first on Global Green.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

A new report released by Oil Change International reveals that governments worldwide have already wasted over $40 billion on carbon capture and hydrogen projects. That’s why we say the money was wasted. Even worse, these governments are gearing up to waste billions more – over $300 billion more! Take carbon capture.

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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

MAY 31, 2022

As with many environmental issues, when it comes to climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, this is no ordinary election. . For the past four years, Ontario has been failing on climate change. Cut down waste. Develop a robust and comprehensive waste diversion strategy for the public sector.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency issued a proposal for a methane waste charge on large sources of oil and gas methane pollution. The proposed methane waste charge is part of the Methane Emissions Reduction Program authorized by Congress through the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. On January 12, the U.S. 22 [PaEN] -- DEP Awards $39.6

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Solar activity provides no alternative explanation for today’s climate change Dagsvik and Moen claim that recent research indicates that variations in the sun’s magnetic field are of great importance for long-term fluctuations in solar activity. Our job is to be thorough and verify questionable results. It has taken time.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Canada is talking a good game on plastics, but the government doesn’t have the comprehensive plan it needs to get to the promised zero plastic waste by 2030. We’re also demanding that the government reject false solutions to the crisis, including burning plastic waste as fuel. The question is, will he listen?

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 8, 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. 27 Released 1.1 Washington County, Notice Is Re-sent [PaEN] -- Robinson Twp.,

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

conference would be worse, for multilateralism and for global action on climate change. Glasgow was about ratcheting up ambition and closing the gap between what has been committed to and what is needed to avoid catastrophic climate change. . Finally F-words: fossil fuels. Because the collapse of a U.N.

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Environmental Progress

JUNE 29, 2020

On behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years. Climate change is happening. I have been a climate activist for 20 years and an environmentalist for 30. Lire en français ici. Leer en español aquí. It’s just not the end of the world.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2024

Today, hydrogen is overwhelmingly produced through a heavily polluting fossil fuel-based process. It is a climate problem, not a climate solution. The tax credit, passed as part of 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act, provides a generous incentive for the production of clean hydrogen. Geographic deliverability. Time matching.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Guest Commentary: Indonesian Human Rights Commission’s first human rights complaint on the impacts of climate change. Indonesia’s climate change context. Climate change is already causing widespread environmental impacts in Indonesia. C, for example, by continuing to approve new fossil fuel projects.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 28, 2023

Where do the world’s wealthiest nations stand when it comes to the most important environmental issues of our time: climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution? Canada continues to focus on reducing domestic burning of fossil fuels, rather than phasing out their production. What about Canada? degree temperature limit.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

For Canada’s major oil and gas producers, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a get-out-of-jail-free card, which allows them to keep on polluting while appearing as though they are taking the threat of climate change seriously. Real solutions, not dangerous distractions, are needed Fossil fuels are causing the climate crisis.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 27, 2023

At the international and federal levels, significant progress was made on climate action, plastic waste, toxic chemicals and biodiversity conservation. It is even more challenging if these investments mean much less money is available to invest in new fossil-free businesses that are ready to take off.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 17, 2024

They updated shareholders on the billions of dollars in profits they received in 2023, kicked off the new year with big plans to increase production, and wasted no time before lobbying against policies that would regulate their pollution. The first quarter of 2024 was a busy one for the oil and gas industry! Visit this page.

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