Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 22, 2023

For years, fossil fuel companies have socialized the costs of their pollution while privatizing the benefits. Since local and state governments are on the frontlines of paying for worsening wildfires, they should also be on the leading edge of holding fossil fuel companies accountable. Source: YouTube.

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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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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Shapiro Secures Additional Federal Aid To Help 12 Counties Recover From Tropical Storm Debby [PaEN] -- Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy To Host 3 Public Meetings On Perkiomen Mapping & Flood Mitigation Study Spanning Parts Of Montgomery, Berks, Bucks, Lehigh Counties Starting Nov. 12 (In-Person), Dec.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Appointing the former CEO of an oil and gas company to the head role at Albertas energy regulator should be seen as an obvious conflict of interest, said Phillip Meintzer, conservation specialist with Alberta Wilderness Association. Phillip Meintzer, Conservation Specialist, Alberta Wilderness Association , pmeintzer@abwild.ca

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

At the same time, those governments all want to maximise fossil fuel production. According to the recent Production Gap report, the total planned production of fossil fuels between now and 2050 is twice the limit set to keep warming to 1.5 A planned ending to fossil fuels is becoming more normal every day,” she writes.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Having gained its status as an autonomous region, the fledgling Bangsamoro government has invited investors to drill under the Liguasan Marsh for fossil fuels. Now, having gained its status as an autonomous region, the fledgling Bangsamoro government has invited investors to drill under the marsh for fossil fuels. .

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

According to the Energy Information Agency , South Korea’s power sector is heavily reliant on fossil fuels. Two thirds of generation capacity is based on fossil fuels, split evenly between coal and natural gas, with 17% nuclear, and 14% hydro and other renewables. 50% coal, 26% gas, and 25% nuclear.

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Edouard Stenger

JUNE 20, 2023

During the month of May, solar and wind power generated more electricity (30.6%) than fossil fuels (27.3%) in the European Union for the first time in history. In the meantime, fossil fuels went from 40-50 percent to less than 30 percent. Now here is the latest piece of evidence, from Ember. This is equally impressive.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 5, 2021

A big shift to renewables could leave stranded assets — existing fossil fuel plants that the utility will no longer get paid for using. Moreover, EPA will have to trim its sails to avoid having its regulations sunk by the conservative Supreme Court. There are other possible sticks. That brings us to carrots.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

Some events last week sent a strong signal that the tide is turning against fossil fuels. To paraphrase Churchill, this may not be beginning of the end for fossil fuels, but at least it is the end of the beginning of the campaign against them. Each of the events standing alone would have been noteworthy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2022

Now the reports driven by these resolutions are beginning to roll in, and while they certainly provide some insight into the fossil fuel industry’s investment in political influence, a sleight of hand is preventing investors from seeing the companies’ full strategy.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 9, 2023

As the California Air Resources Board noted in the 2022 scoping plan appendix, even with a goal to have only zero-emission vehicles sold in the state by 2035, approximately 30 percent of light-duty vehicles on the road in 2045 will still burn fossil fuels. The less of that we burn through reduced driving, the better.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2024

However, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority saw this as an opportunity to dismantle the doctrine altogether. Fossil fuel companies and their attorneys will have the incentives and funding to file such briefs aggressively. Lower courts upheld the rule, citing Chevron deference.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

What are the physical limitations of this fossil fuel resource that make it vulnerable during, say, summer droughts , or the types of extreme heat waves the world has been experiencing for months now? But what does extreme weather actually do to cause gas plants to run into trouble? A new weekend peak of 85.1

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Real Climate

APRIL 6, 2023

The term “fossil fuels”, however, is mentioned 16 times. It’s indeed true that emissions must go down, but we also must explicitly acknowledge that we need to reduce our dependence on coal, oil and gas (“fossil fuels”). Coal, on the other hand, is only mentioned once in connection with methane emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2023

That’s a really good thing given the central role we expect and need solar to play in a just transition away from fossil fuels. Climate, conservation, community Working on this project has powerfully reminded me how much has changed since I started in the solar energy field more than three decades ago.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2025

Plastics are made from fossil fuels and over 16,000 different chemicals. Because plastics are produced from fossil fuels the lifecycle of plastics has a huge carbon dioxide footprint and is a driver of climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2023

For example, researchers at the Union of Concerned Scientists have directly linked fossil fuel producers’ Scope 1 and Scope 3 emissions to increases in ocean acidification , global temperature, sea level rise and North American wildfires. So how does the fossil fuel industry think it should measure emissions?

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

She co-directs the Gulf Fossil Finance Hub , working to defund fossil fuels and invest in communities. Her efforts have since focused on addressing the fossil fuel industry’s impact on conservation, the environment, and public health. Quinn is also a 2024 Environmental Leadership Initiative Fellow.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 13, 2023

March was a tight competition between fossil fuel pipeline, extraction, and oil and gas production companies for who could get the most face time with the federal government. Fossil fuel transportation firm Pembina Pipeline Company had the most lobby meetings in March. and Enbridge Inc. with 10 meetings each.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 27, 2024

The Conservative Party accepted £225,000 in donations from firms and individuals with financial interests in oil and gas during the first week of the general election campaign, DeSmog and Democracy for Sale can reveal. The Conservative Party has been approached for comment. Photo credit: Number 10 , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2023

That statute authorizes the state’s oil and gas supervisor–rebranded in recent years as the Department of Conservation’s more benign-sounding Geologic Energy Management Division–to permit drilling of new oil and gas wells and to use fracking technology in the operation of existing wells.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Critical minerals are key components of clean-energy technologies, which are essential to replacing fossil fuels and stabilizing the climate. This situation raises a red flag for Ocean Conservancy as we strive to protect our ocean forever and for everyone. Take action with Ocean Conservancy to halt seabed mining in its tracks.

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Legal Planet

MAY 23, 2022

The Liberal Party — conservative in everything but name — lost control of the federal government to Labor. Teal” independent candidates running on platforms of government integrity and climate action also picked up seats at the expense of the Liberals, i.e. conservatives. Australia has had a change of government. of total GDP.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Nearly all of these plastics are made from fossil fuels including crude oil, natural gas liquids and coal. Also, both fossil fuel and plastic production create significant air and water pollution with severe health consequences for local communities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 14, 2023

more than 15,000 comments, many of which the SEC must legally answer in writing; threats of lawsuits from ideological groups funded in part by the fossil fuel industry; and complaints about the proposed requirement to measure and disclose heat-trapping gas emissions from a company’s full value chain, known as Scope 3 emissions.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 18, 2023

Since 2019, more than seventy local and state jurisdictions have followed Berkeley’s lead in requiring or strongly incentivizing all-electric or fossil-fuel-free new buildings, with more considering similar approaches. can be fueled by natural gas), and must base these options on a defensible “one-for-one” basis.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

We track how frequently the fossil fuel industry lobbies the federal government, and we’re ready to share some Q2 updates as well. The fossil fuel lobbyists had 289 meetings with the federal government between April and June. But that’s not all they were up to in Q2. That brings the total to 546 meetings so far in 2024.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Federal government releases new policy aimed at ending international public financing for fossil fuels, next step is ending domestic financing . This new policy will end a significant portion of EDC’s support for fossil fuels and redirect those funds to support the clean energy transition.

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Washington Nature

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Artificial trees on the other hand, create more carbon pollution because of the energy needed to produce and transport them, and are often made of plastic (fossil fuels). The Nature Conservancy and the Kiwanis Club of Cle Elum are taking the sustainability of real trees one step further with benefits for conservation and the community.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 29, 2022

When I first came to Ocean Conservancy, someone asked me what my favorite animal was. Learning about—and then witnessing firsthand—the changes and destruction that were really happening under the surface in the Bay inspired me to pursue a lifelong career in environmental conservation. The giant oceanic manta ray ( Mobula birostris ).

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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. Despite the Held plaintiffs’ dramatic legal victory, the case is far from over.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It is a highly professional and analytically competent organization, rather conservative, and quite sympathetic to the perspectives and business needs of the energy sector, including fossil-fuel producers. Given this shocking message, the responses were mostly predictable, but with a few interesting wrinkles. To paraphrase St.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

I was joined by Ocean Conservancy colleagues working to advance ocean-climate action. 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.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 22, 2021

Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) introduced new legislation to revive the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) titled the “The REVIVE the CCC Act of 2021” or “The Restore Environmental Vitality and Improve Volatile Economy (REVIVE) by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Act”. On July 22, U.S. PennFuture welcomes the chance to engage with Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Meanwhile, it remains profoundly cheaper to produce electricity from solar than from new fossil fuel sources. John Quigley is a Senior Fellow at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy and a former Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 20, 2023

Who’s Responsible For Cleaning It Up? -- The Nature Conservancy Receives $4.25 Million In Combined Investments For Appalachians. -- The Nature Conservancy Receives $4.25 Million In Combined Investments For Appalachians.

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