Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2024

This doctrine has played a crucial role in enabling agencies to enforce regulations on complex issues such as environmental protection, public health, and consumer safety. Fossil fuel companies and their attorneys will have the incentives and funding to file such briefs aggressively.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Methane emissions come from two main sources : fossil fuels and agriculture—primarily animal-based agriculture. Despite the obvious dangers of fossil fuel production and the multi-decade climate disinformation campaigns fossil fuel producers have perpetrated, the industry still holds political sway.

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JULY 1, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency. First and foremost, despite some fossil fuel interests swinging for the fossil fuel-favored fences, the Supreme Court’s decision in West Virginia v. Now we have that decision in hand , and with it the dismal confirmation that indeed, another seismic shift has just occurred.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Communities and ecosystems continue to suffer the consequences of human-caused climate change , primarily from the burning of fossil fuels across our economy. The case for phasing out of fossil fuels and making a just and equitable transition to clean energy has never been more clear. comes from burning fossil fuels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2024

That means it includes the extreme wildfires exacerbated by the fossil fuel industry that burned more than 4% of California in 2021 and 2022. come from burning fossil fuels and pesticide use, and ultrafine particles (PM0.1) These particles are categorized by size. These particles are categorized by size.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency et al. The petitioners who brought this case include state-level political officials and coal companies who are single-mindedly determined to block climate action and perpetuate fossil fuel dependence to serve their narrow political or business interests.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 31, 2023

The destruction we see today is a direct result of decades of dependence on fossil fuels, enabled by decades of deception and obstruction on the part of the fossil fuel industry, and prolonged by decades of inaction on the part of policymakers who have been in their thrall.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2024

Questioning fossil fuel companies is part of our mission, but each year the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) gets a chance to aim some choice words directly at corporate leaders during their annual shareholders’ meetings. million last year to pump out disinformation about California’s energy policies.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The Substitution Effect: Could Reducing Fossil Fuel Sales Truly Have No Impact? The Court acknowledged Shell’s significant duty of care in mitigating climate change, given its century-long dominance in the fossil fuel market. By Shekhar Pathak Climate change is an extremely complex and difficult issue.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

GOM communities, not fossil fuel interests, should determine policies that affect GOM people. ExxonMobil internal science, spanning from 1977 to 2003, featured graphs showing how temperatures would rise as a result of the heat-trapping emissions produced from burning the fossil fuels the company extracted, refined, marketed, and sold.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In other words, nasty fossil fuels that pollute the earth and drive global warming from the moment we extract them from the ground all the way to when we refine them for energy or petrochemicals and plastics. Lead has long been confirmed toxic under Canada’s environmental protection law (CEPA), and DEHP was recently added to the list.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The fossil fuel industry has systematically contaminated our environment with a wide range of toxic chemicals for over a century. Nitrogen and sulfur oxides harm lungs and produce acid rain NOx forms when fossil fuels are burned at high temperatures, as a result of a reaction with the nitrogen in air.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently published a proposed rule which would limit carbon pollution from fossil fuel burning power plants, a move which is critically important, statutorily required, and long overdue. DR. MARC FUTERNICK: It’s all connected to fossil fuels.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

This week’s episode of What’s Up With Water covers what to expect at COP27, new research on the link between water and the fossil fuel industry in Texas, and an update on Jackson, Mississippi’s failing water system. Transcript. Investigations into the crisis are now beginning. NBC News reports that staff from the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

Late last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) asked the public to provide oral comments on a major rule that will determine how much soot pollution you are exposed to. pollution, half of the deaths are attributable to the burning of fossil fuels. EPA’s PM 2.5 pollution.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 9, 2025

2024 had some bumps in the road for environmental protection. The world is moving away from fossil fuels in favour of things like new and improved heat pumps and renewable energy sources. Attacks on nature, clean energy, and livable communities filled the headlines. But what about for 2025?

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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 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. The Environmental Protection Agency is currently updating multiple pollution standards for new and existing fossil fuel-fired power plants.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Scientists have unequivocally confirmed that human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, are driving unprecedented changes to the Earth’s climate, raising fundamental questions about our responsibility to safeguard the environment for future generations.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Our national overreliance on gas is evidently undermining energy access, not strengthening it, as some fossil fuel industry players would want you to believe. These claims just add to the deluge of greenwashing and disinformation from the fossil fuel industry. Don’t believe the industry spin.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

, its district, appellate , and supreme courts decided in favor of Urgenda, an upstart environmental organization, ordering the government to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. These lawsuits face three key barriers.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

One critical tool for forcing that reckoning comes from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 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.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Achieving this laudable aim will require action to promote economic growth, while ensuring social inclusion and environmental protection. But balancing these economic, social, and environmental ideals is easier said than done, particularly in the era of climate change. Many difficult questions remain to be answered.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

On November 4, Protect PT and Three Rivers Waterkeeper announced they have appealed two permits for the Slickville Pipeline Project issued by the Department of Environmental Protection to the Environmental Hearing Board. mile route. The project is also under scrutiny for its contributions to climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In order to enforce those standards, the state must be granted a waiver by the Environmental Protection Agency, something which Congress makes very clear should be given under virtually all conditions. Over 10,000 UCS supporters chimed in with EPA in support of granting California’s ability to enforce its truck regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2023

On August 8, the Evangelical Environmental Network announced it has submitted 51,584 comments from individual pro-life Christians in support of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed standards on carbon pollution from fossil-fuel-fired power plants ( Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2023-0072-0001 ).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

With Nuclear Energy - By Carol Browner, Fmr EPA Administrator -- Financial Times: Is Giving Old Reactors New Life The Future Of Nuclear Energy?

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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. The court’s 103-page decision in Held v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

The Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule, which I’ve blogged about in detail before, will phase out fossil-fueled trucks over the next several decades. Many electric work vans and home-delivery trucks already show a favorable lifetime cost over comparable fossil-fueled models.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

auto industry, supporting EV infrastructure, domestic manufacturing and supply chain development, battery recycling efforts, manufacturing incentives, and consumer incentives, we support a just transition to zero emissions transportation, and move beyond the fossilized fossil fuel stance automakers are clinging to.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Statement by Julia Levin, Associate Director, National Climate Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – New analysis released today from the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) demonstrates that the Government of Canada is still intent on providing massive subsidies to fossil fuel companies.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

By Matthew Carroll, Penn State News Moving from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources like wind and solar will require better ways to store energy for use when the sun is not shining or the wind is not blowing. But startup costs currently limit commercial development of these projects, the scientists said.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

There is some evidence that populations with adverse social conditions have worse outcomes or longer recoveries from environmental chemical exposures. What’s more, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently published a document describing its existing authority to consider cumulative impacts.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2023

The letter urges Shapiro to take immediate steps toward a ban on fracking by reinstating the ban on drilling and fracking in Dimock, Susquehanna County that was lifted by the Department of Environmental Protection the same day he announced Coterra’s no-contest plea in the grand jury case. Click Here for a copy of the letter.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2022

As the water in hydropower reservoirs drops, hydropower production is reduced, possibly increasing energy prices, or forcing some utilities to compensate for energy demands by using more fossil fuels for power generation. Higher water and energy prices disproportionately affect low-income families.

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