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APRIL 7, 2025

Scientist calculates greenhouse effect from fossil fuels and matches it to recorded global temperature changes. English scientist John Tyndall publishes similar finding in a better-known paper. Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius predicts changes in surface temperature due to greenhouse effect.

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APRIL 15, 2025

fossil fuel production, according to lots of reporting based on budget documents. Energy March marked the first month ever where fossil fuels made up less than half of U.S. Some insurers are balking at covering removal of toxics from homes that survived the LA fires, as Dave Jones discussed with NPRs Ayesha Rascoe.

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MAY 28, 2025

The story ( Villaraigosa, despite climate credentials, pivots toward oil industry in run for governor, by Seema Mehta and Laura Nelson) details how hes received more than $1 million in campaign contributions and other financial support from fossil-fuel interests over the years.

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JULY 12, 2023

The bench trial took place last month in the state capitol, Helena, where 16 youth plaintiffs ages 5 to 22 made the case that Montana’s unwavering promotion of fossil fuels violates the state constitution’s guarantee to a “clean and healthful environment.” Whether Montana’s GHG emissions can be measured incrementally.

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AUGUST 2, 2021

In the early 1960s, he wrote again about fossil fuels as causes of global warming. Black, had participated in a National Academy of Sciences report that said CO 2 increases might eventually require reducing the use of fossil fuels. He had already written about global warming before starting there in 1956.

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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. In fact, Shell has the most ambitious emissions abatement plan of all fossil fuel companies , for whatever that is worth.)

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Although NRG Energy as a company does generate some electricity using some renewable sources like solar and wind, more than 80% of its fuel mix is from fossil fuels, according to a 2023 analysis of the top 47 investor-owned utilities. Reason # 4 is that all jet travel is environmentally damaging. for the Portland Thorns.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

They include, but are not limited to, altering rainfall and monsoon patterns, damaging the ozone layer, increasing global conflicts, and – most unacceptable of all – giving political cover for fossil fuel industries to continue polluting rather than cut greenhouse gas emissions. If we overshoot the 1.5

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AUGUST 6, 2023

However, it’s a disappointment to the initiative’s proponents and to a larger group of environmental advocates who seek to promote California’s quick transition from reliance on heavily-polluting and climate-damaging fossil fuels to renewable energy resources.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2024

To formally kick-start the partnership, the EPA invited Heights students from the Lankenau Environmental Science Magnet High School to its Lower Darby Creek Area Superfund Site, the Clearview Landfill, to participate in activities with volunteers to celebrate Earth Day. Woods, Esq., C0-President, Heights Philadelphia.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

While the main focus has been on operational activities in Antarctica, global warming caused by fossil-fuel burning by these (and other) countries has left Antarctica on the brink of irreversible change. He is currently field chief editor of the journal Frontiers in Environmental Science.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

His staff has described him as having extensive knowledge of environmental policy and unwavering enthusiasm for Pennsylvania. Throughout his career, Minott and the Clean Air Council earned a reputation for holding government agencies and fossil fuel companies accountable. from Villanova University School of Law.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

However, the report did offer some slight positives for example that this year’s analysis showed that the long-term rate of increasing fossil fuel emissions has slowed. The report outlines that if we are to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, a goal many economies have signed up to, it would require us to reduce emissions by 1.4

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Houska, a citizen of Couchiching First Nation , is a prominent opponent of the Line 3 Pipeline in Minnesota and Dakota Access pipelines and plays an active role in the movement to defund fossil fuels. The obvious thing to do is to transition away from fossil fuels and stop building pipelines. I'm like, no.

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

I’d like to think that my recent highlighting of the importance of science communication within the geo and environmental sciences has helped geosciences at a time when it is struggling to connect with public audiences that see its intimate association with the fossil fuel and mining industries as more part of the problem rather than the solution.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

OCTOBER 14, 2021

From media coverage of the climate crisis and incorporating climate change into weather reports, to technological pushes for energy usage and product innovation, to divestment of funds from fossil fuel companies, to hands-on work planting trees and protecting wildlife, it’s hard not to see that with whatever tools you have at your disposal there (..)

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 5, 2022

His most recent work, The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet , examines the thirty-year campaign launched by fossil fuel companies to delay action on climate change and offers a battle plan for how to save the planet. He is also director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center. Currently, Michael E.

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Environmental Science

AUGUST 7, 2018

Today, it overlaps with many other sciences and has had a profound impact on the environmental sciences just as chemistry has. It also underpins the physical sciences by providing the theoretical framework on which it may base its own assumptions and basic theoretical models. How Physics Applies to Environmental Science.

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Environment, Law, and History

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Part 1 describes environmental science and policy before 1969. She argues that the US government’s reactions to the Santa Barbara oil spill improved their ability to address controlling, measuring, and regulating water contamination on a federal level. Her argument is broken into three sections.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Useful Environmental Law Terms. Fossil fuel : Any mineralized formerly organic material extracted from the ground and used in energy production: coal, natural gas, oil. Fossil fuels are a depleting resource and though many metals are finite, they could potentially last centuries. Sponsored Content.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 16, 2022

But few people think that it might be possible to craft an entirely new story about this part of the country, a story that doesn’t revolve around fossil fuels. He teaches chemistry and environmental science and is an adjunct professor at Duquesne University.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 13, 2022

She also was the lead author of “ Circularity of Lithium-Ion Battery Materials in Electric Vehicles ” published by Environmental Science & Technology , a peer-reviewed journal, in March 2021. So, when we received a question about how to address the drawbacks of lithium batteries, I turned to Dunn for a response.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

As we now know, fossil fuel companies lied about it for decades to protect their profits. Now that there is a desperate need to slash global warming emissions worldwide to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, it is critical to rapidly phase out the use of all fossil fuels. What accounts for that?

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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Procrastination and co-option by commercial interests set on resisting a phase-out of fossil fuels has flourished (see for example here ). And such a normalization of research – from my reading of the social science literature – risks enabling further climate procrastination.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 19, 2022

I call it a one-time disturbance,” said Tim Mihuc, a professor of environmental science at SUNY Plattsburgh. The project’s winding path underscores the grinding pace and tough choices of building new energy infrastructure as the state transitions from fossil fuels. Then the boats will be gone. “I

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

The largest contributors to this deadly type of pollution come from human-made emission sources that burn fossil fuels, such as coal-fired power plants and vehicular emissions of diesel and gasoline. pollution, half of the deaths are attributable to the burning of fossil fuels. EPA’s PM 2.5 pollution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 14, 2024

Unlike the backroom machinations of other sectors, most notably the fossil fuel industry, agribusiness’s influence peddling is largely overlooked by the mainstream news media. Before joining UCS in 2022, Goswami served as a staff scientist at the Center for Food Safety and a science policy fellow in the office of US Rep.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

CO 2 is at about 410 parts per million by volume (ppm) in the air, about 50% higher than before the start of large-scale fossil-fuel use. Atmospheric concentrations. Methane is at about 1,890 parts per billion by volume (ppb) or 1.89 ppm, but that level is about 2.6 times the pre-industrial concentration.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 26, 2022

European Commission Announce Task Force To Reduce Europe’s Dependence On Russian Fossil Fuels [Diversifying LNG Supplies; Reducing Demand For Natural Gas] -- White House: Joint Statement Between The U.S.,

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Environmental Science

JUNE 15, 2018

It is vital to prospecting for and mining of fossil fuels such as natural gas, coal, and crude oil that we convert to fuel our homes, public transportation, and personal vehicles. These have energy properties that we use as fossil fuels in an internal combustion engine. Geology also has industrial applications.

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Environment Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

These incentives include: Risk reductions: The increasing rate of fossil fuel depletion, energy costs, and uncertainty from non-renewable resources is rising. While earning my degree in Biology, specializing in Environmental Science, at Imperial College London, I developed an enthusiasm for writing to communicate environmental issues.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 28, 2022

She advocates for the development of, and public access to, environmental knowledge and strives to keep people curious and excited about environmental conservation. . How does your work contribute to environmental protection? Brittany Harris, Communications Manager.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2023

-- Post-Gazette/Capitolwire.com: PA Senate Moves Bill To Require Blood Lead Level Testing For Children -- PV Magazine: Chesapeake Conservancy Mapped Solar Energy Buildout To Determine Biodiversity Impact On Largest Estuary In The US -- Bay Journal - Karl Blankenship: Should New Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Goals Have A Greater Dose Of Reality? -- University (..)

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MAY 29, 2024

Even as we work to end the use of fossil fuels as an energy source, we cannot stand by and watch as these same companies shift their production to plastics and petrochemicals. Most will surely be lost in the background mix of toxic insults, health setbacks, and cumulative stressors that shape our lives, albeit unevenly.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Most sciences are about looking for answers to problems within the data generated and devising tests to solve them. Most sciences are about looking for answers to problems within the data generated and devising tests to solve them. We live in an age of dwindling fossil fuels and inaction on renewable energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Geostatistics can be applied to any spatially dependent data, and it is commonly used in environmental science investigations. Then there’s the fact that, before all of that synthetic fertilizer overloads agricultural fields, it is produced by fossil fuel powered factories that emit methane and carbon dioxide.

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APRIL 22, 2024

Mary Nichols: The most surprising, interesting article I read recently was “Carbon accounting without life cycle analysis ” from the journal Energy & Environmental Science. Ted Parson: I’m just re-reading “Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero is not Enough” by our wonderful former Emmett Fellow Holly Buck.

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