Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 24, 2024

This month, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for a ban on advertising by fossil fuel companies, invoking the ban on tobacco ads as a relevant precedent. So what can we learn from the ban on tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship that may be relevant to tackling the fossil fuel industry-driven climate crisis?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2023

This year has brought new evidence of what major fossil fuel companies knew and when about the role their products play in climate change, as well as what they did in spite of what they knew. But these technologies are no substitute for sharp cuts in fossil fuels if we keep the goals of the Paris climate agreement within reach.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

In an important win for climate accountability in the United States, the US Supreme Court decided that lawsuits filed in Colorado, Maryland, California, Hawai’i, and Rhode Island against fossil fuel companies including ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, Suncor, and others will remain in state courts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 8, 2024

Some years ago, I began to feel the most important thing I could do was learn how to replace fossil fuel with renewable energy. For 30 years I have been an advocate for offshore wind development off New England’s coast and for the creation of institutions to support a transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The decision at the Glasgow climate conference to phase down fossil fuels is an important step forward — and not just because of climate change. We think of fossil fuels as a source of climate change, but that’s only a one part of the problem. Fossil fuels are a case in point. Consider coal.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 27, 2024

New analysis from Environmental Defence reveals that despite federal government promises, funding to the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries remains high Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – New analysis released today by Environmental Defence reveals Canada’s federal government provided at least $18.6

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The destruction caused by climate change is directly linked to human activity, primarily burning fossil fuels. This dangerous delay in action is largely due to the fossil fuel industry continuing to increase carbon emissions and standing in the way of change. . Tuvalu endorsed the fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Fossil fuel power plant owners are facing increased accountability for their air and water pollution, including from a new round of environmental and public health protections that are being rolled out by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). We’ve heard these lazily disingenuous narratives before.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2023

Utility companies, as well as state and federal government regulatory agencies, made a series of questionable decisions that together created the situation we find ourselves in today. The same scenario has played out with the power plants that use fossil fuels, predominantly methane (“natural”) gas, delivered by pipelines.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 3, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen Jim Ratcliffe, the UK’s richest man and the founder and CEO of Ineos , the petrochemical giant, who perversely pays little UK tax as he resides in the tax haven of Monaco, has won UK government backing from a giant fossil fuel project which campaigners have labelled as climate wrecking.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Earlier this month at COP28 countries committed to transitioning off of fossil fuels and massively scaling up renewable energy instead. So you’re excused if, like me, you’re baffled by Minister Freeland’s first move in the wake of COP28: a giant new fossil fuel subsidy, via the new Canada Growth Fund.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

This being Black History Month, I thought it would be worthwhile looking at the fossil fuel industry’s racial history. Government statistics show that only 3% of those in the coal mining industry today are black. The post Jim Crow and the Fossil Fuel Industry appeared first on Legal Planet. Oil and gas.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

And fossil fuel power plants may not stick to their retirement schedules for a variety of reasons. The bottom line: There’s still a long way to go, and the clean energy transition must move quicker than it has been—despite the fossil fuel industry’s self-serving claims to the contrary. A bit more on those reasons later.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy from wind and solar will depend on upgrading the electric power grid, which is currently plagued by planning delays and gridlock. The 2021 law allows, but does not require, PJM to plan ahead because various fossil fuel plants must reduce and then cease emissions by a specific date.

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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

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Environmental Law Centre

MAY 25, 2023

The Next Government needs to address Alberta’s Fossil Fuel Liabilities Part 2: Oil Sands Fluid Tailings Management Part 1 of this blog (see here) looked at the end of. The post The Next Government needs to address Alberta’s Fossil Fuel Liabilities Part 2 appeared first on Environmental Law Centre.

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Environmental Law Centre

MAY 24, 2023

The Next Government needs to address Alberta’s Fossil Fuel Liabilities Part 1: Management of Liabilities, Orphans and Post-closure Sites The management of oil and gas liability in Alberta is. The post The Next Government needs to address Alberta’s Fossil Fuel Liabilities Part 1 appeared first on Environmental Law Centre.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Earlier this month the Government of Canada delivered on a key climate promise and released new rules which end public funding for fossil fuels abroad, starting January 1, 2023. If all signatories follow through on their pledge with integrity, it will directly shift $38 billion a year from fossil fuels to clean energy. .

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 11, 2024

Will the City of Ottawa ban fossil fuel promotion in City facilities? Fossil fuel advertisements indeed contradict the City’s policies on climate. City Council declared a climate emergency in 2019 and committed to a full phase-out of fossil fuels by 2050. It’s possible. And who knows?

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Across the United States, 80 cities and counties have adopted policies that require or encourage the move off fossil fuels to all-electric homes and buildings.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 26, 2023

The Government of Canada announced on Monday a series of initiatives aimed at reducing government support for the fossil fuel sector, including the release of a new framework and guidelines, effective immediately, to eliminate “inefficient” fossil fuel subsidies. Read the full story at ESG Today.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 6, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his government are intensifying their support for the fossil fuel industry, and they have thus distanced themselves further from climate action previously pursued by successive UK governments. Photo credit: 10 Downing Street, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via FLICKR.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Unnatural storms, wildfires, droughts, and heatwaves across Canada and around the world will keep getting worse unless we transition off of fossil fuels and begin to invest in our future. In 2023, we celebrated a significant victory : the Government of Canada finally released new rules ending fossil fuel subsidies.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Statement from Julia Levin, Associate Director, National Climate Dubai, UAE – Today at COP28 Canada joined eight other countries in signing a Joint Ministerial Statement on Fossil Fuel Subsidies , to address inaction on a 14 year old commitment to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

As COP26 begins in Glasgow, a study carried out by Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland (EWNI) and the New Economics Foundation has revealed that fossil fuel companies are preparing to seek approval for 40 new UK coal, oil and gas extraction projects by 2025. End fossil fuel support. are to be met.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 31, 2022

A new report released today by Environmental Defence – Buyer Beware: Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Carbon Capture Fairy Tales in Canada – reveals that despite promises to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, the federal government provided the fossil fuel sector with at least $8.6

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Law and Environment

MAY 27, 2022

On April 28, 2022, the California Attorney General launched an investigation into the “fossil fuel and petrochemical industries for their role in causing and exacerbating the global plastics pollution crisis.” See our previous coverage on the NY and MA AG’s investigations.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 9, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen The United Nations (UN) has warned that dis- and misinformation campaigns by primarily fossil fuel companies, slowing down the clean energy transition. This is directly due to the climate crisis, and directly due to the use of fossil fuels.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Last week, the federal government showed some much-needed climate leadership at COP26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow. Joining an ever growing list of countries from around the world, Canada pledged to end public financing for overseas fossil-fuel projects in 2022 and instead prioritize the clean energy transition.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Gone are the net-zero promises and focus on a rapid clean energy transition, and in its place is a new narrative that more fossil fuels will solve the country’s energy crisis. The revamped UK government, almost unrecognisable from the one led by Boris Johnson , has opened up new licenses for North Sea oil and gas production.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

By Adam Barnett DeSmog catalogues how oil and gas firms have forged ties with the highest levels of government, the media, and influential think tanks. This retreat from climate action did not happen in a vacuum but was fuelled by a steady campaign by a network of climate science deniers and fossil fuel interests.

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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.

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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 first legal challenge mounted by Our Children’s Trust was Juliana v. United States. The August 14th Held v.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

As a result of fossil fuel-driven climate change, it’s on track to be the warmest year in recorded history. This heat fueled extreme weather events across the world, with most having significant impacts on human life and infrastructure and ecosystems. 2024 will be a year to remember.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 5, 2023

Almost all plastic is made from fossil fuels. In fact, plastic and petrochemicals (chemicals made from oil and gas) have been called the fossil fuel industry’s Plan B – a way to prop up demand for oil and gas as the world stops using it for transportation and energy in order to meet climate commitments.

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Law Columbia

MAY 12, 2023

Over the last five years, cities, counties, and states across the country have sued fossil fuel companies alleging that the companies violated state law in marketing their products as safe. Second are cases that allege the fossil fuel company activities violate state consumer protection laws. On April 24, the U.S.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

This working paper estimates the fiscal risk posed by the energy transition for governments dependent on fossil fuels, while examining policies to address this risk to revenues. Download the document. Read more →

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