Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2023

Previous IPCC reports have concluded that human activities such as burning fossil fuels are the primary cause of climate change: about 70 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions come from burning fossil fuels for electricity, transportation, and industry. The result is a world that is rapidly warming.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

The result is that countries in the Global South have not been granted the necessary funds to adapt to climate disasters or to effectively reduce their own greenhouse gas emissions. In 2023 at COP28 , countries agreed to “transition away from fossil fuels” and scale up renewable energy and energy efficiency.

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Yale E360

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Oil, gas, and coal exports are not counted when countries tally their greenhouse gas emissions under the Paris Agreement. This allows wealthy nations to report progress on emissions reduction goals, while shipping their fossil fuels — and the pollution they produce — overseas. Read more on E360 →

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

Because while this decision does still recognize EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, it simultaneously sharply curtails the agency’s ability to do so. First and foremost, despite some fossil fuel interests swinging for the fossil fuel-favored fences, the Supreme Court’s decision in West Virginia v.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This wasn’t the first of these summits – but it was the first one that focused on the concrete actions governments are taking to phase out fossil fuels. We heard world leader after world leader say what has been only an elephant in the room until now – that we must phase out fossil fuels. It’s not complicated.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

After 30 years of international negotiations failing to mention the root cause of the climate crisis, the acknowledgement that we must phase out all fossil fuels and massively scale up renewable energy in order to effectively tackle the climate crisis, was both long overdue and extremely significant.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The ocean absorbs more than 90% of the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gasses and generates 50% of the oxygen we breathe. Renewable energy technologies are rapidly advancing, becoming increasingly competitive and, in many cases, becoming cheaper in cost and more efficient than fossil fuels.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Statement from Aly Hyder Ali, Oil and Gas Program Manager, Environmental Defence Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – We welcome the Government of Canada’s Oil and Gas Greenhouse Gas Pollution Cap draft regulation, which aims to curb pollution from the oil and gas industry.

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NRDC

APRIL 23, 2024

Study shows that plastic production could be nearly one third of the global carbon budget and emits four times more greenhouse gases than the airline industry.

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

In one of three new reports on emissions, UN officials went as far as saying that the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius may be out of reach.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

The key word here is “ intensity :” Fossil fuel companies often focus on emissions intensity, meaning emissions per barrel of oil, rather than absolute emissions, which is a set number measured in metric tons. That means Exxon still plans to spend the vast majority of its funds on fossil fuel exploration and production.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Hydrogen is all the rage because when it is burned, it doesn’t create any greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. You can create hydrogen either using renewable energy or using fossil fuels. The letter makes the following recommendations: The hydrogen tax credit should not be made available to any form of fossil-derived hydrogen.

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Real Climate

APRIL 6, 2023

The term “fossil fuels”, however, is mentioned 16 times. Nevertheless, the summary for policymakers states the need for “rapid and deep and, in most cases, immediate greenhouse gas emissions reductions in all sectors this decade” if we want global warming to keep below 1.5°C C or 2°C since preindustrial times (p.

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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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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Texas and a number of other states have passed laws banning what they call “boycotts of fossil fuel companies.” ” More precisely, they ban state investment or contracting with firms that “boycott” fossil fuel companies. That’s generally — but not always — going to be firms “utilizing” fossil fuels.

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Real Climate

JULY 10, 2022

Step 1: There is a natural greenhouse effect. Thus there must be a large amount of IR absorbed by the atmosphere (around 158 W/m 2 ) – a number that would be zero in the absence of any greenhouse substances. Step 2: Trace gases contribute to the natural greenhouse effect. The Earth’s Energy Budget (NASA).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 10, 2023

California has been at the forefront of everything from limits on greenhouse gas emissions and 100% renewable energy requirements, to a human right to water. Right now, UCS is working towards a fast and fair fossil fuel phase out. Up until now, taxpayers have footed the bill for the damages.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The Substitution Effect: Could Reducing Fossil Fuel Sales Truly Have No Impact? Globally, temperature increases, driven by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, reach 0.8C The Court acknowledged Shell’s significant duty of care in mitigating climate change, given its century-long dominance in the fossil fuel market.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen On the eve of the COP28 UN climate summit, The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a United Nations (UN) body, has warned that the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases (GHG) is forecast to continue the trend that resulted in record-high CO2 measurements last year.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

So this is an attempt to put all of that in context and provide a hopefully comprehensive guide to how, when, and why to properly compare the two greenhouse gases. There is also a very small impact of the CH 4 oxidation to CO 2 itself for any fossil-fuel derived methane. (a) Historical comparisons.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 26, 2023

That would be the straw man erected by defenders of the fossil fuel industry who claim that facing climate change is a doctrinaire liberal policy. One group that has filed resolutions in the past is the far-right National Center for Public Policy Research, which fossil fuel companies including ExxonMobil have funded.

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New Scientist

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As the climate negotiations reach their final hours, countries are still fundamentally divided on how to address the primary source of greenhouse gas emissions

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

Ethylene oxide is a chemical that is massively produced by fossil fuel industries. Since 1940, almost all industrial ethylene oxide is produced in this energy intensive process that is a heavy emitter of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. Ethylene is made from petroleum ( crude oil and refined products).

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2021

It attempted to move away from fossil fuels and toward zero-carbon sources like solar power to supply electricity. Section 115 was probably aimed at more localized pollution problems like acid rain, but greenhouse gases unquestionably cause serious harm in other countries. The Plan was Obama’s signature climate policy.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 3, 2023

EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act (CAA) A. Rules relating to renewable and fossil fuel development on public lands and offshore. Litigation against carbon emitters and fossil fuel producers G. Administrative law questions, including the major questions doctrine. Co-benefits E.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 20, 2025

As we electrify everything, from our cars to our home heating systems, we need electricity to come from sources that dont emit greenhouse gases. Yet, reaching net zero also means phasing out polluting fossil fuel energy, so the government developed rules to impose a pollution limit on electricity producers.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

Fuel transport – Spring floods can hinder the transportation of fuels like coal. While it is a heavily polluting fossil fuel that is set to continue declining as a fuel source for US electricity generation over the next decade, coal still accounted for roughly 20 percent of the country’s generation in 2022.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

“It means that our agencies and our decision-makers are going to be taking climate into account moving forward, and that benefits all of us, because it will avoid those projects that have enormous greenhouse gas emissions that worsen climate change and impact us all on a financial and public health level.”. markets some other way.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

methane released from fossil fuel systems) could entirely undermine the climate benefits of the hydrogen tax credit and, worse, drive vast amounts of public dollars to subsidize what are ultimately still heavily-polluting fossil fuel-based projects, now just greenwashed as “clean.” Baseline counterfactuals.

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But while greenhouse gas emissions may be reduced, a delivery fulfilled by a diesel-burning truck may lead to increases in emissions of smog-forming nitrogen oxides and lung-damaging particulate matter. While the latter part of this conclusion is obvious, the former part isn’t as much.

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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. Everyone produces greenhouse gases.

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Inside Climate News

JANUARY 18, 2024

By Georgina Gustin The world’s oceans are massive and critical carbon sinks that absorb roughly one-third of the greenhouse gas emissions humans generate by burning fossil fuels and reshaping Earth’s landscape. Critics question whether “trawl disturbance” is different from the carbon flux that naturally occurs in oceans.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2023

For the past two decades, explicit state policy has been to transition as quickly as possible from reliance on fossil fuels to renewable energy sources–motivated primarily by climate change concerns and the critical need to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

CARB’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) seeks to incentivize the production and sale of alternative, lower emissions transportation fuels in order to displace conventional fossil fuels. To identify which fuels should be promoted, CARB calculates the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels.

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Legal Planet

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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