Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Special session takes on big oil and wins The transition to clean transportation and away from fossil fuels is here. Policies like this will be critical to ensure that the fossil fuels phaseout is equitable and Big Oil doesn’t squeeze every dollar out of California consumers on the way out the door.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Over its short lifetime, the program has already transformed many segments of the fuels market. More than two-thirds of our diesel comes from renewable, non-petroleum resources, and many California refineries are shifting from refining fossil fuels to refining waste oils and other renewable feedstocks.

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Yale E360

JUNE 7, 2022

Long discussed but rarely used, carbon capture and storage projects — which bury waste CO2 underground — are on the rise globally. Some analysts see the technology as a necessary tool in reducing emissions, but others say it simply perpetuates the burning of fossil fuels. Read more on E360 ?.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 3, 2021

Wastewater-to-energy systems start with a process called anaerobic digestion, which treatment plants have been using for ages to reduce the volume of sewage waste. For systems that can afford the upfront costs of these waste-to-energy technologies, the process is a win-win. Photo © Richard Webb / Wikimedia Commons. How It Works.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Curtailment means we are wasting otherwise clean, perfectly usable electricity. So now it’s time to think seriously about what amount of energy storage the state may need to complement renewable energy resources that are coming onto the grid to replace fossil fuel plants. Enter energy storage.

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Fossil Fuels 2030 Electricity Clean Energy 162

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 12, 2024

These will only keep increasing unless Canada seriously commits to replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy. New polling shows that a majority of Canadians want governments in Canada to phase out our dependence on fossil fuels and prioritize renewable energy. There is no time to waste.

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Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy Greenhouse Government 126

Cleannovate

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Plastics generate interest because they are easy to make but very difficult to degrade leading to a plastic solid waste catastrophe. Most plastics are a by-product of petroleum refining, which make their presence a guarantee as long as we use fossil fuels.

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Upcycling Fossil Fuels Recycling Waste 130

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

New science has shown that the largest fossil fuel, dairy, and waste methane super-emitters contribute a sizeable fraction of the total methane emissions in the regions the study authors monitored. Robust monitoring data will also allow for point source identification of super-emitters. Other teams find similar results.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Since the summer of 2021, five Republican-controlled state legislatures have passed bills banning their state governments from doing business with financial institutions that they allege have divested from fossil fuel companies as a result of ESG investment policies. Another six statehouses are considering similar bills.

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Fossil Fuels Climate Change Carbon Emissions Politics 358

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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Fossil Fuels Climate Change Clean Energy Politics 297

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2023

The Union of Concerned Scientists commissioned power flow modeling to study the effects of retiring Illinois fossil fuel plants connected to PJM , the regional grid operator serving the northern part of the state. PowerGEM , an independent consulting firm, conducted the analysis for us, using the same data and process PJM uses.

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Eco Justice

MARCH 10, 2022

One of the tenets of “disaster capitalism” is to never let a bad situation go to waste. The post Time of crisis reminds us why we must leave fossil fuels behind appeared first on Ecojustice. As the people of Ukraine fight to defend their democracy, families flee the.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 9, 2021

. – Ontario has launched the second phase of a program to expand fossil fuel gas pipelines to new communities. This is a big subsidy for fossil fuels and a step in the wrong direction, when the government could have chosen to support clean technologies, help customers save money long term, lower capital costs, and cut carbon emissions.

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Fossil Fuels Technology Technology Carbon Emissions 128

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 8, 2025

Electric vehicle (EV) sales are increasing , and these vehicles are important to reduce fossil fuel use and air pollution. Relying on market dynamics alone risks wasted materials, unsafe and unregulated dismantling, and a lack of accountability for proper disposal.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The complaint is a cri de coeur : clear, outraged, and horrifying in its recounting of the plastic waste problem and its causes. In fact, Mobil patented the co-processing of plastic waste in cokers in 1978. million tonnes of plastic waste escaped into California’s environment. In California, from 1990 to 2022, an astounding 2.7

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2022

As a result, when today’s fossil fuel end uses can be directly electrified via renewables instead, such as for heating in buildings , it is overwhelmingly a better decarbonization path. And in an encouraging sign, DOE raised many of these issues in its February’s request for information (RFI) on H2Hubs implementation strategy.

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Fossil Fuels Clean Energy Natural Gas Waste 263

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.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 13, 2024

Paul Arbaje is an energy analyst in the Climate & Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists and an expert on electricity policies and reforms that reduce fossil fuel use and reliance. The energy enthusiast who owns their own homes can take further steps toward making their homes completely free of direct fossil fuel use.

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Fossil Fuels Clean Energy Electricity Climate Change 236

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 23, 2025

It is a victory that Imperial Oil will have to face the courts for releasing millions of litres of toxic waste into the environment. trillion litres of waste, covering an area more than 2.6 Andy Kubrin, Alberta Beyond Fossil Fuels, kubrin.andy@gmail.com Phillip Meintzer, Alberta Wilderness Association pmeintzer@abwild.ca

Regulations 89

Regulations Fossil Fuels Government Waste 89

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 23, 2025

To be more specific, the law forbids the California Energy Commission from issuing a permit to any new nuclear fission power plants until theres a way to dispose of toxic and long-lived nuclear waste. Third, safety, security, and waste concerns matter greatly with nuclear power plants, and those must be considered as well.

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Nuclear Power Clean Energy Technology Technology 208

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 26, 2024

Because one of Pennsylvania’s two hubs, ARCH2, is also proposing to be heavily reliant on fossil fuel-based hydrogen production projects, I also detailed the serious risks of policymakers propping up such an approach. Here are three critical flags with pursuing a fossil-based “clean” hydrogen future.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 7, 2022

A two-bill package has been introduced in the House and Senate to establish new incentives for the use of fossil-fueled vehicles-- rebranded as “low emission transportation fuels”-- and eliminating rebates and grants for hybrid and electric vehicles.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 3, 2022

What does the future hold for these icons of the fossil fuel era? Those sites may be governed by state and federal hazardous waste laws. We may be able to learn from efforts there and in Norway , which is banning new fossil-fuel cars only a few years from now.

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Fossil Fuels Waste Electricity Law 246

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

The size of the toxic ash pile at the Scrubgrass cryptomining facility had turned waste coal into an even riskier form of pollution, said Patrick McDonnell, President and CEO of PennFuture. uses waste coal to fuel its operations, which results in large quantities of coal ash.

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Waste Natural Gas Fossil Fuels 2026 93

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Brampton facility owner recently completed a second Environmental Screening Report to get its proposal to expand annual waste burning capacity nearly four times to 900,000 tonnes per year rubber stamped by Queens Park. Burning this waste releases massive amounts of toxic pollution and carbon emissions it’s a climate disaster.

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Waste Air Pollution Fossil Fuels Recycling 52

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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Minnesotans are already experiencing the climate crisis, as well as health impacts, from burning fossil fuels. The Minnesota House has shown strong leadership in addressing the climate crisis and funding the clean energy transition at the scale necessary to swiftly curb heat-trapping emissions from fossil fuels.

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Clean Energy Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy Electricity 241

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Beto Lugo Martinez from Rise4EJ describes the many pollution sources in the communities he serves: The concentration of fossil fuel heavy-duty trucks and locomotives, in our neighborhoods and the indirect mobile emission sources (i.e. The contribution of co-pollutants and ultrafine particles travel deep into our lungs and bloodstream.

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Fossil Fuels Environmental Protection Law Regulations 293

Academy of Natural Sciences

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

What do we do with worldwide garment waste? From raw materials — fauna, flora, fungi and fossil fuels — to the agricultural and manufacturing processes behind the making of our textiles, the clothing that we wear is and has been deeply connected to the natural world. But this work needs to continue.

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Fossil Fuels Waste Environmental Science 97

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

The majority 6–3 decision sharply curtails the EPA’s authority to set standards based on a broad range of flexible options to cut carbon emissions from the power sector—options such as replacing polluting fossil fuels with cheap and widely available wind and solar power coupled with battery storage. There is no time to waste.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 24, 2024

Despite the damage, you can bet that curbing fossil fuel production and putting aside the funds needed to implement safe clean-up isn’t often top of the agenda for the petroleum industry. For many Albertans, though, the impact of tailings waste on the environment and human health is a real concern. They also contaminate land.”

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Waste Fossil Fuels Conservation Government 105

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Any day now, Minister Freeland is expected to introduce a giant new fossil fuel subsidy called the carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) investment tax credit. The government is breaking their own rules The government introduced new rules to end fossil fuel subsidies this summer. Let me tell you why.

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Fossil Fuels Waste Carbon Dioxide Atmosphere 111

New Scientist

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The systems we use to produce food have many problems, from horrifying waste to their dependence on fossil fuels. Vaclav Smil explains how to fix them

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Fossil Fuels Waste 128

Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

A new report released by Oil Change International reveals that governments worldwide have already wasted over $40 billion on carbon capture and hydrogen projects. That’s why we say the money was wasted. Even worse, these governments are gearing up to waste billions more – over $300 billion more! Take carbon capture.

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Fossil Fuels Government Waste Greenhouse 136

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2023

It is overwhelmingly produced by a process known as steam methane reforming (SMR), which is heavily carbon-polluting, and the resulting hydrogen is primarily consumed as a feedstock for industrial purposes, such as oil refining and fertilizer production, not as a way to displace fossil fuels. And this isn’t just hypothetical.

Clean Energy 246

Clean Energy Fossil Fuels Electricity Renewable Energy 246

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Under the LCFS each fuel pathway gets a unique carbon intensity (CI) based on a lifecycle analysis of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production and use of the fuel. This approach holds fuel producers accountable for reducing fossil fuel use and other global warming pollution in their supply chains.

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Fossil Fuels Regulations Carbon Dioxide Renewable Energy 291

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2024

On the agenda for DEP’s Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board June 13 meeting is a discussion of a variety of topics, including-- -- Potential For Wastewater Migration From Underground Injection Disposal Wells -- Financial Assurance Strategies To Address Future Well Abandonment -- Orphan & Abandoned Well Topics-- -- Implications Of Changing Definitions (..)

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Waste Natural Gas Fossil Fuels Air Pollution 116