Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The share of online transactions among total US sales grew from just under six percent in 2013 to around 15 percent in 2021, according to the Census Bureau’s Annual Retail Trade Survey.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2023

Another study found that climate change made severe flooding in the United Kingdom 43 percent more likely during the winter of 2013-14. Scientists have long known that burning fossil fuels is the primary cause of the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, but now they can identify the specific sources.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 26, 2024

In 2013, I returned to university to complete a master’s degree with a research focus on energy transition. My journey in energy transition started as my attempt to protect my family and community – and other impacted communities – from the devastating environmental and human rights impacts of the fossil fuel industry.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

References: Did Coca-Cola Ever Contain Cocaine? USA: Coke, EPA to reach settlement in Clean Air Act ammonia violation charges Shane O'Halloran | Food Engineering Mag | March 19, 2014 EPA alleged 27 violations at a Minute Maid juice processing facility in Michigan.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 23, 2023

These wildfires, which were exacerbated by emissions from fossil fuel producers, burned over 17 million hectares of forest. However, this research was hidden from the public eye and Exxon continued to publicly cast doubt about climate science, fund climate denial groups and think tanks, and promote fossil fuel expansion and use.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The term ‘ Loss and Damage ’ refers to the extreme edge of those impacts, those human-caused and fossil fuel-driven disasters that are occurring on a scale and with an intensity and frequency that far outpaces ordinary adaptation measures. Within the U.S., The blame lies squarely with richer nations like the U.S.,

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 15, 2024

Researchers working in the field of attribution science have been able to state with clarity that last year’s fires and droughts, the Alberta floods of 2013, BC’s atmospheric rivers, and the heat waves that have killed hundreds of people in the BC’s Lower Mainland, have all been intensified and magnified by human-caused climate change.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In the United States, a ruling by a federal judge in Wisconsin has long-term implications for fossil fuel infrastructure in the Great Lakes region. Easements for those lands, located on the Bad River Reservation in northern Wisconsin, expired in 2013.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

Energy choices are key to climate resilience—but there’s resistance within state government Science tells us the extent and degree of future flooding depends on how fast we can reduce heat trapping emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. It cannot be a plan that reflects the opinions and interests of the powerful.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

The EPA is proposing a new standard for fossil fuel-fired power plants to avoid 617 million metric tons of carbon dioxide through 2042. Back in 2013, the first Zero Emission Vehicle Action Plan (ZEV) was released as a roadmap for how to get 1.5 Read the announcement here and the full text here.)

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

But this announcement was seemingly at odds with another made just three days earlier, when coal minister Pralhad Joshi confirmed that India intends to increase production for the fossil fuel. From 2013 to 2014, Indian coal production was 565 million tonnes; from 2022 to 2023, that had increased by 58% to 893 million.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

” The loss and damage mechanism was first adopted in Warsaw in 2013 during COP19 , however since then developing and developed economies have been arguing over how much should be paid and how the scheme should work. The issue will be picked up again this year in November when negotiators and world leaders gather in Egypt for COP27. .

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2024

Founded in 2013, the mission of EPA’s Trash Free Waters Program is to prevent that trash from getting into waterways and to remove what is already in the environment. Most of the trash that pollutes rivers, lakes, estuaries, and oceans comes from sources on land.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Then in 1896, preliminary calculations by Arrhenius hinted that humanity’s burning of fossil fuels could raise CO 2 levels and warm our planet. Callendar analysed historical global measurements of temperature, of atmospheric CO 2 , and the use of fossil fuels. Callendar was born in 1898. 139 1961 ).

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

One important new commitment that Canada made is joining over 20 countries in agreeing to eliminate public financing for international fossil fuel development by 2022. No country should be subsidizing or financing the fossil fuel companies that are fueling the climate crisis. Finally F-words: fossil fuels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2023

By contrast, between 2013 and 2016, the average customer outage was only three to four hours per year, and only about half of those hours were attributable to an extreme weather event. Are they taking the necessary steps to make sure the country will be able to transition as quickly as possible from fossil fuels to renewables?

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2021

Most of these provisions were enacted in the early 1970s during that great period of environmental lawmaking, but they received relatively little attention until a 2013 decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Robinson Township v. State of Montana , a suit brought by some of the same lawyers involved in Juliana.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. million in 2013. In the U.S. Total settles U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 25, 2024

Matthew Tejada, the senior official in charge of EPA’s EJ program from 2013-2023, shared with me that “failing to include some mechanism for transparency at multiple levels undermines the goal of Justice40 in several respects. This is problematic.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

While burning methane to generate energy releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the overall climate impact is reduced and the gas could potentially replace fossil fuel sources.) 2013 , IPCC 6th Assessment Report, Chapter 6 , González et al., 2013 , Patra and Yu, 2012 , Kinley et al., 2018 , Petersen et al.,

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. million in 2013. In the U.S. Total settles U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

That’s a far cry from just six years ago, when EVs were considered a niche technology (and the fossil fuel baron Charles Koch and his minions wanted to keep it that way). Today, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) projects that 50 percent of US passenger car sales could very well be electric by 2030.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. million in 2013. In the U.S. Total settles U.S.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. million in 2013. In the U.S. Total settles U.S.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

since 2013 have been integral to creating the conditions that led to the County’s actions, is also a member of the County coalition. Much hard work lies ahead in removing fossil fuel infrastructure and preparing this land for healthier uses. STAND-L.A., Physicians for Social Responsibility–Los Angeles represents STAND-L.A.’s

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Circle of Blue

MAY 19, 2022

Financed by one of the world’s richest private equity firms, The Blackstone Group, the CHPE is championed by its supporters as essential to unwind New York’s reliance on carbon-spewing fossil fuel and meet a 2040 target of emissions-free electricity. Kathy Hochul. Emissions-Free Electricity by 2040.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. million in 2013. In the U.S. Total settles U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 8, 2022

My colleagues and I have documented the lies the fossil fuel industry and its hirelings spread about the reality and seriousness of climate change. SM: Shireen Mitchell has been tracking disinformation targeting women and People of Color since 2013. Were they able to turn out the vote in those communities?

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. million in 2013. In the U.S. Total settles U.S.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. million in 2013. In the U.S. Total settles U.S.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 22, 2021

You could make similar health arguments as to why on earth Heineken are also allowed to sponsor this sporting event, or on climate grounds why are fossil fuel giants, Russia’s Gazprom and Germany’s car giant Volkswagen , also on the sponsor list? UEFA and CSR.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 30, 2023

PV Magazine published at the beginning of the year an article stating that fossil fuels already had peaked. I googled “peak coal ” and the Wikipedia page informed me that global consumption for that black dirty and nasty stuff peaked in 2013. Yup, ten years ago.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2023

Ontario Power Generation, a Crown corporation that generates a chunk of the province’s electricity, has been secretly selling clean energy credits since about 2013 and has made billions in profit from the sales. Meanwhile, it is leaving the public with increasing fossil gas emissions and electricity prices.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

Japan’s dependency on fossil fuel s had been slightly declining until 2010. But the country changed course as a result of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, which led to the forced shutdown of nuclear power plants and greater reliance on fossil fuels. As a result, Japan’s CO 2 emissions increased, peaking in 2013.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

First issued by the EIB (European Investment Bank) in 2007 in Sweden, green bonds have grown from $11 billion USD in 2013 to $1 Trillion USD in December 2020 globally. Moreover, such bond prices appear to be highly susceptible to oil movements, being more pronounced when demand for fossil fuel is less, for example during the pandemic years.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 13, 2021

This is a pretty clear illustration of how sea level starts to rise slowly; but in the long run, sea-level rise caused by fossil-fuel burning and deforestation in our generation could literally go off the chart and inundate many coastal cities and wipe entire island nations off the map. But first things first.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 22, 2022

A draft regulatory framework has already been prepared and the 2013 Alternative Renewable Energy Policy revised. The fuel can be used in the transportation sector to reduce fossil fuel dependency. However, officials from the Department of Renewable Energy said this will require changing policies and regulations.

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