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Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Last month, the British-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) reported that London-based HSBC, one of the world’s top-10 biggest banks, has helped raise $47 billion for the fossil fuel industry since its 2022 announcement that it would not finance new gas and oil infrastructure. degrees Celsius, or 2.7
Corp Watch
OCTOBER 13, 2023
Shell faces lawsuit from climate change activists over fossil fuels Reuters | April 5, 2019 Environmentalist and human rights groups said on Friday they had started a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force the energy firm to cut its reliance on fossil fuels.
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PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 2, 2023
The closure in January 2016 of one of Pittsburgh’s biggest coal-processing plants led to immediate and lasting declines in emissions of fossil fuel–related air pollutants. The impact of the closure persisted through at least December 2018, the last month for which data were analyzed. Thurston, ScD.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 20, 2022
And Eversource Energy’s New Hampshire utility won approval from the state Public Utilities Commission over the summer to increase electric rates by a whopping 53 percent through the end of January 2023 to account for high gas prices in New England. It provides essential services that can be a matter of life or death for millions of people.
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 14, 2023
Encina claims, none of the material would be sold as diesel fuel, synthetic oil or other forms of fossil fuel. The company has operated a small-scale demonstration plant since 2016 in San Antonio, TX. Potentially over and over. Unlike other advanced recycling plants in the U.S., million gallons daily.
Corp Watch
JANUARY 17, 2024
In 2012, the company became infamous again when it unsuccessfully sued Ben-Jei Tsuang, a professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering in National Chun Hsing University, who published a paper linking high cancer rates in Mailiao, Taiwan, to toxic dioxin and heavy metals air pollution from the Six Naphtha Cracking plant.
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 8, 2023
Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution.
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