2020 Air Pollution Fossil Fuels Regulations 
Law Columbia
APRIL 25, 2024
Image by Maxim Tolchinskiy (Unsplash) In November of 2022, when the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) proposed new rules to control venting, flaring, and leaks from oil and gas leases on federal land (the “Fossil Fuel Waste Rule”), they noted that these leasing rules would have an enormous ancillary climate benefit.
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
The pledge is a voluntary agreement to reduce global methane emissions by 30 percent below 2020 levels by 2030; however, methane levels keep going up and we are woefully off track for meeting this goal. Their use of these tactics underlie the calls to hold both the fossil fuel and meat and dairy industries accountable for their actions.
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Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Over three-fourths of Indonesia electricity comes from fossil fuels: 60% from coal and 16% from gas. Jakarta is consistently near the top end of the world’s cities with the worst air pollution. Indonesia’s 2021 climate pledge under the Paris Agreement was to reduce emissions from 2020-2030 by 29%.
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
DBA Protect PA - $365,887: Recipient will expand Protect PT’s air monitoring efforts in environmental justice communities in Southwestern Pennsylvania to address the lack of knowledge about fossil fuel air emissions and their impact on quality of life for those living in counties that have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 11, 2024
Certainly, gas stoves are just one source of air pollution in the District. As we now know, fossil fuel companies lied about it for decades to protect their profits. That would of course include fossil gas, which consists of 85 to 90 percent methane, a significantly more potent heat-trapping gas than carbon dioxide.
Corp Watch
OCTOBER 13, 2023
Shell campaign IndustriALL Global Union | May 22, 2020 IndustriALL is calling on Shell to engage with unions on a global level in a campaign to limit precarious work, improve health and safety, and ensure that Shell applies the same high-level standards at its operations everywhere, including suppliers.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 25, 2022
Only 22 percent of Republican-leaning respondents said in a 2020 Pew poll that humans contribute “a great deal” to climate change. Such a low number is not driven by fossil fuel company disinformation alone. Will we similarly “tolerate” the forecasts of death and destruction from fossil-fueled climate disasters and pollution?
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