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.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

I’m attending along with a delegation of UCLA Law students and colleagues here to follow a range of issues, from methane regulation to China’s global role to regenerative agricultural practices. Will this COP manage to call for the phase out of fossil fuels in a meaningful way? Here are four mid-COP takeaways.

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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. Indonesia’s 2021 climate pledge under the Paris Agreement was to reduce emissions from 2020-2030 by 29%. In fact, Indonesia is moving its capital 600 miles away for this reason. Several official plans.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

What are the physical limitations of this fossil fuel resource that make it vulnerable during, say, summer droughts , or the types of extreme heat waves the world has been experiencing for months now? The rolling blackouts took place two nights in a row on August 14 and August 15, 2020.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

California’s transportation fuel policy is knee deep in cow poop, and it’s not a good look. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering amendments to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation, but indicated they have no plans to address the problems caused by counter-productive subsidies for manure biomethane.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

These risks aren’t hypothetical: A leak from a carbon dioxide pipeline already caused serious health harms in Satartia, Mississippi, where 45 people were hospitalized following a pipeline rupture in early 2020. There are some federal regulations, but they leave much to be desired.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 31, 2022

It issued five Flex Alerts in 2020, eight in 2021, but there’s only been one so far this year. For example, the two rotating blackouts in August 2020 occurred during energy supply shortages that happened at 6:38 to 7:40 p.m. California regulators recently created a slew of new programs to reduce demand on the hottest summer days.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The pledge is a voluntary agreement to reduce global methane emissions by 30 percent below 2020 levels by 2030. Methane emissions come from two main sources : fossil fuels and agriculture—primarily animal-based agriculture. At COP27, 636 registered attendees are lobbyists for the fossil fuel industry.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

Proponents of a greater setback distance, like the 2,500 feet recommended in 2020 report, say nearby wells damage the quality of life, and increasing setbacks would reduce exposure to noise and other pollution. It feels like we’re going backward when we want cleaner, safer, healthier homes for families in Washington County.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 6, 2024

Despite having made commitments to reduce the emissions from their investments and reach net-zero by 2050, Canada’s banks have instead increased their funding in risky oil and gas assets every year since 2020. Our banks are promoting themselves as climate champions while lobbying against regulations that would accelerate climate action.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Edmonton, AB — The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) quietly released a report on its web site last week showing that oil sands tailing ponds grew another 90 million cubic meters in 2020, despite a drop in oil production. Toxic waste holding ponds now contain 1.36 billion cubic metres of fluids and cover a surface 1.7

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2022

As we’ve discussed before , multiple cities and towns in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts have tried to ban fossil fuel hookups for new buildings by zoning or other ordinance over the past few years. As we noted then, in order for municipalities to restrict or ban fossil fuel connections, [T]he legislature must move first.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

However, methane reduction efforts have not received the same financial support as CO 2 actions; in 2019 and 2020, only 2% of climate finance was devoted to methane mitigation. Jurisdictions announced new methane regulations COPs are usually the place where governments announce their recent environmental laws and regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2024

The incident, which occurred on April 29, 2020, damaged both customer and utility-owned equipment. These include failure to follow company procedures by technicians, insufficiently detailed training materials provided by Peoples Natural Gas, and possible design flaws in the regulator station.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

But solar is the big winner here, with it’s share of total US capacity increasing from 7% in 2020 to 29% in 2050. Capacity factors for existing natural gas combined cycle plants are cut in half, from nearly 60% in 2020 to below 30% in 2050. EIA also recently reported that US coal exports increased 23% between 2020 and 2021.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Power companies will therefore have to pay more for the fuel, but utilities are generally allowed by state regulators to pass those cost increases onto their customers in the form of higher electricity rates. The bankruptcies were set in motion even before 2020. There are examples from across the country.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Oil and Gas Regulation One of the big success stories of 2022 was the end-of-session passage of SB 1137 (Gonzalez) , which established a 3,200-foot buffer zone between new oil and gas wells and sensitive receptors like schools, homes, and hospitals. Newsom vetoed an end-of-session gut-and-amend by Sen.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Coming off its recent decision requiring all new passenger cars and trucks be zero-emission by 2035, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) is developing a first-of-its-kind regulation to reduce emissions from heavy-duty vehicles like delivery vans, big rigs, box trucks, and buses. The rule was prompted in part by Gov. Volvo Trucks USA.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2024

In August of 2020 when the last permit fee increase was put in place, DEP estimated it would need the revenue from 2,000 unconventional shale gas permits a year to adequately support the regulatory program for both conventional and unconventional oil and gas drilling. Read more here. Read more here. In other words, next to nothing.

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Clean Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

On September 23, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Executive Order N-79-20 , which will have sweeping implications for the oil and gas industry, automakers, low-carbon fuel producers, the logistics industry, and public transit agencies, among others (the Executive Order). By Jean-Philippe Brisson , Joshua T.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

He was appointed as a mediator by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to work with the environmental community and industry to establish better regulations for water quality monitoring in areas impacted by coal ash. Since assuming elected office in 2020, Rep. from Villanova University School of Law.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

Now the same district court has gone further, again in favor of environmental groups but now against Royal Dutch Shell (“Shell”) , the world’s largest non-state-owned fossil fuel company. In the face of disappointing legislation and regulation, activists have increasingly turned to courts in the last fifteen years.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

But make no mistake, the larger issue is the regulation for the first time of GHGs (including carbon) which will literally change the structure of the global economy, our political order, market capitalism and even our biological selves.”. In 2020, carbon dioxide accounted for about 79% of all U.S. emission trends.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

But the distribution system will be even more important when making a rapid clean energy transition, particularly considering the role distributed energy resources, such as rooftop solar, battery storage and electric vehicles, can play in helping Illinoisans dump fossil fuels. Illinois utilities contributed to that trend.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2023

THURSDAY 10:00: Independent Regulatory Review Commission meets to consider Final Emergency Regulation Setting VOC/Methane Limits On Conventional Oil and Gas Operations. WEDNESDAY 6:30: Ohio River Valley Institute Hosts Webinar On Policy Action In Response To The Norfolk Southern Train Derailment & Beyond. 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 16, 2022

Originally, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

Gas prices: Without a cap, the flood of bio-based diesel into California will continue, requiring a rapid increase in stringency to stabilize LCFS credit markets, sending 2030 stringency from the 30 percent proposed in the regulation to 34.5 In 2020, every state except Alaska blended at least 9.5

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

What is more, at COP26, advanced economies acknowledged that they have not met their pledges of providing US$100 billion per year in climate finance to developing countries by 2020. Transparent country-specific regulations need to be put in place. ” Energy Policy 140 (2020): 111428. Nature Clim Change 8, 161–165 (2018).

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

While that may have been the early objective of the “responsibly sourced” movement, Project Canary provided a description of how they and the concept has evolved in response to the development of more federal and state regulations that limit methane emissions from natural gas facilities. is considered responsibly sourced. So you are correct.

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The financial part of this Green Deal is the European Green Deal Investment Plan (EGDIP) , revealed on 14 January 2020. Source: The European Green Deal Investment Plan and Just Transition Mechanism explained, EC, Brussels, 14 January 2020, p. A legislative proposal will be presented in March 2020 to officially set it up.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In addition to the inequitable impacts of hurricanes, Dunbar residents also have to deal with toxic pollution in their communities that remains unaddressed by environmental regulators. We need to make sure that the Justice40 initiative is properly incorporated into every federal program and investment.

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Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

And, of course, the work of environmental and energy lawyers is increased and made more challenging by the growing number and stringency of climate-related regulations, statutes, and directives. The IBA issued a “Climate Crisis Statement” in 2020 that builds on the ABA resolution. John Kerry, then U.S. In the U.S.,

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Corporation Shell Plc (Royal Dutch Shell) Image Image Products Liquefied Natural Gas, Lubricants, Natural gas, Petrochemicals, Petroleum The Corrib gas project of Royal Dutch Shell - Photo Credit William Murphy Summary Royal Dutch Shell is a fossil fuel exploration company. million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In July 2020 the German government is taking over the rotating presidency of the European Union. The backdrop for these ambitions at EU level is the current work that is being conducted at the European Commission to complete a set of gas-related laws and regulations (so called gas package). This shall be concluded by 2021 at latest.

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Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Until June 2021 the new target shall be implemented into EU legislation via the following : revising and expanding the EU Emissions Trading System; adapting the Effort Sharing Regulation and the framework for land use emissions; reinforcing energy efficiency and renewable energy policies; and strengthening CO2 standards for road vehicles.

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Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

In celebration of Environment Day 2020 on June 5, we publish here in full the speech given by Inger Andersen, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme. Ending fossil fuel subsidies and making renewable energy the future. This directly impacts human health and wealth.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Corporation Shell Plc (Royal Dutch Shell) Image Image Products Liquefied Natural Gas, Lubricants, Natural gas, Petrochemicals, Petroleum The Corrib gas project of Royal Dutch Shell - Photo Credit William Murphy Summary Royal Dutch Shell is a fossil fuel exploration company. million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33

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