Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

And fossil fuel power plants may not stick to their retirement schedules for a variety of reasons. The bottom line: There’s still a long way to go, and the clean energy transition must move quicker than it has been—despite the fossil fuel industry’s self-serving claims to the contrary. A bit more on those reasons later.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Two-thirds of the G20’s public finance for energy went to fossil fuels in 2019–2020. The G20 group of nations provided nearly US$200 billion in support of fossil fuels in 2021, despite the worsening impacts of the climate crisis and their pledge in 2009 to phase out “inefficient” subsidies. By Catherine Early.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 6, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his government are intensifying their support for the fossil fuel industry, and they have thus distanced themselves further from climate action previously pursued by successive UK governments. Photo credit: 10 Downing Street, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via FLICKR.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Despite being in the same political party that created it, the UK’s new prime minister, Liz Truss, is in the process of completely changing the country’s energy policy. Gone are the net-zero promises and focus on a rapid clean energy transition, and in its place is a new narrative that more fossil fuels will solve the country’s energy crisis.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

State of Montana, a Montana trial court ruled that the state Constitution’s guarantee of a healthy and clean environment prevails over Montana’s longstanding fossil-fuel-based state energy system. The first legal challenge mounted by Our Children’s Trust was Juliana v. United States. The August 14th Held v.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 21, 2021

degrees–the goal of the Paris Agreement and a critical threshold for climate change–the world must stop approving fossil fuel projects AND significantly ramp down the production of all fossil fuels: coal, oil, and fossil gas. So what do we need governments to do? This is a huge deal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In an unforeseen turn of events, a pivotal climate litigation case unfolded in Montana , where 16 young environmental advocates challenged the state’s fossil fuel policies. Additionally, investment-related litigation gained prominence, shaping governance in the face of climate change.

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Inside Climate News

APRIL 3, 2024

By Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune This article was first published by The Texas Tribune , a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans—and engages with them—about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Coal clearly does not have the same clout as oil and gas, either in domestic politics or international negotiations. Fossil fuel subsidies. Finally, subsection (h) devotes attention to “inefficient fossil fuel subsidies,” which are supposed to be eliminated as soon as possible. Transportation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Last year’s UN climate talks, while criticized for certain shortcomings , brought into sharp focus the need for robust legal frameworks to transition from fossil fuels. It also encourages badly needed reforms inside and outside of government and will help create new political coalitions.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Emissions trading systems are often launched with relatively lenient design features, typically justified as giving the system a chance to “learn-by-doing” and to gain political buy-in for approval of a program. – Continual reform to improve ambition, integrity, and buy-in. Most ETS have fallen on the prices-too-low side.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The move represents a lifeline for fossil fuel use in a decarbonizing energy grid. One in 20 tests performed by the city’s water department detected the toxic metal at concentrations exceeding government limits for drinking water. Looking Ahead. Upcoming Events.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Union of Concerned Scientists’ (UCS) research shows that top fossil fuel producers’ emissions are responsible for as much as half of global surface temperature increase. The best solution: Replace fossil fuels with renewable energy. A small number of big corporations are responsible for the climate crisis.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Fossil fuel companies are well established as founts of disinformation , agents of obstruction, and drivers of climate change. Taken together, the need for governments to meaningfully regulate these super polluters has never been clearer.

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Legal Planet

JULY 13, 2023

To begin with, there are the health benefits of the energy transition away from fossil fuels. It will limit the environmental harms caused by producing and transporting millions of tons of fossil fuels. Europeans are seeing right now how dangerous it can be to depend on fossil fuels from abroad.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Exxon , the cities and towns allege that the fossil fuel companies were liable because they knowingly produced and marketed products that have caused climate change harms, while concealing and misrepresenting the associated dangers. have filed more than twenty cases seeking damages from fossil fuel companies for climate harms.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2022

And even as governments seek to avert looming food crises, they must also recognize that today’s food and farming systems are highly vulnerable to disruption. More important than their numbers, however, is that several of the affected countries and regions include some of the more politically fragile and/or embattled in the world (e.g.,

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 1, 2022

After much speculation and pressure from campaigners and opposition parties, the UK government has finally confirmed that they will impose a windfall tax on the oil and gas industry. The fancy wording chosen by the UK government was instead a ‘temporary, targeted energy profits levy’. Surging energy prices.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

Ebel, the CEO of Enbridge, to our list of infamous Climate Villains – powerful people with fossil fuel interests holding Canada back from effective climate action. The executives behind the fossil fuel industry often avoid public scrutiny, which is why we’re shining the spotlight on their activities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

This methodology is similar to my own work combining climate science, political science, and history to reconstruct how UN climate negotiations have played out and what that implies for climate justice. Such a constraint would clearly place a limit on the amount of fossil fuels ExxonMobil could extract, produce and market.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In August, the oil and gas industry had 64 lobby meetings with the federal government, with the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) being the most active fossil fuel lobbyist once again. It lobbied the government 10 times in August and 65 times throughout 2023 so far. and Imperial Oil Ltd.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

If Capital Power can’t square the economics of a CCS project that would have received massive subsidies, why would the federal government fork over $16 billion for such a risky project with a low possibility of success? Real solutions, not dangerous distractions, are needed Fossil fuels are causing the climate crisis.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 2, 2022

UCS has laid out the reasons why mandatory and standardized climate disclosure will help communities, spur climate action, stabilize the financial system, and hold fossil fuel companies accountable. Impacts on People and Politics Not Addressed. The proposed SEC rule also fails to address political influence.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2022

Now the reports driven by these resolutions are beginning to roll in, and while they certainly provide some insight into the fossil fuel industry’s investment in political influence, a sleight of hand is preventing investors from seeing the companies’ full strategy. ExxonMobil Names Names.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

But governments must put policy measures into place immediately to be effective. 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. We need to phase out fossil fuels.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Texas and a number of other states have passed laws banning what they call “boycotts of fossil fuel companies.” ” More precisely, they ban state investment or contracting with firms that “boycott” fossil fuel companies. Is this as opposed to a political purpose on the part of the managers? “.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2022

The shift from fossil fuels in the 100% RES scenario reduces the amount of harmful air pollution from power plants much more than in our “No New Policy”/business-as-usual scenario. Similarly, communities now tied to fossil fuels need support in moving beyond that dependence. And our modeling shows renewables’ power.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2023

County of Monterey –a major case involving the authority of California local governments to limit oil and gas development within their borders. County of Monterey case raises important and difficult questions for both the justices and the Executive Branch of California state government.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Investors and governments will be expected to refer to the Taxonomy in order to determine whether an activity they want to pursue can be considered sustainable, and under what conditions (screening criteria). Notably, in the same proposal, the Commission has also included screening criteria for gaseous fossil fuels.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The GST will set out the most important commitments and pledges made by governments during the negotiations, therefore sending an important political signal. Environmental Defence urges the Government of Canada to push for more ambitious action in the final text, expected to come out on December 12th. “The

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The dangerous impacts of a warming, fossil-fuel dependent world span from wildfires capable of destroying entire towns to cancer-causing air pollution that afflicts the next generation. The climate crisis is one of humanity’s most complex conflicts yet. Unfortunately, when it comes to climate change, the truth is often obscured.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2017

We know that burning fossil fuels is the main cause of anthropogenic climate change, and that climate change is the source of adverse impacts on communities and even regional and national economies. Instead, it has been to stem and confuse the flow of information about climate change to the public and political leaders.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2022

Here in the United States, there are dozens of cases being brought against fossil fuel companies and others claiming recompense for climate damages and prosecuting the companies for actively deceiving their shareholders and the public to block climate action. Disinformation has impeded action.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Fossil fuels are the root cause of climate change, of long-standing environmental injustices, and are also frequently connected to geopolitical strife and violent conflicts. Other countries are dependent upon these fossil fuels, they don’t make themselves free of them. This is a fossil fuel war.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 30, 2023

The high-minded language of the constitution takes precedence over a legislative effort to block state officials from considering the impact of new fossil fuel projects on global warming. It also puts the inter-generational equity issue squarely on the political agenda.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

and Cuban governments could help to drive renewable energy development in the island nation, in a manner that benefits the Cuban people as well as the interests of people throughout the region. Cuba’s power system is currently heavily reliant on fossil fuels. The report also explores how a bilateral dialogue between the U.S.

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