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COP30: Twelve environmental facts about Brazil in 2025

A Greener Life

While the expansion of wind and solar power is seen as essential to reducing reliance on fossil fuels, large-scale projects have sometimes sparked local opposition due to their environmental impact. Ethanol accounts for over 40% of fuel used in Brazil’s vehicles, making it a key component of the country’s renewable energy strategy.

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Seven County Infrastructure Coalition: The Supreme Court’s “Substantial Deference” Standard and Implications for Judicial Review under NEPA

Law Columbia

Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision in 2023 finding that the EIS was deficient because it did not include estimates of GHG emissions and other impacts from induced oil production or oil refining. The fact that fossil fuels will be combusted, generating GHG emissions, is a direct and foreseeable consequence of fossil fuel production.

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What Is FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund? What You Should Know, Why Costs Keep Rising and What We Can Do About It

Union of Concerned Scientists

According to FEMA, since 2001, the agency has implemented INF restrictions 9 times, including last year. Already this year, the President has declared 117 disasters, 87 of which have been major disaster declarations (compared with 71 major disaster declarations in 2023, 47 in 2022, 58 in 2021 and 104 in 2020).

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168 Years of Climate Science

Legal Planet

Scientist calculates greenhouse effect from fossil fuels and matches it to recorded global temperature changes. English scientist John Tyndall publishes similar finding in a better-known paper. Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius predicts changes in surface temperature due to greenhouse effect. above 1850-1900 in 2011-2020.

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Investors Need to Know the Full Scope of Corporate Carbon Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

For example, researchers at the Union of Concerned Scientists have directly linked fossil fuel producers’ Scope 1 and Scope 3 emissions to increases in ocean acidification , global temperature, sea level rise and North American wildfires. So how does the fossil fuel industry think it should measure emissions?

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Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. The biggest barrier to climate action in Canada is the oil and gas lobby.

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Conservative Party received 40 percent of its donations from fossil fuel interests in the first week of the campaign

A Greener Life

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak tours a Shell gas plant in Aberdeen in July 2023. million from fossil fuel interests, climate science deniers, and highly polluting industries. million since 2001. Until April 2024, Farmer held shares in the fossil fuel giants Shell and BP, each worth more than £100,000.