Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In August, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued its updated forecast for the 2024 hurricane season. Significantly warmer than usual surface temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean, which come largely as a result of human-caused climate change. Why are the oceans so warm and fueling this rapid intensification?

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Among those contradictions is the need to wean society off fossil fuels versus the desire for short-term economic gain. That draft called on “Parties to accelerate the phasing-out of coal and subsidies for fossil fuels.” It is significant, however, that “fossil fuels” and “coal” finally survived in a COP text.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 13, 2021

The same plastic that becomes the take-out packaging and single-use items that clog up our landfills, natural areas and oceans. ExxonMobil knew about — and denied — the links between fossil fuels and climate change for decades and gaslights people who challenge climate denial. Majority owner is U.S.-based

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 17, 2024

Since 2005, wind turbines have been producing renewable power for the grid and a reliable cash crop for the ranch. Pete Ferrell: It looks like an ocean of grass, if you can imagine looking across an ocean with massive swells. Ferrell: The park was completed in 2005. This interview has been edited and condensed.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

We are already seeing the deeply inequitable consequences of our refusal to stop burning fossil fuels all around us, and I know I’ll be hearing from people from around the world about unbelievably extreme weather events over this past year. That said, this COP is being held against the grim backdrop of our accelerating climate crisis.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The latest data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) and the EU’s Copernicus climate service show that the 2024 January-August period is the hottest ever by far, putting this year well on track to be the warmest ever on record. committed to cutting its emissions 50-52% below 2005 levels by 2030.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 22, 2023

Session Law 2021-165 set a goal of reducing CO 2 emissions from EGUs 70% (from a 2005 baseline of 75,865,188 short tons) by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. coast where the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has approved wind energy leases. The next post will look at the potential overlap of the S.L.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 9, 2023

One year on, we have a clearer picture of what we vaguely knew already: the biggest-ever climate law and its robust tax incentives is igniting the clean energy transition but is not moving us off fossil fuels fast enough. The full suite of current policies on the books as of June 2023 drives U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Superstorm Sandy in 2012, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in 2017, and Hurricane Irma in 2021 were all accompanied by the same question. This has got nothing to do with climate.This is not because of fossil fuels.” Will this smoke alarm wake us up?” This doesn’t make anybody cough. percent consensus.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2023

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecast , released on May 25, calls for similar numbers: 12 to 17 total named storms, of which 5 to 9 could become hurricanes, with 1 to 4 being major. 2022 fortunately kept to the lower end of the forecast range with 14 named storms, eight hurricanes, and two major hurricanes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For 2022, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted a season with above normal activity on its August 4 updated forecast , calling for 14-20 named storms. .” After all, we hardly had storms or hurricanes in the news for the past 3 months. The city of Fort Myers was hit by a record 7.26-foot

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2025

Laws Covered Laws covered by the order-- Department of Energy-- Atomic Energy Act of 1954; National Appliance Energy Conservation Act of 1987; Energy Policy Act of 1992; Energy Policy Act of 2005; and Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. Outer Continental Shelf Act of 1953 and any amendments thereto.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Greenpeace campaign “Coca-Cola is flooding our oceans with plastic” Greenpeace | October 2, 2017 Greenpeace has begun a worldwide campaign against Coca-Cola. Mexican shopkeeper defeats Coke BBC | November 17, 2005 A small shopkeeper in Mexico City has won a David versus Goliath legal battle against the US drinks firm, Coca-Cola.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 22, 2024

That made 2022 the 3 rd most costly year on record behind 2017, when Hurricane Harvey landed as a Category 4 storm, and 2005 when Hurricane Katrina landed as a Category 5 storm. While 2022 had fewer billion-dollar disasters (18), it was a record-setting year for the cost of damages with a total cost of $165 billion.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

In the early 2000s, BP attempted to re-brand itself as climate-friendly oil company by suggesting that its initials stood for “Beyond Petroleum.” This initiative was quietly dropped after the Texas city explosions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 15, 2024

The world’s nations, particularly the top burners of fossil fuels such as the United States, have yet to unify to prevent uncontrolled global warming. Such communities are often already overburdened with pollution associated with fossil fuel burning and proximity to polluting industries.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Several workers have also been injured and others killed in explosions at the Point Comfort plant in 2005 and at a PVC plant in Illiopolis , Illinois in 2004. The company owned a steel mill that discharged toxic chemicals into the ocean, devastating more than a hundred miles of coastline in four central provinces of Vietnam.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the early 2000s, BP attempted to re-brand itself as climate-friendly oil company by suggesting that its initials stood for “Beyond Petroleum.” This initiative was quietly dropped after the Texas city explosions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

Attorneys general (AGs) in the five states most vulnerable to climate change, however, are doing the exact opposite: Instead of defending their constituents, they are defending the fossil fuel industry. Moody also jumped in head-first to protect the fossil fuel industry.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The plaintiffs alleged that Peabody (and a number of other fossil fuel companies) caused greenhouse gas emissions that resulted in sea level rise and damage to their property. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , No. Center for Biological Diversity v. 1:17 -cv-02031 (D.D.C., filed Oct.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

It was a bogus argument that fossil fuel proponents would repeat ad nauseum over the next 10 years, so when Rose failed to provide some needed context, I jumped in. I’m not aware of anything the fossil fuel industry gets that I would characterize as a subsidy.” His reply ?

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Ninth Circuit Said Biden Action Mooted Case Challenging Trump Revocation of Withdrawal of Oceans Lands from Oil and Gas Leasing. In both cases, the New York plaintiffs argue that the allocation of the summer flounder quota is based on obsolete data that does not reflect the fishery’s northeast shift, which may be due in part to ocean warming.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Meet the New Interrogators: Lockheed Martin Pratap Chatterjee | CorpWatch | November 4, 2005 Just for signing up, they got a $2,000 check from a company that is rapidly becoming one of the key employers in the world of intelligence: Lockheed Martin, the world's biggest military company, based in Bethesda, Maryland. Its answer: no.

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