Energy & the Law

DECEMBER 21, 2023

its been said that abandoning fossil fuels without delay, with no realistic present-day alternatives, is a moral imperative. COP 28 ended by calling for a “transition from” rather than a “phase out of” fossil fuels, perhaps in humbling recognition that oil, gas and coal aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In this year’s edition of World Energy Outlook , the International Energy Agency showed that with the rapid roll out of renewable energy technologies, the demand for fossil fuels – gas, coal and oil – will peak this decade. These wildfires are the result of producing and burning fossil fuels. This is a big deal.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 22, 2023

Since the drilling boom began in Pennsylvania between 2005 and 2010, the state government has played a game of catch-up, long hindered by lawmakers who refused to conduct studies relative to public health.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2023

However, great opportunities for more new clean energy supplies to replace fossil fuel energy need supporting grid investments. States should be heard on transmission When regulators make policy, utilities listen. State regulators can call meetings for utilities to work on the modernization and decarbonization of the grid.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed new power plant carbon pollution standards that, if strengthened, would go a long way to help meet the Biden administration’s goal of slashing carbon emissions in half from 2005 levels by the end of this decade. global warming pollution, second only to the transportation sector.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

Minnesotans are facing concurrent crises of climate change, high energy prices and inflation, and the inequitable public health impacts of fossil fuel air pollution. Minnesota’s current goal is to reduce statewide carbon emissions 30 percent by 2025 compared to 2005 levels and 80 percent by 2050.

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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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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2024

Between 2005-2022, the last year of available data, 11,127,515 fewer tons of SOx and 1,317,335 fewer tons of NOx were emitted from Pennsylvania’s electric power sector, according to DEP data. Overall carbon emissions from the state’s power sector are down 46% compared to peak 2005 levels. billion in NOx and $445.1 billion - $1.02

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

Now comes the court’s crippling of the most important federal weapon available to avoid catastrophic climate change and its associated killing of tens of thousands of Americans every year with fossil fuel air pollution. EPA decision where the Supreme Court said the EPA had the authority to regulate global warming gases.

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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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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 14, 2023

The new information shows that in 2021 GHG emissions were over eight per cent lower than in 2005. However, to reach the federal government’s 2030 climate targets – a 40-45 per cent reduction from 2005 levels – significantly more reductions are needed. This is thanks to fuel economy regulations and more electric vehicles on the roads.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Despite publicly claiming support for climate action, the oil and gas companies along with CAPP have consistently pushed for the expansion of the fossil fuel industry, in direct opposition to the International Energy Agency’s call for a rapid phase out of fossil fuels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

The majority 6–3 decision sharply curtails the EPA’s authority to set standards based on a broad range of flexible options to cut carbon emissions from the power sector—options such as replacing polluting fossil fuels with cheap and widely available wind and solar power coupled with battery storage.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

This is a corollary to my colleague Julie McNamara’s observation that fossil fuels are the problem, not the solution. However, policies to deliver on the Biden administration’s commitment to cut US heat-trapping emissions by 50 to 52 percent from 2005 levels by 2030 have not yet been enacted and implemented. Read more here.).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 16, 2024

Smaller, decentralized growth in electric heat pumps for buildings, and electric transportation replacing fossil fuels also require more access to electricity and a modern grid. Texas went first in 2005, with a law called SB 20. Reform around this is a huge and active policy debate.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 20, 2022

He had campaigned on a platform of opposition to all things environmental and promised exponential growth in fossil fuels. In contrast, while Trump was able to get some Obama regulations reversed by using the Congressional Review Act, the public lands and pollution regulations involved were relatively minor.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

But, behind the scenes, they have a long history of lobbying to delay and derail regulations that would prevent pollution, keeping us addicted to disposable plastic. 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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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

But this announcement was seemingly at odds with another made just three days earlier, when coal minister Pralhad Joshi confirmed that India intends to increase production for the fossil fuel. Fossil fuels remain necessary”, Jairaj says. These updates mean India is well on its way to fulfilling its NDCs.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The industry is trying to stop much-needed federal regulation of plastics, and we’ll be there to greet them. Warns investors in a recent Annual Report that “new or more restrictive regulations and rules related to plastic waste could reduce demand for the Company’s plastic products and could negatively impact the Company’s financial results.”

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

North Carolina today gets over half of its power from fossil fuels, about 25% from coal and 33% from natural gas. Nevertheless, the bill passed the state senate by a 42 to 7 vote and the state house by 90 to 20, before being signed by the Democratic governor. Solar is at 5% and wind is under 1l%.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

This is in total opposition to the US commitment under the Paris Agreement to achieve a 50-52 percent emissions reduction below 2005 levels by 2030, and net-zero by 2050. This year’s projections are a bit grim. We’re risking more impacts from climate change due to continued reliance on natural gas and oil.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 7, 2023

We urge the federal government to move swiftly and release the draft regulations in the coming months, at the latest by February 2024. For example, the Government of Alberta has demonstrated time and time again that it puts polluter profits ahead of any effort to reduce fossil fuel pollution. We cannot afford any more delays.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Last November, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) released an interdisciplinary study exploring the various pathways to meeting US goals to cut heat-trapping emissions economywide 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions no later than 2050. The good news?

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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. These claims just add to the deluge of greenwashing and disinformation from the fossil fuel industry.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 23, 2024

The next step is the release of the draft regulations, by April 2024. The draft regulations will then be followed up with final rules, so that the emissions cap is active by the start of 2025. The emissions cap regulation has already been delayed repeatedly. We can’t afford further delays in this key policy.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As outlined by the OAG, delays in implementing important net-zero regulations is one of the most significant barriers to delivering emissions reductions. In 2021, the Government of Canada set out a target to reduce 40-45 per cent of its emissions by 2030, from 2005 levels. Additional delay is not an option.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Climate catastrophes are happening throughout our planet, and are only projected to get more intense and more frequent, unless we get a handle on addressing the leading cause of this crisis: Fossil Fuels. Emissions from the sector are rising; they have increased by nearly 20 per cent from 2005 levels. degrees Celsius.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

carbon emissions declined 22% between 2005 and 2020, global emissions were flat over the last decade, and weather-related disasters have declined since the beginning of this century. It is using environmental regulations to reduce liquified natural gas production and exports. But it’s also the case that U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 25, 2023

That’s why we’re revealing the people behind Canada’s oil and gas industry, who are fueling the climate crisis with their dedication to fossil fuels. Not only do we have to contend with media outlets that are closely linked to fossil fuel interests, like how Arthur Irving’s brother J.K.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 25, 2022

EPA in defense of EPA’s authority to effectively regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. The case involves a group of challenges to EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing stationary sources under the 1970 Clean Air Act, a monumental piece of environmental and public health legislation.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 25, 2023

RGGI is a cap-and-invest program that would regulate carbon emissions from power plants. RGGI states are also “on track to achieve reductions of GHG emissions of 45 percent below 2005 levels by 2020”, according to the study. In the states in which it has been implemented, it has saved lives by reducing air pollution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Hurricane Ian, for its part, made landfall as a high-end Category 4 with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph, decimated western Florida communities, causing the second-largest insured loss after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and was the costliest disaster of 2022. The city of Fort Myers was hit by a record 7.26-foot

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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.”. We have been doing this GHG work since 2005. decreased by about 8% between 1990 and 2020.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2023

As a result, between 2005 and 2017 greenhouse gas pollution from Ontario’s electricity system dropped by 93 per cent. While the Ontario government is forcing the expanded use of “natural” gas (a fossil fuel ), the federal government has promised to deliver 100 per cent clean power across the country by 2035.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 13, 2021

And if that’s not gross enough, Big Plastic is also suing the federal government to try to prevent regulations to reduce plastic pollution that is harming the environment and threatening human health. NOVA was fined $550,000 more than two years after a 2005 spill of cancer-causing benzene from one of its plants near Sarnia, Ontario.

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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 The lower stringency results in lower costs and reduced economic impact of the regulation.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 20, 2021

The Inventory had shown a steady decrease from 2005 through 2016 from 289.62 The biggest factor in the decrease in emissions was from the electricity generation sector and the switch from coal to natural gas as a fuel source which alone accounted for a decrease from that sector from 120.97 million tons in 2005 to 73.09

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