2006 2020 Carbon Emissions Fossil Fuels 
Our Environment
MAY 21, 2021
degree warming by the end of the century and to minimise the effects of climate change, cities need to be at net-zero carbon by 2050 (Coalitions for Urban Transition, 2019). So what needs to change: Cities of the future will need to rely less on fossil fuels and invest in renewable energies. Resilient Melbourne, 2020, p.03.
Environmental Progress
JULY 3, 2023
Much of the cradle-to-grave carbon intensity data that governments depend on to guide in photovoltaic arrays are instead based on modeling assumptions that are likely to have grossly under-estimated — if not made-up — solar’s carbon emissions because they cannot get insights from Chinese manufacturers. million cars to the road.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 29, 2024
ExxonMobil spent at least $39 million on some 70 of these organizations from 1998 through 2020, more than any funder besides Charles Koch and his brother David, co-owner of Koch Industries until his death in 2019. Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO from 2006 to 2016. And Rose did, at times, ask follow-up questions. His reply ?
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 19, 2022
Fossil fuel and chemical polluters, business lobbyists and conservative private land interests have fought these laws and the EPA since their inception and they made fresh headway during the Trump administration, which undertook a widespread effort to gut environmental protections and slashed staffing of the EPA back to levels of the 1980s.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 5, 2023
It was an apocalyptic encore of the worst-ever 2006 season that saw 9.9 In 2015, then again in 2020, the number of burned acres from wildfires crossed the 10 million-acre mark. Without major reductions in the carbon emissions fueling global warming, the impacts on the parks would be endless. million acres burned.
Vermont Law
FEBRUARY 25, 2018
The report estimates that “[t]he lifetime effects of these investments are projected to save 28 million MMBtu of fossil fuel energy and 9 million MWh of electricity, avoiding the release of 5.3 million metric tons] of carbon pollution.”. [35]. The extent to which these adjustments will hasten emissions reductions to be seen.
Environmental Progress
SEPTEMBER 12, 2020
Shellenberger, Founder and President, Environmental Progress For the House Oversight Committee August 5, 2020 Good morning Chairwoman Maloney, Ranking Member Comer, and members of the committee. Carbon emissions are thus following the same trajectory as other air pollutants.
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